Where do you wish you could live?

Thoughts_Arrive
Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
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I just saw an episode of a local series called "back roads" which showcases off the track towns in Australia.
This week they showed Fish Creek in my home state of Victoria.
Rolling green hills meets the ocean with an artistic community. I'd love to live away from the city.

Not sure if you can watch this outside of Australia but here is the show if you are interested (click on Fish Creek to play the episode)
https://iview.abc.net.au/show/back-roads
Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    ^^^ That looks pretty cool there.

    My biggest goal in life right now is to live closer the the Pacific Ocean.  We are about 4 or 5 hours from the closest place on the coast and the drive keeps getting longer as the influx into California grows.  I grew up about 30 to 40 minutes from the coast so this is too far away for my liking.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    There's something healing about being near the ocean.
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,417
    2 extremes here: Wyoming/Montana or Hawaii. Never been to Hawaii but I think I'd like it.
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • Merkin Baller
    Merkin Baller Posts: 12,818

    Coastal Maine, or the Verde Valley, Arizona.

    Maine is a logical retirement destination as I've lived my entire life in the Boston area, and can't really see myself leaving the Northeast when all is said & done...


    But there's something magical about Sedona, Jerome, Cottonwood etc.

  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,593
    Would like to try Iceland. 
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,962
    anywhere but Sweden. too many rapes there :get_outta_here:
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,417
    pjhawks said:
    anywhere but Sweden. too many rapes there :get_outta_here:
    And KISS fans. :rofl:
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,634
    pjhawks said:
    anywhere but Sweden. too many rapes there :get_outta_here:
    lol
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,634
    I'd do Florida Keys.  Fish all day long.
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,417
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I'd do Florida Keys.  Fish all day long.
    You'd starve.
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,634
    darwinstheory said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    I'd do Florida Keys.  Fish all day long.
    You'd starve.
    hahahahahahaha!!!!
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,634
    I'd have my own chickens too so I wouldn't starve.
  • darwinstheory
    darwinstheory LaPorte, IN Posts: 7,417
    LMAO 
    "A smart monkey doesn't monkey around with another monkey's monkey" - Darwin's Theory
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    https://www.sporthotelalpenrose.com/en/


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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    edited July 2019
    Or maybe in this cabin surrounded entirely by Sequoias greater than 20 feet in diameter.
    Post edited by rgambs on
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,675
    All the good places are only there for the wealthiest any more.

    I lived in the upper Haight near Twin Peaks in San Francisco in the late sixties to early seventies working a minimum wage job and with two roommates was able to rent a 3 bedroom upstairs flat with sole use of roof-deck, sole use of garage, and shared use of small yard, with a great view and we paid $200 a month. Even adjusting for inflation, there is now way I could find a deal like that and afford to live there again.

    And in the early 90's, I lived on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington in a 2 bedroom mobile on about three acres that adjoined a seemingly endless tract of Olympic National Forest with a trail we built down to a year around creek.  Wood burning stove and firewood forever.  Good times, dirt cheap rent.  Couldn't afford to live there again.

    Times have changed.

    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Thoughts_Arrive
    Thoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    rgambs said:
    https://www.sporthotelalpenrose.com/en/


    Where is that?
    Adelaide 17/11/2009, Melbourne 20/11/2009, Sydney 22/11/2009, Melbourne (Big Day Out Festival) 24/01/2014
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    South Tirol/Far northern Italy in the Dolomite Alps.
    It's a dual Austrian/Italian culture with probably the best local charcuterie variety in the world and some of the most visually striking mountain vistas as well.
    Ski-lifts and Via Ferrata climbing routes on practically every mountain.
    https://m.alavigne.net/Outdoors/FeatureReports/ViaFerrata/?p=bestof&n=1#id=3594
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,883
    You had me at charcuterie

    I want to live in Italy.  Want to work in a kitchen there, and to learn.
    The love he receives is the love that is saved
  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    F Me In The Brain said:
    You had me at charcuterie

    I want to live in Italy.  Want to work in a kitchen there, and to learn.
    Which Italy though?  The cuisine in the north is nothing at all like the southern "Italian" food.

    I actually prefer the northern, cured meats, good hearty bread, rich soups and varied cheeses.
    As far as traditional "Italian", I (like most Americans) prefer the adapted American-Italian cuisine with rich sauces and cooked pasta lol
    We weren't impressed with the half-cooked noodles and chopped-tomato sauce we were served as "traditional" Italian.
    Monkey Driven, Call this Living?

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