Where do you wish you could live?

Thoughts_Arrive

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

brianlux

^^^ 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.

Thoughts_Arrive

There's something healing about being near the ocean.

darwinstheory

2 extremes here: Wyoming/Montana or Hawaii. Never been to Hawaii but I think I'd like it.

Merkin Baller

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

Would like to try Iceland. 

pjhawks

anywhere but Sweden. too many rapes there

darwinstheory

pjhawks said:

anywhere but Sweden. too many rapes there

And KISS fans.

tempo_n_groove

pjhawks said:

anywhere but Sweden. too many rapes there

lol

tempo_n_groove

I'd do Florida Keys.  Fish all day long.

darwinstheory

tempo_n_groove said:

I'd do Florida Keys.  Fish all day long.

You'd starve.

tempo_n_groove

darwinstheory said:

tempo_n_groove said:

I'd do Florida Keys.  Fish all day long.

You'd starve.

hahahahahahaha!!!!

tempo_n_groove

I'd have my own chickens too so I wouldn't starve.

darwinstheory

LMAO 

rgambs

https://www.sporthotelalpenrose.com/en/

rgambs

Or maybe in this cabin surrounded entirely by Sequoias greater than 20 feet in diameter.

brianlux

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.

Thoughts_Arrive

rgambs said:

https://www.sporthotelalpenrose.com/en/

Where is that?

rgambs

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

F Me In The Brain

You had me at charcuterie

I want to live in Italy.  Want to work in a kitchen there, and to learn.

rgambs

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.

tempo_n_groove

rgambs said:

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.

Isn't the north where Barolo wine is made?  I love the wine and cheese diet.

oftenreading

Mmmmmmmm, cheese. 

Meltdown99

Surprised Detroit is not on people’s radars...

up and coming.  

HesCalledDyer

I'm thinking somewhere like Cairns or Townsville in Queensland would be proper.  Belize would be cool, too.

F Me In The Brain

rgambs said:

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.

Tuscany or Emilia-Romagna would be my best guess.  I am sure it will depend on where my wife would be happy, as this retirement only works if both of us will like it.

She thinks I am nuts to work, save, retire...and that my retirement plan is to go to Italy and be a kitchen slave and work for free, but that is my dream job.  Wish I had realized it as a young person so that I could do it as a career.  At this point, if I can do it, it will be my retirement plan.

dankind

F Me In The Brain said:

rgambs said:

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.

Tuscany or Emilia-Romagna would be my best guess.  I am sure it will depend on where my wife would be happy, as this retirement only works if both of us will like it.

She thinks I am nuts to work, save, retire...and that my retirement plan is to go to Italy and be a kitchen slave and work for free, but that is my dream job.  Wish I had realized it as a young person so that I could do it as a career.  At this point, if I can do it, it will be my retirement plan.

My father-in-law did this, but stayed in the US. After he retired as a mechanical engineer, he attended NECI in VT and worked in a restaurant kitchen for a while. He still cooks nearly every meal, but no longer at a restaurant.

Italy would be much less pressure, I would think, with it being the home of the slow food movement and all.

Indifference71

I would move to San Diego in a hearbeat.  Such a beautiful area.

F Me In The Brain

dankind said:

F Me In The Brain said:

rgambs said:

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.

Tuscany or Emilia-Romagna would be my best guess.  I am sure it will depend on where my wife would be happy, as this retirement only works if both of us will like it.

She thinks I am nuts to work, save, retire...and that my retirement plan is to go to Italy and be a kitchen slave and work for free, but that is my dream job.  Wish I had realized it as a young person so that I could do it as a career.  At this point, if I can do it, it will be my retirement plan.

My father-in-law did this, but stayed in the US. After he retired as a mechanical engineer, he attended NECI in VT and worked in a restaurant kitchen for a while. He still cooks nearly every meal, but no longer at a restaurant.

Italy would be much less pressure, I would think, with it being the home of the slow food movement and all.

That is pretty sweet!

FactoryMan93

rgambs said:

Or maybe in this cabin surrounded entirely by Sequoias greater than 20 feet in diameter.

I agree. My only concern would be a forest fire. You'd literally be toast.

FactoryMan93

I always loved San Francisco so that would have to be my choice. Delicious fresh food, surfing, not too hot, beautiful scenery. I've also been interested in Alcatraz since I was young, so I would probably just gaze at the island every now and then.