Where do you wish you could live?

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. 

tempo_n_groove

I did live in Barbados so if you are unsure I will give it my seal of approval.

Fantastic place to live.

F Me In The Brain

FactoryMan93 said:

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. 

Have you been lately?

City has changed so much.  I used to love it.  Kind of loathe it, now.

Still beautiful but mega-overcrowded.  Douchelords took it over, as well.

tempo_n_groove

F Me In The Brain said:

FactoryMan93 said:

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. 

Have you been lately?

City has changed so much.  I used to love it.  Kind of loathe it, now.

Still beautiful but mega-overcrowded.  Douchelords took it over, as well.

Tent City...

FactoryMan93

F Me In The Brain said:

FactoryMan93 said:

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. 

Have you been lately?

City has changed so much.  I used to love it.  Kind of loathe it, now.

Still beautiful but mega-overcrowded.  Douchelords took it over, as well.

Last visit was 2016. I want to go soon, but I am hoping a Pearl Jam tour next year allows me to hold off lol. I've been lucky enough to have visited a few times, and it's always the same to me. I do not define myself as a tourist, I define myself as a traveller. I don't hang around Fisherman's Wharf or Chinatown.

FactoryMan93

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

FactoryMan93 said:

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. 

Have you been lately?

City has changed so much.  I used to love it.  Kind of loathe it, now.

Still beautiful but mega-overcrowded.  Douchelords took it over, as well.

Tent City...

Isn't every metropolis?

F Me In The Brain

FactoryMan93 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

FactoryMan93 said:

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. 

Have you been lately?

City has changed so much.  I used to love it.  Kind of loathe it, now.

Still beautiful but mega-overcrowded.  Douchelords took it over, as well.

Last visit was 2016. I want to go soon, but I am hoping a Pearl Jam tour next year allows me to hold off lol. I've been lucky enough to have visited a few times, and it's always the same to me. I do not define myself as a tourist, I define myself as a traveller. I don't hang around Fisherman's Wharf or Chinatown.

Yeah, have been there loads, lived in CA for 20 years and had family & friends up in the area.  Even dodging the tourist bs it is still a crazy place now.  Still lots of great stuff but, for my money, way too jammed with people.  (And, not the "old" SF type of people.)

Hope you can get back soon, and that you still love it!

bootlegger10

For me, I need a lot of golf courses.   Unless I could split time, I would probably pick Hilton Head Island.   No golf, I would live in Europe somewhere with a home that overlooks a body of water.  Italy would be great.   A smaller town where you could walk most places.

FactoryMan93

F Me In The Brain said:

FactoryMan93 said:

F Me In The Brain said:

FactoryMan93 said:

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. 

Have you been lately?

City has changed so much.  I used to love it.  Kind of loathe it, now.

Still beautiful but mega-overcrowded.  Douchelords took it over, as well.

Last visit was 2016. I want to go soon, but I am hoping a Pearl Jam tour next year allows me to hold off lol. I've been lucky enough to have visited a few times, and it's always the same to me. I do not define myself as a tourist, I define myself as a traveller. I don't hang around Fisherman's Wharf or Chinatown.

Yeah, have been there loads, lived in CA for 20 years and had family & friends up in the area.  Even dodging the tourist bs it is still a crazy place now.  Still lots of great stuff but, for my money, way too jammed with people.  (And, not the "old" SF type of people.)

Hope you can get back soon, and that you still love it!

I guess what I enjoy most is the idea of the old charm. Seeing City Lights, or a beautiful park sort of brings that back to me.

tempo_n_groove

FactoryMan93 said:

tempo_n_groove said:

F Me In The Brain said:

FactoryMan93 said:

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. 

Have you been lately?

City has changed so much.  I used to love it.  Kind of loathe it, now.

Still beautiful but mega-overcrowded.  Douchelords took it over, as well.

Tent City...

Isn't every metropolis?

Hell no.

NYC doesn't have them.  Boston doesn't have them.  Philly doesn't have them.

PJ_Soul

I think I technically live in the perfect place already, with the Pacific, the mountains, the forests, the city, and the country, all in the same place - the problem is that it is only really my ideal place with a shitload of money, given the insane cost of living here, and I unfortunately do not have a shitload of money. But I still can't think of any other place I'd rather live, even after considering the fact that I'm Vancouver poor. So lucky me, I was born into what I think is the best place to live in the world. There are plenty of places I would be happy to live though... The Maritimes, for example. I think I'd get on really well there. NYC is another, but the same money problem comes into play, plus the USA isn't appealing at the moment. I think Oslo could also be cool. Also expensive, lol. I have very expensive taste in locations. I'm a bit limited here, because I hate warm weather. That kind of rules out most of the world for me, lol.