Obviously, I haven’t been all over the world, so my range of thoughts here is somewhat limited.
But if I had to choose, based on where I’ve traveled, I think I’d like to live in California, north of LA, somewhere between Santa Barbara and Monterey.
I like warm weather and sunshine, and California definitely checks out for those.
A lot of warm sunny places come with lots of humidity, though (hello, Florida!), so that’s where California has a leg up in my mind.
Also, I like the ocean, but again, a lot of oceanic places here on the east coast come with plenty of humidity (Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas.) California manages to have the ocean without the heavy air.
I don’t really love LA (too big, too crowded, and too brown), but as you move up the coast in California, there’s a lot more of the familiar green that I love.
So, I think that might be a really lovely place to live. However, since you basically need to have eleventy gazillion dollars to buy a home there, I kind of doubt I will ever do more than visit.
Sunny Florida. My husband and I talk about retiring there someday. I love palm trees, and the thought of being able to be in an outdoor pool for a bigger portion of the year than just the summer months is so appealing. I don’t know if it will ever actually happen, but it’s fun to think about. Time will tell..
That’s such an interesting question.
I actually like where I live a lot.
I do dream of living in the middle of utter nowhere, and we have talked about this. But we do not want our kids to have to ride the bus more than an hour one way to school or to have to board. And, I’ve always thought it was slightly odd to want to retire to a place where you knew no one. Making friends is hard enough without starting all over towards the end of life.
A childhood fantasy/daydream was being a hermit in the mountains, the sort that only comes down once or twice a year for sugar and salt and flour. This resurfaced in the last few days, because people, but I dunno, a world with limited horizon and a whole bunch of trees might not make me happy.
Anyway. Where I’m at is fine. More than fine; it’s good.
I love Michigan a TON, so I’m super happy that we live here again. It has lots of lakes, lots of green, lots of country, lots of beaches, four seasons, a low cost of living… It’s pretty fantastic!
I’d love to live on the west coast of Ireland for the summer months. I’ve visited there a few times, all during the summertime, and the extended daylight, mild temperatures, and the connection that I feel to that part of the country have made me daydream about this.
I am too obnoxiously Alaskan to live someplace else, but if I had my druthers I would rather live in Southeast Alaska. The weather is very Seattle like and the trees are huge, not at all like our long and frigid winters and trees stunted by the permafrost that exists a few inches beneath the soil and stops them from growing to a decent size.
My favorite Alaskan is also too obnoxiously Alaskan to live elsewhere. lol. That is such a perfect way to phrase that.
I would love to visit Alaska. Considering the attributes of Alaska, a visit would probably require at least six months to do properly.
Well, I live in Florida. If you like oppressive heat and humidity, killer mosquitoes (literally — I personally know two people who died of mosquito borne disease), fire ants and hurricanes, you’ll love it here.
For various reasons, my siblings also moved to Florida years ago, and of course, my kids and grandkids are here, but if I didn’t have them all here, I would go to the state of my birth – Kentucky. It’s not perfect, it can get really hot in the summer and there are tornadoes and mosquitoes and an earthquake now and then, but that’s where I’d be, and not just because of nostalgia for my childhood. I always loved the rolling land of West Kentucky, and would go back in a heartbeat if I could.
Yeah, during my visits to various parts of Florida at various times of year, I have concluded that I would enjoy Florid for about two months out of the year, and that’s it.
So, it’s a good spot for me to visit, but not an ideal spot for me to live!
When Lisey graduates from airplane mechanic school, though, her plan is to move to Florida and work at an airport there. Different strokes for different folks!
Well I can certainly vouch for how nice it is to live in a dry climate since moving to AZ after living in humid Illinois all my life (and visiting relatives in very humid FL all my life). I loooove the ocean and I loooove the mountains (especially in Colorado). I’ve often thought CO would be where I’d like to end up. But now I’m thinking southern AZ in the winters for the dry, beautiful, sunny weather and Northern AZ in the summer for the milder, dry, sunny summers. Southern AZ is the Sonoran desert (and I never in a million years thought I’d fall in love with the desert but I have!) and Northern AZ has hilly/mountainous, green, pine tree laden landscape so it seems that I might be able to get the best of both worlds in AZ. Plus all the sunshine I crave. Just no ocean. I agree about needing eleventy gazillion dollars to live in CA.