If you could live/move anywhere right now, where would it be? Why?

[Marla]

London of course! You can wear three piece suits almost always.

Best regards, Dr

Yes, sign me up for London too. I've always wanted to wear a three piece suit in public.

 

[ÉIREGOBRÁCH1922]

Ireland!

Ireland anybody? Any takers?

 

[ÉIREGOBRÁCH1922]

 

[rue]

Me... I'll take it in a heartbeat

 

[Bourbon Guy]

Right here. Right now.

You can live in your head, dreaming of silliness that was or never would be, or you can live in the world you are presented with and face it head on and make of it what you will. Bet it. Build it. Win it. Lose it. Whatever. Some of our greatest heroes died paupers after lives of risk and adventure. But they lived.

Similarly, if you live in the United States you were born free men and women. You may go wherever you wish and live wherever you wish. If you don't like where you are, why in the world do you live there? Sell your hats, buy a ticket, and figure out how to support yourself once you get there.

Or you can just dream your life away.

 

[randooch]

Those Cliffs of Moher were indeed quite impressive in person, but I'd have to say that the Cinqueterre (sp?) area of Italy took my breath away, and not just from climbing the steep streets. Looking out over the Ligurian sea while selecting vegetables for the evening meal was surreal. Walking from village to village . . . just like it should be.

 

[rue]

Right here. Right now.

You can live in your head, dreaming of silliness that was or never would be, or you can live in the world you are presented with and face it head on and make of it what you will. Bet it. Build it. Win it. Lose it. Whatever. Some of our greatest heroes died paupers after lives of risk and adventure. But they lived.

Similarly, if you live in the United States you were born free men and women. You may go wherever you wish and live wherever you wish. If you don't like where you are, why in the world do you live there? Sell your hats, buy a ticket, and figure out how to support yourself once you get there.

Or you can just dream your life away.

Not if you're in the army or married to it

 

[randooch]

Or you can just dream your life away.

A little imaginative speculation is good for the mind, in my humble opinion.

 

[Bernie Zack]

Right here. Right now.

You can live in your head, dreaming of silliness that was or never would be, or you can live in the world you are presented with and face it head on and make of it what you will. Or you can just dream your life away.

Why is silly to dream about living in another beautiful place? Why can't you be content where you are, AND dream about being somewhere else?

I think I'll keep my hats, enjoy where I live, continue to dream, and occassionally take grand vacations to places I dream about.

 

[sheeplady]

Similarly, if you live in the United States you were born free men and women. You may go wherever you wish and live wherever you wish. If you don't like where you are, why in the world do you live there? Sell your hats, buy a ticket, and figure out how to support yourself once you get there.

Or you can just dream your life away.

So part of me has the reaction to say that the only people who can pick up and move without a care have either: A. No responsibilities beyond themselves and/or B. Have never had no money (to the point of knowing they will be on the street) and/or C. Are independently wealthy/ always had a safety net (and know they will always have one).

The other part of me wants to say that there are dreams beyond where someone wants to live. There is a balance between all of these factors. I have career aspirations, and I've fought long and hard to try and achieve them. There are characteristics of where I want to live, many of which I know can be found in many parts of the world. But I also want a career- the point is balance.

There are nothing wrong with dreams, realistic or not. If you don't dream, you don't have goals and you lack vision. If you're not happy where you are, you are miserable. It's a balance.

 

[Bernie Zack]

So part of me has the reaction to say that the only people who can pick up and move without a care have either: A. No responsibilities beyond themselves and/or B. Have never had no money (to the point of knowing they will be on the street) and/or C. Are independently wealthy/ always had a safety net (and know they will always have one).

The other part of me wants to say that there are dreams beyond where someone wants to live. There is a balance between all of these factors. I have career aspirations, and I've fought long and hard to try and achieve them. There are characteristics of where I want to live, many of which I know can be found in many parts of the world. But I also want a career- the point is balance.

There are nothing wrong with dreams, realistic or not. If you don't dream, you don't have goals and you lack vision. If you're not happy where you are, you are miserable. It's a balance.

Well said.
BTW, those views of Ireland and absolutely SMASHING! I will now add it to my list!

 

[RichardH]

I'm so lucky that I already live on/in the best place on earth, take a look!

Oh, and the place is called Bergen.

Sunset

Snow during the winter months

Other than that, I'd really like to live in Truk/Chuuk in the Carolines, the wreck diving is great there, or so I've heard

 

[Bourbon Guy]

So part of me has the reaction to say that the only people who can pick up and move without a care have either: A. No responsibilities beyond themselves and/or B. Have never had no money (to the point of knowing they will be on the street) and/or C. Are independently wealthy/ always had a safety net (and know they will always have one).

The other part of me wants to say that there are dreams beyond where someone wants to live. There is a balance between all of these factors. I have career aspirations, and I've fought long and hard to try and achieve them. There are characteristics of where I want to live, many of which I know can be found in many parts of the world. But I also want a career- the point is balance.

There are nothing wrong with dreams, realistic or not. If you don't dream, you don't have goals and you lack vision. If you're not happy where you are, you are miserable. It's a balance.

Well said. I am rather old, and have little patience for the young dreaming their lives away. It is one thing to formulate a plan, save for it, and dream of its fulfilment while you work toward the goal. It is quite another to pine away for a time lost and a place distant, unwilling to acknowledge that you had not the courage to undertake what was necessary to see either.

Of course you are right. Life is a continuing ordeal of compromise and balance. But once the compromise is set, once the bargain is made, one finds the joy in the result. Patagonia will never be seen, because of the birth of your first. Is there any real comparison? Who would make that trade? I condemn them out of hand.

So I agitate and provoke, to go and to do. Do it now. Do you have a dream? Make the plan. Map the course. Go there. And if you have missed the time when that great adventure could have been, map one within the bounds of where you are. Dream, but....

I pursued almost all my dreams, trivial as they may have been. Some successes. Some screaming failures. I would not trade any of them. Don't just dream. Pursue! You want to live there? Go! Myself, I just like the vacation photos once I get back home.

 

[Bourbon Guy]

OMG. LOL. WTF. KMA. DIJKAT? Did I just kill another thread?

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

Not Dead!
I like the place I live. A fireplace for winter and a view of pastures and cows out my apartment window. But if I had the money, I'd move down the road a couple of miles and buy this:

Franklin, Tennessee

 

[Gregg Axley]

Franklin is a very nice place to move.
Although it's not the sleepy farm area it used to be.
I guess it's hard to keep a good place quiet forever.

 

[Bluebird Marsha]

Well, admittedly there are a bunch of nice places around here. And it's better if I live closer to work than Franklin. I don't drive in snow very well. If I go far afield, I'd have a place in San Rafael, CA. That place just smells wonderful, like everyone has a beautiful garden!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I could see me here.

 

[Henry Gondorff]

What about this one:

 

[Fletch]

The family (who would have to help me out) are balking at St. Paul. All our friends and relations are in Minneapolis, 20-plus minutes by car. Not a huge haul, but when you're 75 and it's snowy-icy, anything can happen. They also will not consider a single family house (or a condo in one), which I can understand - who wants huge maintenance bills at that time of life?

What they're focused on is the life of the downtown, culture-vulture, homebody retiree. Mpls has much to offer that person if they don't mind being in a concrete, workaday area with views and parks nearby. But there's no neighborhood feeling once you leave your building. At night, it's lonely - on weekends, it's depressingly so.