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

[HoosierDaddy]

I would move right down the road from Big Man..near Wilksboro,NC. Most of my ancestors(since the 1700s) are from that beautiful area. In fact...we both have the same last name...so he's gotta be good people,too..!
HD

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Rural Georgia where the Spanish Moss grows on the trees. That's heaven to me. Slower pace of life where you can still smell the cannon smoke of the War of Northern Aggression. Sounds like Heaven.

 

[Big Man]

I would move right down the road from Big Man..near Wilksboro,NC. Most of my ancestors(since the 1700s) are from that beautiful area. In fact...we both have the same last name...so he's gotta be good people,too..!
HD

Could be kin?

 

[Romy Overdorp]

I would emigrate to the USA and live somewhere in the south, like Memphis, Tennessee!
Why? Because Holland is boring, and if you want to make music with other people they are NEVER available because a 1 hour drive is apparently too far away. Plus I love the accent, it's kinda sexy Plus it's cheaper to order something from ebay and having it send to your house instead of 20 dollars shipping for a pair of shoes Plus I would get more costumers for my vintage style barbershop and beauty salon. (which is in progress in my head ) Plus I would as much country and western festivals as I can! Plus my change to meet you wonderful people would be much greater! Shall I go on?

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

If I could live anywhere--I would want to live right where I'm at! Here or Georgia. You're right Atomic Era Tom, rural Georgia is a beautiful place. My family actually goes way back in that state, settling there somewhere in the 1830's-40's. They moved there from southern Virginia, like so many other folks it seems.

 

[Zemke Fan]

Near the sea: Odessa, Ukraine... and the second for its history and architecture.

My wife is from Sevastopol. I can vouch for the wonderful beauty of the Black Sea. I'd opt for the Crimean peninsula, however, probably somewhere between Balaklava and Yalta.

 

[Zemke Fan]

Balaklava:

Which USED TO BE where the USSR submarines were serviced (inside a mountain and out of view of US satellites).

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Could be kin?

Would be my pleasure...BM! Seems like very similar values. (Must run in the Family)
HD

 

[Marla]

My wife is from Sevastopol. I can vouch for the wonderful beauty of the Black Sea. I'd opt for the Crimean peninsula, however, probably somewhere between Balaklava and Yalta.

I fell in love with Odessa when I visited there last, and it's my favorite city in Ukraine. Next to Kiev that is. I wouldn't mind moving to Kiev either, actually. But only after I've lived in NYC first.

 

[Atticus Finch]

I've visited a lot of very wonderful places around the US, but If I'm totally honest, I can't see myself living anywhere but where I do right now. My family has been within a 20 mile radius of where I live since the 1760's. This is home to me. The bones of my ancestors are buried here.

I know what you mean, Big Man. My folks have been living in and around Beaufort, N.C. for at least seven long generations. It would be difficult for me to leave Eastern North Carolina. I will always need to be near big salt water.

Here, I'm in the Old Methodist Cemetery in Beaufort, visiting with my paternal great, great grandfather. His tombstone is weathered and a bit difficult to read....but it says, James J. Adair, Co. H, 10th N. C. State Troops, C.S.A.

AF

 

[LizzieMaine]

I live thirty miles from where I was born and grew up, and other than six months spent in California, I've been in this area all my life. And I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be. I was here before the gentrifiers came along and I'll be here after they get tired of being cold and go back where they came from.

 

[Doc Smith]

If this is the place I recall, the Old Methodist Cemetery in Beaufort has two of the oddest graves I've seen. The carronade mounted atop the old privateer's grave is only the second oddest. The British officer who, as a last request, asked to be buried standing up in salute to George III, is definitely the oddest.

My parents retired to Pine Knoll Shores in the mid 1980s, and I used to visit regularly. It's a beautiful area, but it bores my Michigander wife to tears. (Money allowing, she'd probably be happiest living in London, Manhattan, or San Francisco.)

 

[scooter]

Atticus, I spent many happy hours in Beaufort. Lived in Newport for 20 years, and one of the my daughters still lives there. My other lives in Havelock. It is indeed a beautiful place, but much too humid for me.
I currently live in Phoenix and work for an airline which gives me the flexibility to move anywhere we are based. I've thought long and hard about moving, but can't come up with any place I'd rather be just yet. So I guess I'll just hang out here for now.

 

[Atticus Finch]

If this is the place I recall, the Old Methodist Cemetery in Beaufort has two of the oddest graves I've seen. The carronade mounted atop the old privateer's grave is only the second oddest. The British officer who, as a last request, asked to be buried standing up in salute to George III, is definitely the oddest.

You recall correctly. Otway Burns' (the privateer) grave is only a few feet away from my great-great grandfather's.

As to odd graves, you may have forgotten about grave of the child who was buried in a cask of rum. She and her father were scheduled to sail from Beaufort, bound for Europe, but her mother had a premonition that the child would never return. The mother begged the father not to take the child, fearing that she would never see her daughter again. The father swore that nothing bad would happen and vowed to bring their child home, come hell or high water. To his credit, he sort of kept his promise. The child died of fever while in Europe, and returned to Beaufort pickled in a barrel of rum.

AF

 

[Old Rogue]

Like Atticus my family has been in eastern NC for many generations. My ancestor came over from Cuckfield, England in the mid 1600s, and after a brief stay in the Jamestown, VA area was given a large land grant near what is now New Bern. My house is about 5 miles from there, and much of my family is still in this area. The only other place that I might consider moving to would be the vicinity of Myrtle Beach in SC.

 

[Bebop]

I've been to and lived in many cities and countries and have not found anywhere more beautiful or better than San Francisco. Other places may be nice for a spell but nothing beats living in paradise..... warts and all.

 

[Tango Yankee]

The Rogue Valley in southern Oregon; Medford, Ashland, or Jackson. My closest friend lives there with his family, and I love it out there. Flying in to Medford feels a lot more like I'm arriving home than landing at the airport in Columbus. :eusa_doh:

Austin, Texas was at the top of my list of places to retire to until I visited Oregon. Austin is a great town, but it has one little drawback... there is way too much Texas around it! :eeek:

If I could get a GS position with the USAF I'd love to go back to England for a while...

Mr. Hallack, there are a few of us here from Southern California. I was born and raised there myself, and decided in 1987 that I'd not go back there to live. No one I grew up with or knew still lives in my home town, anyway.

Cheers,
Tom

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Mr. Hallack, there are a few of us here from Southern California. I was born and raised there myself, and decided in 1987 that I'd not go back there to live. No one I grew up with or knew still lives in my home town, anyway.

Strangely enough it seems more than half the people I knew in high school live in the same city as I do -- yet usually here in Southern California people tend to move around a lot. Though I've noticed this pattern too. Of the families that live in my neighborhood, when the kids are grown the parents will generally sell the house and move to a condo. That's what several of my neighbors did.

I live thirty miles from where I was born and grew up, and other than six months spent in California, I've been in this area all my life. And I can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be. I was here before the gentrifiers came along and I'll be here after they get tired of being cold and go back where they came from.

Somehow I knew you were going to say that. lol

 

[Doc Smith]

Atticus,

I must have missed the rum-preserved child's grave--that's a pretty memorable (if sad) story.

Beaufort and its environs are beautiful, and the precariousness of living a few inches above sea level on a hurricane-prone coast must not be as bad as it seems. After all, graveyards and churches from before the founding of the United States are still in place.

As for where I'd rather live, the deciding point is simple: a place that makes my wife happy. Because living without her is not a welcome prospect.

 

[juup]

In an effort to revive this thread my top 5 are

1) anywhere in Germany, especially Berctesgaden or anywhere south of Munich
2) Tuscany
3)Wellington, NZ
4) Brighton, UK
5)Anywhere but the current United States of America. The politics are getting too dang scary.