Hawaii really is an awsome place to live. There is soooo much diversity between the busy streets and skyscrapers of Honolulu, and the vacation location; Maui. Then there's the Big Island (where I reside). Great for picture taking, and short visits, but wouldn't wanna live here. Too isolated and boring(we have to drive an hour to get to the nearest mall;-) but that's just me.
I would wanna move to Italy. Florence perhaps. Lovely place.
Hawaii really is an awsome place to live. There is soooo much diversity between the busy streets and skyscrapers of Honolulu, and the vacation location; Maui. Then there's the Big Island (where I reside). Great for picture taking, and short visits, but wouldn't wanna live here. Too isolated and boring(we have to drive an hour to get to the nearest mall;-) but that's just me.
My only visit to Hawaii was for four days in Kona. I'd go there if I didn't need a job to live, combined the best characteristics of Hawaii and California (climate, earthquakes -- flowing lava and coffee trees a bonus!), giant telescopes, rainforest close by, and the mall is an hour away : )
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Yeah, I live on the OTHER side of Hawaii. Puna side. The wet side. The REALLY wet side. Kona rocks though, but I've only been there a few times. It's like a metropolis compared to Puna!
I'd definitely choose to live on the dry side ... but I'd like to go back when I had more time and see the other sides of the island -- I only got as far as Volcano National Park and down to the beach once. Funny, I was over there (in 1994) to teach a few people how to use Photoshop : )
I'm happy right here but don,t rule out a move to the east coast, Napiers getting a Tad expensive so Tologa Bay or any where around there would suit me fine .
I love the Pacific Northwest, but I already live there. :) If I could choose anywhere without price considerations, I'd have to split my time between the central California coast / Big Sur area (Carmel, Monterey, Morro Bay and so forth), San Francisco, and West Glacier or Whitefish in Montana :) I don't know, though, I'm pretty fond of Oregon, too.
Outside of the states, somewhere on the Azores (or Açores if you prefer) or Madeira. Not sure if I could do it year round, but it'd be nice to visit occasionally and see family in such a gorgeous setting :)
I would stay right where i am. Australia is such a beautiful country and everyone seems to like coming here. My friends and family are here and we live a 5 minute walk to the beach and a 6 minute walk to the shops. I wouldnt trade it for anything. It is such a laid back quiet coastal lifestyle. The kids love the beach, we get an ocean breeze right through our windows. Arrghh bliss. :)
City of Bwettalong? ;) ROFL!
Arghh! you crack me up ROFLOL
Don't forget these:
Patchewollock, VIC 3491
Humpty Doo, NT 0836
Woolloomooloo, NSW 2011
The Spit, NSW 2088
Kockibitoo, NSW 2702
Nar Nar Goon, VIC 3812
Wangi Wangi, NSW 2267
...and my fave...
Innaloo, WA 6018
I can't imagine leaving Texas. I would love to live around Galveston but the hurricanes this summer have made me a bit leary of that dream. I wouldn't mind the Austin area, or perhaps Amarillo. Anywhere is fine I guess for that matter. ;)
Texas has it's share of goofy town names. A short list:
Elmo, TX
Frog, TX
Needmore, TX
Cut and Shoot, TX
Oatmeal, TX (home of the 3-Minute Oatmeal Festival but to only a handful of residents)
Birthright, TX
Cash, TX
Circle Back, TX
Coffee City, TX (with no Starbucks!)
Dime Box, TX
Flat, TX
Grit, TX
Gun Barrel City, TX
Happy, TX
Noodle, TX
Telephone, TX
Uncertain, TX
Utopia, TX
Bovina, TX
We also have towns that are the names of more well-known places around the world:
Atlanta, TX
Athens, TX
Boston, TX
Bogota, TX
Beverly Hills, TX
Dublin, TX
Italy, TX
Ireland, TX
Miami, TX
Moscow, TX
New York, TX
Palestine, TX
Paris, TX
Scotland, TX
I've lived in several parts of British Columbia, a couple of places in Alberta and Ottawa Ontario. If I had my pick, almost anywhere in British Columbia, with a lean towards the Okanagan.
I love Texas and have also lived here my entire life. I agree with Laurie that it would be hard to leave, but I definitely wouldn't move to Amarillo. I grew up in the West Texas areas and my god it sucks. DFW is great!
I am actually trying to move to the Seattle area, but would also consider Portland and some parts of California. Just hard to find a tech job in the country so it has to be a big city. I just got back from the Pacific Northwest and it is an amazing climate and geography.
I want to live somewhere with good public trains, where it's safe to ride a bike on the street or walk and I can have a car as an occasional convenience, not a necessity.....Oh yeah, and nice people, of course. So far, I have not found any such places in the US, any ideas?
I want to live somewhere with good public trains, where it's safe to ride a bike on the street or walk and I can have a car as an occasional convenience, not a necessity.....Oh yeah, and nice people, of course. So far, I have not found any such places in the US, any ideas?
I actually like living on the Kansas side of Kansas City. It's actually quite pretty. The problem is that most people drive through on I-70 in mid to late summer when it hasn't rained for a month and it's 95 degrees out with 89% humidity. That part sucks. The rest of the time it's quite nice though.
However, I'd like to live either in Fiji or New Zealand one day. Never been to either, but enough pictures and travel documentaries have convinced me. Might as well move to some place as completely different fro here as I can if I'm to move. :0)
1. We have very few americans
2. We don't go to war with other countries.
3. Our crime rate is lower
4. Our booze is better (beer anyway)
Thats just to name a few.
Why did you feel the need to impart political negativity into a thread that was positively enjoyable. Go take your views to the rant thread. I am not American but this is uncalled for in a thread like this.
1. We have very few americans
2. We don't go to war with other countries.
3. Our crime rate is lower
4. Our booze is better (beer anyway)
Thats just to name a few.
Why did you feel the need to impart political negativity into a thread that was positively enjoyable. Go take your views to the rant thread. I am not American but this is uncalled for in a thread like this.
What political negativity??? I think you need to relax and re-read the post and maybe stop complaining so much.
Edit: If your refering to the part about Canada not going to war then I gotta ask, Does the truth hurt???
We have a small town feel with big city perks. (though this is slowly changing, I'm all for visitors but dangit, when folks move here and then try to change the city to match what they left behind.. irksome.)
Welcome to my world! :) Here in South Carolina, every out of state person (or so it seems) who moves here opens up their big mouths to say with the snootiest of attitudes "Well! That's not how we did it back home!" or "Back home we did it this way..." Yeesh.
At any rate, if I had the choice to live anywhere in the world, honestly, I'd choose right where I'm at - Upstate South Carolina. We don't have a lot of severe weather or any strong earthquakes (though there were two very minor ones in the past couple of years), we're fairly close to both mountains (less than 2 hour drive) and ocean (4-5 hour drive), we've got lots of trees (and therefore lots of fall color), the people are nice (for the most part - people are people!), and the climate is reasonable.
If I had to choose a city in the Upstate, I'd probably go with Anderson. It's still growing and hasn't yet reached the stage (like Greenville has) where all the "damn yankees" (who are different from northerners, by the way) have taken over and raised all the taxes and regulated everything under the sun. It's also a very beautiful city.
Personally, though, I'm not much of a city girl. I'm kinda partial to the back woods of Pickens County where I can be in a forest in the middle of the foothills and valleys!
Ditto for Upstate SC...When we decided we'd had enough hurricanes in FL,we spent months searching on the internet for a perfect location for our needs..Rural,yet close to city conveniences;nice neighborhood,but not with houses on top of each other;not grossly overpriced like in FL...We found the perfect place in Eastern Greenville County,nearly an equal distance from Greenville or Spartanburg...
I want to live somewhere with good public trains, where it's safe to ride a bike on the street or walk and I can have a car as an occasional convenience, not a necessity.....Oh yeah, and nice people, of course. So far, I have not found any such places in the US, any ideas?
A lot of Dutch cities might fit. Special roads for bicycles, decent public transport, wide pavements.
... At any rate, if I had the choice to live anywhere in the world, honestly, I'd choose right where I'm at - Upstate South Carolina. We don't have a lot of severe weather or any strong earthquakes (though there were two very minor ones in the past couple of years), we're fairly close to both mountains (less than 2 hour drive) and ocean (4-5 hour drive), we've got lots of trees (and therefore lots of fall color), the people are nice (for the most part - people are people!), and the climate is reasonable...
Eastern South Carolina isn't so bad either. I'm about an hour from Myrtle Beach, about 2 hours from Charleston, about 1 hour from the Columbia, a couple of hours from the mountains. I can see a pretty wide range of landscapes without travelling a ton. Just one drawback... I live in a swampy area... Skeeters are murder! :-)
Edit: Skeeters are mosquitoes for you non-sutherners ;-)
I want to live somewhere with good public trains, where it's safe to ride a bike on the street or walk and I can have a car as an occasional convenience, not a necessity.....Oh yeah, and nice people, of course. So far, I have not found any such places in the US, any ideas?
Portland.
We have a light rail system that goes pretty far out into different areas of the city, almost all of the city is accessible by bus lines, we're so bike friendly its getting annoying (I'm all for bikers but hey, c'mon, rules of the road people.), we even have a few routes into/out of downtown recommended for inline skaters and skateboarders to use, a number of the people I know don't own a car and use FlexCar if they need one. Our downtown has an extensive free mass transit section called Fareless Square. Basically you just get on the bus and as long as you stay in the free part.. well.. its free. They even extended it specifically on the MAXX (our train/lightrail) line to go up to the closest major mall for free.
Very walkable in almost all areas of the city and its outlaying areas too.
As you can tell I dearly love my town. I should be quieter though, talk like this encourages movers.. ;)
