Costa Rica … so I could help take care of the baby sloths.
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I returned to Switzerland 6 months ago after 10 years and the first thing I felt was that it hadn’t changed one bit.
I used to like that and the rule sticking part, but now I have lived in a few other countries and actually prefer the bigger cities. Canada has mountains that are comparable, just not the trains. And the food is way better.
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Honestly, that looks stunning !!!
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I’m loving all the answers here. I’ve only lived in relative mega-cities so far, so I’d really like to move to a smaller city or somewhere more accessible to nature, exactly as @RedWhippet described.
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I’m living where I want to live for the rest of my life. A Northwest Londoner born, traipsed around the world, well, Asia and the US, dallied with staying in the US permanently but through the mysterious workings of The Universe, ended up back where I started.
And I couldn’t be happier. Live music capital of the world and the best place for a football kickabout. That’s all I need.
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I love traveling abroad. I try to visit another country for 1-2 weeks every year, as I have many friends abroad and I love history and culture. You get a far broader perspective if you travel a bit and get to know local people in various countries around the world. You learn much, your horizon significantly expands. I also like living abroad for a year or two. But it’s abroad, I always want to go home.
As for where I live right now, it’s ok. I could certainly move, depending on work and girlfriend. But I like the local nature and nature is very, very important for me. I don’t enjoy living years in eastern Norway, 3-4 months is enough. I grew up in that part of the land, but it’s flat, just has hills and lacks the fjords and the mountains. I want those near me, I have an emotional connection to the land and the terrain. There is no other place on earth I would rather live than western Norway. Maybe that will change in the future, but it is how I feel and have felt for many years. That having been said, as I mentioned, I love living for periods as well as traveling abroad, and I also love (when I have had the chance) to live abroad for a year or so (could do longer too, just not had that opportunity yet). I studied 6 months in Brisbane, Australia, and adored the atmosphere there and the Gold Coast. Been to various uni trips to York and spent some weeks there and know it fairly well. But it wasn’t home. I wish I had more money so I could travel there every year and visit my friends there though, but it’s kind of expensive to just zip off to Oz for a visit often.
I am relatively content. As long as I get my annual trip abroad, I am fairly content.
As for cities, I love visiting them. I also enjoy living in them for months. But I don’t want to live permanently in a city. Cities have a lot to offer in regards to culture and amenities, as well as easy public transport with metro and buses that go all the time. More stuff like theatre, concerts, museums, more everything like that; but it’s still a city and cities aren’t actually very nice places to live. Not for me at least on a permanent basis. I love visiting them though.
If I had to live in a city in Norway, I would pick Bergen or Trondheim probably. Not that I don’t like Oslo, I do, but it’s just like any other European city, nothing very special. Bergen and Trondheim have character and are special.
I don’t want to live just anywhere, I want to live somewhere special. Some place with character. Where I live now, it has character. Tiny place, but real character and nature is everywhere with majestic mountains, mountain lakes, fjords and everything one could wish, climate allowing. Not that I am a nature boy as such, i should probably walk in the mountains more and I should go out to sea more, but I need to be able to look at them (mountains and sea). And I can.
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@Hope.in.your.heart and @RedArmada You are monsters
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Looks absolutely lovely !
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So, this is where I come from. You’ll forgive me for not being a good photographer and for taking these on budget smartphones with poor cameras but they are good enough for me, always have been. I saw some (semi)professional photos of my home taken over the years but I couldn’t even recognise they had been taken there, so that stuff doesn’t mean anything to me. Anyway, these should give you a clearer picture (pun intended) of what rural Montenegro, especially its Northern parts, look like.
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Bucket. List.
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Somewhere warm with a pristine beach and beautiful sunsets.
Walking along a beach with the sound of the waves is my idea of blissand relaxation.
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Isle of Islay.
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'straya is calling to you.
We sometimes watch a youtube channel ‘a trip in a van’ and that showcases many of the beautiful beaches in Aus.
I wish the politics of the country were different, and I’m still struggling to get on the property market, but honestly I wouldn’t want to live anywhere other than Maine. Love it here.
Hiking, camping, kayaking, lakes, mountains, the ocean, beautiful coastline, a national park then in the winter you have multiple world-class ski locations.
Aside from that I have a paid coaching job at the local high school, which I love and probably couldn’t just walk into in a lot of other places.
Boring answer but there it is.
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Of the places I’ve visited, I’d choose Slovenia. If limited to England I’d say Bristol.
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Aruba 