I would love to live in either San Fransisco, London, Paris, Berlin or Barcelona. The only issue is that I only speak English and Spanish, but hopefully after going to school in Montreal I'll know a little French! I've also hear Vienna and Prague are extremely beautiful cities. So where do you all want to live?
Alright, so I'm about to get a little weird with this, but Saturn. I know, I know, Saturn is a gas giant, it doesn't actually have a "surface", per se, but hear me out. As a guitarist, I've had quite a humongous pedalboard at multiple points in my musical adventure. But one thought always struck me: sound needs a medium to travel through (which, 99.99999999999999999...etc% of the time, is air), so with that in mind, how would music sound on other planets? What if different atmospheric attributes made all music on one planet have a "distortion" effect, while music on another got a "phase shifter" or "chorus" effect, simply because of what's in the air? Like Venus, which has a hellish landscape to say the least, and atmospheric makeup of mostly nitrogen and CO2, or maybe Neptune, which has an atmospheric composition of helium, hydrogen, and methane. I mean, how would metal, or jazz, or even rap sound on these planets? So with that in mind, I'd like to live on Saturn, because it shares similarities with Neptune, being made up of mostly nitrogen and helium, and it looks freaking beautiful to boot. Probably not the answer OP was looking for, but I've always wondered about stuff like this :P
Dude, just be like a Space Pirate that juts floats around on a spaceship that looks like a giant pirate ship. You could travel the universe making metal, and fight aliens with like futuristic cannons and shit. Like, what if you wanted to record a song on planet XIB-50-JA, but there's a bunch of space mercenaries that are enslaving the people. You could go there and fight them, then play a concert as all of the people are being de-slaved. That would be bad ass.
I really enjoyed being in Colorado the few times I was out there for business, but I have to wonder if I could live there. There are so few trees, and no, I dont mean the kind that you smoke. I am in the North East and used to everything looking pretty lush in the summer. I also find it works wonders for my mood.
You also lose ocean access. Its funny, I barely go anymore, but I would always like to live near a coast. I am also from NJ, and there are a lot of positives about living anywhere else, IMO. It is not all bad, but really, most things I would miss here I could get elsewhere.
I'm from a heavily wooded state and had trouble adjusting to the lack of trees when I moved to Colorado. But what I lost in forestry, I gained in lack of humidity, fewer bugs, and the most amazing sunrises and sunsets you can imagine. I still miss the trees. It's weird that my kids are growing up not using the phrase "the woods"
What field are you in? I can try to hook you up. The job market is HOT in colorado right now - from entry level stuff up through executive management stuff. unless you're in oil and gas... those jobs are super sparse since the Saudi's cut crude prices earlier this year...
I work for a disability service right now (mental health and developmental disabilities) , I do system administration for our electronic health records. Help desk, implementation, etc. I work as an EMT at night. 2 jobs seems to be necessary to pay rent in NJ if you're single lol. Fortunately no oil and gas for me!
We've got people hurting themselves and requiring EMT services out here... and I even know a few people that work in public and private centers/homes/services. They are the actual PCPs, but they might have some insight into how to apply for the back-end administration. PM me if you're interested. Full disclosure: Rent in Colorado is going up, up, up. It has grown faster than anywhere else in the country this year. We're still cheaper than the coasts and Chicago, but our percent increase has (unfortunately) beaten everyone.
Reading through that article, that is still a little cheaper than where I live in NJ. I was recently looking around for 1 bedroom apartments and I refuse to pay $1200 a month for it + all utilities. Pretty ridiculous, but I guess it's all relative. I think the organization I work for now has services in Colorado, but it's very hard to transfer since each state is it's own organization really. I remember looking at their career options online and they only had like 3 job openings. I'll be sending you a PM soon.
I recently took a trip to Vancouver British Columbia and fell in love. What a beautiful, active and vibrant city. The people were beautiful too. Great recreation, liberal and young. The city is well designed too.
Albany, New York. Honestly. It's a decent sized city, so I'm sure I can find a nice coffee shop and some weekend brunch places. It's three hours from New York and four from Montreal. But the real allure is it's less than two hours to most of the Adirondack high peaks. The outdoor opportunities are superb. And lastly there's a company there that does work like I do. I could probably get a job there.
When I was a kid, my family went on a hiking holiday in Bulgaria. We stayed in a tiny little village called Madjare near Borovets and explored the surrounding area; walking on trails, cycling, and when it got hot, paddling in glacial lakes/streams. I remember one particularly warm day, my dad, sister and I went for a cycle around the area and stopped at a little shop/cafe to sit down and have some ice-cream. Sitting there, with the sun beating down on me, with my massive ice cream cone, watching the world (and the occasional man with a goat) pass us by is one of my favourite memories. It was really the type of place where you easily lose track of time. I always thought it'd be a great place to live as an old guy.
I'm still a college student in Ireland, so for the foreseeable future it's not the type of place I could realistically move. I'd love to go back for holidays though! The Bulgarians around there were some of the friendliest people I've ever met, even despite the language barrier!
Sweden or one of the Scandinavian countries. I hear that they do just about everything right. Like their education system is amazing, and their approach to prison is making prisons actually shut down due to the shortage of prisoners. Plus, they're supposedly filled with beautiful women, so that helps too.
That Scandinavian train is the one I want in on. I'm thinking Denmark or Norway, but (yes I'm aware it's not Scandinavian) Germany is enticing as well. Somewhere to escape from the cultural/political domination of America please, that's left-leaning/socialist and reasonably developed. I've been learning Danish for about a year now and really enjoying it.
Somewhere with lots of nature and animals. Also, nice people.
Mittenwald, Germany. It's a sleepy little town. The fiance and I spent 2 weeks there and it was fantastic. There's plenty of fresh produce and farmers markets to get good food. There's a lovely coffee shop with the best croissants so buttery and fresh. The place was built for walking and it's small enough that you really don't need any other form of transportation other than your own 2 feet. The 2 weeks we spent there were also the first time we met each other in person and a secluded town surrounded by mountains was the perfect spot to get to know each other properly. We hiked along trails and walked hand in hand along the side roads. We ate at all the restaurants that interested us and half of them were pretty good. The place is also gorgeous. It's surrounded by huge mountains so everywhere you look is a feast for the eyes. It's also close enough to Innsbruck to pop down by train and spend a day in a larger city. Sadly I imagine we'd only be able to immigrate there after we've retired. Maybe that's something we'll plan on. It seems like the perfect place to spend my final days.
Out West. I grew up in Colorado, and the West seems to really just have different approacch to life than the MidEast or either coast really. I can't describe it, but it's what I grew up with, and I like it. Have a house set out on the outskirts of town, raise a couple animals, a garden. But, I'm stuck in WI until next year, and then it looks like I'll be heading East for college. I can't see myself living anywhere by the US permanently, but a couple of years spent in Latin America, especially Costa Rica is not out of the question.
I have a friend who lives near GRR so i always fly into it. I went to a hackerspace there that blew my mind!! I think this is it: https://wiki.hackerspaces.org/The_Geek_Group
We're moving to a city in Spain next month, so we'll see how that turns out.
I've been traveling around Europe a bit recently and I really like Amsterdam. There's bicycles everywhere, amazing public transport, beautiful architecture, canals, friendly people, and it doesn't feel too big. I hear there's a really good tech startup scene there, too. That being said, I think I'm going to move to Melbourne next.
Amsterdam is such a beautiful city, once you get out of the center. Those brick houses that just go on and on...
Always dreamed of living in London, and had actually planned to go to school there for graphic design until I realized the school I was looking into was a shitty degree mill. Wouldn't mind visiting Tokyo at some point as well, just to experience some of the culture there. But, I always get the urge to leave the nest after I've settled down in one place for more than a year.
Eh, I'm not in a state to do anything at the moment. I'm deep in debt from the one year of college I went to in the states, have a lot of mental diagnoses that I'm no longer able to afford medication for, and living in an area with absolutely no jobs unless I want to work part time, one day every two weeks at a gas station for minimum wage. Right now, I'm just trying to get myself to a place where I can function in society, let alone handle school.
I would love to live my early years somewhere tropical like the Caribbean (to finish learning Spanish, and to gain a knowledge of my culture and my history). After that when I grew up (especially when having a family) I would probably pick a place that had a good education/medical care.