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A city. Or a small town with city level amenities and reachability. Some place where I don't need a car for regular and even some irregular errands.
I'm quite pleased with where I am right now, a provincial capital in NL. If I'd have to scale down, Houten looks quite promising. If I'd be forced to scale up and leave the country, the four places that pop to my mind that interest me are Freiburg (DE), Vienna (AT), Helsinki (FI) and Oslo (NO).
I'd like to leave the United States first. Someplace diverse where I can walk or use public transit, and that has clean water and air. If there's wilderness, hiking trails, or any other kind of nature relatively close that would be pretty swell.
I want to stay here in germany, Augsburg or maybe move to Hamburg or Aachen.
But if political it keeps going down then i have to sadly leave for my own safety
Ireland sounds nice
The Shire
On some planet where is an intelligent life.
Literally anywhere without property taxes so I don't have to earn money to own small piece of land. Just to be able to grow my crops, breed my animals and don't care about anything. Don't have to be big land. Just amount that I can survive without owning any money. That would be nice.
Toronto right downtown. I like the city, I like transit, I like having four seasons, I like having underground walkways, I like doggies on transit.
Definitely agreed on the last two.
Between the flags on the Paseo Boriqua, Humboldt Park, Chicago
That's pretty specific.
I'm not familiar, but an image search makes it look like you're describing the middle of a roadway. Did I find the wrong thing?
Not the middle of the roadway, but the buildings lining it. Paseo Boriqua is the cultural heart of the neighborhood.
I only do well in cities. I need diversity, culture, community, and transit. You don't get that in the middle of nowhere.
Maybe not the answer you were looking for, but I felt like sharing. I am in a stage of life I want to live wherever I find stability, it can be anywhere.
I've moved a lot searching for a better place and always found both happiness and misery in those four countries. There are problems everywhere and choosing those I actually care about makes my daily life a bit more meaningful.
A nice little cabin in the woods and by a lake.
Far enough from the nearest town that I don’t have neighbors, but close enough that I can reasonably make a grocery run each week.
I want to either live in the city. Walking to everything, choices for stuff to do, people...
Or
Be in a cabin near a small in the middle of nowhere. With Internet though :p
I lived in Suburbia as a child. Happiness is a thin veneer over the contempt the majority of neighbors feel for each other.
I lived in rural towns for much of my young adult life. Monopolized utilities and services, as well as the issue of small-town indoctrination, were reliably present.
I currently live in a metro. The rampant corruption and vehicle-oriented culture are noxious.
I guess I want to live in outer space. It's pretty quiet up there and I'd imagine it doesn't really smell all that bad.
I'd like to live in the woods in the PNW. It's pretty, I like the weather and there aren't too many bugs (compared to other parts of the country).
I'm an urban person, so I want to live in a dense city where there is great public transportation and you can easily walk to essential places (i.e. grocery store). I also prefer indoor spaces over outdoor, so a city where there are a lot of indoor activities. Places like Singapore and Tokyo.
I think you're the first person in this thread who hasn't said something related to being remote/isolated. Good luck in achieving your dreams!
The irony here is I used to live in a dense megacity, although not a developed country, and moved to a city with urban sprawl and no public transportation. I hope to still eventually get to my ideal living environment, but it's not happening in the near future.
Converted croft on a remote Scottish island with horizon all round, facing west so I can watch the sun go down.
What is a croft in this context?
Crofting refers to the land ownership system which is unique to Scotland, and a croft is technically a peice of land, but I'm talking about a crofter's dwelling. There are a huge number of these derelict centuries old stone buildings which would've traditionally housed both livestock and people. They often have a cow shed at a lower level connected to the main dwelling so the heat would rise from the animals.
Gotcha, thanks for the explanation!
I want to live in the woods in New Hampshire again some day. It's a beautiful place and also a place where the state and local governments don't make me grind my teeth in frustration all the time*. I would have a house, a lot of land, and no neighbors except for pine trees.
I had most of that already and I left, because I was very lonely - I think I talked to another person face to face about once every few weeks. I thought I would be OK with that because I was used to being alone, but having no family, no friends, and a 100% remote job was too much for me. Apparently even I start going crazy if I am that isolated. Now I live somewhere I really don't like (New York City) but I'm close to my family.
*New Hampshire is a rather libertarian state. Taxes are low but the town where I lived (population 15,000) didn't provide water, sewers, or garbage collection. Many things are legal that aren't legal in most other places. For example, you can drive without insurance, set off fireworks, and do almost anything with a gun except shoot another person. The state motto is "Live free or die," and I would tell my guests that as long as they did one or the other, the state's duty to them would be satisfied.
That sounds nice. I work remotely now and don't talk to people outside of my home very often, but I do have a family that lives with me and they provide plenty of interaction. When we were moving, I did spend a few weeks completely alone here and it did get pretty lonely. I'm sorry you now live somewhere you don't like.
No need to be sorry for me - I think my story is of the "learning what really matters" sort and my family is much more important to me than where I live is.
That's a very respectable attitude.
I want to live like on the edge of a city. Like right out side the tall buildings, small single-family homes, in a very diverse and welcoming society without bigotry.
I'm Chinese-American, PRC is too authoritarian, USA is declining into fascism, Europe doesn't seem to be too immigrant friendly. I don't fucking know, this world is bullshit. I want to live in an alt-universe where republican party collapsed and we have a Progressive Party of America, and the Democratic Party, with every declining membership and support. President Sanders... etc, etc...
Cabin in the woods near a river or lake somewhere in Alaska. I love the cold and the snow. I want big dogs. I like chipping wood for heat. I enjoy being along the evergreens.
