NationStates Jolt Archive

Recently there was a thread asking where people would never want to live. This asks the opposite: where would you like to live more than any place in the world? (Yes, in the world. Nice try, astro-boy.) When deciding, assume that you are completely integrated in that place, so a person living in New York will be making the New Yorker salary equivalent of whatever you do. It'd be nice if you were as specific as a certain city, but not necessary.

EDIT: I'll add a poll with the top ten cities that pop up in my head. It'll probably bear a resemblance to ones that appear here.

London.

Pretty much only big cities that are beautiful - I couldn't live where there's not lots of things to do. So other than London then it'd be Paris, New York, Berlin, Barcelona, Sydney, San Francisco etc etc. Points deducted for having to own a car.

Visit: Italy. Rich history, beautiful vistas, and some of the best fencing teachers around.

Live: Croatia.

Eeep...I hate New York, but NYC is the greatest place in the world. That's why it is on top of modern stereotypical terrorists hit lists (political correctification)

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia maybe...:)

For me either Ann Arbor, Michigan or Angers, France. Angers is the only city I've ever lived in that I've actually liked, and Ann Arbor is just an extremely cool town. I can't stand large cities, or else I'd pick Paris or Rome. They're both cities that I really like, but by the end of the day the huge amount of people drives me nuts.

Gary, Indiana. Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome.

Eeep...I hate New York, but NYC is the greatest place in the world. That's why it is on top of modern stereotypical terrorists hit lists (political correctification)


Is it on top of their lists? You a buddy of Osamas?

And is the criteria for effective location of a terrorist attack really the quality of the place?

Well if your into environmental stuff, imho down here in Tassie we have the most untouched and greatest forest etc in the world.

vermont.....a couple hundred wooded acres and a small ranch house...
yea, that'd be nice.

Oh my God, Los Angeles in the top ten :D

Have you ever been there? Have you ever had to live there?

Oh my God, Los Angeles in the top ten :D

Have you ever been there? Have you ever had to live there?

No, and I hope that I never will. But it seemed large enough to include.

Wherever I happen to be at the moment. My presence is enough to make it *that* awesome. ;)

You a buddy of Osamas?


Is that funny where you're from? Because it's, at best, sophomoric here.

No, and I hope that I never will. But it seemed large enough to include.

It should have been San Francisco, the better part of California...SoCal is the shallow end of the pool...

It should have been San Francisco, the better part of California...SoCal is the shallow end of the pool...

So far, it's just as popular as Paris and Rome. If it's really that despised, this poll will help show just how despised it is.

SoCal is the shallow end of the pool...

...not so much as it is the deep, DEEP end of the sewer.

Suburban NY. Yes, the suburbs, not the city itself.

So many, so many. Basically Europe is my favorite place, generally western, but Moscow is pretty cool. In the US, I'd have to say that Las Vegas was the coolest place ever (not literally, that place is HOT) and excluding politics and whatnot Washington D.C. is pretty good too. Boston too. Detroit is where some of the family is. (gasps* NO! I just gave away coordinates!) Chicago... and Southern Cali. In fact, in a list (NO POLITICS INVOLVED, just what I think is awesome):

American:

Las Vegas
Boston
Washington D.C.
Denver
Los Angeles
Detroit
Chicago

So many, so many. Basically Europe is my favorite place, generally western, but Moscow is pretty cool. In the US, I'd have to say that Las Vegas was the coolest place ever (not literally, that place is HOT) and excluding politics and whatnot Washington D.C. is pretty good too. Boston too. Detroit is where some of the family is. (gasps* NO! I just gave away coordinates!) Chicago... and Southern Cali. In fact, in a list (NO POLITICS INVOLVED, just what I think is awesome):

American:

Las Vegas
Boston
Washington D.C.
Denver
Los Angeles
Detroit
Chicago

Other than Boston (and I haven't been to Denver) those places are all horrible imo. What made you choose them?

You're all wrong. The industrial grocery store is the best place on earth.

Probably somewhere in the pacific northwest IE: southwestern canada or north western U.S. I like the climate up there.

Florence, Italy

You're all wrong. The industrial grocery store is the best place on earth.

What about that Edmonton Mall joint?

Almost any city in new england (that's what I'm used to), san fransisco, possibly new york city, nantucket is cool but since it's an island it's cut off from society... I think that's it. I want to study abroad in italy, but I don't think I would actually move outside america or canada unless there was an awesome job opportunity. I don't wanna leave my family.

I want to live near an ocean or lake, but not too far from the city. Things probably won't work out this way, and I'll just end up in the city.

What about that Edmonton Mall joint?

The Industrial Grocery Store will always beat anything else, because you can bring a quilt and stay warm all night in the parking lot.

The best place to live is outside a small city that is just barely big enough to have a good subway net. I currently live 20 minutes with subway from Central Station, a 3 minute walk from a forest and a 10 minute walk in another direction from a nature reserve. The best of both city and countryside. :)

The Industrial Grocery Store will always beat anything else, because you can bring a quilt and stay warm all night in the parking lot.

Why not just go inside the mall and sleep in the bed displays? Or the pool?

Bern, Switzerland. Or anywhere in Eastern or Central Switzerland. It's the most stunning scenery ever. It's the only place I would even consider immigrating to.

My bed. Giggaty Giggaty Giggaty! Alright!

Does this look like a Q to you? How 'bout now?

My bed. Giggaty Giggaty Giggaty! Alright!

Why not just go inside the mall and sleep in the bed displays? Or the pool?

Why do that when you can see the grey buildings and feel the cold wind?

Why do that when you can see the grey buildings and feel the cold wind?

o.9
Since you put it that way .... the, uhm, cryogenic experience might be what i *really* want after all!
Besides, things i leave in the sheets feel different than things i leave on cold pavement.

Melbourne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne).

Florence, Italy

There's a sign at uni pointing to Florence for some reason. It has the distance on it too.

Melbourne (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne).

Yeah, Melbourne's a great city. Unfortunately it's filled with Melbourneans.

Yeah, Melbourne's a great city. Unfortunately it's filled with Melbourneans.

You mean the self-important types who lash out at supermarket employees for no apparent reason?

British Columbia, Canada. It is the province's fucking tourist motto ffs! How wrong can it be?

You mean the self-important types who lash out at supermarket employees for no apparent reason?You know, man invented a word that describes your entire sentence without lack of clarity: customers.

You know, man invented a word that describes your entire sentence without lack of clarity: customers.

Man also came up with a term that describes your relative demeanor in this post, though I'll stop short and let you figure out what it is.

Bergen, Norway

Man also came up with a term that describes your relative demeanor in this post, though I'll stop short and let you figure out what it is.Some combination of {ass, hat, hole, ****, jerk, dick, newfag}?

Come on people you Put L.A up there but not Auckland, New Zealand. Even if Auckland had a bomb dropped on it, it would still smell better than LA. (Actually I quite like the smell of barbique but that is not important). Oh and to everyone who thinks New Zealand is in the netherlands it's not. Dont ask me about that but when I go away I get that a lot.

Some combination off ass hat hole **** jerk dick and newfag?

Nah.

the best place to live is NOT in ANY city, or near one. never has been. never will be. the BEST place to live, is where no one knows you're there.

i'm sorry, but the only thing that makes any city worth a dam is public transit, exotic restaurants, and university engineering librarys, and even those still don't make them worth a dam as places to sleep, and create, and explore, and dream your own dreams.

=^^=
.../\...

also i would point out, the invention of military aircraft completely inverted any stratigic advantages cities had formerly possessed.

in the city one bomb can wipe out millions. out in the boonies they have to pick you off one by one. on YOUR turf. that you KNOW and they don't!

=^^=
.../\...

I've never been anywhere that I would call great, just a plethora of places I would call bitterly miserable.

Daytona, Florida was pretty nice, but has since been overrun with the elderly.

Recently there was a thread asking where people would never want to live. This asks the opposite: where would you like to live more than any place in the world? (Yes, in the world. Nice try, astro-boy.) When deciding, assume that you are completely integrated in that place, so a person living in New York will be making the New Yorker salary equivalent of whatever you do. It'd be nice if you were as specific as a certain city, but not necessary.

EDIT: I'll add a poll with the top ten cities that pop up in my head. It'll probably bear a resemblance to ones that appear here.

I'm insulted that LA is on the poll instead of San Francisco. I refuse to vote in the poll because my choice isn't on it and none of the non-specific descriptions fit it.

the best place to live is NOT in ANY city, or near one. never has been. never will be. the BEST place to live, is where no one knows you're there.

i'm sorry, but the only thing that makes any city worth a dam is public transit, exotic restaurants, and university engineering librarys, and even those still don't make them worth a dam as places to sleep, and create, and explore, and dream your own dreams.

=^^=
.../\...

also i would point out, the invention of military aircraft completely inverted any stratigic advantages cities had formerly possessed.

in the city one bomb can wipe out millions. out in the boonies they have to pick you off one by one. on YOUR turf. that you KNOW and they don't!

=^^=
.../\...

This is a slanted view. If all you're concerned about is how safe you are, than sure, hiding out in some wilderness fortress is the way to go. But there's more to life than mere survival.

A great deal of the things I enjoy doing are most convenient if I live in or near a city. It's hard to go to shows when you live in the sticks (believe me, I know), or play in them.

Come on people you Put L.A up there but not Auckland, New Zealand. Even if Auckland had a bomb dropped on it, it would still smell better than LA. (Actually I quite like the smell of barbique but that is not important). Oh and to everyone who thinks New Zealand is in the netherlands it's not. Dont ask me about that but when I go away I get that a lot.

I agree. LA stinks.

And who thinks New Zealand is in the Netherlands? I've never heard that particularly idiotic misconception.

Amsterdam, baby.

how dare you leave it off the poll? :mad:


other than that i would have voted for San Francisco... certainly not LA (yes i've spent time in both)

Currently, the single greatest place on earth is Cork, Ireland.

Why? Easy. Cause I live here. :D

No, and I hope that I never will. But it seemed large enough to include.

Mexico City is also large enough to include. I wouldn't want to live there either. Similar smog issues.

I was thinking that "greatest" was in the "most excellent" sort of usage, not "most bloated."

My admittedly heavily biased opinion favors San Francisco, California.

However, the Marin Headlands, Munich, Germany, Boston Mass. and Rome, Italy are also excellent. As is Lake Benson in the Sierra Nevadas, and also the redwood forests.

See my location for the greatest place on earth

why are they all cities?

i voted option 8, but if you haven't heard of my hometown you need an education.

I agree. LA stinks.

And who thinks New Zealand is in the Netherlands? I've never heard that particularly idiotic misconception.

Oh and to everyone who thinks New Zealand is in the netherlands it's not. Dont ask me about that but when I go away I get that a lot.That's because we have the original, called Zeeland. Stupid Britons forgot to change the 'z' into an 's'.:p

Only one place I can think of. (http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1372/21729_0004.jpg)

Luxor, Egypt. Most interesting place and best architecture, period. Los Angeles has hte climate but that's all it has... London has the libraries and museums, but Luxor still wins, despite it's intractable and numerous problems.

My pants. Greatest place to be. :D

Alright, in all honesty, I would say Rome. Italy is just so bloody awesome, that the French are the only ones to lose to them in war. Twice. :D

Prolly San Francisco, if it's anything like how my Grandma described it from her childhood.

Poll sucks, wont vote.

New England, by the way.

My top 4: Berlin, New York, London, Moscow (yes I know its a shit hole in a lot of places, but I love it)

San Diego,CA is pretty far up on the list. Oh and Barrow, AK. They have vampires.

No big city is the best place on Earth. The best places on Earth are small towns and wilderness.

San Fran ^_^

Only one place I can think of. (http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Mptv/1372/21729_0004.jpg)

Referral Denied? Hey, that's just South of the Industrial Grocery Store!

"Where Tuscany meets the Pacific northwest"....wild, rugged, magnificent northern California....and when you need a 'city-fix', San Francisco ain't half-bad! My home.

your poll is made of epic fail.

Mavis Enderby , Bag Enderby

Lisbon, Oslo, Riga, Leuven (Louvain)

No big city is the best place on Earth. The best places on Earth are small towns and wilderness.Fuck small towns. They have shit restaurants. The food is sucks. Half the time, it is some premade food you can get at the Industrial Grocery Store. The rest of the time, something will be crunchy when it shouldn't (ie chow mein), chewy when it shouldn't (again, chow mein), or the wrong color (but the employees are sure that is how it should look). Dinning area is not clean, neither is the cutlery. The bathroom is usually dirty enough to get the health and safety board to close the shit-hole down. People only eat there because it is the only place available and they have since grown accustomed to it.

Gas stations are not self-service. 'Nouf said.

The level of inbreeding achieved by only having about 20 families in town significantly reduces the hot chick ratio. They are also fine with that inbreeding.

Internet is slow as fuck, and ISP competition is slow, if existent.

If you fuck up, everyone in town knows it.

Everyone has the same viewpoint on everything, except you.

They have pretty lousy scenery.

Shit is expensive, when available. The town is served by corner stores that carry only what the townspeople wants. Not a bad thing in itself, but if you remember everyone there thinks alike, you end up with no selection.

Everyone is fine with getting involved in other people's lives and correcting their 'errors'. I believe this is why so many vote conservative.

People in small towns tend not to value having their shit look good. The corner store will be missing a few letters from its sign. Every building will have faded paint. Every street there is a house that has a dead vehicle on the front lawn. That person's neighbor will have an ungodly pile of broken child's toys. A shelf in the corner store will be broken; it will still be broken when you go back a year later.

Everyone drives a rust bucket or a Dodge Ram.

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You're thinking of the unwashed shithole that exists solely outside of my fair state of Connecticut.

Fuck small towns. They have shit restaurants. The food is sucks. Half the time, it is some premade food you can get at the Industrial Grocery Store. The rest of the time, something will be crunchy when it shouldn't (ie chow mein), chewy when it shouldn't (again, chow mein), or the wrong color (but the employees are sure that is how it should look). Dinning area is not clean, neither is the cutlery. The bathroom is usually dirty enough to get the health and safety board to close the shit-hole down. People only eat there because it is the only place available and they have since grown accustomed to it.

Gas stations are not self-service. 'Nouf said.

The level of inbreeding achieved by only having about 20 families in town significantly reduces the hot chick ratio. They are also fine with that inbreeding.

Internet is slow as fuck, and ISP competition is slow, if existent.

If you fuck up, everyone in town knows it.

Everyone has the same viewpoint on everything, except you.

They have pretty lousy scenery.

Shit is expensive, when available. The town is served by corner stores that carry only what the townspeople wants. Not a bad thing in itself, but if you remember everyone there thinks alike, you end up with no selection.

Everyone is fine with getting involved in other people's lives and correcting their 'errors'. I believe this is why so many vote conservative.

People in small towns tend not to value having their shit look good. The corner store will be missing a few letters from its sign. Every building will have faded paint. Every street there is a house that has a dead vehicle on the front lawn. That person's neighbor will have an ungodly pile of broken child's toys. A shelf in the corner store will be broken; it will still be broken when you go back a year later.

Everyone drives a rust bucket or a Dodge Ram.

lulz

what about wilderness?

lulz

what about wilderness?

Boring, too quiet, too many bugs.

I'll take Paris, any day.

I voted for small town, but, seriously, Brunswick, Maine is one of the coolest towns I can list off the tip of my tongue, mainly for that awesome Chinese restaraunt.....

And yes, I don't know how to spell restaraunt, and i'm perfectly fine with that; I think the misspelling makes me want to eat out more even!

My hometown is more popular than Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Beijing...despite the fact none of you know where I live.
This can't be good press for Los Angeles, Tokyo, and Beijing.

Fuck small towns. They have shit restaurants. The food is sucks. Half the time, it is some premade food you can get at the Industrial Grocery Store. The rest of the time, something will be crunchy when it shouldn't (ie chow mein), chewy when it shouldn't (again, chow mein), or the wrong color (but the employees are sure that is how it should look). Dinning area is not clean, neither is the cutlery. The bathroom is usually dirty enough to get the health and safety board to close the shit-hole down. People only eat there because it is the only place available and they have since grown accustomed to it.

Gas stations are not self-service. 'Nouf said.

The level of inbreeding achieved by only having about 20 families in town significantly reduces the hot chick ratio. They are also fine with that inbreeding.

Internet is slow as fuck, and ISP competition is slow, if existent.

If you fuck up, everyone in town knows it.

Everyone has the same viewpoint on everything, except you.

They have pretty lousy scenery.

Shit is expensive, when available. The town is served by corner stores that carry only what the townspeople wants. Not a bad thing in itself, but if you remember everyone there thinks alike, you end up with no selection.

Everyone is fine with getting involved in other people's lives and correcting their 'errors'. I believe this is why so many vote conservative.

People in small towns tend not to value having their shit look good. The corner store will be missing a few letters from its sign. Every building will have faded paint. Every street there is a house that has a dead vehicle on the front lawn. That person's neighbor will have an ungodly pile of broken child's toys. A shelf in the corner store will be broken; it will still be broken when you go back a year later.

Everyone drives a rust bucket or a Dodge Ram.

I used to live in Montville, Maine, and although I thought it was pretty good at the time, looking back it's just a pile of bile, like you say.

I pretty much like where I am. The part of Colorado Springs I live in is pretty nice. There's a green belt in back and killer views of the city in front. The air is clean (except when California is on fire) and the water tastes like water and not chemicals. It's not crowded and Denver is just an hour away.

I pretty much like where I am. The part of Colorado Springs I live in is pretty nice. There's a green belt in back and killer views of the city in front. The air is clean (except when California is on fire) and the water tastes like water and not chemicals. It's not crowded and Denver is just an hour away.

I read about that town in Fast Food Nation, and how it's local restaraunts have been usurped by McShitnalds and the like.