Where would you love to visit or live?
 

Now I will probably never have enough money to travel, well at least not for a long time. But if I could go anywhere I would go to Italy. Italy is so beautiful. I also would like to visit Maine to meet some of my husbands family. I wish some days I could just get in the car and go. Ive only been to Idaho for a family reunion and then my great grandmas funeral. So going to see the world is just a dream to me. Here is a photo of where I would love to live someday.

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I love old houses!!!

i was just thinking about this today as a matter of fact.

i'd like to go to italy, and i would like to go to the mid east, morrocco, tunisia, egypt, syria, lebanon.

Vietnam and Ireland. I have Irish blood in my family and I've just read so much on Vietnam I fell in love with the country and the people.

Nice picture.

It always amazes me how Europe still has so much open space. If Europe had been settled by Americans for the past few thousand years, there'd be nothing but Starbucks, Walmarts, and parking lots for as far as the eye can see.

I wouldn't want to live there, but I've always been fascinated with ancient Egypt. I'd love to visit the Pyramids and the Valley of the Kings. And as long as I'm there in that corner of the world, I'd like to see Jerusalem because of its long and fabled history.

Been in some places so I would have to say I WANT to live in Paris. Yes, that's where jesus was born.

As for where I really wanna visit, I'd have to say the entire orient and eastern Europe.

I want to see Scotland and England, Italy, and Williamsburg, VA. :D

I think it'd be cool to visit Scotland, Japan, Germany, the Pacific NW, and parts of greece (especially the Achellion at Corfu).

I love living in Los Angeles, but if I had a whole huge bunch of money and could live free and easy wherever, I would probably split my time between

LONDON- my favorite city on earth. I love London, and its bookshops and theaters and restaurants and museums, its rains and its people and its historicity, and also its hundreds of pubs. Nothing beats England, a society constructed on the premise that no one should ever have to go further than thirty yards to find beer.

and

ROME- maybe my second favorite city on earth. You have to work to find a bad restaurant in Rome, and work even harder to find bad wine. The architecture is unreal, and the city is both gorgeous and welcoming. It really is the Eternal City.

but votes also go to

JERUSALEM- I lived there for a year, and I would do it again. I love the food, and the absorption of the city in scholarship and study, the artwork and the museums, and the holiness that not even ultra-Orthodox assholes, right-wing nutjobs, and wacked-out Palestinians can entirely cover up. Yom Kippur in Jerusalem is an experience no Jew can experience and be unmoved.

and

WASHINGTON DC- I am always pleasantly surprised by the fact that America's capitol city is really quite capital. The archetecture is often dignified, the museums many and well-furnished, the public transportation cheap and accessible, and the public monuments generally elegant and distinguished. Somehow, Washington really does seem to emphasize our elusive American ideals, and not our ever-present American bullshit.

Not Santa Cruz, levite?

HAHAHA. That's a real knee-slapper.

/jaded Metro rider

All depends on what you're used to, dude. Compared to Los Angeles, public transportation in DC is like a nice, easy wet dream.


Naw. Actually living in Santa Cruz was something I liked doing when I was much younger, but I couldn't do it forever. I need more culture than that. I need more city than that. And the parts of Santa Cruz that are best stay with you, and you don't really have to physically inhabit them: it's a state of mind, man. :cool:

visit?..gee whiz!

i want to finish off every country in the middle east before i leave it..maybe with the exception of iraq right now.

ive got nepal, lebanon and egypt booked tentatively for sometime this year. chicago, mongolia and kilimanjaro 2010.

if theres one place id love to see right now, it would be Patagonia in Chile.

I want to hear the lions roar at dusk on the plains of the Serengeti, spend a day watching lemurs in Madagascar, go fishing at an Alaskan inlet next to a glacier, ride a horse on the beach in Jamaica, get lost in Tokyo and find a great karaoke bar and get drunk on sake, swim with sea turtles off the coast of Barbados, go window shopping in Amsterdam, let in ride in vegas and then watch the sun rise from the Florida keys.

I will, however, most likely never leave Ohio. This saddens me.

also, I want to do this:

I would like to visit anywhere I can get to... right now the top of my list is Krakatoa, Vietnam (again), Cambodia and Japan.

As for where I would like to live... I'd like to live in the following cities:

London
New York
Hong Kong

There is a reasonable chance that my career could take me to two of three of those cities.

new zealand.

Want to visit Greece as I iz Greek.

Also want to visit Italy, Morocco - mainly to come home with a shitload of decor for the home and every popular beach / island in the world before I choose one to park at permanently.

We are planing a trip to Australia in a few months--We have been waiting for years for this trip. Any advice on the area would be great.
Woods--We spent a week on the island of Rhodes in Greece and it was amazing(the best thing is a lot of the roads are to small for tour buses so you are not swamped with tourists)

theemaan, where abouts in oz? its a lot bigger than you expect!

So I have seen in the travel guides. We were very interested in the Kimberly area-love desert camping -but it looks like the time frame(feb.)isn't a great time for that area. we are going for 4-5 weeks and intend to see all we can with out driving the whole time. We also intend 14-15 days in a caravan(camper) so we can see more out of the way stuff. Any ideas are welcome.

Cool :).

My Mom spent a lot of time there and she claims it's a dump. But her tastes exceed mine. I'm in love with the culture and architecture. I'd love to spend a week there. Cyprus especially - that's where my roots are.

The city areas were a bit shabby. We rented scooters and spent all our time in the country and found some amazing places--Winerys in the hills--caves where the christians hide on the north west coast(i think) and very few people--it was the end of May before the big tourist season. We had lunch every day out in the coutry at small tavernas or just in the woods with grape leaves and tomatoes--and good ones they were--Hope you get to go.

I plan to make my home in Ibiza one day. Greatest place on the planet.

Yeah!

Most people know it from TLOTR movies, but I fell in love with the scenery there back in the early 80s watching a film called The Race for the Yankee Zephyr. That was back when scenery wasn't CGI.

Beautiful place.

They won't let you take your wagon of bang-toys.

My mom traveled to New Zealand in her early 20s and the only reason she will watch the LOTR movies is to see New Zealand in the background.

I'd love to live there, or Japan, or France, or the Netherlands, or Scotland, or Canada. Or else I'd like to stay right here, thank you very much. I do live in a very beautiful place. From where I live, it's only an hour to the Pacific Ocean and 1.5-2 hours to the mountains. You can literally ski in the morning and surf in the afternoon. I've had the opportunity to travel all over the United States, and there is no place like my home. I really wouldn't consider living anywhere else in the U.S. now.

There are lots of places I'd like to visit, probably too many to list here. Hawaii, Japan, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Uzbekistan (one of my life's goals is to travel the length of the Silk Road), India, Thailand, Australia, more of Europe, etc. Really, I would travel pretty much anywhere. Travel in and of itself is a rewarding learning experience.

Tt and I enjoy traveling. Road trips are a little slice of heaven. Train rides and backpacking are even more delightful. There are places that we stayed along the way for a few brief days (or even hours) where we felt immediately at home and would love to return. A list of these...

Carnia
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Cerbere
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Avignon
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Vienna
http://www.viennaaustria.co.uk/images/vienna1.jpg

Munich
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Western Montana
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St. Louis
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Malibu
http://www.rideforclimate.com/photos...serialNumber=2


And I've felt at home here, would love to have an opportunity to show Tt...

A view from the top of Mount Rotui, Moorea
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We currently live in one of those places we stopped by for a brief visit and felt at home: southwestern Ohio.
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We would like to keep moving, keep traveling - it seems every time we get out there, we find a new place we could easily call home - a place of immediate comfort in a sea of foreign confusion. I hope we find many more places like these in our lifetimes.

Good point. Really anywhere there are hippies, decent seafood, and medium quality chronic could probably substitute for Santa Cruz, but the transients there are truly unique.

I'll bet I could make a killing as a shabbos goy in Jerusalem....
1) Be a gentile
2) Move to Jerusalem
3) Only work Sundays
4) ???
5) World peace

I don't really want to live anywhere other than where I'm at, but I'd love to visit too many places to list here. Top of the list is Australia though. I'm not sure if it's because I raised sheep for most of my life or what, but I've wanted to visit there for a long time. Other places are Scotland, New Zealand, Hawaii, Washington DC...

I love New York as a place to live at this point in my life, but I would definitely like to get hoppin' around the globe. I think my next stop will be Japan. Then I will punch a few more holes in Europe (Berlin, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Prague, Athens). Eventually, I'd like to go to Brazil, but I need to have a good plan that keeps me in the safe spots.

Ireland. Greece. South Africa.


Stateside, I think I'd be happy in Colorado or Southern California.

I would love to live in southern France in Nice. We visited there for a mere 5 days once while traveling in Europe. I was blown away by it's beauty and all the art galleries around the town. The worst part was that we didn't know much French, but the locals are much more friendly that the locals in Paris.

Another spot I want to visit is either Scotland or New Zealand, both look gorgeous and lush and they speak English! My friends that go to NZ (Kiwiland as they say) have said it IS Paradise on Earth!

I got my taste for it from watching the hercules and xena series. what a beautiful country.

Here's the entrance to my retirement home:

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I would love to live in the Black Forest in Germany. Never have I been to a place so beautiful and quiet. If I wanted to head back to the city, I'd only be a short train ride from Frankfurt.

Scotland and Australia. I would love to visit/live in either.

Visit? Maybe somewhere like Colombier Beach. There's nothing worse on a beach than a thousand and one drunk coeds. In order to really enjoy the Caribbean, you need to get away from the better known party areas, to place that you can only find via hiking or boating. Bringing someone you adore and maybe a few really well prepared meals and just spend the day existing there. I've not been yet, but from my experience in Mexico desperately looking for a beach as far from other people as possible, this has to be heaven... to visit. It's impractical to live there, of course.

Live? I honestly don't know. I was thinking just outside of Vienna, maybe a few miles up the Wien River (wouldn't want to catch cholera), but that's really just a romantic notion. I'm not familiar with the practicality of living in Austria. Vienna always just screamed culture to me as a child, learning about the art and music coming from there, seeing old paintings of this city that existed outside of time, reaching to me from 300 years ago. I feel as if, were I to visit this summer, I'd want to seek an audience with the king to demonstrate my son's incredible musical ability.

All the places mentioned here and more. I wish I could have like a dozen houses and teleport to a new one every few days.

Wishes aint horses, make it happen big boy!!

Well, I'm going to Germany, Mexico and Alaska in the next year, so I'm doing pretty good on making my wildest dreams come true.

/puts out smoldering credit card

Wooo! Single guy power!

its just like you see it in the movie 'Australia' with nicole kidman and hugh jackman. serious...kangaroos and all

Thanks!
It may not be soon but I think I'll go eventually lol.

I'd love to go to Brazil. The women...oh god. I may be married, but I'll still say that.

I'd also love to go to the land of aussies, new zealand and probably japan. I'd totally eat that live octopus on a stick that they always show on japanese food documentaries.

Trust me - the more you travel, the less adventurous your eating habits will become.
There's nothing pretty about having food poisoning on a 13-hour transcontinental flight. :no:

i dont know ya'll love to go to NZ. its just a land of sheep, sheep and more sheep... did i forgt the sheep shaggers?

most NZers go to oz instead of the other way around. we may go for a weekend. they come for a lifetime :D

theemaan, if your into the drive, make sure you do the Great Ocean Road drive. by far the best drive in the country. if you're flying into sydney, take the drive down to victoria, then around the coast and head towards adelaide. the 12 apostles is amazing. look up the drive on google, you should be able to find a tonne of stuff.

Could I also add JAPAN to my original response?

Thank you.
I really like & admire the Asian culture, people (& food) and it looks like a magical place!

Thanks Dlish-I will surely look into it. It Seems the other area we were thinking about is going to be too wet in Feb. So This might be the trip to take

I want to see Canada. Especially Nova Scotia and BC.
I want to see where my grandparents grew up in England and Ireland.
I want to visit Goa and New Delhi in India.
I want to see Greece and Rome for the history.
I want to see Paris for the art.
I want to see the future in Japan.


I want to live in Toronto. I love it here.

I know right? Isn't it awesome how many things one can accomplish whilst single? I wonder why the hell folk like Zeraph don't jump on this bandwagon?

It isn't that hard to leave Ohio. :)

What movie is that from? I've seen it before (and that was the best part of the movie).

And you don't take a taxi from Heathrow to the City Center. You take the Underground. :thumbsup:

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I've been to London, Paris, Nice & Monaco and they were all great, but Sydney is still still my favorite city. Especially if you go an hour north of the city. You are close enough to the city, but it's amazing how many fewer people there are. Australia wins on my Best Country in the world that I've been to. Western Canada isn't too bad if it is warm. I'm not sure I would be able to handle the winters or the rain though.

I haven't been to the South island of New Zealand, and maybe it was that the weather wasn't great when I was there, but I had a better time in Australia.

Ibiza is someplace I still want to visit. I was so close (and if I had another week or two of vacation, I would have gone there).

I would like to visit Norway or Sweden one day (in the summer). Japan would also be an interesting place to go, but is too expensive to live there. Brazil (Rio) and southern Chile would also be fun to visit durning Carival. The Caribbean and pacific islands would be good.

I need to build a large boat and sail around the world for a few years.

Somewhere that is at room temperature ALL THE TIME.

Places I would like to live:

In America -

Telluride, CO
San Francisco, CA, or New York City (if the political climates were different)
San Diego, CA

Overseas -

Hong Kong
New Zealand
Israel (I'm not Jewish, but the history of the Middle East fascinates me)
Vienna, Austria
Goa, India
Tokyo, Japan

As far as places I'd like to visit...I think other countries and cultures are fascinating, so I'd like to visit any place was that was safe (in other words, no wars, massive amounts of terrorism, ethnic/tribal conflicts, disease epidemics, etc. going on).

I still wasn't able to visit Australia but hopefully I'll be doing that next year.

...i'm spoiled...where i live in North Carolina it's not too far from the Blue Ridge Mountains, not too far from the Outer Banks, summer beaches, autumn colors, spring flowers, mild winter snowfalls, and close to my family.

...the only difference i long for is less humidity and mosquitos during lateJuly/earlyAugust. A good time for a one month vacation to a cooler/drier climate...any suggestions?


:rose:

Canadian Rockies or Destin/Fort Walton Beach, Florida. Northern Michigan isn't too bad either (Traverse City/Mackinaw City & Island). There may be bugs though.

You have more sheep than us, plus I think that out of the two of us (If you're Aussie) you're the only country to have people been caught fucking em to make news.

I'm not saying there's not some crazy sheep fucking bastard out there, but if there is he's smarter than your Aussie sheep fuckers.

Now that's national pride right there.

Heehee.

To get back on topic, that photo of Western Montana posted by Genuinegirly is beautiful.

If I wanted to see "stunning" in NZ I wouldn't go past the marlborough sounds.

Would like to visit Italy and BC.

Western Montana/Wyoming/Colorado (American Rockies) are good as well.

And New Zealand did have a lot more cows than I would have thought. I saw more cows than sheep I'm sure.

Part of me wants to move back to Colorado to live.

Internationally, I would love to live in Berlin. My first time there, I fell in love with the city. My second time there I didn't want to leave. My third time there I felt like a local. Also Berlin has an added bonus, now that the wall is gone, you get two cities for the price of one.

Pripyat Ukraine, would love to see chernobyl

I would like to live in Vina del mar, Chile from november to april, then travel the great north american countries. via mtorhome. From alaska to guatemala. Fishing, smoking, eating, drinking etc. What a great idea.

there aren't any kangaroos in Scotland! ;)

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You could do a tour in the Kimberley region - I'd suggest this isn't an area that you want to do without serious amounts of gear. Think desert without much in the way of population. My parents have been and said it was amazing, but you really don't want to break down out there.

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not per capita ;)

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Alaska - check
NZ - check
Mainland US - check (though I've only been on the west coast).
Hong Kong - check

Other places I'd like to go:
UK - Scotland mainly (for my heritage - and the castles).
East coast US

I'm happy where I live. Someone mentioned an hour north of Sydney - that's pretty much me, almost exactly an hour on the train from the middle of sydney :)