Where would you prefer to live?

[lebkuchen]

[xJlM]

1. Arizona is beautiful

I'm stuck in Ohio right now, though...

[doubleplusgood]

9. southern. Arizona

...has (besides Sonoran desert) 9,000 foot mountains, interesting plant/animal life & the southernmost ski resort in the U.S. And the Sea of Cortez is only a few hundred miles from Tucson, I think.

It becomes much more appealing to this Oregon observer around January/February each year.

[sugarcookie]

19. Where in S AZ?

I lived in Bisbee when I was young. I do remember snow in the winter. My father and uncle both worked at the Phelps Dodge Copper Mine. I have fond memories and intend to go back to visit someday.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. I like the mountains AND the sea, which is why I love Maine

so please add. :)

[ibegurpard]

3. In a city in the mountains by the sea with the country and the desert

nearby.
:P

[BurtWorm]

6. Me too.

That's why I like Andalucia so much. It's got todo.

[arcane1]

7. sounds like California

:loveya:

[Zero Gravitas]

8. Vancouver B.C.

has all of the above, except for the desert.

[DrBlix]

14. All of the above

Sounds like Santa Barbara, California. Lucky me.

[Flying_Pig]

4. Hmmmm.. Where I live, I am within mere....

hours to all of them. California offers a lot of very diverse geography, in a pretty compact area, depending on which end of the state you live in. You can snow ski in the mountains in the morning, and get a suntan on the beach in the afternoon, all in the same day. Likewise, you can go from 11,000 ft. mountains, to cactus filled deserts in minutes, and be at the ocean in another two hours. Where else can one do that??? Of course, that's why so many want to live here. Did I tell you about the terrible traffic, and smog, and the politics, and crime, and.......
:evilgrin:

[Champion Jack]

12. Bah! you wanna hear about sitting on the 405 for

4 hours to go 18 miles? about paying more for gas than ANY other part of the country?

[Demobrat]

13. Whoa. It's gotten worse.

I left L.A. in 1983. It was bad then, but 4 hours to go 18 miles? That's inhuman.

[Champion Jack]

16. Yeah it's gotten worse...

It flat out sucks to be here.
Too many people.
One good side of that is I can sell my pad and get some property some place away from this madding crowd.

[hippiechick]

5. In the country...

... where my closest neighbor is 1/2 mile away so I don't have to hear their stereo or smell what they're cooking for dinner. But not so far out of the city that I don't get cable or can only make trips to the grocery store once a month.

Last week I would have said by the water but after this weekend's flooding in Indy ... I'm not so sure anymore.


:hippie:

[short bus president]

10. sounds like my neighborhood

a mere 10-15 minutes from Chapel Hill, but uncrowded. Lots o' cows. More cows than people, in fact. Just like I like it.

[ScrewyRabbit]

11. France

If only they would have me.....

[AquariDem]

15. In the Northern California countryside...

in one of those great areas that's both open and country-ish, with tall yellow grasses, and woodsy with deciduous and evergreen trees. Just so relaxing.

[Maeve]

17. Ireland

Where the mountains come down to the sea and everything is so GREEN.

[supernova]

18. If not in NC

I'd pick anywhere in Europe. I love it there: France, Austria, the Czhech Republic.

[TheBigGuy]

20. an apartment or condo in Streeterville...

on Oak, Walton, Delaware, Pearson, or Chestnut streets....

[damnraddem]

21. I voted sea, but you didn't let me express it all:

In a city, in the mountains, by the sea.

Why did I ever leave San Francisco?

[Castilleja]

22. By the sea!

Course I already live there!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

23. How about by the sea near the city?

The summer I spent in a suburb of San Francisco were the best days of my life. There's something internally cleansing about the sea. The sounds, the smells, the colors. I'm so tired of rural america. It's pretty, but I feel like I'm a big fish in a small pond and it's time to spread my wings. I feel a little trapped in Freeperville, :crazy: and I'm screaming to get out. One more year of this crap, and I'm gone. Thanks for listening.
Duckie

[mvd]

24. My choice would be suburban

I picked city, since I'm in a metro area. I wouldn't like to be isolated or endure the commotion of big cities.

[FloridaJudy]

25. City Grrrl Here

I tend to hyperventilate when out of walking distance of a independent book store and a decent Chinese restaurant.

...must have...Granta...and...twice-cooked chicken....

Of course a good DSL connection could resign me to almost anything.

[Chovexani]

26. I'm a city slicker too

As much as I complain about it sometimes there is no place in the world I'd rather live than crowded, stinky ass NYC, hehe.

I *need* to get weird ethnic food at 3am! I also need to be in close promixity to other weirdos (sadly we seem to be an endangered species these days).

I visited Sanny Franny once and loved it. It is the only place I would ever consider living besides NY (well, and Sydney, but only because the BF has told so many lurid stories about the weirdos he used to hang out with there :P). I can't deal with the concept of earthquakes though, which is probably why I'd never move there.

--C