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If the world were your oyster and you had enough income to afford the cost of living, where would you settle down to live long-term? How do you even decide?
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Mar 8, 2018 05:33
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the exact other opposite side of the world
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Mar 8, 2018 08:07
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in Marseille, in one of those semi-isolated little neighborhoods in the east, right on the water
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Mar 8, 2018 15:20
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The sea. Edit: Not because I particularly care for the sea, I just like the idea of not having to go shopping or prepare my own food or wipe my own arse.
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Mar 8, 2018 16:22
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roomforthetuna posted:The sea. I'd go for my own ship, I don't mind the normal hassles, I just want to only see people if I decide to come ashore.
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Apr 20, 2018 16:45
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inside a pyramid
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Apr 21, 2018 01:36
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I'd split my time between Istanbul, northern Spain, and Oaxaca, Mexico. Urban area, rural but well-developed area, rural area that's not super well developed but still awesome. Water nearby in all cases, and not terribly far from major international airports in the case of the last two. Also delicious food.
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May 1, 2018 14:09
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the_chavi posted:I'd split my time between Istanbul, northern Spain, and Oaxaca, Mexico. Urban area, rural but well-developed area, rural area that's not super well developed but still awesome. Water nearby in all cases, and not terribly far from major international airports in the case of the last two. Also delicious food. sounds great except for all the time you'd spend schlepping yourself through international airports
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May 1, 2018 14:23
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Earwicker posted:sounds great except for all the time you'd spend schlepping yourself through international airports I do that already for a living. ;-)
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May 3, 2018 17:24
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the_chavi posted:I do that already for a living. ;-) yeah me too that's why i intend to either stop once i actually settle down long-term somewhere, or somehow get rich enough that i can just a private jet and never have to go through security and customs again
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May 3, 2018 17:44
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Earwicker posted:yeah me too that's but i intend to either stop once i actually settle down long-term somewhere, or somehow get rich enough that i can just a private jet and never have to go through security and customs again Bad news: private aircraft still need to go through customs.
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May 3, 2018 17:45
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PT6A posted:Bad news: private aircraft still need to go through customs. yeah but i have a feeling if you are some rich bastard in a private jet it's a nicer and shorter experience plus you can probably more often choose to land at smaller less crowded airports
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May 3, 2018 17:46
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PT6A posted:Bad news: private aircraft still need to go through customs. Personally I've always found customs to be fine (I'm white though). It is security that is the time-consuming hassle.
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May 4, 2018 08:18
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Maybe in one of the nice, green, expensive bits of London. London's a great city but I wouldn't want to live there in any of the outer, crammed-in, pain-in-the-arse-travel suburbs which is all that I'd be able to afford on my salary. Give me a few million quid for a house though and I wouldn't mind living in one of the nicer and/or more central bits.
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May 4, 2018 09:48
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Namarrgon posted:Personally I've always found customs to be fine (I'm white though). It is security that is the time-consuming hassle. It depends on the airport/country and the time you arrive. Passport control in Madrid when there aren't a bunch of other flights arriving: fine! Passport control in Havana when three large flights have arrived in the past half hour: just loving kill me now and put me out of my misery.
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May 4, 2018 21:18
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I'd gently caress off somewhere in the Central Pacific and spend the rest of my life diving and forgetting what being cold feels like. Yap maybe.
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May 7, 2018 19:36
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I think four or five valleys north west of where I am now.
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May 8, 2018 22:11
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Same neighborhood but a house instead of an apartment
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May 9, 2018 01:49
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Going to say Hawaii. Oahu, north coast. Or Maui.
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May 13, 2018 01:33
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Sierra Mountains, Northern California, smaller mountain towns. Places like Nevada City, Pollock Pines, Placerville. Not right in town but within 20 miles.
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May 15, 2018 03:31
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One of the nice houses whose upper floors overlook Parc du Thabor in Rennes, France. That or a nice house overlooking the sea in Douarnenez or one of the wooden houses in downtown Quimper. Probably in that order.
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May 15, 2018 07:16
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I guess I would move to around the Boston area to be closer to my friends and family. Even though I live in a pretty picturesque place in New Hampshire, it seems like no one really wants to talk to you unless you are willing to buy something from them.
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May 15, 2018 08:53
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Moro Bay, CA.
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May 15, 2018 18:16
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Cat Army
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The North shore of Massachusetts, or Vermont.
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May 16, 2018 00:26
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Somewhere near a coast where it rains a lot and is mostly temperate. I want a dark-wood house with a big-window living room that overlooks, like, a glen filled with ferns or something. Lots of evergreens that are perpetually dripping wet. If it weren't so likely to get absolutely reamed by an earthquake I'd say the Olympic peninsula, but I'm open to anything like that. Or a fjord. I'd love to live near a fjord in Norway.
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May 16, 2018 02:47
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Argentina, in the temperate mediterannean-like parts.
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May 18, 2018 21:10
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you people are useless. where are the heroes who want to live in the tiger enclosure of a zoo or an underground bunker in the middle of a salt lake? that's the type of person we need in these troubled times, not "oh i guess i'd live in a big house, in a city". i want to live in a cylindrical tank in the earth, entirely walled by tropical aquariums and operated by solar power
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May 19, 2018 03:15
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the goddamn moon
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May 19, 2018 22:08
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It's not about affordability, I just don't want to settle at all.
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May 20, 2018 13:19
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Onomichi, Japan is pretty much the ideal combination of geography and urban layout in my opinion. This is actually completely unrelated to it being a location in the new Yakuza game; I've always liked it a lot and was excited to hear that they had decided to make it a destination in that game.
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May 21, 2018 21:20
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Maybe Scotland. Quiet, on the edge of Europe, historic buildings. Or perhaps Scandinavia. Perhaps Finland, I heard people are quiet there. France for culture and good weather and warmth.
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May 24, 2018 18:39
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I’d live in Kamakura, Japan. Right on da beach.
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May 24, 2018 18:47
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Ireland.
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May 26, 2018 01:40
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up my own rear end
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May 29, 2018 01:28
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Somewhere where it is always sunny and between warm and chilly all the time, but without that weird rainy monsoon season that happens in the a lot of otherwise awesome island places. It could be excessively dry-hot a couple times a year, and really cold a couple times a year, but without any sticking snow or sweating-just-walking like we have in D.C.. I would also like it if the temp was temperate enough that more plants would live as perennials because I like to garden and eat my own fruits and veg. I would like to live where I couldn't see any neighbors, and it would take me a good 10 minutes to walk there, but in the end, I think I would end up wanting to have those neighbors rather than be in the middle of absolutely nowhere. I would want neighbors that also wanted scarce neighbors but were also friendly and wanted to have neighborhood cook-outs every couple weeks and would come help you if say, a bear decided to eat your toolshed. Hopefully, some of them would have horses and I could go for a ride now and then. I would like to live within view of a body of water ( lake or ocean) where I could fish or go swimming or boating, but there aren't too many other people out there "ruining" it. LOL But I would also like to have reliable electricity and water and heat and A/C and frankly, the internet, which I'm loath to admit but as long as I had decent internet, I'd have no need to for live television at all. I don't have any cable here now in my house in a regular place. I just use the internet for tv. I would like for there to be a town within a 20 minute drive that had Hardware store Nerd Store Craft Store Grocery Store Bonus if there is a weird closer corner shop that sells beer and cigarettes. So Basically I want to live in the middle of nowhere, but with all the conveniences of NOT-the middle of nowhere and I want perfect weather all year long. Anybody have any suggestions? P.S. NO RACISTS, SEXISTS, Or gazillionaires. 
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Jun 2, 2018 23:57
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DoggPickle posted:Somewhere where it is always sunny and between warm and chilly all the time, but without that weird rainy monsoon season that happens in the a lot of otherwise awesome island places. It could be excessively dry-hot a couple times a year, and really cold a couple times a year, but without any sticking snow or sweating-just-walking like we have in D.C.. I would also like it if the temp was temperate enough that more plants would live as perennials because I like to garden and eat my own fruits and veg. Sounds like New Zealand could meet some of those. There are different climates depending on where you go (north/south). I don't think it gets too crazy hot or crazy cold - if you stay in the North island then freezing temps are rare. Auckland has average daily lows of 7°C in winter and highs of 24°C in summer, plus it's a beautiful country.
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Jun 4, 2018 09:14
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South Dakota. Quiet, cheap, lots of open space, towns are reasonably close together east-river and sparse west, you have a bunch of scenic stuff but none of the downsides of large settlements like traffic issues or noise. South Dakota is amazing. More people should live there (but not so many that it ruins the aforementioned perks)
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Jun 4, 2018 15:48
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Zodiac5000 posted:South Dakota. Quiet, cheap, lots of open space, towns are reasonably close together east-river and sparse west, you have a bunch of scenic stuff but none of the downsides of large settlements like traffic issues or noise. South Dakota is amazing. More people should live there (but not so many that it ruins the aforementioned perks) Isn't it like cold as gently caress there in the winter?
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Jun 4, 2018 21:10
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Yes, yes it is
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Jun 4, 2018 21:24
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And it's awesome. Winter is the best. And it's gorgeous when it snows. Putting on a real coat is easy, and 85% of winters problems disappear when you do. The rest is solved by driving slowly, which is also easy. Seriously, winter is good and awesome. It flabbergasts me that there are people who don't like it.
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Jun 6, 2018 13:46
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