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I'd have a big ranch outside Jackson Hole, Wyoming. When I get bored of that I'd hop in my personal plane and fly down to my luxury top-floor apartment smack-dab in the middle of Manhattan. For culture I'd board a big plan in first-class priority passenger to arrive in my lovely Parisian flat. Right now I'm settling for the gobshit peasant life out here in Atlanta. All I have is 1250 square feet and a lovely dead yard to show for it. Luckily I have two cats that worship me and a fiance that tolerates me to dull the constant gnawing existential pain of not living the kingly life I deserve.
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Doom Rooster posted:Denver/Boulder/Colorado Springs are all on the list for where my wife and I want to move in 3-5 years. We both love the state, visit at least once a year, but are trying to hit the sweet spot of big enough to have jobs for a commercial architect, but small enough that we can get some reasonably-priced LAND land within a 45 minute commute. I live in Denver and love it here. I don't know if I'd want to live anywhere else.
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jimmychoo posted:Southern transplant to New England here — unfortunately the heat and humidity are often just as bad as where I grew up, and no one here has central AC to boot. So you get the crippling humidity combined with crippling winters! As a New Englander, I joke that Southerners are the wimpiest because they can't tolerate the cold, but they can't tolerate the heat, either, because they're used to everything being air conditioned. I say as I sit in my 85 degree living room.
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Rent-A-Cop posted: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. This sounds about right. Guam could work too, still some amenities, but not too big.
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cheque_some posted:As a New Englander, I joke that Southerners are the wimpiest because they can't tolerate the cold, but they can't tolerate the heat, either, because they're used to everything being air conditioned. I say as I sit in my 85 degree living room. It's true, we're all idiots. All of my friends up here are like, "Shouldn't you be used to this heat because you're from the South?" Like... no, I don't see how I could be "used" to 100-degree weather when I spent my whole life in central air. Also still not used to walking on ice.
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Just don't move to D.C. or Virginia where it dips to 0F with tons of snow and hits 100-F at least once a year and probably more. I understand the need for seasons, but should I be busting out the snow-plow and passing out from heat-stroke on the sidewalk within a month of each other? My mom moved to Florida before she died, but my one summer visit was worse than D.C. and that's saying a lot. I got out of the shower and I couldn't get dry for 2 hours. It was horrible. My mom said "stop being a baby. Sit under the fans" I was sitting under the fans. My knee-pits were sweating, in the house! My scalp was getting re-wet from sweat. I thought my hair was going to get moldy. It was like 95% humidity at high noon, at 110F. Dry heat is the best heat????
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DoggPickle posted:Just don't move to D.C. or Virginia where it dips to 0F with tons of snow and hits 100-F at least once a year and probably more. I understand the need for seasons, but should I be busting out the snow-plow and passing out from heat-stroke on the sidewalk within a month of each other? No, see, you're not sitting in your 85 degree room
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Bar Harbor, Maine is my favorite place I've ever been. It's beautiful and I could eat seafood until I die of mercury poisoning. Unfortunately I'm also a giant baby about winter, so I'd probably have to live the snowbird life and have a winter home somewhere warmer.
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Doctor Faustine posted:Bar Harbor, Maine is my favorite place I've ever been. It's beautiful and I could eat seafood until I die of mercury poisoning. My family went to Camden a few times in the summer; I still have fond memories of the place.
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I'm selling my house and going traveling 24/7 for the next couple years. I can only do the contiguous U.S.A, parts of Mexico and Canada because I'm driving and I have my dog, but the temperature is all so crazy different that I think I can avoid all the worst bits with only 1-2 days of travel north or south. I'm very excited!!
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DoggPickle posted:I'm selling my house and going traveling 24/7 for the next couple years. I can only do the contiguous U.S.A, parts of Mexico and Canada because I'm driving and I have my dog, but the temperature is all so crazy different that I think I can avoid all the worst bits with only 1-2 days of travel north or south. I'm very excited!! Just out of curiosity, what are yo doing for living? Or is that not part of the travel?
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Internet Explorer posted:Just out of curiosity, what are yo doing for living? Or is that not part of the travel? I'm 40 and I've saved for a bit, and when I sell my house that I've had for 15+ years, I will make a 6 figure profit. I don't want to be a huge internet whore or anything, though I do have a video camera etc for making videos for my friends. I also have learned to crochet in such a way that I can make a few dollars profit here and there. I am trying to pick up more and more ideas and techniques for very sellable items to other RV'ers and such so I can maybe make some gas money but that's kind of a joke. I also live somewhere VERY expensive in the grand scheme of things, so one of my goals for traveling the country is also to look for another place to live that I would enjoy (but is not in the top 5 most expensive cities in the USA) My goal is to go camping at least once in all 48 states =D "edit" right now it costs me about $3500/month just for my house and my utilities and not even doing anything. If I have a $150/month storage space, that still leaves me quite a bit of room to tour the country. Camping is $20-$30 per night and decent hotels are $70 for charging all my electronic stuff and for when it rains really bad. I've spent 2 years building up my google map of where I want to go, so I could easily do 3 days camping/3 days camping /1 day hotel for a couple years and still not hit every place. I am SO EXCITED. DoggPickle fucked around with this message at 08:42 on Sep 13, 2018 |
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I want to live in a place where it's 80 degrees and really foggy all the time but I don't think that exists.
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I want to live in a place where it's 80 degrees and really foggy all the time but I don't think that exists. What about Louisiana?
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DoggPickle posted:I'm selling my house and going traveling 24/7 for the next couple years. I can only do the contiguous U.S.A, parts of Mexico and Canada because I'm driving and I have my dog, but the temperature is all so crazy different that I think I can avoid all the worst bits with only 1-2 days of travel north or south. I'm very excited!! You should try this: http://us-climate.blogspot.com/2015/10/70f-road-trip.html A plan for a year long road trip where the temperatures are 70 degrees every day.
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Love Stole the Day posted:What about Louisiana? Lol it gets around 80 for like a month or two a year in Louisiana.
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cheque_some posted:You should try this: I'm not LAZY but I have absolutely no problem staying in a single state at maybe 3-8 locations in a month, so I'm not in any hurry. I want to visit every state and at least catch a few of the big draws and some local flavor. I've only lived in the same state my whole life, so I want to find out what makes every area interesting, how people treat others and how LIFE is there, and I've found a bunch of weird stops that I've found like bizarre Butterfly Gardens and Creepy doll museums and stuff like that. I also would love to catch local festivals and fireworks and just random crap. Your link is fantastic  I don't worry too much about myself but my dog is really stupid small (3.5 pounds) and camping in below zero temps is kind of sketchy for her., so I have to keep it in the 45-90 range (F) I also need to be able to function during daytime to get poo poo done, like doing laundry and creating crochet stuff for gas money. I think I can only do crochet between 60-F and 90F. (I'm always too hot, so that might be a bit cold for some people) I've already sold some of my crocheted blankets for >$300. Etsy buyers are kale-eatin', money-spendin' rich people who DIE to have hand-made things. The on-the-road aspect will just let me jack it up to awesome heights. That's not something I even worry about. Maybe if this works out for a few years, I can buy a camper that is a real "house"? but I could have gotten a small one already but I don't want to drive a huge, uncomfortable, gas-guzzling thing at 8 miles per gallon with nowhere to park, when I am such a small person, I can easily sleep in my Mini Countryman's backseat with my dog curled up against my belly just like it was a bed, and get 34mpg. And in the spirit of this thread in general, I am just looking to see other places in the country and take in the atmosphere, and see where I would like to settle down for the end. I'm 40. Nobody in my family has lived past 60. I'm the most positive person you'll ever meet, but I'm also not dumb enough to work my loving rear end off for my last 20 years in the DMV for a mediocre house with snobby neighbors, bored and overaggressive cops and the most expensive property taxes in the whole country, just to leave all my money and die. I have really good friends to meet in North Carolina, New Orleans, Florida, New York, New Hampshire, Colorado, Texas, California and Utah. I think they will keep me busy for awhile and let me do laundry lol. Wish me luck SA =D *edit* I've been planning this for near 2 years but my Jack Russell, who I got as a tiny puppy when I was so young that I was a different person, and my parents were both alive, and has been my best little buddy for A MILLION YEARS SHUT UP I KNOW IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE, keeps on keeping on, and on and on and on and on and is now Blind, 18 years old, partially deaf, has dementia and has just recently starting losing control of her functions, so it's gonna be THIS spring for sure. I THINK. DoggPickle fucked around with this message at 09:34 on Oct 18, 2018 |
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Northeast Canada, like Newfoundland area. Sure the winters are rough now but I reckon in twenty years or so they'll be JUST right. Just a hunch. And it's not as overcrowded and expensive as other likely climate change "winners".
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I want the progressive socialism of Sweden, the weather of Hawaii, and the convenience of being next to big city amenities like LA. Idk OP you tell me
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:I want the progressive socialism of Sweden, the weather of Hawaii, and the convenience of being next to big city amenities like LA. Socialism, tropical weather, and a big city? One finger on the monkey's paw curls and you... end up in Havana. Which, to be fair, is a loving awesome city to visit but I wouldn't live there.
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As much as I hate to say it you've got a recipe for really annoying homelessness there.
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Ytlaya posted: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. Ahhhh me toooooo Onomichi is so dreamy.
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If I’m gently caress off and retire levels of rich then Portugal Spain or Greece. Sunny Mediterranean with socialism
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I think I would pick the Barossa in South Australia and have space for a proper veggie garden and have lots of pets. I would spend my days gardening and cooking and snuggling cats and walking dogs. Then I would visit my favourite vinyards and pick up some Shiraz to drink. I have simple tastes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wArNbXFvJLQ For holidays we would spend a few months every year on the Cook Islands the most perfect place I have been in the Pacific.
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:If I’m gently caress off and retire levels of rich then Portugal Spain or Greece. Generous soul
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:If I’m gently caress off and retire levels of rich then Portugal Spain or Greece. Portugal, Spain and Greece are broke shitholes barely surviving on tourism. Personally I prefer my home to be attached to the sewer system.
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Noted socialist countries Spain, Portugal, and Greece, which have definitely not been run by military juntas in recent memory.
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Seriously if you are independently wealthy and want mediterranean Europe then go for southern France you imbecile. There's a modicum of stability and you can at least pretend your vastly underpaid taxes are going to social benefits, plus you can schmooze with loads of world's most influential rich folk, and there's still plenty of organized crime. On top of that, unlike those others, you're not just on the Mediterranean but within super quick travel of like six wildly different local cuisines, excellent beers, excellent wines, and excellent liquor, have easy access to all kinds of outdoors from pristine beautiful beaches to godawful tourist trap beaches to playgrounds of the rich and famous to scenic day hikes to great skiing to brutal mountaineering to Paris and Madrid and Rome and Vienna. Like seriously if you want to be Trump but pretend you're Lenin, hit up southern France Edgar Allen Ho fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Dec 8, 2018 |
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AlbieQuirky posted:Noted socialist countries Spain, Portugal, and Greece, which have definitely not been run by military juntas in recent memory. Be flippant all you want, places like Portugal actually have social safety nets like affordable healthcare and college. If I’m gently caress off rich then why toni Cate that their economy is only based off tourism? Y’all are dumb babies who don’t understand how lovely America is, eat a bag of dick etc.
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JIZZ DENOUEMENT posted:Be flippant all you want, places like Portugal actually have social safety nets like affordable healthcare and college. I don’t understand this post, much less the aggressive nature.
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bouncing between monaco and st. bartholomew's on a private jet with all of the money would be nice in a lot of ways but i bet the people would get annoying also re: fogginess i googled and found this rad data 
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A nice big ranch in Sonoma, north bay area California.
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SA Forums Poster posted:A nice big ranch in Sonoma, north bay area California. Gonna burn
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Mansion in LA, apartment in NYC. Would fly to wherever the weather is better.
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poisonpill posted:Mansion in LA, apartment in NYC. Would fly to wherever the weather is better. Might as well sell the NYC apartment then.
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BarbarianElephant posted:Might as well sell the NYC apartment then. A REAL rich guy would rent it out
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:A REAL rich guy would rent it out On Airbnb
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Imagined posted:On Airbnb Only way someone will have sex in it
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Uhh I think you’re forgetting just how rich I am in this scenario
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