[misterno]

Where else can be better to live than Houston for a true peak oil believer like myself?

[vtsnowedin]

I live here because I was born here as were several generations before me going back to the Green Mountain Boys. The spring water runs sweet and clear and we have it plumbed into the house we built by gravity feed. The heating season is only 200 days long and the AC season is only 5 days long.
And I like living in the " center of things". As in 110 miles from Montreal and 143 from Boston and 250 from New York, NY, And 3250 miles from London and 2617 from Los Angeles or 7725 from Beijing and 10009 from Sydney Aus.

[Quinny]

Want to move to Brittany, because I love the place. Found a small farm, but I can't sell up here even though I've dropped price significantly. Travelled extensively Europe and States and Africa, found USA depressing, Canada nice and loved most of Europe.

I feel at most at home in Celtic areas, love the rocky coves and beaches, bass fishing on a western beach whilst the sun goes down is the closest thing to a religious experience for me.

I keep looking at the place in Brittany on Google maps. I feel drawn to it. I've drawn up plans for exactly what we need to do. I'm now planting out my 1.5 acres here in the UK, but my heart isn't really in it! Needs must!

[Cog]

My father owns a farm about 60 miles from me here in suburbia. When he passes on, I want to make a go of turning it into a first rate doomstead that produces local food. I grew up in Illinois and now work here after a stint in the Army. With the exception of the politicians in Chicago, its not a bad place to live, especially in the rural areas. Good growing seasons and good soils.

[bratticus]

Missing option:

Every place else threw me out.

[MarkJ]

I choose to live in my region because of family, friends, customers, mountains, lakes, rivers, streams, waterfalls, woods, views, fresh air, change of seasons, hunting, fishing, ice fishing, camping, boating, snowmobiling, cruising, hiking, skiing, tourism, low crime, good school systems, reasonable cost of living, reasonable population density, protected state forest lands, undeveloped building lots, acreage, farm land, growth potential etc.

Living on the lakes, every day feels like we're on vacation. Since many of our neighbors are seasonal residents and part-time seasonal residents, we have the place to ourselves much of the year other than holiday weeks. From Labor Day to Memorial Day, we're often the only people on the lakes at various times.

We generally don't have earthquakes, hurricanes, flooding, droughts, tornadoes, landslides, mudslides or sinkholes.

[dinopello]

Any place I live is the best place in the world. I'm pretty adaptable. I do enjoy the quasi city life I have here in my urban village now. I think I would miss it if I couldn't walk to work, friends, grocery stores, parks, restaurants etc. Although I grew up in an car-dependent rural-ish place and had a good life there as well, just different. I lived on (not worked on) a farm for 2 years in a leased guest house and it was very relaxing and the sound of the horses in the morning was wonderful. But, I also lived right next to the railroad tracks for a while and the sound of the trains rumbling through was comforting as well. I like the anonymous familiarity (with people other than my friends) I have in the size place I live now (Neighborhood of about 6,000 in a transit corridor of several hundred thousand). I run into the same people all the time because we all live, shop, work, and play in the same neighborhood yet you don't have to know them by name. I wouldn't want to live in a mega city like NY or Shanghai, but I lived a few months in Paris and it was pretty awesome (except maybe for the Parisians ) Other places are great too, been to Scotland and Crete for extended trips and seemed to like it there in both the country and the cities or villages.

I really just don't like placeless places. Nondescript, isolated, aestheically uninteresting or banal. Lots of areas like that in the U.S.

[smiley]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ay I ask these 10 people who travelled a lot and live in the best spot on Earth, where did they travel and what region that is, unless its a secret?