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Tasmania for me based on my own experiences. Friendly and relaxed people, fantastic countryside, perfect capital city, lots of variety packed into an accessible sized area.
Netherlands does have much going for it in many ways - but I find them insufferably smug and very conformist. Quality of life is good tho thats for sure.
Netherlands; too flat, too densely populated.
Dont laugh but love it here in Littleborough. Had my time again Banff Canada.
That as well scotroutes but they do have so much right socially. I think the smugness would get to me.
Moved to rural scotland after a few years nomading all over. I wonder how easy it will be to move abroad in future with the whole pandemic thing.
I work online so you would think it would be easy to live anywhere, but it turns out it's a pain in the ass to settle long term, in a lot of places, if your work is domiciled in UK.
California would be nice, it has everything, if you can pay for it.
I'm sure I could pass some time in Chamonix or similar, if I put my mind to it. Catalonia is great.
I lived in the Dominican Republic for a few years and loved it. The Samaná peninsula is fantastic and would be a great place to live. But there is the issue of earning a living and watching my parents grow old here I am not sure that would be so easy there so the DR wouldn't be for keeps. But I loved the climate, people, sea kayaking and riding.
Gower is a great place to live in many ways. I have been so glad to live here during lockdown as I have loads of great riding and walking right on the doorstep.
I must say though that Scotland is very appealing. Loads of riding, sea kayaking, hills, superb access rights, better politics than further south, nice people, clear water and white sand... hmmmm.
The problem is that of you are stuck with having 'roots' its hard to move away and not get some kind of imposter syndrome where ever you end up.
California would be nice,
I was watching Rick Stein in California earlier. He drove down the Pacific Highway and I must say it looked bloody awful. Loads of RVs lined up along the dual carriageway and people surfing on a long and featureless beach. I have never been there but when ever I see it on TV the coast looks blighted by that road. Is it really like that?
Queenstown is annoying as it's full of tourists and backpackers, and all the places around it really don't like anyone who isn't local.
lovely place, ruined by people.
Don’t like the UK but the USA is ideal?
California is not Trump's America.
have never been there but when ever I see it on TV the coast looks blighted by that road. Is it really like that?
No.
California is best thought of as a unique country. It's not quite UK or USA.
There is loads of counter culture too so you can likely find your tribe. From hippies to techies and everything in between.
The climate is really good. Food is Amazing. Landscape varied and top notch. It attracts interesting people.
And of course it has the polar extremes of those things too. Inequality is rife.
I like this thread.
When I was living in Thailand there was a guy at the next beach who worked for Microsoft. He used to spend three months in Seattle, then three months on Ko Phangan. I always thought that seemed pretty cool - though I've never been to Seattle, it might be a dump.
Lebanon - it must be awesome if people fight over it so much.
I'm happy here in North Northumberland.
Climate can be a little tough, but we do have a lot less rain than most of the UK. Just wish the sea was a little warmer.
I have traveled all over the World and still think it's one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline in the World.
I did enjoy Victoria on Vancouver Island. Amazing place but a lot of rain and the sea is colder than here!
I quite like it where I am, tbh.
This is tricky.
My wife's family is from Barbados and as much as I'd dream of sipping on a rum and coke watching the sun go down, you really have to have some dosh to be in that position without a job, which would be low paid and therefore change the experience - plus the islands got terribly busy and a little run down before the recent political change.
Que the old Brit perspective then of similar but nearer, selling up for a 3 bedroom Villa in Menorca is a possibility.
But then, 3 years ago we spend a week in Vancouver and as awesome as that was - definitely one of my favourite places - we were very lucky with a heatwave in April which added to the experience, but was removed from the reality so were were told by locals.
My aspiration is pretty much being able to sit and enjoy a decent rum in the evening peacefully somewhere in the world, mortgage free and comfortable.
Already living the dream just outside Paisley...
Ladner, BC
A great little spot with lovely people.
@gowerboy whereabouts on the Gower are you? I spent a blissful year living in a wee cottage opposite the golf club in Southgate, loved just being able to wander down to Three Cliffs Bay of an evening.