What's the best place in the world to live?

[xelabale]

The best place I've lived so far has been Indonesia - I lived in a crappy city, Semarang, but it was still the best place ever to live. If you live in a decent place there, it is paradise. Maybe Manado?

What do you think?

[Frigidus]

Switzerland, I imagine.

[Snorri1234]

Right here.

[Frigidus]

Right here.

CC or the middle of a fucking Reptile Zoo?

[Snorri1234]

Right here.

CC or the middle of a fucking Reptile Zoo?

No man Las Vegas.


Wait, no, that place would really suck to live in.

[Neoteny]

It's got to be the fucking reptile zoo.

[thegreekdog]

I "lived" in Greece for four months on a small island in the Mediterranean. I didn't work, so I can't say that my stay there would translate into real life that well, but the place was beautiful, the people were nice and seemed carefree. If it's like that all the time, even when working, then that's the place to live.

[Snorri1234]

I "lived" in Greece for four months on a small island in the Mediterranean. I didn't work, so I can't say that my stay there would translate into real life that well, but the place was beautiful, the people were nice and seemed carefree. If it's like that all the time, even when working, then that's the place to live.

Oh yeah small islands in the mediterranean are pretty awesome. Still, I would wait to live there till I was older though.

[muy_thaiguy]

Yeah, Las Vegas is a good place to visit, crappy place to live.

I've been to Honolulu, and it was awesome there. Granted I was there for only a week, but it rarely gets below 50 degrees F, good food, people seem really nice, and the beaches! Oh the beaches.

The only downside was, was that half the channels on TV were in Japanese, so you really had no idea of what they were saying.

Though I do like where I live, but that is a given.

[jonesthecurl]

I absolutely loved the time I spent on Poros, a small Greek island. It seemed like heaven.
Not so sure that being there all the time would work though.
Oddly enough we discovered that the girl who lived next door to us at the time had at one point married a guy from Poros and lived there for quite a while. She found it dreadfully dull. Mind you she as thick as two short planks.

[thegreekdog]

I absolutely loved the time I spent on Poros, a small Greek island. It seemed like heaven.
Not so sure that being there all the time would work though.
Oddly enough we discovered that the girl who lived next door to us at the time had at one point married a guy from Poros and lived there for quite a while. She found it dreadfully dull. Mind you she as thick as two short planks.

If one can live without television and driving on paved roads, a Greek island is the place to be. Granted, you'd have to be willing to do manual labor. However, from what I saw, manual labor involved approximately 4-6 hours of work a day, no more.

[joecoolfrog]

Rochdale

[Snorri1234]

I absolutely loved the time I spent on Poros, a small Greek island. It seemed like heaven.
Not so sure that being there all the time would work though.
Oddly enough we discovered that the girl who lived next door to us at the time had at one point married a guy from Poros and lived there for quite a while. She found it dreadfully dull. Mind you she as thick as two short planks.

If one can live without television and driving on paved roads, a Greek island is the place to be. Granted, you'd have to be willing to do manual labor. However, from what I saw, manual labor involved approximately 4-6 hours of work a day, no more.

Indeed. It's really a "relax and don't worry" type of thing. I've been to quite a few small islands and they're always just very relaxed. I quite like Bonaire, excellent place to surf and just a really relaxed atmosphere.

I'll second jones on "dunno about livign there all the time".

[Woodruff]

The best place I've lived so far has been Indonesia - I lived in a crappy city, Semarang, but it was still the best place ever to live. If you live in a decent place there, it is paradise. Maybe Manado?
What do you think?

Monaco's gotta be really high on this list. Seriously...they've got it made.

[jonesthecurl]

It very much depends on where you are in your life, and your own attitudes.
Before the days when I was most likely to be addressed as "Daddy", we lived near where nagerous does now. Specifically we lived in the Shirley area of Southampton.
For a DINKY couple just then it was perfect. Within a forty-minute walk there were theatres, cinemas, bars, restaurants (including one of the three best curry houses I've ever found), gyms, a swimming pool, the Uni (where I was studying for a part-time degree), lots of shops (including, over in St Mary's some great places for spice), the football and cricket ground, all the stuff a grown-up could want - including what looked like a great club scene for them as like that sort of thing, especially if they're single.

But once I reproduced, I needed somewhere with less pavements (sidewalks) and more greenery. I got SO tired of doing the same walk up to the COmmon with the small man every day. And so shortly after I reproduced the second time, we moved a few miles south to the New Forest.

And, uh, so on.

[InkL0sed]

Roosevelt Island, where I will be living for the rest of the summer before I go off to college. It's right in the middle of New York City, but it's also isolated from the street and noise, has a lot of fields, a relatively close and friendly community. So it's the best of the city, but also the best of the suburbs. And in terms of individual neighborhoods, it's probably one of the most diverse in the city.

[JJM]

GF!

[JJM]

GF!

Please don't tell me that I am the only one here that has heard of Grand Forks, ND.

[Skittles!]

GF!

Please don't tell me that I am the only one here that has heard of Grand Forks, ND.

Cause everyone knows that GF = Grand Forks.

[xelabale]

I loved Portland in the states, interesting people, I liked the feel of the city, and the great outdoors round there is second to none.

[jonesthecurl]

From my memory of playing Empire Builder, there's a Portalnd on the East and one on the West - which one?

[xelabale]

Oregon

[thegreekdog]

From my memory of playing Empire Builder, there's a Portalnd on the East and one on the West - which one?

More importantly what is Empire Builder?

[jonesthecurl]

Railway boardgame.
It's a good one, and was popular enough to inspire a whole load of other games using the same system - Almost all of which we've bought.
We have (this is from memory, we might have more) British Rails, Euro Rails, Nippon Rails, India Rails, Australian Rails, Lunar Rails. We bought but re-sold Iron Dragon, a fantasy version. I haven't yet got Russian Rails, but may do at some point.
It doesn't have all that fussy stocks and shares stuff that the 18.. family have.

[thegreekdog]

Railway boardgame.
It's a good one, and was popular enough to inspire a whole load of other games using the same system - Almost all of which we've bought.
We have (this is from memory, we might have more) British Rails, Euro Rails, Nippon Rails, India Rails, Australian Rails, Lunar Rails. We bought but re-sold Iron Dragon, a fantasy version. I haven't yet got Russian Rails, but may do at some point.
It doesn't have all that fussy stocks and shares stuff that the 18.. family have.

I've played some of those train games (not the ones you've mentioned). I want to say SimTrain or something of that nature. In any event, they had stocks and whatnot.