i've lived in the same city for the past 12 years. not planning on moving anytime soon but i think about it from time to time.

toronto's a pretty great city. i think there's maybe two other cities i've visited that i could picture myself actually living in: chicago and montreal.

chicago is more like toronto (but 3x the size and wayyyy better mexican food) but logistically montreal is the more realistic of the two.

montreal is really quite lovely and has great arts, music, culture, food, etc. i love all the little duplexes with stairs going up the front that are everywhere in the city's core. i speak okay french, and it'd get better being around it all the time. rent is very cheap there. and i've got a few friends over there. but really cold winters and if you're anglo the only jobs really available are kitchen staff ones, which i've never done.

where have you lived and what was it like? where are cities you have visited that you can picture yourself living in? how about places where there's no way in hell you'd live (for me: ottawa)?

somewhere with a cooler climate...i like rain, but it never rains in arizona.

I am from Philly and I live there, except for my 6 month stay here in Kansas City. I have vacationed several times in Cape Cod and southern Maine. I could definitely see myself living up there later in life.

If I were to move up farther Northeast sooner (like in the next 15 years), I'd live in Boston. What a wonderful city.

I've never been to the West Coast but I am heading there for vacation in June, so I'll see if I like that or not.

My list...

USA
Bay Area (east bay specifically)
Portland, Oregon
Chicago (downtown only... the burbs are hell)
Asheville, NC
Denver

International
Amsterdam
Berlin
Buenos Aries
Vancouver

Cities I would never ever ever live
New York
Anywhere in new jersey
LA
Dallas
Houston
Las Vegas

^ memphis sucks too

i'd like to end up somewhere a bit rural.

southern maine sounds lovely.
i went to philly and i could potentially live there. it didn't really have that "home" feeling like mtl or chicago. same with charleston and nyc.

vancouver is a beautiful place to visit but i don't think i could live there.

i was supposed to make my first trip to LA in october but my cousin postponed her wedding to buy a house so now i have to wait until next may unless i go out there for some other reason. i most likely won't like it there but i'm sure it's fun to visit at least once.

i'd like to end up somewhere a bit rural.

Culleoka, TN, bb!!

southern maine sounds lovely.
i went to philly and i could potentially live there. it didn't really have that "home" feeling like mtl or chicago. same with charleston and nyc.

I've heard people say the same thing about Philly and I get where they are coming from. It's not a very friendly city and I think the passionate sports mentality leads people to be weary of outsiders. The more accepting parts would probably be around Northern Liberties where the young people are.

i'll second montreal.

Culleoka, TN, bb!!

how's the weather? that place looks too hardcore for me.

i really loved flagstaff in arizona. i didn't get a chance to hang out much but it sure is picturesque and somewhere i would like to live. prescott valley, where i lived, also had great weather. i wish i could take that with me everywhere i went.

PV had a population of about 25,000 which is fine. my only complaint is everything is so spaced out it's hard to be neighborly and just take it easy, ya know.

I once liked Toronto.... back when I used to drive there in the summer to drink when I was 18. But it's such a sprawling, car filled mess and their horrible mayor is such a douche that I don't think i'd ever really want to live there.

and i'm not sayin' i wanna live in the suburbs. don't get it twisted!

I think I'd be in Chicago... Or maybe Seattle.

I've heard people say the same thing about Philly and I get where they are coming from. It's not a very friendly city and I think the passionate sports mentality leads people to be weary of outsiders. The more accepting parts would probably be around Northern Liberties where the young people are.

everyone i met in philly was super friendly! but they were all like "you came.... to philly from canada?!"

i was mostly around rittenhouse

i was mostly around rittenhouse

Nice! You got to see the classy part of town.

how's the weather? that place looks too hardcore for me.

i really loved flagstaff in arizona. i didn't get a chance to hang out much but it sure is picturesque and somewhere i would like to live. prescott valley, where i lived, also had great weather. i wish i could take that with me everywhere i went.

PV had a population of about 25,000 which is fine. my only complaint is everything is so spaced out it's hard to be neighborly and just take it easy, ya know.

Pretty hot and humid during the summer, but cold ass winters! Ill prolly move back if I ever reach an age where I don't have to work and my health is good…I miss the country so very very much.…

I once liked Toronto.... back when I used to drive there in the summer to drink when I was 18. But it's such a sprawling, car filled mess and their horrible mayor is such a douche that I don't think i'd ever really want to live there.

toronto's mayor and transit system are embarrassing. for real.

It's kind of sad too. Cause Toronto is a coll town. But I've spent soooo much time stuck in traffic there that my opinion is prejudiced.

If I moved to a large city it would have to have a good public transportation system

i can pretty much see myself in any city as long as its in a metropolitan area. i would think even something like, uh, lincoln nebraska would be bearable if you're in the right part of the city. i say that because everybody shits on houston. yeah i'd much rather live in chicago or NY or something but in the right neighborhood its not lightyears removed from an experience you could have in austin or something

if i had the luxury of moving i'd probably be best fit for someplace like portland or something. but work keeps me anchored to one place

It's kind of sad too. Cause Toronto is a coll town. But I've spent soooo much time stuck in traffic there that my opinion is prejudiced.

If I moved to a large city it would have to have a good public transportation system

the subway system is as small as philly's, which is half the size. we need more subways, but built 50 years ago and in core areas. our blowhard mayor wants to build more subways with money we don't have in buttfuck areas where everyone drives.

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i bike in nicer weather and it takes 3/4 the time it does on the goddamned streetcar :mad:

Just Toronto or Chicago or Philly
The latter two just because I already lived there
I'd never be allowed to immigrate to Canada though

Really my only realistic option is new Brunswick, Nj

"toronto just feels like one big sports bar right now. open for business!" - verbatim quote from g just now

face it canada sucks

i'm basically an american trapped inside a canadian's body.

i'm a lady in a mans body

I guess i could see myself living in hell too

US:
Boston
Seattle
Austin

Canada:
Victoria
Charlottetown
Halifax
Quebec City
Our cabin on Manitoulin Island if it were winterized

Elsewhere:
Mainz, Germany
Munich
Mittenwald, Germany
Lakes District in Austria
St. Petersburg
Madrid
Tallinn

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i think i could handle one of the 'stans for a while.
can't imaging the rent in kabul is all that much right now.

I've been living in Southern Ontario for just over 6 years now and I'm not a fan. I grew up in the Maritimes and would love to return there. If not there, I've spent a bit of time in Montreal over the years and really loved it.

montréal is on my list

out of places i've been for longer than a little bit

would live in:
Chicago
London

would not live in:
north central Indiana
Washington, D.C.

I don't think I'd want to live in NYC or LA. Don't know enough about Boston or Philly. Wouldn't want to live anywhere in the south. Pacific northwest could be cool. Northern CA too.

I really think I need to live in a city though. Rural/suburban life is not for me.

I lived for one year in northern indiana. I was a punk kid going to a private rural school. One of the most depressing times of my life. I felt like I was in the deep south or something.

i mean i had the time of my life while i was there but it's a miserable part of the country

i've only lived in florida and louisiana. well, i was born in new york but we moved when i was only a few months old.

rural living sucks. louisiana should be salted and set on fire

i wish stars hollow were a real place. i'd live there in a heartbeat.

that's the kinda small town i wanna live in! :embarass:

valencia
istanbul
buenos aires
bergen
skagway
lisbon

the only good american city is ny

i never been but i imagine the only good city in canada is montreal

montreal's pretty nice. don't imagine i'd ever live there, more for practical reasons though.

chicago's cool--it beats albany, ny and miami (the only other us cities i've lived in). i work here for a small company that will probably never move far from chicago, but i could see moving further out from the city. not into the west suburbs.

but rather east into the lake itself

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not that i think there's corals and stuff in lake michigan

i've lived in the same city for the past 12 years. not planning on moving anytime soon but i think about it from time to time.

toronto's a pretty great city. i think there's maybe two other cities i've visited that i could picture myself actually living in: chicago and montreal.

chicago is more like toronto (but 3x the size and wayyyy better mexican food) but logistically montreal is the more realistic of the two.

montreal is really quite lovely and has great arts, music, culture, food, etc. i love all the little duplexes with stairs going up the front that are everywhere in the city's core. i speak okay french, and it'd get better being around it all the time. rent is very cheap there. and i've got a few friends over there. but really cold winters and if you're anglo the only jobs really available are kitchen staff ones, which i've never done.

where have you lived and what was it like? where are cities you have visited that you can picture yourself living in? how about places where there's no way in hell you'd live (for me: ottawa)?

I hate Toronto, I hate Regent Park, I hate Scarborough, I want to move to Chicago or NY soon.

i'd like to live in sierra leone so i could learn what it's like not to have "first world problems"

I hate Toronto, I hate Regent Park, I hate Scarborough, I want to move to Chicago or NY soon.

finish high school first.

i'd like to live in sierra leone so i could learn what it's like not to have "first world problems"

don't be ridiculous

i mean if you think cholera is just a lark then i guess you really are a spoiled first worlder

i wish stars hollow were a real place. i'd live there in a heartbeat.

I've thought this.

In my mind, I really want to live in Madison, WI, though I've never been to either. I know I couldn't live in NYC or LA. I am ready to get the hell out of Boston. I am just not a city girl. I'm ready to try the midwest or go back to the south.

Asheville, NC

Albuquerque, LA, Miami, Madrid, Hong Kong, Santiago, Lima, Istanbul

Orlando, FL. I would go to Disney World like, every day.

When I retire, I want to live somewhere in the south and have a huge piece of land with chickens, goats, and horses.

Albuquerque

really have you been there

watched too much breaking bad maybe

i'm sure she's been there tho

me? no, haven't seen it. I have been to Albuquerque and it's like san antonio in the desert.

i really liked san antonio. i spent half a day in ABQ and i liked it too. i felt really relaxed and comfortable in those towns. when I go to SF or NY i get anxiety. Thats why I like LA, cause its a mutated abomination of a parched out blue collar southwest sprawbelt town and a cosmopolitan hipster big city.

I feel you on that, I like the blue collar aspect but what I really dislike is sprawl. Also the culture of both towns is touristy. Santa Fe felt more lived in.

i will say after three years atx is getting a little annoying with the level of upper class development and the fact that pretty much everybody i meet is from somewhere else

I loooove the desert and yes I've been there, my mom grew up there and I have family there.

i wanna visit the desert.

fictional town i wanna live in is dillon, tx, obvs. bye bye husband and hello tim riggins!!!

U always have a place in my home, bb

Ideally I'd live in Chicago, but a few years ago I was making plans to move to Albuquerque. I'd love to retire somewhere near the East coast, even though that's unrealistic ($$$). In a dream world I would just travel up and down California forever.

I would like to live in a houseboat behind a waterfall.

totally kidding

i despise this entire planet

i wanna visit the desert.

fictional town i wanna live in is dillon, tx, obvs. bye bye husband and hello tim riggins!!!

btw that show was filmed on my block the dairy queen that i grew up wit is on that show yo

EAST SOID

San Diego
Portland
Seattle
New York

that's it.

I've lived in Chicago, Boston, Tokyo, and Los Angeles.
I could see myself living in New York, London, Kyoto and maybe Rome or somewhere in southern Italy.

southern italy lol thats where poor people live

I'd love to live around New Orleans.

southern italy lol thats where poor people live

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yeah seems terrible, you're right.

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