If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

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Just that really!

Here. Ireland, west coast. Mayo. Stunningly beautiful, and the bad weather is a wonderful thing when viewed from the comfort of home, by a real fire :)

@LadyEloise1 I'd like to live somewhere that is max 25 degrees in summer ( every day to be sunny in summer ) and isn't rainy or damp much ( so not Ireland )
Any suggestions.

California north of LA. near the coast. Does get sea haar in the mornings.

Vancouver. We had a holiday there when I was 19 and I was lucky enough to get a six week internship at a museum as part of a course a few years later. I did look at emigrating but my grandfather was frail and I decided not to pursue it. That was 19 years ago and it may well have changed, but I’d love to go back. I would like a Star Trek style transporter though so I could skip the journey…

@SquaresandStarlings I’ve sent you a PM

South of France

Thank you @TrinnySmith
I won't be moving so far away 😀

I am absolutely determined to move to France in 3 or 4 years time. Need to get my son and daughter through uni first.

My parents have lived there for 17 years and have a fabulous standard of living. They also have loads of friends and a great social life. They even have a band which plays around the area at night markets and events. My dad has been exceptionally looked after by the french health system too.

Ideally I'd live on the Ile D'Oleron - all those big skies and hollyhocks everywhere. And the sea smells like nowhere else. But I'm open to living in the Dordogne (except worried it is full of Brits), Haute Pyrenees or Charente Maritime. I'm looking for a town below the Loire (for better weather) on a hill above a river and about 60-90 minutes to the coast. My house would be a traditional french farmhouse with shutters, a large garden with a view and a swimming pool. I have planned it so much I can even tell you how I'd spend my days.

Cannot wait.

Lake District !

Around the corner from where I live. It's lovely here but I have to take the car out (and hope for a parking space) to go kayaking or swimming - be nice to roll out of bed and just be there!

So, I'd move to buy a house right on the river or right by the sea which would probably cost an additional 500k.

Or, France.

@DailyMaui

Can this be done this side of Brexit? (Maybe you have French ancestry). I've assumed it's not possible now with the 3 month rule

Somewhere near Druridge Bay, Northumberland. 7 miles of deep deep beach at low tide. I’d have a couple of dogs and some cats, and walk, bake and knit all day long.

Bonus is a number of eateries - 4, I think - called The Running Fox. Totally amazing food. Afternoon tea is out of this world and super lush corned beef pie, a local specialty, to to my mum by my dad’s gran in the 70’s and delightfully shared to me.

San Diego

Cork here. If it wasn't for the rain the place would be like Torremolinos. Keeps the dust down as my grandad said.

New York City on the upper west side. Oh to be rich.

I'm hoping that France will start offering various visas like Spain and Portugal.

We can still do it, I believe. And we have been told so. We just have to prove we have a certain amount of income or money.

My dad even became a French citizen to help us but that isn't really going to make a difference.

I'm determined though. Fuck Brexit and it's dream limiting bollocks

I like where I live, but I’d like a field at the end of my garden.

Barbados, it tried so hard to keep me, the taxi broke down on the way to the airport and then our plane was delayed.

I'm really happy with where we live for 8 months of the year (SE England), but the older I get, the more I hate winter. I hate the dark and the dreariness. So what I'd love is to spend winter somewhere else - San Diego would be good.

Oh yes to the Eileen Grey villa, although I think I‘d risk the wrath of the architectural world and erase any trace of bloody Corbusier.

iKt is slightly surreal being in those idyllic surroundings and looking out onto the madness of Monaco though.

I’m with you! And so are a surprising number of architects I know, a few of whom were taught by Le Corbusier protégés. Agreed on Monaco. When dinosaurs roamed the earth, I was an au pair down the coast, and I’m sure it’s way madder now…

Japan or Andalucia