Where would you live if you could live anywhere?

[Lion400]

Probably not the right section, but I wondered what people thought about living somewhere they don’t live atm!

Where I am, a seaside town on the south coast of Cornwall.

La Jolla. But without the full-of-themselves people. Everyone else is fine.

Probably just out of Westport.

i live in my fav place delhi, which is in india..

@Femme2804 I used to live in Bandung

Somewhere in southern Spain.

I've lived in Spain before and the bureaucracy drove me nuts. And having to wait 2 hrs in a queue at the post office when there were 2 people ahead of you, etc. Unbelievably badly organised (and that was Barcelona/Catalonia which is supposedly a lot better at this than the rest of Spain). I did love the place but I couldn't live there again. Italy is apparently even worse, according to my (many) Italian colleagues.
Have also lived in France and honestly I hated the people (sorry); I found it incredibly cliquey and backstabbing (and I speak fluent French) - plus I found they really dislike non-French people (although I was considered okay and acceptable; but they were pretty vocal about others to me) - this was mainly Parisians though; maybe it's better elsewhere in the country but that really put me off.

Then a lot of the very picturesque Mediterranean islands are lovely for about 2-3 months of the year - May, June, September. July/August are ridiculously crowded and out of season everything shuts down and there's nothing to do (plus - rain). Also often poor infrastructure, few hospitals etc. So not great in practice.

So I'd say maybe Portugal, near Lisbon? Colleagues in Portugal seem pretty happy. Slovenia also seems rather lovely, plus you can go skiing in winter so best of both.

How did you find it living there? Bandung got the best food in my opinion.

I know what you mean about the bureaucracy.

Similar experiences in France too. And I don’t speak fluent French so was probably worse. I’ve got some wonderful French friends in the UK though. So maybe it’s a parochial thing in places there. I’d def not want to live there for any long period of time.

Italy has masses of bureaucracy but I still love it and would def love to live there again when our children finish school here.

I'd be happy to live where I do in the UK from April to October, but spend the other six months somewhere warm and sunny; maybe California, southern Spain or the Canaries? I just hate the cold, grey, wet gloom of a British winter. And the mud. And the bare trees. And the older I get, the harder I find it to bear each year.

@Umaraheja it's one reason I enjoyed living in Copenhagen- we had all that on tap

It's amazing isn't it @PinkPondQueen? I'm not sure I could live with the volcanic threat though. Once when we were there, there was an enormous 'Boom!' from above and a huge lava bomb came bouncing down the hillside above the town and the brush caught fire. There was then a huge thunder storm overnight and every time the thunder boomed I thought a lava bomb was going to land on our heads 😆

If it wasn't for gun law, California. As others say, Majorca is lovely and close. Beside the beach on West coast of Scotland... But the 7 month winter....

I lived in Calif for a year growing up.

It was awful

You are always an alien. The racism was appalling. The fakery grated massively. They are very weird about alcohol. There aren’t proper seasons. Large parts of the cities aren’t safe.

I wouldn’t go back there if you paid me.

Seville 😍

She interesting - places in here I'd never want to even visit let alone live!
My dream home is a small three bed terrace in Chelsea with a small paved garden with high walls and lots of beautiful flowering plants growing up them. Must be five minutes walk of Kings Rd, shops and cafés. A one bed flat in the basement would be great too (but not have the garden).

I've travelled a lot, & the only place I now want to live is back in my home town of London.

Must be central, buses & tubes nearby. Detached house, 2-3 bedrooms, not fussed about garage & garden.

I've got c.£300,000 equity. That might be a bit of a problem.

Saint-Valéry-sur-Somme

London or Madeira.

Hampstead Heath. Big detached house. Private Garden.