Where did teenage you dream of living?

[RzorC]

an apartment in Manchester

In a white detached house with a big lawn with lots of children running around.

Rural Italy with my hot Italian olive skinned dark haired husband. Ended up marrying a pasty blond lad from the next town over.

Russia.

A stucco mansion in London. I got the London bit right.

Teenage me wanted to live in American, either Detroit or Seattle. Mainly because I watched Home Improvement and Frasier..

I haven't even managed to go to America let alone got close to living there.

A detached 70s house in a suburb of Tunbridge Wells. I particularly wanted those multicoloured carriage light Christmas tree lights.

Dream big, huh.

Somewhere tropical and exotic.

Definitely not Kent! Nor any of the places I ended up living in London. I do miss the nice beer gardens in Kent though.

In a swish apartment in London, whilst (obviously!) Being the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine 🤣🤣......I'm a TA and live in a 3 bed semi in Lincolnshire 😂

When I was in uni it was buy a massive house in the middle of nowhere (although close enough to get into town) where me and all my best mates would live together and make art and party hard (basically be art students forever with better digs lol).

When I was a younger teen I used to fantasise about a big detatched house with a gated front garden that I used to walk past on my way to school. It wasn't a particularly wealthy area (not deprived either), mostly working class and council though so this house stood out. I remember it had a monkey puzzle tree in the big front garden that looked really exotic in a suburb that was mostly cement or paving slab drives. I bet if I google earthed it it probably wouldn't be that spectacular.

Oooh I also had the American dream and loved the idea of a villa in Florida or California with my own pool and working in the film industry!

I worked in the film industry - the boss spent a lot of time in LA. It's not a professional I would recommend if you enjoy being respected.

I still dream about that ex boss some twenty odd years later o_o

Same.

I did, as well, for years. Before bloody Putin showed up.

Did you ever make it there?

I aspired to live at South Fork Ranch or Dalentrace from Birds of a Feather.

Hope you're alright. X

Tbf I work in the media industry in this country and it was more of a vfx route I originally was interested in rather than being in front of camera. Although I do strongly suspect it was just as misogynistic and cliquey. A friend who did end up out there said you had to get involved in some sort of organised religion whether it was some denomination of Christianity, Judaism or even Scientology if you ever hoped to network or make friends... but maybe they were unlucky at their studio. 😬

Penthouse in LA or NYC, huge windows, ultra modern, big balcony, rooftop pool lit up at night with city lights. Tall, muscular, dark haired white boyfriend. Reality is I married a blond and live in the suburbs 🤣

Haha,I am fine, thanks for asking. However, I would be better if she hadn’t just been made Chairwoman of a massive film thing that means I see her name in the press these days :’(

Idk about cults. I can’t imagine she would stand for such nonsense. She is Jewish. I have never really heard of that before. I thought the cult thing was just film stars.

On an old wooden boat. I was certain I would and planned a career that would be useful in a port town.

Unfortunately it didn't happen 😭😭😭😭

In a Victorian townhouse backing onto the railway in south London. I used to look out of the train window on my way up to London as a teenager, and imagine living in one of the houses we were going past. It looked so cool and sophisticated compared with my village.

I did actually live in a maisonette flat exactly like that in my 20s and 30s, and I was right, it was great.

Reykjavik

America as I have family who live there.

Definitely not now.

Somewhere rural, with fields and woods, rather than our tedious and ugly suburbia.

At 27 I bought a house backing on to the Ridgeway 😊

I was heavily influenced by Dynasty and Dallas as a young teenager so assumed I'd live in a mansion in the US. I did end up in America but still waiting for my Dynasty lifestyle to materialize!

A mansion in the Hollywood Hills.

I did get an amazing job offer which would have meant a move to SoCal when I was 20 but I felt getting my degree was more important and wasn't ready to leave all my family and friends and move to the other side of the world alone.

After uni I started to work towards moving to LA.

I visited LA/Hollywood on a holiday/reconnaisance mission...

And HATED it. Couldn't think of anything worse than living there. And that was that. I changed plans and decided to settle in rainy old England.

@ButtonFork I visited St Petersburg.

I only really wanted to live there because I wanted to experience a communist country (I'm old and Russia was communist when I grew up).

I did get to go to Laos which is still communist a few years ago as part of a government project. It was fascinating.

Anywhere but London. I just couldn't see the appeal. Then I ended up working an industry where all the best job prospects were in – you guessed it – London. Moved here 30 years ago, loved it more than I could possibly have ever imagined, never left, never will.