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Duncan
Citizen
Username: Duncanrogers
Post Number: 1589
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, February 26, 2004 - 8:50 pm: |     |
Same as Bak. Cinnamon Beach, though Caneel Bay if I was leaving the US with tons of money.
Instead of a sailboat..a nice fishing boat for them Marlins out on the north drop.
I still think St. Thomas needs a nice Repertory Company.
Alls Well That Ends Well. Playing through March 7. info at http://www.hometown.aol.com/theatr1010/ |
CFA
Citizen
Username: Cfa
Post Number: 1033
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 3:51 am: | |
I'll be in Florence if anyone is looking for me. |
Ukealalio
Citizen
Username: Ukealalio
Post Number: 489
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 10:34 am: | |
U.K. or one of the major Canadian cities. |
emmie
Citizen
Username: Emmie
Post Number: 257
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 10:40 am: | |
London or the Netherlands |
Soda
Citizen
Username: Soda
Post Number: 1198
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, February 27, 2004 - 10:49 am: | |
Barcelona for the food & the Gaudi.
St. Barthelemy for the food & the sun.
Amsterdam for the art & the koffee shops.
Santorini, just because. |
Sylad
Citizen
Username: Sylad
Post Number: 343
Registered: 6-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 6:01 pm: | |
Ireland |
Deb G
Citizen
Username: Deborahg
Post Number: 792
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 6:14 pm: | |
Italy or a Greek Island...sigh....
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eliz
Citizen
Username: Eliz
Post Number: 716
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 6:31 pm: | |
I could be quite happy living in Auckland, or Sydney, or under a coconut tree on Koh Tao, or in one of the lovely trendy areas of London, or Hong Kong, or .... pretty much any exciting city or beautiful bit of beach or countryside. Nothing is more exciting to me than a new place. |
monster
Citizen
Username: Monster
Post Number: 121
Registered: 7-2002
| | Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 7:19 pm: | |
Amsterdam of course |
Tom Reingold
Citizen
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 2247
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, February 28, 2004 - 7:21 pm: | |
mem, you've started several polls like this recently. Do you have some sort of wanterlust or relocation bug itching you? Do tell!
Tom Reingold the prissy-pants
There is nothing
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mem
Citizen
Username: Mem
Post Number: 2808
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 1, 2004 - 12:02 pm: | |
Tom,
Just daydreaming.... |
court07040
Citizen
Username: Court07040
Post Number: 55
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 8:11 am: | |
Shikoku Prefecture - Japan |
South Beach Gal
Citizen
Username: South_beach_gal
Post Number: 25
Registered: 2-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 12:19 pm: | |
Tuscany! |
Frost French
Citizen
Username: Frost
Post Number: 17
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 1:37 pm: | |
Glasgow |
bookgal
Citizen
Username: Bookgal
Post Number: 507
Registered: 7-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 4, 2004 - 1:39 pm: | |
Glasgow? Are you from Glasgow? |
Frost French
Citizen
Username: Frost
Post Number: 21
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 5, 2004 - 12:56 am: | |
I have family there, and many, many friends. It is a city that is close to my heart. |
argon_smythe
Citizen
Username: Argon_smythe
Post Number: 122
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 5, 2004 - 8:36 am: | |
These days, I have a certain small fantasy where I move to a villa in Mexico. It is not a name you would recognize. I live in a hacienda and I drink Dos Equis, though I no longer drink Coronas, because I have found a locally-brewed cervesa which is far superior. It’s name is unheard of back in the States. On warm evenings I gather with the other locals at a small bar, which doubles as the post office and a general store during the day, and there is much laughter.
The people know I am from the United States but don’t ask too many questions, out of respect, for I have earned their respect by respecting their customs. I did not blow into town and start throwing money around to modernize this and pave that. I did assist in getting the new well dug, and set up a small playground for the children, but only after it was clear that these things were wanted and needed, and otherwise could not be obtained. Neither the well nor the playground are named after me.
When the cervesa bottles have filled the table on some nights, one particular fellow may venture a query as to my past life. But my silent response, a wistful stare off into the distance, a slight, wry smile playing on my lips, and the eventual small shrug of the shoulders tells it all, of both a wistful longing for the homeland of my youth, and the great relief of no longer bearing its daily burdens.
The United States itself, in its current manifestation, does not touch me on a day to day basis. If it would, sadly, I would be forced to move on to another villa elsewhere. We certainly get news as frequently here as any normal human can absorb it. Many have televisions, and the radio is all-pervasive. But only the very big stories seem to break through, and this particular brand of entertainment is easy enough to ignore if you set your mind to it. The people of the town, once so captivated by American culture, seem to have taken on a slight air of skepticism in the whole deal, having seen my example.
I am known in the town as an avid reader who lends his books freely and always on the honor system. Perhaps one day this practice will lead to the establishment of a small and simple library, to which I will donate all my books and happily pay the fine should I ever return a book late. Perhaps I will use my American contacts to solicit donations of used books to fill the shelves. But this is all in the future, for now, my little collection is the de facto library of our little town.
I eat tortillas and huevos but they are none of them like what we had back in the States. All of the other foods are delicious, complex and difficult to describe, and none of them have names made familiar by the Taco Bell menu. I literally eat more, but weigh less, and laugh to myself at the irony of it, an irony lost to my friends at the bar.
My family was skeptical of the move at first, and before it took place, there were some heated discussions about making such a move. At one point a set of keys was thrown, but only halfheartedly, which only served to spill a drink on the table which ended up making everyone laugh. In the end everyone did agree to make the move and all have adjusted well to our new life in this new, old world. We have, as you might imagine, grown even closer together as a result.
We walk everywhere in this villa, and the pace of life is quite slow to the outsider. Yet there are still enough hours in the day to complete the chores, accomplish something new, have a good conversation and a couple of cervesas, some quiet private time to yourself, eat well, and sleep well.
I make it back to the States from time to time. The space between the visits is long enough so I gasp at the amazing changes, some troubling, some, I have to admit, quite an improvement, but also short enough that I can smile and shake my head at the things that seem they will never change. When I return to my village, it appears to me both as an old familiar home and as a new, strange, and foreign place, and I’m glad to have gone, and glad to be back.
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Brett
Citizen
Username: Bmalibashksa
Post Number: 799
Registered: 7-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 5, 2004 - 8:41 am: | |
Hey that place sounds great. We should ALL move there.
How's the cell phone reception? |
Earlster
Citizen
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 130
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 5, 2004 - 12:59 pm: | |
I have never been to Australia, but would like to check it out as a permanent destination. Sydney and Melbourne seem to be great places to be.
Southern France is swell. Nothing like baguette et vin rouge. Or Pernod to sipp for a long while.
Zurich, Switzerland, perhaps.
Southern Germany, Munich, Freiburg. |
curb
Citizen
Username: Curb
Post Number: 392
Registered: 1-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 5, 2004 - 2:04 pm: | |
Hey smythe, sounds nice, I`d come down there and drop in for a visit. We can take a drive over to Tijuana and check out one of those donkey shows. I got the first round. |
Oscar Levant
Citizen
Username: Map_le_wood
Post Number: 19
Registered: 10-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, March 6, 2004 - 2:49 pm: | |
Heidelberg.
So little time, so little to do. |
Crazyguggenheim
Citizen
Username: Crazyguggenheim
Post Number: 533
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Sunday, March 7, 2004 - 10:25 am: | |
I'd like to live in the Willy Wonka factory.
Call me crazy |
Earlster
Citizen
Username: Earlster
Post Number: 134
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 8, 2004 - 12:55 pm: | |
Oscar,
good choice. I grew up there. |
Shock & Awe Straw
Citizen
Username: Strawberry
Post Number: 2148
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 8, 2004 - 2:36 pm: | |
I would rather slit my wrists as opposed to living anywhere other than the greatest nation this world has ever seen..
GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
but if I really had to leave I'd live in London. |
bobk
Supporter
Username: Bobk
Post Number: 4913
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 8, 2004 - 3:07 pm: | |
Baghdad |
Gene Z
Citizen
Username: Genez
Post Number: 24
Registered: 2-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 8, 2004 - 4:00 pm: | |
Oscar; I was stationed in Heidelberg, and my older daughter was born there. It is truly one of the wonderful cities of the Old World. "I left my heart in Heidelberg." (Prague comes in a close second, then Vienna.)
However, I would nominate Argon for the Hemingway award.
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Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 472
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2004 - 6:02 am: | |
Some little island in British Columbia...some little island in Greece...maybe Wales to make husband happy |
cjc
Citizen
Username: Cjc
Post Number: 1105
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, March 12, 2004 - 1:10 pm: | |
If I had to live outside of the US, I'd live in New Jersey. |
irl
Citizen
Username: Irl
Post Number: 74
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 15, 2004 - 9:17 pm: | |
There's a cruise ship that people LIVE on as their residence. It just cruises around different places in the world. I saw it on the Discovery Channel about a year ago.
I'd live there. |
tip
Citizen
Username: Tip
Post Number: 167
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 12:57 pm: | |
anywhere in the Caribbean....St. Barts, St. Maarten...... |
Montagnard
Citizen
Username: Montagnard
Post Number: 503
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 11:27 pm: | |
Mars |
Dave
Citizen
Username: Dave
Post Number: 6636
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2004 - 11:39 pm: | |
Sedna |
sportsnut
Citizen
Username: Sportsnut
Post Number: 1019
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Friday, March 19, 2004 - 11:50 am: | |
Palawan - I've never been but my wife's family has property there.
http://www.palawan.com/ |
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