If you could live in any country .......
 

Having recently read about someone finding their dream home in France,I started dreaming again about finding my own,maybe not in France,maybe Italy? maybe England? It is nice to dream about where and what the house will look like.What it would be like living there after living my life in the US.<BR>So I was wondering if you have the same kind of dreams,where would you live? What would the home be like? What would you do there?<BR>Thanks~

Wellll...if I could afford it (not that this would ever happen in a billion years, but as long as we're JUST DREAMING), I've decided I would spend my last years in an apartment on the Ile St.- Louis snuggled amongst those claustrophobic streets amidst lovely surroundings near that hulking great stone church with Berthillon, L'Occitane and fine little restaurants nearby and Notre Dame just across the bridge.<BR><BR>Last time I was in Paris I was walking along the Quai de Bethune and watched a lady opening 2 very large french blue double doors on a ground-floor apartment and backing out was a MINI-VAN complete with little French family with a little girl staring back at me wondering why I was staring at her (I really didn't mean to stare). I was stunned!! #1 I hadn't yet seen a mini-van in Paris (probably hadn't noticed but was used to seeing those cute Le Cars), #2 I wasn't expecting 2 large doors, painted in that lovely glossy french blue, to be posing as garage doors!! : ) Fascinating moment in a lovely trip to Paris.

Yes, as long as we're dreaming...<BR><BR>I'll take a small stone house just off the main street in a small town in Provence.<BR><BR>Also, a cottage in Yorkshire.<BR><BR>A townhome in Edinburgh's Newtown.<BR><BR>A small, stucco home with a tiny olive orchard out my kitchen window in Tuscany.<BR><BR>And...

My dream is to live in the UK...maybe the outskirts of London. Out of the places that I have visted in Europe, I felt most at ease in London. So.. that would be my vote.

A house up on a cliff in Maine overlooking the Atlantic and another in Palos Verdes California overlooking the Pacific. I love visiting Europe and other places, but it is the US for me until I find a better (freer) country.

Italy, or perhaps the Ticino region of Switzerland, and then somewhere in France, and some time in London, and maybe a Greek Isle for awhile..... But home on my lagoon in Northern California isn't bad either.

JustDreaming, where would YOU live? You mentioned Italy or England? What part of Italy interests you most, Tuscany? Or England? Please share your dreams with us!!

A small house ...not too small... in Dorset, close to London, the sea, and some of my favorite places in UK<BR><BR>then an Apt. in Rome around the Villa Borghese..lovely and quiet but minutes from the historic center with all the excitement that offers.<BR><BR>But I'd never give up my home in Florida..lovely winter weather, the sea nearby,my friends

After 32 years in the UK, and though I love the UK and Europe, North Carolina is pretty tempting, probably Asheville.<BR><BR>Doug

I lived in Paris, which was always my dream, and doing that helped me realize that I want to live many&pound;¬ very different places throughout the world.<BR><BR>It's hard to phrase this without sounding trite, but I have a real desire to see - and experience - the way life is lived in a lot of very different places. So many parts of the world are so vastly different from the U.S., and I want to experience them.<BR><BR>So, I've been living in Shanghai, China for the past 3 years. My husband and I plan to live in a lot of different countries around the world; we'll probably stay in Asia for a while, then perhaps South America, then Eastern Europe . . . <BR><BR>(France and Italy are still on my someday list&pound;¬ though&pound;¡&pound;&copy;

As long as we are dreaming, I have had my place picked out in Europe for years.<BR>It is on the side on the hill going up to Mt. Bre just outside of Lugano. I love the lakes and the mountains, and Lugano is centrally located in my favorite region of Europe and is a major rail stop on the line from Zurich to Milano. So, I envision 4 months of the year in Europe and the rest at our beautiful home near the ocean on Amelia Island. Hmmm ! That may be more than just a dream.

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Think I'll opt for an apartment in Rome (a la JOdy), and a house somewhere near Ravello.<BR><BR>Of course I wouldn't turn down an apartment in Paris and a cottage in Tuscany, mind you! ;)<BR><BR>BC

I guess I'd prefer to live in some small town somewhere in the southern U.S.----not in Florida, where most of the residents are obnoxious northerners, but in a truly genteel southern town like the one where I grew up. You know, the kind of place where you didn't lock your car or the door to your house. The kind of place where you could always expect your friends and neighbors to pitch in and help when you needed help. The kind of place where going to church was still a custom. The kind of place where everyone knew you or at least knew your family, and you wouldn't do anything bad because you didn't want to disappoint your parents. The kind of place where the parents supported the school teacher when she punished you, rather than initiating a lawsuit. All in all, the kind of place we can't find any more in the U.S. because of too many lawyers, too many liberals who want to let everyone do his thing even when it isn't morally or ethically right. <BR><BR>But isn't that usually a tendency that we all have? Don't we long for being "back home" wherever that is? I know a few (very few) places in the deep south that are still like that, where individuals are respected for what they are and not for what they have, where people prefer to do the right thing instead of the most profitable thing, where the rules in the town are made by people who truly want to make the town better, not by those who want only to push their own weird causes. Some day I'll go back and live in one of those towns, if there are any left.

Hi<BR><BR>Got to be pragmatic with this.<BR>Bali, Barbados etc will not happen <BR><BR>I'm living in my 4th country ....... France. Its the best so far, but I have a dream to move to Spain !<BR><BR>Peter<BR>http://tlp.netfirms.com/

Just pointing out that the US is NOT the only country created on the basis of individual freedom. Therefore it may NOT be the greatest country in the world.

Yes it is.

thailnad.. I'm actually moving out there for a while in 9 months.. I don't need too dream too much or have that much money. for $250 a mounth, you can rent a serviced apartment.

Here is a pretty interesting site about living in and buying homes in various countries: http://www.internationalliving.com/<BR><BR> <BR>

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