What 2-4 places would you live?

South of France is nice. I’ve been to Cannes and driven around Provence a few times and I think I’d feel right at home working at a soap factory there. Gladly pick up language number 3.

New Zealand… I always go on and on about the place, but it was home for 15 years. It really is a great place to live and raise kids. Norway is safe and there is free healthcare and university, but the climate and latitude grates against my attitude. ;)

Summers, Either the Mt. Shasta area on Lake Almanor, Lake Tahoe or Yosemite in the Sierra Nevada mountains here. A bounty of lakes, streams, rivers and waterfalls. Warm but not hot days and lovely cool nights.

New England in the fall, maybe Vermont or New Hampshire.

Spring in the same areas as summer, an abundance of wildflowers, CA. Poppies, Lupine, Shasta Daisies, 5 spot, Buttercups, Shooting stars, Baby Blue Eyes, Fairy Lanterns. Extreme Sierra wildflower zones.

Winter, Split between the snow in the Sierras at Tahoe and where I live now, the Sierra Nevada foothills, Here.

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I like cold, I do not like extreme heat anymore and we are in a heat wave now, staying around 100 or over for the next 5–6 days.

arctica, antarctica and siberia

Maine in the summers and perhaps wesy coast of Florida in the winters, but I could also see myself doing a southwest England stint for part of the year, perhaps Bath.

Right now I seem to be heading for a Jersey shore summer, San Francisco Bay area split – which is not too shabby either.

Hawaii for November through April. Probability one of the Neighbor islands not Oahu.
May and June Sedona, Arizona.
July through Labor day Cape Cod.
September and October Switzerland and Germany.

In the winter, some luxury hotel within the european union so I could throw snowballs at the desk-staff, bound to get a frosty reception

Edit – “west coast of Florida.” Oy!

Autumn in a very old, red brick colonial flat near Harvard Square in Cambridge, Mass.

Winter in Mendocino, California in a house on the edge of a cliff.

Summer in a small village on the coast between Penzance and Fallmouth high above the sea at the very southwestern tip of Cornwall, England.

Spring in an apartment in Paris with french doors that open onto a balcony four stories above a little street of shops with a view of the white domes of the Sacre Coeur looming above. .

@Espiritus_Corvus Oooh, yes, Mendocino too. I do like the coastal range in the summers.

Wales and New Zealand. Both in climates I like, but at opposite ends of the world, so if I get sick of the temperature in one place I can fly to the other.I could live in a rural area and yet still be close enough to civilisation if boredom struck.

I just want a couple of small farms just big enough to sustain themselves with sufficient profit to make a modest life for myself and the people who work there. I don’t need much.

@janbb I knew what you meant. The Wesy Coast of Florida is where they make Pinto Grigio.

@Espiritus_Corvus yes, I think we’ve just been drinking that Pinto Grigio! And I’ve been in that Paris apartment; you just have to kick my son and his family out.

I have relatives that summered in Maine in a great cottage near the ocean, and wintered in a condo in Myrtle Beach. My parents just got back from the south of France, and they said it was beautiful. I’m sure it was but not practical from a living standpoint.

I think ideally wherever my choices were, they’d be within driving distance of each other so that the back and forth didn’t require plane trips. With driving, pets and stuff could be transported easier. I think maybe winters in someplace like North Carolina in the mountains, and summers in Maine or upstate NY. I don’t like that many southern states allow fracking.

Someone told me it all depends on where your child ends up. My elementary school aged child will be on her own (hopefully) in about 15 years so we’ll see where she ends up. If she ends up across the country, I may end up there, too. Northern California is beautiful.

Maybe if Trump gets elected many of us will end up in Canada haha.

@jca I hear Canada is building a wall. :-)

Being a snowback, I was conferred dual citizenship by Canada in 2009. I hope they’ll let me through the wall and not subject me to any of the nicknames that Canadian xenophobes have for American immigrants.

Palm Springs any time of the year except summer.

England any time of the year. I love the rain, so that would be fine with me. I’ve never lived anywhere where there was snow, so I probably wouldn’t want to have an entire winter full of snow, but if I was in England, I would be in England, so it would probably be wonderful.

Hawaii.

Spring and summer in San Francisco. However, the “coldest winter I ever spent, was the summer I went to San Francisco.” I was a little kid when we went there on a summer trip and it was freezing cold, but as an adult, I would know how to dress accordingly.

Seattle. Food, coffee, rain, mountain views. Rinse and repeat.

@Espiritus_Corvus, I want to move in with you.

Cambria California as home base, with a large RV to travel the U S whenever and whereever I wanted. I would probably hire one of my grandkids and his wife to be my driver.

@YARNLADY Yes! Cambria is lovely.

@Jeruba We’ll have to rent another Parisian apartment next door for all the books.

@Espiritus_Corvus, how about a floating library on the river?

This is only if you can get me to leave Cambridge when autumn is past. Come to think of it, we could do a riparian library there too.

Can I come along on the book barge? My french maid days have past but I can dust the library. lol

The book barge reminded me of the condominium cruise ship. Since I’m mostly fantasizing, I might as well make that my house for three months. See the world.

I live and work in Chicago and have my whole life. I love the 4 seasons and feel no need to improve on my living status especially since I am at the moment in Tampa and am absolutely tortured by the heat and humidity and can’t wait to go home. That said….in 10 years I do want to retire at Fontana Lake NC Heaven on earth.

@Coloma, well, I’m picturing a whole boat that is essentially a library-silence reading corner, which sounds like heaven to me. With lots of cushions. But I suppose there could be a party trailer for the extroverts—and book-lovers like me could take little social breaks so we don’t forget how to talk.

Maybe in between the library and the party trailer, that’s where we could have the diner…

Where are we all going to sleep, though? Are we going to have to drag a mansion along?

@Espiritus_Corvus, is this going to be all right with you? I’m sorry. It’s your boat.

Drag the mansion. I love it. Does the mansion have a library room? That might be a good addition.

When I took Holland America to Akaska there was a small library area. I didn’t expect that on the ship, real books, but I very much liked that it was there.

Boston nine months out of the year — because I’m from Boston and love the New England change of seasons.

Northern Italy (maybe Stresa) for June, July, and August — because I hate summer and Italy is amazing.

@Jeruba fear not, I don’t talk that much, well, I can, but you read in the library and I will watch history documentaries and historic acts of crime and cat videos. lol

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada might be the ideal place to have the Fluther mansion. The population is ~600K, the climate is reasonable year round, and it’s on the Pacific Coast. Free healthcare with citizenship.

@Seek Wales? Have you been there?

@Jeruba Of course it’s alright with me. As long as there is enough space to be alone at times, I think the more, the merrier. Gathering all together at the evening meal would be a wonderful way to start an evening. The conversations at dinner would be wonderful.

I think the purchase of two 60ft barges are in order. One for the library (sound proofed below), and docked next door will be the dining/partying barge (check out the canopied area aft for dancing and the raised poop deck on the stern for midnight cocktails). If the party gets too loud, we just cut the lines, lol.

These vessels are voluminous below with plenty of room for luxurious living spaces. We could have them docked on the Charles River next to that wooded area near MIT, or on the Seine along the Quai Voltaire between the Louvre (and the Tuileries palace and gardens) and the Musee d’Orsay just across the Bridge of the Arts a few hundred feet up the quai from the Ile de la Cite and Nortre Dame Cathedral.

@Pied_Pfeffer – Alas, no. Hubby and I agree, though, that next time we leave the country it’s to the British Isles. No promises that we’ll make it back home after…

@Seek I hope you get your wish of emigrating sometime.

I have a feeling moving to England just got harder after that crazy vote.

It may have gotten a lot cheaper, though.

@JLeslie I think you’re right. It was hard enough before; I was denied a work visa even though I had a job offer years ago.

Just talking to a friend in Britain who’s pretty down about it. Aside from anything else, it’s likely that food and other goods will get much more expensive there soon.

I’ll bet five bucks to anyone here that they will never invoke Brexit. No way in hell.

@Espiritus_Corvus It’s total chaos over there at the moment in both parties and apparently people on the radio, etc. are saying, “Oh, I didn’t know it meant that. I would never have voted for it if I had known.”

But there are consequences of it already. They are renegotiating trade agreements and will probably still be part of the “common market” but will have to pay higher fees to do so.

Apparently, the markets there tanked on Friday but have bounced back a bit today.

@Espiritus_Corvus Who is “they”? The UK or the EU?

PM David Cameron has already submitted his resignation and has stated it is up to the next PM to sort out the mess. Most of the EU leaders want to push ahead based on the UK’s voting result. Only Merkel wants to progress more slowly. Scotland is livid and wants to find a loophole in order to get out of this mess.

There are just too many factors on the the table at this early stage to speculate how it will all play out over the next few months.

it’s a big reminder of the adage, “Don’t ask the question if you can’t accept either answer.”

@Pied_Pfeffer & @janbb

“They” are the Brits. The massive Regrexit cannot be ignored. This is reflected in the (legitimate) online petitions. Anyone who sees this as a true majority vote is crazy.

Cameron had to leave. This could have never come to referendum without the prime minister;s approval. According to the reports I’ve read, he gambled that Brexit tendencies would be finally vanquished when they lost the referendum. He foolishly gambled and lost. It finished his career.

The markets not only tanked, Penguin, they tanked at 12:38am ET Saturday morning only hours after the vote. I believe this bit of “recovery” you are seeing is the “dead cat bounce”—traders getting in on low prices with no intention of holding the securities for long.

The EU leadership is behaving like spurned lovers (except Ms. Merkel, the lone rational voice). It is an emotional issue and they see Brexit as jeopardizing the status quo by starting a cascade of secession. They will calm down.

Nobody is rushing into new trade agreements. They are discussing new trade agreements as a necessity if the Brexit is actually invoked. They have two years to decide.

Call me a Cassandra, but I am banking that everyone will come to their senses over the next couple of months. This Boris guy is going to get his head put on a metaphorical pike. The petitions will force either another referendum, or simple non-invocation. The UK is a democracy, a democracy of humans, very civilized humans, that were badly led and they now know this. It will be fixed.

A cottage on the outskirts of Galway in the summer, a villa in the south of France, or possibly on the eastern coast of Spain for the winter.

It appears the market “recovery” was indeed a classic “dead cat bounce.” Traders took advantage of stock prices that they hadn’t seen for 30 years, bought, drove the prices up a bit, began selling short last night and took their easy 7 or 8%. Back to square one.