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Start here => Games => Topic started by: earthboundmisfit on October 01, 2009, 05:52:05 PM
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What country would you like to live in?
Pick your country, and post where and/or why.
If you don't see the county you would like to live in, post and I will add it.
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Space 8)
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You are quite bored aren't you? :laugh:
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;D
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In the US but far away from here I'd like to live somewhere more remote away from cities and off the grid
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Russia, Germany, Italy
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I chose Australia. Either that or the U.K.
OZ because everyone I've met from there has been really cool and laid back, and looks like a cool place from the pictures I've seen. And I've always wanted to dive the Great Barrier Reef.
U.K. for the sheer number of racetracks in a relatively small land mass.
Another plus for both countries are the great cars available that I would never have the chance to own in the U.S.
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You should come UK, especially London
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Russia, Germany, Italy
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You don't add my suggestions :elvis:
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You should come UK, especially London
everyone will make fun of me for being a dumb fat yank
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You don't add my suggestions :elvis:
Space has not been claimed by any country yet.
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Hence why it fucking rocks. It's infinite too :zoinks:
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But it's a vacuum. No oxygen = bad.
Plus there's no infrastructure. No high speed internet. Fuck that.
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It has no cowardly laws! I wanna be Emperor of Space! :arrr:
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Who needs interwebs when you have the stars?
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:agreed:
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It has no cowardly laws! I wanna be Emperor of Space! :arrr:
I elect you Emperor of Space. I would shoot your ass out there on a rocket if I could.
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:laugh:
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I'm the Queen of Galaxies 8)
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:agreed:
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In the U.S. or Canada, anywhere somewhat rural, just not here. :laugh:
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In a countryside mansion somewhere in the central parts of western Europe. southwestern Germany, eastern France, Luxembourg etc. If I win the lottery I'm buying a house like that in a place like that.
France is unlikely though because I cba to learn the language. In Luxembourg everyone understands and speaks german fluently, french is just the administrative language.
Although I like Japan, in a dreamy way, I think Japan is for the japanese and not for westerners. I'm disgusted by all the fat yanks and aussies going there, they need to die. Since I am basically german genetically and have a german name I wouldn't feel like a filthy violator in Germany/Austria/Switzerland.
I have fantasies about being a nazi officer, allied with the japanese, and shooting australian and american PoW's until I lose count.
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BRAVE! :arrr:
Switzerland has good gun laws, if you're intending to buy guns where you move. 8)
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Sweden is a good place to live, in some ways. The UK would
be nice. Finland.
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I like where I live already. :-\
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If it was feasible, I'd probably go off world and live on Mars for a while, and then beyond, rarely looking back at this solar system.
Otherwise, being realistic, I'd like to move into a rural area a bit more from my current location.
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Spokane
London
I can't decide so I picked here. London's too expensive anyway.
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If I ever have enough money, I will divide my time between Colorado and Ripon, UK. 8)
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London or York
Zurich
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I would like to see what the UK is like before I go to live there. I recently said to Kayleigh that I would move to Geelong (her home town). I've been there once and it's nice there. Toowoomba too (in Queensland), where her family lives. She hates Toowoomba, heh.
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I've been thinking about this recently. Thinking there are very few places I'd move to now, even though I'm sometimes fed up with where I live. I miss Finland but it's been too long.
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Greece. It's not on the list.
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Have been very content here, more so than anywhere else, so have no desire to move. That will likely change after retirement, but don't have anywhere particular in mind. Beachfront somewhere warm would be nice.
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A few hours south of where I live now, a quiet seaside town.
Thailand would be another option, or Vietnam. In a big city with a real buzz and awesome street food. But I'm almost getting too old for somewhere like that.
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"It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. "
Somewhere warm near the ocean. 8)
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Somewhere warm sounds nice.
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i want to live somewhere warm.
By the sea would be reallyy nice, but what about coastal erosion and flooding? finding somewhere that's future-ptoof (or even present proof) in that respect might be tricky.
most of all i want to live in a corn-free, gluten-free community, so i don't have to try so freaking hard (and fail so often) to eradicate corn from my life. but that's just a pipe dream, ofc. it's all just a pi[e dream, i suppose *sigh *
i'll settle for a place (if i can) that has plenty of room in the kiychen for storing and cooking food, and room for a washing machine; and a bathroom fitted with an actual bath; and a proper wide hallway (so i can park my walker without creatinf yet another trip hazzard. and maybe even squeeze in a bookcase, like i did before) and a small but (partially) sunny garden where i can grow carrots ,brocolli, lettucem spring onions, herbs, flowers etc. and work up a sweat by digging and forking, without getting too far from my sofa (cos i always need to lie down at short notice, before very many minutes have passed, whenever i exercise. otherwise i fall then feel like crap for days. there's such a stupendously fine line between healthy, invigorating exercise and exhaustion. that's unusual, i know, but that's how it is. never managed to explain that to next-dooer neighbours who thought that i could and should take on am allotment. if you're busily in and out of the garden all day long, ypu don't appear to have energy issues. you just appear to have an alcohol; problem whenever you mis-time your breaks *sigh * and yeah, most of my neighbours really did believe that i was an alcoholic, all because of my wobbly gait and all that) ... and a spare room for guests (that's pretty important when it so happens that all the folk who know that ypu're neither an alcoholic nor a fraud live too far away to just drop round for an hour or two)
Nothing fancy. i mean, pretty much the sort of run down bottom-end-of- the-market place where i used to live ,two years ago, but without the demon landlady; that would do. seems like a vision of paradise from my current distant perspective.
oh! and living room that neither resembles an undersized bus, nor an oversized coffin in shape and size, woud be very nice indeed . And a window that lets in so much natural light that i don't keep forgetting to open the curtains (the difference being barely noticeable) ; and yet more natural light , if possible, loads of natural light, because i actually love natural light. though you wouldn't ever guess that from my current habits.
hmmm. am i being greedy? or merely human?
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If I won the lottery I would buy you a place. :zoinks:
...course I suppose that would require actually playing the lottery. :P
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If I won the lottery I would buy you a place. :zoinks:
...course I suppose that would require actually playing the lottery. :P
Ah well, it's the thought that counts, right? :eyelash: Thanks for the nice thought :)
That said, I can't deny that the actuality would be better :laugh:
*contemplates buying a lottery ticket, or even two*
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By the sea would be reallyy nice, but what about coastal erosion and flooding? finding somewhere that's future-ptoof (or even present proof) in that respect might be tricky.
Every place has its downside. Have to assume people's ideal environments are about what makes them feel vibrant. Unfortunately the definition of that is the complete opposite for husband and me. Warm places in the US are dirty since everything runs downstream. Moved away from the south when the kids were babies, wanting them to grow up cleaner. Swam in clean waters and planted in clean soil, grew a lot of our own food and ate a lot of wild fish and game which also had the benefit of an environment of clean plants and waters. Do miss the clean, but not as much as don't miss the winter.
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I actually picked New Zealand, sounds and seems more fun compared to the UK.
Greece. It's not on the list.
Greece is so awesome, especially the greek islands.
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I actually picked New Zealand, sounds and seems more fun compared to the UK.
New Zealand is probably more fun if you are into mountain climbing, fishing, hiking, skiing, stuff like that.
It's also a very clean environment generally, very fertile, not overpopulated, and a temperate climate.
There are equally nice parts of Australia though, with other advantages from my perspective, so I wouldn't consider moving to NZ.
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I wouldn't mind learning to fish.
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I wouldn't mind learning to fish.
About 30 years ago I read a book that said "10% of fishermen catch 90% of the fish".
Since then I've spent a lot of time trying to be one of those 10%. I'm not quite there, but I reckon I catch more than the average fisherman.
Fishing is about the only sport I'd be into in NZ, I'm not much into adventure sports.
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Fishing is one of my brother's great interests these days.
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When Brits say they want to live somewhere warm, do they mean somewhere like Bali? Or do they mean somewhere like Cornwall? Or do they mean somewhere like Spain or Greece? I'm guessing somewhere like Spain or Greece.
Similar with Swedes, when they say they want to live somewhere warm do they mean Southern Europe kind of warm? Florida kind of warm? Southern California kind of warm?
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When Brits say they want to live somewhere warm, do they mean somewhere like Bali? Or do they mean somewhere like Cornwall? Or do they mean somewhere like Spain or Greece? I'm guessing somewhere like Spain or Greece.
Similar with Swedes, when they say they want to live somewhere warm do they mean Southern Europe kind of warm? Florida kind of warm? Southern California kind of warm?
The Brits tend to target Spain when they move somewhere warm.
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Moved from Ireland to the UK, somewhat regret doing so considering the current situation with Brexit etc.
I'd love to move to Germany or one of the nordic countries.
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When Brits say they want to live somewhere warm, do they mean somewhere like Bali? Or do they mean somewhere like Cornwall? Or do they mean somewhere like Spain or Greece? I'm guessing somewhere like Spain or Greece.
Similar with Swedes, when they say they want to live somewhere warm do they mean Southern Europe kind of warm? Florida kind of warm? Southern California kind of warm?
The Brits tend to target Spain when they move somewhere warm.
Barcelona has a similar climate to where I live now (Sydney), at least temperature wise.
I lived in the hottest city in the world (by average temperature) for 2 years. Bangkok. You do adjust. Coldest place I've lived was Ljubljana in Slovenia. Summer there was nice, winter got down as low as -15 Celsius.
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I don't need to move to somewhere warm, I'm already there. Yesterday it got to 30°C.
I've been to Bangkok, everyone has air conditioning.
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When Brits say they want to live somewhere warm, do they mean somewhere like Bali? Or do they mean somewhere like Cornwall? Or do they mean somewhere like Spain or Greece? I'm guessing somewhere like Spain or Greece.
Similar with Swedes, when they say they want to live somewhere warm do they mean Southern Europe kind of warm? Florida kind of warm? Southern California kind of warm?
Tend to assume when people say somewhere warm, they mean somewhere which rarely freezes, if ever.
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I find it funny that most brits just want a "home away from home" rather than an actual holiday. For example, when I went to Ibiza years ago as a teenager, a lot of it was just typical british pubs, cafes etc.
To me, that's not a holiday at all... the experience is more or less no different to seaside towns in the UK during the summer, apart from the cheaper alcohol. A holiday should be all about embracing a different culture, food etc, away from the norm.
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I've been to Bangkok, everyone has air conditioning.
The house we lived in would have been intolerable without air con. The upstairs was like an oven if the air con wasn't on.
Large numbers of people simply cannot afford air con though, so when it's hot during the day they get dressed up and go wander around the shopping malls.
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When Brits say they want to live somewhere warm, do they mean somewhere like Bali? Or do they mean somewhere like Cornwall? Or do they mean somewhere like Spain or Greece? I'm guessing somewhere like Spain or Greece.
Similar with Swedes, when they say they want to live somewhere warm do they mean Southern Europe kind of warm? Florida kind of warm? Southern California kind of warm?
Tend to assume when people say somewhere warm, they mean somewhere which rarely freezes, if ever.
i should think we're all individual, apart from the sheeple :green:
For my part, I'm presentlly driven by such banalities as health considerations and fuel consumption. Cold weather affects me really badly, as it happens. Even cool summer days cause a significant drop in my functonalit, for some reason (eg nerve pain, brain fog, exhaustion) and tend to be a wreck throughout most of the winter- even if i stay indoors, oddly enough. So, ideally, i'd like to live somewhere where the temperature seldom drops below 20C . I don't know if anywhere really fits that bill, but there;s surely a lot of room for improvement over Britain's climate.
I keep my thermostat at 23C these days. At that temperature, i usually feel fit and well, unltil i try to get too much done, or eat the wrong thing or something. But then all my visitors complain about being roasted, and it isn't any good for environment or pocket either, is it?
Frabkl;y, I'm surprised at myself: Inever gave much of a damn about bodily comfort before, always much more concerned to feed my mind. But, then. this kind of ill health is just too damned limiting, miost especially at times when it makes me sleep all the time and otherwise wrecks my brain. So it really boils down m I suppose, to the ever -frustrated desire to do something more intersting than curling up and moaning and endlessly adjusting my diet :laugh: I keep thinking to myself that i could probably actually live a lot more if only i was living somewhere warm.
PS. Cornwall? CORNWALL? :zombiefuck: Much though I love cornwall, gotta say that the weather has been shocking, almost every time I''ve been there', and certainly no warmer than here in the Midlands, quite the opposite. I associate Cornwall with stiff winds and driving rain, not warm sunshine. So have I been very unlucky or have you been watching too much Doc Martin? (and do you even get that program in Oz?)
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Yes, we get Doctor Martin in Oz.
I've been to Cornwall 3 times, when I lived in the UK in '98/'99, and the weather was very pleasant. I recall meeting a lot of people who had relocated from the North or the Midlands and had set up small businesses in Cornwall. By most standards it isn't exactly warm, just wondering if that's what Brits think of as moving to a "warmer" climate.
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Yes, we get Doctor Martin in Oz.
I've been to Cornwall 3 times, when I lived in the UK in '98/'99, and the weather was very pleasant. I recall meeting a lot of people who had relocated from the North or the Midlands and had set up small businesses in Cornwall. By most standards it isn't exactly warm, just wondering if that's what Brits think of as moving to a "warmer" climate.
Nope., surely not, i've never heard anyone say that Cornwall is any warmer, just more pleasant in other ways (much less populous, for instance. That's the biggest draw, I think. You'd have to go a long way North, where it's cold, to find affordable housing in a similarly rustic setting. Or else across to Wales where most everybody hates you, if you're English) though most of my own visits to cornwall have been off-season , come to think. so i've got a different picture from your avarage holidaymaker. In Port Wenn, by contrast, it's always high Summer, Ive noticed' and it never rains. I think that the TV crew must be very, very picky as to when they shoot :LOL:. My impression of of Cornish weather from own experience , and reports from a (now deceased) relative who lived down there is that it seems a lot more turbulent and menacing, overall than the weather in the Midlands and the rest of the South. I'm not grumbling about that, mind, seems entirely appropriate for a land so steeeped in mythology .
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Yes, we get Doctor Martin in Oz.
I've been to Cornwall 3 times, when I lived in the UK in '98/'99, and the weather was very pleasant. I recall meeting a lot of people who had relocated from the North or the Midlands and had set up small businesses in Cornwall. By most standards it isn't exactly warm, just wondering if that's what Brits think of as moving to a "warmer" climate.
Nope., surely not, i've never heard anyone say that Cornwall is any warmer, just more pleasant in other ways (much less populous, for instance. That's the biggest draw, I think. You'd have to go a long way North, where it's cold, to find affordable housing in a similarly rustic setting. Or else across to Wales where most everybody hates you, if you're English) though most of my own visits to cornwall have been off-season , come to think. so i've got a different picture from your avarage holidaymaker. In Port Wenn, by contrast, it's always high Summer, Ive noticed' and it never rains. I think that the TV crew must be very, very picky as to when they shoot :LOL:. My impression of of Cornish weather from own experience , and reports from a (now deceased) relative who lived down there is that it seems a lot more turbulent and menacing, overall than the weather in the Midlands and the rest of the South. I'm not grumbling about that, mind, seems entirely appropriate for a land so steeeped in mythology .
There's a tiny willage called "Minions" in the middle of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I have driven to this place to take a look three times while staying n Cronwall and each time the mist has been so bad I could only see 30 feet in front of the car at best. So after three attempts I still haven't "seen" Minions.
This is the last time I tried to take a look.
(https://i.imgur.com/9vGGtGWl.jpg)
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When Brits say they want to live somewhere warm, do they mean somewhere like Bali? Or do they mean somewhere like Cornwall? Or do they mean somewhere like Spain or Greece? I'm guessing somewhere like Spain or Greece.
Similar with Swedes, when they say they want to live somewhere warm do they mean Southern Europe kind of warm? Florida kind of warm? Southern California kind of warm?
Tend to assume when people say somewhere warm, they mean somewhere which rarely freezes, if ever.
i should think we're all individual, apart from the sheeple :green:
For my part, I'm presentlly driven by such banalities as health considerations and fuel consumption. Cold weather affects me really badly, as it happens. Even cool summer days cause a significant drop in my functonalit, for some reason (eg nerve pain, brain fog, exhaustion) and tend to be a wreck throughout most of the winter- even if i stay indoors, oddly enough. So, ideally, i'd like to live somewhere where the temperature seldom drops below 20C . I don't know if anywhere really fits that bill, but there;s surely a lot of room for improvement over Britain's climate.
I keep my thermostat at 23C these days. At that temperature, i usually feel fit and well, unltil i try to get too much done, or eat the wrong thing or something. But then all my visitors complain about being roasted, and it isn't any good for environment or pocket either, is it?
Frabkl;y, I'm surprised at myself: Inever gave much of a damn about bodily comfort before, always much more concerned to feed my mind. But, then. this kind of ill health is just too damned limiting, miost especially at times when it makes me sleep all the time and otherwise wrecks my brain. So it really boils down m I suppose, to the ever -frustrated desire to do something more intersting than curling up and moaning and endlessly adjusting my diet :laugh: I keep thinking to myself that i could probably actually live a lot more if only i was living somewhere warm.
PS. Cornwall? CORNWALL? :zombiefuck: Much though I love cornwall, gotta say that the weather has been shocking, almost every time I''ve been there', and certainly no warmer than here in the Midlands, quite the opposite. I associate Cornwall with stiff winds and driving rain, not warm sunshine. So have I been very unlucky or have you been watching too much Doc Martin? (and do you even get that program in Oz?)
Have problems perceiving cold, until it's too late and becoming so cold it's difficult to overcome no matter how warm. Like a lot of people, don't like extreme temperatures of either sort. Never had central heat or air until moving here in mid thirties, but have grown accustomed so it's not really about temperature. It wasn't until after moving here, it was realized there might have been a mild form of seasonal affect. Not outright depression, but it was something.
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Yes, we get Doctor Martin in Oz.
I've been to Cornwall 3 times, when I lived in the UK in '98/'99, and the weather was very pleasant. I recall meeting a lot of people who had relocated from the North or the Midlands and had set up small businesses in Cornwall. By most standards it isn't exactly warm, just wondering if that's what Brits think of as moving to a "warmer" climate.
Nope., surely not, i've never heard anyone say that Cornwall is any warmer, just more pleasant in other ways (much less populous, for instance. That's the biggest draw, I think. You'd have to go a long way North, where it's cold, to find affordable housing in a similarly rustic setting. Or else across to Wales where most everybody hates you, if you're English) though most of my own visits to cornwall have been off-season , come to think. so i've got a different picture from your avarage holidaymaker. In Port Wenn, by contrast, it's always high Summer, Ive noticed' and it never rains. I think that the TV crew must be very, very picky as to when they shoot :LOL:. My impression of of Cornish weather from own experience , and reports from a (now deceased) relative who lived down there is that it seems a lot more turbulent and menacing, overall than the weather in the Midlands and the rest of the South. I'm not grumbling about that, mind, seems entirely appropriate for a land so steeeped in mythology .
There's a tiny willage called "Minions" in the middle of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I have driven to this place to take a look three times while staying n Cronwall and each time the mist has been so bad I could only see 30 feet in front of the car at best. So after three attempts I still haven't "seen" Minions.
This is the last time I tried to take a look.
(https://i.imgur.com/9vGGtGWl.jpg)
Is this a wind-up?
Love it, in any case :plus:. and will definitely look it up on Google Maps later.
Meantime., I'll tell you what that pic reminded me of. It was that drive back home from Cornwall when i persuaded my partner (the driver of the pair of us. I can't drive to save my life) to take the scenic route through Dartmoor. That was definitely one of my very best ideas for a diversion (and most of them turned out really well) . The deeper we got into Dartmoor, the more densely the mist gathered in , until visibility was even less than shown in your picture. And then, quite suddenly (whilst we were stopped for a bit) a bunch of Dartmoor ponies appeared out of the mist , and I whisked out the camera got a really spooky -looking double exposure of them. It was utterly magical, much better than your poxy little rock :P
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When Brits say they want to live somewhere warm, do they mean somewhere like Bali? Or do they mean somewhere like Cornwall? Or do they mean somewhere like Spain or Greece? I'm guessing somewhere like Spain or Greece.
Similar with Swedes, when they say they want to live somewhere warm do they mean Southern Europe kind of warm? Florida kind of warm? Southern California kind of warm?
Warmer than here. I'd not want something like Washington DC in August, though. Southern Europe sounds good to me.
It's the kind of thing we tend to say in October and November, when it's cold and wet and miserable.
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Yes, we get Doctor Martin in Oz.
I've been to Cornwall 3 times, when I lived in the UK in '98/'99, and the weather was very pleasant. I recall meeting a lot of people who had relocated from the North or the Midlands and had set up small businesses in Cornwall. By most standards it isn't exactly warm, just wondering if that's what Brits think of as moving to a "warmer" climate.
Nope., surely not, i've never heard anyone say that Cornwall is any warmer, just more pleasant in other ways (much less populous, for instance. That's the biggest draw, I think. You'd have to go a long way North, where it's cold, to find affordable housing in a similarly rustic setting. Or else across to Wales where most everybody hates you, if you're English) though most of my own visits to cornwall have been off-season , come to think. so i've got a different picture from your avarage holidaymaker. In Port Wenn, by contrast, it's always high Summer, Ive noticed' and it never rains. I think that the TV crew must be very, very picky as to when they shoot :LOL:. My impression of of Cornish weather from own experience , and reports from a (now deceased) relative who lived down there is that it seems a lot more turbulent and menacing, overall than the weather in the Midlands and the rest of the South. I'm not grumbling about that, mind, seems entirely appropriate for a land so steeeped in mythology .
There's a tiny willage called "Minions" in the middle of Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. I have driven to this place to take a look three times while staying n Cronwall and each time the mist has been so bad I could only see 30 feet in front of the car at best. So after three attempts I still haven't "seen" Minions.
This is the last time I tried to take a look.
(https://i.imgur.com/9vGGtGWl.jpg)
Is this a wind-up?
Love it, in any case :plus:. and will definitely look it up on Google Maps later.
Meantime., I'll tell you what that pic reminded me of. It was that drive back home from Cornwall when i persuaded my partner (the driver of the pair of us. I can't drive to save my life) to take the scenic route through Dartmoor. That was definitely one of my very best ideas for a diversion (and most of them turned out really well) . The deeper we got into Dartmoor, the more densely the mist gathered in , until visibility was even less than shown in your picture. And then, quite suddenly (whilst we were stopped for a bit) a bunch of Dartmoor ponies appeared out of the mist , and I whisked out the camera got a really spooky -looking double exposure of them. It was utterly magical, much better than your poxy little rock :P
That picture was taken as we were driving back from Minions as the fog had cleared a little, and is looking south from King Doniert's Stone.
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I guess I don't care where I live, as long as I have Sugarbutt, but I like it here. Just the other day the girl was telling me it's getting cold. I said, well it's sunny and warm here. :zoinks:
I love doing that. :lol1:
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I can't see me permanently leaving Yorkshire. Wales and Scotland are gorgeous, and the Nordic countries and New Zealand are appealing - I hate warm weather in more than small doses. I want space, rain and mountains. I'll settle for having plenty of rain, being in the Pennines an hour's drive from 'proper' mountains, and space is always going to be out of my budget I reckon. On the upside my town is cheap as, the curries are great, and we have proper fibre broadband. And for those wanting civilisation Leeds is less than 20 miles away. So can't complain too much.
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Civilisation is overrated. :M
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I spent a summer in Washington DC. Yes, it's too hot. And it's that baking heat. Different to tropical heat and different to desert heat.
Summers in Adelaide are even worse than that. And in Adelaide it'll be 45 one day and 17 the next.
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Adelaide in summer doesn't sound like a place I'd want to visit.
I'll just stay here for now. :P
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I spent a summer in Washington DC. Yes, it's too hot. And it's that baking heat. Different to tropical heat and different to desert heat.
Summers in Adelaide are even worse than that. And in Adelaide it'll be 45 one day and 17 the next.
My sister drove up to Darwin with a caravan for most of the Winter.
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Can I just move my house for a while if it gets too cold and dark? :P
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I spent a summer in Washington DC. Yes, it's too hot. And it's that baking heat. Different to tropical heat and different to desert heat.
Summers in Adelaide are even worse than that. And in Adelaide it'll be 45 one day and 17 the next.
My sister drove up to Darwin with a caravan for most of the Winter.
Winter in Darwin is warm and dry, daytime temperatures around 25.
In the lead up to the rainy season they start going a bit crazy from the heat. It's called "mango madness". That's the worst time of year usually in the tropics.
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I'm going back to Mt. Shasta
Thats my place :santa:
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I'm going back to Mt. Shasta
Thats my place :santa:
Where's that, Jesse?
Every summer I think of moving to Tasmania.
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If I had the resources I would live overseas... but all my mental health needs and other necessities are where I am at.
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I'm going back to Mt. Shasta
Thats my place :santa:
Where's that, Jesse?
Every summer I think of moving to Tasmania.
I wanna move to the snowies! Cooma for me. Jindabyne hits the spot but 80% of the town is ski season holiday rentals.
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Here's still OK.
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Where's that, Jesse?
Northern California up by the Oregon border. :nerdy:
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Where's that, Jesse?
Northern California up by the Oregon border. :nerdy:
Sounds ideal. :)
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Texas.
USA
I co-own with my brother and my mother forty eight acres of Texas cattle country.
It is from a Civil War era land grant to those hardy and willfull enough to try to make a home there.
My "ancestors" ended up with several hundred acres and the part my brother, my mother and I own is after dividing it all up among eight siblings after my grandfather died in the late '70s.
It is actually still contiguous land since no one has sold outside the family.
My mother has a house on a corner of our part, well kept by some of my cousins and her brothers. Acerages are leased out to them for cattle use.
So, yeah. Hell yeah, I want to live in Texas again!
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I wouldn't mind living in Finland again. It will never happen but I miss it every now and then.
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OTOH, I'd want to spend the winter months in Spain.
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OTOH, I'd want to spend the winter months in Spain.
Apparently, winter in Spain is much the same as winter in Perth, which I live near. A Mediterranean climate.
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I like where I live now. :dunno:
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I like where I live now. :dunno:
I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.
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I like where I live now. :dunno:
I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.
I live in the southern US, but I don't think it's just about that, though I do believe avoiding winter is good for my mental health. The big answer to your question is, I live in suburbia. :orly: Before living here, I had always lived very rural, and not knowing any different, I assumed it was optimal because that's what a lot of people seem to say they want. I don't think I need to live in an urban setting to know that's not a good fit either. I need a goldy locks level of civilization. :lol1:
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Sounds about right for me too.
I went from extremely rural growing up (my grandfather butchered livestock on the kitchen table) all the way to suburbia while planning marriage. Spent some time in urban areas of San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Nashville and went for the suburbs while living in Tennessee.
As much as I would love to re-visit my earlier life and live in my dream home of west Texas again, I doubt that can ever happen while my wife lives.
She is scared of snakes and all she ever focuses on is the notes from my cousins, uncles and aunts and their tales of (badges of honor) eight foot snakes they killed in the barn. She wants no part of that. I grew up with that. It's fine.
Hey, the west is full of snakes and people are stronger. You can deal with it! She just will not even consider my dream of making a home in Texas again.
We have snakes here, but timber rattlers do not even approach the size of a mature diamondback rattler.
So what? Watch where you step! You go digging under something, be prepared to encounter a disturbed colony of rattlers. Fine, carry a stick or a shotgun. Keep a dog with you. You'll be fine.
Snakes won't fool a dog!
Anyway, we bought a new home last year in Indiana suburbia that will be here long after I am gone.
One thing I have not mentioned here or anywhere, was I have been negotiating almost daily for over five months on an additional property here in Indiana.
It is miles away near the National Forest lands. Completely undeveloped "forever" it seems and we plan to use it as a weekend getaway and build a Tiny House as a campsite when we have time to use it.
I had not mentioned this because I did not want to jinx it, but it is ours now! It is 2.3 acres of wild Indiana land.
So I can have a taste of my rural living dream a few days at a time, which is probably all I am up for at my age anyway.
:lol1:
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I like where I live now. :dunno:
I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.
I live in the southern US, but I don't think it's just about that, though I do believe avoiding winter is good for my mental health. The big answer to your question is, I live in suburbia. :orly: Before living here, I had always lived very rural, and not knowing any different, I assumed it was optimal because that's what a lot of people seem to say they want. I don't think I need to live in an urban setting to know that's not a good fit either. I need a goldy locks level of civilization. :lol1:
I thought it was somewhere quite temperate as you never mention snow. ;) And you don't post in the weather thread either so I just had to ask outright. Are your summers getting hotter? We've had record hot summers for the last two years. I would like a nice freezing winter so I can wear my hoodies and jackets.
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OTOH, I'd want to spend the winter months in Spain.
Apparently, winter in Spain is much the same as winter in Perth, which I live near. A Mediterranean climate.
Which is perfect. I do not need snow ever again.
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I like where I live now. :dunno:
I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.
I live in the southern US, but I don't think it's just about that, though I do believe avoiding winter is good for my mental health. The big answer to your question is, I live in suburbia. :orly: Before living here, I had always lived very rural, and not knowing any different, I assumed it was optimal because that's what a lot of people seem to say they want. I don't think I need to live in an urban setting to know that's not a good fit either. I need a goldy locks level of civilization. :lol1:
I thought it was somewhere quite temperate as you never mention snow. ;) And you don't post in the weather thread either so I just had to ask outright. Are your summers getting hotter? We've had record hot summers for the last two years. I would like a nice freezing winter so I can wear my hoodies and jackets.
Not temperate, technically sub-tropical. I haven't heard of anything spectacular about the weather. I did a quick lookup and read there's a warming trend but we're slightly below the national average. Some years are just different than others. It rains a lot in the summer, but one summer years ago was so dry our palms died. This winter seemed to have more cold days than usual, but not colder than usual. Last summer seemed like one of the quietest storm seasons in years. :dunno:
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^This summer just gone has been one of the driest on record for us. Normally we have cyclones up north track south and provide us with rain. But the last cyclone actually tracked east and we didn't get a drop. The eastern states got it all. There's another cyclone up north at the moment which I hope is on its way south.
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^This summer just gone has been one of the driest on record for us. Normally we have cyclones up north track south and provide us with rain. But the last cyclone actually tracked east and we didn't get a drop. The eastern states got it all. There's another cyclone up north at the moment which I hope is on its way south.
Funny how some people still deny climate change, huh?
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As for places to live, if short-term living is an option there's lots of places I'd like to test.
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^This summer just gone has been one of the driest on record for us. Normally we have cyclones up north track south and provide us with rain. But the last cyclone actually tracked east and we didn't get a drop. The eastern states got it all. There's another cyclone up north at the moment which I hope is on its way south.
Funny how some people still deny climate change, huh?
It's all too apparent here in Australia.
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It's 56 Degrees Fahrenheit, and I'm in a tough spot -__-
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^This summer just gone has been one of the driest on record for us. Normally we have cyclones up north track south and provide us with rain. But the last cyclone actually tracked east and we didn't get a drop. The eastern states got it all. There's another cyclone up north at the moment which I hope is on its way south.
Funny how some people still deny climate change, huh?
It's all too apparent here in Australia.
It's perfectly obvious everywhere.