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What is your favorite place you've ever lived?

As you can imagine, Arkansas isn't that great. Where would recommend to move and why? What did you like or not like about the different places you've lived or stayed for time?

EarthKate 5 Sep 8
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Puget Sound, Washington state.
I've lived in Michigan, all over California, Texas and Illinois. Settled here in 1981. Love it!

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Cheltenham, England. While other Americans I worked with were traveling to France & Ireland, I took in as much of my surroundings as possible and built a lot of amazing friendships

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London. God I miss living there...?

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Besides Lopez Island, Heidelberg Germany. Lived in the Altstadt (old city) 15 wonderful years.

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Cologne - Germany

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I only lived in Montreal, Canada. But it's such a great city. So much to do and see

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i think i liked best the campus of my first college, fairleigh dickinson university, in northern new jersey. it is a tree sanctuary and used to be a private estate, so the trees are gorgeous, the architecture (except for the newer buildings, for which no trees were cleared) is gorgeous -- georgian? maybe someone can tell me -- and i sort of came of age there, so it's meaningful to me in that way too. i don't know whether i would now enjoy living in the nearest town, madison, but new york city is a medium-length trip away, close enough for a day trip, so whatever madison lacks i could probably find in nyc. come to think of it, there were many annoyances about the part of brooklyn in which i once lived, largely because i was broke and ill and living in a tiny, overpriced room with a loft bed that took up most of the space, with three cats and facilities down the hall, but going into the city was the BEST!

not that i would say no to living in paris. i've been there but have not lived there.

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Victoria,BC and Montreal,QC are both really nice cities. I loved London but it’s ridiculously expensive and crowded.

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2500 ft loft in Greektown

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North Epping, Sydney. Shared a house with a massive balcony overlooking the Lane Cove River National Park. Two minutes walk, and the loudest thing you could hear was birdsong. Good times.

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In 1976 i landed in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, after growing up in Montreal and travelling across the US, Canada, and Europe.

To this day I remember driving into town over a rise where a sign welcomed me to Victoria, feeling a thrilled reaction to the view of the city, with the Juan de Fuca Straits and Washington's Olympic mountains in the background.

I felt that i had come home. Even though i've relatively recently moved to a smaller town up the coast to simplify my life as Victoria grew in size, Victoria on Vancouver Island were and are my favourites.

[tripadvisor.ca]

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My favorite place I've ever lived would be a product of my many summers as a grade-school age kid on a farm a few miles South South-West of McCook Nebraska. The sights, smells, textures and experiences working on fence, driving trucks, and bikes, mending fences, feeding cattle, help changing oil on combines etc. formed my impression of the world nothing short of awesome. I could write a book about growing up on a farm in the summers and being a city-boy in North Dakota when school was on but I'm not sure that is what you are after as I would not recommend moving there.

I did a lot of traveling including time in the Army so I have been to most of the US West Coast, Colorado, Washington DC, driven from North Dakota to Florida to Key West and have visited Panama City, the Amazon river basin and Quito Ecuador, Missouri etc. Spend weeks in Canada over many hundreds of miles (mostly flat interior) and find it only slightly different (and better) then North Dakota. The problem is: the world is changing very quickly. A positive observation made a decade ago may no longer be relevant. Colorado hiking in the mountains decades ago was great. It has profoundly changed. (increased population/traffic) I loved the West coast with California nice but Washington state was my favorite but again, things are quickly changing.

At this time, I live in a very nice house with an impressive home-made theater. As for the state of ND (where I live) being a place I would recommend above other places? probably not as things change quickly and my knowledge of other places is dated.

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Ellensburg, Washington. I miss it to this day.

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I have lived in many places and my favorite was in the Black Forest in Germany! I loved the food, the History and the people! I was in the service over there and thought of staying there when I retired from the military. I came back to Canada mainly because my children were still in school and I needed a job till they finished school. We have been back there a few times and hope to go again. I love Europe and all the history.

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Nelson, British Columbia, Canada.

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I guess, besides where I'm at right now, it would be Olympia, WA. I really liked the area, and politically, it suited me to a "T". And the weather was perfect for me; I loved the 'mizzle'.

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Coos Bay OR or Lo de Marcos Mexico

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Carmel beach, California.

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Penticton BC. Nice weather , nice people that say "sorry" when I step on their toe. I have never seen an RCMP officer even hint at drawing his gun. Safe, relaxed, friendly . I guess the temperature keeps heads cool in Canada. Medical care outside of Canada scares the shit out of me. I don't have any human rights when I leave Canada. I am living in a near Canadian utopia where I don't have to do anything criminal to pay my medical bills. There isn't any bills.

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I will always miss Brooklyn..NYC specifically Bay Ridge. An amazing community...but very expensive.

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The DC area had it's advantages, but I have to say SW FL where I live now.

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South Florida bc it wasn't as religious as the entire state of Alabama

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I'd have to say Flagstaff, AZ. It has changed a lot over the past 20 years, but when I lived there it was awesome.

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Vermont - doesn't matter where - just Vermont. The change of seasons, the fresh streams that you can drink from without boiling, and the taste of properly prepared Perch. I could go on but those are my primary affections with the state.

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For 2 years I lived in a tiny apartment right on the beach in Southern California. The apartment was run down; but the sand was right outside my door, and I fell asleep listening to the waves. For some crazy reason, I thought to be a grown-up I had to buy my own place and have more space...so I left that little apartment. Silly me.

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