Help my daydream: ideal city for a writer?

wrtaway · Aug 29, 2009

Admit it - you sometimes fantasize about what you'd do if your writing brought you fame and fortune...

I don't need fame, but I would really love a beautiful lakefront home, somewhere spacious and green, with a gourmet kitchen and a perfect writer's studio out back. The problem with this little daydream o' mine is that I can't decide where my dream house should be.

I'm thinking Vermont? But I've never been there. It can't be too rural, because I live on takeout sushi and thai food, so there has to be easy access to ethnic food.

Where else?

firedrake · Aug 29, 2009

I'd settle for an English market town, Wantage, Richmond (N.Yorks) or perhaps a nice village like Lambourn.

If I going to live in a City it would either have to be London, probably Primrose Hill, or Paris.

Ah...to dream.

YAwriter72 · Aug 29, 2009

I'd stay right where I am. We live in the beautiful country on the coast of Maine. Everything is within driving distance, but my town only has 2500 people. I can't see my neighbors. But I would remodel my house to exactly how I want it, including a huge greenhouse out back.

brainstorm77 · Aug 29, 2009

Depends on the person... Right now I live in the city (ick). I would prefer to live in a cottage in the country...... But that's just me

Newfoundland, Canada is a nice province

scarletpeaches · Aug 29, 2009

Edinburgh.

I'd love to live in Edinburgh. And having been there with a fellow AWer, it's extra special now.

bettielee · Aug 29, 2009

Sigh. I dream about this all the time. I would love to live in Savannah Georgia because it is beautiful, but I don't do well in sweltering, flesh-melting heat and humidity. Ditto New Orleans.

Someplace with amazing Victorians, small-townish, lots of charm and character, where the houses don't all look like they were built en-masse by some heartless contractor who raped and desecrated the land before he built his ode to modern living. You know, like Poltergeist.

scarletpeaches · Aug 29, 2009

New Orleans is built on an ancient American Indian burial ground?

bettielee · Aug 29, 2009

No, it has flesh-melting heat and humidity. New Orleans is delightfully charming.

scarletpeaches · Aug 29, 2009

You totes chagrin my Nawlins-dazzle.

bettielee · Aug 29, 2009

Sorry. It's so pretty though. Well, I haven't been back since the horror of Katrina... but Bourbon Street... Oh, I'd pay money to go drinking with you on Bourbon Street.

scarletpeaches · Aug 29, 2009

We'd drink the place dry!

(It's a date...when I'm rich and famous. As long as I can bring Colin).

bettielee · Aug 29, 2009

No problem. You bring Colin, fine. He can tuck us into bed at night, in some amazing little bed and breakfast, silently judging us as he does so.

regdog · Aug 29, 2009

bettielee said:
Sorry. It's so pretty though. Well, I haven't been back since the horror of Katrina... but Bourbon Street... Oh, I'd pay money to go drinking with you on Bourbon Street.

scarletpeaches said:
We'd drink the place dry!

(It's a date...when I'm rich and famous. As long as I can bring Colin).

scarletpeaches · Aug 29, 2009

Yep. That's about what'll happen when me and bettielee hit the town.

Don't judge us.

bettielee · Aug 29, 2009

Yes, don't judge us - join us.

But I should also mention I would like somewhere that turns bright gold and red in the fall... only those places tend to have monstrous cold winters.... New England, that is!

backslashbaby · Aug 29, 2009

You'd like it here, B. We have everything you say, including fall color, but we melt in the summer

Asheville! You have to visit Asheville! It's a good 10 degrees cooler there in the mountains, too.

wrtaway, the lake is throwing me. The lakes I can think of are either ridiculously built up or not near sushi

The Italian lake district would be a favorite! Or little Lake Lure, NC, but I don't know that they eat raw fish

spamwarrior · Aug 29, 2009

I'd have somewhere that's sort of out of the city so that I could still run into the city and have fun there. And then I'd have a nice summer home that I could escape to to write stuff.

cher79 · Aug 29, 2009

I'm in Chicago and am quite sick of it, actually. Haven't traveled much throughout the US...but I visited Milwaukee and liked it. Maybe I'd write at a coffee shop or near the lakefront. Basically, anywhere with less road construction, warmer weather, less people and less traffic would be GREAT!

Samantha's_Song · Aug 29, 2009

Paris, France, of course.

Wayne K · Aug 29, 2009

I want to move to Lapland.

Samantha's_Song · Aug 29, 2009

Is it full of Lap dancers?

Gregg · Aug 29, 2009

How about St Andrews, Scotland - lots of (golf) ghosts there.
Or, Bellingham Washington, USA - munch on Dungeness Crab and view the beauty of the Pacific Northwest.

aadams73 · Aug 30, 2009

Somewhere a lot cooler than Texas. The heat here is oppressive at times.

Antarctica sounds pretty swell today.

Wayne K · Aug 30, 2009

They're saying all the heat came from up north.

I'm just saying...

Mr Flibble · Aug 30, 2009

I'd move the whole, ooh, four miles back to the village I was born in

There's a house my Mum used to work in I've got my eye on. It has a turret for my study

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