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What would be your idea of the perfect city?
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I like this thread!! I want to move at some point and I also don't know where I'd end up. I've thought of Seattle, D.C., San Francisco, Portland, NYC, ... and PARIS! I'm interested to see what people say.
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I've lived in almost all of those places! (Not Portland, but I'm currently in Seattle, went to school in NYC, lived in San Fran, D.C. and Paris each for a year).
Oh! Which was your fav? And why?
Awesome-- it gave me my exact location! Which is great, b/c we love it here. (Here being Northwest Arkansas.)
Well, Paris. Sigh. Paris, paris, paris....
It's just a beautiful, amazing place to live. I love the pace of life in France, the ancient buildings, the fact that you can find anything yet I never felt stifled or lost or overwhelmed by the population like I did in New York. The food really is amazing, and once you learn to handle overly friendly French men, it feels like a relatively safe place for such an immense city.
I should add that I speak fluent French and have a French family background, so that definitely made it easier. The infamous Parisian rudeness is true, but I didn't experience them as any worse or more rude than New Yorkers, for instance, on average.
As far as the US cities listed, San Fran was probably my favorite - lots of variety and the city itself is beautiful. I couldn't stand D.C. (too many wannabe politicians and women in pearls) and I'm personally not that crazy about the Pacific Northwest, but that's just me - I know a lot of people who absolutely love Seattle.
Mayville, in upstate NY. I just fell in love with that place.
If you like rugged terrain and the whole 'outdoorsy' thing, try northern Minnesota. I took my daughter there one summer to visit the International Wolf Refuge and it was GORGEOUS! Towering pines, soaring eagles, clear skies...I swore then and there that if I ever 'made it big' I would have a summer home near Ely. (not sure I would like the winters that far north)
What do you love about it?
1. It's on Chautauqua Lake;
2. You can buy lovely big old Victorian houses for a good price, provided they're not on the lake shore;
3. The Main Street is your archetypal mid 19th century Main Street, lots of trees, lovely old buildings;
4. I love obscene amounts of snow;
5. I want to live somewhere hilly and green.