Places You Want To Live In
 

I've always wanted to live so many different places. New York, Chicago, Paris, Italian Coast, many others...wondering where everyone else's wishful thinking would lead them. Discuss

i know it might sound strange to some people, but ive always wanted to live in Portland Oregon. a hell of alot of the band sthat i love are either from there or moved there or have lived there etc.
from what ive read about it and seen in movies it looks pretty great!, i would really really love to move there when i can but im only 17 at the moment so i have a long time to wait untill that is possible.
one of my friends at college is spending his summer in portland with some guy he met on the internet who lives there, i couldent be more jealous of him!

Have you ever seen the movie ''Bongwater'' (Luke Wilson, Jack Black, Andy Dick)? It takes place in Portland and is great (not really my kind of flick) if you love some great stoner movies.

Somewhere very cold, because I've never felt cold and I'd quite like to know what it's like.

Maybe Siberia, near Lake Baikal.

Otherwise, Manchester quite appeals to me. Not very cold, but at least it rains and it's a nice place.

no i havent, i will definetely check it out!, ive seen 'drugstore cowboys' and 'hunted' they were both filmed in and around portland.

its strange i met this guy on an Elliott Smith messge board who lives in portland and really really wants to live in birmingham uk, where i live! strange.

Well a lot of musicians/bands have come out of Birmingham, albeit a different kind. So, maybe that's his thing, you know?

I love living in England, and I'm not sure that there's anywhere I'd want to live so much that I'd be willing to leave England for it. I would like to live somewhere a bit more in the countryside though.

The only good one I can thing of is Black Sabbath.

yeah the first time i posted he said "YOU LIVE IN THE BIRTHPLACE OF METAL!!!!!!".

ha ha ha ha ha, like Ozzy just walks around here talking to people and we have a huge metal scene here, we dont!!!, its all posh London twats that have come up for the day to go to the bullring shopping mall or emo's!

Reykjavik, Tokyo, London, Zanzibar, Sydney, Copenhagen or New York.

:eek:

I was going to drive up to Brum one day to hit the shops, but I'm too scared now.

That's funny he said that. I think there is a part of me that wants to believe that about places, eventhough I know it is highly unlikely, yopu know what I mean? Its like if I lived in New York, I would bump into Thurston or whoever. Just be walking down the street and run into all these great musicians and start talking to them, I think thats part of what makes a place longed for in my mind. Although in reality, if I ever saw someone like that, I would more than likely just say something quick and keep going, this due to my lack of social skills with musicians I respect.

no come its alright, it can be a bit annoying when you get asked for directions about 20 times when your in town though,just dont ask for directions and you will be okay!

Tokio
or anywhere in Japan

you get it everytime you go to a gig too, the band ALWAYS asks some black sabath related question! like we know them personnaly or something!

i'm gonna live in Sydney in Oz for a few years when i'm older.
New York would be my second choice, or myself and my mate always say we're gonna try Canada for a few years sometime in the future.

oh canada id love to live in canada, out in the middle of nowhere though, not in the cities.

Yep, Tokyo would be pretty amazing even though its (I think) the most expensive place to live in the world. Actually I think it got shunted down to number two. I'm sure they where devestated.

anywhere in russia, poland or ukraine

Japan,China,Thailand,Berlin,India.

I always wanted to move to Portland, and I made it happen. Now I get to live in one of America's finest cities.

That being said, if I had to move again, and could move wherever, I'd move to any one of these French cities: Grenoble, Lyon, Avignon, Toulouse, and Bordeaux. But not Paris-the city's just too goddamn big. In Canada I'd move to Vancouver or Montreal, and if I had to choose a city in the US Midwest, I'd choose either Madison, WI or St. Louis, MO. I'd also live in England if I could afford it.

where did you move from?, was it hard, is portland an exspensive place to live?

Germany. Almost anywhere in Germany. I love the Cologne region, Frankfurt, Munich. I'd even be happy living not in those big cities, but in some small German village or town in those areas.

Or Belgium or Switzerland.

Here in the states, I'm not so sure--possibly Virginia, the Hampton Roads area, or Williamsburg.

Maybe Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Possibly Minneapolis.

I think Madison, Wisc., is all right, too.

[Iowa City is THE only decent place to live in Iowa, by the way.]

I would like to either live somewhere that was always warm, like a small town in mid-Mexico, or somewhere that was always cold, like Nova Scotia or something. I'm a very mood-oriented person, and I like the idea of a place having a sort of constant mood.

dont come to england then!

Paris. Nowhere else.

In any case, I'd have to do some research first--find out if there are any record/CD stores in the area, what the local music and arts scene is like, local brews, nearest Hot Topic store, and that kind of thing. The priorities, you know?

have you ever been there?

Yep for a couple of days. Everything was just so cool, I can't even explain it. It's a hell of alot better than Nice.

Wining and dining in Paris is great, but are the record stores any good? That's the real question.

ive been twice and hated it both times, but hey its just probibly not my thing, im not saying tis a bad place. and if you like it the MOVE THERE!!!!! you only live once!!!, this is your only life

The record stores were ok.. I didn't get to go in that many. I did the touristy stuff cause I only had like 2 days there.

will do :)

you would hate english weather, its so up and down and unpredictable.

i dobt tokyo is the most expensive place in the world, im constantly broke here but thats because i dont work very much. so it does seem kind of xpensive to me.... but its all the things you dont bank on being expensive. food is pretty cheap, booze is a bit more pricey than england. fags are cheap, travelling round the country is very expensive.
nyc is my favorite place ive spent any real amount of time in so far, i always feel right at home there.
birmingham sucks.
id love to go to vietnam-ho chi min city and a little bit of time in hanoi. i plan on living in london next year. id like to go to morocco, turkey, india---glasgow! id also really like to go deep into some tribe in africa or south america.
brazil, mexico, new orleans. italy, spain ..... paris.
berlin always makes me wanna spend more time there but i have something against the german language (sorry to any germans--i cant help it, maybe my own ignorance or whatever but i just cant hack it)
korea....south to live for a bit and north would be interesting to visit for a few days maybe.
i have no intrest in canada and australia though.

can never get settled anywhere so far.

in the words of brian potter....
"the world's your lobster."

No its not. Rain 68% of the time, 22% is crappy clammy weather and 10% is nice ok weather. That's all you need to know.

I'd also like to try living in a commune in california or somewhere in america for a few years. that would be a fantastic 'life experience'.

New York, London, San Francisco, and Spain.

i always wanted to live in berlin, so i did it and i am here now. now i want to live somewhere else and settle there for a while maybe LA or america somewhere. my life for the last few years has been quite hectic and i havnt really settled anywhere.

Manchester!?

It is such a dreary example of bad 1960s architecture.