If You Could Live Anywhere In The World, Where Would You Live?

I wood love to live in Melbourne Australia.

I would live in Heaven, John. its the best place to be. Golden streets, no death, mansions, and of course the King of Kings.

John ... are you moving somewhere ... ??

I would prefer a small city of a developed nation with lot of green and good education.

Where you are IS the best place to live. I grew up there.

It's clean, the schools are some of the best in the country, and crime is very low.

By the way, nice shot..is that taken from Somerset or the Summit? :P

If I could live anywhere I would probably live in Hawaii, its nice weather year round.

Hey John! I live in Bellevue Washington, and it's great here. It usually rains at night, so the rain ain't that big of a deal. In fact, that picture is looking over lake Samammish or Washington. I live right in that neighborhood.

I live in San Francisco because of the 70-degree weather all year round, I wouldn't move anywhere else, LA is too hot, too much traffic. SF would be better than Seattle or Oregon, both rain countries. I love SF because of its diversity too, there's no other place on earth as diverse as here I think without being overcrowded like NY. Anywhere on the peninsula is nice, great schools here too like Stanford, berkeley, etc...etc... Just avoid oakland and you will be okay anywhere. Tiburon is REALLY nice, most homes are within 5 million range, if u can afford it, i'd go there.

Pacifica is really nice, about 10 minutes south of San Francisco, where I am trying to move actually, they've got some really nice ocean view houses, quiet neighborhood yet close to everything. For 1-2 million, u can find some really nice ocean view mansions there, also a nice beach with fishing port, I caught a tiger shark there once.

Well, just sayin' I didn't move to SF by accident, I wanted to come here.

Well I already live in one of the best countries in the world, England, but the summers could be a bit longer for my liking.
So if I had the money I would spend May - September in the UK , October - May in Barbados, but we would have to be back in the uk for 2 weeks at christmas. You can not have a proper christmas without cold wet weather it would just not be right.

I would live near a beach, actually have my own private beach and admire the ocean. The house doesn't matter much as long as I can walk on sand and feel the breeze.

Cheerio,
Scorp

Anywhere with summer year round! In Canada, summer is too short. Probably down south.

I don't know if you'd like moving away from the west coast, but my original hometown is Pittsburgh, PA and I really recommend it. On the top cities to live in, its ranked 29th, the highest of any U.S. city (although below Vancouver :/) I think it meets most of your qualifications. PA is known as one of the best states for education, partially because we have the strictest requirements for teachers.
As far as weather, it definitely gets cold in the winter, but I'm not sure how it compares to Vancouver. In the summer, it gets pretty hot. There's a fairly low crime rate in the city, definitely safe enough to walk around at night in almost all of the suburbs.
As far as diversity, it depends where you look. Mt. Lebanon is one of the best school districts and it offers extreme diversity, as well as an extremely high level fo education. I'd recommend either that area or somewhere around Sewickley, PA, 30 minutes outside the city.
Let me know what you think!

Any island off the coast of Belize. Maybe Nicaragua if I can get off my butt and learn Spanish.

It's always amazing how much greener the grass looks on the other side of the fence. I grew up in the SF Bay area. Fantastic weather, Wine country, Pacific ocean, Lake Tahoe, Yosemite all within a few hours drive. But it's a rat race now, congested, crowded and way over developed.

How about Costa Rica ? Anyone second that ?

I'm originally from Los Angeles and presently living in both Singapore and Tokyo.

I'd recommend these 5 English-friendly cities for consideration:
1. Melbourne, Australia
2. Singapore
3. San Francisco Bay Area
4. South Orange County / San Diego, California
5. Dubai, UAE

i prefer Bawean Island... anyway, the scenery was superb...:-)

Having recently returned from a trip to Aruba, where I put my own version of the dot com lifetstle to the test, I would definitely want to live there! It's an awesome place

Vancouver. You're living in paradise right now. You just don't realize it, yet!

From Costa Rica

good luck to you John in finding a new home and place to live

My favorite places (would eventually like to own homes in each of these): SF Bay Area, LA, Las Vegas, Hawaii.

No doubt John, the answer is Portland, Oregon.

We've got that same west coast feel as Vancouver/Seattle, but not the rain (it's more myth than fact that it rains here all the time). Portland has less than a million people and great urban/city planning to control growth, some great food, culture, skiiing almost 350 days a year at in the Cascades (i.e. Mt. Hood), and the beach is an hour away. Housing is not cheap, but much more reasonable than Seattle.

You can still buy a sprawling place for $500-$750k in the city, with plenty of space and perhaps even a big back yard.

Porland's airport is nice and easy to maneuver in and out of and provides plenty of avenues for worldwide travel.

Crime is not as bad as in many other big cities, though education here leaves some things to be desired. Private schools are great though.

As an internet entrepreneur you'll find plenty of talent down here, both creatively and IT related, with Intel's world HQ located here, as well as Nike's HQ and Adidas' N. American HQ.

People are generally laid back and friendly, and there's a broad mix of cultural backgrounds all around.

If you're ever down here shoot me an email and I'd love to take you out for a beer or a cup of coffee.

Good luck!

:)

Europe, more specifically Croatia!

Mmm...have you considered Singapore?

It's clean, stable politically, economically (we have a growth of 19.2% this year despite world wide economic crises), have a HUGE load of options for food lovers as we have lots of people from all over the world living in Singapore, so food's covered. Property prices are booming in a stable manner too, so it can be an idea for investment if you're thinking (we have celebrities like Jet Li and Gong Li coming over to Singapore to have homes here but not sure if they're planning to switch though).

Singapore has one of the better education systems and quality, producing some of the world's best in education, medicine, and finance.

Given the nature of your work, which is primarily blogging, something you can do from anywhere in the world, do consider Singapore.

Downside: hot hot + rainy at times, it's not as spacious as Vancouver or anywhere in the world for that matter. =p

The challenge for you is when there is affiliate summits and other blogging/MMO summits in US etc - the travel will be quite hectic though, but it's quite a stable growth country, and Singapore will be quite welcoming for someone with your expertise coming to town =)

I lived and worked in Singapore for a couple of years in the mid 80s and enjoyed the lifestyle - got a taste for Tiger beer. But I still think of it as the "Switzerland of the Far East" (Pacific Rim). It is really squeeky clean.....

Well, if I could I would really stay where I live right now because I really like it :D

Just would get myself a nice house or loft and then things would be great.

want to go USA , there r lot of opps to make money online . And Switzerland is good

I would love to move to Greenland or Iceland. Tired of heat anf smog here.

How about Monterey California? My wife and I were married in Pacific Grove which is right next to it. What a beautiful place with great temperatures

I'd choose to live right where I live now... That is why I work online duhh..

Southern CT hands down

Westport, Newport, Stamford, Greenwich

Fairfield County, best place in the world.

I recently went to Jamaica for two weeks and loved it! I went to Montego Bay. AND, I blogged on my site the whole time, so I was making money even while I was on vacation.

Looks like a beautiful place to live. Id say the same however I want to stay close to family and friends. I am thinking about doing the whole beach house and normal house type thing shortly so I can just invite everyone down to spend time there and rent it out the rest of the time. Id have to say just a nice beach with good people is where I want to live.

i would say sydney or brisbane australia as first pick i lived in sydney for 2 years and loved it.

You won't have to worry about snow but it does get really hot!

south of sydney is especially beautiful batemans bay, wollongong etc.

second choice Salt Lake City Utah not right by the city or anything like 30-40 minutes south or so.

i'm sure i'll get a lot of utah haters but i have been to almost every state in the U.S. (all but 7) and utah is almost the only place i would be willing to live and raise kids.

the crime is very low the schools are great. the mountains and lakes and canyons are some of the most beautiful in the country.

the only downfall is it does snow in the winter but if you like to ski utah has some of the best ski resorts in the country.

the economy is strong in utah and lots of tech companies choose to make this their home.

and if you live in the right neighborhood you can get fiber optic internet connection. whenever i am anywhere else even 'fast' internet seems slow comparatively

that's my 2 cents

oh yeah i can see hoe hand it
would be for him to use the net

I live in Holland, Michigan and I certainly DO NOT recommend it, despite us somehow being ranked as the happiest small town in America.

I have visited the East Coast and the West and I much prefer the people out West. California is absolutely beautiful along the Pacific Coast Highway and the people are laid back, relaxed and accepting from my interactions in the Manhattan Beach, Malibu, Huntington Beach area of greater LA.

I visit Windsor often and very much enjoy Canada compared to Michigan. So if I had the choice and was already in Canada, I would likely stay!

Naahhh... I still say London, UK. I think you'd generate a good income teaching the english how to make money Online.

-Peter (MpL)

I don't think I've traveled enough to make an educated call...but, I would probably say somewhere tropical...

Bangkok. There is an active expat community of bloggers in the city, it is extremely affordable and you can get bandwidth like you will find in North America.