NaBloPoMo: Where would You Live?

One of the NaBloPoMo prompts this month is If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live?

You would think this would be a fairly easy question to answer.  If money was not an issue, if you could live anywhere… let your imagination run wild.  For some people it may be *snap* easy.  For me, not so much.

At first I thought Ireland. I have wanted to see Ireland since I read Nora Roberts’ Irish Trilogy: Jewels of the Sun, Tears of the Moon, and Heart of the Sea. The story she told, the way the Irish live and pass down their stories.  The history, the way she described the island, the people, the life.  I fell in love and wanted to see it all for myself.  In fact, when I was 35, I decided for my 40th birthday I would take myself to Ireland to celebrate.  I didn’t make it.

But that’s just it.  I wanted to visit, I wanted to see, I wanted to experience it.  But not stay, not live.  And I have no real reason, other than it’s a nice place to visit but I wouldn’t want to live there.

So, where would I live?  I’m not sure I’d live anywhere other than where I live, but maybe that’s because I’ve only lived here.  Possibly New England, with the history of our country, I think it would be fascinating.  Maybe if I could work an arrangement that I could just move up and down the East Coast I could live with that.

So let’s change the question to ‘Where would  you like to visit?’

I would like to visit Australia.The contrast of urban and wilderness would be fascinating.  Besides the fact that I would love to just sit and listen to them talk.  Besides, they raise them hawt down under.

I had no idea who this guy was until I Googled Aussie Hotties

I know him as Cole from Charmed, which my daughters LOVE

Simon Baker from The Mentalist and The Guardian

I would like to visit The Smithsonian.  Yes, I realize it is an attraction instead of a location, but really, have you seen it?  It’s huge, and you would need half a lifetime to see it all.  Although I wonder if after a few days if your mind wouldn’t just be peanut butter from all the information would take in.  I’m willing to risk it.

If I didn’t have to go alone, I think I would like to see New York.  I think I would be just overwhelmed by it all.  I think that the activity and the energy of the city would be too much and would trigger a manic swing, and in order to counter act that I would shut down.  Still, I think I’d like to go, if only for a day or two.

If you could go, see, do anything, what would you chose?