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Old Feb 22nd 2013, 3:37 am
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Almost every day we see a new thread from someone in the UK who's desperate to move the US. Sometimes they've been here, sometimes they haven't. So it got me wondering..... does anyone who does live here feel desperate to move somewhere else? If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
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Old Feb 22nd 2013, 3:40 am
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Old Feb 22nd 2013, 3:43 am
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I want to live in two places, because my heart is in both, the UK and the US.
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Old Feb 22nd 2013, 3:56 am
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Default Re: If you could live anywhere in the world....

Originally Posted by AmerLisa
I want to live in two places, because my heart is in both, the UK and the US.
New Zealand North Island sounds interesting
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Depends, what color is the grass in the other place?
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Hawaii. But only when they do a direct flight to North East England, the flight time is reduced to 10 hours and we get a substantial "living in Hawaii" deal. Oh, and them finding oil I suppose.
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OK so I would move back to Scotland of course but am in no rush to.

Of all the places I have visited, Hawaii, but I do wonder if I would start to feel claustrophobic after a while.

And in my head Australia or New Zealand would be worth a bash!
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Somewhere nice, not too far from London but not right in the city as well. One of the Home Counties, probably. F*** NI, too many pro-republican twunts there these days for my liking

If I were to limit my choice to the US - probably somewhere in the southwest. Arizona or California - if I could work myself up to being able to take the heat, of course.
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
+1.

Somewhere nice, not too far from London but not right in the city as well. One of the Home Counties, probably. F*** NI, too many pro-republican twunts there these days for my liking

If I were to limit my choice to the US - probably somewhere in the southwest. Arizona or California - if I could work myself up to being able to take the heat, of course.
You need to come to the Pacific Northwest!! It's the climate for you!
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Originally Posted by Cardienscarf
Almost every day we see a new thread from someone in the UK who's desperate to move the US. Sometimes they've been here, sometimes they haven't. So it got me wondering..... does anyone who does live here feel desperate to move somewhere else? If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Right where I am - love it (though probably haven't been here long enough to miss dear old blighty).
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Originally Posted by AmerLisa
You need to come to the Pacific Northwest!! It's the climate for you!
Not, alas, for the wife. She doesn't like the rain as much as I do
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Old Feb 22nd 2013, 8:34 am
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Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Not, alas, for the wife. She doesn't like the rain as much as I do
Talking about the wife, I'd think twice before living in Sonkajärvi, Finland ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/fe...s.html?image=4
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Talking about the wife, I'd think twice before living in Sonkajärvi, Finland ...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/fe...s.html?image=4
That's a bit of a shit one, though. A light wife = easy to win but less beer ...
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Originally Posted by Cardienscarf
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?
Somewhere in southern Africa. Probably Botswana near the Chobe National Park.


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Baltit Fort, Karimabad, Hunza Valley, Pakistan.
Of course I'd want to be rich enough to buy it and impose a chip shop and pub in the village, which might be quite difficult. But I think I would never get bored in the Hunza Valley.
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