Have you ever traveled somewhere and absolutely fell in love with the place?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I feel this way about Charleston SC. We went 20+ years ago and still today I long to go back there and spend an extended period of time there.

PP who loves Sanibel, I also really like Sanibel too. It holds a special place in my heart, it's where we did our babymoon some 24 years ago.

Oh, I just posted that I felt this way about Sweden, but agree with this as well. Something about the pace of life and the scale of the city is very approachable. I remember DH and I wound up talking with a guy in a bar who had moved there relatively recently from NYC, and we walked away from the conversation talking about how maybe we should move there. It doesn't work with our jobs but we've talked about retiring there if the area doesn't get to expensive and if climate issues don't cross it off. It's a great small city.

I’m from SC. Do not retire there. Yes, climate change is an issue, it’s not an if. It can be impossible for a disabled elderly person to evacuate in a hurricane. Also the health care is poor and under served.

[Anonymous]

India. I traveled there in college and it changed me forever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hong Kong, some 5-10 years back. I love food and Hong Kong is a dream.

Italy, too. Not as much diversity in food but the quality is amazing.

I live in an area in the US with great access to local food and I love it.

+1 to 10+ years ago Hong Kong.

Heartbreaking that it’s gone.

+2

We went about 3 times in 2 years to Hong Kong when we lived on that side of the world 7 years ago. It’s the first international place I took my baby DD, and I have so many memories and such a fondness for it. So glad we were able to go since so much has changed.

[Anonymous]

Singapore. I still think about it quite often.

[Anonymous]

Vancouver/British Columbia

[Anonymous]

France

I’ve traveled all over the world, but every time I came to France, I felt like I was coming home.

After my ninth trip there, I moved here. Life is too short to not live in the place that feels like home.

Where in France did you move? Do you have residency? Do you work? Do you do private health insurance ? Occasionally we entertain the idea of moving away when our kids launched. I’m close to fluent in French and have lived in Paris 2x for about a year each time but full time living there seems more daunting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Martha’s Vineyard every summer as a kid (so, 30 years ago) and felt this way about there. Sadly I’m sure I’d feel differently if I went today

Every time I cross the bridge to mainland CC, my blood pressure normalizes. Thanks for ruining that Healy!

How did Healy ruin Cape Cod?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We recently got back from two weeks through Scandinavia and oh my god we absolutely loved Norway. I have been to a LOT of places in the world and nowhere has ever just clicked so easily with my soul. I honestly feel like I'm homesick for Norway now that I'm back in the US which I've never felt before. The people, the nature, the culture, the parenting- everything just resonated with us.

This is a common phenomenon. Sometimes place, timing, ourselves and companions all align well and we feel we are in love with that place. Glad you experienced it.

[Anonymous]

Anywhere in Switzerland, especially Lucerene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Singapore. I still think about it quite often.

+1.

My DD had the same reaction and feels a general pull to cities we’ve visited in Southeast Asia. I will not be surprised if she ends up there as an expat once she’s an adult.

[Anonymous]

I hope she does, good luck to her

[Anonymous]

Tanzania.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Interesting all the love Norway is getting…one of the whitest countries on the planet. Hmm…

+100

Not a great place for those of us who value diversity and vibrancy

Not a good place for most, tbh that is for transplants. Norsk are very private, very closed, you can't meet your Neighbours, they shut the door if they hear you leaving your apartment and wait till you are out of the building before, they go out of their apartment. Prices through the roof on everything.
I lived there. If I asked for directions, rather than answer me, then a 20 something a middle-aged man would run away and cross the street. If they see a "diverse" looking person walking towards them on the street, they made even then a wide berth around.
Benefits and nature are amazing though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Anywhere in Switzerland, especially Lucerene.[/quote

Besides Lucerne what's another Swiss city you'd set up camp in for a little while?

[Anonymous]

Hawaii, Thailand, Turkey and Peru(Cusco) and India (Pondicherry and Udaipur).

A lot of places that I loved, I could not live year round. For example the Nordic countries and the Middle East.

I can live in the small towns of most European countries.