I would stay here on the beautiful central coast of California.

The weather is great and the scenery is outstanding,

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I would love to live in London for its history, art, architecture and gardens, and its location makes it easy to travel to other European cities. Of course, this is presuming that I have the $ to live comfortably in this costly city!

I am very happy in Northern California. It's pretty close to perfect for me and my family.

ETA I love the people, the geography and the amenities of the Bay Area.

I have also already moved to where I want to be in Southern California. Any place else that I want to go to I prefer to visit rather than to live there.

A long time ago I found a book by Peter Mayle about his moving to Provence I have wanted to live there for at least 6 months or more since then. Second choice would be Tuscany. With the virus it is unlikely that those wishes will ever come true.

I wish I knew. Would love to make a move from my primary NY home but don’t have any idea of where to go. Financially a move would get me less than what I have now.

My town Is popular for the good school district. As a result, it’s a magnet for young families. Most of my contemporaries have high tailed it out already. We have all new neighbors, which we have little in common.

I have moved too much in my life...happy to stay put for awhile now.

To the lake cabin 125 miles to the south. We enjoy the simple life and fishing. Already in the plans but a few years down the road yet. We also plan to do the snowbird thing in the coldest winter months. Drag our travel trailer around and mix it up between south Texas, Florida, and Arizona.

Anywhere from Southern Virgina to Florida where winters are mild to none. The place would have to have a lower concentration of population.

Venice, been there several times and I could live out my life there.

I love living here in East Texas. I wouldn't live anywhere else.

I’d stay in the northeast where we have 4 seasons. I can’t take the heat. :-) We just escaped to the country from a crowded top school district, a college town. A few months before DD graduated from Univ. last year, we started looking for a property on acres. We couldn’t do it earlier because she went to college at 16, and we were only 1 mile away from her Univ. When she went to med school last summer, it was time to escape to the country. We are very happy where we are now, a historical place on a beautiful piece of land.

I'm with eld.....the neighbors & I have nothing in common. The HOA is awful. I like the park down town, but the historic houses near it are energy hogs. Between the meth labs & the homeless....I don't know......on acreage ...in Colorado.....somewhere.

Right where we are.

Now, if I could move my kids closer to us......

Central CA (around San Luis Obispo) has been in the back of my mind since I left San Diego. I've also thought about London, even the rural Netherlands (found the people so friendly) but would rather have a warmer climate - so southern France or Spain.

Plenty of places world-wide I want to visit, but I love living where I am. Only one more move planned, and that's 10 to 15 years from now DH and I will move into a continuous care retirement community a couple miles down the road -- "God willing and the creeks don't rise", as the saying goes.

edited to add "why" -- I love my quirky old house, my gardens that are going more and more 'native' and wildlife friendly, my neighborhood and downtown are walkable and full of friendly, relaxed people (and interesting college kids in non-covid years), the climate in the Valley is not quite as hot and humid as where we moved from, farms grow a wide variety of fruits and vegetables, and lastly the Blue Ridge are my kind of mountain -- old and worn in, like a favorite pair of jeans. Yup, I'm staying :-)

I could live in Germany the rest of my life. Lived there for 4 1/2 years and I miss it a lot. Some little town where I can walk to the grocery store and hop on a train when I no longer drive to visit other places, on maybe the Rhine river. I could spend my retirement traveling all over Europe. I just have no idea how difficult it is to stay there for an extended period of time. Haven't looked into it. I also thought about Japan also but not sure it's so easy to stay there long-term.

It’s hard to stay in Japan long term as a foreigner, they have a very tight community which is not open wildly to foreigners. I have friends living there, they’re married to Japanese.

I want to live out in the country with either a view or a bunch of scenery and some running water nearby.

I'm ok with where I live right now. The neighbors are mainly decent and I've enjoyed a lot of experiences that I could not experience elsewhere. I'm not in love with my house. It's inefficiently designed and I would like to upgrade and repaint, but don't want to put the money into it because I don't want to live here. The housing market is insane right now. Houses are going under contract with multiple offers in 24-48 hours. We're going to do the math and make a decision probably in this next year. If we're staying, I'm renovating.

Twenty years ago we 'solved' the "Home (north of Chicago) v. Warm Winter" problem by buying a small condo on Maui. We also moved "Home" several miles farther north along the lake, escaping increasing congestion and gaining an all-new home with one-floor living.

Now we've stopped the long 'communte' to Hawaii and will stay in our house until we run out of maintenance and health care options.

I'm happy with my general location, but I would like to find a single level house. I think it would be interesting to live for short periods. like one - three months, in various countries in western Europe.

WRT moving to Japan, I realize kathsgrdn is half Japanese, so perhaps there would not be any cultural barriers. The film Fear and Trembling is based on Amelie Nothomb's actual experiences in Japan- may be worth watching.

I'm with the people wanting to move to the country. The minimum of 20 wooded acres with a sprawling ranch house. I do have a camp in the country, but it is only on 2 acres and I want milder winters.

Like others, I'd be very happy living in a capital or or other large city on the European continent (not the UK). It's something we did for several years earlier in our lives. Germany, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Netherlands are places we have language capability and any would be fine. Why? These places are safer than the US and we enjoy the diverse nature and availability of cultural pursuits - museums, music, drama, and other things. Interesting people, interesting food, interesting things to do. As we did when living there before, a trip or two to warm weather during the winter is important to do. It was something we said we expected to do when retiring and though we've had many visits, nothing resembling extended term stays as with a multi month apartment rental. When the world's health returns to normal, it's on my list of things to do.

Aside from that, we split our time now in coastal Northern and Southern California and as far as the US is concerned, we're not changing that.

If it's a question of living somewhere else for a few months. Or even a year or two, I am open to most any European city. I would especially like to spend some time in Switzerland, Zurich particularly.

Fun2behere, I'm thinking of doing that for the first 1-2 years after retirement.

Happy in Michigan!

Not perfect (i.e. either very cold or very hot, conservative state government, etc.) but Texas is my last home. I'm a homebody that after traveling most of my career, while not international, I'm here to stay.

Love living in Canada except for winters. Would love to spend 6 months in our condo in The Turks and Caicos.

two feet forward, and one to the right ... I don't want to pack

I'd like to move about a mile east and a mile or more north of where I live now. I love our town and would like to be able to walk to the CBD, and be near the lake.

Meyrals, France. In la Dordogne-very small, but near Saint Cyprien and close to plenty of larger towns with wonderful markets. I have loved France and the French people since I was 12 on my first visit to Paris. I might consider someplace closer to Paris, but the Dordogne region is so lovely and I relish the quiet of the country.

I love where I live now, no desire to live anywhere else.

(I live in southern California)

Nearer my kids. I want to see my grandkids more often.

The Netherlands. My mom took me there about 15 years ago and it felt like home. My sister went going on 2 years ago with my mom, and she said she felt the same way. It actually felt more like home than the city I was born and raised in.

NYC and I are mated for life. If I were to live somewhere else for a few month to a year, I would go to Buenos Aires. Although I haven't been there in about 15 years, so don't know what it's like now.

Ecuador, I think. Pending a real life extended visit.

I love Switzerland but I’m not sure I’d want to live there full time. My cousin and his wife do, for work, and it is not that easy to assimilate. The Swiss can be protective of their home. When my Danish-British cousin applied for residency in his village, after living there for a few years, one neighbor was not in favor because he had once vaguely complained about the church bells.

I would love to live a year in NYC. Manhattan, across from Central Park. I would visit all the movie sites, spend time in the park every day, explore explore explore, museums, shows, and go to the Radio City Music Christmas Spectacular. I know there’s a lot more to NYC than Manhattan, and I’d explore that, too. But, Central Park. Sigh.

Edit to add, on the other hand, A Swiss village will pay you to live there 10 years! It has southwest exposure, perfect, and not far (well, as the crow flies) from Crans Montana. But you have to be under 45 years old. Dang.

If I had to pick a place other than California (the only U.S. state where I would live), I would choose Italy, although I'm not sure exactly where. I do love Tuscany, and I also like the Amalfi coast, but it is a bit remote. Still, it would nice to have a seaside villa, which I cannot afford, and so I guess that would be out. I could afford to live in Tuscany, and I'm fluent enough in Italian to make that feasible. I'm more fluent in German, but I don't want to live in a cold climate. France does not appeal to me as much as Italy, and neither does Spain, although I could still handle the languages, although it pains me to speak French, since I have such a bad accent.

I've seriously thought about moving to Mexico, but at this point, I prefer just to visit. I loved Vancouver when I visited in the last 1970s and early 1980s, but I think it is too cold most of the year, although it is very beautiful. I would rather live in the tropics than in Canada full-time. Australia might be nice, but I've never been there, and so I cannot say from personal experience. I ran into a lot of Australians in Fiji, and they seemed very nice - somewhat similar to Canadians.

Lars, Mexico is my second choice. Or first choice if I don't end up loving Ecuador. :-)

Since this is a fantasy, I’ll say France. I have loved everywhere I’ve ever been in France, love the culture, food, wine, art, architecture (well, not the contemporary architecture so much), daily life. Although they may have a reputation for rudeness, I’ve not found that to be the case at all, in the many times I’ve been fortunate to visit; people are welcoming and kind. I do make the effort to speak French, which helps, I’m sure. (American tourists are often extremely rude, from what I observe. I’m American.)
Fantasy number two would be to live in or near Vancouver BC. Such a wonderful city; my daughter went to UBC and I loved visiting!

Lars, I also love Mexico, it will always hold a place in my heart after living there for a few years. At this point in my life I don't want to live ther full time.

For DD it would be New Zealand. For me it would probably be Hawaii. Hawaii has always called my name but I'm not sure if I can leave my family and sister Lions mountains behind... In fact BC is beautiful! Obviously I'm torn.

Hawaii again, or Belize. Love them both. I love where we are now, Houston suburb, but I would never be able to keep up with this property alone. Marilyn is my hero for all she does.