Where was the best place you lived?

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

Without a doubt the best place was Holybrooke Hall in Ireland.

[StevieR]

I was very lucky growing up on the banks of Loch Lomond, with Drymen, Luss and the ben mere minutes from our front door. I'd have to say the best place is where I am now though, beautiful rural Dorset, seaside and countryside, the best of both.

[cessna152towser]

BCAC wrote:-

My childhood home in Ayr, Scotland.

My personal favourite was just four miles along the coast from you, living in Troon, waking up in the morning to a view of the ships sailing on the Firth of Clyde and the distant Arran Hills.
Now that I am retired I would happily move back there if I could afford to.
Since I last lived in Troon over 30 years ago the M77 motorway to Glasgow has been built and the railway has been electrified so what was once a full hour's commute can now be done in little over half the time and houses on the Ayrshire coast have become very expensive with the new trend of living at the coast and working in the city.

[Starhunter451]

BCAC wrote:-

My personal favourite was just four miles along the coast from you, living in Troon, waking up in the morning to a view of the ships sailing on the Firth of Clyde and the distant Arran Hills.
Now that I am retired I would happily move back there if I could afford to.

We have never been to Scotland, (head bowed in sorrow), my ancestral home is Hunterston Ayershire.

We we looking at possibly moving to Scotland, but what would we do to make a living?

[Rick Y]

My fondest place is in southern Oregon. This was in the early fifties and my father owned a mine for chrome ore. It was out in the wilderness, accessible only by large trucks and they had to be able to ford a river and multiple creeks. We lived in a tent, our folks, two brothers and I, on the side of the river. The swimming was great and the rest of the time we could play with the local wildlife such as rattlesnakes and scorpions. It was really a boy's fantasy world. Mom home-schooled us and we were there for nearly three years until the market for the ore dried up. We were fortunate in that we had just sold our last load of ore just before the price plummeted.

[cessna152towser]

Starhunter451 wrote:-

We have never been to Scotland, (head bowed in sorrow), my ancestral home is Hunterston Ayrshire.
We we looking at possibly moving to Scotland, but what would we do to make a living?

Hunterston is just another 15 miles or so up the coastline from Troon or about 20 miles from Ayr, on the same side of the Clyde estuary. There really is not much to see at Hunterston, other than the nuclear power station, and deep water sea terminal, though there is the historic Portencross Castle nearby and its only another three or four miles up the coast to the holiday resort of Largs. Perhaps if you came to Scotland you could make a living from tourism. One of our xmarks members, Pour1Malt, is an American who now runs a guest house in Dumfries.

[TJ Kelley]

In my 20's I traveled around quite a bit trying to find out this very answer. In order: Iowa, Minneapolis, Seattle, LA, Denver, Chicago, Phoenix. Other than the extreme winter situations of Chicago and Minneapolis, I loved each city and the adventures they held.

I settled down in Phoenix almost 20 yrs ago for quite a few reasons. Weather, job market, the states natural beauty and outdoor life style, weather, easy trek to SoCal, LasVegas and Colorado and weather. I guess I said weather 3 times, I love the fact when most of the US is in a frigid tundra, I am in 80º, mtn. biking, hiking and BBQ'n. The snow is only 2.5 hours away if skiing/snow boarding is in the plans.

I will say StarHunter, your in my second favorite place. I loved Denver and the Rockies. If the market was a lil' more consistent... thats where I would be today, beautiful state.

[Starhunter451]

If we fo move to Scotland, it would probably after my wife can reyire snd get her retirement funds from W@#mart.

I have longer to go. She robbed the cradle. 9.5 years younger than her.

[Starhunter451]

I spent 20 months in Pheonix. I was not impressed by the 110* for 110 straight days. I hated it.

[TJ Kelley]

That is how we weed out the weak... hehehe.