If you could pack up and move somewhere new tomorrow, where would you go?

apogee wrote:

You say that like it's a bad thing...

For some people it's a feature. For me, it's a bug. I enjoy solitude but, also, think groceries are neat. 

Brooks K wrote:

Where is this magical place?

New Hampshire maybe

Bishop

Bishop / Mammoth to be close to friends, and close enough to family, but just far enough. Salida if I wanted to drop-off the map. 

I'm headed back to Europe next Tuesday to look at more properties for a part-time home/income property there. Will be in Chamonix again, looking at more things since I was there last September. Right now, Cham has my heart. But then its on to the Greek island of Rhodes for all of February. Its unreal how great the deals are over there. Quite the contrast to here in Aspen.

Mike Mullendore wrote:

Bora Bora or Mo’orea

Those would be the 2 islands i would least like to live on in French Polynesia - way too many tourists.  Huahine would be my pick.

Copper center, Alaska

....oh wait, I already live there!!  

Perfect

ZT G wrote:

Copper center, Alaska

....oh wait, I already live there!!  

Perfect

Not exactly a climber's paradise (lived there 2001-2008).  Valdez is close, though.

I’d move to Seattle. I’m a high school student in NYC, and I go to Seattle every summer. There’s nothing I love more than hiking and climbing in the cascades.

I’d move to Seattle. I’m a high school student in NYC, and I go to Seattle every summer. There’s nothing I love more than hiking and climbing in the cascades.

Jack Bushway wrote:

New Hampshire maybe

New England is fascinating growing up here you always think of leaving then quickly realize not many places have the little bit of magic that is here. 

Discussed this exact situation when we retired. Believe but or not, we decided to stay right here in Newark, DE.  Nice college town I can ride my bike to, 100 miles of single track out my front door, local climbing within 1:15, Gunks at 3:30.  Decent kayaking with good local runs within 1 hour.  Philly, Balto, and NYC a quick drive or train ride away, and the van can take us anywhere we want to go. The house is paid for and I have a great deck in the woods with lots of critters and good neighbors.  The only thing we miss are sunsets.  

Nick U wrote:

Bishop / Mammoth to be close to friends, and close enough to family, but just far enough. Salida if I wanted to drop-off the map. 

Salida is drop off the map for you?? It’s 2.5 hrs from Denver!

Andrew Gram wrote:

Those would be the 2 islands i would least like to live on in French Polynesia - way too many tourists.  Huahine would be my pick.

No shit, that looks awesome! Never heard of the place

San Martin de los Andes, Argentina.

Charming little mountain town in central Patagonia surrounded by forests, big blue lakes & snow capped volcanoes. A bit of a drive to Frey (3h) or Cochamo (5h) but the skiing and fishing would make up for that and it’d be a great home base for longer 1-2 week road trips anywhere in Patagonia. 

Skibo wrote:

Not exactly a climber's paradise (lived there 2001-2008).  Valdez is close, though.

Depends on what you climb. I’m not overly stoked on rock. Nabesna ice, Valdez ice, delta ice/mountaineering, wrangle st Elias np for exped style & the last unrestricted natural sea run of kings makes it the only place I want to be. 

My pick would probably Bergen or Stavanger in Norway

I've got to a place in my career and life where I can live most anywhere within an hour or 2 from a good regional or better, airport. 

I live in a small farming town now. Its not quaint, more blue collar with a smattering of people like me, work from homes, trades, long distance commuters. Nothing special. Weather could be better, so could the air. I'm an hour or more from the nearest everything with respect to climbing. And yet, willing to make the drives, I have lifetimes of possibilities to pursue within a day's driving, many lifetimes in fact. 

The thing that keeps me here? My grown kids live near me. They moved to my town to be closer to me and I love it. Even now, contemplating, where might I move to? I have a hard time dreaming of outcomes because the prospect of moving away from my children is frankly, appalling. Which is ironic because that is exactly what I did to my parents - moved far, far away.

Anyway, I'd say to you dreamers - DO IT! Set it in motion, before you plant too many roots and get like me and not want to tear them out of the ground.

Isaac Bogaisky wrote:

I’d move to Seattle. I’m a high school student in NYC, and I go to Seattle every summer. There’s nothing I love more than hiking and climbing in the cascades.

The North Cascades are awesome, but I’d suggest visiting outside the summer months and reassess   

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