The DC area had it's advantages, but I have to say SW FL where I live now.

I will always miss Brooklyn..NYC specifically Bay Ridge. An amazing community...but very expensive.

Ellensburg, Washington. I miss it to this day.

My favorite place I've ever lived would be a product of my many summers as a grade-school age kid on a farm a few miles South South-West of McCook Nebraska. The sights, smells, textures and experiences working on fence, driving trucks, and bikes, mending fences, feeding cattle, help changing oil on combines etc. formed my impression of the world nothing short of awesome. I could write a book about growing up on a farm in the summers and being a city-boy in North Dakota when school was on but I'm not sure that is what you are after as I would not recommend moving there.

I did a lot of traveling including time in the Army so I have been to most of the US West Coast, Colorado, Washington DC, driven from North Dakota to Florida to Key West and have visited Panama City, the Amazon river basin and Quito Ecuador, Missouri etc. Spend weeks in Canada over many hundreds of miles (mostly flat interior) and find it only slightly different (and better) then North Dakota. The problem is: the world is changing very quickly. A positive observation made a decade ago may no longer be relevant. Colorado hiking in the mountains decades ago was great. It has profoundly changed. (increased population/traffic) I loved the West coast with California nice but Washington state was my favorite but again, things are quickly changing.

At this time, I live in a very nice house with an impressive home-made theater. As for the state of ND (where I live) being a place I would recommend above other places? probably not as things change quickly and my knowledge of other places is dated.

In 1976 i landed in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, after growing up in Montreal and travelling across the US, Canada, and Europe.

To this day I remember driving into town over a rise where a sign welcomed me to Victoria, feeling a thrilled reaction to the view of the city, with the Juan de Fuca Straits and Washington's Olympic mountains in the background.

I felt that i had come home. Even though i've relatively recently moved to a smaller town up the coast to simplify my life as Victoria grew in size, Victoria on Vancouver Island were and are my favourites.

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2500 ft loft in Greektown

Victoria,BC and Montreal,QC are both really nice cities. I loved London but it’s ridiculously expensive and crowded.

i think i liked best the campus of my first college, fairleigh dickinson university, in northern new jersey. it is a tree sanctuary and used to be a private estate, so the trees are gorgeous, the architecture (except for the newer buildings, for which no trees were cleared) is gorgeous -- georgian? maybe someone can tell me -- and i sort of came of age there, so it's meaningful to me in that way too. i don't know whether i would now enjoy living in the nearest town, madison, but new york city is a medium-length trip away, close enough for a day trip, so whatever madison lacks i could probably find in nyc. come to think of it, there were many annoyances about the part of brooklyn in which i once lived, largely because i was broke and ill and living in a tiny, overpriced room with a loft bed that took up most of the space, with three cats and facilities down the hall, but going into the city was the BEST!

not that i would say no to living in paris. i've been there but have not lived there.

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I only lived in Montreal, Canada. But it's such a great city. So much to do and see

Cologne - Germany

Besides Lopez Island, Heidelberg Germany. Lived in the Altstadt (old city) 15 wonderful years.

Cheltenham, England. While other Americans I worked with were traveling to France & Ireland, I took in as much of my surroundings as possible and built a lot of amazing friendships

Puget Sound, Washington state.
I've lived in Michigan, all over California, Texas and Illinois. Settled here in 1981. Love it!

My favorite place to live is Planet Earth.

Oh, you want me to be more specific? Okay ... How about Washington state? The land is beautiful, and the people are generally liberal. Very refreshing, after living in the "conservative" Bible Belt.

(P.S. I put the word 'conservative' in quotes because I don't know what it is they are trying to conserve. Certainly not the government; they want to reduce it to the size that they can drown it in the bathtub. Certainly not the environment; they want to continue polluting it. Certainly not human rights, the rule of law, or American values; they trash them as often as they can. Oh, the ignorance!)

My place.

I lived in Japan for four years. That's my absolute favorite place to live. But I've also been to Spain and Israel, to name a few others I'd live. If I had to pick a state, I think I had the most fun living in Chesapeake Virginia.

I loved living in Florida near Tampa you were always an hour or so from any beach. Although I usually didn't go as much as I could have I miss it now. Moved back to Tennessee to be close to my aging mother maybe will retire there with all the rest.

El Dorado canyon, CO

New Orleans. But it's not for everyone...just my personal pick.

I have lived in a few places and Everyone one one of them have their ups and downs. But I now live back in the South. Now But I think if you are an outdoors kind. Well. Some place like the North west. Washington state is very nice. Anything north of Seattle. Maybe Bellingham. Is very nice. Or you can go the other way and try. Boston It was the coolest city I have lived in. But. It was a different time then. It has changed A little.

Washington State. Never been out of the U.S., but that was by far the best place I have been.

Cluj-Napoca Romania. A very vibrant city, I would move back if I could.

For 2 years I lived in a tiny apartment right on the beach in Southern California. The apartment was run down; but the sand was right outside my door, and I fell asleep listening to the waves. For some crazy reason, I thought to be a grown-up I had to buy my own place and have more space...so I left that little apartment. Silly me.

Vermont - doesn't matter where - just Vermont. The change of seasons, the fresh streams that you can drink from without boiling, and the taste of properly prepared Perch. I could go on but those are my primary affections with the state.

South Florida bc it wasn't as religious as the entire state of Alabama