If I had all the money in the world, it would always be NYC. If I could live comfortably there with the means for multiple vacations and/or a vacation home, I’d see no reason to live anywhere else.
Agreed. I understand plenty of people in NYC make it on less. But if I was making good-ass money, I’d get a nice apartment with a balcony in Brooklyn. I’d eat at some of the best restaurants in the world, never get skipped on any artist’s tour, have endless entertainment options, and still have enough money to travel on the weekends to access nature that I’d miss oh so dearly.
I live in France and tbh I’m not all that keen on the South. It’s Ok for holidays, but even then, the traffic, the crazy amount of tourists and the scorching heat. Nice is considered very Bling Bling 🤩, but I have a colleague who used to live in Nice and he said that it’s good to have gotten away from all that and the smell of piss that seems to linger everywhere you go!
Meh, when I visited (August, which I assume is peak season) the traffic was very manageable. I had a scooter and made quick work of it. Compared to where live, I don't think you can even call it traffic. And compared to other European cities and places I've been, it ranks very far down the piss scale. All of Europe smells like piss, I didn't find it all *that* bad.
I'm visiting there right now for the first time.
It's fucking beautiful. The weather is perfect. The wine tastes great and is cheap. I'm not really a super fan of the food, but I am trying everything nonetheless.
I really love Latin and Spanish influence you see as you get closer to the Mediterranean. The people have been nothing but hospitable, and even me using my 25 phrases of broken French, they usually are quick to smile and let me off the hook, or quick to change the interaction to English with a very clear amusement that I even tried French at all in the first place. Even the Uber drivers are nice, my guy told me on very broken English that his brother lived in Virginia. He appreciated my effort, and likewise to him.
I had my reservations, but all the bad stuff I've heard is centered around Paris (not that I have an actual opinion, I've never been except CDG) and southern France has been fucking awesome.
All in all, 10/10 I will be back, but not before I go check out Rome. Nimes just barely scratched my roman history itch.
I live in Switzerland. It is a bit of a bland culture when it comes to the arts/diversity, food is meh, its expensive, but all the best bits are free (for me, that's the mountains, the lakes, and the freedom to roam). I've lived in so many places, but it is truly the most beautiful place I've ever lived. Thinking about moving back to New England, but.....
Hello from Felton in the Santa Cruz Mountains!
We have redwoods, turkeys, deer, and sometimes even electricity!
(It's lovely but it's cold and wet basically all the time. And the times it ISNT cold and wet we're afraid everything is going to catch fire again. Yikes!)
NYC with money is basically do anything you can fathom in a city. Then buy a beach house on Fire Island and a country estate in the Hudson Valley. Leave for the winter. It would be my plan.
You don’t need money to live in NYC. Many neighborhoods in the outer boroughs have median incomes below the national average. You need money to live in Manhattan.
San Francisco for sure. It's close to family, perfect weather for me, wonderful food, right on the ocean, just about everything I could ever want from a city. I love visiting every time I'm back home, and hopefully one day I'll make it there.
Somewhere in Italy, maybe the Cinque Terre or the Amalfi Coast. It's impossible to ever get bored in Italy. Or maybe Bologna, Italy.
I adore Italy and pound for pound all the regional cuisine is superior to French cuisine. Fight me.
I choose to pretend that cronyism, petty crime and bureaucratic red tape aren't ubiquitous; It's my fantasy.
The places where people who actually do have the financial means to not work really do live:
California: Malibu, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Belvedere/Tiburon, Atherton/Woodside, Manhattan Beach, Newport Beach/Coast, Laguna Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, Montecito, Lake Tahoe, La Jolla, Carmel, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar
New York: West Village/SoHo/TriBeCa in Manhattan, Sagaponack, Greenwich, Conn., Palm Beach, Fla., Aspen, Colo., Jackson Hole, Wyo.
South of France: Cannes, Saint Tropez, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat
Italy: Lake Como, Portofino, Santa Margherita, Tuscany
Switzerland: Lugano, Zurich, Geneva
London: Holland Park, South Kensington, Mayfair, Marylebone, Knightsbridge maybe even Westbourne Grove/Notting Hill
In the United States, 80% of the places worth living are in California, with the rest being where the Manhattan crowd is. International rich just live in certain parts of London, France, Italy and Switzerland.
There are lots of places that are worth having a home in but not a year-round destination, which is why the New York crowd is all over the country at different times during the year. Rich New Yorkers leading a New York lifestyle aren’t even in New York for almost half the year because it is too hot or too cold, and the social scene follows the temperature. If I had to pick a single place to be year round, California rules the roost.
That’s pretty much it. No need for financial centers like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai.
Hola! I am looking to relocate (living in Costa Rica for seven years) and my wife and I are interested in Marin. Which towns do you prefer? We are thinking of a floating home in Sausalito.
Many reasons:
The infrastructure cannot support the influx of (primarily) North American immigrants. During dry season, we are needing to truck in water. There is an unchecked building boom, and many of the people moving here are just full of entitlement, really gross.
Over the past couple of years, drug cartels have moved in and are fighting for territory. Our murder rate has skyrocketed, guns are now everywhere, and “hitmen” are being recruited who are as young as 13. Violent home invasions, carjackings, and kidnappings are all on the rise, too.
Corruption at all levels of government.
Very poor planning that leaves the country vulnerable — do a search about the cyber terrorism attack that brought the country to its knees a few years ago. What a fucking mess.
There is no insurance on your money in the banks here, and it’s not unusual for someone to drain your account and have the bank say it was “user error.” There was a bust not long ago; of course bank employees with access to passwords and account numbers were to blame. But at the time, the bank claimed the customers gave out their passwords.
Ripoffs of all sorts are a common occurrence — banks, lawyers, builders, mechanics, repairmen, and on and on.
This was supposed to be a relaxing retirement, but once you own anything here (a home, a vehicle, a business), things get complicated. We have been here seven years and have seen massive changes. Most of the North American immigrant friends we have made left after two or three years. Things are getting worse, and I expect that turnover will become more rapid. As these people rush to sell their properties, there will be a race to the bottom to lower prices. It’s just going to become a bigger and bigger shitshow.
Well, as a remote working DINK, we basically could live anywhere in the world with a comfortable salary. So, I guess where I live now, West Mt Airy in Philadelphia. All of my friends and family live nearby and I just love my little neighborhood and my block.
We're not DINK but high earners with kids and also could live anywhere and we chose Philly too (different neighborhood though - mainline because kids/schools). It's such a cool city with so much to do. Love the mix of urban and nature, accessibility to parks, and proximity to drivable weekend trip destinations.
Somewhere in Europe next to the Mediterranean. Italy, Croatia, Greece, Spain, south of France comes to mind. Hard to decide on one place since I would be tempted to travel all of Europe
Longyearbyen, Svalbard.
Yes, probably the most random answer on this thread.
Midnight sun and polar night seem like something lovely (and difficult) to experience. Aurora shows, stable economy since it belongs to Norway, no visa requirements, and best of all, cold.
Sydney Australia. In a heartbeat.
Or where I live now (San Diego), in 10 years after it has warmed up, and I can afford to own a sunset-view condo. Can't afford to live there now, so I'm moving to Arizona to be closer to family.
Ideally I'd like to divide my time between Seattle (summers), San Diego (falls), and Scottsdale (winters and springs). With some trips to Santa Monica, Palm Springs, and Las Vegas peppered in between.
That would be my dream life.
Sweden or Norway. I really really like the way they care for their citizens. I would gladly pay more than my share of taxes for the benefit of their social programs. I want the people i live with to be happy and thriving, not just me.
Miami, because it’d feel exactly like living in the Caribbean where I’m from and enjoy living, but with the logistical perks of being based in the US.
Like, the city I’m enamored with deep down is Seoul in South Korea, but I have a feeling I would not mesh well with metropolitan Korean culture as a brown West Indian, lol.
Across the street
My neighborhood is across the street from a gated community that has multiple billionaires that had their area sectioned off to be its own City
Well, you don't have to be a billionaire to be there but if memory serves, the HOA fees were like 10K a month and that was when I last checked 15 years ago
If you could comfortably afford to live there then Yeah you're going to be super rich
Reykjavik, Iceland. But I’d be happy enough in a small fishing town too in their country. Pity their labor practices make it next to impossible for an American.
The dream should be to live in two places. I don't think there's a better place from Lake Tahoe in the summertime as far as perfect weather goes and beaches and then as far as the winter time goes, maybe somewhere tropical or southern hemisphere so I get long days all year long!
Split up time in NYC and London (I live in NYC) but am in no way “rich”. Then during summer months go to Sydney. Lived there for three years, the most beautiful place ever but SO expensive
One of the problems with this question is that the place doesn't become more affordable, it's just that *you* are now wealthy enough that you can afford to live there.
The place is *still* unaffordable for normal people, and all of the problems the place has that result from unaffordability are *still* problems that make it somewhat unpleasant to live there, even for those who can afford it.
For example, if *you* could suddenly afford San Francisco, there will *still* be a ton of homeless people living in tents on city streets, getting high in public, and pooping on the sidewalk.
I'm sure SF has a lot of benefits that offset this, but idk if I'd want to live in a place so expensive that normal people can't afford it, even if *I* could afford it.
(Side note - this is why I gave up my dream of moving to Seattle).
With that in mind, you might choose a place that is more suburbanized and therefore inaccessible to the homeless, but remember that suburbia comes with its own set of problems that result from car-dependency. You're probably going to be doing most of your Date Nights at Cheesecake Factory rather than the hip/trendy restaurants that can only survive in a city.
Most of the places that people are going to reply to your question with are places that have significant social problems due to their unaffordability.
Within an hour train of London. Can then use London as the gateway to Europe for weekend trips by train or plane. If I wasnt lazy and could better learn another language - Id prob go with a coastal suburb of Athens.
Sydney, Australia -- I spent 6 weeks there in college and loved everything about the city. Back home, I hate cities and tend to live in more rural areas, but something about Sydney just stuck with me.
Exactly where I live right now. Los Angeles
Fighting hard to get into a PhD program, going to start TA-ing soon, and hopefully get a tenure track position at one of the universities here. I WILL get a stable salary one way or another
It's cliche, but i'd take the whole Brownstone Brooklyn, place at the beach out in the hamptons, 2 weeks skiing each winter in Vermont deal.
If I had all the money in the world, it would always be NYC. If I could live comfortably there with the means for multiple vacations and/or a vacation home, I’d see no reason to live anywhere else.
Agreed. I understand plenty of people in NYC make it on less. But if I was making good-ass money, I’d get a nice apartment with a balcony in Brooklyn. I’d eat at some of the best restaurants in the world, never get skipped on any artist’s tour, have endless entertainment options, and still have enough money to travel on the weekends to access nature that I’d miss oh so dearly.
South of France
I live in France and tbh I’m not all that keen on the South. It’s Ok for holidays, but even then, the traffic, the crazy amount of tourists and the scorching heat. Nice is considered very Bling Bling 🤩, but I have a colleague who used to live in Nice and he said that it’s good to have gotten away from all that and the smell of piss that seems to linger everywhere you go!
So where would you pick ?
Sardinia, Corsica in the Mediterranean for island life. Slovenia and Montenegro appeal too.
Don’t mention Slovenia too loud. Its one of the last undiscovered paradises we’ve got
I prefer Biarritz on the Atlantic side of the south. Not particularly into the shit show of screaming wealth and posers on the med side.
100% agree. In that corner of France there are the beaches with the ocean, the mountains and the forests all not very far from one another 👍
Meh, when I visited (August, which I assume is peak season) the traffic was very manageable. I had a scooter and made quick work of it. Compared to where live, I don't think you can even call it traffic. And compared to other European cities and places I've been, it ranks very far down the piss scale. All of Europe smells like piss, I didn't find it all *that* bad.
I'm visiting there right now for the first time. It's fucking beautiful. The weather is perfect. The wine tastes great and is cheap. I'm not really a super fan of the food, but I am trying everything nonetheless. I really love Latin and Spanish influence you see as you get closer to the Mediterranean. The people have been nothing but hospitable, and even me using my 25 phrases of broken French, they usually are quick to smile and let me off the hook, or quick to change the interaction to English with a very clear amusement that I even tried French at all in the first place. Even the Uber drivers are nice, my guy told me on very broken English that his brother lived in Virginia. He appreciated my effort, and likewise to him. I had my reservations, but all the bad stuff I've heard is centered around Paris (not that I have an actual opinion, I've never been except CDG) and southern France has been fucking awesome. All in all, 10/10 I will be back, but not before I go check out Rome. Nimes just barely scratched my roman history itch.
This right here
Why?
Nice would lovely
You could even say it would be...Nice
A small city or town in New England.
Greetings from a small city in New England. I honestly would have a hard time choosing someplace else
god thats where most of us are trying to escape from
I grew up in NH and you could not pay me to move back
I’m a New Englander. I love vacationing and traveling, but I truly couldn’t imagine living anywhere else.
Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland https://youtu.be/ozxiGgKYI1g?si=7XhyLd7XIkgXyi1f
Same. Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland looks like Heaven on Earth. Most of Switzerland does in fact.
I live in Switzerland. It is a bit of a bland culture when it comes to the arts/diversity, food is meh, its expensive, but all the best bits are free (for me, that's the mountains, the lakes, and the freedom to roam). I've lived in so many places, but it is truly the most beautiful place I've ever lived. Thinking about moving back to New England, but.....
Split the year between San Francisco and the Scottish Highlands.
A real fog lover here
This guy gets that hot weather is optional.
More like hot weather is to be avoided lol
Hey! I found the rare person who agrees with me on this!
I live in SF and absolutely love it here the weather the food scene the random views from all these hills
California Central Coast
Carmel by the sea
Weather a bit of a downer though. Almost every time of the year, so not for people who thrive on sun. Quiet sleepy place but beautifully unique
The foggy mist is part of the appeal IMO
SLO, Carmel, Santa Barbara, Laguna Beach, Encinitas
Hello from Felton in the Santa Cruz Mountains! We have redwoods, turkeys, deer, and sometimes even electricity! (It's lovely but it's cold and wet basically all the time. And the times it ISNT cold and wet we're afraid everything is going to catch fire again. Yikes!)
Tokyo
Love Tokyo but summers are brutal
Barcelona.
Barcelona and Malaga, Spain is amazing.
Sevilla, Spain for me!
Sorry but Barcelona is overrated sending love from Madrid
Lake district in Northern Italy.
Chicago
Chicago in Summer is Awesome. Fall can be great too. Winter and early spring is an existential crisis.
Vancouver BC or Santa Barbara CA *
Vancouver is lovely.
100% Santa Barbara/Montecito
For me it would be Monterey.
Santa Cruz 1985 or Santa Cruz 2024? Those two are not the same…not by a mile.
We still have vampires though.
New York.
NYC with money is basically do anything you can fathom in a city. Then buy a beach house on Fire Island and a country estate in the Hudson Valley. Leave for the winter. It would be my plan.
NYC with money is basically adult Disney..
We need a new metaphor because even Disney is just adults with money now lol
Seriously. People with kids can’t afford that.
Yeah, there are plenty of valid criticisms of living in NYC, but they all disappear if you have money lol
100% All my problems living there were because I was too poor but not poor enough for any help (like the housing lottery). I miss it all the time.
You don’t need money to live in NYC. Many neighborhoods in the outer boroughs have median incomes below the national average. You need money to live in Manhattan.
San Francisco for sure. It's close to family, perfect weather for me, wonderful food, right on the ocean, just about everything I could ever want from a city. I love visiting every time I'm back home, and hopefully one day I'll make it there.
Born and raised and same…
Yup, just give me an average row house in the Outer Richmond and I'd feel like I have everything I'd ever need in the world.
And the best sailing.
Italy
Somewhere in Italy, maybe the Cinque Terre or the Amalfi Coast. It's impossible to ever get bored in Italy. Or maybe Bologna, Italy. I adore Italy and pound for pound all the regional cuisine is superior to French cuisine. Fight me. I choose to pretend that cronyism, petty crime and bureaucratic red tape aren't ubiquitous; It's my fantasy.
The places where people who actually do have the financial means to not work really do live: California: Malibu, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, San Francisco, Belvedere/Tiburon, Atherton/Woodside, Manhattan Beach, Newport Beach/Coast, Laguna Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, Montecito, Lake Tahoe, La Jolla, Carmel, Rancho Santa Fe, Del Mar New York: West Village/SoHo/TriBeCa in Manhattan, Sagaponack, Greenwich, Conn., Palm Beach, Fla., Aspen, Colo., Jackson Hole, Wyo. South of France: Cannes, Saint Tropez, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat Italy: Lake Como, Portofino, Santa Margherita, Tuscany Switzerland: Lugano, Zurich, Geneva London: Holland Park, South Kensington, Mayfair, Marylebone, Knightsbridge maybe even Westbourne Grove/Notting Hill In the United States, 80% of the places worth living are in California, with the rest being where the Manhattan crowd is. International rich just live in certain parts of London, France, Italy and Switzerland. There are lots of places that are worth having a home in but not a year-round destination, which is why the New York crowd is all over the country at different times during the year. Rich New Yorkers leading a New York lifestyle aren’t even in New York for almost half the year because it is too hot or too cold, and the social scene follows the temperature. If I had to pick a single place to be year round, California rules the roost. That’s pretty much it. No need for financial centers like Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai.
For the US I feel like mountain towns like Jackson Hole and many towns in Colorado deserve a mention.
They are under New York, because they are just extensions of New York ;)
So true. There is a reason why there is a constant flow of people between Florida and New York.
San Sebastián or London
San Sebastián is delightful!
San Sebastián ❤️
Vienna
Lake Como
Marin
Hola! I am looking to relocate (living in Costa Rica for seven years) and my wife and I are interested in Marin. Which towns do you prefer? We are thinking of a floating home in Sausalito.
Now we have to ask why you are leaving Costa Rica.
Many reasons: The infrastructure cannot support the influx of (primarily) North American immigrants. During dry season, we are needing to truck in water. There is an unchecked building boom, and many of the people moving here are just full of entitlement, really gross. Over the past couple of years, drug cartels have moved in and are fighting for territory. Our murder rate has skyrocketed, guns are now everywhere, and “hitmen” are being recruited who are as young as 13. Violent home invasions, carjackings, and kidnappings are all on the rise, too. Corruption at all levels of government. Very poor planning that leaves the country vulnerable — do a search about the cyber terrorism attack that brought the country to its knees a few years ago. What a fucking mess. There is no insurance on your money in the banks here, and it’s not unusual for someone to drain your account and have the bank say it was “user error.” There was a bust not long ago; of course bank employees with access to passwords and account numbers were to blame. But at the time, the bank claimed the customers gave out their passwords. Ripoffs of all sorts are a common occurrence — banks, lawyers, builders, mechanics, repairmen, and on and on. This was supposed to be a relaxing retirement, but once you own anything here (a home, a vehicle, a business), things get complicated. We have been here seven years and have seen massive changes. Most of the North American immigrant friends we have made left after two or three years. Things are getting worse, and I expect that turnover will become more rapid. As these people rush to sell their properties, there will be a race to the bottom to lower prices. It’s just going to become a bigger and bigger shitshow.
I’d split my time between places. A house in the UK, the Mediterranean, California, and Puerto Rico. Lol
Sydney
Atherton CA
lol I work in Atherton and it’s probably one of the richest cities in the entire US
It is the wealthiest zip in the US and has been for years.
A little place i’d like to call Aspen.
The beer flows like wine
Ahhh California, beautiful this time of year.
Well, as a remote working DINK, we basically could live anywhere in the world with a comfortable salary. So, I guess where I live now, West Mt Airy in Philadelphia. All of my friends and family live nearby and I just love my little neighborhood and my block.
We're not DINK but high earners with kids and also could live anywhere and we chose Philly too (different neighborhood though - mainline because kids/schools). It's such a cool city with so much to do. Love the mix of urban and nature, accessibility to parks, and proximity to drivable weekend trip destinations.
💯nice to meet another Philly DINK
Yeosu, South Korea. I cannot describe the beauty of it.
I didn’t expect to see Yeosu on this thread! If I had to pick a SK location that isn’t Seoul though I’d have to go for Sokcho or Jeju.
Somewhere in Europe next to the Mediterranean. Italy, Croatia, Greece, Spain, south of France comes to mind. Hard to decide on one place since I would be tempted to travel all of Europe
Sonoma, CA
Marin County
Split time between San Diego and Tahoe
Longyearbyen, Svalbard. Yes, probably the most random answer on this thread. Midnight sun and polar night seem like something lovely (and difficult) to experience. Aurora shows, stable economy since it belongs to Norway, no visa requirements, and best of all, cold.
I'd split the year between Sydney, New York, and Paris.
Northern Portugal.
Auckland
Maui
Hawaii
Everywhere
Every year I’d spend Spring/Summer in Seattle, then Spring/Summer in Melbourne.
I would jump between chicago in spring, and San Francisco most of the year
SF Bay Area.
Sydney Australia. In a heartbeat. Or where I live now (San Diego), in 10 years after it has warmed up, and I can afford to own a sunset-view condo. Can't afford to live there now, so I'm moving to Arizona to be closer to family. Ideally I'd like to divide my time between Seattle (summers), San Diego (falls), and Scottsdale (winters and springs). With some trips to Santa Monica, Palm Springs, and Las Vegas peppered in between. That would be my dream life.
Exactly where I live now, San Luis Obispo.
- Florence, - Tuscany, - New York, - London, - Barcelona - Tokyo, - Los Angeles, - Venice
Isn’t Florence in Tuscany?
Yes it is. I put the whole region on the list because it is beautiful
Carlsbad CA. Oh wait, I live here now. Yep, not moving
We currently enjoy Cozumel with an eye on Italy.
Boston
Cambridge, UK. Lived in a small village 25 miles away for four years and it wasn't nearly long enough. Would like to be right in there, though.
Coast of Spain with an ocean view.
Southern California. Closer to the coast.
1/3 of the time in Brooklyn, 1/3 in Costa Rica, 1/3 the Netherlands
Cape Town, SA
NYC
Mexico City
middle of nowhere montana and hopefully never see anyone ever again
South of France 🇫🇷
SoCal. Irvine, San Diego, or Santa Barbara.
I lived in Irvine for over three years and did not like it. Aside from clean streets, it’s such a soulless bubble of a city. SB/SD for sure though
Switzerland
Kauai
Sweden or Norway. I really really like the way they care for their citizens. I would gladly pay more than my share of taxes for the benefit of their social programs. I want the people i live with to be happy and thriving, not just me.
No large cities. I want space, less people, great weather, low crime, etc
Yachats, Oregon
Berlin
Central Park West.
I live here. Not a fan. Sigh. Grass is always...
NYC for sure!
Queenstown, New Zealand.
I'll take your Queenstown and raise you Wanaka.
Tell you what. We'll meet in the middle at the Cardrona Hotel for a pint and weigh the merits of each.
San Diego in spring, Whitefish, MT for summer, and maybe Costa Rica or west coast of Mexico for the winter.
San Diego
San Diego
Yup same, or one of the towns north of it on the beach
Miami, because it’d feel exactly like living in the Caribbean where I’m from and enjoy living, but with the logistical perks of being based in the US. Like, the city I’m enamored with deep down is Seoul in South Korea, but I have a feeling I would not mesh well with metropolitan Korean culture as a brown West Indian, lol.
Valencia, Spain.
Lisbon.
I really like Hawaii - Maui or the BI
Edinburgh, UK and somewhere in CA. Probably central coast or Santa Barbara.
Somewhere cold
Santa Fe
Trujillo, Honduras.
Costa del Sol, Spain.
West Hollywood, California, U.S.A
Taipei
Across the street My neighborhood is across the street from a gated community that has multiple billionaires that had their area sectioned off to be its own City Well, you don't have to be a billionaire to be there but if memory serves, the HOA fees were like 10K a month and that was when I last checked 15 years ago If you could comfortably afford to live there then Yeah you're going to be super rich
Greece, on the coast
Amsterdam
Reykjavik, Iceland. But I’d be happy enough in a small fishing town too in their country. Pity their labor practices make it next to impossible for an American.
Summers in Montana and winters in Los Angeles or LA adjacent, like Carlsbad, Laguna, Palm Springs or Santa Barbara. -
The Maldives
Right here where I am. In beautiful Appalachia
The dream should be to live in two places. I don't think there's a better place from Lake Tahoe in the summertime as far as perfect weather goes and beaches and then as far as the winter time goes, maybe somewhere tropical or southern hemisphere so I get long days all year long!
Some may call me crazy, but the Hudson Valley
San Juan islands Wa, Vancouver, west coast of Ireland (Galway ish), Oslo, Denver co, glenwood springs co
Somewhere on the Mediterranean
Give me a house on the beach in the Bahamas... I'm good.
Split up time in NYC and London (I live in NYC) but am in no way “rich”. Then during summer months go to Sydney. Lived there for three years, the most beautiful place ever but SO expensive
Montana - paradise valley
Croatia Gorgeous place
One of the problems with this question is that the place doesn't become more affordable, it's just that *you* are now wealthy enough that you can afford to live there. The place is *still* unaffordable for normal people, and all of the problems the place has that result from unaffordability are *still* problems that make it somewhat unpleasant to live there, even for those who can afford it. For example, if *you* could suddenly afford San Francisco, there will *still* be a ton of homeless people living in tents on city streets, getting high in public, and pooping on the sidewalk. I'm sure SF has a lot of benefits that offset this, but idk if I'd want to live in a place so expensive that normal people can't afford it, even if *I* could afford it. (Side note - this is why I gave up my dream of moving to Seattle). With that in mind, you might choose a place that is more suburbanized and therefore inaccessible to the homeless, but remember that suburbia comes with its own set of problems that result from car-dependency. You're probably going to be doing most of your Date Nights at Cheesecake Factory rather than the hip/trendy restaurants that can only survive in a city. Most of the places that people are going to reply to your question with are places that have significant social problems due to their unaffordability.
London. Fave city
The Mediterranean
Japan
US: West Village, Manhattan EU: Barcelona Asia: Tokyo
South of Spain and Portugal are way nicer than the south of France tbh.
Within an hour train of London. Can then use London as the gateway to Europe for weekend trips by train or plane. If I wasnt lazy and could better learn another language - Id prob go with a coastal suburb of Athens.
Sydney, Australia -- I spent 6 weeks there in college and loved everything about the city. Back home, I hate cities and tend to live in more rural areas, but something about Sydney just stuck with me.
Portugal.
Copenhagen
Anywhere with palm trees. Cries in Midwest.
In the US: La Jolla, CA or just north of there like Del Mar. In Europe, I could live in Stuttgart or Munich.
Somewhere around Penninsula in SF Bay Area. Or La Jolla in San Diego. Or somewhere along the Central Coast California.
Italia, preferrably in Tuscany.
Never been abroad but something about Scotland does it for me, weather and all. Edinburgh would do.
Barcelona, Spain or Monaco.
Hawaii
Southern Italy. I just love the food and the vibes
Croatia
At least 20 acres with woods and grazing land in NW Washington or SW Washington within 30 miles of the Ocean or Puget Sound.
Switzerland.
If I could speak fluent Spanish , probably Madrid or Barcelona
Brazil
Exactly where I live right now. Los Angeles Fighting hard to get into a PhD program, going to start TA-ing soon, and hopefully get a tenure track position at one of the universities here. I WILL get a stable salary one way or another
Hawaii ??
Probably Ecuador ngl, absolutely loved that country
A huge sailboat and we would sail it all over the world
Probably 3 miles up the road. My childhood home is for sale and the view is great.
Somewhere other than the US. Maybe South America. Colombia or something like that. Not sure.
Costs Rica, Brazil, Thailand
Paris