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Aristus

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48. I often daydream about living a quiet life in a European microstate

Sun Sep 8, 2024, 10:54 PM

Sep 2024

Like Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, or Andorra.

Or in a cottage on the tiny Channel Island of Sark.

Having lived nearly my whole life in an immense country, I’d like to try living someplace small.

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How often do you daydream about moving elsewhere? [View all] True Dough Sep 2024 OP

Love where I live; hourly wish my MAGA neighbors would move to a different planet. quaint Sep 2024 #1

Yep, this. birdographer Sep 2024 #26

I've lived in this place for 30 years and I love it, and I hate moving. Just about killed me last time. Walleye Sep 2024 #2

I ve moved 20 times FirefighterJo Sep 2024 #4

Every day FirefighterJo Sep 2024 #3

I love where I live. Scrivener7 Sep 2024 #5

Sometimes I imagine myself moving from the Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2024 #6

It's important for a person to know his limits, Floyd True Dough Sep 2024 #20

🤗 Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2024 #21

When I arrived at my present location...I knew I found my home... MiHale Sep 2024 #7

There is no green grass remaining bucolic_frolic Sep 2024 #8

If Trump wins and dictatorship becomes real kansasobama Sep 2024 #9

Daily - I've had it with Texas.... walkingman Sep 2024 #10

pretty much a dozen times a day Tetrachloride Sep 2024 #11

I didn't see the grass as greener, but am moving so my sister can have my house & we'll be near each other. lark Sep 2024 #12

Daily, to summers in Ireland and winters in Africa. sinkingfeeling Sep 2024 #13

When I retired I went to Florida several years and doc03 Sep 2024 #14

Never. SamKnause Sep 2024 #15

California dreaming .... AnnaLee Sep 2024 #16

ALL THE TIME! Phentex Sep 2024 #17

Never... S/V Loner Sep 2024 #18

You have a good thing and you know it! True Dough Sep 2024 #23

I was lucky as I bought here... S/V Loner Sep 2024 #42

I love my house Marthe48 Sep 2024 #19

This is a challenge for sure, Marthe True Dough Sep 2024 #22

We bought the house in 1989 Marthe48 Sep 2024 #24

For a sec I thought rwnj right wing New Jerseyians 😄.... electric_blue68 Sep 2024 #49

I have a neighbor from NJ Marthe48 Sep 2024 #59

Very little sakabatou Sep 2024 #25

I've gone so far as to look for property WhiteTara Sep 2024 #27

Often, and it's always up the ladder. Sneederbunk Sep 2024 #28

I love living in Michigan, but... catbyte Sep 2024 #29

I dream about having a small house all my own with an art studio on the shores of Lake Erie. Diamond_Dog Sep 2024 #30

I love my little San Francisco Mission Dist. apartment; I often look at homes in my Erie Canal hometown of Spencerport NBachers Sep 2024 #31

NBachers, True Dough Sep 2024 #35

I'm swimming in the soup of humanity from all over the world; I fit in with them and deal with them daily in my job. NBachers Sep 2024 #36

You probably put your finger on True Dough Sep 2024 #37

We tried and and love it. LakeArenal Sep 2024 #32

Love where I'm at NJCher Sep 2024 #33

I love my 175-year old carriage house NJCher Sep 2024 #34

I love where I live, but Jilly_in_VA Sep 2024 #38

The cost of living in Uruguay True Dough Sep 2024 #41

My Spanish is rusty Jilly_in_VA Sep 2024 #43

La vida es divertida! True Dough Sep 2024 #44

recently returned from Montevideo NJCher Sep 2024 #46

I would love to move to the northern part of our state where my son and his family live. arkielib Sep 2024 #39

15 miles or so West to the beach town where we started out as... Tikki Sep 2024 #40

All the time happybird Sep 2024 #45

Happy where I am, but.... Laffy Kat Sep 2024 #47

I often daydream about living a quiet life in a European microstate Aristus Sep 2024 #48

Or, if you didn't want to be landlocked True Dough Sep 2024 #56

Too hot and sunny. Aristus Sep 2024 #62

And Sangria! True Dough Sep 2024 #63

Definitely. Aristus Sep 2024 #65

CONSTANTLY Skittles Sep 2024 #50

Very brief, faint stirrings for San Francisco [nope, earthquakes!],Phillidelphia? [too segregated at least back then]... electric_blue68 Sep 2024 #51

Somewhere blue and cool! So it's not Texas. LeftInTX Sep 2024 #52

Never, I'm here!!! elleng Sep 2024 #53

Every single day samplegirl Sep 2024 #54

Europe agalisgv Sep 2024 #55

Details, please! True Dough Sep 2024 #57

Portugal or Spain agalisgv Sep 2024 #67

All the time. Elessar Zappa Sep 2024 #58

Every second of every day. (n/t) OldBaldy1701E Sep 2024 #60

Sometimes. Dulcinea Sep 2024 #61

Daily Lulu KC Sep 2024 #64

It began in 1988 mnhtnbb Sep 2024 #66

Sorry about your husband, mnhtnbb True Dough Sep 2024 #69

I had an intense desire to leave the U.S. right before Covid hit Niagara Sep 2024 #68

"...and another house that was 45 minutes from any veterinarian." True Dough Sep 2024 #70

LOL!, True. You almost had me going there for a moment :) Niagara Sep 2024 #72

Sorry to hear that about your kitty, Niagara! True Dough Sep 2024 #73

I appreciate that, True Dough :) Niagara Sep 2024 #74

I can understand why you make it at home True Dough Sep 2024 #75

Ingredients like almond flour and alternative sugars are expensive Niagara Sep 2024 #78

Quite a bit. We've lived in 6 states Luciferous Sep 2024 #71

I always wonder what it would be like to live in a blue state get the red out Sep 2024 #76

Pipe Dream PikaBlue Sep 2024 #77

True Dough ............... Upthevibe Sep 2024 #79

I hope True Dough Sep 2024 #80

NIETZCHE said, figure out where you belong (& don't "follow" me) UTUSN Sep 2024 #81

I'm a California kid. So's my wife. hunter Sep 2024 #82