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Old 5 July 2020, 05:44 PM   #151
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TEXAS then as my second choice.....the U.S.of A.
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Old 10 July 2020, 02:45 PM   #152
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Old 10 July 2020, 03:37 PM   #153
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I'd have to say that Sydney Harbour is the most beautiful place I have ever seen.
I can imagine Lake Geneva must be similarly beautiful, and I guess the Great Lakes too.
I wouldn't mind a waterfront home on any of them.
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Old 10 July 2020, 03:46 PM   #154
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Moved to Canada 10yrs ago. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

If I were to move again, probably Switzerland.
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Old 10 July 2020, 03:52 PM   #155
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Canada is off my list then, hot and humid is not good I thought it was polar bears all year round :(
Depends where in Canada you go to. Try All Natural British Columbia :)
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Old 10 July 2020, 03:55 PM   #156
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I stayed in Vancouver for a couple of days and found it to be fabulous, a variety of cultures, a most beautiful and friendly city, I loved it. Best steak I have ever had was on Davey Street, it must have been good, it was 12 years ago and I still remember it. So, Canada it would be.
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Old 10 July 2020, 03:56 PM   #157
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The Philippines, for me. My wife is from there. I enjoy it there too. So, it’s a logical choice. Maybe England, too. I lived there a couple years and both the wife and I have family and friends there.


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Old 10 July 2020, 05:51 PM   #158
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I'd have to say that Sydney Harbour is the most beautiful place I have ever seen.
I can imagine Lake Geneva must be similarly beautiful, and I guess the Great Lakes too.
I wouldn't mind a waterfront home on any of them.
My pic is of Cronulla in the south of Sydney, much quieter than the harbour and beautiful
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Old 10 July 2020, 11:12 PM   #159
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Moved to Canada 10yrs ago. One of the best decisions I've ever made.

If I were to move again, probably Switzerland.
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Depends where in Canada you go to. Try All Natural British Columbia :)
I hear ya on that neighbor. I moved here in '84.
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Old 10 July 2020, 11:27 PM   #160
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TEXAS then as my second choice.....the U.S.of A.
I see geography wasn't your best subject in school
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Old 11 July 2020, 04:37 AM   #161
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Old 11 July 2020, 04:57 AM   #162
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I have a second home in Italy. I could live there easily but my kids are young and I need to deal with my petulant ex.
Where in Italy?
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Old 11 July 2020, 05:49 AM   #163
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Ireland, Ireland, and Ireland!!!
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Old 11 July 2020, 06:26 AM   #164
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Old 11 July 2020, 07:24 AM   #165
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British Columbia or western Alberta, Canada.
You'd love Kelowna BC or Calgary Alberta.
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Old 11 July 2020, 07:32 AM   #166
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You'd love Kelowna BC or Calgary Alberta.
I’ve been to both. So many great places in Canada. I love Banff and Jasper too.
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Old 11 July 2020, 08:12 AM   #167
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Lived in a few countries but always came back to Canada. Hard to think of a better place to hole up these days than Canada-Vancouver Island. Sunshine and fresh air today.
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Old 11 July 2020, 09:23 AM   #168
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Monaco, Ireland, or Scotland in that order. Wish other countries would show the immigration benevolence we do here.
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Old 11 July 2020, 09:56 AM   #169
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Been out of the US for +10 years now. Tough to for me to see anywhere but Tokyo has home.

Definitely things I miss about the US, but I don’t know that I’ll leave Japan.


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Old 11 July 2020, 08:38 PM   #170
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How snowy/cold is the winter in Calgary?

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You'd love Kelowna BC or Calgary Alberta.
I am from the New York metro area for comparison.
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Old 11 July 2020, 10:33 PM   #171
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Been out of the US for +10 years now. Tough to for me to see anywhere but Tokyo has home.

Definitely things I miss about the US, but I don’t know that I’ll leave Japan.


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We really appreciate it having been home bound for four months. We liked Tokyo, but we found Kanazawa, Kyoto and Kobe particularly charming. Highly recommended when things return to normal.
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Old 11 July 2020, 11:52 PM   #172
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I am from the New York metro area for comparison.
I was too, Queens, then Manhattan then BC. Calgary is Cold and snowy in the winter. Some great skiing nearby but COLD. Kelowna the same. Colder than the NY metro area and east coast, tho a 'dryer' cold.
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I am from the New York metro area for comparison.
Firstly, Calgary has low humidity. So compared to Eastern cities dry air feels less frigid than humid air. I once flew from Calgary to Vancouver (which is more humid) in Dec. Calgary was 15 below zero and Vancouver was around zero but Vancouver felt colder because the cold goes through your clothes in more humid places.

When I was growing up Calgary would get snow around Halloween and pretty much stay until late March early April. Then around 1980 the weather changed and there was much less snow. Lots of times during the winter there would be no snow on the ground.

There are also the Chinooks which identify them selves with a Chinook arch that appears in the sky that foretells a warming wind coming in. You can go from 20 below zero to 40 or 50 above zero within a matter of hours and that can last for days.

Calgary is right on the edge of the Rocky Mountains and is basically prairie to foothills to majestic Rockies within 60 miles. A very pretty place. Its a very outdoors place with lots of winter and summer activities. Banff and the Rockies are an hour away.

The bad news is their hockey team sucks.
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While my friends all gravitate towards the southern US in winter, if I was going to move, I’d head to the north shore of Lake Superior or the Canadian Rockies. I much prefer the cold. I function much better at -30F than +100F.
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Old 12 July 2020, 04:05 AM   #175
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You nailed it: you were a tourist and you don't live here, so you get to see only the nice part of Italy: art, food, Ferrari if you like it, climate and people looking to please you in every way because of your money.

Of course you don't get the awful taxes, awful services, one of the worst government and bureaucracy on the entire planet and so on...
Exactly, my father migrated to Canada in the late 1950's and my mother in 1969 as well when they married in Italy. We have a summer home and we have travelled countless times as kids and then as adults.
My wife is from there and we got married there 14 years ago, so my travels to Italy increased on a yearly basis since then as she can see her parents and sisters and now our children visit their grand parents and aunts and uncles.
When we travel there, it is anywhere from 3 weeks to six weeks. At the halfway mark of our travel, I cannot wait to get the hell out of there, in fact, last summer on our 4 week stay there, my wife started crying one morning with seven days to go, she said she wanted to come home to her adopted home, Canada. Even the Italian citizen could not wait to leave.
The populous will eventually rage you, not in the touristy areas where we are all pulled with the wool over our eyes, but day to day living will drive you mad! My Italian culture is a very elitist and snotty one, and I am allowed to say that as I have 100% Italian in my blood, just raised in canada. You will tire of it pretty quick.
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Old 12 July 2020, 04:09 AM   #176
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I would never leave the United States of America.

Other countries are wonderful to visit and I have many favorites, but nothing for me beats the good 'ol U.S. of A.
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I just moved to the Netherlands for work. Great country, supremely safe, relaxed attitude to things but still everything works. Hate the wind though.
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Old 13 July 2020, 12:33 AM   #178
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When in Phils, stay away from the city.

It’s hard, since my wife is from Manila. Never had a problem in the cities. I enjoy the rural speed of things better, though.


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TEXAS then as my second choice.....the U.S.of A.
Errrm, that's where you already are!
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