Without Denouement

Piraeus port of Athens (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

One of my new favorite online reads, HelloGiggles, recently asked Where Would You Move? and gave me five cities to choose from: New York, London, Los Angeles, Paris and Rome. (They also gave me “other,” but that’s not really a city.) I wrinkled my nose. I don’t want to live in any of those cities. I’d love to visit each of them, though.

• New York – to see a Broadway show, to see the Big piano, a walk through Central Park
• London – to visit my friends K&M … and otherwise I really have no desire to go to London (no, really)
• Los Angeles – visit friends, maybe eat ginormous pancakes at The Griddle Cafe again
• Paris – museums, Eiffel tower, that’s it (no, really)
• Rome – museums, that’s it (no really)

I’m not a huge fan of really large cities and I’m not a touristy person, so I’d want to avoid the crowds, see the big things to say I saw them and then move on to more hole-in-the-wall true-to-the-town experiences.

If I were absolutely otherwise unconstrained, though, I’d want to move back into San Francisco, but into a house, a house on the Bay-side of the city, a big one, with a parking space and a balcony with a bar-be-que on it. Or maybe I’d want to live in Malibu, because the sun is always out (almost) and it’s warm and the ocean is right there, I’d never have to wear closed-toed shoes again in my entire big life, and it’s sunny a lot. Yeah. What about living on the outskirts of Denver so I could be close to skiing and hiking and pretty stuff, and wear sneakers or ski boots all the time. I don’t much care for snow (besides for skiing in), though, so that might not be great. Or maybe I’d want to live in Berlin. The history, the language, the food, the people, the history, the awesome; I could live in Berlin. What about Oslo, though? My culture is there, my people are from there, but it snows there, too, huh? Okay, fine, Athens; let’s move to Athens. It’s close enough to sunshine, blue waters, beautiful parts of Greece and OH MY GOD the history of Athens!

So, yeah, I have some options if I suddenly inherit zillions of dollars and could move anywhere I wanted. Most likely I’d get bored of the same city in a few years and decide I needed to move across the country, so having a long list of possibilities is good for me … in case those zillions of dollars ever show up, yanno.

Where would you move if there were absolutely no constraints? Do you have a single favorite city or do you have multiples like mine? Would you stay in the same place for the rest of your life or live out of a suitcase?

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