If you could buy one dream house anywhere, where would it be?

[msc545]

[Staximus]

That’s a tough choice but I’m thinking Bug Sur, or the Northern California coast in the redwood forest or Oregon coast

[msc545]

Excellent choices. You and I might be neighbors.

[BadApple69]

A cabin in the middle of Montana.

[msc545]

Guess you like snow and bad weather.

[BadApple69]

Spend 4 seasons in Montana and you’ll see it’s more than just snow and bad weather.
When it snows, it snows…. And weather can be really bad. I have a friend who is a Montana state trooper. I visit whenever I can. He loves it, his wife… not so much.

[msc545]

Yeah I live by the beach in Southern California. I think I'm going to stay here and not consider even visiting Montana. Just not my kind of place. Sorry.

[BadApple69]

Beach areas are nice. Too crowded for my taste. I do like the water though….. living on a sailboat is something I’ve thought about doing.

[msc545]

It isn't crowded here. It's just nice. I've lived on a sailboat for several years, and it's pretty nice, generally speaking, as long as you're in a protected anchorage or in a harbor somewhere where the boat isn't constantly bouncing around.

[BadApple69]

My retirement plan was to keep moving with the sailboat. I’m on the east coast so sail down around Florida stopping and staying any place I want along the way. Sail through the gulf area stopping along the way anyplace they have good seafood. I want go through the Panama Canal. Then sail up the west coast states. Stopping alone the way anywhere I want and staying as long as I like. Most likely I’m be hanging out in the Southern California waters for a good while.

[msc545]

Do you know how to sail? I've been sailing since I was about five years old, and I've done a lot of long-distance sailing of the type you're talking about doing. It's not easy. It's not comfortable, and it takes quite a bit of skill and knowledge to actually do what you're suggesting. Do you think you would be able to do this?

[msc545]

Oh yeah, you also cannot sail up the west coast, actually. I mean, you can, but you shouldn't even try it. The prevailing currents and wind are against you, blowing from north to south. Trying to get up the coast is almost impossible on a sailboat. If nothing else, while not impossible, it's absolutely miserable. I know I've tried a little bit, so it's not worth doing.

[msc545]

South to north, on the other hand, is if you picked up a boat, say, in Northern California or San Francisco or Humboldt or someplace like that. You could sail it down the coast very easily and find your way all the way to Baja Mexico with no trouble.

[Staximus]

The Montana areas around the Rockies are beautiful

[Staximus]

Boats are high maintenance as fuck, especially boats that are big enough to live on. Be prepared to work on that thing all the time, or have plenty of money to pay somebody to work on it all the time.

[msc545]

@Staximus I've been through the Colorado Rockies, but not the Montana Rockies. Someday I'd like to try that, but only in the summertime. I'm not really ready for the winter in Montana.

[BadApple69]

@msc545 you got me beat… I’ve been sailing since I was 7ish. Never long distance. The biggest was a 28’ and used to stay out weekends with it, but I would want a 32’-36’ if I do this. It’s been a dream that when I retire to sell my home and buy a new one. I never researched sail up the west coast…. Didn’t think about the winds… although I am in zero hurry. This right now is just talk. No plans yet but the way work has been lately I’m thinking more and more about retiring.

[msc545]

He is right about the boat being incredibly high maintenance. I've been there and done that. You either have to do it yourself or you have to pay somebody to do it. If you have to pay somebody to do it it costs a small fortune. You have to do it yourself. It kind of takes all the fun out of it. I used to mix it up and help out my friends with airboats and they'd help me with mine. The only time that you really get into trouble is when you're out in the middle of the ocean. Something serious goes around and you got to fix it yourself if you can. There's nothing quite like a bilge pump failure in the middle of a storm to make you believe in God.

[msc545]

If you owned a boat or spent a lot of time on one, you know exactly what I'm talking about.

[thegreenyogi]

I know you specify one dream home... but if I could I would buy one house in every European city of the world.

[msc545]

Just pick one city or one in one country. Okay? You can't have four

[thegreenyogi]

Edinburgh.

[msc545]

Okay, if you can stand the food, then more power to you.

[thegreenyogi]

I don't need to stand the food. I cook my own.

[msc545]

That helps a lot because I don't think anyone can eat what's publicly available in restaurants there. I know that because I tried.

[Inreallifenfc]

It would definitely be a seaside town far from people :)

[Just_Ken]

Probably california by the coast. Been there a few times but its not a place for anyone who doesn't have $100 million in the bank. Met so many homeless up there, guys in 50-70 talking about how they worked all their life to buy a nice home only to have sold from under them by the city because they couldn't afford the property taxes because some wealthy people wanted the land to build condos. Legal robbery.

[Sevenpointfive]

i'd like an island but i don't want the cockroaches. but wandering around seems cool too. just picking a spot. i really like the rain so maybe seattle?

[Anonymous]

No idea. Hubby calls me the nomad. We go where there is good food and good weather so we don’t settle in one place to buy a house.

[jamesgoldman]

Islay probably

Colder than here, sea air, great view and Scotch of course

[DryGermanGuy]

Maybe Switzerland. 🤔

[Simslover92]

Los Angeles. I love that place!

[msc545]

Wait, you love LA? I live here! What do you love about it?

[Simslover92]

What's not to love about it? The people I encountered there were really nice and the weather is phenomenal. If I could afford it, I would move there in a heartbeat.

[msc545]

You very obviously do not live here. Let me beg you: never move here because I think it's going to ruin your dream if you do.

[Simslover92]

Ok I guess I will just keep on dreaming about it instead. It's not like I would ever be able to afford to live there anyhow unless I hit the lotto big time. But I will take note of your warning in case I ever do get the opportunity to move there.

[DryGermanGuy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcADqxnQA_4

[msc545]

You could definitely afford to live in certain areas of Los Angeles if you could tolerate the slum-like conditions and homelessness that abounds here. If you're ever tempted to move here, I suggest taking a 2 to 4 week vacation here and seeing what it's really like. I should solve the temptation to move here fairly quickly.

[DryGermanGuy]

@msc545
How has homelessness changed in the last two, three years? I saw an interview with the mayor a while back talking about a few projects addressing it?

[msc545]

It got worse but the city agency that was tasked with coping with homelessness failed miserably and hired an outside agency that basically stole millions of dollars and did nothing to help the homeless. There was a federal lawsuit and I think a consent degree and it's turned into a huge mess. There are sections of the city where I used to go that I will no longer go into because the homelessness problem was managed so poorly.

[DryGermanGuy]

Man, that sucks. They should have owned their political responsibility and known better than to bring in some shady "consultants". Remember, consultant = to con + to insult.

[msc545]

Well as usual they hired some fairly shady people with fake degrees and fake educations to solve the homeless problem and they got exactly what they deserved which was a large amount of money stolen

[Calyptomaniac]

Iceland, or Ireland. I'm flexible.

[msc545]

Iceland I can understand. Ireland not so much.

[AngryCarl3]

Somewhere on the Scandinavian subcontinent.

[Jen_oic]

@msc545 Key West, Florida

[slatyb]

In Le Marais (Paris, 3rd arondissement)

[robocop666]

in a city beside the sea in a warm country

[IknowthatIdontKnow09]

I like Japan so...