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By the way, the house I pointed out is not photoshopped, but very real (and not on a lake):

 

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This place for 8 or 9 months a year.

Then, this place for 3 or 4...


Of course, this requires a private or rental jet and staff (lots of staff) and loads of money.

Actually, I'd be perfectly happy where we are if the mortgage was paid and we fixed a few problems.
 

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I enjoy making upgrades to wherever I live, so a perfect house with a perfect yard would bore me to tears. The house I live in now was a rental for 6 years after the owner retired to Florida, and therefore neglected. It has an unfinished basement and three acres of mostly woods, so there is always something to do. That makes me happy.
 

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The best feature of gnome houses are the bed alcoves, climb in, shut the doors, and sleeeeep. Who needs a bedroom when a dark sleeping loft will do. I have ideal plans for city, small town, and outer burbs but am currently content in an historic rural downtown hood with a paid for house on a corner and enough land to grow some trees, vegetables, flowers, and herbs. We're considering teaching in Hong Kong post retirement so will live in a tiny apartment somewhere in north central Kowloon. But we don't know what will ultimately happen there.
 

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Granted all of the communal living situations I've seen were religious in nature, but I think I'd rather shoot myself than live in a communal setting. I have no need to tell other people who to live, and I don't want anyone telling me what I can and cannot do in my own home. And every single communal arrangement I've ever seen skewed that way. I even have said to Hubman on numerous occasions - have you ever noticed that the people who bang on the most about community (a grossly over used word IMHO) are usually the people who envision themselves as being in control of it somehow?
 
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Same. Most of the communes/collectives I have encountered have gone down that road. I am a big fan of the saying "Good Fences make Good Neighbors"
 
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I live in a house that is slightly more than 1000 square feet and is plenty of space for me. I've had roommates before without it feeling too cramped. I don't want a mansion anymore like I did as a kid... I'd also not want anything smaller....

I don't need more inside space, but I find I am craving more outside space. I live in a city with a postage stamp yard. I'd like to have a few squire miles to hike through... wouldn't have to be land that I own, just some nearby, natural wilderness instead of an overly maintained park... I've grown tired of city parks... they don't really feel like nature...

I'd love a place like Colorado... maybe a bit up in the mountains... I don't like heat, and don't like how swampy the midwest gets in summer. I can deal with a slightly more harsh winter...

Something I'd really miss about my city are the nice restaurants.... slightly more rural places usually have far more restrictive options. I'd still want to be close to a big city...

Right now, it would be very hard to leave my city since most of my family is here and I'm very rooted into my company... but we'll see!
 
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So thinking about it, the perfect place for me to live would be in Europe, in the mountains, near water. The house itself would not be falling apart, but really, I just want to live in mountains again, near castles.

I mean, if someone could put mountains and castles around my current home and fix the floors, the roof, and get rid of molded bits, it would work.
 

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So thinking about it, the perfect place for me to live would be in Europe, in the mountains, near water. The house itself would not be falling apart, but really, I just want to live in mountains again, near castles.

I mean, if someone could put mountains and castles around my current home and fix the floors, the roof, and get rid of molded bits, it would work.
Well, that is a tough one because you would have to seek out one not-so-affected by propaganda and civil unrest, but also at the same time one in which you could realistically apply for citizenship. Ideally for me, it would be somewhere like either New Zealand or Norway. My roots are in Norway but too far back to allow me immigration (Great-Grandparents). New Zealand has risen above much of the ugliness, but they too, have suffered as in their church shooter.

In the past, I considered Ecuador as a possibility. They speak very straight spanish with little dialect or slang. The almighty American dollar goes a long way there. But if one were to consider it in old age, one would have to consider hospitals and the like. Those don't stack up well .

Certainly, if I was a millionaire, somewhere in the alps of Switzerland might be something I would consider. Somewhere where life moves slowly and the outside world doesn't seem so big and intrusive. Where nature is but a heartbeat away in its beauty within reason, of course, in taking proper precautions, but you could not help but even in something as simple as looking out a window, thank your lucky stars.

ETA: Specified how far back Norwegian roots go.
 
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Well, that is a tough one because you would have to seek out one not-so-affected by propaganda and civil unrest, but also at the same time one in which you could realistically apply for citizenship. Ideally for me, it would be somewhere like either New Zealand or Norway. My roots are in Norway but too far back to allow me immigration. New Zealand has risen above much of the ugliness, but they too, have suffered as in their church shooter.

In the past, I considered Ecuador as a possibility. They speak very straight spanish with little dialect or slang. The almighty American dollar goes a long way there. But if one were to consider it in old age, one would have to consider hospitals and the like. Those don't stack up well .

Certainly, if I was a millionaire, somewhere in the alps of Switzerland might be something I would consider. Somewhere where life moves slowly and the outside world doesn't seem so big and intrusive. Where nature is but a heartbeat away in its beauty within reason, of course, in taking proper precautions, but you could not help but even in something as simple as looking out a window, thank your lucky stars.
I was born in W Germany, and at the time had dual citizenship. And my great granparents were polish [one pair] and Slovakian [the other pair] [though its possible one of those was from further south... where Yugoslavia was, but not sure which country it would relate to now]...