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[captain planet]

personally, i don't have any place to go "home" to when i leave korea, so i have to decide where i want to live when my contract is up.
some ideas that have been bouncing around in my head, either to visit or to live in:
nepal(trekking visit) i've been there before, and it's quite possibly the most beautiful, breathtaking place in the world. the only problem is that the political unrest might make it hard to have a good time there
thailand(visit) find a secluded beach and smoke my weight in weed
australia(visit or live) aussies are cool, speak english, and there's the outback and the great barrier reef
backpack around europe: eat gyros in greece, smoke hash in amsterdam, visit the louvre and *beep* smelly french girls, get drunk at jim morrison's grave, eat lasagna on a gondola in venice, spend all my money
quebec(live) great cuisine, learn french, people still speak a little english
austin(live) music mecca, tex mex cuisine, apparently an incredibly laid-back place, huge steaks and blond women, see if i can make it as a musician
new york city (live) it's new york
southern california (live) find a beach, learn to surf, let the pacific wash away my mind.
the other possibility is to visit my cousins in indiana, buy an old car or cheap bike, and tour around the us and canada until i find a place i want to stay.
africa... africa, wow. go back to the source of mankind. spend a decade or two there. hope nothing really terrible happens to me there. senegal, egypt, kenya, pygmies, kilamanjaro, giraffes, lions.
join the marines and kill brown people.
south america, amazon rainforests, chilean andes. lose my mind permanently.

so post where you want to visit or live after you're finished living here.

[krats1976]

[Julius]

hmm been thinking about Venezuela, Tanzania,Madagascar, Laos,Surinam, Czech, Latvia.

Don't know much about any of them, but they seem mostly exotic, cheap, peaceful, and up and coming.


Antananarivo



Venezuela


Tanzania



Prague



Surinam



Laos



Ahem..Latvia

[Novernae]

[JLarter]

booooo the Argies.
How about a house on a beach in the Caribbean?

[RobinH]

I've had a hankerin' to visit Key West. If it's as cool as I've heard, settle down there.

[Qinella]

I have no idea. Right now, I feel like it would be nice to live in Scotland, but I really don't know what I'd do for work there. There's a little place I really want to visit to see if it's worth living at. A little set of islands called the Azores.

[JLarter]

[Woland]

Turkey. Off to buy a house on the Aegean coast this winter. Already negotiating a job in a nearby city.

[huffdaddy]

[JongnoGuru]

[Qinella]

[VanIslander]

An affordable villa overlooking the Black Sea in the midsized city of Varna, Bulgaria:


One of the best-kept secrets it seems to me, the coastal Venezualan city of Barcelona, with the best of all worlds, urban and coastal, with great restaurants, music and promenade:


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Here is the Top-3 I posted last year (or was it the year before?), that still hold appeal:

The eternal spring weather of mountainous Cuenca, Ecuador


Only 125 km from the capital is the wine grape-growing, thermal bathin' regional city of Eger, Hungary:


About a good 200 km from the capital, straight up to a mountainous plateau, is the Paris of Java, the city of flowers, Bandung, Indonesia, in a home like this:

[Snowmeow]

I'll have only been here 2 years after I complete this contract but even after that short period of time I definitely will not want to go to another country that does not primarily speak English.

If I don't return home I would most likely want to visit St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Where would I like to go after I'm done with Korea? Heaven.