Bellic 4 life Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Honestly, something like a Hobbit hole. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WHAT!? Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Chicago and Detroit are also on my list, the latter being a desire to see all the automobile industry history first hand. Detroit Henry Ford museum is a pretty awesome place to stop if you are into the auto industry. They have tons of famous and classic cars. They also feature old factory equipment from the industrial revolution, steam locomotives, airplanes, and just out side the museum is Greenfield Village. Tons of period buildings, some reconstructed, others were taken from their original location and moved there. It's a cool place to visit if you are into history and technology. Of course you can take the old factory tour in Detroit as well. That usually just involves you with a backpack and some water while you attempt to not contract tetanus. You will likely not see anyone for a good long while poking around that end of the city. Which can be good if you actually don't. Sometimes it can be bad when you actually do. There isn't a lot of what some people would refer to as "police influence" in the abandoned areas. If you want some awesome food check out Slow's Bar BQ. Pizza Papalis in Greek Town is worth a visit to. While you are there you can check out Motor City Casino and ride our monorail to nowhere. Don't forget to get a "Come back to Detroit. Sorry we missed you" t-shirt while your here. Also every visitor gets to kick Kid Rock in the dick at least once. Happy travels. Good stuff. The Henry Ford museum would probably be one of the first places I'd visit. I've saved your tips and advice should I ever get the opportunity to visit Detroit. One thing that concerns me though.... I know it's just certain areas of the city, but dam. The place resembles a f*cking war torn country. Yeah unfortunately when the manufacturing jobs left so did a lot of people. The city can't maintain all of the abandoned areas and the populated areas off the tax income they receive. That means a lot of it has been left to decay and there are a lot of squatters in the city as a result. Commercial and residential buildings are cheap and other jobs are finally beginning to find there way here. It's been a slow process. A lot of the damage you see is the result of arson. Housing isn't the worst of it though. Detroit has some amazingly ornate buildings from the art-deco period in the cities heyday that are practically falling in on themselves. Even in the middle of the city... There is an old building across from the amazing Book Cadillac Hotel. It's just a hollow shell. When auto executives from around the globe come for the International Auto Show at Cobo Hall the building is covered with a huge billboard so no one will notice. Detroit is odd like that. Mansions on one block, ghetto on the next. Not to scare you. We aren't as bad as we are made out to be over here. Just a lot of people in a sh*t economic situation. The bottom really fell out of the place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Remi Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 A shared one bed room house with Scarlett Johansson, Natalie Portman and Mila Kunis. I like your thinking. However, I'll take Susan Coffey in place of Natalie Portman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThunderSt0rm Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 New York City. I love big cities and this one is definately my dream place to live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.Mister Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 (edited) I saw this penthouse in Vancouver for $19,500 a month. Private elevator, bi-level 3 bedrooms each with a private balcony, 24/7 Rolls Royce chauffeur A nice condo or house in BC will do the trick. It's so f*cking expensive though, but I will have $100,000 when I turn 30 from a fund Edited March 8, 2013 by Mr.Mister Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scottish Guy Posted March 8, 2013 Share Posted March 8, 2013 Chicago and Detroit are also on my list, the latter being a desire to see all the automobile industry history first hand. Detroit Henry Ford museum is a pretty awesome place to stop if you are into the auto industry. They have tons of famous and classic cars. They also feature old factory equipment from the industrial revolution, steam locomotives, airplanes, and just out side the museum is Greenfield Village. Tons of period buildings, some reconstructed, others were taken from their original location and moved there. It's a cool place to visit if you are into history and technology. Of course you can take the old factory tour in Detroit as well. That usually just involves you with a backpack and some water while you attempt to not contract tetanus. You will likely not see anyone for a good long while poking around that end of the city. Which can be good if you actually don't. Sometimes it can be bad when you actually do. There isn't a lot of what some people would refer to as "police influence" in the abandoned areas. If you want some awesome food check out Slow's Bar BQ. Pizza Papalis in Greek Town is worth a visit to. While you are there you can check out Motor City Casino and ride our monorail to nowhere. Don't forget to get a "Come back to Detroit. Sorry we missed you" t-shirt while your here. Also every visitor gets to kick Kid Rock in the dick at least once. Happy travels. Good stuff. The Henry Ford museum would probably be one of the first places I'd visit. I've saved your tips and advice should I ever get the opportunity to visit Detroit. One thing that concerns me though.... I know it's just certain areas of the city, but dam. The place resembles a f*cking war torn country. Yeah unfortunately when the manufacturing jobs left so did a lot of people. The city can't maintain all of the abandoned areas and the populated areas off the tax income they receive. That means a lot of it has been left to decay and there are a lot of squatters in the city as a result. Commercial and residential buildings are cheap and other jobs are finally beginning to find there way here. It's been a slow process. A lot of the damage you see is the result of arson. Housing isn't the worst of it though. Detroit has some amazingly ornate buildings from the art-deco period in the cities heyday that are practically falling in on themselves. Even in the middle of the city... There is an old building across from the amazing Book Cadillac Hotel. It's just a hollow shell. When auto executives from around the globe come for the International Auto Show at Cobo Hall the building is covered with a huge billboard so no one will notice. Detroit is odd like that. Mansions on one block, ghetto on the next. Not to scare you. We aren't as bad as we are made out to be over here. Just a lot of people in a sh*t economic situation. The bottom really fell out of the place. Oh don't feel like that video has presented me with some kind of doubt in tourism safety: It was just an impulse upload - believe me when I say we have our own fair share of dangerous sh*t-holes over here. If anything, it fascinates me how much a large, populated western metropolitis such as Detroit could have so many abandoned buildings to the scale of that shown in the video. I just find it rather saddening that such a thriving city which contributed, and was heavily relied upon, to American industry, should be recorded and shown to the world from videos like these, which let's face it, doesn't reflect the place in a positive manner. But yeah, if you tell me from first hand that things are picking up, then all I can do is salute the progress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xChaos Reigns Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Easy. San Diego, California. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apex. Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 GTA3 Portland Safe house I'm not sure if you were joking or not (most likely were). But I would actually quite like living there, it seems very simple. Granted I would change a few things like bedsheets they're horri - But I'd like to at one point live in various cities of the US. But it's one of my main goals in life to live in the Suburbs of New York, buy a big house, put my feet up and be a Dad like all the other Dads. Or maybe a nice apartment in the actual city of New York like you see in all those Rom-Coms that I don't watch... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtremoMania Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Los Angeles would be my bet since I love the feel of the beaches and it's beautiful a place to live. New York City would also be my another bet because I also love the feel of the capitalism style in the financial world. But the most important thing in the end, from where you were established and born, it's important to go back to your country and live there. Manila would be my choice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Gold Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 • Hollywood Hills - Brentwood, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, all that jazz • San Diego - cliff-side house • Las Vegas - preferably on a cosmopolitan ranch on the outskirts of the city, or in the Mojave Desert • New York - penthouse on the Upper East Side • Melbourne - hometown, so naturally I'd have my a largeish home in Brighton, Elwood or Toorak • Montenegro - villa near the Bay of Kotor • Amalfi Coast, Italy - villa I'd be set with all of that. Time to get the money for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LotusRIP Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Uh... OP... you want to live in America? You want to get shot when you go to see the next Batman movie? Get fat? Get a plane fly into your office buildings? You don't want any health care at all? You don't mind living with a bunch of homophobes? LA... so you don't mind being homeless? America is a lump of sh*t, sorry. I live in Sydney Australia and honestly, the hot weather is NOT desirable to live in. I worked recently in a temp job with a girl from Edinburgh Scotland, it was hilarious the naivety... everyone at lunch would be sitting on a shady spot in the park and she's sitting out in the blaring sunlight thinking "ooh I love Australia so much warmer here". It's like, dude, in 10 minutes time you'll be beetroot red and sore all over and your skin will be peeling for a few days... that's what happens if you sit in the sun for too long. Also, it's hard to go to work every day when you're all dripping sweaty like a dirty pig, by the time you get to work via public transport it feels like you've run a marathon. The hot weather is exhausting. I'm actually moving to the UK next year, somewhere around London, because the cold weather is desirable to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRITLAND Posted March 9, 2013 Author Share Posted March 9, 2013 (edited) Uh... OP... you want to live in America? You want to get shot when you go to see the next Batman movie? Get fat? Get a plane fly into your office buildings? You don't want any health care at all? You don't mind living with a bunch of homophobes? LA... so you don't mind being homeless? America is a lump of sh*t, sorry. I live in Sydney Australia and honestly, the hot weather is NOT desirable to live in. I worked recently in a temp job with a girl from Edinburgh Scotland, it was hilarious the naivety... everyone at lunch would be sitting on a shady spot in the park and she's sitting out in the blaring sunlight thinking "ooh I love Australia so much warmer here". It's like, dude, in 10 minutes time you'll be beetroot red and sore all over and your skin will be peeling for a few days... that's what happens if you sit in the sun for too long. Also, it's hard to go to work every day when you're all dripping sweaty like a dirty pig, by the time you get to work via public transport it feels like you've run a marathon. The hot weather is exhausting. I'm actually moving to the UK next year, somewhere around London, because the cold weather is desirable to me. Well me personally apart from London at times the UK can be kinda depressing at times & saying all Americans are fat is nothing but hypercritica, my aunt & uncle currently live in Minneapolis & there normal, we have a big obesity problem in the UK too & most likely the same in Australia, I understand if you don't like some places but saying stuff like that is complete hypercritical Edited March 9, 2013 by BRITLAND Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H.I.M. Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Wouldn't say no to Vegas.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Master of San Andreas Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Australia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExtremoMania Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Wouldn't say no to Vegas.. Nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephan90 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 (edited) Mmh very difficult question. Actually I love my hometown. It is peaceful and has a quite good standard of lving. My family has a big house near the water. The only thing that sucks is the working market, especially when you are an academic. Almost all big industry in my local area has vanished since the reunification. So it is very likely that I will move again after I have earned the Master Degree, maybe to Munich or Stuttgart somewhere in the south. It is a beautiful area naturewise and also for working. The only thing I can't stand is the dialect, but one get used to almost everything. If I found a comparable job I would stay. But that won't happen. Atleast I can always come back to visit my family. Edited March 9, 2013 by Stephan123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K20 Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 a penthouse in a tall building. in london so i got all the family and friends around. something like this would be nice: Penthouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Scottish Guy Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 ^^^That is very nice. Although it would be pretty annoying when heavy rain hits. I have an attic conversion in my house with velux windows, and it's pretty dam deafening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ari Gold Posted March 9, 2013 Share Posted March 9, 2013 Uh... OP... you want to live in America? You want to get shot when you go to see the next Batman movie? Get fat? Get a plane fly into your office buildings? You don't want any health care at all? You don't mind living with a bunch of homophobes? LA... so you don't mind being homeless? America is a lump of sh*t, sorry. I live in Sydney Australia and honestly, the hot weather is NOT desirable to live in. I worked recently in a temp job with a girl from Edinburgh Scotland, it was hilarious the naivety... everyone at lunch would be sitting on a shady spot in the park and she's sitting out in the blaring sunlight thinking "ooh I love Australia so much warmer here". It's like, dude, in 10 minutes time you'll be beetroot red and sore all over and your skin will be peeling for a few days... that's what happens if you sit in the sun for too long. Also, it's hard to go to work every day when you're all dripping sweaty like a dirty pig, by the time you get to work via public transport it feels like you've run a marathon. The hot weather is exhausting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gtamann123 Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 (edited) Suburban Texas. Probably something along the lines of The Woodlands or Frisco or even Atascocita . Having been to both NYC and LA I believe they are highly overrated. Their wages don't make up for the high cost of living and high taxes. And NYC is very dense which I don't like. I like my sprawling suburbs. LA is the king of sprawling suburbs but economically it doesn't make the cut for me. So the next notorious place for suburbs is Texas. Out of all the states I have visited Texas is by far the most impressive. So my dream place would be an upper middle class suburb of either Houston or Dallas. And this isn't dreaming either. This is what I am striving for in my future. I would be perfectly happy with a house like this. Nothing too fancy just a nice middle class house in a middle class neighborhood. And the family vehicle being a Suburban, Nothing wrong with that. A nice staple of the American middle class family. And my commuter car being a Chevy Malibu. I think they are pretty nice cars for the price. Like this except without the Hybrid stickers. All of this plus a wife and 3 kids would pretty much be my dream life. And I think its good to have a dream that's actually very obtainable. Uh... OP... you want to live in America? You want to get shot when you go to see the next Batman movie? Get fat? Get a plane fly into your office buildings? You don't want any health care at all? You don't mind living with a bunch of homophobes? LA... so you don't mind being homeless? America is a lump of sh*t, sorry. I live in Sydney Australia and honestly, the hot weather is NOT desirable to live in. I worked recently in a temp job with a girl from Edinburgh Scotland, it was hilarious the naivety... everyone at lunch would be sitting on a shady spot in the park and she's sitting out in the blaring sunlight thinking "ooh I love Australia so much warmer here". It's like, dude, in 10 minutes time you'll be beetroot red and sore all over and your skin will be peeling for a few days... that's what happens if you sit in the sun for too long. Also, it's hard to go to work every day when you're all dripping sweaty like a dirty pig, by the time you get to work via public transport it feels like you've run a marathon. The hot weather is exhausting. LMAO!!! perfect response to that utter trash post!! My favorite part was "Do you want no healthcare at all?" ROFL xD I'm not sure if he is trolling or being serious lol but something tells me trolling. Either way it is simulator material. Edited March 10, 2013 by gtamann123 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Rabbit Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 my ideal place is this little town in the Spanish region of Catalonia called L'Estartit - not famed I know but a nice little town that I visit quite often I am not one for big cities. I have simple tastes. it has all the tings you could want in a small town it is near other more famed locations if you want to visit such places, from the hills you get a wonderful view of the ocean and beach as well as the town itself. quite splendid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illousion Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 The Stahl House, located in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. I'd borrow ten times the money I was worth just to live there. My god what a fantastic house. It's a tie between that or the Kaufmann Desert House in Palm Springs. Dreaming of California, where the sun never sets. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carbine23 Posted March 10, 2013 Share Posted March 10, 2013 Well i already live on Long Island but i guess my dream place would be one of those massive mansions on the north shore like in the Great Gatsby. Another dream place would be a quiet village on the river Rhine near the Alps in Germany or Switzerland Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZDANZ96 Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Somewhere sunny and hot next to a beautiful beach. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Killerdude Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 My home town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolf of Badenoch Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 The Trellick Tower in North Kensington, London. This is likely to remain a dream, as a three bedroom flat would set me back £375,000. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarrinPA Posted March 13, 2013 Share Posted March 13, 2013 Yeah unfortunately when the manufacturing jobs left so did a lot of people. The city can't maintain all of the abandoned areas and the populated areas off the tax income they receive. That means a lot of it has been left to decay and there are a lot of squatters in the city as a result. Commercial and residential buildings are cheap and other jobs are finally beginning to find there way here. It's been a slow process. A lot of the damage you see is the result of arson. I've been to Detroit back in 1996 or 97. We were heading to Flint and got lost and turned off the highway. I couldn't believe how many buildings were burnt. I've been through Chicago's ghettos many times and of course there are a lot of abandoned/dilapidated buildings but not many that are burned like in Detroit. We stopped and asked a guy for directions, turned out that he was a drug dealer that we interrupted one of his deals- but he was cool and gave us great directions anyways. I can't imagine how Detroit is now with even more poverty. As for my dream place: San Andreas. But in reality (in the USA) I like Chicago already, Miami, LA, the Florida Keys, Anchorage. Outside USA - France (not Paris), England (probably not London), Tokyo, Iceland, any of those island countries that are succumbing to rising ocean waters/global warming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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