Where would you live

[Freelander Sporrano]

Thanks for the help Guys . I just call them Yob's ... I did get the feeling in Inverness is a bit of a party town complete with all the negative side to it.In fact a woman at the campsite we stayed in near Kingussie warned us not to go into town after 8 pm. Still it's still a beautifull town. I can't speak for Stirling or Glasgow As I have never been there.

[Bob C]

This is a nice thread and all, but why is it in the pictures forum?

[highlander_Daz]

well Inverness isnt bad and its actually a city not a town.

Stirling is very nice id opt for that.

where are you going for Oggy Mike?

[lrpddrummie]

At this stage of my life I would choose Edinburgh...I like the hustle and bustle of the city but yet it is not overwhelming like NYC. The arts, the culture, the feel, the look of Edinburgh would be my choice. But I think I would choose the areas around Nairn to live out my retirment.

[jfellrath]

Somewhere on the west side of the Puget Sound. I love that area. My inlaws live there and I can't imagine any place nicer for someone who loves the outdoors and the small town life, yet still wants to be close to a big city.

If in Scotland - my experience there is limited but my wife and I have said over and over that when we go back, we want to spend some time in Stirling and the environs. I think I could live in a place like that. Lots of history, close to plenty of hiking and such, not too far from a major city (two of them!)... yeah, that'll do.

[Shay]

I'd like to find a country where pants are against the dress code!!!!! :mrgreen:

There is a country in Asia, I don't remember which one, where it is (or maybe was) against the law to wear pants.

I wouldn't want to live anywhere but Bucks County, PA, but I love visiting other places.

[millar]

My wife has relatives in Stirling area and that is my favorite part of Scotland because it is also within striking distance of Glasgow and Edinburgh. However there is a little town in Northern England above Manchester in the Rible Valley however that I love called Clitheroe. It is just a Northern farm town, but to me it is heaven.

[An t-Ileach]

I'd like to return to Islay. It's sad that there's virtually nothing left there but the distilleries. Since the creamery was closed, there almost no dairy farming left; and fatstock is down, since the scrapies and foot-and-mouth epidemics; and the EU fisheries quotas have hit the island hard. It's a pity that all it can offer people is work at the whisky distilleries, and some sport shooting which is an indugence of London City bankers and brings in almost nothing to the island or its communities. But Gaelic is still spoken there, there's quite a lot of young craft-making setting up, and the kilt is often worn as a matter of course.

Other than that, I'd like to live in Southland NZ, around Wyndham, where I have cousins, or maybe a bit further afield in Otago, say Dunedin.

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

There is a country in Asia, I don't remember which one, where it is (or maybe was) against the law to wear pants...

The country is Bhutan and the garment is called a Gho. There is some info here

RJI

[Eujeankilt]

Although I plan to visit Scotland (and the rest of the British Isles) next year, I can't imaging living anywhere than here in Eugene, Oregon. I grew up in northern Ohio, western upstate New York and West Virginia. I've had enough of snow and humidity.

Here in the southern Willamette Valley, we're surrounded by fertile farmland. We're 100 miles from Portland(in case you need big city access), 60 miles from the Pacific coast, 100 miles from the Cascade Mountains, forest, rivers and lakes within a stones throw. If I want snow, I can run up to the mountains, play and leave it there (as in no more shoveling).

The summers are dry and humidity is at around 40%. We do tend to be grey outdoors for most of the winter, but the rain is not heavy like it is back east.

Eugene is small enough that you get to know many folks and being a college town, liberal in it's outlook on life (to each their own).

Dale