Salzburg is soooo beautiful! One of my favorites as well.
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Due to my D22’s classical music interests, we spent a week in Verbier two summers ago. Breathtaking! But so very expensive.
Once D22 is out of the house, we’re thinking of travelling more and perhaps staying in each place for a few months at a time (the pandemic has made me realize that I can work from pretty much anywhere). A key consideration is cuisine - on my list are:
- Hong Kong
- Koh Samui (or another pretty island in Thailand)
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Kobe
- Paris
- Lake Como/Amalfi Coast
- NYC/SF/Honolulu
- Sydney
If safety wasn’t an issue, definitely Cape Town as well.
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@LostInTheShuffle if you are interested in cuisine Hong Kong is a great choice!
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Leipzig, Germany
Paris in the Spring
San Diego in the Summer
Oahu in the Fall or Winter
I would be so wealthy I would be able to maintain lovely small homes in each location!!
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I have to admit— living in Southern California, I am surprised with so many San Diego picks. I hate to admit it, but I am not that impressed with San Diego or La Jolla, etc. 
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I’ll bite - where do you live in Southern CA?
North of San Diego. I find San Diego/La Jolla somewhat boring. It gets old quickly. If you think you can have a city experience, it’s lacking.
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Dh teases me that I can always see myself living wherever we travel but I really love big cities. If nothing stopped me, I would have two home bases: my current one north of LA and London.
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But you don’t go to San Diego for a city experience - you go for the weather and outdoor life. Is it boring to relax on the beach or stroll through the gardens at Balboa Park or bike on Coronado or enjoy beautiful sunsets? That does not get old for me even after living here six years! We did live in Chicagoland city and suburbs for 40 years and it was a great metropolitan center, which is not part of the laid back southern California culture.
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To each his own. I have lived in Chicago, New York, Boston, LA , and in Europe. I just find it gets old even with the better weather
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My dad would frequently say “variety is the spice of life”. So it’s a little ironic that my parents lived in the same house for over 50 years and my husband and I have lived in ours for 25.
We are very happy in our current location in the Chicago area. That said I’d probably do what my husband and I intended/started to do pre-Covid. Live the majority of the time here, but travel and live maybe 3 weeks at a time in different locations. In the scenario where finances aren’t a consideration, I’d include Maui (Kapalua), London, Paris, and Switzerland (Vevey) as frequent (once every year or so) destinations…with other places I want to visit, like Tokyo (we had tickets for the Olympics but of course weren’t able to go), sprinkled in.
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Either a small, charming town with easy access to a Main Street or a large city where I don’t need a car. I HATE driving in traffic. I don’t want excessive heat and humidity, either. Nor do I want brutal winters. I’d take some summer heat over a frigid winter if I had to choose. Someplace with a big outdoorsy culture and a nice trail system or scenic places to bike and run. Any suggestions?
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Melbourne, Australia! Plus, they have the most city parks in the world. Average low, 45, average high, 80. Good public transit. Beautiful city. Friendly people.
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Whatever place I live in has to be readily accessible by major airport, so I can visit and others can visit me. Where I currently live in a nice suburb of Honolulu suits us well.
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The best places to my mind incorporate nature into the life of a city, which is what gives appeal to San Diego. S lives there and appreciates it as being one of the more multicultural big cities, with Asian cuisines and people as well as Hispanic. Mexico next door is also a draw.
I think snowbird life is ideal. But I prefer smaller cities with some cultural ambience and access to nature. The Monterey Peninsula, Santa Barbara area, or Sedona combined with Steamboat or Telluride in summer might be great, as long as I’m dreaming.
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great_lakes_mom - well said! And, agree!
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Both of my kids are in this position, sort of. When we were in our twenties, we had to go where the jobs were. Now, with remote work, both kids can work anywhere. So while we do not love our current location, we will wait and see where our kids land. Both just signed one-year leases(Chicago and Austin), and are planning something exciting after that. We are vicariously dreaming, even if we just stay here.
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I think Austin would be a great choice if you worked from home and didn’t have to fight the traffic to commute each day. That’s the main thing I don’t like about the city now, the crazy traffic.
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