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❓ Question of the Day❓
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would you live? apartment, condo, house, farm, beach, city, suburbs, mountains, village - etc…
I would love to have a home on Anini Beach - Kauai. That way, I could swim in the ocean every day, and swim with the turtles 🐢- I would still do my pet sitting/house sitting and Do another side gig, where I take people turtling and videotape them w/my GoPro and charge them for the “experience”! I already have an entire community on that island, and I think it would be great to be able to live there. As long as I could still travel to other locations, I think it would be idyllic.
Life's a beach. I miss the salt in the air, the sound of the tides, even the annoying sand in the house!
Farm life is great. I love it too. But I was born upon the tide. It's a longing that never goes away.
So true… grew up at Huntington Beach, and I skipped a lot of high school to go to the beach. I do miss the ocean air.
That's a hard question for me because I like nearly every option. How about one in each place, lol. I'd have to rent them all out when I wasn't there, so somebody could be getting good use from them. I think if push came to shove and I had to decide on only one, it would depend on my mood that day. I see positives and negatives in each scenario. Good question though! I'd love to see what other, more decisive people have to say. Lol.
Well I have to give my mom credit for this one… We were discussing different questions of the day, and this was her suggestion. She has an account here, but she doesn’t have her password so she can’t post or comment. However; here’s to…
u/basedpedegrandma
👏👏👏
Frogs love based grandmas. :D
Especially me. it’s so nice having a mother who’s in her 80s and knows what’s going on in the world. We have interesting conversations throughout the day.
Right now she’s researching the child. Because apparently there’s more than one. 🤷♀️. Who knew? Once she gets the Deets I’ll put them into a thread.
When I was young I used to love dreaming about the ideal homes. Now that I'm older, whereever my loved ones are, that's where I want to live.
Ideally, by the beach. As long as there's no hurricane or tsunami lol
Agreed about home being around your loved ones. I’m a little touched in the head and would love to ride out a hurricane. No to the tsunami! My husband and I wanted the go storm chasing in tornado alley, in our twenties. Having a kid and no money we didn’t pursue it. We aren’t crazy just love to watch storms but we know they can be dangerous! I don’t sit outside in a thunderstorm.
I love storms and thunderstorms. One of my fave movies is Twisters w/ Helen Hunt.
That’s probably what sparked our interest in storm chasing. I’d love to stay in a cabin out west where you can see storms from 50-100 miles away. I read about a place like this in the 90s in southern living.
This is interesting because I was just having a conversation with the family member about this the other day. I pet sit, and I stay in these huge million dollar homes. Yes they’re nice, and they have all the amenities… However, when I leave, I’m so so grateful to come home to my small house with my mom. I don’t need a big huge gigantic home. Even if I was to have an ideal location for a home, I still wouldn’t need it to be huge. Just happy to be with family. Living my best life with my mom now because God is good.
Huge homes are beautiful but not the answer to happiness. The first eight years of our marriage we lived in a trailer and were very happy. It’s the people that make a home not the square footage. Home could be a motor home on the road, not for me but great for those that love it.
Amen. Thanks for sharing. I totally agree. We have a small house and sometimes my husband couldn't even find me or i get scared going to the kitchen on my own after watching stupid scary videos on Youtube lol I can't imagine a big house. We'd need a PA system and probably end up just hanging out in one room most of the time.
Have you watched Cecilia Blomdahl's channel on Youtube? She lives in Svalbard and a nice cozy home. I think I'd like that.
Check it out:
https://www.youtube.com/@CeciliaBlomdahl
Oh, I forgot about that channel! I watched one of her videos once. Very snowy and cozy! Thanks for the reminder.
Thanks I’ll check the video out later
I would live wherever my RV resides at the time. I was just on a beach in NC, toes in the cool Atlantic. By the end of the summer, I'll have been through the Rockies and as far as western NV. I'll most likely make it up to the north east shore of Lake Michigan, too. Ah, and then there's central FL.
Sounds like you have life figured out. We are very proud of our beaches in North Carolina. Our secret has been out a long time. I’d love to drive across the country to different destinations. Seeing this beautiful country is for sure on my list. Right now we don’t have the time for road trips. Thinking about flying to destinations and renting a car. Enjoy your home on the road.
You might like this song.
Little house on the hugh
https://open.spotify.com/track/3dBZn83IvEpeNNoYasbjcU
South Carolina on a beach near Charleston or further south. If money is flowing like mad a second home in Hawaii on the beach. Now that I have a grandchild on North Carolina beach, Carteret County. SC was always the dream. I know my daughter would never move out of state would move to NC coast if husband could get a job making what he’s making here. She’s a nurse and can work anywhere. Bottom line on a beach near them. Priorities change!