Where in the World?

[Patrick Bateman !!eZg4ZGkAk6j No.11057176]

If you could live anywhere in the world, assuming all boring incidentals (e.g. a job, Internet, food, etc.) were met, where would you live and why?

Maybe it's because I've been stressed as fuck lately, but Pacific islands are pretty rad in my book. Small intimate community, generally decent weather, relaxed atmosphere, modern conveniences, ready flights to Asia, etc.

[Anonymous No.11057764]

>>11057176
Probably Montréal, not too exotic but still far enough to be nice.

[Anonymous No.11057789]

>>11057176
Tokyo.

I'm kind of a weaboo, the fashion scene there is pretty big, everyone is a tryhard, fashion is ever changing in Tokyo. I like a city like that plus it's aesthetic as fuck.

I would like to live there for like 4 years as a fucking gaijin.

Then probably a small community as you said, somewhere in Canada. Probably Winnipeg where Franz Kafka is or idk, not sure. Somewhere that isn't super snowy.

[Anonymous No.11057800]

>>11057176
Stressed with what Patrick? Life routines?

Meh. At least you're making money, I'll start on a job this 15th.

Yup life can be boring but at least it's great that you're making money during your routine than not making anything.

Do you plan on moving? please elaborate, elaborate a lot!

[Anonymous No.11059027]

>>11057176

Here are some aesthetic places I've been feeling lately:

>Chisinau, Moldova
The capital of anti-cool. The least visited country in Europe is the the ultimate hipster destination, seeing as nobody has heard of it. You will never sip instant coffee from a hot plastic cup thats almost melting at some shitty cafe in Moldova, before walking home to your dimly lit Soviet apartment block, with a low ceiling and a grainy television.

>Baku, Azerbaijan
Baku is a cheap plastic knockoff of Dubai, a tacky second world backwater destroying all its historical heritage in a whirlwind of shitty developments and oil money. I imagine being at a "cool" "American" bar named Route 66 on a wednesday night, surrounded by greasy expats and Azeri prostitutes, before taking a drunk stroll home past the oil-dark ocean past the casinos and new hotels.

>Boise, Idaho
If we ever terraform Mars it will basically just be Idaho. Get a cheap car and a trailer in the middle of nowhere, go full space core or amish core, or some sort of Trainspotting via Idaho core.

>Salt Lake City, Utah
You have to bring your own booze an drugs here, but in return you get fascistic Mormon architecture and bleak landscapes. Like living in an aesthetic christian dystopia. If Rick Owens had creative control for the Handmaidens Tale.

>Atlantic City, New Jersey
I want those summer nights on the board walk, waking along the beach eating a burger that has a donut for a bun, cotton candy in the other hand, cigarette in my mouth. I imagine having a motel room just outside of town, where I return and watch reruns of Frasier until 2am while getting wasted.

>Timbuktu
another aesthetic frontier also on the frontier of the rule of law. i'd love to rent out a decaying colonial era apartment or house, where i have a generator and some old squeaking air conditioner. I hang back in a hammock and light up some hash before going to hang out with my friends in a dim garage.

[Anonymous No.11059035]

Depends on the job. On my current path, NY or Paris. In my dreams, I'd be somewhere in South East Asia

[Anonymous No.11059071]

>>11059035
>I'd be somewhere in South East Asia
Depending on where you go, it'll either be so fucking hot, humid, and/or a shithole.

[Anonymous No.11059083]

>>11059027
fantastic post

as for me, i consider myself lucky to be in montreal and wouldnt live anywhere else. good job market, cheap as fuck rent, good food, good people. only downside is sometimes it gets really cold in the winter.

if not montreal, i'd say the dream is Berlin

[Anonymous No.11059099]

Venice, CA

I used to live in Culver City and would drive to Venice every few days. I love the area fucking much.

[Anonymous No.11059107]

>>11059027

>Timbuktu (cont.)
At my place I'd have one old computer still running Microsoft 98, where my buddies produce MIDI songs. They all make money off trafficking cocaine and dress military-core.

>Kinshasa, Congo
embrace this cyberpunk dystopian nightmare of a city. i'd love to work in a cramped electronic store in downtown Kinshasa, with my apartment in the cement building above.

>Turkmenbashi
You will never be as aesthetic as the jetty down on the Caspian Sea late at night, silent and safe due to the totalitarian government. I'd love one of those white box buildings in a neighborhood with absolutely no trees or plant life. Every night I'd drink myself stupid with vodka emblazoned with the presidents face.

>Rural Serbia
I want to rent one of those questionable self-built Balkan houses, spend every day loitering outside drinking rakija and chainsmoking by the road in a wife-beater shirt. Every day I can walk through town and marvel at the post-communist grime aesthetic these people are so devoted to, from the cinder block houses and defunct rusting Yugos to the cheetah print towels flapping in the breeze.

[Anonymous No.11059125]

>>11059083

I'm currently in Toronto, but have been considering moving to Montreal. I was also in Berlin for a bit, and it was very cool, I'd recommend it!

[Anonymous No.11059155]

>>11059107
>
I want to rent one of those questionable self-built Balkan houses, spend every day loitering outside drinking rakija and chainsmoking by the road in a wife-beater shirt. Every day I can walk through town and marvel at the post-communist grime aesthetic these people are so devoted to, from the cinder block houses and defunct rusting Yugos to the cheetah print towels flapping in the breeze.
That won't happen because rural Serbia is nothing like that, you uneducated daddy's money yankshit. All the post-communist grime is limited to bigger cities.

You can have chickens and a tacky orange house though.

[Anonymous No.11059171]

Been feeling some asian location as well.
But just to mix things up I've been thinking about this island Bornholm as well. Just for six months or something. Housing and living costs next to nothing for loads of space and you're never farther than half an hour from azure blue sea. Plus there are designer schools and stuff so there'll be people below 70.
Seriously considering getting a simple job and hitting this place when I'm finished with school. Just to fucking get away.

[Anonymous No.11059185]

>>11059155
That's not all true. I've been to some smaller towns where the post ww2 architecture influence was very strong. usually just means shit is overdone and crummy build

[Anonymous No.11059208]

>>11057789
Tokyo for me too, but only if I'm fluent in japanese.
Well my reason is almost the same. Though, personally I don't feel comfortable wearing something flashy like the japs but I do like to be on the streets and look at their fashion.

[Anonymous No.11059220]

>>11059155
sorry ur right let me just scrap that destination from the list altogether and add a new one:

>Pristina, Kosovo
Life is good(?) in Europe's youngest country. Pristina, the capital of the independent state of Kosovo, is not all ugly buildings and chaos. I imagine having one of those tacky new houses in some crowded hillside neighborhood, walls decorated with photos of the Clintons and the American flag. Every weekend I'd light off some fireworks in the street with the local hooligans, who all wear the same poofy black jacket with a fade/undercut. They'd then tell me stories about the civil war and how their country won independence, while sitting around the local tire fire.

[Anonymous No.11059224]

>>11059220
please go on

[Anonymous No.11059226]

>>11057176
massachusetts. its pretty rad. a bunch of big cities are close enough to be in driving distance, some really nice outdoors places are close enough to be within driving distance. good self phone coverage, enough tourism that the economy isnt trash, rich in history, its got pretty good average of things. plus st patricks day.

[Anonymous No.11059227]

>>11057176
I live in Hawaii. It's impossible to dress in anything more than a longsleeve shirt mid-day most days. At least for me, it's hard to acheive my own aesthetic goal.

[Anonymous No.11059239]

>>11059125
make the switch now or stay in toronto forever and live with the fact that :

>you will never sit on a rooftop of some random loft on St-Laurent blvd at 5am during an after party drinking your last cans of cheap beer with your friends as the sun rises in the distance

>you will never go to a rave in an abandoned Hochelag building and walk out at 6am completely wasted

>you will never come home after class to your nice cozy $450/month apartment

>you will never shop in the most /fa/ boutiques in Canada

>you will never legally stay in a bar until 3am

[Anonymous No.11059243]

Sapporo for the skiing and natural beauty of Hokkaido

Sant Feliu de Guíxols as a kind of get away from it all retreat. Excellent food and amazing festivals and carnivals.

[Anonymous No.11059339]

>>11059107

>Labrador city, Canada
A boomtown in rugged wilderness. What lumbersexual hipsters dream about, only here they live it. I imagine working at the plant all day, before returning to my suburban cube and heading off to an expensive strip club with all my coworkers.

>Tripoli, Libya
Ancient meets modern in this stunning Mediterranean capitol. See the ruins of the palace where Hannibal ruled over Carthage and Qaddafi ruled over Africa. Like Morocco, Libya is very friendly to illegal activity, and its culture is very open about drug use and sex.

While it seems intimidating at first, slowly your heart would warm to the city. the haze of opiates and the distant rattle of automatic weapons would lull you into sleep every night.

>Islamabad, India
A land of blurred lines and mixed meanings, nothing as it seems in this mysterious oriental gem.

The danger is a part of the charm: radical Islam and outdoor defecation? This is the authentic east.

>South Ossetia
It's like Georgia without those pesky Georgians

>Belarus
Like a rugged tomorrowland, an old-school dictatorship that maintains soviet aesthetics as well as soviet authoritariansim. Belarus is the last bastion of european values, as well as the last bastion of european bison.

[Anonymous No.11059365]

I'd say "I don't give a fuck" to the internet and go to Tanzania. I'd grow crops and sell them in the market for a living and also start a small restaurant for travellers

[Anonymous No.11059381]

>>11059239

jokes on you, I'll never do any of those regardless cause I don't have friends!

[Anonymous No.11059400]

>>11059365
this

[Anonymous No.11059422]

>>11059339

Tripoli is overrun by ISIS right now

[Anonymous No.11059499]

>>11059339
>Islamabad
>India

BJP detected

[Anonymous No.11059501]

>>11057176
Van city

[Anonymous No.11059538]

>>11059208
Japanese is easy to learn to speak not to write. Learn, turbonerd.

[Anonymous No.11059725]

>>11059027
live in Boise, here to confirm it's shit.

[Anonymous No.11060009]

>>11059725
Really? I don't think it's that bad. Treefort is rad and the downtown area is getting better/more cultured all the time.

[Anonymous No.11060125]

>>11059035
How'd you manage to end up in New York or Paris, if you don't mine me asking? I want to live in both of those places one day

[Anonymous No.11060132]

Being an island nigger, i really want to live in nyc

[Patrick Bateman !!eZg4ZGkAk6j No.11060151]

>>11057789
I've lived there. It's cool as long as you don't get into a salaryman position of some sort. Modern Japanese work culture can get kinda oppressive - I ended up living off convenience store food, basically. That said, being there is an amazing experience, so I highly recommend it if you can ensure that you don't live in an office building.

>>11057800
>Life routines?
Yep.

>Do you plan on moving?
Nah, though I may at some point. It'd be hard for me to move until I get about 5 years of legal experience under my belt (which is the usual requirement for waiving into other states' bars without examination)

>>11059027
>SLC
>aesthetic christian dystopia
Such a good description

>>11059538
Truth. Reading proficiently takes YEARS. I honestly never really got it down well.

[jej !!pENwHklr3SA No.11060164]

in a yurt in mongolia

[Anonymous No.11060173]

Germany for the clubs t b h

[Anonymous No.11060392]

>>11059226
>plus st patricks day
after so many years of watching a bunch of college students get drunk and vomit all over the city you start to realize that st. patricks day in boston isnt everything the dropkick murphys crowd would have you belive

[Anonymous No.11060502]

except for a trip to upstate Michigan a couple summers ago, I've never left the U.S. East Coast. So as of now I'd really like to just live in a small (but not hick) town in Maine, Michigan, or Pennsylvania in a small house with a GF or a couple friends. I already live in a small town but it's too hot, too poor, and way too close to the city.

I prefer cool weather and fall fashion. I could wake up in the morning, grind and press some coffee, have a cigarette on the front porch, and then walk or bike to work (something part time like a barista or grocery store clerk, like I already do). Come home at the end of the day, do some writing or composition, take up some side jobs to make the rest of the ends meet. It'd be perfect.

[Anonymous No.11060510]

>>11060009
are you from idaho originally/lived here long? have you been to/lived in any other city? treefort is a joke dude. downtown is absolutely not becoming more cultured. growth (slight at that) != cultured. if anything it is becoming more homogeneous. the city's population is getting more diverse, but you don't really see it having much influence on the city. the refugees are treated as pariahs by anyone not directly involved with them. the rich middle eastern/indian/asian techies are pretty whitewashed. the out of state college population is a bunch of retarded cunts. a lot of people with second homes here from other states (mostly California) really only care to make boise more like their native cities.

if seattle and denver fucked and had a kid with down syndrome which somehow got stuck in a time loop of the year 2010, it would be boise.

[Anonymous No.11060684]

>>11057789
>Somewhere that isn't super snowy
>Winnipeg
Pick one. I live here.

[Anonymous No.11060749]

is there an analogue of vancouver in canada, but with more snow, less rain and cheaper cost of living?

I'm thinking about moving to montreal, but there are two problems, I dont speak french and I'm asian

[Anonymous No.11061509]

>>11057789
i live in tokyo, its alright but its almost impossible to make japanese friends. I miss normal people that you can actually be relaxed around and that aren't overly polite as fuck

[Anonymous No.11062058]

>>11057176
Southern France, some small village in Cote d'azur. Spend lazy days drinking red wine and enjoying the view and good food.

[Anonymous No.11062062]

>>11059155
In those areas, you only have to pay taxes on your house if the house is actually complete, which is why so many people just leave it 90% done and live in it.

[Anonymous No.11062067]

>>11060510
I lived in Boise for most of my life up to a few years ago, will confirm treefort is a fucking joke and it gave me second hand embarrassment to see how excited everyone got over it

[Anonymous No.11062085]

nyc or tokio for city life
anywhere with a decent not popular beach for leisure

[Anonymous No.11062099]

>>11057176
Magnitogorsk, Russia.

literally the definition of and industrial city

[Anonymous No.11062155]

>>11057176
Ideally, on a beach in Costa Rica or up on a hillside on Roatan or St. Barth's.

Urban, I'd say Boston or NYC, assuming I could afford a decent apartment in a good part of town like Upper East Side, the village or Beacon Hill.

>>11059725
I've only visited, but it seems like a nice place to base out of and work in if you like to spend your free time outdoors. There are some pleasant neighborhoods and easy access to the mountains.

Downtown was nothing special, and would get old if you're really into going out on the town a lot, but it's not atrocious and has some neat stuff you only get in the west like a dank map store.

[Patrick Bateman !!eZg4ZGkAk6j No.11062163]

>>11061509
>its alright but its almost impossible to make japanese friends.
Agreed on this front. I know a lot of expats who - even after living there for years - still have trouble making genuine friends. Ditto for friends who are expats in China and Korea.

[Anonymous No.11062404]

Tuscany, either in Florence or by the sea. It would be hard to beat where I already am though, in the green and pleasant land of gods own county.

[Anonymous No.11062518]

>>11060510
Actually I don't live there at all. I have some close family there though so I visit every once in a while. Maybe that's why I don't mind it. The reason I like Treefort is because I live in Seattle and all the festivals here are just overpriced, overrun, and stupid at this point. What don't you like about Treefort?