I'm on my way back now (writing this from the Admiral's Club at Heathrow). I was thinking about all the places I've been and lived over the last decade and decided to list them in order of favorite to least favorite, in terms of whether I'd like to go back and whether I'd like to live there. While it does change from day to day as my mood shifts, here's my list right now…
Maui, Hawaii, USA
Jost van Dyke, BVI
Tweed, ON, Canada
Tortolla, BVI
Antigua
La Paz, BCS, Mexico
Big Island, ON, Canada
La Have, NS, Canada
Toronto, ON, Canada
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Durban, South Africa
Chicago, IL, USA
Miramichi, NB, Canada
Windhoek, Namibia
London, UK
Johannesburg, South Africa
Basel, Switzerland
Liel, Germany
I may be forgetting a few places. Maui is at the top of the list because it's got an ideal mix of size (great connectivity for a tropical island), climate, people and politics, beautiful sunsets, and ocean (and it generally smells nice there). But I'm too poor to buy a nice house there. The Caribbean is up there for me as well, and I still want to buy the little house on Jost van Dyke… One day…
Africa was amazing, but its politics are deeply messed up and need to grow up before I'd move there (that said, I'm sure it's a hell of an investment). I don't just mean race relations and foreign meddling — I include just the bureaucracy of doing business, and the penalties that I could face as a fringe publisher.
Anyway, I'll be back in La Paz either this evening or tomorrow morning depending on if I can catch the right connecting flight in time… and then I've got mountains of work to get caught up on (and I'll have an article for BME on the whole experience as well written in the next week).
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