Your Ideal Quality of Life

[Lady L]

I'm wondering what is your ideal quality of life...?

In the woods..? On a farm..? In the city..?

What sounds perfectly comfortable to you.../

Have you already obtained it or will it be in your future..?

Share your plans, wants, etc...

[Psychonaut]

Give me a 10+ acre plot with a creek on it that's about 30 min. from town and I'll be happy. We're definitely hoping to be able to live a life that is midway between rural and urban. We don't want to be in the middle of nowhere, but certainly don't want to be in the city. Land is essential. We want to be able to have a small orchard and vegetable garden as well as the privacy to conduct rites in private on our own land. Hopefully this will all be achieved once we leave this rock.

[Gooding]

I would be perfectly happy with a small house on about eight to ten acres of land on the side of a mountain, a few miles outside of a small town.Two cars and a gravel driveway would suit us quite well.
Actually, the community of Huntsville, TN, would suit us quite well.Small community, many of them are related to me and they tend to hold to older values.

[Loddfafner]

My ideal is to live in a virgin forest on a working farm within walking distance of downtown in a major historic city. It should be warm and sunny all year and have the full spectrum of seasons. There should be a lively, vibrant arts scene and everyone is down to earth. It should be high in the mountains near the coast.

[Jägerstaffel]

Isolated in nature.

Preferably a forest or sea-side.

[Creeping Death]

What sounds perfectly comfortable to you...

A spacious downtown apartment in any large city right in the midst of all the shops, bars and nightlife, I enjoy the buzz of inner city living. I could not live in the country I have resided in the country several times . I can assure you, that when you have to travel hours to buy everyday items or limited social activity you will think twice. Worst scenario is when you find your idyllic rural lifestyle one of your neighbours decides he hates your guts, a not unusual situation in these areas, then your Utopia becomes a nightmare.

[Absinthe]

A non-densely populated European city like Stockholm, where you can retreat in the quietness and beauty of nature in the suburbs, and you can enjoy the comforts of the city in less that 30 minutes train, bus or car ride.

Clean, orderly, with punctual and reliable transportation. Lots of life culture for all tastes 'downtown', majestic wilderness in a very short distance from the center.

An atmosphere very charged with the presence of the Viking past and the Norse Gods.

Lovely people, polite and civilized. If it wasn't for the amount of immigrants (especially in burquas), I would easily call it Heaven on Earth.

[Eldritch]

A three-room apartment anywhere in Helsinki that's accessible by tram. That's about it.

[Manifest Destiny]

Realistically: A small, rural, white town that is within reasonable driving of a decent sized city (for shopping, medical care, etc.). I would love a charming older house with a basement (which would become my pool room/arcade) and a big workshop to work on my cars and dirtbikes.

Unrealistically: A huge amount of land (hundreds of thousands or even millions of acres) that I would turn into an intentional community for white preservationists.

[YggsVinr]

Well, I've already lived on a farm that I'd call my ideal, though no longer really living there. I find it difficult to pinpoint my own personal idea. I really love farm life, particularly farming in a traditional fashion, not resorting to many modern methods (often dishonest, in my view). However, I'd also love to live in the woods and try living off the land that way, and yet on the other hand I find my mind most stimulated when I'm on the road not knowing where I'll be the next day, always something new to discover, not tied down to routines, or a particular place, or particular people. Having the freedom to go and visit the sites I've dreamt of seeing. I'd say those three are my ideals, and who knows which one I'll pick in the end, maybe all of them at different points in life.