Oh, Seattle, how I love thee.
Currently, I’m living in New Hampshire with every single intention of moving back to Seattle. The variety of public transit experiences (you never know what we’re going to see), of people on the street. The ability to go from one very different neighborhood to the next with just a 5 minute bus ride. A less than one hour drive and you’re out of the city completely and enjoying the serene sounds of babbling brooks and the view of mountain fields and sunny skies. The Pacific Northwest is just as perfect as it gets, for me.

NOT Georgia! It’s horrible here- every day it’s hot and humid. I like to breathe the air, not drink it.

I do like the fact that most everything is green though

LOL, I may be living in Manchester now, but Cumbria is still home, thats got the Lake District within which has had a lot of fun cheap days out. All it costs is the petrol to where your going, plus the snacks you want and your off.

I live in a village in Switzerland. I like the birds of prey, the storks, the grey herons and the fact that it takes me only half an hour to get into the city (by train) or to the lake (on foot). We have as much hot days as thunderstorms, so I have a lot of bad hair days too

I think I was always meant to live here near Boulder Colorado. I love sitting on the back patio or puttering in the garden and seeing the Rocky Mountains (there’s still snow on the tippy top). It’s hot, but it’s a dry heat. = D
Being an Air Force brat as well as active duty Air Force for 22 years, I’ve lived all over the place like Texas, California, Kansas, Florida, Germany, England, Korea, Alaska…but Colorado feels the most like home and I really don’t ever want to leave.

Close your eyes. Feel the winter sun take the chill out of your cheeks as you breath in the coolness of the morning air. Open your eyes and see the lush green hills of the dandenongs behind you. Turn back to watch the hot-air balloons hovering over the city buildings at sunrise.

Summer is coming with blistering days spent stretched out at the beach or park. The barbie’s sizzling while I am dreaming of freshcut grass and a WestCoast Cooler. Ah Melbourne, Australia. I couln’t live anywhere else…

As i’m from Northern Ireland, the weathers pretty rubbish this time of year, i’d go for the heat anyday over the grey sky and rain! It’s supposed to be summer! Have to say though, the scenery where i’m from is pretty amazing! The north coast is really gorgeous on a good day, add to that a little trip to the Giants Causeway or Dunluce castle and you’re set!

See, now that’s a place I could live quite comfortably, Emma.

I live near Dallas, TX and I love it here. Although it is hot (and I mean hot) in August, we have plenty of pools and waterparks to cool off at. The best thing is probably the winter. If it ices here us native Texans close school. I’m a brave Texan though, I still go to work, usually beating the “Northerners” there. It’s pretty funny. All in all there are lots of great suburbs to live in. Where I live I can still enjoy all the stars at night (which are big and bright LOL)!

I live in a tiny city of Visalia, CA. I am almost at the bottom of the valley the air quality kind of sucks but I love the weather because it’s not too extreme except for 3 weeks out of the year that it’s very hot and 3 weeks that we get rain.

The area that I live in is very close to everything you might want to do. It’s less than a 2 hour drive to be in the mountains camping and a 2 hour drive in the opposite direction to be at the ocean. I can be in almost any big city in about 3 hours but the best is sitting on my couch at home reading a book and looking out my front window and having a beautiful view of snow covered mountains. I just love being here and it’s one of the cheaper area’s to live in CA. I will probably never live any where else in my life but I hope to visit may different places.

I grew up in a suburb of Kansas City, Overland Park,KS, and it was really a great place. You had a little bit of everything: malls, fast food, and a large park less than 30 minutes away. It did get pretty muggy and hot there, after all it’s not that far from St Louis, but nothing too unbearable. I think my favorite season there was winter and Christmas. When I met my hubby I up and moved to the East Coast, now I live in the Hudson Valley of New York. The Hudson River is less than 15 minutes away and it plays havoc on the humidity! But on the upside, it is so beautiful here, especially in the fall, which is my favorite season. I love seeing the mountains and the river every day. I did have to adjust my snow measurements though when I moved here, alot of snow used to be 5 inches…now that is practically a dusting!

And the humidity here isnt bad at all

Queensland, Oz. Hoo rah! I think Taylor and I take the cake for strange weather though. Last week was Ekka and that’s generally the coldest week in winter but today it was 25C. That’s about 77F. And then you get the lovely storms in summer. We had a near hurricane last year, November 16. Youtube has a lot of home videos. Check them out. Very fun… not.

Go ahead, keep tempting me, Sophie. Ireland is the one European country I may actually tempt the hubby (who’s not nearly the mongrel I am and so keeps bragging about his Irish roots) into visiting! However we may have to be very careful not to discuss religion when we do go, since my ancestors were Catholic and his were Protestant!

Of course, Laura, because everything’s bigger in Texas! (Sure would love to taste your barbecue though!)

I know I did, Tori!

It’s hard for me to imagine any part of California as being affordable to live in, Sarah. Thanks for proving me wrong.

Wow, Vale, simply amazing.

I’m relieved you’re in New York today, Tess. They’re calling for tornadoes in Kansas.

That’s what I keep telling hubby, Carly, but the length (and cost) of the flight from the States is super daunting. Maybe after I sell a couple of million books Orbit Australia won’t be able to help themselves and they’ll just have to ferry me out there! Then it’ll be easy to take a side trip to New Zealand!!

I don’t mind winter as long as I can get outside, Taylor. I think it has something to do with being cooped up in a tiny office writing all day. After a while you just have to breathe some real air, even if it is fifteen degrees!
(Um, fahrenheit. They tried to teach me celsius in my Chemistry class but I forgot it as soon as I didn’t need it anymore. I know, lazy American!)

Yipes! We’ve got one of those brewing right now, Bec. Three fronts clashing over Kansas and Missouri, moving into our state later today. Hoping everybody comes out the other side okay!

Yeah, my sister-in-law adores the beach, Steph. Me, not so much. It’s the pale, cancer-prone, skin. I prefer a hike in the shady woods. You got any of those in Queensland?

Well if you’re missing any rain, or have too much sun shine, let’s do a swap!
Ireland is one wet country but dear god is it adorable. That calming mossy green is everywhere and you only need to drive a little to bump into a mountain. To be honest it’s beautiful as no other place because it has something so special that I, after three years still can’t pin point. I come to suspect however that it’s because everything looks so natural and in place here. Even the streets of Dublin look like part of the natural landscape, never mind the fact that you won’t see any grass until you step into a park. Still, it looks part of nature, like it fully belongs there.

I’m born and raised in central IL. And I love it I can’t imagine living anywhere else. My neighbors are trees a sky where I can see the stars. I’m a country girl and I couldn’t have it any other way. The heat and humidity always suck. But IL weather is ever changing–how many places do you know that don’t need to pack up summer/winter clothes. Hell ours vary from day to day! We could wear sweaters in July or shorts in January–and still be fit for the weather! LOL

Sure it’s quirky–but it’s home

It might be best to not dring that up, not that it matters but just in case! Well if your husbands got Irish genes thats even more reason to come And visitors always talk about how green it is if that helps!

I do complain about the weather but its like anyone, its too easy to take where you live for granted!

What’s great about where I live? Let’s see…. We’re not called sunny South Africa for nothing. And considering I’m more of a winter than a summer person, I spend a third of our summers slightly irritated because the heat’s killing me. That’s the only negative I’m going to mention.

Our wildlife! We have some gorgeous animals, the big five for instance. I live here and I’ve never been on an African Safari, but I’ve seen all the wild animals, and would want to go on a real one some day. It’s like living at the coast but never going to the beach. I’m adding our nature to this one. It’s beautiful, especially the Drakensberg. Our mountains at its best.

Afrikaans! Afrikaans is my first language and such a fun language it is to speak. We have 11 official languages, I can only speak two but I understand certain words and phrases from the other 9.

Braai(BBQ)! We South African know how to braai. In the summer we do it every weekend and sometimes even in the week. It’s how most of the Afrikaans speaking people socialize on weekends, just hanging with friends etc.

Christmas in the summer. Spending the day outside/at the beach with family and friends can’t be beat.

Okay, I’m stopping here. I might just end up writing a short story. Thanks for the question, it was great reading the answers.

I’m from Wisconsin. Jennifer Rardin, you will probably know better than most, second to those who live in Wisconsin, that we are Mother Nature’s Bitch. Great way to start answering the question “What’s great about your state?” but even though the summers can be unbearable and the winters can be down right artic (last winter alone, -30 F with a windchill of -60F :O) Wisconsin is a land of that not many people know exist. Its a land of Country music and Classic Rock, Cheese-heads and Brewers fans, and is one side in the biggest war in America…Who has happier cows? (Wisconsin does not California! But I admit it you have better tans. Seriously, you don’t want to see the average Wisconsin man take off his shirt, its blinding.) Wisconsin has probably the most fairs devoted to music, culture,and well of course drinking. The city life is, i guess what can be described as controled chaos. You’ve got the usual hectic lifestyle that comes with living in the city (traffic jams, police sirens, drunks walking back home after $2 jager shots/ladies get in free night at the local club) but you can always go down to the third ward (artsy part of Downtown Milwaukee)or favortie dive and have that however long allotted time of great food, good company, and a nice pint. Of course you’ve got Door County and all of the lodges and swim parks up north that offer you “A Wisconsin experience you’ll never forget”. A place where alot of people (mainly tourists) will go for vacations and locals for their summer houses on one of the many lakes. Wildlife photographers will go to places like that to take pictures for brochures, magazines, or personal projects. And theres the part that I affectionately call “Hicksville, Nowheresland”. Its along the border between Illinois and Wisconsin, and its pretty desolate. All there can be for miles besides houses with about 3 miles between neighbors and farms are churches, a super BP with a Chester Chicken attached to it so you can grocery shop, grab some nuggets and fill up your pick up all at the same spot, and as always the mom and pop diner that’s been open for 10 generations that your family has been going to for 9 out of those 10. You know what I mean, the diner that has the best burger and Banana cream pie besides your grandma. But if you maybe travel three miles on the freeway you hit like 20 miles of Outlet Malls. Total Irony. I would know, because my aunt lives in Paris…Kenosha. the Hicksville of Hicksville. But its so beautiful and serene that you could just stay there forever. Wisconsin has a place for just about every kind of person. The sports enthusiast, the party hound, the go green girl/guy, the tourist, the wildlife expert, the boho chic, the culturally diverse, even those who enjoy the macabe. Seriously, Jeffery Domer had a house in Wisconsin, they give tours. Puts a whole new meaning to “Leather Couch”. Wisconsin is I guess a state of mind. You always have a place to fit in.

Jennifer, contrary to popular belief, it doesn’t always rain in london – as i type is a lovely day, the sun is shining and we’ve had to put the air con on! Admittedly, we propably only get about 25 good days a year – but hey its better than nothing.

I like winter…but it has to be inside the house, next to a fire, wrapped in a blacket, and sipping a nice big cup of hot chocolate.

Ok, I just have to laugh at this. I’m apparently from “Hicksville, Nowheresland”. Exactly between Paris and the RenFaire. If you think Kenosha Co is Noweresland, you’ve obviously never been to the Great White North. I grew up in Phillips and Rice Lake. Rice Lake got their first Applebees about 5 years ago, and when I lived in Phillips, we had to drive an hr to get to the nearest McDonalds. There is nothing better than getting off a week of school due to cold, then going out and playing in the -50 temps in the snow all day. That’s where the saying “summer is 2 months of rough snowmobiling” is really true.

But seriously, I love Wisconsin, and couldn’t live anywhere else, at least in the midwest. I think it’s how proud we are, despite how hokey “traditional Wisconsinite” is. When I was in Door County a few weeks a go I saw a show called “Cheeseheads: The Musical”… really, how many states have entire shows dedicated to how dorky they are? Then again, beer boiled Johnsonvilles with the Badgers game on, it doesn’t get much better than that!

And just to convince everyone I’m totally nuts, the other place I’d love to move back to is Brisbane, QLD. I was so excited when Bec mentioned the Ekka! I lived there 6 months and it wasn’t near long enough (although my student visa disagreed with me). Or back to Germany, or NZ South Island, I have friends that live in Ashburton. Can you tell I have the travel bug? When it gets down to it though, Wisconsin will always be my home state, no matter where I end up.