QotD: Forward My Mail

If you could easily choose to live in another country without all the red tape and legal stuff, which one would you select and why? 
Submitted by Matthew 25.

I don't think there are any other countries I really want to live in, though I would enjoy a six month stay in Italy.

This country is so big with so many places to visit and so many cultures to experience, I do not think any place has more to offer.

Places I have lived include:

New York City - an amazing and bizarre place filled with a lot of mental energy, status, control, passion and creativity. From Lincoln Center to the Metropolitan Museum of Art down the block and across the street to the mind-boggling Guggenheim. Then down to the Village for the best Gyros or drippy, greasy delicious pizza. Up to the Bronx to Arthur Avenue for the best calzon or an Italian Feast where you can feast on grilled sausage and onions, and zeppola - that Italian style fried bread that is in the shape of ball, comes in a brown bag filled with powdered sugar that fills your nose as soon as you open it. Hard to find anywhere else in the US except Chicago or San Francisco. Out to the island to watch the races at Belmont where you see the greatest equine athletes charge the field to win hundreds of thousands of dollar purses. Or out to Fire Island to experience the wild and turbulent Atlantic with its deep undercurrents and delicious puff fish and short-neck clams.

California - stunning in its coastal beauty, diverse from North intellectual creatives to the southern off the wall kind of creativity.Highway traffic that will make you rethink how you travel, shopping delights at every turn,  enormous varieties of olives and almonds, wineries of every kind, and enormous elephant garlic that has its own festival. Let us not forget Disneyland - an oasis of magic and wonder for children and those that dream. This state has so much and crosses so many latitudes that it has every kind of weather. From Palm Desert to Donner Pass. I could go on for days about the wonders of California, fertile beautiful from Mount Shasta and Lake Tahoe to Monterey and the Redwoods of Santa Cruz. Just to explore California is a lifetime experience.

Arizona - a state that contains more visual beauty than probably any other - from the Grand Canyon to the Saguaro Forest, to Hummingbird heaven and the vortexes of Sedona and Oak Creek Canyon, to the amazing Quartz and gold lined roads between Prescott and Phoenix - what an incredible state.

Minnesota a land of a thousand lakes, mosquitoes the size of elephants and people who think deeply, say little and give more, and the best muffins on the planet.

North Carolina - blue sky, crisp white sandy beaches, best oysters, shrimp and sweet ice tea. The only state I have been in where chicken sandwiches may come complete with bones! Wonderful people, white washed houses and sweet magnolia trees.

Nevada - desert beauty you can only experience by living there. Las Vegas a land of gambling that offers more creative experiences to the inch than anywhere else I have ever lived and more food waste as well. I guess the word would be indulgent - that is Las Vegas. Evening skies filled with rippling pinks and purples highlighting the mountain backdrops in oranges and pinks, beautiful and breath-taking. The wild land between Vegas and Ely where jack rabbits by the hundreds cross the road. Reno a northern desert landscape with an effervescent theatre community and the Truckee River running through downtown. Here you can see Otters playing and raccoons scampering along the rocks right in downtown! What an amazing town. 

And I still have not covered Montana or Alaska. The United States is the most amazing place on earth and I really don't ever want to leave it. It has every kind of beauty and every culture as well.