If You Could Live Anywhere, Where Would You Live?

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[Mithril]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)  Why there? What effect, if any, would this have on your religious life?

I'd live in Roanoke, Virginia, near my grandma, in the blue ridge. I absolutely love walking in the woods there. It would have a big effect on my religious life. It's such a natural place, I just get the impression that the spirits of the trees and in the forest in general are more *active* than they are in Houston and I feel I'd have an easier time working with them and feeling connected to the Earth there.

[BGMarc]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)  Why there? What effect, if any, would this have on your religious life?

I would live in the Avalon of Marion Zimmer Bradley. I would like to live as a part of the sort of religiously-based community that she describes and I find the faith to be one I could ally mydelf to if I had such a context.

[Melamphoros]

I'd live in Roanoke, Virginia, near my grandma, in the blue ridge. I absolutely love walking in the woods there. It would have a big effect on my religious life. It's such a natural place, I just get the impression that the spirits of the trees and in the forest in general are more *active* than they are in Houston and I feel I'd have an easier time working with them and feeling connected to the Earth there.

Oh yeah, mountains are nice.  My grandfather lives in the Ashville, NC area and I just love looking at the mountains.  Nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there.  I have a crippling fear of heights and I get a panic attack on quite a few of those roads.  I don't think I could ever drive on them.

[herbalgoddess13]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)  Why there? What effect, if any, would this have on your religious life?

The dessert, specifically New Mexico, between Albuquerque and Santa Fe would be nice.  They get four seasons but rarely extreme temperatures.  I love the mountains and the deep sky that goes on forever.  I have mold allergies and in NM I can breath.  I love the quick but wild rain storms and the beautiful rainbows.  The people are friendly and I feel a strong spiritual presence that inspires me.  When I meditate, I imagine myself in the desert and I'm at peace.  I'm not sure how it would effect my religious life, that would depend much on the friends I make, but as I said, I feel connected and spiritual in the desert.  My kids love it there too, I've never seen them happier or more at peace than they were in NM.  I'm currently working on a five year plan to get there.



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[Morag]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)  Why there? What effect, if any, would this have on your religious life?

Out of a suitcase. I get bored really quickly, and especially with wherever I'm living. I've only been in Nanaimo for 8 months and already I'm itching to travel. If I could whittle my belongings down to what would fit in a suitcase and a backpack, and know that I could manage to travel wherever I wanted, I'd pick up and travel the world until I dropped dead.

I used to dream of one day settling down in a cute little town and having a family, but that changed pretty drastically. Now the thought of settlement scares the living hell out of me, as does the idea of spawn. I want exploration and adventure -- hell, if sign-up sheets for colonization of a new planet went out today, I'd be first in line.

Religiously I doubt it would have any adverse affects -- my gods don't mind traveling, I gather (as They're from Ireland, Egypt, and Hawaii originally and seem to not mind kicking it with me in BC), and I don't really need all that junk on my altar. I no longer follow a fertility path but an ecstatic one, so being in the right seasons for the right holidays isn't a concern. (On a personal note, I would always try to be in a place that has fall as a season during Halloween, because I love fall and that holiday and think they should always go together.)

And my path is really about migration -- migration, moving, mobility are all really important to me. I see myself as always moving, always shifting and going somewhere new. It's no different for my religious beliefs; if anything, I see a traveling lifestyle helping my religious life.

Yes -- give me cafes in Paris one week and working as a bartender in La Antigua, Guatemala the next. A life of little sleep and no permanence; friends that are dear while I have them but forgotten in the next month; lovers I'll never see again; and never being anywhere long enough for me to get my inevitable bad reputation.

[goatboy]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)  Why there? What effect, if any, would this have on your religious life?

I always liked the look of Simon's house in "The Devil Rides Out"  Hammer horror film.
Loved that Satanic observatory.
No near neighbours, door-to-door evangelists or salespeople.
Somewhere to graze the goats.
Loads of room, close to the woods, and plenty of space for my driver to park the Rolls.
Of course, I would throw a big open party for any Cauldron members who could get there. Wrap up warm though, for us Brits, going sky-clad in the Summer

just means taking off one of our coats.

[Altair]

Yes -- give me cafes in Paris one week and working as a bartender in La Antigua, Guatemala the next. A life of little sleep and no permanence; friends that are dear while I have them but forgotten in the next month; lovers I'll never see again; and never being anywhere long enough for me to get my inevitable bad reputation.

How wildly romantic! Well said.

[Morag]

How wildly romantic! Well said.

Thank you.

[Yez]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)

I love my house, its grounds and the pasture across the street.  I'd just like to have the funds to fix it up and put in a fireplace.

If I couldn't live here, I'd want to be on the ocean side of Provincetown (Cape Cod), in the dunes but within earshot of the surf.  (This isn't possible, of course, since it's part of the National Seashore.)  The P-town culture would embrace "Buddhist, apparently", although I don't have any difficulty in my current town.  The ocean is the real magnet for me (and the sea grass, and the seagulls).  I grew up in a coastal town, and I'm always homesick for salt air and saltwater.

SO is not a beach person, though, so even if I could build my (fireplaced!) cottage in the dunes, I wouldn't :-}

[xxxxxxxx xx xxxxxx]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)  Why there? What effect, if any, would this have on your religious life?

If I could live anywhere, I would live in a more rural environment. Maybe somewhere around the base of a mountain range where the land is starting to get larger hills, but isn't so high up that it is just rocks. There would be old trees that have seen the seasons pass for ages. It would be somewhere that experiences actual seasons (Florida doesn't change very much.)

Mostly though, I would have enough land to be able breathe and to practice outside without neighbors gawking at me.

I think that this change would allow me to do more outdoor rituals and being so close to the land at all times would facilitate my staying more centered and grounded than I do in my current apartment.

Scarabnight

[herbalgoddess13]

Mostly though, I would have enough land to be able breathe and to practice outside without neighbors gawking at me.

I hear you!  Most of my neighbors are senior citizens and I think they're in bed for my evening rituals, but in the morning I see them all peeking out their fancy draperies at me.  I don't mind too much, but I do wonder what they're thinking.

I think that this change would allow me to do more outdoor rituals and being so close to the land at all times would facilitate my staying more centered and grounded than I do in my current apartment.

Scarabnight

Funny that you said that, most people I know love to live near water.  While I love the water, I feel very anxious when I'm living close to large bodies of water.  I think this is why the dessert is so appealing to me.

[xxxxxxxx xx xxxxxx]

I hear you!  Most of my neighbors are senior citizens and I think they're in bed for my evening rituals, but in the morning I see them all peeking out their fancy draperies at me.  I don't mind too much, but I do wonder what they're thinking.

I have the same experiences with that! live in a pretty big college town, but it's just my luck that my complex is right next to this "senior zone" complete with thirty mph speed limits. 

Funny that you said that, most people I know love to live near water.  While I love the water, I feel very anxious when I'm living close to large bodies of water.  I think this is why the dessert is so appealing to me.

While I'm not fond of being so close to the ocean, I wouldn't mind some sort of trickling brook on my fantasy land

I have an aunt who lives out in Nevada and it is really nice out there when you're not in the big cities. I am always amazed at how well my unruly curls behave in the dry air as apposed to the humid mess that is Florida. 

Scarabnight 

[maverickmuse]

If you could live anywhere, where would you live? (Please be fairly specific.)  Why there? What effect, if any, would this have on your religious life?

Other than exactly where I am, my only other choice would be the Southern Outer Banks of North Carolina.  Since I have lived by the sea for most of my life and am now the farthest inland I've ever been, I miss the sea constantly.  We go often, even in winter, so I am content most of the time, but the barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina are pristine, uncluttered by commercialism, and have some of the most generous and friendliest folks I've ever met!

My youngest daughter and I often discuss "running away" together, but she wants to be able to come back to our little hideaway here...so much for running away!  I have a different plan!   

As far as my faith,  I could only see it deepening.

[Star]

Other than exactly where I am, my only other choice would be the Southern Outer Banks of North Carolina. 

I'll be in Rodanthe in a couple of weeks.  *happy sigh*  If I didn't have the family/roots considerations, and could skip practical problems like hurricanes, I'd happily move there.  I haven't ever lived by the ocean, but it's one of those things where...  it just feels like home in many ways.  I don't get out there half as often as I'd like. 

[maverickmuse]

I'll be in Rodanthe in a couple of weeks.  *happy sigh* 

Happy, happy thoughts!  I hope you have a safe journey and a wonderful time! 

The kids are wanting to go to Buxton and climb the Hatteras Lighthouse...just one more time (again).  We drove out to the beach two weeks ago, but it was Virginia Beach...too many people, too commercial; no wonder we love our little islands!

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