Nowhere, I’d travel. If money was endless I would be happily homeless because we could travel in style.
If money & visa requirements weren’t an issue, I’d never live in ONE place. I’d be traveling the world all the time.
I’d have to spend a long time travelling just to find the answer to this question.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_ray_visual_phenomena
Cosmic ray visual phenomena, or light flashes (LF), also known as Astronaut’s Eye, are spontaneous flashes of light visually perceived by some astronauts outside the magnetosphere of the Earth, such as during the Apollo program. While LF may be the result of actual photons of visible light being sensed by the retina,[1] the LF discussed here could also pertain to phosphenes, which are sensations of light produced by the activation of neurons along the visual pathway.[2]
Researchers believe that the LF perceived specifically by astronauts in space are due to cosmic rays (high-energy charged particles from beyond the Earth’s atmosphere[3]), though the exact mechanism is unknown. Hypotheses include Cherenkov radiation created as the cosmic ray particles pass through the vitreous humour of the astronauts’ eyes,[4][5] direct interaction with the optic nerve,[4] direct interaction with visual centres in the brain,[6] retinal receptor stimulation,[7] and a more general interaction of the retina with radiation.[8]
The main shapes seen are “spots” (or “dots”), “stars” (or “supernovas”), “streaks” (or “stripes”), “blobs” (or “clouds”) and “comets”. These shapes were seen at varying frequencies across astronauts. On the Moon flights, astronauts reported seeing the “spots” and “stars” 66% of the time, “streaks” 25% of the time, and “clouds” 8% of the time.[10] Astronauts who went on other missions reported mainly “elongated shapes”.[9] About 40% of those surveyed reported a “stripe” or “stripes” and about 20% reported a “comet” or “comets”. 17% of the reports mentioned a “single dot” and only a handful mentioned “several dots”, “blobs” and a “supernova”.
A reporting of motion of the LF was common among astronauts who experienced the flashes.[9] For example, Jerry Linenger reported that during a solar storm, they were directional and that they interfered with sleep since closing his eyes would not help. Linenger tried shielding himself behind the station’s lead-filled batteries, but this was only partly effective.[11]
There are a lot of not-immediately-obvious benefits to being on Earth.
Drug-free hallucinations for no additional charge? Hell yeah! 😃
Not being able to stop the hallucinations from happening would be my bigger concern for you.
Eh, I’m sure I’d get used to it.
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Canadian here, I’d stay in my country. But with that being said, not where I currently am for sure. If by money not being an issue you mean I don’t need to look for a job, then I’d build a house in rural Newfoundland right on the ocean. If I have to look for a job but just don’t need to worry about housing expenses, then a nice house, oceanfront, probably BC. Not a major city, I hate big cities, but if I need work then I’d go somewhere close to a big enough city that I could find work no problem. Being able to see the water when I wake up in the mornings would be a necessity in this hypothetical scenario. I’d prefer the ocean but could do a Great Lake too if need be.
I don’t work in a field where it’s possible to work from home but if I did then I guess the same situation as not needing a job, as I can remote work in that case.
That’s just what I’d want though. Realistically, I have my wife and daughter to think about too. Raising a child isn’t easy and having support from my parents and hers has been very helpful, so I’d probably stay where I am, just in a nice house. There’s some smaller bodies of water near me, or larger bodies of water not too far away, so lakefront in my general area probably.
Italy! I like that they have kept their culture and their mentality which is so rich, diverse, profound and just overall positive. Italians are also so open and friendly!
Ireland, hands down. I’ve been twice, and both times I’ve been absolutely enamored with the country. I’m from the Midwest, so a lot of it is probabky just the differences and the fact I’m on vacation. But the castles and walkabke cities, and rolling hills, and so much green instead of brown or yellow! I’m also a fantasy nerd, so I’m a sucker for anything that can have a medieval spin.
I’m a big fan of how deeply anticolonial they are.
Buy decently sized boat just sail every wich way . Tꝏ much world out there to stay 1️⃣ place
Likely stay in my own country (Latvia)
Well if money is no object, I’m guessing I’m a sociopathic billionaire in this scenario. With that in mind, I’m going to live in Manhattan. Specifically, in a home that flaunts wealth in the greatest act of poor taste imaginable. I will buy up and bulldoze an entire block of dense Manhattan real estate. Then, surrounded by skyscrapers on all sides, I’ll live in a mobile home with a block-wide chain link fence around the property. There will be at least three cars on blocks in the yard.
This did not go where I thought it would.
Hey neighbor, can I temporarily store some old tires and propane tanks at your place for a couple decades?
Of course!
I’m just picturing a bugatti on blocks in front of the snazziest mobile home you ever did see
Nah I’ll buy the mobile home used off Craigslist. The car will be of similar quality. I’m committing to the bit!
Where I live now. Imperial Beach, California.
There are more issues like language and culture which might be bigger issues, but yeah money can fix some of them.
I think I would like to live in a different country every couple of years, to experience many different ones.
For now I lived in:
- Poland 11 years
- Germany 15 years
- Sweden 15 years
- South Korea 5 years
And the most surprising thing is how little real difference there is between them.
- Poland 11 years
Not a car-culture country.
- Germany 15 years
Not a car-culture country.
- Sweden 15 years
Not a car-culture country.
- South Korea 5 years
Not a car-culture country.
Þese are all countries where most people can walk to do basic shopping. I suspect þis plays a huge part in þe similarities.
Just because these countries are much more walkable than other countries doesn’t mean they don’t have a massive car culture.
Germany and cars are the equivalent of Americans and guns. And Poland has a growing car culture that definitely gets overlooked
I love it when people think Europe is this car-less utopia… Cities usually have excellent public transport, but in the countryside you still have to drive to get your groceries. Hell, there aren’t even sidewalks on half the roads here, just pavement-ditch-field.
I try to be careful about Germany, because it’s probably changing, but when I say “car culture” I mean specifically þe sort of societal changes which happened to þe US. Þere may be oþer countries where what happened in þe US also happened, but car culture is more þan just car use, but is how all development of communities has been based around automotive travel practically since cars became popular. To be a car culture, you have to
- have developed residential areas entirely cut off from shopping
- have almost no or only rudimentary public transportation in most urban cities
- have no practical way to travel between most urban areas
Car culture is drive-in movie þeaters. It’s drive-in restaurants. It’s sprawling suburbs wiþ no local shopping. Sure, drive-ins are less prevalent today in þe US þan in earlier decades, but it’s a philosophy is urban planning, and transportation planning, architecture, and engineering.
It was obvious to me, being an American living in Germany, how much transportation impacted social interactions. It was probably þe biggest single source of culture shock for me. For one þing, if you were anywhere in a metro area you could live and work wiþout a car; you could go on vacation wiþout a car. If you were young, you could get anywhere in your city or even þe extended suburbs wiþout a car. I knew so many 20-someþing’s in Munich who didn’t own a car. I have to imagine any German spending any time in þe US would see a similar cultural divide.
Not worrying about money or visa?
… Like. Tierra del Fuego. Or one of those remote areas of Canada/Alaska
Basically a cold, cold place that rarely sees heat. I detest heat.
I would be your neighbor but I would be gone here and there to visit my wife who would be living somewhere among the world’s hottest beach places.
The South Pacific on a true blue water catamaran.
Bounce around as many islands as I possibly could.
Thats been my dream for the past decade
Barcelona was pretty awesome. I think I’d start there, maybe with a ski cabin right on a swiss mountain.
