travel, living locations

[wispfox]

I often wonder what it is that other people look for when traveling, beyond visiting specific people. Same as far as where people choose to live. So! I ask y'all what you think.

When you are traveling, especially if it involves returning to a place you've visited before, what makes your decision on where to go? I'd rather avoid answers which are specific to people instead of location, because people is already why I travel most of the time. I want other answers. I want to know where to go, why to go, and what to do when there. Outdoors and indoors, places to eat and places to visit, places to feed my mind, my ears, or my eyes. Sell your favorite places to visit to me!

Similarly, if you like where you live, or somewhere that you have lived in the past, why? If the answer is specific people, that's fine, but I want to know more than that. Is it access to specific social groups? Activities like museums or parks or forests? Safe neighborhoods? What?

Comments

[regyt.livejournal.com]

I usually travel to see people, but also simply because I'm drawn to go places I've never been before. I can give you specific recommendations of stuff to do and see and people to meet in several cities, but I'm not sure that that's what you're asking for.

I live in NYC because it and I are deeply symbiotic, or perhaps echoes of the same concept, one in concrete, the other in flesh. Again, I can give billions of details of places to eat, shows to see, festivals I love, secrets I care for, people, &c. But I do that, slowly, in my LJ, as you've seen.

Next summer, I will move to wherever I find an interesting job. I am free. And my city will always be here for me, wherever I go, anyway.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

I can give you specific recommendations of stuff to do and see and people to meet in several cities, but I'm not sure that that's what you're asking for.

I'm not sure what I'm looking for, either, so it would hardly hurt to try. ;) If you want, of course!

simply because I'm drawn to go places I've never been before.

Oh, ditto. Very much, ditto!