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Oh, that’s a good one. Ideally, I’d go up North. Alaska, or Northwest Territories if it has to be Canada. As far up North as possible would be great for me. I checked out Yellowstone, and they have very attractive temperatures.

Unfortunately, N doesn’t want to go that close to the Arctic Circle, so I’ve been eyeing Minot, North Dakota.

It’s all between the US and Canada because I wouldn’t consider living anywhere else at this point. Smallish towns with large wooded areas and tons of snow. Yes, it’s all about the weather and the quiet at this point. There’s too much happening on the inside to be able to put up with outside noise.

Please, everybody, participate. If you could live anywhere (else), where would it be?

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    xykademiqz

    I kinda wanna go to Australia or New Zealand. It’s far from everything.

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    Avi

    Any relatively remote village in either the French Pyrenees or Alps de Haute Provence. Far from the madding crowds and closer to God (who, as everyone knows, lives in France).

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    methylethyl

    I still wanna see the Argentinean pampas. But I wouldn’t want to move there, I think.

    But forced to relocate… assuming we could get residency and permission to work, I’d abstract to Peru in a heartbeat. Inside the US… that’s much tougher. It’s a game I’ve played a lot and the problem is that I don’t like living in the city, but 99% of Orthodox churches are…. in the city.

    This is of course, exactly the same in Peru– the church is in Lima. But I *liked* living in Lima, because the kind of shabby urban neighborhoods we can afford in the US are unsafe, ugly, depressing, and you have to drive far away to some depressing chainstore for everything you need because there are no real shops anywhere nearby (shoplifters making that unprofitable). And the shabby urban neighborhood we lived in, in Magdalena, was wonderful in every way: friendly tienda right across the street next to the paltas lady and the bakery, good neighbors, mercado, three supermercados, four boticas, a ferretereia, a dozen little restaurants within maybe ten minutes’ walk, a bus system that actually works… I loved that place so much (misty-eyed nostalgia).

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    cliff arroyo

    In Europe…. Mediterranean coast…. or the Agean (like a Greek Island just a quick ferry ride from Turkey) or Gozo (second island of Malta)… or maybe Portugal.

    Inland, I hate the current government of Hungary but I’ve always felt at home there… maybe Miskolc in the east or Szeged in the south.

    In the US…. can’t think of anywhere to be honest… the places I liked have probably changed so much I wouldn’t recognize them anyway…. Colorado Springs or Boulder used to be very nice in the summer but winter…. no thanks.

    I’d be too depressed at the explosion in development anywhere in Florida…

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    el

    NY Times: In Ukraine, Killings of Surrendering Russians Divide an American-Led Unit. A German medic said he was so troubled that he confronted his commander. Others boasted about killings in a group chat.

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    el

    Regarding Master and Margarita , what is the best Russian movie version? Started watching 2005 movie, have you seen it?

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      Clarissa

      I’ve seen a couple but they are all bad. This isn’t a book that should be put on a screen, in my opinion. There’s no going around the fact that the culminating scene is that of a large party where everybody is naked. No matter how you go about that, the result will be dreck. And I don’t even want to imagine the Christ scenes.

      I never knew what the naked scene was supposed to mean, to be honest.

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        cliff arroyo

        “the culminating scene is that of a large party where everybody is naked”

        I thought it was just Margarita that was naked…. which is worse…. way worse…..

        “never knew what the naked scene was supposed to mean, to be honest”

        just guessing (high school english class level analysis incoming: the party is the nomenklatura (or soviet society) showing its true colors a theme hinted at in the theater scene as well…. Margarita has to rid herself of external ideology and ego (clothes) and make herself completely vulnerable in order to survive such an onslaught.

        I never got the Christ scenes…. hardly the most interesting or coherent retelling of that story.

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          Clarissa

          Bulgakov’s Jesus is pathetic while his Satan is an attractive, powerful, sad but ultimately kind and much more reliable character. I don’t know why the book was semi-banned in the USSR. It was smart anti-religious propaganda.

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