Your Ideal Life

az2wp0sye65487

If you could go anywhere in the world, and do anything, what sort of life would you love to lead?

If you had no mortgage, debts, kids, family, job etc. to worry about, and you could just concentrate on what you enjoy - what would you do??

I'm not suggesting that anyone here isn't perfectly happy & content with their life as it is - It's just that all you hear these days is people complaining about this country and the fact that they would leave if they could.

I think I'd like to spend a few years travelling the world. Meeting new people and experiencing new cultures. I'd like to see life from both sides of the spectrum (ie. poor/rough living conditions, self sustenance, living off the land etc. as well as being loaded, staying in fancy hotels etc. etc.)

Basically I'd like to experience it all! Also, if I was able, I'd like to dedicate a lot of time to long distance running, and finding out just how far the average person can go!

By the time I'd experienced all of that I'd have hopefully found my ideal place to go and settle down.

What about the rest of you A.H. folk??

billybudd

stack shelves in tesco as part of jobsink:p


on a serious note, to eat in all the best restaurants in the world! twice.

kfallon

I'm happy enough as I am thanks!

Phill Ewinn

I'll be happier when time machines are invented.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Sports reporter for ESPN in America.

Seachmall

Living in or near a city with little or no cost (no rent, use solar panels, rain harvesters, grow foods etc.) and no real need to earn an income other than a few bob here and there.

Alternatively living out of a van of some sort making a living on the road.

Fart Knocker

Living out in the jungle with a harem of young girls.

FatherLen

i would like to live in california as a very rich and popular penis model.

4leto

My ideal life? Its definitely some place else, I would like to live in a warmer clime, by a beach, but I would need to be near to Dublin, which off course is impossible.

No bills an income to sustain me but with no job, again impossible. So my dreams are impossible no wonder I am miserable.

az2wp0sye65487

Buzz_Killington wrote: »

My ideal life? Its definitely some place else, I would like to live in a warmer clime, by a beach, but I would need to be near to Dublin, which off course is impossible.

No bills an income to sustain me but with no job, again impossible. So my dreams are impossible no wonder I am miserable.

Jaysus - This is meant to be a light hearted, slightly escapist thread.... Talk about bringing the mood down!!

You need some of whatever FatherLen is smoking!

FatherLen wrote: »

i would like to live in california as a very rich and popular penis model.

previous user

I'd travel alot around Europe






















claiming the dole in each country.

InTheTrees

4leto wrote: »

My ideal life? Its definitely some place else, I would like to live in a warmer clime, by a beach, but I would need to be near to Dublin, which off course is impossible.

Dude?

Greystones...

:cool:

Ditch

Cynthia Screeching Babble wrote: »

I'd like to see life from both sides of the spectrum (ie. poor/rough living conditions, self sustenance, living off the land etc. as well as being loaded, staying in fancy hotels etc. etc.)

Ye'd do " Bear Grylls " job, so .....

AgileMyth

Cynthia Screeching Babble wrote: »

If you could go anywhere in the world, and do anything, what sort of life would you love to lead?

If you had no mortgage, debts, kids, family, job etc. to worry about, and you could just concentrate on what you enjoy - what would you do??

I'm not suggesting that anyone here isn't perfectly happy & content with their life as it is - It's just that all you hear these days is people complaining about this country and the fact that they would leave if they could.

I think I'd like to spend a few years travelling the world. Meeting new people and experiencing new cultures. I'd like to see life from both sides of the spectrum (ie. poor/rough living conditions, self sustenance, living off the land etc. as well as being loaded, staying in fancy hotels etc. etc.)

Basically I'd like to experience it all! Also, if I was able, I'd like to dedicate a lot of time to long distance running, and finding out just how far the average person can go!

By the time I'd experienced all of that I'd have hopefully found my ideal place to go and settle down.

What about the rest of you A.H. folk??

So... basically you want to be Forrest Gump?

Locker10a

My ideal life would be to finish collage and travel for a while. Then settle down get a good job that i enjoy doin and work with nice people!
Next i would like to meet the love of my life, go out for a while and then get married
Then id like to buy a nice surburban house thats not to far from work but in a nice area! I dont value money highly but i would like to afford a holiday every year along with the bills and car/health etc!! I would also like to be able to shop in Brown Thomas , House of fraiser etc.! But thats not really important to me! I may then consider family options! Havent thought much about that yet tho!
Above all though me ideal life would be one where im healthy and happy! But if i was givin the chance to choose id choose the above! But god only knows what lies on the path ahead of me!! But i hope its a long and healthy path

WindSock

Everyone's afraid of their own lives, if you could be anything you wanted, you'd be disappointed....amirite?

pragmatic1

Working on a nature reserve in a tropical island with no phone.

OneArt

To live in a free society where there is no need for money, and people are free to pursue the kinds of work they are truly interested in. Painters painting, writers writing and of course politicians being nothing more a boogey man made up to scare children into going to bed early. In this ideal world we will not have to live in fear, in floating cities and we will be able to walk the earth and use the resources that are rightfully ours. This war will be over, and the Ant People will be nothing more than a memory documented in the history books.

Bride2012

Mine now but with no money worries.

Eve_Dublin

Running a successful, busy hostel with a cafe/bar/bookshop stuck onto it on the North coast of Colombia. Some day....some day....

PseudoFamous

InTheTrees wrote: »

Dude?

Greystones...

:cool:

Warm? Greystones? Are we thinking of the same place?

Superbus

PseudoFamous wrote: »

Warm? Greystones? Are we thinking of the same place?

Yeah, he must have meant Bray.

af_thefragile

Designing and building cars...

x in the city

Cynthia Screeching Babble wrote: »

If you could go anywhere in the world, and do anything, what sort of life would you love to lead?

If you had no mortgage, debts, kids, family, job etc. to worry about, and you could just concentrate on what you enjoy - what would you do??

I'm not suggesting that anyone here isn't perfectly happy & content with their life as it is - It's just that all you hear these days is people complaining about this country and the fact that they would leave if they could.

I think I'd like to spend a few years travelling the world. Meeting new people and experiencing new cultures. I'd like to see life from both sides of the spectrum (ie. poor/rough living conditions, self sustenance, living off the land etc. as well as being loaded, staying in fancy hotels etc. etc.)

Basically I'd like to experience it all! Also, if I was able, I'd like to dedicate a lot of time to long distance running, and finding out just how far the average person can go!

By the time I'd experienced all of that I'd have hopefully found my ideal place to go and settle down.

What about the rest of you A.H. folk??

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the life of riley

Typh

Human nature too often complicates the equation. From the very beginning you could have a nice sized cave and several loin cloths, an abundance of flint and a pet ocelot, an adequate mate as a vessel for your seed, but pettiness could easily have you look at the neighbour and ask ‘Why don’t I have a cave like his? Or a.... mammoth as a pet?’ Then you shake your fist at the sun-god and go back to perfectly adequate life as a shell of a man, poisoned by jealousy and lack of perspective.

In today’s terms, even if you had four Scarlett Johannsons, you’d still ask why you don’t have seven Scarlett Johannsons, or why only two of them like anal. Then you would curse the fates for being so cruel and indulge in chemical espapism to the point where even four Scarlett Johannsons can't teach you to love again because you're dead inside.


Sorry to put a dampener on it, but I've seen several movies where people achieved the ideal life they perceived for themselves, and were still unsatisfied and left in want. So basically I'm basing this on absolutely nothing.

tl;dr- oral sex marathon with Alessia Ventura until her legs stop working or I get lock-jaw. Or a tame hippo that I could put a saddle on.

cofy

My life now, but with a house keeper and childminder, and a job for me!!!

saa

If I had no kids?
My perfect life involves children in it, I'd be devastated if it couldnt be.

My pefect life:

Living by the sea,
Being healthy,
Having disposable income and able to travel
a child or two
my partner
Still an artist
a successful one at that
not to feel lonely
to have nice Christmas'
know how to make clothes
have a book published



ah shyte Ive become one of those women.. with a list shudder!

Not that far off what i really want.. Changes would be having an extra 5k for a superbike here. No possibility of insurance so it's risky buying one. And maybe doing career work instead of teaching. As much as i like teaching and it is piss easy, some more experience while having fun would be great.

The only place I'd rather be right now is Myanmar or Bhutan. Maybe.
Come to Vietnam , it's a laugh.

Jesus Wept

ok

foxyboxer

Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.

endabob1

On tour with a rock & roll band, waist deep in coke and hookers

az2wp0sye65487

AgileMyth wrote: »

So... basically you want to be Forrest Gump?

Never thought of that.... Well, he did have a very interesting life! Maybe I'd like to have a little more intelligence though!

Typh wrote: »

Human nature too often complicates the equation. From the very beginning you could have a nice sized cave and several loin cloths, an abundance of flint and a pet ocelot, an adequate mate as a vessel for your seed, but pettiness could easily have you look at the neighbour and ask ‘Why don’t I have a cave like his? Or a.... mammoth as a pet?’ Then you shake your fist at the sun-god and go back to perfectly adequate life as a shell of a man, poisoned by jealousy and lack of perspective.

In today’s terms, even if you had four Scarlett Johannsons, you’d still ask why you don’t have seven Scarlett Johannsons, or why only two of them like anal. Then you would curse the fates for being so cruel and indulge in chemical espapism to the point where even four Scarlett Johannsons can't teach you to love again because you're dead inside.


Sorry to put a dampener on it, but I've seen several movies where people achieved the ideal life they perceived for themselves, and were still unsatisfied and left in want. So basically I'm basing this on absolutely nothing.

tl;dr- oral sex marathon with Alessia Ventura until her legs stop working or I get lock-jaw. Or a tame hippo that I could put a saddle on.

So what you're saying is you should focus on what you've already achieved, and be happy to have the life you are leading??

saa wrote: »

If I had no kids?
My perfect life involves children in it, I'd be devastated if it couldnt be.

I didn't mean that people's perfect life couldn't involve them having kids.... I suppose what I was getting at was trying to get people to think of what they could do if they had nobody or no thing depending on them!

foxyboxer wrote:

Zihuatanejo. It's in Mexico. A little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory. Open up a little hotel right on the beach. Buy some worthless old boat and fix it up new. Take my guests out charter fishing.

Would you be hanging around waiting for Morgan Freeman by any chance?

LostGirly

Travelling around the World teaching kids and volunteering in less well off areas. Simple as that - it's the first thing I'd do if I won the lotto too!!

Giselle

LostGirly wrote: »

Travelling around the World teaching kids and volunteering in less well off areas. Simple as that - it's the first thing I'd do if I won the lotto too!!

You don't need to win the lotto to do that

I'd probably opt out of the rat race for a few years and live a quiet life in rural France or Italy. Maybe I'll do it anyway.

LostGirly

Giselle wrote: »

You don't need to win the lotto to do that

I'd probably opt out of the rat race for a few years and live a quiet life in rural France or Italy. Maybe I'll do it anyway.

True, but I do need the lotto to be able to afford to pay off my debts and have the money to get to these places and have money to live on!

susita06

Locker10a wrote: »

My ideal life would be to finish collage and travel for a while.

And perhaps learn to spell college?:D:D

Sorry couldn't help it

Am, for me, I have just finished college so my ideal life would be to find a job I love and work for a year or two there. Then I would go back to college to do a masters and PHD and eventually become a highly paid specialist in my area

Find a man, buy a house, get married, have three/four children and just to be happy

Ciderswigger

In love and happy. Healthy lifestyle. Radio broadcaster. Living in Melbourne with a beach house and appartment in the city. Busy social life. Enough money to fly home a few times a year/fly family out to me.

TomBeckett

Well im pritty much doing it now:D Living in thailand with a great little woman and no money worries..Thinking of moving from Pattaya dough! too many sleezy f**king gay russians.Im thinking somewhare less hussle possibly Koh Tao..:D

bacon?

Well... I'm pretty much living it now

Mackman

Cynthia Screeching Babble wrote: »

If you had no kids, family, job etc.

Thats what i want. A nice house in which to raise a family here in Ireland. If i had no mortgage and could miraculously do it without a job, excellent