I used to live in Pacifica, CA and it fits all those requirements.
Tokyo, Vancouver, Bilbao, probably any town in Chile, If you think they are cities probably Bergen and Cairns
Toronto is not far from any of that (well, lake instead of ocean but it’s fresh water!)
Vancouver not far from better versions of all that (except maybe countryside?)
California
In the legendary sci-fi book called Hyperion, one of the characters has a house where each room is on a different planet. That’s one of the things I remember most vividly from reading that book. I thought it was so cool.
I‘d be glad to have this for one Planet. Earth is diverse enough. You just have to be careful not to move invasive animals around.
Also heating and cooling would take almost no energy, just open the right window.
Volcano too close.
The front’s gonna fall off any minute now, just you watch (it won’t happen until I move there)
The day before your volcano insurance kicks in.
Minecraft biomes be like
Victoria?
Penn island ≠ peninsula
Nanning is a city of 9 million, with mountains, countryside, forest, and ocean within 1 hour train ride.
Kunming is actually in the mountains, but no ocean, and probably my favorite place in the world.
Da Lat is a smaller city in the mountains proper, and the ocean is ~2 hours away.
An hour is a pretty long way by train, surely almost everyone has at least most of those things within an hour by train? If you drop mountain to hills then it’s even more accessible.
If you drop sea to puddle you’d make it even even more accessible
I live in a place that is a 3 hour drive (at 70+ mph) to the gulf, a 6 hour drive to the nearest mountain range (incidentally in another country) and about 4-5 hour drive to the nearest forest.
Oh, and I’m not in a small town, this is a city of 2.5 million people. With another city of 2.1 million people not too far away with the same issue.
The big Island of Hawai’i. Everything from the desert to rainforest to volcano to the beaches.
Also some Mediterranean areas have this. Like Barcelona or Marseille are wedged right between ocean and foresty mountains, for example. This is actually a common thing.
Drop the city.
Calm down, Ultron
So… A coastal mountain forest city 🤔 with… Treescrapers? I feel like that name could use work…
(Also I find its really nice to romanticise where I already am not just the other places. My neighbor is lovely and gifted me a pepper for helping carry out recycling to the recycling dumpster in my complex, and I have a little ledge where I put my plants ☺️☺️☺️)
seattle? anchorage?
West coast in general, no wonder so many people live in the bay area for example
I was going to throw in Sacramento. Your a 2 hour drive from everything, but you can drive to every major biome in the lower 48.
That would be Nice.
Damn, now I feel special. I don’t want all of it, just in a broadleaf forrest (with a little bit colder climate) at the foot of a hill next to a lake. Which is very mucb achievable, even though I’d have to either learn Swedish, Norwegian… or move to Canada.
In my experience basically everybody in Scandinavia speaks English, you’ll be fine
You want to live in Lebanon.
Lester Kitchens (Colton Dunn) In The Recruit S1 correct
I may have shiny thing syndrome, but I never got the wanderlust thing. I think wandering and ending up homeless kind of cured me lol
