Metro Vancouver fits the bill. North Van you can ski or mountain bike or hike (depending on season) in the morning, then go golf or sail for the afternoon.
Bay area matches all this
- ocean: Pacific
- forests: coastal redwoods just south of the city and a bit further up in muir woods
- countryside: North Bay with open hiking areas and wine country
- mountains: Santa cruz range and diablo range
- big city: San Francisco, Oakland, San jose
It’s just that the place is very desirable with not a lot of developable land because it fits all those things so rent/housing is going to be outrageous.
The north bay is not countryside. All you need to do is head less than an hour east into the central valley. Merced/Methdesdo/Fresno/Sacramento could be anywhere between Kansas and Texas.
If you REALLY want to push it, you could try saying the coast between half moon bay and Santa Cruz. Thats pretty rough and country. But definitely not North Bay Area. That’s about as gentrified as you can get around these parts. Tiburon is so rich I’m pretty sure you get in trouble for talking about it on the internet.
Oops I’m already living this life in western Washington
Come to Oregon
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
So the suburbs of a small island like the cannary islands?
I grew up on the Gulf Coast of Florida. Skip the city and the sea. By a big lake or river in the forest in the mountains is as good as it gets.
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.
Oregon
Volcano too close.
Just make sure you’re east of the lake.
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.
It really is incredible. So many biomes on one island, like a Just Cause map.
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.
You want to live in Lebanon.
Lester Kitchens (Colton Dunn) In The Recruit S1 correct
