Star Trek. I want to live in a post-scarcity society with incredible technology.
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I'll see your Star Trek and raise you The Culture.
The Culture is objectively the safer answer. Living in Star Trek feels like it carries a fairly significant daily risk of being assimilated / used in a Romulan plot / sucked into some weird negative space wedgie / having a console explode in your face for no good reason.
Meanwhile, if you're in the Culture, you've pretty well got it made.
Yeah The Federation has a surprising lack of Space OSHA?
Right there with ya. 🖖
How about the Simpsons? A fictitious America where a man can own a house and provide for his family with one job.
Not fictitious. That's how it was in the late 80's before the full aftereffects of reaganomics kicked in.
Fine, what's a TV show based in '80s America? The Americans! Just a nice, stress-free American family life in the suburbs.
Hyrule, preferably the version from Breath of the Wild. I mean, yes there is the whole Ganon thing and one shouldn't go too close to the castle, but the rest of the kingdom is pretty chill, and apparently you can make an easy living by just lazy foraging in the countryside, or by selling a handful of acorns and bugs at random stables, or by growing a grand total of eight pumpkins.
I'll take a life as a homeless but well-fed drifter on horseback anytime over ... this. gestures vaguely at the current state of the world
For a world that are post apocalyptic, Hyrule sure seems relatively chill tbh. But obviously i will choose pre-apocalyptic Hyrule
Pern!
Although the person who picked the Culture is absolutely on to something.
Wow! I wasn't the first one! I want a fire-lizard. Granted, I also want a dragon, but that seems overly presumptuous.
I like the 40k universe, but fuck actually living in it.
Same with me and the Game of Thrones universe
Good news is you won't live long anyway
Stardew Valley is pretty laid-back and low-stakes. Relationships are incredibly easy--just give them a fish or a rock or whatever. I could get into it.
I wish someone would try to build a relationship with me by treating me like a Stardew NPC. Do you have any idea how quickly I would grow to love someone if they had a habit of giving me random shiny rocks and vegetables that they grew?
I love the world of TES 3: Morrowind. It's amazing mixture of green plains, harsh deserts, mountains, swamps, sea shores, islands, hills and all between sprinkled with alien like vegetation. Not sure if I wanted to live there forever (with all the slavery, undead and wild beasts), but ever since I played it for the first time I absolitely fell in love with the world and its atmosphere.
Yeah my first thought is The Elder Scrolls universe as well. Though I'd probably prefer Skyrim's world, especially as someone who lived too long in a tropical area and misses colder temperature. I think I'd love to live in a cottage in an eternal fall of Riften.
I have it pretty bad for The Elder Scrolls. I've returned to the series time and time again for decades now, primarily Morrowind and Skyrim, and spend a huge amount of time each playthrough reading every single book and immersing myself in Nirn and it's lore. I genuinely feel humbled by all of it, and something about that universe, the depth of its history with its unreliable narrators leaving much to speculation, as well as that immense sea of stars, Masser and Secunda, and the guardian constellations watching over you at night to the overwhelming swells of Jeremy Soule's music is just profoundly moving to me in a way I can't quite put into words.
Same, I also mentioned in other reply I feel so comfortable in Riften
LoTR would be hella cool to live in, especially in The Shire.
I would absolutely love to just chill with my hobbit friends, tend to the fields, then either party or have a lovely dinner party at night and head back to my hobbit hole. Then wake n bake in the morning and do it all over again!
My own, tbh. I guess any writer that does escapist type fantasy kinda wants to live there.
But, generally (and in keeping with your question more), not as an adult. When I was younger, absolutely. Xanth was my favorite place in the fictional world for a few years. It seemed like the perfect place to escape the ugliness of the real world.
Would you describe that world to us? Man I still remember having wild imagination as a child... I don't think I can do that now that I'm older...
honestly, you can! its a skill and if you work at it and practice, your mind can really open up.
Roshar!
Let's see how Wind and Truth ends first lol
If it's a hundred years or so before book events, and not in Vorin kingdoms (Azir maybe?) then sure. Scadrial during Elendel era would offer a better quality of life though.
The movie from studio Ghibli Whisper of the Heart is so beautiful I wish I can live there :(
Ghibli studio man....
One of the only happy tears that happened in my life is probably when I watched Howl's Moving Castle. The sound track, the beautiful animation... I just can't
Sailor moon. I watched it originally in high school and I'm still a huge fan, I would love to be in crystal Tokyo.
Hehe, good choice!
My fiancee is a huge Sailor Moon fan I took her to Hikawa shrine in japan last year. We saw a couple other local sailor moon locations too it was great. The day after I took her to the waterfall at the base of Tokyo tower and proposed to her.
Congratulations :')
Stargate SG1.
Just got to take a nap one time in a sarcophegus to fix everything. Enough to fix the major stuff, not enough to be turned into an asshole.
Narnia! I have read all 7 books multiple times over the years and get lost in the world each time.
Stardew Valley is the obvious choice, but I'll go with something more obscure and say Glie
Chilling farm life without worrying about rent and food. You even surviving without work anytime.
The world of Bluey and Friends.
I don't personally, but would you like to learn about reality shifting, where people really believe they can do this?
Stardew Valley, ATLA.
Tolkien's Arda, First Age, Beleriand.
Yes, I know the clock for it's utter destruction would be ticking. Still, the way it's described in the books has kept me yearning to see such vistas with my own eyes.
Discworld
Depends on context. Do I get fantastic powers or just regular "dump 'em in the middle of somewhere and let them figure it out"?
If the former, I gotta fix that Harry Potter world. It ticks me off.
If the latter, a version of reality where people stay true to their ideals and don't just spot random bullshit. It might be better, it might be worse, I want to see the difference.