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Are you tired of the boring day to day aspects of life? Do you want something new and exciting? Then these are the ten places you want to live. They are all places that have come from fiction and each one has a special something to make life interesting and enjoyable. This list is in no particular order.
Reason for living here: King Arthur lives here and you can joust all day long!
Camelot comes from legendary British tales of King Arthur – who may, or may not, have been real. In Camelot we find Arthur’s famous round table where his knights get to sit around like equals and have a few beers while they discuss their latest knightly conquests. Camelot is surrounded by forests and rivers, so you can get in a spot of fishing and hunting if it floats your boat. Justice and peace reign in Camelot. Oh – and the ultra-hot (in a medieval way) Guinevere lives there too!
Reason for living here: No need to work, food a plenty, and everyone is naked!
Many believe Eden was a real place, and just as many don’t. But the fact is, if it were real, this would be the spot to settle down! The Garden of Eden is full of trees bent over with fruit and all the animals are friendly. Not only do you get to eat until you can eat no more, but you can ride lions and tigers all afternoon! Seriously – it doesn’t get more awesome than that. Just watch out for the snake!
Reason for living here: It is a City of Gold!
El Dorado is a legendary city of gold. It is seen as a type of “Holy Grail” for each man – the thing you most seek in life is found here. Basically, whatever your fetish, you will not leave unsatisfied from this place. Better yet, it is somewhere in South America, so it shouldn’t cost you much to get there!
Reason for living here: It rains cheese!
Cockaigne is a land of contraries, where all the restrictions of society are defied (abbots beaten by their monks), sexual liberty is open (nuns flipped over to show their bottoms), and food is plentiful (skies that rain cheeses). This is a place where idleness and gluttony are the principal occupations – who doesn’t want that?
Reason for living here: You never grow old
Beimeni is a legendary city – said to be home to the fountain of youth! It is also a land of great wealth – an earthly paradise. Legend has it that Juan Ponce de León discovered Florida while he was looking for Beimeni and the fountain of youth. Kind of ironic I guess.
Reason for living here: Battle and feast daily
Valhalla, the “afterworld” of the Vikings is a place where all the dead warriors and gods live. Now – you have to be dead to go there, but it is worth it! Every day you get to fight against giants! But wait – it gets better. At the end of every battle you get to feast on the cosmic boar and drink beer all night long! When you finish eating the boar (Sæhrímnir) he is brought back to life so you can start eating him all over again! Oh – and the Valkyries (hot goddesses) live here too – so you are not likely to get bored.
Reason for living here: If it’s good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for us!
Avalon is the place that King Arthur ended up before he died. It is also the place where King Arthur’s sword (Excalibur) was made. In Avalon you can get the best apples in the world – and presumably pretty damned good cider too. When Jesus came back to life, he is said to have visited Avalon with Joseph of Arimathea (the guy who gave Jesus his tomb). I told you the apples were good.
Reason for living here: It’s a utopia
Shangri-La is a mystical valley in the Himalayas. It is a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world. The people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan. The place is so popular that the Nazis sent an expedition out to find it in 1938. Fortunately they didn’t find it!
Reason for living here: Lots of gold and diamonds – and it’s magic!
Most of the descriptions of the City of the Caesars talks about the city as a prosperous and rich city full of gold, silver and diamonds. It is described as an enchanted city that appears in certain moments. At least one description says it located in between two mountains one of gold and another of diamonds.
Reason for living here: Orgies
Ys is a mythical city that was built on the coast of Brittany and later swallowed by the ocean. Ys was built below sea level by Gradlon, King of Cornouaille, upon the request of his daughter Dahut, who loved the sea. It was the most beautiful and impressive city in the world. Unfortunately for the King (but fortunately for those who live there), Dahut was a bad girl and she started throwing wild parties and orgies.
Contributor: Xanthius
August 19th, 2008 at 2:59 am
Ys Indeed!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:02 am
it is my dream to live in some kind of eden!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:10 am
‘El Dorado’is the place to go…fantastic list
August 19th, 2008 at 3:11 am
Mine too! Fortunately I am living in something CLOSE to an eden right now – I look out over a beautiful waterfall and rabbits playing in the garden. pics here
August 19th, 2008 at 3:38 am
wonderful list!!!!!
August 19th, 2008 at 3:40 am
the pics too……..which place is tat???
August 19th, 2008 at 3:43 am
Cool list, surprising how many fantasy worlds I’ve never heard of (I just invent my own mostly haha).
August 19th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Great list! Sign me up. And JFra, I’m jealous.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:17 am
It would have been good if the list included where (the book or legend or whatever) these fantastical places originated.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:18 am
jfrater: Shouldn’t you be shooting (and eating haha) those rabbits? Unless they’re pets of course
August 19th, 2008 at 4:21 am
Gee, I need a new travel agent. He has never told me of these places!
August 19th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Shangri-La sounds good…
btw, Shangri-La is actually a luxury hotel over here…XD
August 19th, 2008 at 4:26 am
Great list. I can’t pick where I would want to live. It’s a tough choice between orgies and raining cheese…
Also, I am really jealous Jamie, that looks like a gorgeous place to live.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:27 am
WHOT no Heaven?? Not even the muslim kind with all the virgins and stuff?
August 19th, 2008 at 4:58 am
wonderful places all !
except Cockaigne:
1) who wants to get bonked on the head with a cheese?
2) i do not want to see the bottoms of most nuns
(i will refrain from commenting on monks beating on abbots or abbots spanking little boys
)
thanks for a great list, Xanthius!
August 19th, 2008 at 5:12 am
I’m actually rather shocked that Atlantis didn’t make the list. Burgeoning technology, streets lined with copper and gold, wealth, prosperity, harmony.. I know I wouldn’t mind having a summer home there
August 19th, 2008 at 5:14 am
jfrater:
My god Jamie… that place is striking.
See, now if we ALL just lived in someplace like that, we’d ALL be happy. That is, if we also didn’t have to work and had all our needs tended to… They do that in New Zealand, don’t they?
Anyway, absolutely beautiful.
And Xanthius—nice list, good job.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:29 am
Pretty good list, but some more detailed explanations would have been appreciated. For example, from which stories/myths do Cockaigne and the City of the Caesars come from? I’ve never heard of them.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:37 am
One of the best lists ever! My personal choice? Cockaigne! Must be the best place for the best snort! Plus you get to beat church people and make love to promiscuous nuns!
August 19th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Randall / JFrater: Here’s a few pics of where I grew up in NZ (not my photos)
http://flickr.com/photos/maevans/2126806475/
http://flickr.com/photos/palmersintokyo/452091812/
They’re two different beaches but part of the same family farm. Pretty huh?
August 19th, 2008 at 5:47 am
what about atlantis?
August 19th, 2008 at 5:58 am
Tempyra:
Beautiful. Amazingly beautiful. To me there’s nothing better than a seascape. Beaches are the greatest inventions of creation.
All I have is my lake… nice, and I love it… but not the same.
But I do get to Maine every year. Not as nice as semi-tropical New Zealand, but at least it’s the ocean.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:02 am
jamie @4: Are you naked? (Ok, forget I asked that!)
nick @21: Bring your own scuba diving equipment.
Apropos of which, presumably the orgies in Ys took place before it was swallowed by the ocean.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:24 am
Randall: I’d settle for a lake right now (there is one up the road but it’s a silly little suburban one), Australia is a bit bare and dry for me (sorry Astraya
). Not to mention, it takes hours to get to a decent beach.
The description of Valhalla makes me laugh – a never-ending boar
August 19th, 2008 at 6:25 am
Nick: Yeah really, you’d think it would be there. The fact that it was destroyed by a giant wave though would make one think it was more like Japan than Utopia the size of Australia; imagine then all the earthquakes and tsunamis. No thank you, Atlantis, no thank you. I’ll stick to my falling cheese.
Actually, I would want to live in Tir Na Nog so I could become a mystic knight
August 19th, 2008 at 6:28 am
markus @ 14: this is a list of “mythical” places, so of course heaven wouldn’t be here because it actually exists.
Let the debate/war begin…
August 19th, 2008 at 6:30 am
I love your pics, Jamie. Can I come live with you?? I could be your maid!! Oh, great list, by the way.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:31 am
Egg: I kinda like the idea of the cheese place too as long as there was plenty of different types. I could get a bit bored eating cheddar everyday. Or brie. Or Camembert… I could go on
August 19th, 2008 at 6:33 am
My personal choice would be Homer Simpson’s Land of Chocolate
August 19th, 2008 at 6:34 am
Wdwn, Valhala, and Shangri-La for sure. Not so sure about no.1
August 19th, 2008 at 6:40 am
Tenebrae & nick: I was thinking Atlantis, too.
How about Chewandswallow from the book “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”? Everyday food rained from heaven – no need for shopping or any some such… Only problem, the food eventually got too big and the town was ruined. But it would’ve been beautiful before then.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:41 am
hrmm…I bet the cheesy place doesn’t smell very good. I’ll pick Camelot and choose when to eat cheese. Also, there’s knights there and they know how to treat a lady. Sign me up for Lancelot over smelly fat cheese men any day.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:42 am
Great idea for a list. I really enjoyed it!
August 19th, 2008 at 7:14 am
Excellent and very entertaining list! I pick Beimeni!
August 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am
What about Grand Theft Auto’s Liberty City….drinking, hookers, steal any car you want, of course, there is the whole murder thing….gotta take the negatives with the positives…
August 19th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Randy @ 26: Well Valhalla is the Vikings’ heaven.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:56 am
Randall-
Don’t you live in NY? I’d be at the Hamptons allllll time time. Maine is pretty too, though. Unfortunately I only have Ocean City- Maryland, not New Jersey- (thank god) but it’s definitely not the same. Makes the 5 hour trip to the Outer Banks waaaaaaaaaay more worth it every year.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:02 am
Callie:
At present I live in *upstate* NY, though… though of course I agree about the Hamptons… only trouble is, it’s so *gentrified.* I prefer Maine. We went there every summer when I was a kid. We had a place on the coast.
But my present location isn’t bad. I live on a very nice, large lake, with a beach and my sailboat and a big backyard and nice neighbors who ply me with gin. Can’t beat that easily.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:23 am
Funny, when I think of Camelot, I can only think of this…
OR…
August 19th, 2008 at 8:36 am
I would be pretty contented with King Solomon’s mines.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:43 am
What about Big Rock Candy Mountain?
Similar, I know, to Cockaigne, but it has it’s own anthem already
August 19th, 2008 at 8:45 am
What, no heaven?
August 19th, 2008 at 8:58 am
How about Rivendell?
August 19th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Screw all that, I want to be inside Willy Wonka’s factory where the SNOZZBERRIES TASTE LIKE SNOZZBERRIES!!
Course, I’d probably end up like that fat kid and get stuck in the chocolate tube.
I guess you gotta die of something but what a great way to go.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:22 am
haha i enjoy number one and how it just said orgies.
the end. haha
August 19th, 2008 at 9:26 am
I would go for the garden of eden, but then again I am not a strict fruit and veggie person.
I enjoy my braai now and again – but I suppose waking up in the morning and having friendly buck and animals around you, staring at you with droopy moist eyes – I would delete that idea from my mind.
Fantastic site
August 19th, 2008 at 9:40 am
Im changing my pseodonym to Dahut!
August 19th, 2008 at 9:41 am
“pseudonym”
August 19th, 2008 at 9:44 am
jfrater #4: I am suprised that you have time to maintain this website whilst living in such a beautiful place. I would be spending most of my time outside with nature.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:50 am
nice new list
August 19th, 2008 at 9:53 am
a list like that is really exiting to read
August 19th, 2008 at 10:28 am
i don’t know if i would want to live in Ys because in the wikipedia article, it says that after the orgies Dahut killed the boys
August 19th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Is this the same Ys that I played on my Turbo Grafx16 way back in the day?!
August 19th, 2008 at 10:54 am
Brigadoon would be cool, every day passing is 100 years in the real world.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:20 am
The first place I thought of was Utopia, and it doesn’t even make an appearance?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:20 am
What about Atlantis?
August 19th, 2008 at 11:23 am
B!
I was wondering where you went
August 19th, 2008 at 11:36 am
Did you miss me?!
August 19th, 2008 at 11:39 am
Of ALL these spots, the coolest really, to me, seems to be Shangri-La. In the original film of “Lost Horizon” (it’s better than the book, I think, but then most films with Ronald Coleman are a delight… I’d advise everyone to check it out… it’s a true classic) the nobility of the place comes across so well that it makes you feel warm just to watch it. Of course, I’m not so sure I agreed with the philosophy behind it, but then that tug of war between resigning from the world and participating in it was always touchy.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:49 am
But of course. Or forum has run dry. Also, I want to know if you like cheese world or one of the cooler ones. Don’t pick the orgy one just for the orgy.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Jamie, catch any good browns in that river?? Oh, and I can think of a few good hassenpfeffer recipes for your yard hoppers!
Markus(14) & metoo(42) – heaven is not a mythical place to most people – it’s the real deal, so it doesn’t fit in this list.
I have people telling me every now and again that I’m living in a fantasy world anyway, so the above places are just normal old home to me…
August 19th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Maybe I’m just a cynic, but El Dorado seems kinda short sighted as earthly paradises go. Seems to me that if you lived in an entire city made of gold, then after a while gold would lose its meaning, and it’d become just another metal. That and the glare would get extremely annoying after a while.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Tempyra: wow – where are those places? They look like a great holiday destination to me! The pink beach reminds me a lot of Oriental Parade in Wellington.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:09 pm
astraya (23): no – I wasn’t
August 19th, 2008 at 12:12 pm
robneiderman: Utopia is more of a concept than a place so I am not sure it should be on this list.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
jfrater: It’s now Kauri Cliffs golf course near Matauri Bay in Northland
August 19th, 2008 at 12:18 pm
Awesome list! I love cheese but I don’t know if I’d love it to rain cheese! I think I’d stay in Camelot or Valhalla. Valhalla would be cool because then I could battle without worrying about dying – I’d already be dead!
August 19th, 2008 at 12:23 pm
this list is very sexual oriented
August 19th, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Valhalla sounds good to me! It also sounds like a middle eastern god.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
If I had to choose from one on this list, orgies excluded, I would say Valhalla. I can’t pass up feasting on boar and beer. If I could choose any other place I wanted, I would choose middle earth so I could kick it with Gandalf smokin some pipe-weed and go hang out with the hot elf chicks.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
tempyra: ah – thanks for that! I might have to check it out sometime!
Randall: I think Shangri-la was also featured in Sky Captain – the picture above comes from it.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
jfrater:
That’s right! And I have copies of both films… but I forgot about it being in Sky Captain… I loved that nerdy piece of cheese! Great fun movie.
August 19th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
And thankfully they closed down that air base they built at Shangri-La during the war… through a lot of the lamas and porters out of work but they rebounded….
August 19th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
why isnt narnia/middle earth on that list
August 19th, 2008 at 12:59 pm
Randall: I actually didn’t end up watching it all the way through – I must do that at some point – I have it on DVD. I liked the style of filming.
jon: I think that everything on this list is much older than those places – ie, older legends.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:05 pm
I agree with “B-Rad.”
Middle Earth…no doubt. Hobbiton or somehwere nearby. I know i’m a geek but how sweet would it be to go drinking at the Prancing Pony?
August 19th, 2008 at 1:09 pm
jfrater:
It’s a lot of silly fun, but it really could have been a much better movie if they’d have focused on the story a bit more. The oveure, the cinematography, as it were, was great though, yes.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
These are mythical places that have come from fiction. Middle Earth is a mythical place from fiction so it could be on the list. I can go into the reasons why you would NOT want to live there but if you’ve read the books you’d know about the bad stuff that goes on there. So it may not really be a place you’d want to live hence it’s exclusion from the list.
And by the way, I had never read the books let alone heard about Lord of the Rings before the movies came out. I thought the story was for nerds and if I went to the theater to watch it, it would be a dorkfest. Now it’s my favorite story/movie, go figure.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:23 pm
hmmm, Ys sounds the best place……ever
August 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pm
I don’t get why anyone would want to go to Middle Earth. If its to see Gandalf or some elf chicks why not just take them to Ys?
Also, Yun (62), It’d be more for sheer brilliance. I the great pyramid was covered in a layer of white limestone for its brilliance and seemed to work.
Ironically the first historical account of inflation was in Spain after the Spaniards raided the Aztecs.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:28 pm
B_Rad. I saw LOTR I and II at the theatre and III on DVD. I seem to be the only person in the world who doesn’t like them at all.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
You definitely are not. The only other person in my family that likes the movies and read the books is my mom. Everyone else thinks it’s stupid.
Oh, I just thought of another “mythical” place I’d like to live…the Lost island. Anyone else?
August 19th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
I’m so there.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
I liked The Hobbit. LOTR..not so much.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
Did you know they’re making The Hobbit movie? It’s being directed by Guillermo Del Toro though, not Peter Jackson.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
“Guillermo Del Toro though, not Peter Jackson.”
Perhaps the only better choice available.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I did know that.
B_Rad + brad. Somewhere, a worm hole jsut opened up in the fabric of time (space? I’m not good with worm holes….) anyway, the mind reels. I want a C_allie.
August 19th, 2008 at 1:52 pm
George Lucas would be WAAAAAY better! Just look at the last three Star Wars movies.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
The lost Island? You would die after your series of flashbacks concluded.
I’d like to go to “Isla de Muerta”
August 19th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
honorable mentions:
Atlantis
Heaven (of whatever religion)
Mt. Olympus
Narnia
Middle Earth
Coruscant
Flostam Paradise (5th element)
August 19th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
doppleganger:
You’re not alone. my daughter and I call them “the stupid lord of the stupid rings”.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:22 pm
Janus:
I just call them “Oh, those. [sigh]”
I’ll hand it to peter though, they are cinematic master pieces but I don’t like the story/setting and I hate Frodo! He drops anchor in poo-bay.
There are other fantasy master pieces that i like to behold. Pirates o/t Carribian was brilliant.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:34 pm
Quote Janus “…I call them “the stupid lord of the stupid rings”.”
That’s one of the dimmest things i’ve read in awhile. Put your period inside of the closed quote and I will accept your simple opinion.
What’s with all the LOTR/Middle Earth hating? Sure, in the books, it is war torn. But that’s mostly out of Hobbiton culture and…well…wh– Aww..nevermind…
I still wouldn’t mind living there.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
jfrater – Where in the heaven do you live?
August 19th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
“I love your pics, Jamie. Can I come live with you?? I could be your maid!! Oh, great list, by the way.”
Deepthinker: Don’t even think about it!
I’m throwing my hat into the ring to be Jamie’s manservant. Aside from my gas and chronic masturbation, I’d be a perfect attendant.
August 19th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
what about never never land?
August 19th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Coming from someone who thought Pirates of the Caribbean was brilliant, anything they have to say about any movie will have to be taken with a grain of salt =)
August 19th, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Atlantis?
C’mon, man….now I’m all sad lol
Nice list
August 19th, 2008 at 2:56 pm
Logar, Deepthinker: On the masturbation thing I am not going to comment but I have no difficulties with flatulence and I can cook. Very well. I win! I want a spot in NZ paradise.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
B_Rad:
You didnt like pirates? are you mental?
August 19th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
This is a great list, I’ll be daydreaming about a couple of them for sure.
My pick though would have to be Hogwarts. I would love to be a professor of something fantastic and live in a stone tower surrounded by magic.
August 19th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Hyrule would be neat
August 19th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
It was ok, but not good enough for me to watch the two sequels. I mean come on, it was based off of a ride at Disneyland that I thought was lame when I was 5.
August 19th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
What It was based on should not alter ones impressions of it. I don’t know what it would take to please you. Its a pirate movie, lots of well coreographed sword fighting, plenty of humour, a few very intriguing and well comprised characters, a hottie
, ancient aztec cursed treasure, walking talking skeletons and to finish it all off with a skeleton vs pirate vs redcoat battle.
How is THAT not good enough?! it almost sounds like you would need it distilled into something less than it is.
btw, did you never play or fantasise pirates when you were young?
August 19th, 2008 at 4:55 pm
The fact that it was based on a disney theme park ride is not enough to dis an encredibly far-removed action film.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
Excellent list. After the day that I had today at work I think any of these places would be a great escape!
And Jamie I hereby throw my resume into the ring for the job to come and be your maid!!!
Those pictures are great Jamie you must be totally thrilled to be living there again!!
August 19th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
Wonderful list! All of these mythical places are lovely, but none make me wish I lived in them.
The pix of NZ came closest to making me want to live somewhere other than where I live, but, in the end, I live in paradise and have no plans to move anywhere else.
My home is in the woods, no neighbors save the wildlife, yet only 5 minutes from the ocean.
How could anyone want more?
August 19th, 2008 at 5:27 pm
Original and entertainingly written list Xanthius.
My favorite was #5 “When you finish eating the boar (Sæhrímnir) he is brought back to life so you can start eating him all over again!”
I can imagine there is a lot of purging going on there too.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:37 pm
The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy did a great episode on Valhalla. You’d fight to the death in an last-man-standing war and when you were mortally wounded/killed you’d appear back in the mess hall where you could consume unlimited Rootbeer and Pork.
Sounds like paradise ether way.
August 19th, 2008 at 5:58 pm
@Brickhouse:
Absolutely man! I loved that book. Sadly, I hear Sony’s making a movie of it.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Brigadoon.
August 19th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
Brickhouse and Christopherborne: I read that book aloud so many times, the binding fell apart!
August 19th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
The Doppleganger:
You just reminded me of a joke.
A pirate walks into a bar and he has a steering wheel attached to the front of his pants. The bartender asks, “hey, what’s with the steering wheel hangin from your crotch?” The pirate replies, “Aarrghh, I dunno, but it’s drivin me nuts!”
Sorry dude, I can go on and on about how great I think LOTR is but it’s not gonna change your opinion of it is it? I didn’t think so.
Oh, and to answer your question, no, all I played was sports growing up.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
I woudlnt mind living in Shangri – La
.
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My name is arthur
August 19th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
How about Naboo, with the Gungans? Seems pretty close to Atlantis to me…
August 19th, 2008 at 7:08 pm
I enjoyed that joke as much as I enjoyed the LOTR movies.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
I want to live in Monrovia.
August 19th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
you can live in atlantis, assuming you are very good at holding your breath
August 19th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
deep717: I live in New Zealand
August 19th, 2008 at 7:57 pm
which, by the way, was quite a bit.
August 19th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
I’ve been to el dorado. I got 2 beef taco’s to go.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
i’d have to vote for narnia. talking friendly beasts, trees, water nymphs and the like. plus, in the last book, the ability to run at incredible speeds like it is nothing without getting tired.
August 19th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
hrmm…I bet the cheesy place doesn’t smell very good. I’ll pick Camelot and choose when to eat cheese. Also, there’s knights there and they know how to treat a lady. Sign me up for Lancelot over smelly fat cheese men any day.
Callie (32): Actually, if you were to read Mists of Avalon, there’s some pretty strong hints that Lancelot was gay and in live with Arthur- although he was certainly a heart throb among the medieval ladies.
On a related subject, Avalon was also considered basically the pagan centre of the universe in post-Roman Britain, in addition to its “sister island” which was big Christian pilgrimage. Morgan Le Fey was high priestess there, according to legend, and was the one who brought her half-brother Arthur there to die.
August 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pm
Wow. I wish I had a place like that JFrater. My view of the Waitemata Harbour aint that great.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:11 pm
There is a tribe in S Africa that uses neck rings, but the main group that does it is the Kayan of Burma and Thailand: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neck_ring.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:13 pm
Oops, sorry, wrong list. The comment above should have gone under “body modifications”. It has got nothing to do with mythical places. S Africa, Burma and Thailand are real.
August 19th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
Whatever. Stupid. I expected someplace like “Narniah” or “Atlantis” or something, not a bunch of places I never heard of.
August 20th, 2008 at 12:15 am
jwhatever: thanks for your comment – it is always nice to meet people who have no interest whatsoever in improving their knowledge.
August 20th, 2008 at 2:35 am
As Mr Garrison once said – There is no such thing as stupid comments, just stupid people.
August 20th, 2008 at 3:22 am
Mr garrison has said a lot of things. like:
“Garrison: Good news, children! I’m gay.
children: Again?”
B_Rad:
I didn’t ask you to explain you love of LORT, I can understand why you like it, why anyone would like it. I don’t understand why you don’t like Pirates OTC?
August 20th, 2008 at 3:27 am
I do not want to go to Camelot. It’s a silly place… And of course, it’s only a model.
August 20th, 2008 at 5:01 am
Awesome list. Also, jfrater, I think I’d like to be your new neighbor, haha
August 20th, 2008 at 5:07 am
Well now this is a good list and I think I would go to Ys!! Comon now all you need is love lol
August 20th, 2008 at 5:14 am
Oh, I would love to live in Shangri-La.
Ys is just weird. And who is Gradlon?
August 20th, 2008 at 5:24 am
Btw, Cockaigne reads like cocaine. Does it have any significance?
August 20th, 2008 at 7:17 am
Hmm, I don’t think I’d enjoy Valhalla since I’m vegetarian and can’t stand beer. But the rest sound fantastic!
August 20th, 2008 at 8:06 am
storm_shadow (136)You can’t stand beer? It’s ambrosia.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:20 am
Send me to Valhalla when I die. End.
August 20th, 2008 at 8:26 am
Doppleganger:
You were explaining why you loved Pirates as if to make me agree with you that it is a great movie (for me to poop on) and I simply said that me doing the same thing to you about LOTR would be pointless. Does that make sense?
Sorry, but I couldn’t pass up an opportunity to use a Triumph the Insult Comic Dog reference =)
August 20th, 2008 at 8:26 am
B_rad i laughed for like five minutes. It’s like an adult laffy taffy joke. (byt the way, leffy taffy has the best jokes ever.. what kind of teeth can you buy with a dollar? buck teeth. Classic.)
August 20th, 2008 at 8:44 am
So that’s where you get your jokes…that buck teeth one is a knee slapper.
August 20th, 2008 at 11:49 am
the list is incomplete, what about Comstock?
August 20th, 2008 at 5:03 pm
Well to each his own I guess, B_Rad.
August 20th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
zion? from the matrix? they got nice orgies too.
August 20th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
Uhh, that’s what I’ve been trying to say.
August 21st, 2008 at 12:05 pm
What about Hogwarts?
August 21st, 2008 at 12:33 pm
emmstein: Forget Zion. I would plug my ass into the Matrix itself and live my fantasy life. At least for a little while.
August 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
I was so convinced that Atlantis would be number 1 and it wasn’t even on the list!
August 21st, 2008 at 2:05 pm
problem with ys is that in the morning dahut would kill her lovers
August 21st, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I think ListVerse got hacked.
If I search, I get redirected to some splog.
August 21st, 2008 at 2:55 pm
Mark: was it a redirect advert? A full page one?
August 21st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
it was at some “crazy-videoz” thing.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:20 pm
you forgot heaven …it’s mythical and alot of sheep want to live there
August 21st, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Watch yourself memememememe, the sheep don’t like sheep bashing.
August 22nd, 2008 at 10:03 am
Avalon for me… butwhat about Atlantis? I’d live there too!
August 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 pm
Trouble with atlantis is that it might not be Mythical. And Myth or reality, ether way, it went under long ago, so you’d need to go back in time.
August 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 pm
I’ve been on this site for a very long time now.
It’s time for me to start actually commenting!
I know a place like Ys over by the Pauls market. Tons of orgies at that house. Not as castlely though, but more like a crakhouse.
August 22nd, 2008 at 9:13 pm
What about Hogwarts Narnia and Middle earth were left off this list, disappointing.
August 23rd, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Because nobody would want to live there, but nerds.
August 23rd, 2008 at 1:13 pm
i would have put lothlorien on here, from lord of the rings.
August 23rd, 2008 at 6:53 pm
You forgot one.
CALIFORNIA
The name California is most commonly believed to have derived from a storied paradise peopled by black Amazons and ruled by Queen Califia. The myth of Califia is recorded in a 1510 work The Exploits of Esplandian, written as a sequel to Amadís de Gaula by Spanish adventure writer García Ordóñez Rodríguez de Montalvo.The kingdom of Queen Califia, according to Montalvo, was said to be a remote land inhabited by griffins and other strange beasts and rich in gold.
“Know ye that at the right hand of the Indies there is an island named California, very close to that part of the terrestrial Paradise, which was inhabited by black women, without a single man among them, and that they lived in the manner of Amazons. They were robust of body, with strong and passionate hearts and great virtues. The island itself is one of the wildest in the world on account of the bold and craggy rocks. Their weapons were all made of gold. The island everywhere abounds with gold and precious stones, and upon it no other metal was found.”
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:08 pm
I too am surprised that Atlantis didn’t end up on this list.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:13 am
ooooooooohhhhhhh orgies!
August 24th, 2008 at 4:20 am
Tim, #161:
That’s really cool! I never new that, although there is a lot I don’t know about America. I find Myth and Legend is fascinating because they endure so long and tell a lot about our distant ancestors. They make up a lot of the basis of our culture and I’m always interested to see how one ancient story will permeate many many ancient cultures.
For instance, Noah and the Great flood, as well as other biblical epics find there way into many ancient peoples, often even pre-dating Christianity and Jewry.
August 24th, 2008 at 10:34 am
people you forgot this land: the NEVERLAND… Peter Pan’s land/world… imagine an island near the clouds… and imagine people like tinkerbell live there, if uve just watched the Peter Pan, ull see the wonders of Neverland just don’t fit Capt. Hook and his pirates
August 24th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, Zealandia. Any submerged (lost) continent would be fun to visit and explore.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:15 am
Whoops, can’t forget about Terra Australis!
August 24th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Didn’t you people ever play Uncharted… El Dorado wasn’t a city of gold, it was a golden idol containing the cursed body of the tribal chief the legend comes from. ;D
Just kidding though, I know it’s more commonly used to refer to the city that the chief supposedly founded. Great list guys.
August 24th, 2008 at 11:43 am
Yea, and El Dorado was purposefully lost to prevent the outbreak of zombies.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:42 pm
168. Y2Ken
Didn’t you people ever play Uncharted…
****
Most of us have been too busy earning a living…
August 25th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
IT RAINS CHEESE IN COCKAIGNE?! Count me in!!
Aaaanyway. I was kinda surprised that Narnia didn’t show up on the list; that’d be an awesome place to live.
Another cool place is Hogwarts, if it counts as a place. Ever since I first read Harry Potter I’ve wanted to go there. XD
August 26th, 2008 at 4:17 pm
The legend of El Dorado is from Colombia. Eldorado is the name of the Bogota’s international airport. El Dorado is on Colombia!
August 27th, 2008 at 12:35 am
I want to leave the dimension of reality and go to these places. But how and where is the exit?
August 27th, 2008 at 12:36 am
Especially the Garden of Eden. Everyone is naked! Good one~
August 28th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Camelot-After Monty Python and the Holy Grail? Nope. I would always be afraid of running into those Frenchies from the Castle of Aaaaaaahhhh…
Garden of Eden-Landlord evicts at the drop of a hat. No arbitration available.
El Dorado-If everything is gold then gold ain’t worth nothing. Supply and demand. Besides, I’m more into muscle cars.
Cockaigne-Cheese AND sex, together? Think of the smell.
Beimeni-I bet you those people are peeing in that pool.
Valhalla-Do you want to spend eternity with a leather bit in your teeth as some Valkyrie raises welts and yells “Zay it! Who ist deine Mommy?!”
Avalon-I hate apples.
Shangri-La-A place where all you get to hear are old show tunes?
City of the Caesars-See above El Dorado. And I bet you Julius only shows up once in awhile and then pretends he doesn’t know you.
Ys-Orgies ain’t so much fun if you’re drowning.
September 3rd, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Remember that we are here in this world because we didn`t want to be in such places like heaven anymore!
September 18th, 2008 at 1:06 am
Fun list! But Randall, hate to break it to ya, but most of New Zealand is very far from “semi tropical”. Why only yesterday in class we were all commenting on how hot it was for a change, at around twelve degrees.
October 13th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
El Dorado … Edgar Allan Poe: I see beyond it … I know,
where the city of gold is … booyah
also, greatest mysteries list: money pit; map HELLO!!!
October 18th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
What, no Shire?
November 2nd, 2008 at 6:38 am
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Ys!
Not the place, the Joanna Newsom album.
Is it a soundtrack to the orgies?
Number 1 indeed!
November 5th, 2008 at 6:27 am
I wanna go to Atlantis…
November 13th, 2008 at 7:03 pm
Im going for Ys!!!!
December 1st, 2008 at 10:58 pm
cmon man, what about Naboo? Or Cloud City?
December 4th, 2008 at 10:59 pm
No utopia? thomas more would be sad…
January 11th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
No Rivendell??
Or Hogwarts??
But I totally agree with Avalon.
January 23rd, 2009 at 11:22 am
They are all beautiful places! The garden of Eden is said to have existed in the middle east “where the rivers meet”. The suggested location is the joining point where the Euphrates and Tigris rivers and other tributaries originate in the northern part of the country. If it did exist it is proposed that the Garden of Eden would be below water level at this time and further exploration has not been initiated to determine this.
February 4th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
Okay what the hell is the fu*k is the point of a talking advertisement? “Congratulations you’ve been chosen to get a free Nintendo Wii” holy christ are you in that much desperate need of donations? Christ…
February 17th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
I’m in on the place with the orgies…and then maybe I’ll go to Shangra Li…..or maybe Ys……or maybe the City of Ceasars….I dunno, who has the hottest, richest girls?
March 3rd, 2009 at 7:46 am
haha i’m gla someone metioned hogwarts nad c’mon why not atlantis
March 5th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Hogwarts.
April 12th, 2009 at 6:43 pm
Paradise Island? of Wonder Woman Fame.
Also Utopia over cheesy sky place!!!
April 22nd, 2009 at 11:23 am
Dude, HOGWARTS! c’mon!
April 22nd, 2009 at 6:37 pm
my dream is to live in a magical place like these places
May 1st, 2009 at 6:54 am
what about atlantis or neverland?
May 1st, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Definitely Ys!
June 29th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Hogwarts for me. Apart from that, I would like to live in Shangri La. City of gold just doesn’t tempt me.