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
I’ve been to el dorado. I got 2 beef taco’s to go.
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.
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.
Wow. I wish I had a place like that JFrater. My view of the Waitemata Harbour aint that great.
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.
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.
Whatever. Stupid. I expected someplace like “Narniah” or “Atlantis” or something, not a bunch of places I never heard of.
jwhatever: thanks for your comment – it is always nice to meet people who have no interest whatsoever in improving their knowledge.
As Mr Garrison once said – There is no such thing as stupid comments, just stupid people.
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?
I do not want to go to Camelot. It’s a silly place… And of course, it’s only a model.
Awesome list. Also, jfrater, I think I’d like to be your new neighbor, haha
Well now this is a good list and I think I would go to Ys!! Comon now all you need is love lol
Oh, I would love to live in Shangri-La.
Ys is just weird. And who is Gradlon?
Btw, Cockaigne reads like cocaine. Does it have any significance?
Hmm, I don’t think I’d enjoy Valhalla since I’m vegetarian and can’t stand beer. But the rest sound fantastic!
storm_shadow (136)You can’t stand beer? It’s ambrosia.
Send me to Valhalla when I die. End.
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 =)
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.)
So that’s where you get your jokes…that buck teeth one is a knee slapper.
the list is incomplete, what about Comstock?
Well to each his own I guess, B_Rad.
zion? from the matrix? they got nice orgies too.
Uhh, that’s what I’ve been trying to say.
What about Hogwarts?
emmstein: Forget Zion. I would plug my ass into the Matrix itself and live my fantasy life. At least for a little while.
I was so convinced that Atlantis would be number 1 and it wasn’t even on the list!
problem with ys is that in the morning dahut would kill her lovers
I think ListVerse got hacked.
If I search, I get redirected to some splog.
Mark: was it a redirect advert? A full page one?
it was at some “crazy-videoz” thing.
you forgot heaven …it’s mythical and alot of sheep want to live there
Watch yourself memememememe, the sheep don’t like sheep bashing.
Avalon for me… butwhat about Atlantis? I’d live there too!
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.
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.
What about Hogwarts Narnia and Middle earth were left off this list, disappointing.
Because nobody would want to live there, but nerds.
i would have put lothlorien on here, from lord of the rings.
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.”
I too am surprised that Atlantis didn’t end up on this list.
ooooooooohhhhhhh orgies!
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.
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
Atlantis, Mu, Lemuria, Zealandia. Any submerged (lost) continent would be fun to visit and explore.
Whoops, can’t forget about Terra Australis!
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.
Yea, and El Dorado was purposefully lost to prevent the outbreak of zombies.
168. Y2Ken
Didn’t you people ever play Uncharted…
****
Most of us have been too busy earning a living…
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
The legend of El Dorado is from Colombia. Eldorado is the name of the Bogota’s international airport. El Dorado is on Colombia!
I want to leave the dimension of reality and go to these places. But how and where is the exit?
Especially the Garden of Eden. Everyone is naked! Good one~
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 *****, 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.
Remember that we are here in this world because we didn`t want to be in such places like heaven anymore!
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.
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!!!
What, no Shire?
I am surprised nobody has mentioned Ys!
Not the place, the Joanna Newsom album.
Is it a soundtrack to the orgies?
Number 1 indeed!