Ever read a book, watched a movie, or played a video game that you love the universe/world so much that you want to move there and live there forever?
Star Trek. I want to live in a post-scarcity society with incredible technology.
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?
The Culture would be a grand place indeed
thay sounds amazing tbh
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 effects 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
The Culture and it isn’t even close.
yep
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.
It depends really. Big chunk of Imperial core is living somewhat fine without much of an outside threat. If you’re luckly to be born on a planet that does well economically you may live a happy life of decent sci-fi.
Not every single imperial world is a hive world full of gangs and mutants that experiences an ork invasion, genestealer infestation, and a chaos corruption simultaneously lol.
Reading some of non-spacemarine novels like the Eisenhorn series shows a lot about how common imperial worlds live.
Even without external bad things it’s still not great. You still have the possibility of conscription into the guard. You still have a somewhat feudal government system. Depending on the dominant faction in the sector, you have to deal with their beliefs, on top of not ever appearing heretical. Punishment for heresy can include entire family trees, or entire blocks.
On top of all that, you still have the constant threat of warp storms. They could consume the planet or just block travel to your system. Either is likely a death sentence.
Good news is you won’t live long anyway
Same with me and the Game of Thrones universe
Nice try, truck-kun.
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.
Do they actually value life? Most of it is feudal which means most individuals don’t have great lives.
Depends on where you end up. There’s a big difference between being Azish vs. Shin vs. Veden vs. Alethi, etc., and even what Highprince you’re under if you’re Alethi.
Hobbington
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.
Morrowind VR was incredible
Would you believe that there’s also an Android port of OpenMW? The power of FOSS
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!
One word, Wales.
Instructions unclear - moved to Newport. Not the experience I was hoping for…
If you’ve never been to Fannies Cafe “We’re always open” then you’ve never lived.
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.
Sailor moon. I watched it originally in high school and I’m still a huge fan, I would love to be in crystal Tokyo.
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 :')
Hehe, good choice!
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?
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
