Ben Groundwater (the Backpacker) has a good article today about which country would you live in? I like Spain, the sunshine, the food, and the language is fairly quck to pick up. Prague, I could live in Prague, Prague's cool, but I don't know about winter. New York, I love New York, but in winter? Hawaii is the most similar perhaps in the beach lifestyle of the Eastern coast of Australia. The hard part of course, as Ben points out is you would have to move everyone you care about to the same place.