PROMPT: Live Anywhere

Daily writing prompt
If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be?

Someplace inexpensive, with beaches and hikeable hilly / mountainous terrain within a reasonable distance, and where beer prices are not disproportionately high vis-a-vis the general cost of living. FYI — I call the latter the “stick-up-the-bum” index because if beer prices are relatively high, it usually means they are heavily sin-taxed (it’s not an expensive product to make,) and so disproportionately high beer prices suggest the society is trying to micromanage personal behavior. I may or may not want a beer (I’ll want one,) but I prefer to live in a society with a live-and-let-live mentality. Candidates exist in Southeast Asia, Latin America, and the Central Asia / Caucus region.

DAILY PHOTO: View from the Tomb of Saadat Ali Khan

DAILY PHOTO: More Scenes from Muong Hoa Valley

Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. rice terraces.
Muong Valley, near Sa Pa, in Northern Vietnam. clouds.

DAILY PHOTO: Bateshwar Temple Under a Cloud

DAILY PHOTO: Ujjayanta Palace Gate

DAILY PHOTO: Atop Neermahal, Melaghar

DAILY PHOTO: Calisthenics Park, Hanoi

DAILY PHOTO: St. Mark’s of Bangalore

DAILY PHOTO: Late Afternoon at Neermahal

DAILY PHOTO: Chiân-kim Bān-heng Temple, Kaohsiung

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A photo of Chiân-kim Bān-heng, a Traditional Chinese Religion Temple in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.