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.

MEXICO LIMERICK

DAILY PHOTO: Tulum Beach

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DAILY PHOTO: El Castillo, Chichen Itza

DAILY PHOTO: Blue & White on Isla Mujeres

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Tulum

DAILY PHOTO: Scenes from Ek’ Balam

Mayan Ball Court

A Mayan “Arch”

Limerick of Valladolid

There was a burglar from Valladolid
who could burgle with great grace and speed.
he broke into the sacristy
with much alacrity,
but was dog-chased out of the church and treed. 

Cancun Limerick

The kids struck out for the white sands of Cancun,
but to avoid throngs they went at high noon.
A crowd, there was not.
It was so freakin' hot
that each and every last one of them swooned.

DAILY PHOTO: Beautiful Sea View, Unexploited

Taken on Isla Mujeres, Mexico in 2010