What's Yo Favorite.....

Because I loved Cameron's list of favorites so much...

1) Where would be your favorite place to live and why?

2) What is your favorite meal and why?

3) What is your favorite activity to do and why?

So due to the fact that I am obsessed with the idea of living somewhere else (far away from Kentucky) I'm going to respond to prompt #1. If I could live anywhere in the world where would I live and why? Well first off it'd definitely be international because to experience a different culture so from one's own is not only an amazing opportunity but an unbelievable blessing. It not only forces you to widen your horizons, therefore turning you into a more knowledge person than a simple classroom could have ever done, but it also gives you experience and perspective, two priceless pieces of necessary human ideals. Experience grants us insight of ourselves, of others, and of how the world functions; therefore allowing us to be better at whatever it is we're doing. Furthermore, perspective permits us to see things from other peoples, even other cultures, view point.

But with that said, where exactly would I want to live? Would I pick somewhere in Europe, a culture not so different from our own? Or would I choose someplace far, far away with a completely different lifestyle? Personally, if I was going to live internationally, let's say right after college, a point in my life where I'm desperately trying to figure things out for myself, I would just go for it and move some place completely different than I have ever seen before. So that takes out almost all of Western Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. I don't think I'd want to live in any Eastern European Soviet-era country, or any third world countries so I would not be moving to pretty much all of Africa, Central Asia, Central America, and South/Southeast Asia.

Now let's look at what I'm left with: South America, the Middle East, and East Asia. Let's take out East Asia because I'm not a huge supporter of the whole "China is taking over the world" thing, and let's take out South America because honestly I'm not really feelin' it. I mean, most South America is very much in the 2nd world we're-still-pretty-impoverished-but-we-like-to-tell-people-we're-not stage and I wouldn't really want to commit to living in a place like that. So that leaves me with the Middle East, a pretty dangerous, but lucrative region. Well, because I'm a Jew I'd want to live in a pretty accepting Middle Eastern country: United Arab Emirates (Dubai and Abu Dhabi) or Israel. Here's where the tough choices come in. Do I go to somewhat unstable Israel to live amongst my kind or do I go to Dubai, which is beginning to look like the world's flavor of the decade. Honestly, I think I'd go to Tel Aviv, Israel because it's a renowned, bustling, young city on the Mediterranean Coast with a wide international, English-speaking, population. Known as the City that Never Sleeps, Tel Aviv is a major economic and political hub in the Middle East with an unreal party, 24-hour culture. It's historic, founded in the 15th century BCE and, being at the cross roads of the world, it's easy to travel practically anywhere I'd want to go to.