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I mentioned in another blog that I am looking at my future and for the first time in a long time it's very cloudy. 2011 has seen a lot of changes for my plans for the future. Something I had planned for my entire life is no longer happening, well, when I say no longer happening, it's on an indefintite hold at the moment, although I'm not ruling it out. I also went out of England for the first time since I was 11 to somewhere other than Wales, the country of Scotland. That day was the start of a desire to live somewhere else during my life, so let's look at the candidates (in no particular order)
Tromso (Norway)
Tromso is a town/city in the upper area of Norway. It sits in at the bottom of a mountain and is exceptionally beautiful at night. You only have to look at the picture on the right to see why I would be interested in moving there, it looks absolutely astonishing.
There's also a football team there that I sort of follow the results of.
It's also a good city for music as one of my favourite musicians comes from there (Lene Marlin).
Canada
Well my best friend lives in Canada, so that is automatically a massive bonus when looking into a place to move to in the future. It would be a great opportunity to see her on a semi-regular basis, rather than just being restricted at the moment to internet conversations.
The main issue with Canada would be where to actually go? I don't really know enough about Canada other than a town called Slave Lake in Alberta, and from what I hear, it's a bit of a dive. There is always the bigger cities, such as Edmonton, Calgary, Ottawa, Toronto, etc, but I'm not entirely sure, probably something I would need to look into properly.
Canada is another beautiful country with a lot of mountain ranges, forests and various other natural wonders, including the northern lights (which I can also see in Norway might I add). It's also a great mix (from what I can tell) of a big country like America and a smaller country such as England.
America
The final choice would be the United States of America. I think it's safe to say that you never have to read a book about America to see what it's like. Their media (such as films and music) dominates the world media scene and you feel like you've seen all the sites without having ever gone to the country itself.
Much like Canada, I have a great friend who lives in America, so it would be a great opportunity to see her on a more regular basis as well.
I'm not going to lie, until recently I had virtually no interest in going to America and if I'm having problems picking a potential place to live in Canada, I'm screwed in America. Every state has at least 2/3 cities that virtually everyone has heard of, and each with it's own unique aspects. For example, in New York you've got the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and Times Square. In Washington there's all the memorials to former presidents, as well as the Smithsonian museum, and over on the west coast you have places like the San Francisco bridge (Golden Gate Bridge if memory serves me correctly).
I certainly wouldn't be spoilt for choice over in America, let's put it that way. The size would also scare me. I was overwhelmed when I moved to Nottingham from Lincoln and that's only five times bigger, some cities in America are five times bigger than London, and problem much bigger. I would more than likely end up getting lost.
So there are my three choices, I think realistically it's going to be between Canada and America due to my friends that live over there, and that's assuming anything happens at all.
I would love to go to America and/or Canada in 2012. Luckily my trip to Ukraine got cancelled so I certainly have the time to do it, so I guess we'll wait and see. I think unlike when I moved to Nottingham, I would like to get a chance to get to know the place I am potentially going to move to....especially as all three options are in another country.
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