Requisites

• Has to be modern. A place with indoor plumbing and no power outages.
• Not necessarily a city, but not far from the metro.
• An apartment, most likely, or a townhouse if I can afford it.
• Convenient transportation. Places I need to be has to be accessible.
• Wide variety of food available in the place. Pizza delivery every time there's no food in the house is sickening. I had enough of that in my childhood.
• Shops, book sales, music/food festivals, etc. in the community.
• Has to be updated with the happenings in the world. As in, people are interested in international sporting events, music and movie festivals, book releases, latest technology, currently popular forms of recreation etc.

And so...

• Singapore. It's the place I pictured. I can live here permanently. If Manila didn't work out.
  • From the times I've been there. Including last summer's week-long stay with a friend.
  • Currystrumpet inspired me
• Baltimore. But not permanently.
• Stockholm. "#1 in clean air, digital economy activity, entrepreneurial environment, green space, intellectual property protection, Internet access, R&D spending, political stability, and traffic congestion, #2 in broadband quality, business trip index, libraries with public access, life satisfaction, literacy." Taxes are high, though.

For periods not more than a year.

• Portland, Oregon. Damn you, Portlandia! "The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland."
• New York. The energy of this city will kill/consume me.
• Orange County. Um yeah. If I reach that level of wealth.
• Kuala Lumpur.
• Brazil.
• London. Cultural vibrancy & strong currency.
• San Francisco.
• Melbourne. Only when I can sustain myself in such unreasonably expensive place.
• Sydney. Only when I can sustain myself in such unreasonably expensive place.

Reference: The Atlantic[http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/05/the-worlds-26-best-cities-for-business-life-and-innovation/238436/]