"why did you come here?" to fall in love...

I think there's always a bit of romance where the future is concerned, especially if you're like me and aren't the It Girl of high school. When I read about Taylor Swift becoming the princess of country or even Jane from seaofshoes.com in works for designing a shoe collection with Kanye West or Christopher Paolini becoming a bonafide author young, I keep hoping that I have that kind of fairy tale future. (Heck I'm quite convinced Alix from cherryblossomgirl.com has the charmed life!)
And I feel like a big part of that is in location. I just remember Sex & the City movie when Jennifer Hudson replies to Carrie's question with a dreamer like answer. It's exactly how I feel! (Although to fall in love isn't my number one quality in a city...) So, I thought I'd make up a bit of an inspiration board of the three places I can see myself living in one day, even a visit would be nice!

London! I've been warned of the rainy weather and odd food, but I cannot help but love this city. I've always been in love with it. Keira Knightley, Lily Allen, Princes & Princesses, Fashion, and, of course, the accent. I really want to watch Skins, it looks good. Plus British humour is amazing, and even more hilarious than any other. And besides all that, Tom Sturridge is enough reason to want to live there ;)
I would probably die if I was transplanted to Taipei right this minute as my Mandarin (Pu Tong Hua =)) is sub par. Actually worse than sub par, I'm pretty sure I mispronounce everything. But I always got the feeling that Taiwan is the US from the nineties. Remember Boy Meets World? Cory & Topanga? Backstreet Boys? Here are the Mandarin Versions: It Started With a Kiss, Farenheit, JVKV, S.H.E., Ariel Lin, Joe Cheng, Mike He, Rainie Yang, and more. There's a slightly cheesy element to everything, but it's the kind of cheese you come to love. Take out that whole grunge/heroin chic element and you've got the 90's all over again.

And of course, New York City. If there was one US place to keep me in the states for my twenties, it would have to be this city. (Well in all fairness, I do like Philadelphia as well. Once the whole killing things starts to slow down) The speed, the stores, the slightly rude people, the overcrowdness, the overpriced crapp apartments, the clubs, the shows...Somehow it all adds up to have its own charm. Who doesn't want to be a New York Sociallite?

Where are your dream cities? (Or maybe you prefer small town, Gilmore Girls style?)