kakku
 I would choose America, because I have the feeling it would BE very versatile musically and there are some of my favorite bands.

America is the best place to live ... but not the best place for the arts.
 
You can't discuss arts with musicians because they take it personally, but you can discuss the arts with a writer and a painter, and it adds to the conversation. Europe is way better than America when it comes to music, now that America is owned and operated by the corporate world, and no one can do anything different, and NY is about the rudeness and LA about the Channel and the clothing!
 
All in all, Europe for music and theater and film ... and America to live!
 
Music in America is a joke ... too much of it is the same thing ... and when one says something, hoping to add more to it, it's like talking to the devil ... no intellectual ability whatsoever, sometimes. That excludes some folks in the CH, of course, who are far above and beyond these ideas!

I make it a point never to announce in advance where I'm going. There's no point in warning them ahead of time.  

When I step out of my front door and turn my head to the right, this is what I see:
 

 
I've lived and worked all over the world, I've flown millions of miles, I went years spending more than 200 nights/year in hotel rooms. I love many of the places I've been fortunate enough to visit. Korea? Fabulous. Southeast Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur)? Fascinating. Australia? I definitely could live there. Europe? I like Spain the best (reminds me of Arizona, but with better food and wine). Stockholm was a blast. The closest I got to Finland was a girlfriend (first name: Aino; last name: never could spell it). South America? Venezuela was fun. Brazil was dangerous. But my Spanish is poor and I have no Portuguese. So where?
 
Like Bapu...exactly where I'm at. I picked Flagstaff as my final destination. I was born on Route 66 in 1951. I plan to die on Route 66, I just hope it's quite some time from now.
 
Flagstaff has almost the perfect temperature range (it does get windy, though!), a vibrant music scene, 7 local brewers making some of the best beer I've tasted anywhere in the world, the Grand Canyon, the largest Ponderosa pine forest in the world. By car: 6 hours from Los Angeles, 2 hours from Phoenix, 4 hours from Tucson, 7 hours from Santa Fe, 6 hours from Durango, 12 hours from Denver, 9 hours from Telluride, 3 hours from Las Vegas. I could go on.
 
What's not to love?

Hi,
 
We're here in the Columbia River Gorge ... a quick boat ride for a half hour and one of the prettiest places ever ... ask Craig! And Multnomah Falls is cool, too!

I took this picture from the top deck right outside of my bedroom at the house I used to own.
 

And a daytime shot from the same deck.  The mountain is Mt. Hood.  Directly to the left 40+ miles is Mt. St. Helens (the famous volcano) and, at 45 degrees (in between the two other mountains) is Mt. Adams.

Hi,
 
Thx Craig ... beautiful shots!

craigb

I took this picture from the top deck right outside of my bedroom at the house I used to own.
 

And a daytime shot from the same deck.  The mountain is Mt. Hood.  Directly to the left 40+ miles is Mt. St. Helens (the famous volcano) and, at 45 degrees (in between the two other mountains) is Mt. Adams.

Cool photos!

TheMaartian
When I step out of my front door and turn my head to the right, this is what I see:
 

 
I've lived and worked all over the world, I've flown millions of miles, I went years spending more than 200 nights/year in hotel rooms. I love many of the places I've been fortunate enough to visit. Korea? Fabulous. Southeast Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur)? Fascinating. Australia? I definitely could live there. Europe? I like Spain the best (reminds me of Arizona, but with better food and wine). Stockholm was a blast. The closest I got to Finland was a girlfriend (first name: Aino; last name: never could spell it). South America? Venezuela was fun. Brazil was dangerous. But my Spanish is poor and I have no Portuguese. So where?
 
Like Bapu...exactly where I'm at. I picked Flagstaff as my final destination. I was born on Route 66 in 1951. I plan to die on Route 66, I just hope it's quite some time from now.
 
Flagstaff has almost the perfect temperature range (it does get windy, though!), a vibrant music scene, 7 local brewers making some of the best beer I've tasted anywhere in the world, the Grand Canyon, the largest Ponderosa pine forest in the world. By car: 6 hours from Los Angeles, 2 hours from Phoenix, 4 hours from Tucson, 7 hours from Santa Fe, 6 hours from Durango, 12 hours from Denver, 9 hours from Telluride, 3 hours from Las Vegas. I could go on.
 
What's not to love?

You are lucky.

Moshkito

kakku
I would choose America, because I have the feeling it would BE very versatile musically and there are some of my favorite bands.

America is the best place to live ... but not the best place for the arts.
 
You can't discuss arts with musicians because they take it personally, but you can discuss the arts with a writer and a painter, and it adds to the conversation. Europe is way better than America when it comes to music, now that America is owned and operated by the corporate world, and no one can do anything different, and NY is about the rudeness and LA about the Channel and the clothing!
 
All in all, Europe for music and theater and film ... and America to live!
 
Music in America is a joke ... too much of it is the same thing ... and when one says something, hoping to add more to it, it's like talking to the devil ... no intellectual ability whatsoever, sometimes. That excludes some folks in the CH, of course, who are far above and beyond these ideas!

Ok. New info for me again. Thanks!

Okay. Countries are big. They have lots of people. People are different from each other. Differences are things that are not the same. That is good.
 
Not all musicians in a country are the same. They are different because they are people. They make the music they want to make, even if it is not the same. That is good.
 
Some people are unhappy if they can't control other musician's thoughts. They do not understand that musicians are people. They are different from each other because they are people. They make the music they want to make, even if it is not what someone wants to hear. That is good. If that makes someone unhappy, they should probably get over it.