Best Place to Live - Loving on Cigars.

[SeaGarr]

So as I sit here knowing that even if I was able to smoke a cigar in spite of this cold from hell that I am dealing with, it's too damn frigid outside to enjoy a stick! Which makes me live vicariously through you guys - ie I begin trolling the "What did you smoke today" when I see @HIM* post this:

- in case this picture disappears, its a beautiful cigar with a warm ocean scape behind it. The Key's I am guessing. Envy is killing me lol

It has me thinking. Were you able to live anywhere, where would you live keeping your Cigar habit top of mind.

As much as I would love to live in a developing nation and live high on the hog - my wife is adverse. Which sucks as Costa Rica really sounds great to me! Europe are great, but keeping cigars in mind - all I can think is tobacco tax. So Europe is out. Which brings me back to the States. Pennsylvania? Seems like moving there and building an indoor smoking room would be heaven what with no tobacco tax and all the pushers there lol. Arizona? Galveston TX? Maybe but Florida is becoming more and more attractive here lately lol!

 

[Zmilin]

As long as I have something to look at other than the side of a neighbors house and I can be covered in rain and be allowed to feel the breeze Im happy.
I really enjoyed smoking on my balcony in Cancun last Oct, I used to enjoy smoking on the ferry boats as we departed downtown Seattle (no longer allowed), I enjoyed a smoke beachside when I was in LA last time (as I wanted my nephew surf). My favorite spot was a neighborhood in San Diego that was along the coastline. I used to find a pull out and plant my butt on a rock and listen to the ocean waves as I burned one down.

 

[ZippoGeek]

Good thread David! Anyplace that is...

1. Relatively temperate year round and,
2. Not ruled by whiny, pinheaded special-interest groups.

Sadly, this precludes California and NY (where I'm presently stuck, probably forever ). Texas would be an oasis for me. Big, open swaths of land and freedom-loving people...

 

[SeaGarr]

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Sadly, this precludes California and NY (where I'm presently stuck, probably forever ). Texas would be an oasis for me. Big, open swaths of land and freedom-loving people...

You wouldn't know this Zippo, but I have spent some time in Upper NY and your hometown. The woods of Upper New York for me, are absolutely riddled with mystique. Going out into the bush and smoking a cigar in Upper NY is special indeed. Sitting on the banks of Lake Ontario and smoking a stick is pure magic too (Lake Superior is better though). Of course, if you forget your matches, you can simply wait for the inevitable house fire in Cheektowaga lol (there is always a fire in Cheektowaga lol).

All that awesomeness however is limited into a small window that exists between mosquito season and winter lol - New Yorker's really need to build an indoor refuge lol.

Texas might not be all you think it is. Their summers can be killer for a NY boy such as yourself .

 

[ZippoGeek]

You wouldn't know this Zippo, but I have spent some time in Upper NY and your hometown. The woods of Upper New York for me, are absolutely riddled with mystique. Going out into the bush and smoking a cigar in Upper NY is special indeed. Sitting on the banks of Lake Ontario and smoking a stick is pure magic too (Lake Superior is better though). Of course, if you forget your matches, you can simply wait for the inevitable house fire in Cheektowaga lol (there is always a fire in Cheektowaga lol).

All that awesomeness however is limited into a small window that exists between mosquito season and winter lol - New Yorker's really need to build an indoor refuge lol.

Texas might not be all you think it is. Their summers can be killer for a NY boy such as yourself .

It has it's charms around here; after all, it's home. But for literally five straight months, it's a wasteland. 7 feet of snow in 3 days in the month of November just does something to a man's soul! Cheektowaga, I love it! It's not a place, but a state of mind. Curious, what brought you around our way?

 

[SeaGarr]

Lived in Toronto. Friends in Rochester.

 

[Wicket]

It has it's charms around here; after all, it's home. But for literally five straight months, it's a wasteland. 7 feet of snow in 3 days in the month of November just does something to a man's soul! Cheektowaga, I love it! It's not a place, but a state of mind. Curious, what brought you around our way?

Only 5 months? I remember maybe 3-4 months a year that I enjoyed western/upstate NY lol. This topic is hard for me as I don't think cigars would ever make me move someplace. I guess if I had to pick a place to smoke and live it would be Northern Arizona that way I could sit outside most of the year and still have great things to see and do close by.

 

[SeaGarr]

Only 5 months? I remember maybe 3-4 months a year that I enjoyed western/upstate NY lol. This topic is hard for me as I don't think cigars would ever make me move someplace. I guess if I had to pick a place to smoke and live it would be Northern Arizona that way I could sit outside most of the year and still have great things to see and do close by.

That place just speaks to me.

I wouldn't move just so that I could smoke year-round lol. But oddly enough, those places where I could, also seem high on my list as places I wouldn't mind living period lol. With the exception of Spokane WA. I have no idea why that place appeals to me. Seriously! LOL!

 

[Wicket]

That place just speaks to me.

I wouldn't move just so that I could smoke year-round lol. But oddly enough, those places where I could, also seem high on my list as places I wouldn't mind living period lol. With the exception of Spokane WA. I have no idea why that place appeals to me. Seriously! LOL!

Because most of the Pacific North West is beautiful. The number one place for me would be Squamish BC but the cigar part would suffer due to taxes and weather.

 

[SeaGarr]

Because most of the Pacific North West is beautiful. The number one place for me would be Squamish BC but the cigar part would suffer due to taxes and weather.

Right!! I always said I would like to retire in Victoria on Vancouver Island. Of course, you need to have a million just to get into a condo there... A one bedroom condo - arg.

*EDIT* Maybe I need to think about the Yacht lifestyle .

 

[luckysaturn13]

Tampa baby tampa!

 

[jonnylieberman]

Los Angeles. There is nowhere else.

 

[Lomey]

Although I wouldn't move for cigars I do have a couple of places I would love to live. My wife and I go to Key West every year so that would be one. Probably more of the Middle Keys than KW, they are cheaper to live in and less crowded. The other place would be Southern Utah/Northern AZ/SW Colorado area. My wife and I have also spent a lot of time vacationing there.

Btw David, where in the great state of KS do you live ?

 

[SeaGarr]

Los Angeles. There is nowhere else.

Ok - I shouldn't say this - and I am sure this isn't the case anymore BUT... back, back in the day, my dad and I were flying into LA. I'll never forget looking out of the window and exclaiming that we couldn't land as the city was on fire!! The lady beside us giggled and stated, "It's just the pollution dear."

I have been there since and it wasn't as bad - but I'll never forget that .

 

[SeaGarr]

Btw David, where in the great state of KS do you live ?

About an hour West Brother. Capital City.

 

[jonnylieberman]

Ok - I shouldn't say this - and I am sure this isn't the case anymore BUT... back, back in the day, my dad and I were flying into LA. I'll never forget looking out of the window and exclaiming that we couldn't land as the city was on fire!! The lady beside us giggled and stated, "It's just the pollution dear."

I have been there since and it wasn't as bad - but I'll never forget that .

Anything to keep people away is fine with me. We're too crowded as is.

 

[SeaGarr]

Anything to keep people away is fine with me. We're too crowded as is.

Best answer ever !! Point!

 

[Lomey]

About an hour West Brother. Capital City.

Ugh...

 

[SeaGarr]

Ugh...

Yeah exactly lol .

Edit - Yeah exactly lol

 

[MoldMan]

I kind of like it where I am in Phoenix. I can smoke out side 350ish days per year. Cigar taxes are low. We have a few really good cigar bars with more opening soon. Any where over 3500 feet you'll encounter snow if you want to. Heck i can look up in the mountains and see snow while wearing shorts and a T shirt. Besides *HIM was bitching that it was in the 50's in the Keys. Yeah it gets a little warm in the summertime but that's part of the charm.