Andrewmc wrote:
I've lived in boulder, chamonix and other places but we're going to move to Nice at the end of this year / beginning of next.
There's a reason so many cyclists are based here; climate, terrain, community, city, facilities and its 60 mins from ok skiing and 3-4 hours from great skiing
That said if I were in the US I'd pick Boulder for similar reasons
I can't wait to leave the middle east
Well if I was going to pick one, somewhere on the Cote d"Azur would be about perfect. I'm heading to Geneva and then Bourg d'Oisans area for some riding the the Hautes Alps on Monday. I'm going to head to Bormio to ride on Stelvio and Gavia later this year. As I said, you can have the best tri/cycling anywhere by getting on a plane if you really need to (and I have really amazing riding right out my front door.....this morning's ride was 100K, >1000m of vertical and 4 traffic lights and bike lanes or open roads the rest of the time and I live in a city with ~1 million). I could move to San Jose CA tomorrow, with my work, but then my real estate would cost me 5x what it costs here and university education for my son with be 25x the price....I can do a lot of tri stuff with the delta and retire around 10 years earlier by living where I am.
I think a lot of people get caught up trying to find the perfect place to live, when in realty the perfect place is what you make of it. Seriously, I can imagine living in NYC, Abuja, Mexico City, Hong Kong or London or Beijing and be in just as good shape as I am now.
This is also a reason we don't buy a second property. You just get tied to that one place and go there over and over and over....would rather spend money for variety and use the entire world as "home". But hey, if you are moving to Nice, I'll swing by and we can go ride the Col d'Eze up to La Tourbie ....one of may favourite rides before IM France:
If it is raining in Bourg D'Oisans next week, we might just drive down to the Cote d"Azur and ride there, do Ventoux and head home