We used to go to Italy few times a year when kids were growing up and we spent most of our times in Tuscany, but did spend some time on the east coast too. Going to Italy always feel like going home for us.
You all like big cities and cold weather more than me! 55 years of negative wind chills and 6 months of getting ready for winter/enduring winter/recovering winter is more than enough for me.
I’m voting something like southern TN. 4 seasons with emphasis on short winter, long spring and fall. I’m used to awful late summer humidity–can’t be much worse there. Beautiful and green. Rolling hills.
I don’t need people or cities. Just decent internet 
It’s 45 minutes on the train from our town to Penn Station, and I would still choose Manhattan. Theater, art, museums, ballet, music, running in Central Park, exploring all the neighborhoods, no need to cook, and no need for a car. I would read all kinds of historical fiction and non-fiction about the city. A year would be perfect to do all the quintessential NYC things in season. Plus, I would still be within easy travel distance of friends and family.
We’ve always talked about living in NYC for a year.
Oregon Coast, Maine Coast, Whidbey Island, Monterey, Silverton, CO…
Here is another person who does NOT want to live in a large city with cold winters for a year! Ilikemycutesuburbantownverymuch.
I’ve always wanted to live right on the beach/ocean. Not sure where. Most familiar with both Maine and Cape Cod.
Many here are mentioning NYC. I moved there (here) 14 months ago. I do live on the water (though it is not the ocean)…it’s the Hudson. My kids live here. Saw both tonight in different parts of Manhattan. Am currently gazing at the river and Manhattan all lit up.
San Diego
Napa area
We live on Nantucket (an island 30 miles off the coast of Cape Cod) for 5 months of the year and have considered moving there permanently. H would go in a heartbeat–I like where I live the rest of the year (small town MA) and would miss my family and friends/neighbors.
We lived for 10 months in San Francisco when H had a work project there and it was great!
We love NYC. Whenever I hear the words, “the city”, to me it always means NYC. I grew up in Yonkers, (on the Hudson), moved to CT. Son lived for a while in Manhattan and Queens, cousins in Brooklyn, we spent a lot of time in “the city”. Don’t think I could live there now as I have become so used to quiet and nature, first in CT and now as we live most of the year on the beach. The places I would like to live for a year in the US would be Maui or Hawaii, La Jolla or Point Loma in San Diego.
Interesting how humans can be so different. LV, NYC, or LA would be last on my list of places I’d want to be for a year. No city makes the Top 10, but just thinking about it now, I’d put all the other places we’ve been and not cared for that much above those.
On a houseboat on the Mississippi River, moving up and down as the weather changes.
Middlebury, Vermont love that town.
@oregon101 Have you ever had the Tutto Italiano sub from Costello’s Market? If you haven’t, you should.
So far, I don’t see anyone who wants to move to my little city. Good. 
Bellingham WA is a very pretty place. Again, need water view and some eagles ? soaring above.
@ECmotherx2 I call it “the City.”
I lived in SF for a year and San Diego (Coronado) for a couple, on the beach in LA and near Laguna. Now New England. Love midcoast Maine, go lots, and toyed with moving there or Portland or Portsmouth NH. Love parts of the south. Anyplace on the CA coast.
But, except for Paris, it wouldn’t be just any one place, for me. I think of a month in NYC(fall) or SF (late spring,) two separate months in Portland ME or midcoast, and adventures the rest of the time. Maybe a month in Chicago, then Michigan. Denver. You get the idea.
BB, I saw a bald eagle soaring above the highway into Boston. Wow.
I’m pretty happy where I am and like visiting other places, as long as I can have minimal exposure to their worse weather. So far no one has said they want to move to Honolulu either.
Upthread, I said coastal Maine, but my fantasy is a lighthouse on a bluff in Maine with no people or technology for miles. Just a huge stone fireplace, a ton of books, wild storms, and a cat or two. A monthly trip into town for necessities is about all the human contact I need.
Boston. It has the history, good food, and sports teams that are always contending for championships.