I've lived in many dozens of places.
My favourite was a stint contracting in paris, in 1995 - 96.
My girlfriend gave up work and came with me, and we had the most sublime time of our lives. Paris is amazing, you just end up falling in with lots of ex-pats. Just an amazingly curious bohemian time, and we had the best dinner parties ever.
With about 5 different nationalities, who couldn't understand each other most of the time. And this crazy french bird, crystal, who used to turn up with her cat on her shoulder.