Where would you like to live on the Earth if you had a choice? If you were said "Poke into a place on the globe, where you'd like to live, and this place will become you home!", what place would you choose and why?

Ni hao! I'd like to learn Chinese (Mandarin). What should I start from? I've read a piece of book "Chinese for dummies". I understood the basics. But it's really hard to read Chinese words for. I don't even know whether I pronounce them right.