It’s interesting this question came up because I was just thinking alot of my dreams seem to alway be located in my Parent home where I grew up for 20 years and they still live. These day’s I only make it back there once a year. 
It’s always random for me.
Never the same.
While it’s random, the most often places are either my home and neighbourhood, or a holiday cottage that I’ve been going to since I was born.
My dreams are not more interesting than there are lots of trams in them 
Half of my dreams happen in my house or school. The other half are the totally random dreams and happen in strange places 
There are four most common places in my dreams :
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My grandparent’s farm where I spent long time when I was young. Usually in my dreams I try to defend it against shady property developers.
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Planes but they never take off.
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Sea - I walk in front of the ocean. I often tried to dive in but never succeeded.
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I love Japan and go to Kyôto every year, but my japanese dreams take place in Tôkyô (maybe because I’m a little afraid of this futurist city).
My dreams are usually a variation of my house, or my school or some place familiar. Sometimes it’s a school bus.
Theres always something different about it… Like a whole swamp in my backyard, or an apple tree on top of my house or something or my school with over 100 floors. Stuff like that.
I usually get a lot of repeated dream settings. Mostly, it’s my house or the apartment I used to live in, or some strange mix of both. There’s also college and my old school, and just like the house/apartment, they seem to get mixed quite often.
Other repeating settings include shopping malls and arcades.
For me it’s almost always my old house that I lived in for 18 years with my family. If not it is some random location I’ve never been to before.
The recurring settings that I remember most are my school, my house, houses I used to live in, and a summer camp that I go to. I very rarely dream about my neighborhood outside of my house, but I did last night, which I find odd.
very urban environments.
nothing interesting ever happens in my dreams.
as with life itself
Being a little more general with my dream location, I find that most occur within structures. In fact a theme that has occured multiple times is when I am unable to leave the place I am in (room, house, etc).
I do find it interesting that some people do not have re-occuring locations in dreams. Some kind of basic dream category?
I follow the same basic trend as most of the posts suggest; most of my dreams are set in some form of my house, my school (mostly my current one, but occasionally my old middle school), or my church. The dreamscapes usually aren’t too true to life, though – usually, my school seems a lot bigger and more complex, almost like some sort of prison or something 
. When they’re not set in someplace familiar, I’m usually running around in some sort of run-down urban area. I’m not sure what that means.
I share johnr’s curiosity… why do some people not have recurring dream locations? Is there any research on that?
A worthy search, I’d say.
I’m too lazy to check, but I wonder if there’s any dream setting research that’s been done in the Lucid Lab.
The house I lived in until a couple years ago is the premise for most of my dreams.
After that, it’s usually other places I frequent, on the rare occasion it’s somwhere I have never been (in this lifetime), but they always feel familiar.
This is an easy question to answer, since over half my normal dreams take place in a zoo, theme park, or cave. However, my mood toward these places changes constantly.
What does this have to say about my psyche? When I was little, I REALLY liked giant roller coasters and I’ve always been smitten with Disneyland, though crowds aren’t really my thing. And I like animals, so in my dreams I’m always trying to free them from the zoo. The location often has both animals and roller coasters. For about a year, almost ALL my dreams had some form of cave in them but these are growing less frequent. There were about 3 or 4 dreams where I emerged from the cave into a theme park. I should really learn to pick up on these obvious dream signs…
i some times end up next to a wooden brown small shack. for some reason i can never get in. every time it makes me mad too. 
but maybe i dont whant to know whats in there 
I have found that at least half of my dreams are set in either my old middle school or my high school, but they are different every time. I always know that it is my school, but they never look exactly as they do IRL. I’ve tried to use my school as a dreamsign, but I’m there so often that it’s hard to do a RC every time it comes up…
Most of my dreams are set in a snowy area, a train station or where I lived before. In fact, snow and trains are a common dreamsign for me…
My most common dream setting is by far my parents’ house, and the area around it. I lived there on and off for 20 years, and i guess there are still more memories of it in my brain than of any other place.