place: a place to live, etc
In an informal style, place can often be followed directly by an infinitive or relative clause, with no preposition or relative word.
- I’m looking for a place to live. (More formal: … a place to live in
or… a place in which to live.) - There’s no place to sit down.
- You remember the place we had lunch? (= … the place (that) we had lunch at?
orthe place where we had lunch?)
We do not use a place where before an infinitive.
- I’m looking for a place (where) I can wash my clothes. / a place to wash my clothes. (not
… a place where to wash my clothes.)
Go places (informal) means ‘become very successful in life’.
- That boy’s going to go places, believe me.
note
For similar structures with way, time and reason, (see here).