If you could move anywhere in the USA, where would you go?

[MikeYikes122]

LOL.

Anyways, I can't take another winter here.

I almost died in a horrible wintery icy highway crash a few months ago, and I am not going to go through that again. NO MAS.

Last winter, I was driving on 70 by Lansing and was in a snow storm where the visibility was less than zero. I almost pulled over to the side of the road, stopped my car and just gave myself up to whatever drifters and scary crap was lurking.

I'd have to say my ideal destination is Chicago in the summer time. I know the OP asked for a place to live for three years, but no place is better than Chicago during the summer.

The weather doesn't suck. The bars are awesome. And there is no better feeling than taking the train into the city and drinking all day at a Cubs game. Traffic is still awful, but you gotta take the good with the bad.

 

[PRMoon]

I'd move down the street from where I am now.

I'm serious, I can't leave sweet lady Vegas. Most of you just don't know. It's hard to "Live" here but when you get the swing of it, it's paradise on earth. The money you can generate from this town with very little credentials or training is staggering at worst. 24 hour parties and liquor service, the combined total most expencive tourist realestate in the world, and no state tax. It's amazing the things that happen out here. There aren't very many people who have viewed it from the start of the las vegas boom to the current because the city hasn't existed that long in comparison to most others but I have and it's amazing.

 

[iqqi]

I'd move down the street from where I am now.

I'm serious, I can't leave sweet lady Vegas. Most of you just don't know. It's hard to "Live" here but when you get the swing of it, it's paradise on earth. The money you can generate from this town with very little credentials or training is staggering at worst. 24 hour parties and liquor service, the combined total most expencive tourist realestate in the world, and no state tax. It's amazing the things that happen out here. There aren't very many people who have viewed it from the start of the las vegas boom to the current because the city hasn't existed that long in comparison to most others but I have and it's amazing.

I was tempted to move to Vegas after I visited last year.

The first day I HATED it, but then I loved it. It's like selling your soul to live there, and who doesn't want to sell their soul for a few months. I thought about it for real, haha. However, now I am back to being kind of intimidated by the idea. Maybe just party there a week out of the year. Vegas loved me, how could I not have a little love for her?

 

[PRMoon]

I was tempted to move to Vegas after I visited last year.

The first day I HATED it, but then I loved it. It's like selling your soul to live there, and who doesn't want to sell their soul for a few months. I thought about it for real, haha. However, now I am back to being kind of intimidated by the idea. Maybe just party there a week out of the year. Vegas loved me, how could I not have a little love for her?

Vegas is a seducing temptress. Don't get me wrong, there are so many people who either come here for the wrong reasons or can't handle the lifestyle. There's no garuntee you'll get a good valet job making 80K a year for pretty much no work and you can party away such money even if you are making it regardless. To thrive and working a social position, that usually requires little skill, you have to be controlled and patient. I party all the time but I rarely have to pay very much nor does my partying in anyway compete with my working life. I live to work around here, I have so many connections that if I were to lose my job I'd have my pick of at least 4 jobs that would be as good if not better.

The only downside is that this culture of loving working on the pleasure side of humanity is rare. Most people don't want to be waiters or drinks servers or concierge's. Serving the public on a social level is tabu. I've always catered to sales or customer service of somekind. My College Degree is in hotel managment with a focus on gaming and casinos. I have a very select market that starts on a very low but very social interaction that most hate.

There are TONS of other corperate jobs here that pay well too, but the safe money is on the two strips, ie down town vegas and the new strip.

 

[StevenR]

No one has said Seattle area? I guess no one likes beautiful scenery or doing outdoor activities like skiing, hiking, taking their boat out, etc. It is like Vancouver B.C. only in the United States.

 

[dbot]

I honestly wouldn't move anywhere, except maybe a bigger house in this neighborhood. Orange County is amazing. For those of you who don't know where that is, it's the California mecca between LA and San Diego. Home of beautiful beach towns Laguna Beach, Newport Beach, and Corona Del Mar.

The weather out here is amazing (75 and sunny, all the time), the landscape and homes are gorgeous, and there's gotta be a higher concentration of beautiful women here than anywhere else in the world. This place reeks of success. Nowhere else can you stroll down the street and see so many exotic cars, or glance at the ocean and see mega million dollar yachts parked in private docks.

Yeah it's pretty expensive and I'm broke as sh*t living out here, but damn it sure is inspiring.

 

[speakeasy]

There is no ideal city in the USA to me. An idea city would have the climate and geography of S. California, with the history of NYC or Boston, the beaches Miami, the nightlife of Vegas, great restaurants, beautiful women, style, good public transit and walkability. It would have spanish style architecture. So I guess it would be an American version of Barcelona.

So there is no ideal American city that I would score as an A+, I think I'd give some American cities a B at the most. Most get a C or D.

 

[LowPlainsDrifter]

Arizona - cheaper housing, warmer climate, desert scenery, gun-friendly.

Vermont - beautiful scenery, friendly people, great coffee, incredibly gun-friendly. One of only three states that trust you to buy a handgun, and allow either concealed or open carry, with no permit required. Now THAT's freedom... (Alaska and New Hampshire switched to "carry permit optional" so that they could allow their residents reciprocity with permit-mandatory states)
Cold climate, though - not sure if I could handle that.

Be careful about moving, though. People that are unhappy where they are, are often unhappy for internal, not external reasons. Wherever you go, there you are...

 

[speed dawg]

I really wanna know: What is so freaking great about being able to carry a gun legally? LOL Do you get off on that or something? I genuinely want to understand someone like you...if I carried around a gun, I wouldn't feel so great.

Protection, maybe? Freedom, another? I don't understand someone like you who tries to take away freedom from others. No one feels like more of a man for a carrying around a gun. But I sure would feel like I had a chance to protect myself against an attack.

And yes, it does happen. I've kept my wife's car from being broken into because of my "weapon".

Nobody "gets off" on anything. When you quit trying to prove everyone else wrong and push your beliefs on someone you can actually move forward mentally.

Now, back to the original topic. Espi, PM me if you want to get into a thread jacking argument like you usually do. Save the thread.

 

[speed dawg]

Tough for me to distinguish where I'd like to live and where I'd like to visit. Austin would have been a great college destination and for young singles. Now, not so much.

I love Savannah but I'd only live there if I was from there.

If I was set financially I'd probably live in rural North Central Mississippi with lots of land.

Chicago's nice, but I can't really handle the big city. The REALLY big ones.

Yep, in the end, it's the South for me.

 

[LowPlainsDrifter]

I really wanna know: What is so freaking great about being able to carry a gun legally? LOL Do you get off on that or something? I genuinely want to understand someone like you...if I carried around a gun, I wouldn't feel so great.

It's the principle of the thing... that if I were to live in Vermont, that the state trusts me to own and/or carry a gun. Or not own and carry one.
Or many other states, but VT is one of the least restrictive.
Why should I reward a state with my tax dollars that doesn't trust me with a right that is really guaranteed by the Constitution? (I don't really live in Oklahoma... I live in another state with ludicrously restrictive laws).

Luckily, I'm not a victim of violence, but I was once shadowed by someone at a local park. Maybe he was just drunk or high and randomly loitering, but it seemed odd that as I walked the trails, he stayed consistendly between five and ten yards away from me for a substantial amount of time. Then he disappeared, and in the parking area reappeared, and walked right toward me, passing by with only a yard or two to spare as I got into my own car. During most of this "encounter" this person could easily have closed in quickly, started a fistfight, shot me, stabbed me, or bashed me with one of the thousands of rocks that lie along the trail system.
He could have easily hurt or killed me, with no one to witness the incident, despite it being a well-used suburban park. I have no idea how skilled I am at fighting, and someone who is roughly my size could easily slay me if they have ruthlessness and desperation on my side. I don't often wish I had a firearm at my side, but that was one of the times that I did.
Sorry, I just don't want to test my running and/or fighting skills against someone who is assaulting me. A decent handgun is the only way I can realistically see to increase my odds of survival.

 

[LowPlainsDrifter]

Although I don't agree with your reasoning, at least you articulate your argument in a logical and reasoned manner, so I can appreciate your response.

Well, thank you for answering in such an appreciative and civil way.
Imagine if everyone was like this on Internet forums... it would be far more pleasant to converse with people.

But more toward your point, you don't seem especially thrilled about people carrying handguns. So I have to ask the classic question: what exactly would you (or anyone else with your viewpoint) like me to defend myself with if I can't flee, and for physical reasons am overmatched by an assailant?
Is it somehow more noble of me to die at the hands of such a person (or persons if multiple attackers), rather than do something so "barbaric" as to keep a loaded sidearm on my person?

 

[lildevil]

im getting tired of Miami Fl I want to get the F@#! out....I think California would be the best place for me

 

[Killer_Demo]

california by far....

 

[3countriesPlan]

I like Seattle.. But, being growing up in the NW I always wanted to move to NYC. I have been living in Asia and my friend is moving to South America to do business, so maybe moving to LA or San Francisco would be the best businesswise.. Miami seems cool also! Oh, I love Chicago and Philly too.. anyways final choice: San Francisco

 

[piranha45]

prolly phoenix. i like hot dry weather.

 

[iqqi]

Bump

 

[f283000]

I would move out in order to escape the coming plagues

http://americathebabylon.com/

 

[Guoy Darko]

San Francisco: Been there, loved it. It's a very open minded and almost European city.

Hawaii: never been there, but love the idea of living on a big sunny island and learn how to surf, write songs like Jack Johnson does and in the evening lay in a hammock drinking a beer and watching the sunset. Or maybe my image of Hawaii is too romantic. Anyone here from Hawaii?

But living in Amsterdam is sweet too.

 

[Nygard]

Anywhere in the US. I don't care if it's Flint in Michigan, I just want to get the **** out of this country.