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

[ringmastery]

[NightTrain]

1. I rather like living in my homestate of Connecticut...

...but I've a sneaking suspicion that I may eventually relocate to Northeastern Ohio! ;)

[Jack_Dawson]

2. Why?

Is it nice there?

[NightTrain]

3. Actually, I've never been there

This link, however, may explain why I might end up moving there someday:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=105&topic_id=758874#758916

[XNASA]

4. To the Near Northside of Chicago

A lakeside luxury high-rise condo with city views, a doorman and valet parking.

That's not too much to ask, is it?

[Arugula Latte]

74. Why not be Oprah's neighbor...

while you're at it? You could make cool meals together and talk about great books. Maybe John Travolta would stop by from time to time, and then he could give you a ride anywhere in the US on his private jet.

Well, it could happen...

[Beaker]

82. 1040 N Lake Shore Drive is the address you're looking for-

huge balconies overlooking Oak St. Beach...

http://rubloff.com/building/nnbuild/1040lsd.htm


I used to live a couple blocks away, on Division St.- Marilyn Miglin was my landlady.

[kitkatrose]

5. Hawaii, without a shadow of doubt.

I don't particularly care where in Hawaii, but would like a nice little spot on the beach with a mountain in my backyard. I don't care about the possible tsunamis or volcanic eruptions, eventually, I will get there. B-)

[lovedems]

12. I am with you there! We went to Hawaii about 8 years ago

Maui and Kuai to be exact. I could live there. I want to live there.

It probably will never happen though!

[kitkatrose]

22. My family went too. We stuck to the big island

since it was a group thing. I think I'd like to live on one of the smaller islands though. I wanted to go to school there, but my mom and finances wouldn't let me. Oh,well, I can still get my masters there in a few years.

[wryter2000]

6. Exactly where I do live

Oakland, California. Oaktown, Bump City.

You take paradise. I'm going back to Oakland. -- Jack London

[terrya]

7. If I had the money to do it: New York. Specifically, Manhattan.

Terry

[CrownPrinceBandar]

8. Portland, OR...

It seems to have a good mix of forest and sea. Too bad the job market sucks so hard out there.

Fail Portland, back to Austin, TX.

[frylock]

13. portland for me, too..

did some work in Portland back in 2001, and have been trying to get back ever since.

[Syncronaut Seven]

20. No! Portland is BAD

Really ,really bad! Riots, floods, earthquakes, tornados, tsunamis, meteors, alien invasions!

Portland is really bad! ;)

Unless you're a progressive, then it's OK. :beer:

Harrad.

[CrownPrinceBandar]

27. I think your'e trying to keep us away!....

You're hiding something aren't you!! Portland's all milk and honey and you want to keep all to yourselves! :P :silly:

[Arugula Latte]

73. No, really, we'd love to have you!

There is always room for more cool progressives. Please come join us! :toast:

[ConcernedCanuk]

9. I would move BACK to the San Diego area

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Chula Vista or Bonita way probably

But it's been 25 years since I lived there,

so it may not be the same at all anymore :shrug:

Besides the beauty weather, I found the people were very friendly for such a big city

I liked to cruise out to the desert now and then . .

And the city itself was not a big metropolis of tall buildings and stinky factories like even our Toronto is.

Beauty parks and beaches all over SanDee !


Alas,

King George and his minions have convinced me to stay on my side of the border

(sigh)

[frylock]

10. quite a bit of development in that area now..

Eastlake region is full of housing.

[Syncronaut Seven]

17. Chula Vista isn't what it used to be.

I love SD too, but it's damn expensive. Used to live there, now I only occasionally visit.

Very pro military, business interests set the tone. Pretty far right overall.

But the weather!

[ConcernedCanuk]

28. I sort of thought it might be

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Heck, I went to go down "an old back road" west of Toronto a few years back,

and it was just MILES and MILES of what I call matchbox houses,

neighborhoods built with versions of all the same house,

only about 5 - 10 feet between them

and a "bargain" at $250,000

I like space, 100 acre farms available up here for under $50,000!

so I'll put up with the inconveniences of living in the North

and maybe check out some of the Western Provinces for retirement

must be alot of free space in Manitoba,

It's total population is only around 1 million,

that means you'd have to take 4 to 5 times Manitoba just to fill Toronto !

Not overly fond of big cities, and after living in Toronto, Visiting New York(the city) and many other large cities:

that's why I was pleasantly surprised with the layout and friendliness of SanDee, but like I said, that was many moons ago -

(sigh)

[cryofan]

24. I drove out of San Diego 23 years ago, and have not been back yet

...but I would really like to.

I lived there on and off for 4 years while in the Navy.

Loved it! The weather was fantastic. I lived more than a year in an apartment near University Blvd (Dr?) north of the causeway. THat place had no AC or Heating....but it did not need it! San Diego is pretty close to room temp the vast majority of the year.

I also lived in a multistory story Navy dorm on Point Loma. Beautiful location.

I had such great times in San Diego. Chasing girls; making midnight runs to Tijuana; getting drunk at Black Canyon; smoking weed in Balboa Park, tripping on shrooms on the piers off 32nd St based; tripping on acid out in the mountains around Alpine; snorkeling off La Jolla; climbing down the cliffs to Black's Beach (that was a nude beach in those days; my fat Navy buddy was swimming there and got carried by the tide a long ways towards La Jolla; he had to walk back down the beach in the nude, and was lambasted soundly by the fully dressed people down there).

I sure wish I had bought some real estate in the area east of downtown back in the 70s; that area was basically a slum back then. These days it is extremely pricey.

Sometimes I feel like just getting in the car and driving back to San Diego, back through the Mojave, over the mountains, seeing it as you drive down into that brown air, cruising down Rosencrans all the way to the point.....

[ConcernedCanuk]

31. Memories, memories -

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most of the above sounds verrrrrry familiar

'cept the girls chased ME !

I think it was just they luved to hear my funny Canuk talk,
and ya, did the runs to Tiajuana, climbed the cliffs at Blacks beach (MAN those cliffs were alot higher at the END of the day !)

Cruised National City's "mile of cars" - actually, was THREE miles of car dealers

At the time I was there some millionaire got pissed off at Volvo for some defects he coldn't get fixed, so he built a tower, and stuck the Volvo on top, all painted green with yellow lemons all over it !

I furget how that ended up, but I'd be safe to say it ain't up there any more.

Places I lived in the 14 months I was there included Mission Valley, National City, LaMesa, Bonita and Chula vista - ya I moved around a bit . . .

Sounds like I visited the area in it's prime -(mine too, mid 20's and single)

Big cities just keep geting bigger I guess, swallowing up all the nice spots around them

(sigh)

[HawkerHurricane]

11. Los Angeles in 1975

Before Proposition 13 ruined the schools...

[AverageJoe]

14. Eastern Kentucky

where I grew up. Sigh.

[grannylib]

15. To a lakeshore lot in northern Minnesota, with nobody else for miles, or

else to someplace like Montana or Idaho...remote, in the woods/mountains, near water somewhere...

[GAspnes]

19. you just described my cabin

right on border, just east of Voyageur's National Park.

I'd live there year-'round if the winter wasn't such a bear.

But for moving to Permanently? San Diego or Seattle.

[Philosophy]

75. That's where I grew up

Northern Minnesota gets a little boring after awhile.

[bowens43]

16. Ashtabula,Oh

[Whitacre D_WI]

46. Me, too!

Actually, I'd slightly prefer Conneaut. But that's just me.

[bowens43]

69. I grew up in Ashatbula.

I spent some time in Conneaut too. Are you from that area?

[Whitacre D_WI]

78. I'm from the southland.

Springfield, to be exact. But I've always been fond of Cleveland -- although I prefer to live in the country.

So. Conneaut -- beautiful town, not too far from the city, but still in the middle of nowhere; lakefront housing that's cheap... what's not to love?

[Bonhomme Richard]

18. Anywhere on the eastern coast preferably warmer than....

Connecticut. I have a need to be real close to the ocean. It feeds my soul.
I grew up on the jersey shore and when I get close to the house I smell low tide and think that I am home. Pretty weird huh?

[elfwitch]

21. San Francisco Baby!!

As soon as we can we are going to dust the hell that is Dallas off our feet and head out west.

[skypilot]

23. My first trip to Seattle...

...I took a picture of this little cabin on Vachon Island. I fantasize about living in that little cabin.

[Goldberg]

25. Hawaii...

I love geology, especially volcanoes, and that's where it's at! Not to mention that hot weather is a plus. Oh, and the beaches...can't forget about sunbathing.

[FireHeart]

37. We'll join you.

I loved living there for so many years and hated to leave. If I could go back, believe me, I would!!

[YellowRubberDuckie]

26. Probably someplace with a beach...

There is something about the Ocean that humbles me and makes me feel alive.
Duckie

[Catshrink]

29. Chicago or Seattle...

That would be a tough choice -- and one I may be making soon. I grew up in Seattle but lived in Chicago 15 years. Most of my family is in Seattle and as I get older, that's more important. I haven't bonded with AZ at all.

[blindpig]

30. I ain't telling

I hate crowds

[2004Donkeys]

32. Chicago

n/t

[Gildor Inglorion]

33. Key West, Florida

n/t

[fishnfla]

72. Close. No Name Key

nt

[SiobhanClancy]

76. No Name for me,too....

About the last outpost of the real Keys.(I lived in Marathon for years)

[pagerbear]

34. Behind the preposition "to"

[ConcernedCanuk]

36. I get it

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NYC - not much wonder !!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

35. List states with no death penalty and pick the most Democratic one

Too lazy to look up. Where did I end up?

[XNASA]

39. Probably Hawaii or Mass....

The death penalty is on hold here in Illinois, but it's not officially off the books.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

42. MASSACHUSETTS!!!! Love it!

It's decided. That's where I want to be if I ever go to the good ol' US of A!

I'm not a beach kinda guy, and I hate hot places. I constantly bitch about the heat in Rio.

[tom_paine]

38. Motnana.

If you've never been there it would be impossible to explain.

[catmandu57]

41. New Mexico

Maybe on the eastern slope near Taos or Las Vegas. Yes there is a Las Vegas NM. Gallup would be nice also, somewhere there is more sun than clouds the weather more moderate than this icebox.

[Frangible]

49. It's cold and conservative here

You sure? :)

[tom_paine]

58. Damned sure!

I lived there for 6 years and am ready to return!

As to the coldness, thanks to Global Warming, the winters will continue to get milder (except, like now, for the couple of years after Antartica calves off a couple state-sized icebergs).

As to the conservatism, I can't diagree but I would say that Montanans (IMHO) are more independant-minded than almost anywhere else, and that Smirky's Orwellianism and repeated, obvious lies can't be playing well with a majority of them.

There's "conservatism" and there's Bushevik Bootlicking. My take on it is that many True Conservatives in Montana are waking up to that fact. Of course, Montana, like anywhewre else, proably has it's share of Imperial Bootlickers who are probably shrieking at the top of their lungs, metaphorically-speaking, in order to keep everyone else confused by cacophony and unaware of this.

Bottom line: I'd move back to Monatan in a second if I could find a job in my field! Yes, I'm sure.

I'm sure Montana is AWESOME and like no other place in the Empire!

[marigold20]

77. Back to Montana for me

I lived there for ten years and would go back if we could earn a decent living there. Maybe retirement?

[Snow]

40. I like Altadena a lot, but, I really like Winter Park, CO....

beautiful setting, touristy but no ridiculously so, easy reach of a big city, ditto a national park, the world's best water (actually at a county park pump on a road up from Fraser). And finally, I really like high altitude. There's something about it that makes me feel healthy, energized, something. And Winter Park's at around 8,500 ft. Also, you can rent a condo there in the summer for something like 75 bucks a night. Great deal! The house prices are a far sight better than here in LA as well. And just to make it really feel like you're not in the US, there's good regular passenger train service.

[moof]

43. Ok if no one else wants it, 1600 Penn. Ave. D.C.

who could do worse than the idiot that's there now.

[Deja Q]

44. I'll stay in Minnesota

Despite the number of gay-friendly states or at least states where judges treated the law fairly for gays, I need to stay here and prevent the continued onslaught of the neo-con gestapo.

[Goldberg]

50. Hey! You're in MN?

Where at? I'm in Long Prairie, MN....little town between Sauk Centre and Alexandria.

[Deja Q]

65. Kewl!

Stillwater, east of St Paul and north of Woodbury.

[NoPasaran]

45. I'd like to stay in Austin

But go back 25 or 30 years. It was much nicer then.

[Skittles]

55. I lived in Austin '76 to '93

it disappoints me so much when I go back there now.

[ewagner]

47. My Choices

Seattle

Oregon, (Salem or nearby)

Anywhere on the "Redneck Riviera". From Panama City, Destin, Gulf Shores.......

[gyopsy]

48. Alaska

Near one of the big cities of course. I love the cold and I don't like traffic. perfect fit.

[northofdenali]

68. Better make it Fairbanks, then -

Anchorage traffic rivals any big city in the lower 48, Juneau is full of hot air.......................

Our idea of traffic is more than 3 cars at the stop light. Or 3 dog teams at a checkpoint.



I wouldn't live anywhere else.

[bigwillq]

51. Although I haven't been, I've always wanted to live in

Arizona. It seems so peaceful and undisturbed

[Alenne]

52. San Francisco

[TennesseeWalker]

53. Asheville, NC

[devilgrrl]

54. I'm already there...

Like Randy Newman - I :loveya: L.A.! :7

[SmileyBoy]

56. Anywhere besides here? Well then it would be San Francisco.

My aunt lives there, it's the most liberal city in the US, and the weather/ is very moderate. 56 degrees in winter, 73 in summer. None of this 10 degrees in winter and 82 in summer like in Fargo.

[Beaker]

57. Either the Kona Coast of the Big Island, or Madison/SW Wisconsin...

My wife and I will be making the choice between the two areas when we move from chicago sometime later this year.
a lot depends on how much we sell our house/two-flat for- it's pretty much tripled in value since we bought it 8 years ago, and it's time to go for both of us.

[TEXASYANKEE]

59. Ft Davis, TX

If I were retired, I would live in Ft Davis, TX (and plan to, at some point in the future). It is beautiful, the weather is more temperate, and there aren't many people. It's close to Big Bend and Guadalupe Mtn National Park.

[fudge stripe cookays]

60. Seattle or San Francisco

or possibly Madison, Wisconsin.

For the first time in a long time, I want to be surrounded by wonderful progressive vibes and energy, and people who care about each other, and decent music, and fantastic restaurants.....

yeah.....

[Padraig18]

61. Santa Fe or Albuqerque, NM

I love both cities sooooooo much, and NM in general. :)

[MrSlayer]

62. California, Florida or Hawaii.

This is assuming I have the money to do so.

[woofless]

63. We did it this summer. Maple Falls, WA

in the Cascade foothills of Mt. Baker. Spectacular. The air is clean as is the water. Trees everywhere. 45 min to the ski area and about the same to the Sound. Clamming, crabbing and fishing. We have a cabin surrounded by trees. It is green everywhere. Spectacular mountain views and very moderate winter weather at this altitude. One day last month I drove to the C-store about 12 miles away. I counted 41 bald eagles in that stretch. There were more but that was all I could count while driving. The town is small but has a very nice restaurant and tavern. I have never been anywhere that had friendlier and more accepting natives. We are home. Don't tell anyone I told you.

Woof

[mdmc]

64. +Woodstock, NY

Yeah boy!

[Ramsey]

66. Napa Valley

Or environs. With an apartment in San Francisco.

After Governor Gropinator is deposed of course.

[GOPisEvil]

80. Oh yeah, baby!

Good plan!

One of my best friends got married and is now living in Napa. There are certainly uglier places to live. :-)

[SammyWinstonJack]

67. Probably Ruidoso, NM

Or Morro Bay, Ca. Someplace that isn't unbearably hot! Not looking forward to yet another steamy summer in Tx.

[VOX]

70. Carmel-By-the-Sea, CA...

But we're talking major bucks here. Not in this lifetime, but the question did say "anywhere"...

:ick:

[LWolf]

71. I'm not sure.

I'd have to take a bunch of field trips; I haven't seen most of my country. Here are my requirements:

1. four seasons
2. relatively dry climate
3. not much wind
4. temps under 100 in summer
5. lots of wide open space
6. must have mountains.
7. nearest town must have independently owned, small businesses and
entertainment
8. The home itself must have enough land to comfortably house chickens, large garden, greenhouse, sheds, and horses, including pastures, barn, and arena. Must back up to national forest or blm. Preferrably public land on 4 sides. No neighbors for at least a mile.

Where can I find this?

[MrScorpio]

79. Atlanta, Ga

Right after I win that $177,000,000 Mega Millions jackpot.... Or right after I retire.

[camero]

81. Wenatchee, WA

Near some of the most beautiful country in the country. Green River,UT is a very close second.

edit: Now I remember the name of that town. :dunce: