If you could live anywhere...

thesacrifice said:
P-Nut, you should give Washington a visit! Although the town I live in is becoming over run with California transplants....stay away...you're making the housing market insane.
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The Pacific northwest is my favorite region of the country. I was at the Parade in Portland last August and thought I'd died and gone to heaven. I've thought about renting an apartment there or Seattle for 6 months and see if I can handle the weather. I like rain showers but not crazy about constant drizzle for days on end.
 
I still like Michigan. I love having four seasons, and it doesn't get blazing hot. I love the terrain as we have some flat areas, some very hilly areas, and lots and lots of nice beaches. The only things I would like changed, would be a little shorter winter season and not to get dumped on with snow as much as we do. Oh, and I would love to do away with the bone chilling winds we get here by the lake in the winter.
 
patrick and buddah, id trade you winter weather for your potential clientel any day, but i see what youre saying, i grew up in san diego and use to think 49 degrees in the mornings was cold, till i moved to central oregon, bend is beautiful, also not a great market for what we do.
 
I would like to check out St. George Utah. I have lived in North Dakota (born & raised), Colorado, SoCal (great bplace to visit but I don't want to live there), & Idaho. St. George is a easy day drive from all the places I'd love to visit more often than I'm able to now.
 
I guessed right! Now that would be a wonderful place to live for the rest of my life!!



truzoom said:
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Props to anyone that can recognize that mansion without having to check the file name...



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Anywhere where I could get to the beach, mountains, within a 30 min drive. Living in Kansas would be a bad thing...
 
Whatever you do, don't come to Massachusetts. High taxes, freezing weather, potholes, 6 months of winter, gay marriage, liberal courts and Ted Kennedy. If your house gets broken into, the guy who did it is not a criminal, he's an unfortunate victim who's struggling to get by. By the way, all this waxing, buffing and polishing stuff that we all love so much; well, that goes bye bye for the winter also. A warmer climate is something I seek desperately. Maybe the foothills of Arizona.



Patrick
 
We just went through that same decision about a year ago...and we picked AZ. If I didn't have to work in the valley, I would have moved farther out. But I still love it!
 
a.k.a. Patrick said:
Ive been looking to relocate to Co also. Im tired of California, and its lack of winters. Its either hot or windy, and today its windy (40mph). Yesterday it was 80 something. The afforability index is real low for families..The hard part is once you leave Ca, theres no return. Anywhere I go, wont pay as much as here, but its a cost of living issue.

I was always told if I planned to move spend a week (at the new location) in the winter, and a week in the summer, for two conscutive years...Had I icked to go to Co 4-6 weeks a go when they had terrible weather, I probably would have made my mind up right then and there, not to move there!

Wyoming would be another nice area...
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Patrick,



Here's the view from my back yard:





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Plus, you can afford a house with a heated and insulated garage like this:



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Yellowstone National Park is 49 miles from my door and it takes less time to get there than LAX - Malibu. People still make fun of me because I lock my doors. I tell them it's because I don't want to bring a Wyoning habit back to So. California when I visit.



You should come up here to look around. Your blood pressure will go down and you'll have to get used to doing business on a hand shake. When I bought an $1,800 lawn tractor, the dealer special-ordered it and refused to take a deposit. When it was delivered, the dealer told me to drop off a check the next time I was close to his store!!???





Everybody thinks we have Yellostone weather up here. (Don't tell anybody, but the winters do not include much snow - look up the annual precipitation tables.) It is 54 F. today.



P.S.: If the prospect of guns, concealed carry or open carry bothers you., stay in California. If you like scanning the police frequencies, be prepared. I loaded all the law enforcement and fire and medical channels in my radio and didn't pick up a call for 90 minutes. I thought my scanner was broken..... (It is fun to wear a gun around town during tourist season just to see the reactions from Californians and New Yorkers.)
 
Cody, Wyoming. Population 8,835 (2000 census)



2003 -2004 Mach1 capital of the world. One per 2,209 persons.



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ptaylor_9849 said:
Whatever you do, don't come to Massachusetts. High taxes, freezing weather, potholes, 6 months of winter, gay marriage, liberal courts and Ted Kennedy. If your house gets broken into, the guy who did it is not a criminal, he's an unfortunate victim who's struggling to get by. By the way, all this waxing, buffing and polishing stuff that we all love so much; well, that goes bye bye for the winter also. A warmer climate is something I seek desperately. Maybe the foothills of Arizona.



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it was all fine until I read "gay marriage"" :sosad :sosad :sosad



I'd say 99 out 100 STRAIGTH marriage produces disfunctional children.



You should care about HEALTHY partnerships. :sosad :sosad



We are moving out of No Va this year & I want to live away from people with your mentality. Jesus!!!
 
Oh yeah, Wyoming has no state income tax and the politicians argue about how to spend the state's surplus.
 
Big Jon said:
I would like to check out St. George Utah. I have lived in North Dakota (born & raised), Colorado, SoCal (great bplace to visit but I don't want to live there), & Idaho. St. George is a easy day drive from all the places I'd love to visit more often than I'm able to now.
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Every time I go through St. George, it reminds me of California, plus the summers are almost as hot as Las Vegas!
 
BMW335i said:
Anywhere where I could get to the beach, mountains, within a 30 min drive. Living in Kansas would be a bad thing...
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You could do that in Southern California if is wasn't for the other 14 million people cramming the roads in Los Angeles and Orange Counties!
 
I loved Northern California. The cost of living is crazy and it's full of people that now better than you do what is best for you. However, it is pretty close to paridise for me. My office is in NY and I spend enough time there to know it's not for me. I also travel all the time for work (about 40 weeks a year, most international) and have not found anywhere else I'd rather be. You're on the ocean and the mountains aren't far. I just need to figure out how the wife and I move back. :)



For somewhere a little cheaper, maybe Santa Cruz or SLO down the coast.
 
Tdekany, I appologize if I made you uncomfortable. I was simply making a point that Massachusetts possesses a very liberal mentality about ALOT of things, not just gay marriage. Moreover, I don't think it's fair for you to make assumptions that I dislike or don't respect gays as parents. Good grief, how did you come to that conclusion? In summation, I don't feel that an automotive detailing website is the place to engage in a philisophical discussion of social issues such as this.
 
STG said:
Every time I go through St. George, it reminds me of California, plus the summers are almost as hot as Las Vegas!
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Well then Idaho or maybe Wyoming just moved up on my list. I can dress for cold but I'm not a big fan of 100+ temps.
 
Anywhere there is an ocean. I have lived by the ocean 23 of my 24 years and the one year I didn't I lived in Las Vegas. I loved that town but no ocean...yet. I really like Myrtle Beach so I will say there.
 
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