POLL: Need your help - Where should we move to?

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Murpheeee

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I am begging for the help of the ATOT population ...... help us decide where to move to.

We are sick of living in Western NY......winters last 7 months, we only get 50 clear days/year, job market is a joke - 10% unemployment - if you are lucky enough to have a job employers treat you like crap because they can.....we need a change.

Our criteria are.....in no particular order.....low-ish cost of living, nice weather (not too hot or cold), close to biggish city for stuff to do, reasonable job prospects (if that exists anywhere right now?), some good colleges close by......

We have a shortlist and I will add them to the poll.....please vote and post reasons for/against

Obviously be especially interested to hear from people from these places.
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brigden

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You need to move to Madison. Here's why, and I quote Lewis Black from "The White Album":

"I love Wisconsin. I love coming here. I perform here, er, a lot, because I've discovered that you people apparently have some federal grant for drinking. It's ? you're insane! You pay less for liquor than anybody I know anywhere in the country. Nobody pays less for liquor than you! I don't know if you?re using that farm subsidy money, or if you?re just hijacking liquor trucks, but this is f**king insane! It is volume? It?s un-buh-f**king-lievable! It?s staggering! I come here 'cause basically if I spend four days here drinking even with the plane ticket it's cheaper than drinking in New York.

How do you know when it's New Years? That's the big mystery to me! What's the difference? I've been in bars here and it's like New Years every f**k night. Oh, New Years that's when we drink with hats on. I've been drunker here than any place I've ever been in my life.

And remember this: You are not ? you are not ? alcoholics. You, and my hat is off, are professionals."
 
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Yossarian

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You're sick of winters and you have Minnesota and Wisconsin on your list?? I'd take Arizona out of those choices, it's pretty nice there. No idea about the job market tho.
 
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4Lclovergirl

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OK, you don't want a long winter, but your choices included CO and MN, and Wi? you crazy?!! LOL. AZ is warm, but it's also HOT! So it depends on what you want.

Personally, I hear NC and SC are nice..
 
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Murpheeee

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I know WI and MN have bad winters but they at least get a lot more sunshine than we do......we get nothing but gray.
These places have other trade-offs that may make up for winters

CO winters are supposedly not too bad at all
 
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Eli

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Oct 9, 1999
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Originally posted by: marykristen
Seattle is almost as gray as Rochester. Seasonal Effective Disorder.
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Portland, Oregon. :p

 
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marykristen

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I've heard that the residents of Portland don't want anyone new moving in because it is overcrowded, and that the people of Oregon generally are against outsiders moving in.
 
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Ornery

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We visited NC before committing to buying a house. Weather at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains was perfect. No interest in moving near the ocean. Cost of living is great. Too bad there were no jobs at the time. CA was never even considered due to cost of living. Florida, Georgia and Texas are too damn hot, humid and buggy. If I ever get pried out of this area, it will be to settle in the Winston/Salem, Ralegh/Durham area.
 
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jw791

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Boulder has a very high cost of living as far as housing goes.

I lived in Flagstaff for a year. I liked it, but it is by no means anywhere "big city" like, although Phoenix is about 120 miles south.
 
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poopaskoopa

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Originally posted by: Ornery
We visited NC before committing to buying a house. Weather at the foot of the Blue Ridge Mountains was perfect. No interest in moving near the ocean. Cost of living is great. Too bad there were no jobs at the time. CA was never even considered due to cost of living. Florida, Georgia and Texas are too damn hot, humid and buggy. If I ever get pried out of this area, it will be to settle in the Winston/Salem, Ralegh/Durham area.
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Raleigh, and its surrounding area, is a nice city to live in(been here since 1996). I'm ready to move outta here though. I want to live in a bigger city.
 
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sash1

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Utah is fuggin Mormon town, so dun go there. If you are into skiing, Colorado is the place. Arizona is sun every day (seriously, not kidding, I've been there, it is cloudy mebbe once every other month). I dunno about the other places, never seen.

I'd go to california! Calif = own

~Aunix
 
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olds

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Seems to me every place you listed is either very hot or very cold.
 
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Ornery

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"I want to live in a bigger city..."

Why? You like traffic? Paying to park? Crime? :confused:

I'd rather have my cake and eat it too. Living in a suburb, near freeways with a mall or two handy is perfect to me. As long as there's good jobs available, and decent cost of living, what more could you want? If the suburb is only 20 miles or so from a "bigger city", you've got it all!
 
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poopaskoopa

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Originally posted by: Ornery
"I want to live in a bigger city..."

Why? You like traffic? Paying to park? Crime? :confused:

I'd rather have my cake and eat it too. Living in a suburb, near freeways with a mall or two handy is perfect to me. As long as there's good jobs available, and decent cost of living, what more could you want? If the suburb is only 20 miles or so from a "bigger city", you've got it all!
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Heh. I guess I do. But I'm still young and don't have responsibilities beyond myself so I feel like I need to move around some more. :)
 
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TonyG

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Checked out Texas yet? Cost of living is not too bad, just depends on what area you live in, job market should be pretty good around Dallas or the Houston areas, if you are not around the Dallas or Houston areas you don't have to worry about any car emissions regulation too much, no statewide emissions checks. You have choices of areas with lots of trees/water, hot and dry flatlands, really hot and dry mountains around El Paso, temperate coastal areas, or come up north and you can keep trying to guess what the weather is going to be like from day to day in the Panhandle area, one day it will be 90*F the next day it willl be snowing. Over all though, we have pretty mild winters. Summers can be hot depending on where you are at, if you are in the Panhandle area, the mountains of New Mexico are only a few hours away, makes for some nice fishing and camping, or skiing in the winter.
 
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