What are your top spots?

[WingZero94]

Old man winter (that bastard) has inspired me, this year, to seek out a new location to live. So I went to the site below and took the quiz (free). Below are the answer it came up with. There are a few (Locations in Alabama and Mississippi) that you couldn't pay me to live in. Otherwise, it looks like a good list.

Post yours: :thumbsup:

http://www.findyourspot.com/


Greenville, South Carolina The Rising Star of the South
Population: 56,000 | Average Home Price: $190,000 | Precipitation: 51" | Snow: 7"

Louisville, Kentucky Home of the Kentucky Derby
Population: 248,000 | Average Home Price: $186,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 17"

Chattanooga, Tennessee City of Vision
Population: 155,000 | Average Home Price: $146,000 | Precipitation: 54" | Snow: 10"

Tulsa, Oklahoma A Blend of the Best
Population: 388,000 | Average Home Price: $135,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 5"

Clarksville, Tennessee The New South
Population: 103,455 | Average Home Price: $132,000 | Precipitation: 50" | Snow: 8"

Abilene, Texas Key City in the Big Country
Population: 116,000 | Average Home Price: $120,000 | Precipitation: 24" | Snow: 5"

Nashville, Tennessee Music City, U.S.A.
Population: 545,500 | Average Home Price: $169,000 | Precipitation: 46" | Snow: 11"

Enid, Oklahoma Bright Star of the Great Plains
Population: 46,400 | Average Home Price: $101,000 | Precipitation: 30" | Snow: 12"

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Big City on the Plains
Population: 523,000 | Average Home Price: $141,000 | Precipitation: 32" | Snow: 9"

Augusta, Georgia Georgia?s Garden City
Population: 500,000 | Average Home Price: $236,000 | Precipitation: 42" | Snow: 0"

Overland Park, Kansas Where Families Flourish
Population: 160,400 | Average Home Price: $226,000 | Precipitation: 35" | Snow: 20"

Tuscaloosa, Alabama The Big Apple of the South
Population: 79,300 | Average Home Price: $237,000 | Precipitation: 52" | Snow: 1"

Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi The Sparkling Gulf Coast
Population: 193,800 | Average Home Price: $202,000 | Precipitation: 60" | Snow: 0"

St. Petersburg, Florida The Sunshine City
Population: 249,550 | Average Home Price: $230,000 | Precipitation: 55" | Snow: 0"

Bowling Green, Kentucky Home Of the Corvette
Population: 50,700 | Average Home Price: $142,000 | Precipitation: 47" | Snow: 11"

Evansville, Indiana The Tri-State Capital
Population: 297,000 | Average Home Price: $110,000 | Precipitation: 42" | Snow: 13"

Springfield, Missouri A City With Style
Population: 390,000 | Average Home Price: $168,000 | Precipitation: 39" | Snow: 16"

Joplin, Missouri Living Well in the Ozarks
Population: 47,000 | Average Home Price: $100,000 | Precipitation: 44" | Snow: 12"

Wichita, Kansas The Heart of Kansas
Population: 354,600 | Average Home Price: $115,000 | Precipitation: 29" | Snow: 15"

Johnson City-Kingsport, Tennessee Two Natural Wonders
Population: 100,000 | Average Home Price: $110,000 | Precipitation: 45" | Snow: 17"

Savannah, Georgia Georgia?s Historic City
Population: 238,400 | Average Home Price: $196,000 | Precipitation: 51" | Snow: 0"

Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hub of South Mississippi
Population: 46,200 | Average Home Price: $115,000 | Precipitation: 58" | Snow: 0"

Cincinnati, Ohio The Queen City
Population: 1,690,000 | Average Home Price: $161,000 | Precipitation: 39" | Snow: 19"

Bradenton, Florida The Culture Coast
Population: 56,870 | Average Home Price: $217,000 | Precipitation: 49" | Snow: 0"

 

[Jhill]

I like winter. Hell it's about the only thing I like about Utah.

 

[FoBoT]

from your list, i would live in South Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, I already live in Missouri

 

[cubby1223]

It's too many questions for nothing really interesting.

 

[FoBoT]

bah, i answered the questions

Billings, Montana
St. George, Utah
Great Falls, Montana
Cheyenne, Wyoming
Loveland, Colorado
Boise, Idaho
Missoula, Montana
Colorado Springs, Colorado

i shouldn't have answered the region question, it came back with all stuff in the mountains

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: Jhill
I like winter. Hell it's about the only thing I like about Utah.

BOOO!!!!

Utah is my spot.

If I HAD to move, it would probably be Idaho, Montana or New Mexico....

 

[duragezic]

LOL

I actually went through the questions and answered them accurately on where I would like to move after college, maybe see if the place I am moving to is in the top list.

So I get the results, and the number #1 place on my list....




is where I live right now! :Q

And this place kind of sucks. I think it underestimates the winters here, being that I chose that I don't mind winters but didn't want long or harsh ones.

edit: I choose the medium sized communities and small ones. Seems I should've just did medium sized, as only have a few between 30-40k, most are under 10,000 which is too small.

 

[TheAdvocate]

Spent last weekend in Augusta.

D-U-M-P.

The golf course isn't in the best area at all. Across the street from a cheesy strip mall called The Masters something or other.

There is literally nothing else to do there besides dodge construction barrels

 

[irishScott]

Well my results are interesting, don't really fit with my answers for the most part:

Boston, Massachusetts (WAY too much snow for me)
Hartford, Connecticut (See above)
Honolulu, Hawaii (Not enough snow)
Carlisle, Pennsylvania (Looks interesting)
Providence, Rhode Island (Hell no)
New Haven, Connecticut (No thanks)

Everything else is pretty much located in the region I'm currently living in (Eastern Mid-Atlantic), so no real surprise. Although it did throw in a few places in Hawaii, Oregon, and Arizona

 

[PrinceofWands]

Not a bad list really, though too many of them have housing prices bordering on extortion (to me). There's also WAY too many big cities in the list. 30k is my limit for population, and I'd prefer to live in a county of 10-20k within an hour drive of any city services I need. I also find it interesting that I have a bunch of Oregon, but no Washington or Alaska. Hmmmm.


Johnson, Vermont The Heart of the Green Mountains
Population: 3,300 | Average Home Price: $140,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 60"

Middlebury, Vermont Progressive College Town
Population: 6,250 | Average Home Price: $179,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 60"

St. Helens, Oregon The Riverside Town
Population: 11,200 | Average Home Price: $200,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 5"

Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts New England at its Best
Population: 2,060 | Average Home Price: $240,000 | Precipitation: 46" | Snow: 68"

Eugene, Oregon The Emerald City
Population: 142,000 | Average Home Price: $226,000 | Precipitation: 48" | Snow: 7"

Nantucket, Massachusetts New England at its Finest
Population: 9,500 | Average Home Price: $1,600,000 | Precipitation: 67" | Snow: 34"

Montpelier, Vermont A Capital Place to Live
Population: 8,035 | Average Home Price: $196,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 108"

Brattleboro, Vermont The Hub of New England
Population: 12,000 | Average Home Price: $177,000 | Precipitation: 34" | Snow: 62"

Corvallis, Oregon Heart of the Willamette Valley
Population: 50,000 | Average Home Price: $225,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 6"

Milwaukie, Oregon City of Dogwoods
Population: 20,600 | Average Home Price: $199,000 | Precipitation: 37" | Snow: 7"

Northampton, Massachusetts Arts Town Extraordinaire
Population: 29,000 | Average Home Price: $316,000 | Precipitation: 41" | Snow: 48"

Lewiston, Maine Cities on the Riverbank
Population: 35,900 | Average Home Price: $144,000 | Precipitation: 44" | Snow: 84"

Astoria, Oregon Where the Eagles Fly
Population: 9,660 | Average Home Price: $172,000 | Precipitation: 66" | Snow: 5"

Burlington, Vermont The Enlightened Town
Population: 38,900 | Average Home Price: $228,000 | Precipitation: 33" | Snow: 79"

Johnstown, Pennsylvania Gem of the Alleghenies
Population: 24,000 | Average Home Price: $80,000 | Precipitation: 44" | Snow: 52"

Williamstown, Massachusetts Old New England At Its Best
Population: 8,425 | Average Home Price: $350,000 | Precipitation: 45" | Snow: 64"

Salem, Oregon The Heart of Oregon
Population: 143,000 | Average Home Price: $200,000 | Precipitation: 39" | Snow: 6"

Carlisle, Pennsylvania The Waterfront Capital
Population: 615,000 | Average Home Price: $122,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 37"

Hartford, Connecticut The Insurance Capital
Population: 871,500 | Average Home Price: $221,000 | Precipitation: 41" | Snow: 42"

Jamestown, New York Where the Arts are Center Stage
Population: 30,700 | Average Home Price: $133,000 | Precipitation: 38" | Snow: 83"

Providence, Rhode Island New England?s Best Kept Kept Secret
Population: 1,213,000 | Average Home Price: $242,000 | Precipitation: 48" | Snow: 32"

Portland, Oregon City of Roses
Population: 2,000,000 | Average Home Price: $259,000 | Precipitation: 36" | Snow: 5"

Andover, Massachusetts The Best of New England
Population: 31,900 | Average Home Price: $621,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 53"

Danbury, Connecticut Small-Town Charm Near the Big Apple
erage Home Price: $329,000 | Precipitation: 39" | Snow: 50"

 

[Riverhound777]

Mine had a lot of suggestions in Washington. I'm actually very happy with where I live now in Santa Barbara. In fact most of my answers were aimed at SB, but it didn't even suggest one town near me, or even many on the coast.

 

[brtspears2]

This stinks, the #1 result for me is San Bernardino, CA. I live 15 minutes away from there!

 

[Tiamat]

Little Rock, Arkansas
Tuscon, Arizona
Norfolk, Virginia
Las Vegas, Nevada
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Phoenix, Arizona
Charlotte, North Carolina
Chesapeake-Virginia Beach, Virginia
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Augusta, Georgia
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Atlanta, Georgia
Baltimore, Maryland
Orlando, Florida
Charleston, South Carolina
Henderson, Nevada
El Paso, Texas
Jacksonville, Florida
Tampa, Florida
Dallas, Texas
Forth Worth, Texas
West Palm Beach, Florida
Memphis, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee

Pretty typical for answering:
Snow = NO
City = Major

Italics = NO
Underline = Don't know
They failed to ask if I didn't like the southern drawl. That would cut out quite a bit.

 

[meltdown75]

my ADD kicked in on page 4 of 8, but i assume it only provides locations in the US?

 

[Nitemare]

Not bad, 1st two were within 4 hours drive...


Norfolk, Virginia
Charlotte, North Carolina
Tampa, Florida
Nashville, Tennessee
Orlando, Florida

None on the west coast, even came up with Long Island on page 3...

 

[judasmachine]

St. Petersburg, Florida The Sunshine City
Population: 249,550 | Average Home Price: $230,000 | Precipitation: 55" | Snow: 0"

This is where I live now. A hell of a change from Amarillo, TX.

Amarillo, Texas The Crown of Texas
This Texas town's cattle industry was started by Charles Goodnight, inventor of the chuckwagon?
Population: 173,600 | Average Home Price: $125,000 | Precipitation: 20" | Snow: 15"

 

[SsupernovaE]

Luna, Solar System Satellite of Terra
Population: 0 | Average Home Price: $72,000,000,000 | Precipitation: 0" | Snow: 0"

hmm...

 

[nakedfrog]

Hm, St. Helens, OR sounds pretty nice.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Hm, St. Helens, OR sounds pretty nice.

I live about 18 miles from St. Helens.

It's backwater and redneckish, but it's so close to Portland that it's really not a big deal. Definitely woodsy, cheap, etc.

 

[judasmachine]

Originally posted by: brtspears2
This stinks, the #1 result for me is San Bernardino, CA. I live 15 minutes away from there!

Heh, then that's as good as it's gonna get my friend. It's all the same sh!t.

 

[Chaotic42]

Ogden, Utah Where Utah Comes Together
This scenic "Crossroads of the West" is set between Utah's Great Salt Lake and the magnificent Wasatch Mountains?
Population: 77,200 | Average Home Price: $160,000 | Precipitation: 17" | Snow: 63"


Albany, New York Crossroads of the Northeast
This city of museums and galleries is home to the New York State Museum, with over 5 million artifacts and specimens?
Population: 299,000 | Average Home Price: $160,000 | Precipitation: 35" | Snow: 60"


Spokane, Washington Northwestern Jewel
This Washington golf mecca hosts a Lilac Festival every year; in 1974 it also hosted the World's Fair...
Population: 427,500 | Average Home Price: $138,700 | Precipitation: 17" | Snow: 50"


Roanoke, Virginia The Heart of the Blue Ridge
This Virginia spot rests in a beautiful valley, surrounded by the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains?
Population: 95,000 | Average Home Price: $145,000 | Precipitation: 41" | Snow: 22"


Altoona, Pennsylvania Hometown, USA
This town is home to the oldest roller coaster in the world: the "Leap-The-Dips"?
Population: 48,000 | Average Home Price: $85,000 | Precipitation: 37" | Snow: 48"


Great Falls, Montana Where the Rockies Meet the Plains
Captain Meriwether Lewis and his companion William Clark encountered a hostile grizzly bear near the waterfalls of this great spot in 1805?
Population: 56,200 | Average Home Price: $145,000 | Precipitation: 15" | Snow: 44"


Johnson City-Kingsport, Tennessee Two Natural Wonders
This Tennessee city's lively annual Springfest includes a JazzNite, golf tournaments, a chili cookoff and a beach party...
Population: 100,000 | Average Home Price: $110,000 | Precipitation: 45" | Snow: 17"


Chattanooga, Tennessee City of Vision
The beautiful former depot of this town's famous Choo-Choo is now a unique vacation complex?
Population: 155,000 | Average Home Price: $146,000 | Precipitation: 54" | Snow: 10"


Grand Rapids, Michigan Pride of West Michigan
The largest equestrian statue in the world - weighing 13 tons and standing 24 feet high - is in this Michigan city?
Population: 195,600 | Average Home Price: $153,000 | Precipitation: 30" | Snow: 72"


Harrisburg, Pennsylvania The Waterfront Capital
The Rockville Bridge just north of this Pennsylvania town was built in 1901 and is still the longest stone arch bridge in the world?
Population: 76,000 | Average Home Price: $125,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 37"


Salt Lake City, Utah This is the Place
In 2002, this spot became the largest city ever to host the Winter Olympics?
Population: 181,700 | Average Home Price: $185,000 | Precipitation: 15" | Snow: 55"


Provo-Orem, Utah Living and Learning at their Best
These twin cities in central Utah are home to some of the world's top collections of dinosaur bones?
Population: 189,500 | Average Home Price: $205,000 | Precipitation: 12" | Snow: 30"

 

[TwiceOver]

I hate the cold, but I hate hillbilly land even more. All my results where very south.

 

[Anubis]

all mine landded in new england because i love snow hate hot summers and disslike big cities, alot in vermont NH and Mass

#1 was Montpelier, Vermont A Capital Place to Live
The entire downtown of this state capital is designated as a National Historic District ?
Population: 8,035 | Average Home Price: $196,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 108"

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: PrinceofWands

Originally posted by: nakedfrog
Hm, St. Helens, OR sounds pretty nice.

I live about 18 miles from St. Helens.

It's backwater and redneckish, but it's so close to Portland that it's really not a big deal. Definitely woodsy, cheap, etc.

That sounds almost exactly like where I live now, only closer to an ocean and mountains and with a better climate.

 

[giantpinkbunnyhead]

I did this some time ago, and was amused to see that the #1 spot for me came up as Anchorage, Alaska. I already live there! Best place in the world for me, with OR without affirmation from that website.