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the four corners of the USA - where would you prefer to live?

the four corners of the USA - where would you prefer to live?

  • Washington

    Votes: 13 28.9%

  • California

    Votes: 16 35.6%

  • Florida

    Votes: 9 20.0%

  • Maine

    Votes: 14 31.1%

  • Alaska

    Votes: 1 2.2%

  • Hawaii

    Votes: 6 13.3%

  • Washington D.C.

    Votes: 1 2.2%
  • Total voters
    45
aociswundumho said:
I've lived in CA, FL, and NYC, but I always miss New England. So I'd pick Maine from that list.
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I live in SoCal and considering moving to Maine as well. Maine seems like a nice place to live.

RacePopulation (2016 est.)Percentage
Total population1,329,923100%
White1,260,47694.8%
Black or African American16,3031.2%
American Indian and Alaska Native8,0130.6%
Asian14,6431.1%
Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander2110.0%
Some other race3,1510.2%
Two or more races27,1262.0
 
Here are the four corners of Germany:

East Frisia (Ostfriesland)
Southern Baden (Südbaden)
Upper Bavaria (Oberbayern)
Western Pomerania (Vorpommern)

Do you know any of them? :)
 
Rumpel said:
I now have added three more options, so that there is more choice


the four corners of the USA - where would you prefer to live?
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I guess that would depend on which zone would see the least cataclysmic climate change. I know that more or less the entire South West (with emphasis on California) is screwed, but I don’t know the outlook of other places in the country.
 
KCook said:
Man, that Wind River Range must be the best kept secret in America!
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It's roughly 100 miles long, starts just below the Yellowstone complex. It's all federal wilderness and contains the largest glaciers in the American Rockies.

Where I took this picture is at least 2 days worth of off trail travel there. DSC00522.webp
 
Washington. Beautiful. I like rain. Great food and great beer. I like the people in Washington state.

Maine is nice but the brutal winters are too much for me.

Hawaii is nice. In fact, we just returned from Hawaii. Beautiful people in every way. But it is expensive beyond belief to live there.

I lived in Florida for 10 years. God, has it changed. I don't like the politics, the unbridled development and all the problems overdevelopment causes. The problems related to overdevelopment will last longer than you, no matter how young you are.

People move to Florida to start all over again or to get away from someone or something such as cold weather, an ex-spouse, the law, a job that sucks, and as often as not, to get away from themselves. Rarely do they ever get away from themselves. Many bring their bad karma with them.

There once was a Jimmy Buffet kind of Florida. That was nice. I don't think Buffett even lives in Florida now. That Florida is a pleasant memory for many and an unattainable pipe dream for many more. That Florida no longer exists.

Florida has long been a magnet for slightly, ah, "different" people. For the most part they were colorful and harmless. Not any more. Over the last 15 years or so the slightly different have been/are often deranged psychos and Christofascists.

Don't be surprise when they find the 6'9'' prison escapee and his suddenly insane former corrections officer girlfriend in Florida. It's pretty much SOP for those kinds of people, run to Florida.

But no state has better seafood than Florida. The diversity in Florida, especially south Florida is a plus. There are many good people in Florida. Unfortunately they are becoming outnumbered by the day.

Vacationing in Florida and living full time in Florida are not the same thing.
 
I've lived almost my whole life in Upstate NY. But I did live 2 years in Los Angeles and you couldn't get me to move there on a bet. I might consider San Francisco, but really the interesting metro centers in CA are too overcrowded for my liking. I'm much more suited the PNW or NE.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Washington. Beautiful. I like rain. Great food and great beer. I like the people in Washington state.

Maine is nice but the brutal winters are too much for me.

Hawaii is nice. In fact, we just returned from Hawaii. Beautiful people in every way. But it is expensive beyond belief to live there.

I lived in Florida for 10 years. God, has it changed. I don't like the politics, the unbridled development and all the problems overdevelopment causes. The problems related to overdevelopment will last longer than you, no matter how young you are.

People move to Florida to start all over again or to get away from someone or something such as cold weather, an ex-spouse, the law, a job that sucks, and as often as not, to get away from themselves. Rarely do they ever get away from themselves. Many bring their bad karma with them.

There once was a Jimmy Buffet kind of Florida. That was nice. I don't think Buffett even lives in Florida now. That Florida is a pleasant memory for many and an unattainable pipe dream for many more. That Florida no longer exists.

Florida has long been a magnet for slightly, ah, "different" people. For the most part they were colorful and harmless. Not any more. Over the last 15 years or so the slightly different have been/are often deranged psychos and Christofascists.

Don't be surprise when they find the 6'9'' prison escapee and his suddenly insane former corrections officer girlfriend in Florida. It's pretty much SOP for those kinds of people, run to Florida.

But no state has better seafood than Florida. The diversity in Florida, especially south Florida is a plus. There are many good people in Florida. Unfortunately they are becoming outnumbered by the day.

Vacationing in Florida and living full time in Florida are not the same thing.
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My little piece of florida is quite different from the ads.

No beaches just salt marsh. Miles of undeveloped coast protected from development by public land, yellow flies, sand knats and mosquitos. I love it almost as much as the rockies. Great fishing and not so many people.
 
rickc said:
My little piece of florida is quite different from the ads.

No beaches just salt marsh. Miles of undeveloped coast protected from development by public land, yellow flies, sand knats and mosquitos. I love it almost as much as the rockies. Great fishing and not so many people.
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You and a few others know there is still some of the old Florida left. I know that as well but like you I'm not telling anybody where. I don't want it discovered. I have fairly good idea of a few areas that fit your description.

I lived in St. Augustine, actually just a bit north on what the locals called "north beach" but what was officially known as Vilano Beach. We had a draw bridge on a two land road that connected us to St. Augustine proper. One "Lil Champ" convenience store/gas station, one dive bar called The Dirt, 3 excellent restaurants (one had live reggae every Sunday with boats tying up on the intercostal dock) and a camp ground. The rest was beach houses where locals lived. There was a house full of earth freaks who used to celebrate the solstice twice a year in a sweat lodge and then they'd run naked into the ocean.

Everybody pretty much knew each other. There was great fishing in the intercostal and surf casting from the beach. There was government land to the north from the ocean across the two lane road to the intercostal and into the marshes. It was heaven. Much of that has changed, I'm afraid.

I get back once or twice a year to see our kids.
 
I lived in Ponte Vedra years ago. I fished the intercoastal from Vilano to the palm valley Bridge. There was a restaurant on the intercoastal that claimed Flagler lived there when he was building the railroad. Had a ramp right there. Great place for lunch. Vilano was just a bunch of sand roads with no development. Quiet. I liked it. Caught a bunch of redfish back then. Probably wouldn't recognize the place now.
 
anywhere but the South.....and the bad thing the South is a wonderful place......it's the Southerners that are the problem
 
Indydave said:
anywhere but the South.....and the bad thing the South is a wonderful place......it's the Southerners that are the problem
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Like some say: "France could be such a fine country - but for the French ...."

That said, I' d like to add that I quite like the French! :)
 
  • Washington
  • California
  • Florida
  • Maine
  • Alaska
  • Hawaii
  • Washington D.C.
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Of those options, so far I have lived in California and DC. I wasn't a huge fan of California (at least the Bay Area)...ridiculously expensive, poorly governed, and lots of social problems. DC was better, but still not my favorite place in America. It's too stuffy and formal for me. I was a government consultant when I lived there, and I hated wearing a tie to work every day.

If I was picking a state from your list, I would probably choose Florida. California and Hawaii are too overpriced, and Florida has the next-best weather. I could see myself living in Miami at some point in my life.
 
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