Best Places to Live (merged)

[shetuck]

Cities lack specificity. If they weren't so lazy, they'd narrow it down to lots.

Elitist pr icks... the lot of you's's.

 

[Taosman]

Buckeye, Arizona was spit out for me!

 

[Flocka]

Paging the fail boat...

 

[Taosman]

Beats a trailer park. :tongue2:

 

[Flocka]

Beats a trailer park. :tongue2:

 

[Taosman]

 

[muffler dragon]

What is the best place to live that suits your needs? According to
this site, I should be a Duck. :)

Eugene, Oregon
Corvallis, Oregon
Charleston, West Virginia (ha!)
Salisbury, Maryland
Frederick, Maryland
Hartford, Connecticut
Portland, Oregon
Salem, Oregon
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Providence, Rhode Island

(The site asks you for some personal info at the end, but most of it is optional)

I can attest that Oregon is absolutely awesome. I live just outside of Salem (not that the city itself is anything to write home about). We're 60 miles from the coast, 45 miles from Portland, and an hour to an hour and a half to the mountains. Head a little bit further east and we've got high desert. All the climates one could want Gorgeous.

 

[NJ-Buckeye]

I can attest that Oregon is absolutely awesome. I live just outside of Salem (not that the city itself is anything to write home about). We're 60 miles from the coast, 45 miles from Portland, and an hour to an hour and a half to the mountains. Head a little bit further east and we've got high desert. All the climates one could want Gorgeous.

Hmmm.. some interesting parallels and some opposites for NJ... I'm only 30 miles from the ocean... and 40 miles from Manhattan (THE most wonderful city on planet earth IMO)... and less than an hour from the mountains and very good skiing... no deserts but we do have nuclear waste sites... The climate is actually VERY appealing... generally 10 degrees warmer than Ohio and most days are pure sunshine... really...

We DO however have REAL ESTATE taxes of $25K+ a year... most houses cost in excess of a mill...plus car insurance is about 4X what they are anywhere else.. generally we have the least expensive gas in the states.. and we do not have self serve...

 

[Basebuck]

I would rather get kicked in the nuts and punched in the throat than ever move back to Jersey.

I lived in central NJ so I was about an hour from NYC which was the only highlight. When people ask me what I compare Central NJ too I say that it is a mix between Haiti and Iowa.

 

[muffler dragon]

Hmmm.. some interesting parallels and some opposites for NJ... I'm only 30 miles from the ocean... and 40 miles from Manhattan (THE most wonderful city on planet earth IMO)... and less than an hour from the mountains and very good skiing... no deserts but we do have nuclear waste sites... The climate is actually VERY appealing... generally 10 degrees warmer than Ohio and most days are pure sunshine... really...

I was really surprised with the climate in Oregon considering were at the 45th parallel. While the days are shorter in the winter, we scantly get any snow. Apparently, the chinook wind that comes from Hawaii keeps us relatively "warm" during the winter.

We DO however have REAL ESTATE taxes of $25K+ a year... most houses cost in excess of a mill...plus car insurance is about 4X what they are anywhere else.. generally we have the least expensive gas in the states.. and we do not have self serve...

Nor do we. The only two states in the union.