Where Should I Live When I'm Older?

[AlFrankenFan]

Poll question: Where Should I Live When I'm Older?

I've been having trouble trying to figure out where I will live when I get to be an adult. I have moved all my life and I have never really don't have a "home state". I have narrowed down my choices to those below, but suggestions are welcome.

Poll result (20 votes)
Minnesota	(3 votes, 15%)	Vote
Virginia	(2 votes, 10%)	Vote
North Carolina	(5 votes, 25%)	Vote
Colorado	(2 votes, 10%)	Vote
Other? (Please Specify)	(8 votes, 40%)	Vote

[JohnKleeb]

1. hmm I dunno

You like cold weather so I suggest colorado or minnesota. Its very beautiful as well, my aunt lives in Boulder. Never been out there myself and I dont like mountains really.

[KG]

2. life probably has other plans for ya.

hopefully you'll end up someplace you really like, i like did in st pete, fl

[Digit]

3. Asheville, NC...

With global warming, it might be oceanfront property eventually....

[Stew225]

4. other. Youngstown, Ohio. eom

[mitchtv]

5. Between SF and BC (British, not Baja)

Ecotopia

[ImThatOneGuy]

6. SoCal Baby!

Nothing beats Southern California, whether Orange County or San Diego! Great weather, great people, great living! (although the OC is solid Republican country)

[AlFrankenFan]

9. I live in SoCal...I don't like the weather

and the people I'm around are generally awful, considering it is the seat for the rich and obnoxious Republicans.

Welcome to DU, btw

[AndyTiedye]

10. Northern California

> live in SoCal...I don't like the weather and the people I'm around are
> generally awful, considering it is the seat for the rich and obnoxious
> Republicans.

Move up the coast a bit, and the repubs are such a tiny minority that
they lay low, instead or being obnoxious.

I didn't even see a Bush sticker until we were driving through the
Central Valley on the way to the Sierras last weekend.

[UdoKier]

13. San Diego or Orange County?

72 degrees and sunny gets you down? You need your head checked! I live in SF and I looove the weather here. I also liked it in San Diego when I lived there. Anywhwere you live like So Cal, the Bay Area, Broward County in FL, Dallas, Austin - any of these metro areas with a a lot of new residents who came for jobs, quality of life, whatever, you will find a lot of anomie, a lack of community which encourages people to act a lot more like a-holes than they normally would.

You might like a more settled population like in Chicago or Minneapolis, but you better visit for a while in the winter first - you may be biting off more than you can chew.

Asheville NC has been mentioned, and while it is progressive and a very beautiful part of the country, it has some of the WORST smog. Just something to be aware of.

[AlFrankenFan]

15. Orange County

Ya I know it's odd but I really prefer cold weather. I've been trying to get my family to take a vacation in the midwest during the winter, but alas we aren't really the traveling type

[Droopy]

7. If you like pretty country, go to Colorado

If you like liberal country go to Minnesota. I don't like harsh winters so I don't think I'd enjoy either sate. I live in Ohio and I hate the winters here and they are not as cold as in CO or MN.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Come to Boston

it's beautiful, historical and liberal.

[ilovenicepeople]

11. CANADA

[Nay]

12. I live in Virginia, and I really hate it.

Been here 10 years and just don't like the people much. The job situation is good, but northern Virginia traffic is near-gridlock 80% of the time. Richmond is a Civil War museum, and the people are snobbish and/or uneducated. Western Virginia is very pretty geographically.

[AVID]

14. Missoula MT