Is New England the nicest place to live in the USA?
 

Where is the 'nicest' place to live in the USA?
New England looks promising (especially coming from the UK)

Im talking good scenery, lakes, stable property prices and reasonable weather. (Not too hot, not too cold)

Dont want to live in a city, but not something in the middle of nowhere...

Washington State.

stay the fuck out of mass, rhode island, and conn. The government tries to control every aspect in your life there, plus they *love* taxes. new hampshire and vermont are good. Maine? those fuckers are just werid, if it's snowing out you'll see idiots in shorts. they drive snowmobiles around on the streets like cars. They're also probably doing a lot of inbreeding and moose fucking.

really depends on what your lookinjg for

new england is beautiful but cold in the winter

I lived in Vt and maine and did love the spring summer and fall

It largely depends on what you're after, economically, and personally.
Generally speaking, places with a lot of jobs and a lot of "night life" aren't "beautiful" places in terms of scenery.

If you care about scenery, you can't go wrong with Maine, Washington, Oregon or (far) Northern California.

Eastern Washington state is one of the most beautiful places I've ever been to.

If you're willing to deal with a bit of a climate change from the UK, you might also want to look into Taos/ Santa Fe New Mexico. Awesome area, but you might not like the weather, as it is really dry and warmer than you're used to (but at least it isn't Tucson!)

New England pretty much has it all...
Boston w/in an hour or 2 drive from almost anywhere. NYC close as well.
Ocean near by. Mountains and great skiing close too. BEST sports teams!

Property is through the roof right now, but falling. Jobs o' plenty.

The only thing that sucks here is there really isn't a spring. It pretty much goes from cold/shitty to summer pretty quick. it'd be nice to have a month or 2 of nice spring weather like the south, but no way here. Fall is killer though.

SB

It would be, except for the winter :-(

I'm here. Want to move to Arizona though.

too much snow in the winter

I think it's cool.

New Enland's nice. Way bettter than freezing San Diego. its 62 today and NOT sunny. People are freakin and so are the palm trees!
Winter winter winter!!!

San Diego, if you can afford a house,

New England is a very nice place YDG, tho coming from the UK you may prefer a warmer climate if you plan to make the effort to move.

The flipside is the environment for operating an adult business - it's total crap in all states and you'd be jumping right into a neurotic incestuous frying pan.

Tip... Never agree to become a US citizen - It's a life sentence with more baggage than you could ever imagine - irrespective where you may elect to live after being in the US.

Id give far nothern California a look.

Just stay out of fla. we've got too many people down here already :thumbsup

Fucking beautiful scenery.

I love living here.. even thought I came from S. Florida. New England has a ton of benefits and very few drawbacks IMO. 4 hours to NYC, 1 hr to Boston from my house, 2 hours to the mountains and skiing, 30m to the beach.. love it.

[QUOTE=Webby;11535109]New England is a very nice place YDG, tho coming from the UK you may prefer a warmer climate if you plan to make the effort to move.

The flipside is the environment for operating an adult business - it's total crap in all states and you'd be jumping right into a neurotic incestuous frying pan.

Tip... Never agree to become a US citizen - It's a life sentence with more baggage than you could ever imagine - irrespective where you may elect to live after being in the US.[/QUOTE

I guess N.E. and Uk have similar climates?

more power to you, i don't think i could stand the cold when it hits 40 here i'm hating life, and that's only a few days a year :1orglaugh

I don't dig cold temperatures myself, so I'm really digging Southern California.

San Diego area (Specifically the city of Vista California) is the most temperate area in the U.S. on record. It typically stays high 60's to high 80's (F) throughout the year. I live in L.A., so it's not the same, but close enough.

You have a hell of a variety in climate here. You can go surfing in in fair beach weather in the morning, rock climbing in the afternoon, and snow skiing in the evening.

That, and kicking back and checking out the eye-candy skating by at Venice Beach is never a waste.

[QUOTE=bushwacker;11535300]Kinda similar bushwacker... and it can be damned cold in the UK - and wet! It's a place to escape from :winkwink:

Tho love Florida - and a few of the southern states. Had an guide into the undercurrents of life which "could" be violent at any time, - so decided on a more peaceful existance. But the surface things are very appealing - as well as the weather - nice enviornment :thumbsup Ah.. forget about the hurricane's now hitting Florida, but ended up with more hurricanes than ever in the Caribbean after that time.

[QUOTE=Webby;11535380]
been to ireland quite a few times, love the weather, when it's not raining lol...don't know if i could live there, but than again the golf courses are very appealing :)

I'm originally from Mass.. I've lived in Rhode Island, as well as Maine, & Connecticut. I currently live in New Hampshire.. New Hampshire, Vermont & Maine is where you want to go,, fuck Mass.. Mass sucks big time..

RI & Conn have their great parts, as well as bad parts.. stay really far away from Hartford, Bridgeport, etc.. big citys of CT suck big time crime & 3rd world insect infestations.. same goes for certain parts of RI, such as pawtucket.

[QUOTE=bushwacker;11535430]Ireland is actually OK!!! Agree! It's also a good area for a business environment - even in the adult biz. The status of Eire is not the same as the UK mainland and offers far more opportunity.

Got two friends in "adult" who are resident there - they just fly over to London City airport during the week and fly back to Eire on Friday evenings. (There are nice tax benefits by doing that).

Also kinda like the Irish people and the pubs :)

Coming from England it will be almost the same: Shit weather, fascist gun laws, excessive taxation, cradle to grave welfare, crucification of the successful, etc.

I was born and raised in Massachusetts... Left there 10 years ago... Never looked back.

Far better places to live in the US than New England...

Do not bother asking anyone that still lives there. At birth all New England people are taught, "This is the center of the universe... There is nothing else beyond these borders". I seriously have never met more brainwashed people than people from New England.

Once you lose the programming you realize just how sucky the place is...

[QUOTE=Webby;11535494]Yep the irish are a friendly bunch.

I've never checked the situation in Eire for a couple of years, but it was one of the most progressive commercial enviornments in all of the EU countries. The only flipside is back to the weather :-)

Thinking... tho depends what folks want, Panama is prob near the top of the league for a combination of commerical and lifestyle. Another country is Costa Rica which is very similar, tho Panama prob has an edge on the commercial aspect. Both countries have no taxation for stuff like net revenue and the weather is consistant almost all year round - it was about 75 here today (Costa Rica) and usually 72 - 80 normally inland and maybe 90 ish on the Pacific coast. Other nice aspect is - nobody bothers you. You don't get forms to fill in or silly stuff - very laid back.

I want to live in Hollywood.... nice place:)

yep the economy is booming over there, but the price of property has gone thru the roof, but like i said earlier you can't beat the golf. :)

In Eire? Hell... it was not that long ago you could buy some very nice property there for very little money. Some of these places have been standing for centuries with 2-4 foot solid stone walls :-)

Another place... at the time, was Northern France. Amazing properties with lots of character which cost very little. A friend bought one for.. think about $35K - again, solid stone, courtyard, stables and other stuff - too silly in comparison to today's prices. The French had a tendency to head for cities and the countryside was left vacant, but attractive countryside. It has obviously changed since then tho.

In Panama and CR it's the same on property values... all along the Pacific coast property is increasing at between 40-60% annually and no signs of a slowdown. Ah! And they are developing more golf courses here than I've had breakfasts :pimp We started buying land here a few years back and still looking. Think the govt said construction was up 73% on last year - it's going to end up one major condo complex, which is sad in a way and part of the reason we are heading more towards retaining the environment and blending homes into "paradise world". Depends on the area, but often the "richness" is in the land itself - the wildlife and terrain is irreplaceable.

I'd say the avg. price of a decent house over there now is 200,000 euro, but i't's been a couple of years since i've been there. I believe they have one of the lowest unemployment rates in europe, when even 10 yrs ago they had one of the highest. There are alot of companys that have opened up shop there, which has spurred the economy. Of course joing the eu had a huge affect also.

Sheesh.. $260K for average... The only bright side to that is you'd might get lucky and get a one bedroom apartment in the UK for that - maybe!! (Prob more like $400K - $500K) Suppose like everything - it's relative :-)

and i thought the property in so. fla was expensive lol.

On the contrary, I still live in New England, & I have left the borders many times,, I have lived in Los Angeles CA, Apache Junction AZ, Lizard Lick NC, among other places,,,

Don't even get me going on gun laws. I am a collector of firearms & am very familiar with gun laws.. the only state applicable to your claims is Massachusetts..RI, I don't know about, but Both Connecticut and New Hampshire have very lax gun laws... Being a resident of both of these states, I can walk into any gun shop & purchase anything in the store that is not a handgun or high capacity post ban without any kind of permit, & no NCIS check. In NH, I don't even have to fill out or sign any transfer of sale paperwork, nor are any transactions on non handgun sales recorded.

As far as handguns go, a simple NCIS, wait 5 days & I buy.. no problem, unlike Mass or other states that require chief of police approval & permits..

btw, I hold batf03 & c&r, so I can buy in all 50 states :thumbsup


There is nothing sucky about NH :) Mass blows, but NH is nice

San Diego, Voted most livable city in the country many times.

personally I like the west coast - San Diego, Phoenix or Red Rock, NV are some areas I'm looking at :2 cents:

moved from New England (all my life in Mass and RI) to San Diego 5 years ago...admittedly i don't care about gun laws, and Cali is obviously much more adult-friendly...but if it wasn't for the weather here vs. there, i'd move back in a heartbeat....

What the fuck? I can walk into a mass gun shop tommorow and walk out with a loaded 9mm 25 minutes later. Cheif of police approval? you only need that for the LTC.

RI has Narragansett Bay which is beautiful, but our state is getting expensive. The taxes are among the highest in the country.

youre surrounded by fucking trees... and they arent called "mexicans" they are called "Puerto Ricans"

Vegas -> best place ever.