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.

Which part of New England are you thinking of going to? I'm in Mass. but have lived in New Hampshire and Maine and Maine will be where I retire.

Sure, our taxes are high here, but you can't beat living on the ocean. In hte past 2 weeks we've had snow, 70 degree day, 18 degree day, then 56 yesterday. If you're bored with the same weather day in and day out, you'll love New England.

And hey, our car insurance rates will be going down 11.7%, first time in 30 years! (They have been among the highest plus our commissioner sets our insurance rate so we can't go to those Geico-type places for a cheaper rate)

Depends on what you like, how much money you have and the type of lifestyle you enjoy.

I personally love it. Tried elsewhere and was miserable, so we came back "home".

A lot of money, nice size hunk of property and a nice, rugged 4 wheel drive vehicle go a long way here.

I live in RI and I have to say that I like it here. I like the weather changes. As other posters have pointed out you can go to the beach or the mountains. There is a high level of convenience here. You can be in the city in less than 30 minutes or the country.

Not sure exactly, hence asking the advice. Has to be somewhere by the coast, or else on a lake.

I've been checking property in Maine, and the choice is amazing. And for what you get there compared to what we pay in the UK, its a relative bargain. (especially with the £/$ exchange rate)

So I have to ask, when you guys say, its not 'adult friendly' what are you saying? Are the police likely to come knocking on the door? Or is it just a case of keeping your head down, and getting on with your own business?

I'm not keen on Vegas, California, Texas etc. Been to these places many times and cant do the hot climate, although they were nice for a vacation. Hence ... Its got to be something like home :)

Final question, anyone recommend a good real estate site? The ones i checked seem to narrow you down to like 20 places at a time which takes forever when you havent got a clue which city (place) you actually want to look at.

If your thinking of Maine be prepared for LONG COLD winters with TONS of snow. winter in maine lasts from the middle of novemeber easy until middle to end of march. they even get snow into april.

I lived in Bath Me for 2 years. The winters are brutal and the summers can be VERY hot with tons of mosquitos

BUT it is very beautiful there and the cost of living is very reasonable

If your looking for a more moderate climate and decent cost of living look at the carolinas.

How to describe this :winkwink: Let's say, the US is the worst operating environment for the adult industry out of all western countries.

It is a highly unstable environment and often dependent on stupid whims of elected individuals - some of whom were never sane from birth.

Assume you are already familiar with US law as regards the adult industry? That says a lot - it's not a pretty picture. The moment you touch US soil you are under the jurisdiction of these, and other, laws and will not have the same rights as in eg the EU. (Don't believe the "land of the free" stuff - it's a myth)

It's unlikely law enforcement will knock on your door - they are too busy with more relevant stuff, however the chances of that are more likely than in the UK. There are laws, eg 2257 blah where law enforcement are obliged to check stuff out - so visit is necessary.

Also note you affairs, business or otherwise, are not a secret - there is very little privacy in comparison to the UK or most other countries. Should you elect to become a US citizen, you lose more rights than gain anything - and you are subject to US law irrespective whether you elect to then continue to live, - in the US, or any another country. You are also expected to pay US taxation while you live in that other country.

We used to operate in the US years ago - but after considering the overall - everything from the commercial aspect, laws to lifestyle, business and personal taxation - elected to move to more favorable environment with none of the US style problems and no taxation. That is one thing that will never be regretted - we saw the writing on the wall and it all happened.

I've met far more people who won't even fly on-route via the US - you are the first person lately who wants to actually live there, but hey, it is a nice country, but well... I'll pass ;-) Know from personal experience where you are right now is a much more attractive scenario for "adult" and with stability - despite the crappy weather :)

Sorry if that outlook is dismal - but sad to say it's the truth and really needs to be considered :thumbsup

I love it in Washington State. Lots to do here.

the latter, at least for now, although in any small town, no way of knowing "who knows what" or what the local authorities think is worth pursuing.

Depends on where in California you are - on/near the SD coast (I live about 1.5 miles from the ocean), it never gets hot (well, gets into the 80s a few times a year) but basically is always between 60-75 during the day and between 48-70 during the night, 12 months a year.

I just can't believe all the people who live in RI - where were you all when i lived there??? lol

Hey now. I live in Maine. I'm not from here originally. My late husband is. Yes it's true you'll see Mainers running around in t shirts and shorts in 30 degree weather.