If you could move anywhere in the US
 

Where would you move and why?

Lets try to keep answers like, "Thats cause where my family is" outta this one, obvisously i'm not going to move where your family is

Hawaii if we're talking all 50

San Diego if you want conus only.

Hawaii is the most beautiful place I've ever been. I was there for a few weeks and loved every minute of it.

San Diego would be second on the list with its amazing weather year round, and beautiful women. :)

Hawaii is an amazing place and I think it is also considered the state safest from any natural disaster- which surprised me because of the obvious tsunami threat.

That said though I think it would have serious trouble surviving a major catastrophe - I've heard they have less then 3 days of food and fuel on the island if shipments stop coming in... that would be scary. Granted urban areas on the mainland aren't in much better a situation but at least on the mainland you'd have hope of getting to an area that can be relatively self sufficient.

I'd move to kansas city kansas so I can hook up to google fiber over there.

No offense, but I'd never move to the US :p

Im Glad someone posed this question because the wife and i have often thought of moving there but its such a huge place and being outsiders it's difficult to get a truthful unbiased opinion of where's best!

Don't move to the US. We've got about a year and a half before it's the next Greece.

Lol, i'll wait a year and a half then buy twice the house at half the price :)

Why do you want to move to the USA? Job opportunities? Dislike of the royal family?

Dunno really, just seems (most of the time) great place, everything and anything on your doorstep, depending where you live, the weather is nearly always great. I don't have a dislike for the royal family, far from it, i admire them for some of the things they endure, look at the Queen during here Jubilee week, up at 6 every morning and bed around 1-2am after spending most of her day on her feet and she's 86!!!, i couldn't do that now :), you have to embrace your heritage and your roots but in my older years i want a nice life and the US seems to offer it, naturally i'd have to work as something for a few years as im only 48, my wife is a qualified nurse so no problem for her getting work.

I'd considered Canada, but the 60 minute drive to the nearest shop or civilisation is kind of a dampner :), seriously though, although we'd like a little land around our house we wouldn't want isolation, this is all "pie in the sky" at the moment as we dont currently have the funds to move but it's what we're working towards in the near(ish) future :)

Well I don't want to dissuade anyone with decent skills from becoming a productive member of society in the USA but having been all over the USA, parts of Canada, and parts of England/UK it seems like you can find urban and suburban/rural lving in all three places.

Weather may be better in *some* places in the USA, but the majority of the country you can't count on it... Hurricanes, heat, and humidity in the south and south east, extreme winters in the North East, unimaginable heat in the south west, constant rain in the pacific north west, Earthquakes anywhere it is usually sunny, and tornadoes everywhere else. :eek:

There are plenty of places in the USA you are 60 minutes from civilization- did you have a specific city or state in mind when you think of the USA?

Atlanta, Georgia, the true heart of the south. I'm from there and would love to go back when I retire.

Funny you said Georgia, many have said to us is good there but, it's like when you go on holiday somewhere and you comeback raving about how great it was and you'd love to live there, but actually living there would be nothing like you imagined because you were giddy with the holiday bug and viewed it through rose tinted glases.

We're greedy, we'd like to be near the ocean but have a lot of greenery, we'd like to live in a quiet(ish) place but not isolated, somewhere with a friendly, safe community. Too much to ask to tick all those boxes but we've the luxury of time to find these places (if they exist). :)

Cancun

I didnt envisage moving to Mexico :)