Looking for a New House

Do you like seasons?
Mountains?
Beaches?
Woods?
City?
Country?
A good job?
Parks?
Good schools?????

If you're making a complete change, why not research " healthiest cities" "best places to raise a family" " cities with high employment" or whatever's most important to YOU?

If you ask 1000 people, you'll likely get 1000 different answers.
Doesn't matter what anyone else likes--you need to find what you like.

Georgia is Great, Don't leave.

Don't move to AZ unless you want to live in hell for 6 months of the year. Good luck.

well, i dunno.
i like where i live, in western maryland.
i also love southern utah. and pretty much everywhere in colorado. i visited northern CA and loved the climate, although not the citification of the area in which i stayed. don't like southern PA, but the northeast part of it is pretty gorgeous. the finger lakes of NY are spectacular. the smoky mountains of TN are romantic and mysterious.
but since i'm not you, and you don't say what you like, it's pretty hard to pick for you.
khairete
S.

If I was the kind of person who liked adventure, picking up the roots and moving away. I've lived in Oklahoma all my life. Moving to Norman to go to college was a huge deal but I was 15 miles from home and friends. Then when I moved to Stillwater it was like moving across the country. But I was about an hour from home.

I still have a hard time driving on the highway and stressing out in the traffic with big vehicles.

I think that New Mexico would be amazing. There are several different climates too, not just desert because they also have some mountainous terrain.

Utah has valleys and mountains and gorgeous skies to play in water or ski on the slopes.

As for other states in that area there is Wyoming, lots of hiking, parks, natural beauty, and resort like areas.

Montana, go skiing in the morning and camp on a river in the evening. It's flat on one end and mountains on the other.

The one thing these states I've mentioned do have one thing in common. Hardly every any bad storms. Minimal tornadoes, hardly any extremes other than wonderful snow.

S.

Why not look for jobs first? What do you do? Where do you WANT to live? What do you like to do? Ski? Scenery? What?

Atlanta's a pretty nice place. Tired of the summer heat and humidity?

If you want space???? Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota?

In the oil business? Texas or North Dakota. North Dakota is FREAKING COLD in the winter...military lingo - why not Minot? Freezin' the reason...yeah..THAT cold. however, unemployment there is VERY LOW and the pay is good from what I understand.

What's your politics? If you are liberal? California is the place for you - however - there are pockets of Conservatives and such...remember - California is an ABSOLUTELY beautiful state with much to offer - however - it's bankrupt, going through a drought, and unemployment is HIGH....

The NorthEast is beautiful with Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire and other New England states. can't tell you about living there - only visited the states!!

NorthWest is beautiful too. We have people from here who live there and love it. Seattle has a lot of opportunity from what I understand...Costco is Headquartered there.

MidAtlantic Region (DC, MD, VA, NC/SC) is nice. Summers are much like Atlanta..maybe NOT as humid...different job opportunities...

So it would help you would tell us what you are looking for, what you do, what you LIKE to do, do you want to be near family or escape family, do you want lots of sunshine or more rain?

Good luck!

I've lived in several places in the northeast and midatlantic. My favorite was Washington DC. There is so much to do there, and the weather is great - there are seasons, but winter is short and mild. But obviously 1) you have to love city living and 2) you have to be fairly well-off, because it's really expensive (which is why I ultimately left).