List the Top 5 states you would live in

In My Humble Opinion
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California
Oregon
Washington
Alaska
New Hampshire (current)

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I’m surprised by how many folks put North Carolina on their list. Was gone for 22 years and did not intend to come back but spent the money from the sell of our house on a cross-country trip and since broke came back to where the family was in case we needed someone to lean on. Grew up outside Winston-Salem, resettled in Greensboro, preferred town if I had to come back.

So…
Money not an issue?

Washington, DC (Eastern Market/Capitol Hill area)
Texas (Austin/hill country or West Texas)
California (most anywhere north of SF)
Tennessee (Hubby’s preference - Memphis or somewhere in the mountains)
Maine (never been there but a small coastal town sounds nice)
But if money was no issue I’d move back to southern Italy even with all it’s problems and quirks.

63

Alaska
Oregon
Washington
California
Hawaii
Honourable mentions; Utah, Nevada.

I guess I dig the west coast vibe and the freak states. You guys really push the boat out when it comes to national parks, too. Some incredible scenery out there (not that the other states don’t, but I could only pick 5).

64

Oregon (current)
Washington
Manhattan
California (native)
Vermont (if I ever decide to pitch it all and go off grid)

65
  1. California (SoCal, Central Coast, Bay Area just about anywhere along the coast)
  2. New York (NYC, Long Island, or Westchester County)
  3. Massachusetts (Boston Metro area)
  4. Washington (Seattle metro)
  5. Connecticut (NYC suburbs)

Honourable Mentions: Oregon, New Jersey, Virginia, Maryland, Colorado

66

So far, I’ve only lived (long term) in 5 states:

Alphabetically those are:

  1. Arizona
  2. Arkansas
  3. Louisiana
  4. Texas
  5. Washington

I’ve had extensive (> 2 weeks) business travel in:

  1. California
  2. Utah
  3. Connecticut

So I only have “real-world” experience with 8 states.

My top 5 would be:

  1. Texas (by far the best place we’ve experienced)
  2. Arkansas (the most beautiful and uncrowded)
  3. Florida (Keys only)
  4. Arizona (on the rim, not in the valley)
  5. I have no idea… North Carolina I guess. Like Arkansas, but with a beach. ?
67

New York
Vermont
Pennsylvania
Maryland
California

Honorable mention: New Jersey (parts of it but not other parts, duh!)

68

I’ve lived In California (9 years), Colorado (8 years), New Mexico (2 years) and Texas (1 year). I moved around texas spending 3-6 months each in Houston, Corpus Cristie and Midland. I lived in souther Colorado for 4 years but worked in Northern New Mexico and split my time on weekends down there with my friends so I gave New Mexico two years. If I could avoid it I’d never go back to Texas or New Mexico.

  1. California (Santa Barbara)
  2. Colorado (Durango)
  3. Idaho (Coeur d’Alene)
  4. Montana (Flathead Lake area)
  5. New Hampshire/Washington (I’m want to be on the coast but I have no reason to choose between these two. The rain in Washinton would get to me eventually I think but I know nothing about the east coast.)
69

  1. North Carolina (Everywhere I have ever resided is a 75 minute drive from my current house in Greensboro, and in NC).

  2. Georgia (Near Athens, I think - close enough to Atlanta that I can catch 10-20 Braves’ games a year, but far enough away not to have to deal with the ATL traffic).

  3. Pennsylvania (I have a secret desire to become a licensed Gettysburg tour guide after I retire).

4-5. NC again.

Other than those three, I don’t have any desire to move elsewhere.

70

Oregon
California (San Diego area only)
Washington
Vermont (maybe not all winter, though)
Colorado (which might happen)

71

Am not American: but like climatically cool-ish, wild, forested places, near the ocean. So – given “the impossible chance” – in no particular order:

Alaska
Washington State
Oregon
California (northern part thereof)
Maine

72

Hawaii
Hawaii
Hawaii
NC (live there now)
Michigan (grew up there … but wifey can’t take the winters)

Too bad I couldn’t get a decent job in HA. Plus it’s too far from family.

Really, there are lots of states I’d love, especially coastal or mountainous ones (and definitely including the “North coast”). I’d probably really like Madison WI.

73

In no particular order:

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74

So, just to be clear - Baja Oklahoma and you are good?

75

New Jersey
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Connecticut

If I can’t hop a bus and get to NYC in less than two hours, I ain’t living there.

76

Washington
Oregon
Wyoming
Colorado
Maine

I live in and love the Desert Southwest and by all rights Arizona and New Mexico should both be on this list, but I’ve had it with the creepy-crawlies.

77

Califorinia, Southern I could never leave the west coast beach scene, but should I ever grow a wild hair…
Alaska, have been, not sure I like being part of the food chain but it is the last frontier.
Oregon along the coast
Washington, Peugeot Sound area
Baja Sur California, deep south near Lands End in Cabo :smiley:

78
  1. Tennessee (current)
  2. Texas (likely where I’ll retire, Houston or Austin)
  3. Oregon (I like the Portland area)
  4. California (central or northern)
  5. North Carolina ( I like both the coast and the mountains)

I don’t want to live anywhere that gets considerable snow. Yes, there are mountainous areas in all of these states that get some snow, but that isn’t where I want to reside full time.

79
  1. Texas, because that’s where I am now and I HATE moving.
  2. Utah, because I’ve got friends and family there.
    And for no particular reason,
  3. Alaska
  4. Montana
  5. Oregon
80

Illinois (Chicago)
California (San Francisco)
Massachusetts (Boston)
New York (NYC)
Oregon (Portland)

Any big city in a blue state would be acceptable.