I’m getting ready to move, but I don’t know where. I was hoping that if I told you all the things I’m looking for, one of you may already live there or know of this place.
A) Needs to be coastal, can’t stand being land locked unless there’s a huge lake nearby!
B) Medium sized. Prefer low crime rate (duh!) but don’t want a town so small that everyone knows your personal business. Nothing to hide, I just don’t like sharing it!
C) Warm climate. I can’t stand the cold. Today is killing me.
D) I’m in operations management, so I need to be where I can work. I’ve managed businesses between 10-50 employees.
E) Need to stay within a two day drive of Wisconsin. Elderly parents and I don’t fly.
F) I’m single, so I don’t have to worry about a spouse. But I’d like to find one in his 40’s, so I don’t want a place with hardly anyone my age (40) in it.
If you don’t know of this place, do you have any suggestions of how to narrow down my “wants” and only keep the ones that are most important? I’ll take all the help I can get! Thanks in advance!!
A warm place on the coast that’s inside a two-day drive radius of Wisconsin? I hope those are long days. Hell, from Madison, WI it’s nearly 900 miles to anywhere on the east coast as the crow flies, let alone someplace warm.
There’s a great book called “The Places Rated Almanac” that El Hubbo and I used to find our current residence.
It rates all 200-odd metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada in ten categories. It also has a method for weighting the categories to your specifications.
Actually, San Diego is really nice and Mapquest says the driving time to Madison is only 34 hours (stop for 10 hours of sleep and still make it under 2 days) but it’s ridiculously expensive to live there. If operations management pays well then I would definately suggest going for it.
Thanks Koeeoaddi! It gave me four pages of great places to check into. I’m afraid San Diego would be too far west for me Cisco, but I’ve always wanted to visit there. I may have to at least go take a look. I was born & raised in Ft. Lauderdale and think I need to stick to the east coast.