Moving Far Away

I love southern CA and don't think I'd ever want to live anywhere else. I lived in West LA and worked in Beverly Hills for awhile, so I know that area quite well. I was very glad to leave it and move down to Irvine. With kids, I am so much happier here than I was there. Great weather, great schools, tons of parks, tons of sports/camps/activities, etc.

If I was going to live somewhere else, I would need the following:
-Pro sports team(s) or really good college teams, since my family enjoys live sporting events
-Good weather year round - I don't mind some rain/snow/heat but I wouldn't want months of super hot and muggy weather or never ending snowstorms or daily rain all year
-Lots of opportunities for my kids. Here we can choose from dozens of camps, multiple baseball and soccer leagues, plenty of places for gymnastics and dance, etc
-A big theater for Broadway-caliber shows

I have several friends that have moved to Austin, TX and are quite happy there. They say it's very affordable and is a big enough city to have everything they want. I've never been.

I hope you find somewhere that makes you happy.

Fort Collins, Colorado. I don't live there but visited once. Incredible, laid back, awesome town. Still small enough for a local feel but big opportunities. Gorgeous landscape and so much to do! I think it was rated best town to live in at some point!

ooh....well not sure where you live...so we don't know what situation you are in....what you like - 4 seasons?? what do you WANT to do?? DO you like hikes, mountain biking? swimming?? WHAT?? Do you want easy access to a QUALITY hospital or airport?

What are your politics? Do they influence you on where you would want to live??

If you are in Nebraska and want to move somewhere:

San Diego, California - AWESOME area - diverse in politics and people. Not really 4 seasons...but beautiful area...unemployment rate there is just under 5% (not sure if that is the U6 count or just the "simple" rate.....and if there are jobs for you or your husband...

Denver, Colorado - 4 seasons - A LOT to do and a healthy economy.

Idaho - I have friends that live there - Idaho Falls is a HIGH rate of Mormons. Great "cleared" area for work and OH MY GOD tons of outdoor stuff to do...

Atlanta is BEAUTIFUL!! Lots of choices in things to do.

There are a lot of places I would LOVE to live...Western South Dakota...oh heck - I truly enjoyed Sioux Falls, SD as well...winters are BRUTAL...

Eastern Wyoming - oh my God - God's country. Again - winters are BRUTAL. But I'd still move there...

Texas - Dallas and San Antonio interest me. Austin? I liked - but they say "keep is weird" they mean "keep it weird"..

Tell us what you WANT - what jobs you are looking - weather - religion - politics...

Mid-Atlantic area (Washington, DC, Maryland and Northern VA) nice area. EXPENSIVE in pockets and disgusting summers (humidity sucks - 60% or higher)..

I'd love to move back to Hawaii - but my husband hated it. Damn.

Why do I love Wyoming and South Dakota? You have pockets of people and LAND....4 seasons. For the most part? Conservative.

San Diego? Typically pleasant year round. There are expensive areas - Coronado, Laguna beach (which is a tad north - but still)...inland? Miramar, Escondido, Rancho Bernardo, Poway - hot summers), Ramona, Palomar nice areas. Politics? spread across the spectrum. Cost of Living? Medium to high.

Hawaii - I grew up there. I love the ocean breeze. Cost of living is VERY high. However, there's a LOT to do.

Boston is nice. EXPENSIVE and humid summers as well.

Never thought about Minnesota, Wisconsin or Michigan. Just like to visit. Not live.

Hope this helps.

I never thought I would move from California after Tyler retired from the military. We moved to Georgia over 3 years ago. The summers are really humid, that was a hard adjustment from dry heat.

I'm not sure I'd want to leave Georgia. Atlanta is wonderful. Coca-Cola is made here and I'm a Coca-Cola fan and drinker! :)

If we were to leave Georgia? I'd have to move back to California. Monterey, California or Carmel, California, Santa Barbara, California. As you can see, I love the central coast of California.

Tyler likes The Carolina's. Once the boys are grown and have families of their own? Yeah, Central Coast of California is the place for me!

I'd at least summer in Portland, Oregon.. I just love it there. The people were super nice to us and I love the family atmosphere... BUT in winter, not sure I could take so much rain.... however, it is what makes it so green...
Also, I did think Salt Lake City, Utah was nice. Again, people were kind and the area was nice.. but like Oregon... might be too cold for me in the winter..
I was born and raised in San Francisco and while I do still live in the Bay Area, I find the people in Portland to be friendlier.. sorry Bay Area, after 51 years and having traveled to Portland, I can definitely feel the difference..
and even if not Portland, overall Oregon is gorgeous.

I lived in Novato, north of San Francisco. Expensive are, but it was one of my favorite places. Beautiful, nice people, 3 hours drive from Tahoe, Monterey, short drive from the ocean (we watched whales swim by from LAND in Port Reyes). Traffic sucked, so working closer to home is ideal. Don't know how it is now, as we lived there about 10 years ago, but I'd go back there if I could.

Maine, with a snowbird place in a warmer climate when I get older. I hate winter, but I love Maine.

Oregon. We'll leave California for Oregon when we retire. Most likely the Bend or Portland area. Beautiful, less stressful, less expensive state.

We lived in Denver CO for many years. It was fantastic. We still own a house there, so we plan to move back someday.

I've lived in NJ, San Francisco, Denver and now in a beautiful suburb outside of Philadelphia. I hated NJ, loved SF, LOVED Denver and am very happy where I am right now as well. The schools here are amazing, so we'll stay until all the kids have graduated HS. Then it's back to Denver for us!

We moved to Florida years ago and are very happy here. We wanted to live in central Florida and we were lucky to find a nice place among the cattle ranches and orange groves which is also close to Disney and other attractions (beaches, Tampa, Orlando).

My husband and I grew up in the north east and can not stand the cold damp winters and we got tired of shoveling snow and clearing ice, etc..

I don't think I would ever live in CA. The cost of living is outrageous and it's too liberal for my taste.

I live in a northern burb of Dallas and I could not be happier. This was one of the best decisions and most profitable we've ever made.

We lived in NC while hubby was completing his MBA at Duke. We put a lot of thought and fact gathering on this move in 1989. Plano has some of the highest rated schools in the U.S., business opportunities were everywhere.

Move forward to 2015... Still the best decision we made. Plano schools still rate in the top percent of US. Business is booming, housing is a shortage right now due to company HQ's relocating here and bringing thousands of jobs. We started our company about 7 years ago and we could live anywhere because we work from home. We are brokers/distributors/consultants of plastics and heavily involved in the raw material and plastic recycling industry.

I love being so close to downtown, great sporting/entertainment venues, shopping, arts, and must of all less than 1 hour from 2 major airports ( we travel a lot) and the option to be at either coast within 3-4 hours of leaving our home!!!

Love the climate because we hate the cold, We have very few "bad" cold days here and I could do without the latest flooding which made history! We are no longer in a drought for 4.5 years now and no more policing of water usage!!

I like my privacy! I grew up in rural MS and my life goal was to get educated and get out. I hated the small rural community. We are a plane ticket away from all family on purpose. I despise family trying to run my life and I hate drama. Hubby grew up in Pittsburgh and his parents and no longer alive.

This area is simply booming right now, the cost of living is reasonable, housing is tough right now due to all the demand. Our home just appraised did the highest ever and I have people solicit us to sell because we have a one of a kind private lot in the midst of this boom. I have wildlife such as Bobcats, coyotes and more at my back door! We have to take precaution with our pets but I love the wildlife! Our condo we purchased in 2013 in a prime area for daughter to go to college had already increased value over $50,000. We were in a bidding war for that property almost 2 years ago and got it only because we paid cash and no red tape/ loans were involved. Houses are selling at above asking prices before they hit the market. Swarms of people are coming in to take advantage of the opportunities here.

It depends on what you are looking for and why. I love my area. I am fully aware that there are some beautiful areas other than mine as well. Best wishes!

I am exactly where I want to be. Incredible natural beauty, excellent schools, beach, woods, a little culture, short drive to SF, Tahoe, Yosemite, LA. There's a million reasons why I love my home.

The only downside is it's expensive but I'd rather live here then anywhere else, even with less disposable income.

I would move back to Wyoming where I grew up. I miss the mountains, the clean air, the feeling of the whole state just being a small town. I'd pick an area near the mountains like Sheridan, Buffalo, Laramie, Cody, etc. But if you don't want a small town, or a very conservative state, skip Wyoming.

I loved living in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. It has been a "#1 place to live in America" a couple of times. We like to go there for long weekends and my daughter who just finished 2nd grade is already planning to go to college there because she loves the town so much.

I really enjoy living in Southeat Minnesota. We live in Rochester (home of Mayo Clinic and IBM is here too ). It has also been a #1 city in Amerca. They have some big plans on the table for the next 20 years that are exciting. Lots of jobs in the medical and technological fields. We aren't far from Minneapolis/St. Paul and "big city" life. There are lots of beautiful little towns around here too. Good schools, good economy. Of course, there are the winters.....

I have lots of family and friends in Colorado (Greeley, Longmont, Ft. Collins, Colorado Springs, Denver). I'm always a little jealous of where they live.

Fun question. Probably a beautiful suburb of Atlanta. Why? Primarily climate, and also a (slightly) less stressful/chaotic/pressurized community. Not easy to find that near DC.

If not, then NC or SC. Try to enjoy exploring your options. Hope you find your dream location someday. =)

I watch House Hunters international and I'm appalled at some of the living conditions those people settle for. I wouldn't ever want to live like that. I'd want more. Living in America we have gotten used to having space and being able to live anywhere we want too. For instance, there's no way I'd like living in NYC. I don't think I could stand the noise and the smell and the parking.

On the other hand there's no way I'd be comfortable living 25 miles out in the country from some town in Montana or Wyoming. I wouldn't want to live in California due to earth quakes and other places on the ring of fire with volcanoes either.

So if I had my choice I'd live in a nice suburb of medium city where we'd have theater and shopping and museums and restaurants and a higher number of jobs available for anyone who wanted to find work.

Actually, there are several places I would love to go to for an extended time--call it a long vacation or call it living there, whatever. Oregon, Vermont, Maine, Alaska (southern of course-not Nome). The one place I have had no desire to even visit is California. Don't know what it is but no thanks. If I could visit some of the places without having to actually go there, it would be awesome.

I love vacationing in Michigan. Leaving the Chicago area is like dumping a suitcase full of stree. You can actually feel it.

We're in the process of trying to leave chicago. The traffic....it's a parking lot from hell.

Colorado or maybe somewhere on the east coat, maybe New Hampshire or Vermont?

The only place I would consider living other than Canada would be Sweden.

We currently live in a far west Chicago suburb. Love our neighborhood. Love our little town. But we are retiring soon. Won't be able to afford the property taxes. We just bought a house in a tiny town in southern Illinois. We will be moving at the end of the summer. I can't wait. It's in the middle of the Shawnee national forest on the Ohio river. Life will become a whole lot less complicated for us.

We live in AZ. I pretty much would move ANYWHERE else. The summers are awful and my allergies RAGE here more than anywhere else I've been. I miss that green stuff that grows in the yards and I miss wearing sweaters and fuzzy boots in the "winter". So, not here. lol

I have always wanted to live in L.A. I love the weather, the laid back atmosphere and all of the fun things to do. Living in the Midwest can be boring and it is so much to do there. The only problem is the expense. I have family there and my cousin told me that the house I live in would cost almost a million dollars there and I have a 2000 sq foot home and I paid no where near that price. I could never make it out there but it's still a dream.

This is a tough question, honestly. I've lived all over the USA and seen so many lovely places. Each has it's pros and cons.

I really actually love Missouri. There are a ton of places that are really beautiful, but I wouldn't want to live there for various reasons (expense, politics). I'm not originally from here, and have moved and lived all over the USA. Out of all the places I've lived, Missouri is where I'm most happy to raise our family, where I feel like we can exercise our civil liberties and don't have the government infringing upon our rights.

As you live in a very liberal area, I'm not sure you'd be happy here. Sorry, I guess I'm not so helpful. :-P

It would help if we knew what you didn't like about where you actually live. Are you looking for a certain climate, economic opportunities, more/fewer people per square mile?? Are you trying to move away from negative family drama? What's your goal?