Best place to live in the USA

Houston, is very diverse.

Strong china town and other cultural centralization areas.

Cons would be , slight polution problem, and you have to be able to drive because it can be pretty spread out. Unless you live downtown, the city just put in light rail mass transit for downtown.

Houston has a lot of rainfall, and can be sometimes humid in the summer.

Thats about all I can think of for cons.

Also sometimes you can get citied out. Happened to me in Boston all the time and you have to get away. I suggest living in the suburbs, only a short drive away from all the action, but you have your space when you need it.

I would suggest Sugar Land, slightly less diverse, but great neighborhoods. Sugar Land is growing very rapidly too, as people from California, and the Northeast migrate south. Thats where I live and would recomend it to anyone.

Its like the best of both worlds.. Controled quite suburbs, and then minutes away is a major metropolis.

This setup for living near both is a true slice of American heaven.

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Quote from Andy62279:

Wow, sounds great. No income tax is a great incentive too. What are the cons of Houston though? Is it pretty diverse there?

Andy
 
Boston is nice in the spring. Winters can be brutal there.

The city planning is ancient, and roads are a pain.

Everything is slammed so close together you can just walk, or take the T(train)

Boston has major diversity, and a great emphasis on education and liberal thinking.

Cons are .. Way to many people competeing for so few resources. Its the only city I have been to where you can't always get what you want from a store and have to settle for what evers left. Also the northern attitude can be pretty flippant and not customer service oriented. Why should they, if you don't buy it some one else will.

Supply and demand is out of balance there.

If you are seriously going to consider Boston, go spend a week there, to get a feel for the culture of the city.
 
ChaosNSX,

I heard that Boston is also really fast paced. I'm more laid back, so I'm not sure if that's something I would like. I just like the older architecture found in the east coast.... beautiful! I know Boston is a college town, and I've been told I would enjoy the nightlife there.

I lived in Wichita Falls, Tx for a year. I know that's the ghetto, haha, but I thought Texas is pretty nice overall. Since I am asian I do consider the size of the asian community. I'm also like you. I would rather live out in the suburbs. I like to have my privacy, and still be near the city action.

I also lived in Phoenix for a year. I really liked it there. I also have a lot of friends there, so I've been sort of thinking about Phoenix. There's a lot of things to do in that area. A few hours from LA, San Diego, and Vegas is a great bonus.

The only gripe about Texas and Arizona that I have is the pollution. I've been so spoiled growing up in Oregon. The air and water is so clean here.

Houston definitely seems like a good canditate for me also. Spending a week to get the feel is good advice, but I won't be moving anytime soon.

Andy
 
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Also nothing for the kids or yourself to do but drink beer, pick your nose and sleep with your cousin. No activities, no nightlife, no culture...

that pretty much rules out the whole of Utah..:D
 
Provo Utah? Oh no, no, no, no. Unless you are Mormon...don't even think about it.

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Carson City, Nevada
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Missoula, Montana
Medford, Oregon
Frederick, Maryland
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Portland, Oregon
Fort Collins, Colorado
Eugene, Oregon
Provo-Orem, Utah
Corvallis, Oregon
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This is what I got, the order from top to bottom is most desireable to least. Anyone in these places what do you think? I am afraid of going to Montana, but my wife is from there so she would be more at home. I got my heart set on Colorado... well, maybe

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Quote from ShoeshineBoy:

New Mexico is a GREAT outdoor state. Good camping, fishing, skiing and a hundred different terrains and ecosystems within any five hundred mile radius. Plus, Albuquerque has a change of seasons and some snow, but all with low humidity. I know several people from Arizona who want to move there just for those reasons...

The biggest negatives for me: lack of culture (although that's improved when you include Santa Fe) and ultra-liberal politics.

New Mexico: a third world country within the borders of the United States.

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Quote from EqtTrdr:

thanks.. we are still trying to decide where to live... much harder than we thought...

I lived in New York, been around the whole state..... it sucks big time and only getting worse....

so

I moved to South Florida. first to Aventura, beautiful but total land "area" of the city is 1.0 sq mile... wtf? and its surrounded by ghettos. So then I move to Boca Raton. Too many darn people... too many old people getting in your way, and a bunch of dumb ass people working at every store down here... Home prices went up 30-50% in the last year.. insane!!! Can't even get a doctor's appointment anywhere here because there are too many people and doctors are too darn slow. I have driven all over Florida (from what it seems like, almost every single street) It sucks, but it's still better than NY.
....

[snip extended whine]

You ever see the movie "Brazil"?

Welcome to the future.

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