Calling US-based mumsnetters

[StathLetsFlats]

I am looking for a change. Tell me where you live and why I should move there. I am currently living in NYC and, although I know this is an unpopular opinion.. but NY is like an inferior version of London. I can’t move back to London (Brexit) so would like a complete change for a couple of years, maybe somewhere a bit cheaper and a bit warmer! But definitely with cool things going on. Any ideas?

you can't move back to London because of Brexit? Oh pleassse. I’ll reword that “I don’t want to move back to London because of Brexit”.

You can’t buy wine in Trader Joes?!?!

This was my shocked reaction too :-)

OP, I've lived all over the US, and I've found that the places I did not expect to like were the places I ended up loving, and vice versa.

Having said that, if you don't want snow then don't move to Portland Maine. It's the best city in the country, but it does get 4-6 feet of snow each year.

Some places are 'dry' - or partially dry. It's a hangover from Prohibition or from the vision of the earnest teetotaler founders of municipalities..

LOL @pumkinseason - they offer little samples of wine in the supermarket closest to me.

My suburban neck of the woods used to be completely dry but sanity prevailed in the end.

NYC also has the weirdness that you can't buy booze before 12 on a Sunday - makes boozy brunch a bit difficult! The TJs in NYC has a wine shop next door to the grocery store but there's always a line

You usen't to be able to buy alcohol at all on a Sunday in Boston up until recently - the blue laws. And there are several dry towns too.

You can't buy a car from a dealer in Maine on a Sunday. The car dealers aren't allowed to open at all because of blue laws. We go to New Hampshire if we're car shopping on Sundays. Bizarre :-)

What work do you do that you can so blithely choose anywhere to live?

We both work from home. And travel, but we both travel in opposite directions so don’t really have a place we need to be.

But my husband has to be US based for now.

I think you'd better suck it up and move to London if you can't find what you're looking for in New York.

And travel, but we both travel in opposite directions so don’t really have a place we need to be.

well you do really (unless you love connections). You need to be near an international airport with direct flights to most places you travel to. I'd rate a direct flight above snow in winter.

Yes, we are only going to be able to go near an international airport. Not yet, Durgasarrow my husband needs to be US based. On the cards for the future though. Still have a house there.

So you have to be US based and near an international airport.

tbh if I were you I'd stay in NY or London and spend the winters in Miami. I'd hate that myself (other than the London bit) but it would suit you as the weather seems to matter a lot to you.

When deciding where to live you have to balance lots of things = weather, culture, etc. Nowhere has everything.

I love the west coast in its entirety, Also, Austin TX, Bozeman MT (but the winters are worse than ours are), Phoenix and Sedona in Az, Park City and SLC in Utah, Denver, Asheville in NC, DC (I REALLY love DC) to name a few. I actually also really like Franconia in NH but there’s not THAT much going on.

I’m less enamored with Nashville. It just seems like Country Music Disneyland to me.

I don’t want to split my time, (or live in Florida 😂) it is only for a few years so I want to actually live somewhere different.

How about Atlanta?