If you had to move to USA right now, where would you go?

[Lelophants]

Sure they still have a terrible virus issue, but Trump is out! This is imaginary btw - for anyone who is like me and goes "ooh a relocation thread" (I always find them fascinating).

If you had to pack up and move to USA, flights and accommodation fully paid for... where? It's for a good 2 years, more if it works out. You get a decent flashy flat in a city or a little house in suburbia, a really big place if you're happy to go rural (I know I know this does not reflect the vast price differences across a place so big but im still not going to be silly enough to say you can get a house in manhatten, say).

I used to be:

1. New York all the way! Love the city to death. However, I have left my 20s behind and city life in general so I was thinking..

1. Bay area on outskirts of san fran. But the prices are so ridiculous It's almost worse than new York and the wild fires are getting worse and worse, plus I've decided I really like proper seasons.

So, take 3!

1. Colorado. It's so outdoorsy, love the mountains, the fact you can have a proper family life there. Ok so parts of it are quite conservative but they voted democrat this time and I find it an interesting place regardless. Yes, ds, dh and I would make do there for a bit.

Who's next?

Where did Trump get the lowest % votes? There! (Unless it's got a cold climate!)

I lived on the West coast for years when I was in my 20s/30s. If I were to move back now I’d go east coast - NY, Mass, etc, as that’s where most of my family and friends are now.

I'd go rural Washington or Oregon (NE) or Maine (NW). All dem leaning, nice and green and close to Canada!
I know DH would want New Orleans all the way so we'd have a battle on our hands!

Vermont!! EVERY TIME!!

Seattle or outside of (ie Washington like a pp)

Westchester, north of New York. only an house into the city by train, but lovely suburbs to live in.

Sanibel Island.

Seattle/Pacific Northwest always looks amazing and is next on my holiday destination list. But Oregon is a very cool, left-leaning state with a slightly different way of thinking than others particularly in regard to healthcare.
But I do like the sound of Colorado and the mountains.
I used to live in Virginia Beach and that was a nice life too - beach, bay, boats. And not far from DC if you need a bit of culture. Inland Virginia is gorgeous.
So many choices!

San Diego, I lived there for a short while in my late teens and always feel like I left a bit of myself there.

Portland (Oregon not Maine) or Philly, cause I’m an insufferable hipster

North East and New England area. Salt Lake City area of Utah, Northern California up to Washington State.

Tucson, Arizona or the Outer Banks, North Carolina

Somewhere rural and mountainous and scenic.
Colorado or Arizona etc
Maine always sounds cute though.

O I'd move to New York in a heartbeat

Florida - Gulf Coast or Keys.

Next choice - Ketchikan, Alaska.

California

Canada :)

The Bay Area if it wasn’t so expensive and on fire and under threat from The Big One.

Boston is nice.

Hawaii.

Connecticut a little town like Stars Hollow from Gilmore Girls.

DH and I got carried away trying to sell Boston as a uni destination to our sixth form DS last night. We got a little bit dreamy and reminiscent. We met while doing postgrad work in Boston.

We put the boy off Boston forever. That is where I would still go.

Hawaii. As far away from the government as possible.

I wouldn't move back there again - six years was enough! In explanation ...

The problem with California, Oregon and Washington is wildfires and the weeks of smoke in the air, so beautiful though it is I wouldn't move there.

The NE is lovely in the Fall, but winter is long and cold, the skiing is mediocre if you're used to the Alps, and summer on the entire Eastern seaboard is stinking hot and humid.

The middle bit is Trump country.

Portland, Oregon (although Portland, Maine is nice too)
or Austin, Texas.
Or Brooklyn.

I am a walking middle-class middle-aged cliche and proud

Ooh love so many of these! New England, or Oregon/Washington state. Have visited relatives in North Carolina - absolutely gorgeous if a bit gunsy... would absolutely love to visit the outer banks.

New Hampshire.