Best places to live in the US

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- 01/30/2017 at 12:45 PM #24523
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  Utah
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  Take everything into account. Taxes, cost of living, outdoors, how much you liked it. Where was your favorite place to live and why?
- 01/30/2017 at 12:49 PM #24524
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  Tacoma Ute
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  Lake Tapps, WA. Green everywhere you look, raccoons, deer and squirrels out the back door all the time, relatively mild climate and hundreds of things to do nearby.
  - 01/30/2017 at 12:57 PM #24530
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    Utah
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    I miss the NW. I thought I missed family and stuff here in Utah, but I’m getting the itch to move back. Not enough moss in my lungs here.
    - 01/30/2017 at 1:14 PM #24534
      
      Tacoma Ute
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      I hear ya. The only thing I don’t miss is the dark winters. It would still be dark when I got to work at 7am and it would already be dark when I left.
      - 01/30/2017 at 1:40 PM #24540
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        UtahUteGuy
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        The problem wasn’t the winters. The problem was you were working too long.
        
        01/30/2017 at 1:59 PM #24542
        
        Tacoma Ute
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        Good point!
      - 01/30/2017 at 2:24 PM #24549
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        Rick
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        I lived up in Redmond for 3 years and the whole getting dark at 3 pm in the winter killed me. Also all the spring rain, especially in June. I also didn’t like how damn provincial the indiginous locals were. Almost all of my friends were transplants because the locals made me sick.
        
        01/30/2017 at 3:17 PM #24556
        
        utefansince79
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        Estes Park, Colorado.
        
        Right near Rocky Mountain National Park. Nice quiet friendly town with trophy elk running all over the place.
        
        01/30/2017 at 4:55 PM #24569
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        Puget Ute
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        The tradeoff is the summers are SPECTACULAR, it is bright outside from 4:45 am until after 10 pm, and we don’t get very much rain. And we only have about 5-10 days that are uncomfortably hot, with most of the summer seeing highs in the upper 80s.
        
        And we get to see the friendly guy in my avatar.
  - 01/30/2017 at 7:36 PM #24591
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    RedUte
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    As long as they don’t drain it, the lake looks great.
- 01/30/2017 at 12:55 PM #24528
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  Ute Bc
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  Las Vegas. Hookers, blow and booze. I always loved when the hookers would take the time to get to know me.
- 01/30/2017 at 12:58 PM #24531
  
  Tacoma Ute
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  If I could choose to live anywhere that I’ve personally visited I would probably pick the southern Oregon coast. The area they call “the banana belt of the Oregon Coast”.
  - 01/30/2017 at 1:19 PM #24537
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    Utah
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    I’ve actually been seriously looking down there (well, all up and down the Oregon coast). I do agree about the winters. They can be dark. But, the summers are just that much better. I’m just too much of a nomad. But, I do miss the rain, I miss the green, I miss the more moderate climate, I miss the forests, the banana slugs, the frogs, and the coast.
    
    My two years up there recently was a blast. I’m starting to think we made a mistake coming back.
  - 01/30/2017 at 1:34 PM #24539
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    PlainsUte
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    My wife and I really love the mid- to southern-Oregon coast as well. I must say if we lived there year ’round we’d like more sun, so I’d say a place more inland, in the Williamette Valley, like Corvallis ot Eugene.
    
    I’ve never lived there but have had some work meetings in the Knoxville, TN area, and it seems like that would be a good place to retire to.
- 01/30/2017 at 1:13 PM #24533
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  AlohaUte
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  Well, San Diego is the best place if you can handle the cost of living. It’s spectacular.
  
  But I do mind my the cost of living, so I am likely leaving.
  - 01/30/2017 at 1:19 PM #24538
    
    Utah
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    What makes the cost of living so bad? Is it just the home prices or everything there?
- 01/30/2017 at 1:16 PM #24535
  
  Tacoma Ute
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  San Diego is really nice. I’ve only visited, never resided there.
  - 01/30/2017 at 1:48 PM #24541
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    NavyUte
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    I have lived in San Diego, great weather but it costs a lot to do anything besides eat tacos. Also lived in Anacortes WA which was awesome minus long gray spells. Currently in DC which blows more than I ever thought it would. Looking back west again, either Puget Sound or possibility of Roseburg, OR which I have never been to, so if any have been there let me know!
    - 01/30/2017 at 2:39 PM #24552
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      leftyjace
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      My dad went to Roseburg High School.
      I was there on business in the last few years.
      Great little community. Emblematic of everything that is supposedly good about Oregon.
- 01/30/2017 at 2:01 PM #24544
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  Tacoma Ute
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  Anacortes is a great little town. I wish I could beam up there this instant!
- 01/30/2017 at 2:22 PM #24548
  
  Rick
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  For me in order:
  
  San Diego
  
  Laguna Beach
  
  Atherton
  
  Seattle
  
  Atlanta
  
  Denver
- 01/30/2017 at 2:40 PM #24553
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  leftyjace
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  I have kicked around the idea of moving to Oregon.
  You all are making me wonder if I shouldn’t think more seriously about it.
  Why no Utah love, anyway?
  - 01/30/2017 at 4:13 PM #24564
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    AZswayze
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    Me too. Location wise, geography wise, climate wise, and politics wise it seems like a good fit.
- 01/30/2017 at 2:48 PM #24554
  
  S.CarolinaUte
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  If I take all of your criteria then it has to be Summerville SC. Green, Warm, Close to beaches and Mtns. (Hills) Cheap and friendly.
  
  BUT throw away the affordability aspect and it would be handsdown Santa Barbara. Has absolutely everything.
  - 01/30/2017 at 5:42 PM #24584
    
    iamthepreacher
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    I second the Santa Barbara nomination. Spectacular city. But yes the cost of living is outrageous.
- 01/30/2017 at 3:34 PM #24557
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  Utemachine
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  Born and raised in So-cal and there is no way I would ever move back. Been in Denver for a couple years and like it. We would jump at the chance to get back to Sandy or Draper. I hated Utah the first few years I lived there and grew to love it, wierdness and all.
  - 01/30/2017 at 4:06 PM #24563
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    AZswayze
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    Same here. My parents and sister are constantly trying to get me to move back down there. It’s only a five hour drive, so we cruise down there pretty regularly, but I can’t take more than 3-4 days of SoCal. I went to high school in Utah, and hated it at the time. Could not wait to get out. Now, I miss it quite a bit, especially the skiing.
- 01/30/2017 at 4:06 PM #24562
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  kazute
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  I really liked living in the RTP area of North Carolina. Decent weather. Lots of universities. Lots of events. Trees, both evergreen and deciduous. Rolling terrain. Golf. Reasonable cost of living. Beach 2.5 hours away. OBX. Lighthouses. Ferries. History. Mountains 3.5 hours away. DC an easy weekend trip up 95. Nice pace of life. Good mix of north and south. Azaleas.
- 01/30/2017 at 5:09 PM #24574
  
  Tony (admin)
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  I would move to San Diego in a heartbeat, but I’d need to have a major fundraiser here, with recurring payments.
  
  Otherwise Ashevill SC or Austin TX are next on my list.
  
  I “deal” with living in SLC. The good outweighs the bad, most of the time.
  - 01/30/2017 at 5:34 PM #24580
    
    PlainsUte
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    Traffic sucks in Austin. Like really bad.
    
    Funny just last week I was talking to a friend who recently relocated from the Intermountain West to South Carolina in a Federal job transfer. I was aksing him what he thought of the area as a retirement destination. He is actually within 50 miles of NC, in Greer, and said Asheville, NC has become quite the hotspot retirement destination.
    - 01/30/2017 at 5:46 PM #24585
      
      Tony (admin)
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      Haven’t been there since 1999. Not surprising.
- 01/30/2017 at 5:15 PM #24576
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  Utahute72
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  If I could afford it I’d move to Kauai Hawaii in a heartbeat.
- 01/30/2017 at 6:03 PM #24586
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  Stone
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  For those that have not visited lately, you may not believe me, but I think Sacramento is a great location.
  
  You are 90 minutes from San Francisco to the west and Tahoe to the east. The cost of living is much less than the bay area (although increasing), very mild winters (but you still get all four seasons), great outdoors opportunities (mountains, rivers, bike trails), great urban tree canopy, beautful core neighborhoods, huge park system, and the downtown is getting a makeover. And it’s big enough that there are things to do and lots of job opportunities. It’s not right on the coast, so hard to compete with those types of cities, but it is only 90 minutes to the coast and a lot less expensive than if you did live on the coast.
  
  That said, if you can live in a fairly remote area and do not need to be near a city for your job, I would go to California’s central coast, San Luis Obispo area.
- 01/30/2017 at 9:11 PM #24596
  
  Utahute72
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  My son lives in the Sacto area, and I quite like it. Particularly Rancho, Folsom or El Dorado Hills.
  - 01/30/2017 at 10:01 PM #24599
    
    GameForAnyFuss
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    Fun fact: El Dorado Hills (Oak Ridge HS) is the hometown of legendary former Utah WR Travis LaTendresse.
    
    And yours truly.
- 01/31/2017 at 12:47 AM #24602
  
  noneyadb
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  MOAB then ESTES PARK as somebody mentioned above.
- 01/31/2017 at 8:05 AM #24606
  
  leftyjace
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  I grew up in Sacramento.
  
  Loved it. Loved it like crazy.
  
  I would move back there in a heartbeat if it wasn’t for property taxes and the like. Well, that and family in Utah, girlfriend in Utah, job in Utah… 🙂
- 01/31/2017 at 3:15 PM #24698
  
  bopahull
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  Hawaii, are you serious Clark?
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