Reply #9: Just start looking. [View All]

[Davion]

Keep in mind, the reasons I chose San Diego were:

1. The Weather
2. The Beach
3. The Weather
4. The Cute guys
5. The Weather
6. The lack of anti-gay bigots
7. The Weather

It's ALWAYS between 65 and 75 degrees here. That means EVERYONE wants to live here. I can't afford to buy, so I rent. But Gol-darn it, I love the weather.

This is, apart from downtown San Francisco, the most expensive place to live outside of New York. If you want to live in a blue area, there are many choices, hell even the state of Texas has Austin, a relative blue-stater paradise, but the problem is that we (the educated-elites) tend to make more money, so the places we want to live cost a bit more.

My advice... Do what I did. Travel around (on a shoestring budget) and find a city that actually makes you feel comfortable.

You'll know it when you find it. Then, cost won't matter as much, because you'll finally be happy.