Can someone tell me where to move so my life can change?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

....well?

:shrug:

[L A Woman]

1. Crawford, Texas

just a thought. :-)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

2. but no more ditch living

;)

[XemaSab]

3. Jersey

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

4. :shudder:

:scared:

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

19. You said CHANGE. You didn't say GOOD.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

24. bwahaha!

:rofl:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

139. Hey! I kinda like Jersey.

It grows on you. Like the cancer it causes.

[anarch]

5. well, wherever you go, there you are....

so, no.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

10. and wherever I am

is where I go

[XNASA]

6. Brooklyn?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

11. I may have too

they are turning my building into a hotel, so it looks like they wont renew my lease :cry:

[terrya]

7. Chicago, Illinois

Where your dreams can come true.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

9. my dreams

or yours? :evilgrin:

[terrya]

12. Anyones, actually.

It's the Land of Oprah. A magical place, indeed. :-)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

14. do you think Oprah could fulfill my dreams?

would she even care?

[_testify_]

8. Come to Florida!

All NYers have to move here sooner or later.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

13. Ive visited too much

to know that FL is not the place for me :D

[SteppingRazor]

49. I second Florida -- but specifically, move to the Keys...

it's the ultimate place for people to begin again.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

55. I love the Keys

haven't been in years though...would love to return

[Radio_Lady]

63. Beautiful, but buggy, humid and a direct target for hurricanes.

Sorry, I had my fill of Florida years ago.

I'd suggest somewhere in the western part of North Carolina, near Ashville, NC. I was there in 1970, so it's been a long time ago, but it was great.

Or you might take a look at WAY out here in Oregon. We have a mild climate, dry summers, and not as much rain as you might think (October - June is the rainy season).

Of course, a lot would depend on what kind of work you do and what kind of family commitments you have. We followed a daughter out here and haven't regretted it one bit in the eight years we've lived here.


http://www.oregonscenics.com/City.htm

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

67. ohh, only 4 months without rain

not. that. bad. :P

[Radio_Lady]

72. It doesn't rain all the time for eight months! That's the secret!

It might sprinkle a little or there would be a few hours of a misty rain -- then sunny. That is counted as a rainy day only by the weather people keeping score.

Portland has more overcast days than cities in the east.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

76. now thats the information I need

cause I am looking at a school in OR....good stuff to know

[medeak]

88. great town for walks

both kids went or are going to school there and fell in love with Portland.

not certain about job opportunities and property taxes tho?

[Arugula Latte]

120. Our property taxes are a bit high but we don't have a sales tax.

Also, you CAN'T pump your own gas. I love that law! I don't have to feel guilty for not getting out of the car. And the gas isn't more expensive than most other coastal area.

[Radio_Lady]

131. If you WANT or NEED to pump gas, you can drive over the bridge

to Vancouver, Washington. We used to get better prices in WA on gas, but I don't know about prices recently.

[medeak]

152. yes...love to shop there

but won't buy property...haven't a lot of companies moved to Washington because of taxes? Inherited grandfather's home (sold it) and taxes were higher than mortgage.

[Radio_Lady]

134. Medeak, job opportunities seem to be quite good here in Portland.

We're both retired, but we have younger friends who tell us this. Plus, the online advertisements have burgeoned at:

www.portlandjobfinder.com

I don't know about entry level jobs, of course. What kind of fields are your children studying/looking at?

Property taxes are high in cities everywhere; Portland is no exception. It all depends on where they settle and what they own. Further out from the city itself, taxes are less.

Good luck whatever you and they do! Yes, we have explored many walking trails. We do a lot of city walking just around our neighborhood.

In peace,

Radio_Lady

[medeak]

151. son delivers food and friend picks up cadavers

that the morgues won't pick up. (homeless people that died on the river mostly..except for those killed in prison)for minimum wage.

They both graduated from Reed.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

142. My friend is escaping there now.

She was a stage manager in NJ/NYC, got a great job down in FL, moved to Hollywood. Two years later, she's bored so she's moving back up to NJ so she can return to the NJ/NYC theatre scene. Less money, more competition, but better theatre.

[Coventina]

15. Do you want it to change for better? Or worse?

You weren't very specific.

:shrug:

on edit: I kant spel

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

16. thats why I got the Jersey response above

:rofl:

change, i would hope, for the better (but really this was just a copycat thread :o)

[Ariana Celeste]

17. Indiana!

"There's more than just corn in Indiana!"

:7

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

18. yea, like churches right off the highway

and americas biggest RV dealership!

:hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

22. What else could you need?

:7

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

25. ...

:silly:

[sasquatch]

20. Jean Schmidt's district in Ohio

:D

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

26. Ohio is right up there next to Indiana for me

:P

[sasquatch]

48. Well we have Dennis Kucinich and you don't

:P

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

53. actually, im pretty jealous about that

:grr:

[xchrom]

21. looks like you need to come to california.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

23. that could definitly be an interesting change

northern or southern?

:hi:

[xchrom]

32. each has it's pluses and minuses -- norcal

is 'spensive, ricky.

but you have to drive more in socal.

on the other hand -- it's paradise.

liberal/progressives every where.

well, except in the center of the state -- but you don't want to live there.

san diego parties like it's 1999. and the weather is out. of. this. world.
but more conservative -- but cali conservative is nicely modulated by the fact that this is cali -- the original home of geeks, freaks, and movie stars.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

34. If I am lucky enough to persue my dream

of becoming a Vet, I could end up at UC Davis or Pamona...I might end up going to Pamona if I got into either...

[LeftyMom]

36. OMG! Come to Davis!

You'd love it.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

39. I know...you are totally in that area!!!!

:party: that makes me want to come to Davis ;)

[LeftyMom]

42. Davis is much nicer than Sacramento, though

both because it's prettier and because the level of civic involvement and activism is much higher.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

46. that sounds pretty cool

two very important things to me

[XemaSab]

153. Davis is in the scary "center" of the state

Jefe obviously considers Sonoma county the far north and Contra Costa practically the east coast. :eyes:

ps It's spelled Pomona.

[LSK]

27. Auckland, New Zealand

Well, you said you wanted change...

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

29. I would love to at least visit there

[entanglement]

28. Buttermilk, KS or Hygiene, CO

:rofl:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

30. I could become bi-western and have a place in both towns

:rofl:

[crispini]

31. Nowhere.

Because, in the immortal words of Buckaroo Banzai, "No matter where you go, there you are."

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

33. true dat

:hi:

[sundog]

35. um

:D

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

37. where the invite man?

I wanna come stay at casa de sundog!!!!

[sarge43]

38. Well, for something entirely different, you

could go northern New England rural. I admit I'm prejudice, but there are worse places to park.

Your life will change. For one thing, you'll learn to drive through a foot of snow down a 13% grade, around a 90 degree curve and avoid a ton of moose who, for some moosey reason, wants to pancake your car. On the other hand, you could see a snow capped mountain wrapped in a red and gold shawl of autumnal maple and birch and crowned with a rainbow.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

40. I really like NE

my family has a house in western mass in fact...good times up there :D

[sarge43]

47. Where in western MA?

The spousal unit's from there, Shellburn Falls.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

52. actually not that far away

middlefield

[azmouse]

41. Everyone's from somewhere else in AZ

C'mon down. You can be whatever you want to be here!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

45. ooo

can I be an illegal immigrant? :rofl:

[azmouse]

50. Naughty, naughty....

:spank: LOL

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

51. who me?

:evilgrin:

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

143. I heard Tucson is fun.

My friend lives in a dome outside of Tucson. Crazy parties. He thinks he's the reincarnation of Jim Morrison. I kind of agree with him.

[Amaya]

43. connecticut!

i can promise you'll be bored out of your mind :D

:hi:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

44. wow...that sounds...um...

promising? :shrug:

:rofl: :hi:

[Magrittes Pipe]

54. Ashland, KY.

:shrug:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

57. ummm....

yea...sure...:crazy:

[tjwmason]

56. How about merry England?

I'd certainly manage to change your life, that's for sure. :evilgrin:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

59. I like this change

quite a lot :hug:

how you doing? I feel like i haven't spoken to you in AGES

[tjwmason]

68. I'm good thanks.

I took a break for a while to get myself a tad bit more grounded. But now I'm back, and need to be extra out-rageous to make up for lost time. :evilgrin:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

82. please please please be more out-rageous

and send me pictures :evilgrin:

[medeak]

61. would move there in a second!

If US dollar wasn't worthless there.

[tjwmason]

71. I've never found that a problem

probably because I've never done anything with U.S. dollars though :eyes:

[medeak]

78. son lives there

just returned in Jan from visit. love love love it...but US dollar ratio to pound is 2 to 1.

Good time for Brits to visit US!

[tjwmason]

101. Good time for us to visit the U.S. in one sense....

not so good in other senses....

[medeak]

107. question?

there was a debate here a few days ago re surveillance cameras on city streets...

Does it bother you that London has such?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

111. It bothers me that they are building them here in NYC

:grr:

[tjwmason]

113. Yes - and not just London

The whole country - we're getting increasingly surveilled.

Now we're going to get compulsary I.D. cards (or rather de facto compulsary) backed up by a database with biometrics for everybody in the country.

Obviously they wheel out the old "only the innocent have anything to fear" motif - but that's pure nonsense, and has already been proved as such several times.

[medeak]

114. what has been proved?

cameras have been used there for unethical reasons?

[tjwmason]

116. The notion that "only the innocent have anything to fear" has been disprov

disproved.

Apparently if the police already have your D.N.A. samples they will use that as circumstantial evidence that you are of a "criminal type" even where there is no D.N.A. evidence to match. This is the start of what the civil libertarians said was bound to happen, and which will end up with being expected to prove one's identity for no reason at all....

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

80. except to use them to light your cigars

and stick in g-strings :D

[tjwmason]

95. If you come here in a g-string

I'd do more than just stick a dollar bill in it. :evilgrin:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

97. ooahh!

:spank:

me likey

[tjwmason]

104. Me likey your response as well.

:evilgrin:

[ZombieNixon]

58. Well, if you want to avoid that meteorite,

I'd say about three feet to the left. :D

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

60. but the impact crater will still get me

i need to move at least 5 feet

[ZombieNixon]

62. Look, you want your life to change or not?

Three feet says you miss the rock itself but get to live out the rest of your days blind in an impact crater! }(

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

65. lmfao!

:rofl:

tou-fucking-che

[In_The_Wind]

64. What do you want to change about it?

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

66. everything

:D

but in all seriousness, this thread was just a copycat :hi: how are you Joani :hug:

[In_The_Wind]

70. everything will change with any move you make

cool
I'm glad you aren't looking for any major changes.


Things are good for me. There are so many places I want to go this summer. I hate dragging my heels waiting for the end of this month. I want to hop on my trike and go somewhere now. sigh

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

73. awwww

I am sure though that when you can go it will be so amazing! Can you take another mini trip somewhere?

[In_The_Wind]

93. probably

I think I'm taking the train down to Florida before I drive west. The only three dates I have committed to are: the march in NYC, the garlic festival in Gilroy and picking MissHoneychurch up at the airport the first weekend in September.
The train trip dates haven't been discussed yet so I don't know which way I'm heading before or after that.

[Shell Beau]

69. Mississippi! Your life will surely change!

I am not sure it will be for the better, but I like it here!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

96. Good Ole Miss

....nah probably not

:hi:

[DS1]

74. Council Bluffs, Iowa

You'll fit right in, dude, unlike your constant battle for acceptance in New York

:hug:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

77. thanks DS1

Im happy to know you understand my struggle :hug:

[Alien spawn]

75. seattle,WA

there's sun, almost never humid, and has many atractions

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

79. I really like Seattle

I have to get back there to visit again :hi:

[Alien spawn]

84. AlienGirl said there's gonna be a meating in seattle

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

89. too bad im on the other coast

[Alien spawn]

94. well maybee you could...

move to wisconsin

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

98. I am looking at a school there too

[Alien spawn]

100. evergreen?

[Alien spawn]

103. oops I ment UWM

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

105. haha, yea the Vet school at UWM

:D

[Alien spawn]

108. I live in Racine

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

110. thats on the lake, right?

not too far from Chicago?

[Alien spawn]

112. no it's about an hour or so

[medeak]

81. welcome Alien spawn!

Seattle is terrific!

[Alien spawn]

92. I know

[CaliforniaPeggy]

83. My dear MAHNY!

You MUST come to SoCal!

What fun we would have! There are so many cool DU'ers here!


Please?



:loveya: :hug: :loveya:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

86. Peggy! I am looking into a school there

but it is at least 2 years away...hows Pomona?

:loveya:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

99. Ah, Pomona ........

It is a beautiful college town.....I think the Claremont Colleges are there....

It is some distance east from me....but not bad.

The drawbacks: It is hot and smoggy in the summer.....

But it would be great to have you out here! You'd love the lack of snow!

:loveya:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

102. while snow is pretty to watch fall

and sometiems to play in, after the first few hours it loses that "innocence" far too fast :grr:

Yea, the Vet school is part of the Claremont Colleges I believe...i could definitly end up there. But I would need to have a place by the sea for summer. I could not deal with smog! lol

[CaliforniaPeggy]

106. Well, then........

You'd just have to have a beach place .......OUT HERE! :loveya:

But the rents would kill ya! Seriously, there is so much demand for beach properties that the rents are through the roof....:cry:

And as for the smog...it isn't as bad as it used to be.....But the Claremont area does get hot. A/C is a must, and everyone has it.....

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

109. can I find a sugardaddy/momma easily out there?

:rofl:

I dont think a poor student would do to well trying to find a beach place otherwise...lol

I dont even have airconditioning in my apt here! and damn it gets humid in manhattan

[Gormy Cuss]

85. New Jersey.

:P

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

87. see response #4

:scared:

[Gormy Cuss]

115. You got a problem with that?

:P

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

118. you talk'n to me?

:D

[Shine]

90. Change is just a state of mind.

:D

:hi:

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

91. .

so true

:thumbsup:

:hi:

[leftofthedial]

117. move into my place

and your life will change big time

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

119. for the good or the bad? lol

where in CO are you? :hi:

[leftofthedial]

121. western suburbs of Denver

good and bad are such subjective terms . . .

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

122. you're so vague leftofthedial!

:P

so what kinda change would it be?

[Left Is Write]

123. Next door to me.

:D

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

124. I have a strange fascination with ID

(IIRC, thats where you reside) I would love to come visit one day at the least...

[Left Is Write]

125. You do recall correctly.

You're welcome to visit any time!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

126. I am looking into WSU vet school in Pullman, WA

its right next to Moscow, ID :D

you far? :P

(of course this is at least 2 years away)

[Left Is Write]

127. Yeah...about a 7-hour drive from Moscow.

But that's a hella lot closer to me than you are now!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

128. sweet! only a 7 hour drive!!!

:rofl:

damnz, ID is looooooooooooong

[Left Is Write]

129. It's all that driving through the mountains that takes so long.

If it were prairie land like Minnesota, the driving would be a lot faster!

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

130. but I bet its a hell of a lot prettier

:loveya:

[Left Is Write]

132. Sometimes, though I hate driving in mountains.

The worst part of Idaho to drive through is the southern portion heading east. It's all dry, plain desertland, and in the middle of July is all brown and yellow and unrelenting sun.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

133. snow and rain make mountain driving bad...

but i don't think scorched earth is pretty at all :evilfrown:

[Nikia]

135. I've been thinking about that too, something on the water

I was thinking about perhaps Maine. There are spots around here in Wisconsin that would be perfect except that they are here.

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

137. haha

poor poor WI, lol

[AtomicKitten]

136. Santa Cruz, California

beautiful city with redwoods and ocean
really laid back community
progressive, arty, tolerant
lots of community activities (art and wine festivals)
close to Monterey and San Francisco
Felton, Boulder Creek, Ben Lomond in the mountains right next door

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

138. Ive only been once

and it was fucking great! I wish i could go to school there :cry:

[SeattleGirl]

140. MAHNY! Seattle is a great place!

But why do you want your life to change? Inquiring minds (or at least this inquiring mind) want to know!

[AussieDave]

141. I guess coming halfway around the world would be too extreme ???

Australia - lotsa room, no waiting - we have our own conservative, reactionary government for you to laugh at......:o


(Besides - I LOVE New York City - I hope to be over there later this year)

[newsguyatl]

144. atlanta

i think u know why :-D

[fleabert]

145. San Francisco.

not much of a change for you in cost of living- but a huge change in quality of life! (IMHO, of course)

[KitchenWitch]

146. Move to SoCal

I am, and we would have great neighbors such as CalPeggy etc.

[CanuckAmok]

147. Saturn.

You can't say your life wouldn't be different.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

148. One foot to the right, sweetie!

Changing your life is a funtion of who you're being, not where you are :toast:

[Blue_Tires]

149. BRASIL!

that's where i'm going (eventually)

[NoSheep]

150. North Carolina! It's Paradise! (shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh)

[u4ic]

154. Edmonton!

:bounce:

Well, I don't know if your LIFE will change; but at least your undies will, cause you'll need long johns. :silly:

[northofdenali]

155. Life change, hmmm?

Well, if New Jersey and Saturn are out... Fairbanks isn't hard to find. :hi:

And I'll buy the first beer!!