Recommendations for great place of the country to move to...

[sewchick]

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Maine is home to me too. Love it would not leave it. People help people here. That being said.... they will tax you to death.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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I lived in Southern New Mexico and West Texas for the past ten years and recently returned to Wisconsin.

It's not necessarily about the cold, but the four seasons. There's something to be said about the four seasons; the brisk fall mornings with the leaves changing colors, the blanket of white that hides the stark winter landscape, the spring melt washing away the winter's accumulation, the soggy spring with wildflowers popping up, the warm, humid summers forcing an explosion of growth in the fields and the forests.

I just didn't see the same in the southwest. It seemed to me to be two seasons, green and brown. Either the mesquite, cactus, and grass was green or it was dry and brown. I don't know how else to describe it. I've heard a lot of northerners say that they don't like the heat of the southwest. When it's cold it's pretty easy to warm up. You put on more clothes, warm up in the car, go in the house, but when your hot you're just hot.

It does get cold in the southwest, not as cold as here, but I noticed when it would get cold nobody knew how to dress for it. In West Texas it would get 35 degrees with a 30 knot wind and people would be wearing their normal fare, jeans and a t-shirt (or even shorts and sandals), and add a light windbreaker and then complain about how cold it was.

I've been marveling at the fall weather here. I love stepping out in the morning to the 40 to 50 deg weather, the leaves changing color, the corn turning a golden yellow. Obviously the weather would get to this in West Texas, yet somehow it just wasn't the same.

 

[luvarabhorses]

Mac- Glad you are really happy there you big cheesehead you!!! Please give us an update in February!
I agree with your green/brown assessment. I also have a thing about places that are too flat. Just a personal thing.
My Dad lives in Tampa and he thinks that is the perfect place and everyone should want to live there. He lives in a $600K house in a development backing up to a golf course even though he doesn't play golf. It costs him $7K a month in taxes and development fees to live there and....he is about 50 feet from his neighbors enormous McMansion. It is hard for me to contain my lack of enthusiasm for his house, etc,,, and that really irks him for some wierd reason.

 

[Cockadoodledon't]

Come on to WV,
RARELY a tornado,,,,no hurricanes,,,,nice 4 seasons,,,,,

Welcome sign is out.

 

[Cockadoodledon't]

Cockadoodledon't :

Come on to WV,
RARELY a tornado,,,,no hurricanes,,,,nice 4 seasons,,,,,

Welcome sign is out.

 

[newhope]

How beautiful this country is and how helpful everyone's being. You've all broadened my horizons!