The Ideal Place to Live

[Emzyyy]

Plus Oregon has like the best cross country team in the country :]

 

[addiedunn]

Bloomington, IN
Indiana is known for its farmland, Bloomington is the home of IU. Terrific school. And the winters, considering it's only an hour south of Indianapolis, are a heck of a lot milder than central Indiana. It always seems to be just a little warmer south of I-70. Oh, and southern Indiana, where Bloomington is, isn't typical flat farmland. It's rolling hills, forests, etc..
Bloomington is very much considered an "artsy" town.
My husband and I just looked at a 5 acre farm closer to Indy that is bank-owned (which you will see a lot of these days) and it was only 99,000. The house had been completely re-modeled and it had a well built barn and two and a half car garage, too. People around here are buying up property just like it like crazy. It's everywhere, what with our factories going overseas faster than we can blink.

 

[Mahonri]

Durham, NC

You wouldn't have to worry about watering your outdoor plants. ever.

 

[Xtina]

Thanks guys, all good suggestions! I never knew that about Bloomington, I would have imagined that its climate would have the Lake Effect making it freezing cold all winter.

I am going to have a hard time leaving Portland, I'm not going to pretend like I won't. Honestly, I can't express enough how much losing this band has hurt us. It's days later and we're still thinking about it pretty much every minute. Portland just got a lot less home-y to us, even though we still love our work friends and we probably have the best neighbors in the world. There's just too much here we can't have and too much that we've lost.