What State Fits My Family Best?

[babymakes6]

Vermont is beautiful! Lots of green mountains with white steeples. Some farms-I don't know much about it other than visiting a few times.

We moved to Ohio to get away from Pennsylvania. Family is all still there, but we were too crowded. Taxes are high and keep getting higher. From South Central (Gettysburg) and east it is becoming all developed. North and west is more farms, but also fewer jobs. Beautiful state, though, if you like hills and mountains, with lots of amazing history!

 

[Avonlea22]

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Not me. I vote for Pennsylvania. The Amish can't be wron, can they? Just north of Harrisburg is some great mountainy areas with plenty of land.

 

[I-Have-Happy-Hens]

NJ is just a great place! Like lawrenceville great people and lots of land!

 

[michickenwrangler]

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Also go with Michigan. Western Michigan is slightly warm and gets plenty of precipitation to grow those cherries and apples and peaches. Northeastern Michigan is great for root crops: potatoes, carrorts, onions, beets and dairy. Southern Michigan is more built up and expensive but places like Lenawee county, Hillsdale county and Shiawassee county are near enough to big cities to commute but maintain the rural atmosphere. And of course da U.P. can't be topped for sheer beauty. It does have a long enough growing season to grow the basics: root veggies, tomatoes, cukes, beans, etc... although stuff with a long growing season can't hardly grow in Michigan.

We're a big dairy state as well as a big horse state (more horses than Kentucky).

Michigan schools have the 2nd highest percentage of Highly Qualified teachers teaching (2nd to North Dakota). The economic turndown has made teaching jobs very competitive so districts have great teachers working for them in spite of the ever decreasing budgets.

Houses are cheap, land is cheap. This state NEVER has water problems like western states , we have 4 seasons and no natural disasters. The lakes and our cooler summers don't favor tornadoes.

And Avonlea22, I just drove through Pennsylvania 2 weeks ago on I-80. It certainly was a beautiful state.

 

[BookWorm243]

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X2!!!!!!!! http://www.findyourspot.com/ This website is how we found our state.

X3! We have been to many places Maine, Michigan, NJ, and NY. All where to cold for us

We always seem to come back to NC. I don't think I will ever leave ( I do miss Maine

) We have summers that aren't to hot and winters that aren't to extreme, and great views

 

[frostbite]

I used to live in Michigan, and I agree it's beautiful, and I have very fond memories. But jobs are tough to find there.

By the way, Alaska has more horse per capita than any other state in the union! It's true, it's true. Probably because we don't have any big cities with millions of people to skew the numbers against farm animals....

I just know that I have two horses now, and I've never owned horses anywhere else. That and the stats I read.

 

[dgilm]

When we lived in New Hampshire, we visited Vermont a lot. Taxes are higher there, if I remember correctly, but LOTS of farmland... in fact, there may only be a couple of actual cities in the whole state... can't think, off the top of my head what they are, though. Lots of small towns, lots of farms, lots of tourists... Upstate New York was beautiful, but again, taxes off the chart.

 

[conny63malies]

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Hands down Rural Kentucky. Look at the elizabethtown -Radcliff Ky area. Low living costs, yet close to cities. The area between Lexington and Corbin is gorgeous too. It horse country, tobacco.. beautiful rolling hills, four seasons and none extreme . We will live in the London area some day. I looked at a house in Woodbine that needs a bit of work, but it has 1.3 acres, garage, 3/1 house , river frontage, no livestock laws since its rural... and only 29.000$

 

[conny63malies]

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Not me. I vote for Pennsylvania. The Amish can't be wron, can they? Just north of Harrisburg is some great mountainy areas with plenty of land.

not they are not wrong, that why Ohio has more Amish than PA.

 

[conny63malies]

Forget about Kansas. Its flat, not enough trees. THe seasons are cold and windy, colder and windy, hot and windy and OMG its freaking hot outside and windy. 118F i way too hot for humans..