Where Is The Best Place To Live In The USA?

[MandyH]

If you want rural, out in the sticks come on down to Mississippi. We actually are all pretty nice, educated people for the most part. Everybody here owns some sort of animal(s) and the gun laws are great. You can own just about whatever you want to as far as weapons are concerned. Hunting is good too. We have like the third largest population of whitetail deer and if you own the land you don't have to have a license to hunt it. Oh , and there IS an AMish community about 30 minutes from me. I go buy, sell, trade with them. It must be great to grow up like that.

 

[Wooden_Pony]

Winter...my DH snow blowing

OH BURRRRRR!!!!! The other photos BEAUTIFUL~ as well

CA summer is brown. Green trees but dried crunchy grass, our winters are nice and green though. Well, where I live that is how it is. Other parts get snow and some don't seem to ever change

 

[thndrdancr]

Offspring, dont believe Southern28, not just anyone can walk in and get a job.

My hubby is going thru the immigration nightmare right now and we have spent over $3,000 so far, and took a year just to get a work permit (so seriously in debt!)

Also, in the U.S., most folks from other countries are SHOCKED that we only usually start OUT in a job, earning 2 weeks vacation a year. I know that seems awful to someone from the U.K. Also not sure if your childbearing age, but maternity leave is also horrid. I think even Canada gives new mom's six months or so. I think we get six weeks here, and its usually not paid time. Keep those things in mind.

A good website for info and chatting is http://www.visajourney.com You can really learn alot about the process, but those are mainly for those who have married and are waiting on spouses to get their visa so they can be reunited. Not sure how you were planning on getting one, but it does have various info.

Right here is the best place to find out about places to live though, I am learning a lot!

Jill

 

[homecatmom]

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Well, If my husband could retire, we would have to move out of California. Prices are terrible here. Retirement just doesn't make it here. We have savings, but we would not be able to continue without drastic changes in our lifestyle which is NOT extravagent. By selling my home here, I could move out of state and pay cash for a home WITH property. Where we live now (a suburb of Los Angeles) if you pass gas your neighbor hears it. If any of you have seen the movie Second Hand Lions, I want to live like they did!!
Cathy

 

[homecatmom]

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We went to a HomeShow recently and there is a newer trend called "pre-fab houses". It is built along the lines of a mobile, but structured and framed more like a house..They are Beautiful! I could live in one in a heartbeat on my little 6 acres in southern Colorado (If the husband could retire...)
Cathy

 

[Mac in Wisco]

I'm kind of partial to the north. I grew up in southwest Wisconsin. There's a great sense of community up there. I grew up in the LaCrosse area, a wonderful city on the Mississippi River. The northern Mississippi River is a large wildlife refuge, with plenty of hunting, fishing, boating, and other outdoor activities. The area has wonderful state and county parks, state bicycle trails, groomed hiking trails among the river bluffs. There are always community events going on. Riverfest, a week long festival over Independence Day. Oktoberfest in the fall, the county fair, speedway at the fairgrounds, winter carnivals, ice skating in the parks in the winter, ice fishing. All of the surrounding communities have their annual festivals, Sunfish Days, Dairy Days, Fishfly Days, Syttende Mai(Norwegian festival), etc. Always people out and about and always something to do.

Can't say much for other places I've lived. I lived in a small city outside of Dayton, OH for a number of years. People went to work and came home. They'd scurry off to the store, the occasional movie or concert and scurry back home. Never much going on in the community...

Lived in the desert in Southern New Mexico for a while. The city was a dump. The council didn't want to infringe on anybody personal property rights which they felt were traditional in the west and nobody gave a darn about anything. Junk cars everywhere, overgrown lots, trash everywhere, junkyards on every approach into the city. No sense of pride in the community, nothing to do in the community. These people didn't even have a Memorial Day parade. (In my book, if a town doesn't have a Memorial Day parade something is seriously wrong).

Lived on Guam for two years. That island had its problems with a corrupt government, moderate crime rate, and other things going on, but the people there had a great culture. The local villages would have fiestas every so often where everybody was invited to come out for barbecue and beer. The local cuisine was great.

I live in Texas now, everything is kinda laid back, everybody works hard, takes it easy on the weekends, goes to church on Sunday morning. People are very friendly here, overly friendly, they are so friendly that it scared me for a while until I was accustomed to it. I'm not saying northerners are unfriendly, but these people have a corner on the friendly market.

Sure wish I could find a small tavern here. There's a few night clubs and the VFW and such, but I'm just talking a corner pub. A place to have a beer after work and chat with the neighbors for a little bit. I don't drink much, but am used to Wisconsin with the corner bar in every neighborhood. You just don't see that down here...

 

[lurky]

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Why did you NOT mention the lake effect snow? Is it possible thats why your losing population? I see it on the news and cringe. I think you started last winter with about 3 to 7ft of the stuff? Then the snow began. I agree its a beautiful area.......but that lake effect snow sounds aweful.....? just wondering.

 

[mdbucks]

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Do they sell Old Style in Texas

 

[mdbucks]

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wouldn't that be anywhere? or am I mixing mixing my wars???

 

[mdbucks]

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I see the problem you are going through this LEGALLY, thats where the confussion is. But if your moving from UK you probbably would want to go through Legal channels