Pennsylvania, a beautiful state I admire, has great roads, but no beaches. Something in my blood calls for the ocean: 
In the event of an asteroid collison, LI is not a safe place to be, but it's home for me.
Posted on 09/02/2012 6:42:37 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
My family and I live in Florida, and we have lived in a number of other states, as well as several other countries.
I never knew much about Idaho until my son and his family moved there (Mountain Home) a few years ago. It is a wonderful state, full of very friendly
(and conservative) people. Lot’s of open space (I recall a Sheriff there saying that she represented a county with a ridiculously large number of square miles... and exactly one traffic light!)
We decided it would be a great place to retire to. Alas, my son will almost certainly have to move somewhere else by then.
Colorado is still the best:
1. Still somewhat Conservative although it has been overrun by CA libs in the past couple of decades.
2. Low humidity and dry if you like it. No oppressive humidity and nasty bugs. Lots of opportunity for outdoor exercise — biking, hiking, Jeep trailing, etc.
3. Snow is not that bad and I argue that the East Coast and mid-West get more snow. Remember, it is dry. Winters can be long but we do have four full seasons.
4. Many sunny days. On average 300 days of sunshine each year.
5. No. Denver is not in the Mountains. Most of us live on the rolling plains, foothills. Mountains are just 30 minutes from where I live.
6. Not aware of any drug problems. Not sure what they are referring to.
These “best places” lists are almost always foolish exercises, unless you just so happen to agree with not just the author’s criteria but the ranking of those criteria in relative importance.
If employment prospects top one’s list, it’d be the Dakotas followed by Texas. If a mild temperate climate matters most, it’d be the southern Appalachians. Taxation? States with no to low state income tax that don’t bend you over with other forms of taxation.
Then, you have those who are looking for their stronghold in the event of economic collapse and governmental chaos. Idaho and the southern Appalachians would appear to be the winners there, for similar but not identical reasons.
Throw some or all of these considerations together and it’s a better exercise in ruling out what you won’t consider than narrowing it down to the best place. There are pros and cons everywhere. At that point it starts coming down to subjective opinion and gut feeling. Very few people will completely agree when it comes down to what honestly is a matter of the heart.
I'm in a county twice as big as Delaware, with no traffic lights.
It’s a big country and I have been in 49 states. LOL 8 more to go.
I like the Carolinas, and several other spots. Stuck in CA, all of the kids and grandkids are here, plus wife’s brothers and sister. In San Dieog looking at the ocean, so not exactly suffering on a day-to-day basis.
My sister lives in Max Meadow VA near Wytheville. 2 miles east of the inters tae between Roanoke and Bristol, TN. 7 acres, 4 bedrooms cost her 120,000 10 years ago. Can see the neighbors but not hear much. No fences kind of place. Dogs can run free. Fishing lake nearby.
a few hours to Dulles, Charlotte, and Raleigh airports.
Some snow, but mostly mild winters.
If it was just me, I’d be right there.
well, ‘cept references to “Pennsylvania” as a University usually means UPenn vs Penn State, two absolutely totally couldn’t be too much different schools, sorta like NC and NC State or UT-Austin and TX A&M. Only more so.
The cold, snowy north Idaho winters ar a plus - keeps the riffraff out.
Californians vist in the summer and early fall, think it’s paradise (which it is) and get blind-sided by the winter. The “For Sale” signs pop up like mushrooms in the Spring.
Who writes this stuff? Texas is more like: Pros: No state income tax, rural communities, our own electrical grid, friendly gun laws Cons: high school and property taxes, drought, illegals, Austin, tornadoes, wildfires, West Nile Virus, depending on the year the Dallas Cowboys, 110 degree temps, liberal invasion, University of Texas
I was born and raised there. I'd love to go back but I'm not independently wealthy. I left because there were no jobs. The state still has the same problem so if anyone plans to move there they'd should either have lots of money saved up or a job in advance.
Add millions of residents, and it might not be so nice.
And there's the rub. To create jobs industry is needed. Idaho's "no lunch bucket jobs, no unions" policy has so far prevented that from happening. But it's not a paradise unless you already have money or are living on a generous pension.
“(forgive me, Davy Crockett)”
LOL
A dumbass put this list together.
Thank you for this wonderful exercise in copy/paste.
Pennsylvania, a beautiful state I admire, has great roads, but no beaches. Something in my blood calls for the ocean:
In the event of an asteroid collison, LI is not a safe place to be, but it's home for me.
I also take umbrage to nuclear plants being a liability. They are reliable, produce zero greenhouse gases and are not a blight on thousands of acres of landscape like forests of 400' windmills.
Yes, the winters up here are cold but we natives know that such temperature extremes keep out the riff-raff.
What is your birth sign.......
Georgia and several others were downrated due to “multiple nuclear power plants?”
Wait until the grid goes down and you libs who killed nukiepo where you live are freezing in the dark.
And don’t even think of coming down here: We’re heavily armed!
Yeah...I hear that...
Er...Libra. Is that a bad or good thing?
As a 16 yr. old driver I was trapped on the Island as one was supposed to be at least 18 to drive in NYC.
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