Considering relocating... whats your town like?

Hello from Manchester, NH! Although we do get snow in the winter, it is usually not terrible! Here are some links that will show you New Hampshire - where I live there are two rivers, a few lakes, 50 minutes to the ocean, 50 minutes to Boston, we have a minor league baseball team, museums, theatre, a larger venue for "big name" entertainment, beautiful weather and friendly people!



http://www.manchesterhistoric.org/

Here is the second link:http://www.nhliving.com/index2.shtml

If I am discounting Southeastern Massachusetts because of the cold, you probably should discount southern New Hampshire!

Originally Posted by MuttigreeMom

Oy... I'm getting flashbacks of why I left NY

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Yea I cracked up when a friend forwarded me a "You know your in mid-state NY when..." and they listed pretty much the same stuff as "You know you're in Michigan when..."

Baltimore MD has all of those things except the housing prices are pretty high

why dont you move to Australia

Originally Posted by lnbandcats

Hello from Manchester, NH! Although we do get snow in the winter, it is usually not terrible! Here are some links that will show you New Hampshire - where I live there are two rivers, a few lakes, 50 minutes to the ocean, 50 minutes to Boston, we have a minor league baseball team, museums, theatre, a larger venue for "big name" entertainment, beautiful weather and friendly people!

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Usually not terrible... who are you trying to kid? My dad lives a few towns South of you and every time I see pictures of his house it's covered in snow I think if long island was too much snow for me, NH is going to be overkill.

Originally Posted by AbbysMom

If I am discounting Southeastern Massachusetts because of the cold, you probably should discount southern New Hampshire!

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I love MA. Salem is tons of fun. I've taken 3am road trips to Boston just so I could be there for breakfast... actually one year I was living in Albany and drove to Stockbridge for Thanksgiving (just had to... it was a little too perfect). Have also been to West Newbury when I had some relatives there.... but I don't think I could live there.

Thanks for that quiz by the way, it was great! I got a lot of places in VA and NC (#1 Norfolk VA...seems to be popular).

Originally Posted by Jenny82

Baltimore MD has all of those things except the housing prices are pretty high

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Oh yeah Baltimore is lovely... although some of the people there did pick on me pretty bad the one time I went. In their defense.. it was a few years ago when apparently the Giants and Ravens (I think?) were playing each other in the superbowl (I think?) and the governors made a bet with each other about who would win. So the day after the Ravens win, I decide to drive to Baltimore in a car with NY plates Man, I'm not even a sports person... but when I stopped for food and they saw my NY plates, everyone in the restaurant had to razz me a little

But the town itself was so nice! Just a little more than I can afford.

Originally Posted by huggles

why dont you move to Australia

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LOL I've always wanted to! At the very least I have to come for a visit.

Wilmington, NC sounds just like you described, but it does get the occasional hurricane. It is also not far from the Outer Banks, all the Crystal Coast shopping and goings on. You should check it out. There are a lot of TCS members that live in NC, too.

Originally Posted by MuttigreeMom

LOL I've always wanted to! At the very least I have to come for a visit.

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well you know who to call if, sorry WHEN you come for a visit

good luck with choosing somewhere to move too.

I'm from South Bend, IN (home to Notre Dame University) and I think we fit most of what your looking for.

Originally Posted by MuttigreeMom

1. Not too hot in the summer, not too cold in the winter.

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We have 4 distinct seasons. The summer tops in the 90's but can be quite humid and the winter bottoms usually in the teens but it's over quick.

2. Can get a 3/2 house without spending millions. (Preferably under $200K - will not shy away from a fixer upper. I joke that I am the original toolbelt diva... she just got the show first

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I assume thats 3 bed/2 bath? Easy here... for $200 you could get a very nice 3/2 or even a 4/2 or perhaps a 3/2 with lots of extra square footage that needs some TLC.

3. Taxes won't be more than I make in a year.

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We just changed our assessing/taxing methods but even in town your taxes would only be 5-6% of the sale price (annually).

4. NO HURRICANES! (Ok, at least fewer hurricanes than FL)

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NO hurricanes... just the occasional tornado.

5. Has something to do... even if it's just a main street with mom 'n' pop shops or something.

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We have lots to do if thats all your looking for. We have a decent down town and since we are so close to mishawaka there are also lots of shopping and things.

6. Preferably near some kind of water. I've always lived on a coast... so while I don't really need to be on the ocean, having some kind of water nearby is comforting to me... *shrug*

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Does a river count? There's lots of little lakes close by to as well as Lake Michigan.

7. Not an overly religious community.

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People here tend to keep their religion to themselves for the most part.

8. Would love an 'arty' or 'eccentric' community... but I don't know how likely that is. Doesn't hurt to ask, right?

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Not overly artsy but it depends on where you go.

Originally Posted by MuttigreeMom

This site says my #1 city is Norfolk, Va and my #2 is Hampton, Va. I would have never guessed that in a million years - especially since I swore off VA since it took me a million years to drive through it on my way to FL

But wow... this is such a neat site! Thanks so much!

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I LOVE Virginia. I'm in Northern VA, just outside of DC. There's all sorts of cool, artsy, non-artsy, metro, retro, suburban, citified, nightlife, daylife, political life for both sides.. um.. everything, you name it.

There's also a hefty price tag to go with it and tons of traffic. Lots of immigration here. Jobs are abundant, and they normally pay well to go with the cost of living. The further out you go from DC the less money it is.. but I'm about 20 minutes/miles outside in Fairfax and it's an awesome area... with the current price on town homes in Fairfax going somewhere from $300 to $600, and higher for something really really nice. Real estate is supposed to be a pretty good investment around here. The metro system isn't as good as NYC, but it's decent.

Summers can be ungodly hot, but are normally in the 80-95 range once it gets started. I have seen it upwards of 100. We don't have extended springs or falls... and the winters can get cold but we don't get alot of snow. The snow we do get usually doesn't stick (but beware no one is able to drive in it properly).. last year we got snow that stuck I think twice. Nothing major, and those coupla times were like a coupla inches.

Having grown up in Cincinnati and still living here now, I can say it's a great place to live. We do have our hot, humid weather in the summer, but usually not for long stretches. The winter's aren't too bad, some snow, but nowhere near as bad as some areas get and it doesn't usually stay really cold for long.

There's so much to do in Cincinnati, whether it's sports, the arts, festivals, amusement parks, zoo, restaurants or shopping. The downtown area could use some revitalization, but we're working on it. There's a great mix of people and a lot of great neighborhoods. Some are pricier than others, but there are many nice, affordable places to live, whether you're looking for an older home or new construction.

We do have the Ohio River if you're interested in being near the water. The Northern Kentucky side of the river, directly across from Cincinnati has more to do in terms of shopping and restaurants. There are also a lot quite a few nice neighborhood across the river too, with easy access to Cincinnati.

I love it here and can't imagine living anywhere else!

i'm in davenport iowa. not terribly exciting. winters are icy. summers are HOT. there is an artsy community, they have art fairs in the old part of town all summer. we're 10 minutes from the mississippi river. (of course there are houses along the river, but i bet they are $$$$). 3 bedroom older houses can be bought for $100,000 or under here (that was last year, haven't looked since then). can't tell you on taxes. we rent.

we've been here a few years. not the best place we've ever lived but not horrible either. we're hoping to move to a larger metropolitan area in the next couple years.

Well... if Austin were not in Texas, it would be the perfect place for you! Could you handle the heat, do you think?

It's actually cooler there than it is here in Dallas, because there's less of a "heat island" effect down there -- people in Austin actually like grass and trees better than concrete ( ), so they don't build over every last square inch of land.

It's definitely artsy and eccentric -- lots of arts festivals, some great museums (including Laguna Gloria, where there's a fabulous three-day arts festival every year on the lake), and just a general sense of style about the place.

And there's no place like Austin for live music! It's brimming over with wonderful musicians, and there's always something fun to do in the evenings. You can even go shopping at the downtown Whole Foods, eat at one of five little restaurants inside the store, and listen to live music the whole time you're there!

Geographically, Austin sits right at the middle of a wonderful mix of landscapes -- there are big wooded hills, gentle rolling prairies, lakes and more lakes and rivers and streams and some more lakes, everywhere you look... there's a fabulous rocky spring right next to downtown, and an exquisite Japanese garden (built for the city by a grateful Japanese immigrant back in the '40s, I think it was) that's part of Zilker Park, a huge sweeping green meadow ringed with forest, with the downtown skyline rising beyond the trees. And just to the southeast is a tall pine forest that's called the Lost Pines, because it's out here so far west of the nearest other such forest, over in the Deep South. Walking into that forest is like suddenly beaming over to a whole different part of the planet!

Austin is not as politically liberal as it once was, but it's still an openminded place where you can be who you are without feeling scrutinized. And in Austin, you're more likely to be accosted by a Buddhist monk than a Jehovah's witness!

(That reminds me of a line I once heard... somebody said, "I used to be a Jehovah's Witness, but I prefer not to get involved. So now I'm a Jehovah's Bystander." )

Anyway... Austin is a wonderful town. It does have seasons, it does get snow now and then, it's very beautiful (especially in the older parts and out toward the lakes), and it's a very friendly place, too.

Now I miss it!

I took the quiz, too.

Of the 24, 10 were in Oregon with Portland being #8 Others included Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma, Bremerton and Kent - all in Washington State. There were several others in Wisconsin. Guess I really am a Pacific NW person

I know nothing about the eastern part of the country. Good luck with your search!

How about London, Ontario?

Oh wait, its in Canada and its freezing here

Scratch that.

Originally Posted by Trouts mom

How about London, Ontario?

Oh wait, its in Canada and its

freezing here

Scratch that.

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Wow, apparently I have a foul foul mouth lately.