Posted on 06/15/2005 10:57:11 AM PDT by loyal_republican54
I live in Fairfax California. I have been for most of my life. I am fed up with the economy, the blackouts the crime and all the liberals. I am thinking of moving and I was wondering if any of you know a good place for an average joe like myself to live in. In a couple weeks I'll have enough money and I can take the greyhound out of here and move out of this dump. Im looking for a place where I can get jobs, not have nasty taxes, some good public transportation in a city and to other cities as well as low crime and good Bible believing churhes. Could any of you help me find a good one?
And all the rest of the year you are living in a high tax socialist wasteland.
I know, I live here.
So9
Nashville, Tennessee!
Not any jobs you would do.
So they say.
If all you can save for is a bus ticket. . . you may want to reconsider moving right now.
I took what I could get. so so pay, met people, very good with computers. Then my boss died and I was out.
Before you do anything too drastic, try moving across the bay to Walnut Creek. I did it last year (from Larkspur) and it has made a big difference. Walnut Creek isn't perfect, but most of the weirdness endemic to Marin County is absent here, and the transportation is better.
If you must get out of California, try Las Vegas.
decent list ... atlanta was a good place to move to ... it is overcrowded ...
Washington, DC on the list ... that's ridiculous. DC sucks ... and housing prices are obscene.
(That and a steady clicker)
;-)
I grew up in NYC and lived there for 33 years. I got sick and tired of it and moved to Las Vegas. Best move I ever did! I vote for Sin City!
Well that's a tough one... everyone has different needs.. if affordable living is something you want... Pittsburgh, PA is hard to beat in a metro area.... but you are going to find taxes and liberals... though the town is nowhere near as liberal as it used to be....
Economically its not nearly as humping as other parts of the country.... but a nice house in a good neighborhood can be found for 80k easy... and if you are just starting out you can find pockets of secluded housing in safe areas for 20-30k... One benefit of having a steady decline in population for 50 years... affordable housing.
Transit, well, we have the 10th largest transit system in the country, even though size wise we are nowhere near the top 10 anymore.
Job Growth... Well, honestly, I think the area (not the city per se, but the area... is turning a corner... they finally are realizing that water front property has value and have been cleaning up old mill sites and opening them up for development.... Thanks to USAIR's death here, we have an airport that is much bigger than we need, and so efforts are made to make this a distribution hub and center... which thanks to 100k acres right around the airport, and the new Mon Fayette expressway will make that corridore perfect for that....
You can work and raise a family here on 40k a year, may not be rich, but own a home, have safe schools and low crime (other than a few warzone neighborhoods). In terms of long term carreer opportunities, probably not the greatest choice, you definately can make more elsewhere, and have more opportunity... but housing, taxes and other things generally are higher too.
If I was deciding where to go.. I think I'd check out Montgomery Alabama... that new Hundai plant is opening things wide open down there... and other places like that.
If a "NICE" leave it to beaver small town is what you are after, I'd try places in the Mid West...
Huntsville, Alabama.
That's Round Rock, Texas and I'm sitting there right now.
Call me a skeptic, but there is something about your post that makes me think "troll." (i.e., "In a couple weeks I'll have enough money and I can take the greyhound out of here..." and "Im looking for...some good public transportation in a city...") If you're not a troll, then are you running away from home, or did you just get out of prison?
I don't mind hurricanes and tornados.
What do you do for a living? Your career choice would a big influence on where you could find a job.
Do not come to Des Moines or Iowa for that matter. In Des Moines the crime rate is high, and the city is generally a dump. The lovley Iowa state legislators are trying to get their own "assault" weapon bill through. The govenor is crooked. Don't kid yourself the people in Iowa might be conservative, but the gov't is liberal and there is a lot of union power here.
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