Posted on 09/10/2007 9:30:04 AM PDT by qam1
Top 15 States
California
Florida
Hawaii
North Carolina
Colorado
Texas
New York
Arizona
Oregon
Washington
Tennessee
Virginia
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Alaska
Top 15 cities
New York, NY
San Diego, CA
Seattle, WA
San Francisco, CA
Las Vegas, NV
Orlando, FL
Honolulu, HI
Phoenix, AZ
Denver, CO
Los Angeles, CA
Chicago, IL
Boston, MA
Charlotte, NC
Portland, OR
Miami, FL
All I can say it that wherever you go, there you are. I’m perfectly happy in the hills of West Virginia. I can’t think of anything quite as boring as sitting on a beach all day.
For the record, the last two places in the nation that I’d choose to live would be in the hell holes of urban NY or CA...and I live in Louisiana...
Beaches are the reason people like to live in a particular state, Colorado is number five on the list, something missing?
The popularity of Florida still eludes me. I just can’t imagine living in a hurricane zone.
What about Aspen, Vail, or Lake Tahoe — resort towns w/ no pollution? How can people pretend to enjoy traffic jams and foul air? That’s not paradise.
You've never seen the Colorado ocean? It's a sight to behold.
One would assume that geo-demographic statistics would demonstrate which areas of the US are most desirable simply by viewing which areas are gaining in population and which are in decline. To use a poll to determine where people prefer to live would result in bias towards where the respondent currently lives.
Oh, gee, look at that, California and NYC are among the most populated places, so people must want to live there. Of course, pay no attention to the recent declining population trends.
I suspect that people list the cities and states they would enjoy vacationing in, thinking that living there would be the same experience. It wouldn’t be.
Huh? No offense to any Keystone staters out there, but PA is NOT where this Gen Xer would go, if he could get out of NJ.
Even from atop a 14,000 foot peak I haven't been able to see far enough to spot an ocean. Blue Mesa is the closest thing to a major body of water that I know of.
Courtesy of the US Army, I got to see quite a bit of the states and the world for that matter...there are lots of the proverbial “nice places to visit,” where people wouldn’t want to live.
North Carolina, Colorado, Texas, and Virginia are all places that I have lived (unfortunately the culture is being ruined by liberal yuppie/pop-culture sheep whom (READ Liberal for all yall that moved from the NE and CA to get away from weirdos-those that acutally like the native culture; We welcome you ;)) are from NE and California that want to turn our US paradise states into socialist-communist colonies of which they left..
Colorado used to be a mountainous paradise (open beautiful mountains-there biggest city denver was merely a commerce center for the livstock industry, and a transportation (RR) hub back in the day..now california wants to fornicate on it!0).
Both sides of my family have ties going back eighty or ninety years in Colorado.
I drove through The Rocky Mountain National Park two years ago, it has to be right near the top of the most beautiful places in the country, plus it was the first time I had ever seen it snow in June.
The screen saver on my computer has a series of pictures taken on the fourth of July at a little over 9,000 feet, we had a snow storm that turned everything white.
If you live at the beach you don’t lay on the beach all day. You walk along the surf for exercise or swim, surf, scuba, free dive, fish, boat, barbecue, and buy little chairs, umbrellas, and coolers so that when you are on the beach you are comfortable. It’s not a terrible life.
I was at Yellowstone one year when it snowed in July.
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