What is the best place to live in the US?

Question

What is the best place to live in the US? And Why?

Oh yeah and besides california cause i already live there.

Answer 1

Depends on your wants and needs. Personally I like Colorado, Snowmass Village. It is a little remote, and the closer you get to Snowmass or Aspen, the higher the real estate costs, but that is my preference. The benefits are active arts and intellectual community within the bounds of a small town, with many diversions. You also have higher costs, since the nearest metro area is Denver. Colorado Springs has many of the same benefits of Snowmass Village, but is rather authoritarian.

If you like crunchy granola types, Boulder is Great. Austin Texas is one of the best places to live, especially if you don't want to pay income tax and like live music. Plus its close to the hill country, for a nice escape. It's too hot in the summer for me.

Just so many wonderful places to choose from, I don't know, but for me it would either be Snowmass Village, or possibly Durango Colorado. Durango isn't nearly so remote, is close to the mountains, and does have a good quality of life at a low cost.

Answer 2

That's easy, because it is where I am: Santa Cruz County, California. It's in the middle of the coast, basically from Watsonville in the south, near Monterey (which is another county) to Boulder Creek in the north. Redwood trees are my neighbors and friends, although they do make rather a nuisance of themselves occasionally when they get in a dizzy during storms and start throwing down their branches. See, their dead branches get caught in their live branches when they drop. They're called snags. Then in a storm . . .

But aside from that, and the occasional earthquake or mud slide, this is the nicest place in the world to live. The cost of living is, alas, dreadful, but that's because so many people want to live in this county. Down toward Watsonville you can find some halfway decent prices for houses, but up this way there's probably essentially nothing for much under a million dollars. I am serious.

Paradise has its cost. By the way, Paradise Park is at the bottom of Highway Nine. At the beginning of the redwood forest, very near Santa Cruz.

If you are at all interested in the high tech world, you would love Scotts Valley. It's a miniature Silicon Valley, but much nicer. The San Lorenzo Valley (the river that runs down through the Santa Cruz Mountains to the sea at Santa Cruz by the boardwalk), is funky and lovable. It's populated by aging hippies and bikers and artists and musicians and all manner of off-beat folk. All in the redwood forest (of course there are other trees, too), and cool and foggy in the morning in late summer, when you watch the mist hang over the trees.

Very close to heaven, is the San Lorenzo Valley.

Answer 3

As long as you don't choose tucson, you should be okay! haha....

Phoenix is pretty nice, a lot of Los Angelinos have relocated there, the weather is warm, no cold winters, lots of jobs, housing/rent is affordable, 5th largest city with all major sports teams. I think the only major drawback is the crime. Quite a lot of property crime - theft, burglary, etc. I wouldn't say that it is better than southern California though. Quite similar actually (but more affordable). I think Phoenix is the only city in the Southwest where you don't feel like you are in the "South."

If you like the Northwest, I would look into Portland or Seattle. Also nice cities, but too much snow/rain for me!

Answer 4

Probably a place where real estate does not cost you a fortune. An apartment in Los Angeles or Hollywood could buy you a mansion elsewhere in another state. But if you really like to shop, go live in a state like Oregon, where there is no sales tax.

Answer 5

Still trying to figure that out. I live in California now. Moving soon though.

Answer 6

West Virginia is the best and the safest place in the United States. Because the people there respect the senior citizens and if you happen to leave your car unlocked, no one will ever Carnap your car.

Answer 7

Home in Pennsylvania. It is so homey we even have a town named Hometown. Most of PA is rural with country values. A good place to raise a family.

Answer 8

Any place you could get a good paying jobs, and have your love one next to you, that's the best place.

Answer 9

The north eastern areas there are no earthquakes, hurricanes or tornadoes execpt toh time where my neighbors roof got ripped off

Answer 10

depends on what you like .... quiet country , big city nightlife, small town everyone knows you, do you need access to a high paying job or are you retired ... personally i like south florida around ft lauderdale miami .... lots of things to do ... lots of places to get on the water ... lots of absolutely gorgeous hispanic girls ... yum!