My girlfriend and I are thinking of moving to a new state. We currently live in Southern California. Can anyone give me some insight on their city? We want somewhere that is gay-friendly, has inexpensive homes for sale, and work opportunities. Thank you!
2006-09-25 10:47:38 · 12 answers · asked by raebelk 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender
We currently live in a single family home, and I have 2 basset hounds that will come with us, so we would need a house with a yard, not an apartment or condo. Thank you for your help!
2006-09-25 11:00:24 · update #1
Ogunquit Maine is very Lesbian
Denver might be good for the cheap housing, work opportunities and lesbian friendliness.
Palm SPrings is still in CA
but if you are happy in SoCAL why move?
2006-09-25 10:58:17 · answer #1 · answered by n2mustaches 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
UUUHHH maybe my town Spring Valley, New York. I have a gay nieghbor and he gets treated the same as anyone else would get treated.He has 8 cats and a yard. And the best part is that i live in a surbanan area so there are alot of house and barely any apartments and the houses are inexpensive!
2006-09-25 19:30:56 · answer #2 · answered by Jus call me "BUBS" 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Lakeview (aka Boystown) Chicago, is a great place to visit, but as a lesbian, I wouldn't want to live there.
The regentrification of the area has driven housing prices skyhigh and the City Sales taxes are the highest among any major city!
DuPage county is a good place to live, but the property taxes are insane. Kane county is a bit further west from the City, but our property taxes aren't as near as nuts as DuPage area.
Kendall County property taxes are WAY lower, nice up and coming area, a real buyers market too! Good schools, good size homes being built. Realitively quite for now. But still within driving distance from Down town Chicago!
I personally live in Kane county, have for most of my life and we're thinking about moving a bit more west just to get away from the Urban sprawl that has been reaching us lately.
We're still close enough to the city to drive in whenever we want.
Boystown, (aka Lakeview) is a great place to visit and it is the central GLBT hub of the Metro-Chicago area, but most of us lesbians live outside the city.
There's also another town I'd recommend, but ONLY if you're independently wealthy or you have a business that isn't tourist dollar driven.
It's Eureka Springs Arkansas.
Yeah, I know, it's in Arkansas, a notorious Red State, but let me tell you about this quaint, victorian retreat town.
It's build into the sides of the Ozark Mountains situated between Table Rock and Beave Lakes. It was originally built up as a mineral springs "health resort" around the turn of the 20th century.
But, in the past couple of decades it's residents have numbered over 50% GLBT. Not exactly sure how this phenominon happened, but it's about the only truly gay friendly town in the whole of the Ozark area. Shopkeepers, residents, artisans, writters, etc...most of them gay/lesbians.
The only problem is that, yes, it's in Arkansas for one thing, and it's a tourist town. So, when the winter winds start blockading them in, the tourists stop and their median income dwindles down to "nothing worth writting home about...if you can afford the stamp to write."
So, all in all, it's a great place to visit, or even have a gallery, but you don't actually want to live there and rely on that as your number one source of income.
2006-09-25 17:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by DEATH 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
believe it or not Austin Texas is moving forward with its dealings with the gay community. there are lots of jobs in Austin and outside of Austin there are homes that aren't alot (alot less than southern Cal). its a college town and very much a technology hub also close to San Antonio which is a very beautiful city. everyone i know that lives in Austin loves it down there. I'm an hour north
2006-09-25 18:02:43 · answer #4 · answered by KellyJeanne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ithaca, NY is very gay-friendly. It's a cute little hippie granola town in upstate NY, home to both Ithaca College and Cornell University. The vast majority of local businesses and companies grant rights to same-sex partners, and there is a significant gay and lesbian population. Also, it's absolutely GORGEOUS there. Good luck!
2006-09-26 09:33:00 · answer #5 · answered by tsdeck5 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really can't say what's the best city but I can suggest Chicago, Milwaukee, or Atlanta but you will never know until you go to a city and live there to find out for yourself. Basically anywhere.
2006-09-25 19:02:16 · answer #6 · answered by Necole 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me and my wife just moved to St. Louis, its pretty fun and seems to be liberal. I work at a hospital that has same sex benifits and is in the gay district of SL. Its really cheap to live here to.
I would say that Massachussets, provincetown, is probley nice.
Maybe Canada if u really wanna get liberal.
Probley more expensive though
2006-09-25 18:03:50 · answer #7 · answered by arielsalom33 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Chicago! Boystown (around Halsted and Clark) is awesome. The trains and L's run threw so even if you moved to the burbs you could still ride in for pretty cheap.
2006-09-25 17:51:17 · answer #8 · answered by Steph 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
D.C is the place to be. Although the cost of living is high as hell, the population of gays and lesbians and the clubs are the best.
2006-09-27 03:12:10 · answer #9 · answered by cutesoftdom 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Not a lesbian (duh), but would definately say NYC...Our son went to a home where two nanny's watched him and several other children...Together they made over $100k under the table (worked from 7am to about 6pm 5 days/week with 6 or 7 kids.
Great city, no one judges based on your sexual desires.
2006-09-25 17:55:39 · answer #10 · answered by Who me? 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋