Hmmm. Los Angeles, car capitol of the world, weather today - 88 degrees, slight wind, clear skies....best looking women in the world....cruises every day of the week, the GNRS, Petersen Auto Museum, NHRA Museum, more rods and customs per square mile...ben al over the country, couldn't pry me out of here with a large bar and money. Come on over....
I vote Texas. You sure won't see all four seasons, but you get the best ones. Everybody really is friendly. The state itself is fully self-sufficient. Texas will love you when you arrive and love you after you're gone....I hate winter....and most of Indiana!
You can buy a newer house in the area for around 100K if you look around. 2000 sf in Queen Creek, new house..........125K
Been in Dallas area since 1975 lived a lot of other places best cost of living,job,weather,Lots of machine shop work compared to other places. But job site is tough all over. welcome to texas anyway
Another sunshiny, 85F day in LA, 9PM and it's still 64F. I've gotta have the house wide open trying to cool it down without turning on air conditioner Can't work in garage, it's too hot Can't go swimming because pool is only 68 degrees But then again, there was that earthquake the other day Any place your gonna live is gonna have it's good points and it's bad. It's just a matter of what you will put up with for what you want. Ergo, I'll put up with the weather because I like my job.
Well the low for the rest of the is going gto 14-17 with a windchill factor of zero so its not to warm down here. I might think of moving futher south of here.
Oh hey, move here to southeast Michigan! Cheap housing (many foreclosures), excellent job opportunities (bring your own cardboard "will work for food" sign - there's tons of great freeway ramp locations still available!), and ideal weather - 8 below zero as I'm typing, and snow plowed up high enough to nearly cover the project cars sitting out back. What could be better?
Front page photo in the local San Diego newspaper today is a group of folks playing volleyball at the beach here yesterday. It was 80 degrees here and beautifully sunny. Supposed to be the same today.
I've visited alot of the US. If I had no real ties and could get a job anywhere, I think I'd still choose NC. We have all four seasons somewhere in the state. The eastern half has a mild winter and a (relatively) hot, humid summer. Out "west", the summers are a little milder, but you get more of a winter. Here in the east, I "can" ride my motorcycle year-round, but I'm willing to ride (a short commute) in temps down to 30F. So theres probably 20 days a year I won't ride due to temp. Rain is another thing entirtely. If you choose the central part of the state (which is where you would probably find the best job opportunities) your only 3 hours from the mountains and beach. Wilmington, Fayetteville, Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, Winston-salem, High Point, Charlotte, Asheville are the major cities with opportunities, with Raleigh and Charlotte being the biggest, and probably having the best car scene. Just my .02 worth.
today it's 19 with a 45 mph wind, got over 30 in of snow so far. fri will have a high of 5. i have a 30 lb. jug of r12 if i let it go will it worm things up.
Yuma is ok. Its less than 3 hours from Phoenix, 2 and a half from San Diego, a small city that has most everything you would want. Not that much bad crime except for maybe drugs and theft type stuff. The high here this week around 74 degrees.
Can't go wrong with Portland, Oregon. Winter means drizzle rain (this year was an exception) and dry, beautiful Summers, the best. One of the most beautiful cities in the world, great beer, good food, great fishing and hunting, the Pacific Ocean is an hour and a half away, same with Mt. Hood and skiing, or a few hours to the high desert. Great swap meet twice a year, no salt on the roads to eat up old tin. No sales tax, but no pumping your own gas!
Mason City Iowa is out. For everybody that knocks the South I must say that I've never heard of anybody retiring and moving North! I'm also looking to move South. Until them does anybody sell a nitros kit for a 5 hp Briggs and Straton snowblower engine? We've had almost 30 inches so far this season.
If not for the crappy winters, I'd love it here in SW Ohio. We're three hours or less from three of the nation's biggest shows and dozens of other smaller events. But I'm with those who want to spend their time driving their cars more then the time spent wishing about it. My wife and I talked about it last night and we decided that if we ever move, Austin is the top of the list of places to look. The food, the weather and the title of Live Music Capitol of the World... sign me up.
Sure everybody bitches about winter up north, but what temp is it in Yuma on July 4th? I don't know anywhere in the US where it's 70's all year long. I grew up with outside all summer. I lived in Phoenix for a year and almost melted. Had to stay inside during the longest daylight months of the year. Suck it up a little bit for a few months and enjoy the white Christmas' we have and enjoy the summers outside.
New York sucks a huge donkey dick!!! It's friggin below zero this morning. My 34 is shedded up for months. The 41 coupe is under constuction but my shop is colder than a witches tit. I can't work on it anyway cause I'm too busy plowing snow. The friggin government here taxes everything including beer farts. I've had enough of this crap. I retire in a year and I'm getting uota here for the winter. Of course, we don't have floods, earthquakes, tornados, hurricanes, tidal waves, massive brush fires but, I'll take my chances
San Diego's claim to fame is the country's most average climate at 75 average all year. That's pretty damn close to 'the 70's all year long'. I've lived in Iowa, grew up there in Lisbon; spent a fair amount of time in So cal too. If I could afford the house, I'd already be in So Cal. and will seriously consider Austin next. 'Course with the housing market in So Cal lately, prices might fall into line faster then one might expect...
Where I live in Vista (North San Diego), it's called a "climatic wonderland" because we have more days of 72 degrees than anywhere else on the planet.
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