Most outdoorsy, progressive, artsy small cities in the USA

[WildWestDude]

Originally Posted by midwest1

Gary is like any other city, some safe areas and some unsafe. The Miller Beach section of Gary, in addition to being surrounded by a National Park, borders a giant steel mill and two major interstates that separate it from the rest of the city and is like ten miles away from the most violent neighborhoods in the city, like from Lincoln Park to Lawndale in Chicago.

But in general, yes the crime rate has trended lower over the last ten years.

Gary is a *hithole. Can't uptalk such a place.

[pumbaa]

Sante Fe?

[cherylsass123]

Mendocino or Carpinteria California. However, they are also expensive when it comes to cost of living.( actually, there are many homeless people all over the West Coast. Mendocino being one of the places, the small city of Chico, California, and yes, Eugene, Oregon being a few others.) Otherwise I'd have to recommend Vermont, or maybe Connecticut in the smaller towns toward the Northwest and Northeast part of the state.

[cherylsass123]

That or Dryden, NY or maybe Punxsutawney, PA ( the latter being moderate)

[cherylsass123]

Chico, CA and Arcata, CA both being places where people hang out and smoke weed on the Green.

[ckhthankgod]

Originally Posted by cherylsass123

That or Dryden, NY or maybe Punxsutawney, PA ( the latter being moderate)

Dryden wouldn't be bad in terms of small towns outside of Ithaca. I'd say that Trumansburg may be a better choice in that regard. Perhaps Newfield, as well as Groton could work too.

[MrJester]

Laguna Beach, CA. It's a suburb of Los Angeles but feels like a small town as it's got less than 25,000 people and is kind of isolated from the rest of Orange County by lots of hills. Despite being in politically moderate Orange County it itself is solidly Democratic.