Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
Already did my experimentation. 12 years in Dallas. Living there gave me a better appreciation for how good I had it in Colorado.
Wow 12 years. Yeah I am looking to leave at the two year mark.
I get to experiment and live in Lakewood, Colorado (Denver metro) for six weeks starting next week.
Got a call Monday to work in Boston for 13 weeks starting next month. No thank you, the weather stinks.
Philadelphia.
Seattle.
Honolulu to get a Hawaiian guy.
I could just become a travel nurse full time and do it all.
In the United States, Mexico, and Canada, by writing the city name what I really mean is the entire metropolitan area as a whole that the city is in:
- Miami
- New York
- San Diego-Tijuana
- Honolulu
- Vancouver
- Tucson
- Denver
- Seattle
- Austin
- Portland (the Oregon one)
- New Orleans
- Las Vegas
- San Antonio
- Salt Lake City
- Victoria (Canada)
- Santa Barbara (California)
- Monterey Bay Area (California)
- San Luis Obispo (California)
- Sedona (Arizona)
- Flagstaff (Arizona)
- Madison (Wisconsin)
- Ashland (Oregon)
- Aspen (Colorado)
- Vail (Colorado)
- Halifax (Canada)
- Anchorage (Alaska)
- Santa Fe (New Mexico)
- Tampa Bay Area
- Phoenix
- Albuquerque
- El Paso-Las Cruces
- South Padre Island (Texas)
- Colorado Springs
- Calgary
- Montreal
- Cancun
- Cozumel
- Sacramento
- Richmond (Virginia)
- Detroit (primarily the suburbs near Ann Arbor but Greater Detroit nonetheless)
^ This is not in any particular order except for maybe the first 10 or so. Also these cities are personal preferences, as in the places that I wouldn't mind living in if push came to shove.
- Chicago
- Dallas
- Houston
- Los Angeles
- San Francisco Bay Area
- Washington D.C.
^^ These cities are only on the list because I have friends, family, and familiarity (or as I call it "the F3") in them, so making a potential living scenario there possible. I want to make one thing clear though about these cities, I wouldn't live in them if I didn't have people I care for in them or if I weren't already familiar with most of these places. Not at all, very little about them interest me from a living point of view, other than having people I know in them. People close to me. That makes it special, but the cities by themselves, the hell friggin' no. Never. I wanted to make a second list to separate these "conditional" cities from the first list of cities that I actually do like.
Last edited by Trafalgar Law; 11-05-2015 at 08:07 AM..
Currently live in Indianapolis, and have lived in the Cincinnati metro area, so I'm excluding them for the purposes of this list. I love them both for different things, but I definitely have a short list of places I'd consider. They include: New Orleans, Portland (Maine), Milwaukee, Baltimore, Providence, Pittsburgh, and based strictly on watching the Goonies and doing no additional research, Astoria, Oregon.
Dallas was a huge disappointment for me too. Lasted there 2 years too long.
Dallas gets NO love on these boards, even though it anchors the 4th largest metro in the U.S. Why is that?
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
