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Exactly ^^^ the type of contemporary precedent I am trying to 'escape'.
No military towns. Not my bag, but the rest of the suggestions are all solid, and if anyone else has anything to add, I'm absorbing all of the different perspectives, and everyone's been really helpful. .
Please do not post in here if you are not genuinely trying to help me find a location that suits me. I'm not interested in the blight of political correctness mucking up a well-meaning and productive stream of feedback.
The changes I witnessed in Portland over the years were sad for me to observe but people who are there now like it so they are in the driver's seat now. I am glad I experienced the city in the decades when it was really unique, interesting and unpretentious at a time when the word "trendy" was not yet been even invented.
I don't know about the smaller western cities that have been suggested although I have heard some like Boise and Salt Lake City might sound like what you are looking for. I am partial to the Midwest though.
There are some online tests you can take where you plug in your likes and dislikes in a city and that can lead you to places you might like. I remember a long time ago using a website called "Find Your Spot" before Cleveland was even on my radar but Cleveland was one of the top picks it made for me. Turns out it was correct. Who knew?
So true. I only wish I was there to have seen the city before it turned into a hollowed-out, meaningless, Californian vestige of trendy, snobby superiority.
Definitely. I bet Wanderlust Wisdom would just love the Twin Cities, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, or Detroit.
In all honesty, try these cities:
Smaller cities:
Billings, MT
Colorado Springs, CO
Oklahoma City, OK
Wichita, KS
Tallahassee, FL
Greenville, SC
Charleston, WV
Evansville, IN
Jacksonville, FL
Lafayette, LA
Anchorage, AK
Not-so-smaller cities:
Phoenix, AZ
Very cohesive list and much obliged li'l lady. -tips hat-
New Orleans has its share of Californian encroachers from what I've heard as of late. And Baton Rouge I've been through and enjoyed, but I want to avoid college towns as they tend to run a bit young in their social strata for my more mature tastes.
Every city is going to have some measure of diversity, It doesn't seem like the OP talking from a racial component so much as an Ideological one.
Right on the money, and precisely why I'm not so much as acknowledging any of the sh&#-stirrers who want to try to angle this a certain way and demonize my personal preferences and what feels right for me.
Perhaps Interior Northeastern cities may work. Another small Upstate NY city I thought of that may work is Auburn. It still has your ethnic clubs, with a nice, walkable Downtown. It is on/near a Finger Lake and is pretty laid back. https://www.google.com/maps/@42.9317...onLab36Elg!2e0
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