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Location: Washington, but California born and raised
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Warm and liberal small cities are very rare, almost non existent. Warm cities tend to attract retirees, who trend conservative. I think you should look into Florida or something, there could be some liberal small cities there and it's warm. Edit: Forgot to mention New Mexico, majority Hispanic and Native American, very liberal, has small cities and is warm.
Gainesville fits the OP's criteria largely but both St Augustine and Savannah are quite conservative/red.
I wouldn't say Savannah is "quite conservative" as the city is known for being artsy, booze-friendly, and a bit eccentric. The city itself could be accurately described as leaning to the left a bit.
Hmmmm.. hadn't really considered the Chapel Hill/R/D area. Since I'm originally from NC I had mostly nixed everything except possibly Asheville. However, a lot has probably changed since I lived there and honestly I have never really spent much time in that part of the state. Something to ponder.
When did you live in NC? The Triangle has grown and gotten more urban with time. Along with Asheville it is right up your alley politically, in stark contrast to the rest of the state. Somewhere like Hillsborough, Pittsboro, or Carrboro sounds like exactly what the doctor ordered, with the funky small town feel and natural setting, but easy access to a larger city.
Fayetteville, Arkansas. I'm not liberal, but have family out there who are. They love it. We have visited and it is very nice. Tons to do, charming, and super liberal.
Here's another vote for Fayetteville, Ark. Great city. Great area, and you can definitely be in the woods somewhere and 20 minutes from Whole Foods or local co-ops (for now).
FYI it is NOT the case that I expect to live "only surrounded by like-minded people" - that would entail living in an intentional community which is definitely not my style. I just don't want to live somewhere where it's extremely difficult to find ANY like-minded people. Sure, I could find them in the limits of pretty much any city. But I am a country girl in the sense of loving nature, privacy and wide sprawls of undeveloped land, so city life is not for me. I'm just trying to bridge the gap more than what I have now - to be able to live on acreage and not be completely surrounded by ultra-conservative Trump-tooting bible-thumping gun-toting hicks with small minds. Not to offend any said 'hicks' here, but why oh why does it seem like these are the only kind of people that live in rural areas, except in Connecticut and Vermont?
Your posts remind me of the last scene in Tom Hanks movie Cast Away. The womans package that helped him through, doing sculpture in the vast country and him standing at a crossroads.
I feel like many of us are at that point right now.
Ann Arbor, MI. The only thing on your list that we don't have is probably the weather. Freezing in the winter, but besides that, it's a great place. College town, extremely progressive. Clinton won here in 2016 with 70% of the popular vote.
Maybe tourists. Trump only received 8% of the vote in Seattle and he's probably even less popular now if that's possible. Agree with others suggesting smaller towns in southern Florida.
Carrboro, Pittsboro or Hillsborough, NC. Jerome or Bisbee, Arizona. Small towns, dry, but not as other parts of Arizona.
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