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Probably Missoula, seems like a great area to live if you can make a living there.
Buttonwillow, California or Fruitport, Michigan?
Wow... I never thought Buttonwillow would appear in this thread.
There is indeed a Buttonwillow CA... and probably 98% of those who know about it,
know it as a stop along I-5 in the southern San Joaquin Valley, due west of Bakersfield.
And it is worth a stop, because there's a great little Mexican / Salvadoran restaurant there
(Tita's Pupuseria), one of the few places to find good food along that stretch of road
-- ironic, since so much food is grown in the Valley.
But there is an actual town there too... a few miles to the west of I-5.
I've never been there, only looked at it on Streetview... where it looks rather dusty and bleak.
And with a population of only ~1,500 (per Wikipedia), there's probably very little to do there either.
By comparison, Fruitport is a veritable metropolis, home to over 12,000.
And it looks quite attractive on Streetview also.... very woodsy.
So as a place to live, Fruitport, I suppose.... wouldn't like the winters, though.
Wow... I never thought Buttonwillow would appear in this thread.
There is indeed a Buttonwillow CA... and probably 98% of those who know about it,
know it as a stop along I-5 in the southern San Joaquin Valley, due west of Bakersfield.
And it is worth a stop, because there's a great little Mexican / Salvadoran restaurant there
(Tita's Pupuseria), one of the few places to find good food along that stretch of road
-- ironic, since so much food is grown in the Valley.
But there is an actual town there too... a few miles to the west of I-5.
I've never been there, only looked at it on Streetview... where it looks rather dusty and bleak.
And with a population of only ~1,500 (per Wikipedia), there's probably very little to do there either.
By comparison, Fruitport is a veritable metropolis, home to over 12,000.
And it looks quite attractive on Streetview also.... very woodsy.
So as a place to live, Fruitport, I suppose.... wouldn't like the winters, though.
Santa Fe, NM or Boulder, CO?
Santa Fe, since to me the cost of living in Boulder is too high.
Calcutta. Not as isolated. Lima OH or Longview TX?
Longview... I'm not too familiar with east Texas compared to Ohio but I know that Lima is very unimpressive (for Ohio standards) and 1-1.5 hours away from anywhere of significance. I'll take my chances in Longview where the metro area is twice as large and the weather is warmer year-round. Being 2 hours from Dallas isn't all that bad either for airport access and periodic visits.
Ocean Springs is in a decent sized metro area, whereas Harbor Beach is a long way to Bay City.
Savannah, Georgia or New Orleans, Louisiana?
New Orleans has a worser crime problem from stats I've read, so I'd go with Savannah. And as I remember seeing from stats and looking at historical hurricane landfall maps), that inward coastal bend of the Atlantic (from northern Florida to about southern South Carolina) does have a slightly lower risk of hurricanes, which is nice. To me NO is better to visit, than live in.
New Orleans has a worser crime problem from stats I've read, so I'd go with Savannah. And as I remember seeing from stats and looking at historical hurricane landfall maps), that inward coastal bend of the Atlantic (from northern Florida to about southern South Carolina) does have a slightly lower risk of hurricanes, which is nice. To me NO is better to visit, than live in.
Georgetown, SC, or Brunswick, GA?
Brunswick seems cool and not far from Savannah. Valdosta GA or Lake City FL?
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