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Lately it seems like this region of the country has been regarded as hell in the U.S. It seems that no one moves there anymore, everybody living there WANTS to move away, and everyone who has moved hates it with a passion.
Am I the only crazy person in the entire country who still likes it and wants to move there?
What is so wrong with this part of the country that everyone wants to get away from?
I think the reason the Northeast is not so popular here on the forums is because it has high taxes, it has very dense cities (like NYC), it has a high cost of living, and some do not like the weather there.
I think that things like this get magnified on a forum like C-D because this forum is designed specifically for relocation advice. Sometimes, after perusing the individual forums here, I also get the impression that no one is going to be left in the NE or Long Island area in another ten years, then reality kicks in and I realize that those areas will always be populous, in spite of the higher COL, due to things like excellent educational opportunities, vibrant cities filled with successful people and unique employment opportunities, strong family ties, and just overall desirability for many people. Think about it--people who are staying put and are satisfied with where they live don't need to get on this forum and talk about moving, so they are the silent majority in any area. If people were really fleeing the NE in droves, the area would be showing a net loss in population (it's not) and it would be big news. Also, if you pay attention to these things, every so often you will see threads on the various northeastern states' forums where someone is unhappy after moving away and wants to come home. It doesn't surprise me, considering how little thought a lot of people seem to put into pulling up stakes and relocating their family's entire lives just to avoid having to shovel snow.
Personally, I like New England, but, being a lifelong Midwesterner, the differences are pronounced enough that I wouldn't necessarily want to live there. However, I can say that to me, it would be equally appealing as anywhere in the SE, which is also markedly different to what I'm used to, just in a different way. I enjoy both of those parts of the country, but everything is a tradeoff. You can escape cold, snowy winters, but you end up escaping to miserably hot, muggy summers. You can escape the high COL, but you end up finding bugs and alligators. As Gilda Radner used to say, "It's always something."
Last edited by canudigit; 05-01-2011 at 06:59 PM..
I think people put a general view over the NE, not realizing that cost of livong in many parts of the region is average, even when factoring in taxes. People forget about NE metros that are inland that still have enough to offer and are affordable. So, there are many people that still like living in the Northeast.
Northeastern USA is one of the most popular and well liked regions of the USA by millions of Americans and is one of the most well liked regions in the world. And it is impressive this place can do that when it has pretty lame weather for about half of the year.
I think the Western USA is the other most popular and well liked region of the USA that is liked by millions of Americans too and is one of the most well liked regions of the world.
The Midwest and South seem less popular and less liked, but there are still plenty of people that likes some areas of the South and Midwest.
Northeastern USA is one of the most popular and well liked regions of the USA by millions of Americans and is one of the most well liked regions in the world. And it is impressive this place can do that when it has pretty lame weather for about half of the year.
I think he's read one too many of those "I can't stand one more cold winter, I can't stand shoveling snow, I can't stand how high taxes are here, I'm leaving the Northeast and moving to SC, NC, GA, VA, and any other state in the SE where housing is cheaper, I'm near a beach, and I don't have to shovel snow" threads. There have been an inordinate number of them here on C-D over this past, unusually cold and snowy, winter. Expect them to dwindle as summer hits the northern half of the U.S., they always do, and are then replaced with, "I can't believe no one warned me about how many tourists there are here in XYZ beach town, or how hot and humid it gets! As soon as I can sell this #$&*#@ McMansion here in 'Redneckville', I'm heading back to where people have all of their teeth and don't marry their cousins!" (the last line is usually intended as sort of a "*********" to the Southeast that didn't turn out to be what they wanted it to be, and it almost always spurs an internet forum cat fight, and understandably so). Come next winter, wash, rinse, repeat...
I think he's read one too many of those "I can't stand one more cold winter, I can't stand shoveling snow, I can't stand how high taxes are here, I'm leaving the Northeast and moving to SC, NC, GA, VA, and any other state in the SE where housing is cheaper, I'm near a beach, and I don't have to shovel snow" threads. There have been an inordinate number of them here on C-D over this past, unusually cold and snowy, winter. Expect them to dwindle as summer hits the northern half of the U.S., they always do.
So did you agree with my post then?
That is true though that there are lots of people that complained about the winter in the Northeast for this past winter season.
While I love the Northeast(Just as much as the West), the weather does kind of suck here for half of the year. NYC had pretty bad weather this April. I swear that this April was mostly cloudy for 20 out of 30 days. And May just began, but it is still being a bit too cloudy so far. At least it is starting to get warmer and it is kind of rare for NYC to get this cloudy.
But technically that is true for areas of the Midwest, West, and even the South too with those places being able to get weather that kind of sucks for half of the year. For example, the South got like 600 tornadoes this year so far and has the highest hurricane risk in its coastal areas every year. There was this one summer like 5 years ago where Florida got hit by 3 different hurricanes in the same summer.
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