Cities You Could Live In, in States You Otherwise Couldn’t (to live, nicest)

[AshbyQuin]

Salt Lake City

Des Moines

Minneapolis-St. Paul

[KathrynAragon]

Cincinnati, OH
Tulsa, OK
Portland, Maine
Huntsville, AL

[BostonBornMassMade]

Originally Posted by KathrynAragon

Cincinnati, OH
Tulsa, OK
Portland, Maine
Huntsville, AL

I almost said Cincinnati. Then I remembered Columbus

[FL_Expert]

Flagstaff/Sedona, AZ (not 100% sure on this even)
Santa Fe, NM
Jackson, WY (only part of the year though)
Sandpoint, ID (MAYBE part of the year)
Kennebunkport, ME (possibly Bar Harbor too, not sure)
Portsmouth, NH
Atlanta/Alpharetta, GA (may not rule out Savannah, St. Simmons, but they’re hot)
Oxford, MS
Louisville, KY
Chicago, IL
Indianapolis, IN
Honolulu, HI (other cities are just too small and isolated)

[GreenWhiteBlue]

There is no reason why I would want to leave New York, but among the cities I would find tolerable are:

Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
Pittsburgh

I would never want to live anywhere in Florida, or Texas, or Arizona, or Nevada, or most of California.

[citylove101]

I might manage to be happy in

Houston (friends there), although the state of Texas is a political nightmare from my point of view
Burlington, which I found an interesting city despite having no interest whatsoever in the rest of Vermont
St. Louis has some lovely neighborhoods, though like Texas, Missouri state politics are abysmal to my way of thinking

[dontbelievehim]

Prescott AZ

Northern idaho

Johnson county, ks

Urbana-champaign

Lincoln, ne

Huntsville, Alabama

Lexington, Kentucky

[COcheesehead]

Santa Barbara
Moab
Rapid City
Lacrosse
Laramie
Portsmouth

[Tom Lennox 70]

Originally Posted by General I80

Parts of Placer and Fresno Counties in California can get really good for a rather low cost, but I don’t like California as a whole. Taxes and costs are too high.

Laie, Hawaii has pretty good employment, without the nasty commutes to Honolulu. Hawaii is pretty similar to California, in that I’d have a hard time living there.

Rural California is especially nice and actually not a complete culture shock coming from the South, but they're still subject to the liberal state government including high taxes, gun grabbing, business overregulation etc.

[Tom Lennox 70]

I would live in far southern Ohio, climactically and culturally as close to the South as you can get. Once you get to Columbus it becomes too cold and snowy.