Originally Posted by
Arcanum
Hawai'i. Only half-joking. The island of Kauai in particular is pretty rural; barely a small city's worth of people scattered across the whole island. Outdoor activities on Kauai are phenomenal.
Yup, expensive and I want to go on long tours eventually so living on the mainland is preferred.
Originally Posted by
California Crow
All things are relative, of course, and California in general is certainly a more expensive place to live than, say, my old midwest 'rust belt' hometown. That said, with the housing market correction/crash over the past few years, it's not nearly as bad as it used to be. Unless you've got plenty of cash, some areas, e.g. San Francisco, are still really expensive.
I've never looked. I'll need to browse CA Craigslist and ask around. I know some people who came here from CA.
Originally Posted by
mburgess86
Colorado Springs its very dry only a hand full of snow days a year and only snows about 1'' or 2'' at a time it stays around 40 in the winter and about 75 in the summer, 300 days of sun per year. Youre at the foot of the rocky mountains and its spectacular.
That definitely looks interesting. I have also been looking in that direction, by Colorado has such varying climate it seems. Although there is a guy working with us who came from Denver and he says it'd be perfect for me. The Winters are apparently brief and mild. Summers are dry, biking is great, plenty of tech companies to find a job.
How about the Front Range cities of Colorado?
On another forum in a commuting thread, All winter long CO people are always lording over the rest of us that when it snows, it lasts a day then it's 50 or 60 again. I've been there in the summer and its dry like the southwest, but cooler and more tolerable. Coming from an East Coast muggy summer, the 90°F days were actually quite refreshing--that "dry heat" and all.
You're in IT, right? Lots of IT in the area too.
Dang! mburgess86 beat me while I composing mine.
Yeah, that's what I learned from my coworker.