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Moving Anonymous
Hi, my fiance and I are thinking of moving after we get married and would like to know a good place to move to.

We live in the shithole of Laredo, Tx -- a 110 degree frying pan in southern border of ... well... Texas. I lived in Houston for 26 years but she doesn't want to move there. I agree with her since I wasn't all too happy with the constant assault of hurricanes and thunderstorms.

So my question is where's a good place to go to? California might seem nice if it wasn't for the possible advent of earthquakes. New York might be nice but I'm not too sure if we'd like anything below 60 degree temperatures (which knocks our selections down to the lower half of the US). Florida sounds pleasant although we're not fans of thunderstorms and hurricanes. It just seems that no matter where you want to go in the US there's something wrong with that state. So are there any... calm states? Where everything is on "average" as compared to the extremes of New York, California, Florida, Louisiana, Arizona, and other such states?
>> Anonymous
Don't worry about earthquakes in California. They aren't that frequent and when they do occur, they're relatively minor.
>> Anonymous
If you can stand the fact that its a rightwing cesspool, Oklahoma is a very cheap place to live. Tornado season isn't all that bad really with global warming pushing them north lately.
>> Anonymous
if you move to Kommiefornia, go north and stay away from LA
>> Anonymous
haha earthquakes in CA. the natural disasters you have to worry about in CA are floods and fires not earthquakes.

the weather in SF, LA, and San Diego is pretty nice year-round. The inland can be pretty hot, especially in so cal, but it's a very dry heat and not humid at all. you might be more interested in the suburbs outside the major cities like san jose and orange county. expect houston-like traffic (or worse).

outside of california, oregon and washington are "calm" states if you don't mind the middle of nowhere feeling. arizona and nevada are also nice if you don't mind the dry heat again. of course, the climate/weather would be similar to the panhandle of texas with less tornados.
>> Anonymous
>>62333
Wow, guess they DO let anyone on this site.

Anyway, if you don't mind biblical traffic and smog issues, you'll enjoy the city of the angels just fine.
>> Anonymous
Why are Americans so afraid of moving to another country? Goddamn all the answers in this thread have been to move to a different area within the same fucking country.
>> Anonymous
>>62444

Our country is nice and big. We don't need to move to another country, actually, it would be more expensive to do so. Also, eat a dick.
>> Anonymous
>>62444
it's fucking difficult to move to another country
and we have so much shit here, why bother?
>> Anonymous
Move to Toronto. No Mexicans, no crime, no natural disasters.
>> Anonymous
>>62480
>DO NOT WANT temp.s lower than 60 Fahrenheit
>Toronto

WUT
>> Anonymous
>>62444
First of all, it's a large country, with plenty of options to be explored without the bullshit processes of expatriation, like needing money, learning new languages, or applying for extended stay or naturalization visas. Secondly, the question posed was about moving WITHIN THE U.S. Learn to read, stupid.
>> Anonymous
OP, you're an idiot. You're going to have to get used to the foibles of some place, and you're being too picky if you thing that mercury drops below 60 degrees equals "something wrong". If you want to move away from earthquakes, hurricanes, floods, fires, and tornadoes, then move north, and get used to snow.
>> Anonymous
New York has no extreme weather. We have blizzards, and rarely, Nor'Easters. In either case the only people who every die in them are old people and idiots and the most inconvinience you'll ever suffer is having to shovel out your driveway and/or an excuse to stay home from work.

The wikipedia article on NYS has climate tables for the state; half of the year is below 60 degrees. Apparently here in Albany January is coldest with Average temperatures of 13-34 Farenheit, but that doesn't account for the wind chill here upstate whenever high pressure moves in, which is fucking murder. Like your head is being crushed in a vice grip the moment you step out your door. It alternates from week to week from being painfully cold and dry to overcast, miserable, and damp. It's beautiful when it snows but winter here is ugly, frigid or lukewarm and muddy otherwise. The worst is in January or February. Spring starts out muddy and cool and lapses in to summer pretty quickly, summers hang around 75 or 80 but occasionally get humid. Fall is great; it's cool, dry, cloudy and windy for weeks on end. 40 to 50 degrees is not uncomfortable in any sense.

Basically it's about three months a year everyone is miserable about the weather. Other than that it's pretty mild here, and we have no real lethal or destructive weather.
>> Anonymous
>>62549

New York City is in a completely different climate than Upstate.

Last year it snowed twice, and each time it melted the very next day. In the summer, it rarely gets above 95, and only generally stays gross for a few days before a storm or cold front comes along and moves it right out to sea. The Spring starts early here - March, and Fall doesn't really start until the end of Oct/Nov. Last year the leaves on the tree in my back yard didn't drop until the first week of December.