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Anonymous
I'm here with a simple question /trv/.

I live in USA, NJ to be specific, and my family is about to move and I need some help with the destination. They've told me we can move anywhere (within the US) if I can find a good house (under 300k) and neighborhood.

Any help would be great!
>> Anonymous
Northeast Tennessee is a great place to live, if you can stand the lack of such things as 24 hour Chinese food.
>> Anonymous
NJ Fag too? Come to Camden! It's great! ^-^
>> Anonymous
>>1164
Depending on where exactly you live, NJ is one of the most expensive places in the US to live - High taxes, high property taxes, tolls, etc.
If your family could afford to live in NJ, then outside of Northeastern US, California, and Hawaii you/your family can afford to live anywhere in the US.
>> Anonymous
if you're looking to save money stay away from the cities.

maybe something like rural PA?
>> Anonymous
>>1187
No, Camden is awful. Get out.
Actually, stay in Camden, enjoy your fail.

I'll be enjoying NYC if you need me.
>> Anonymous
Oh, money isn't a problem, we moved to the area we are in now for family...but then they all died (because they were old) and we're going to move somewhere else.

I was hoping to at least be within driving distance of a big city or something worthwhile. You know, somewhere that I could go to at all hours of the day and night and have something to do.
>> Anonymous
move to AZ we got niggers and beaners and houses start at 1500
>> Anonymous
Quad Cities are just a few hours from Chicago. No idea what house prices are like though. Bonus: you get to make fun of Iowans just across the border.
>> Anonymous
I always heard Chicago was cool.

Like I said, just looking for some place that would be ideal for me. Alright, a good example would be NYC in Spiderman, where Peter lived in a night little community/neighborhod and was only a busride/short car ride from the city where he could do whatever he wanted.

Which I think is what the Anon under me was talking about.
>>1746
>> Anonymous
>>1746
Quad Cities is pretty cool. I spent most of my childhood in Moline. It felt like a pretty safe place, and it wasn't too small.
>> Anonymous
>>1952

I have a rich great-aunt who lives very close to Miami, but I've been to Florida many times and I don't really like it. At all.

What about anything in California? I never heard anything about Orange County besides the movie...what about Seattle?

Like I said, I'm trying to be near big cities for the purpose of something to do.
>> Anonymous
>>1858
I spent a while in chicago. I can tell you right now, it's cool when you first get there but the novelty wears off in like a week. also, EVERYONE is convinced you have change that you want to part with.
>> Anonymous
Just wondering... If your family is moving but doesn't know where, then why are you moving? Does your family just want to get out of New Jersey?
>> Anonymous
>>1962

I read up on Quad Cities, I really...really don't want to be on the verge of redneck territory (from what I've read about it), unless someone can inform me otherwise.
>> Anonymous
>>1974
No, they just want to move into a new house because buy selling this one we pay off the mortgage and would pretty much own the next house we get right off the bat. There's nothing really left for us in New Jersey either, to tell the truth, I have few friends that are still here (we moved a lot around New Jersey too in the past 10 years). Jobs suck here, people are worse (especially since our entire economy in South Jersey is based on tourism), and we're just (me mostly) looking to get away.

>>1971
What do you mean?
>> Anonymous
>>1987

Well, the first thing I saw was a big picture called "John Deere Pavilion" for one of the cities and face-palmed.

But I am kind of jumpy with assumptions, which is why I asked first.
>> Anonymous
>>1989
So everyone's willing to just give up their jobs and start fresh?
>> Anonymous
>>1997

My mom works at a Catholic school as a librarian, teacher's aid, and subsitute teacher and my dad works in Atlantic City at the Taj Mahal doing maintenance-type work (all types of stuff) and it's about a two-hour drive (little over an hour if he goes fast enough) and he's sick of doing that.

So, they don't really lose much and they're willing to find new ones when we get there.
>> Anonymous
>>1965

Orange county generally sucks. You'd be living in a nicer part, but I much prefer Northern California. I live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and honestly, its great. No matter where you live, you have all the necessary stores/malls/etc very close, and then if you want a change, you can drive to San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Monterey, etc. The main problem around here, like most major metropolitan areas, is traffic. About three to four hours a weekday(two in the morning and two in the evening), its almost impossible to get anywhere quickly because nearly everyone commutes to work.
>> Anonymous
>>2013

Oh, and then there's the weather. Its a few hour drive to places where you can ski, but around here it is never winter, and summer doesn't get too hot (depends on where you are in the valley, actually). Today its 51 degrees outside, but we're in the middle of a winter storm (meaning it is sprinkling rain here), but yesterday it was in the mid sixties, and that's generally how it was all winter. Palm trees at Christmas.
>> Anonymous
>>2013
>>2020
Not OP, but I heard California's pretty expensive to live in. Is it true?
>> Anonymous
>>1164

Annandale, VA? Koreatown close to DC. House prices are falling like shit.
>> Anonymous
>>2027
Suburbs? City? Where?
>> Anonymous
>>2020
>>2013

That actually sounds amazing. So, if I were to be looking for houses in the area, what would I want to be searching under, just San Fran.?
>> Anonymous
>>2033

I don't care for the area around DC too much. My friend used to go down there once or twice a year to visit his family and I'd tag along for the fun of it, but I never saw anything that I really liked.
>> Anonymous
Lawrence Kansas
>> Anonymous
>>2063

More info?
>> Anonymous
>>2027
>>2040

You know, actually, it isn't as expensive as people say it is. There are expensive and inexpensive places, but overall, things cost about as much here as they do anywhere else. The cost of living is higher, but the average income is also higher, even for unskilled labor, so it balances out.
>> Anonymous
>>2040

Oh, sorry to not respond to this one. Don't look for houses in San Francisco, probably. If anything, apartments there are best. I could start telling you about all the different neighborhoods and their advantages and all, but honestly its less expensive to live in places like San Jose, Campbell, etc, which are only half an hour of scenic driving away from San Francisco. Most of the Bay Area is fair game, pretty much. You have to realize that its really quite a populous area. San Francisco feels like a big city, but it really isn't very large, and there isn't much space for housing. The rest of the valley is very spread out, but there are something like 10 million people living in the area, total. Doesn't seem like it when you're here, though.
>> Anonymous
>>2113

Apparently its 7.2 million as of 2006.

To quote wikipedia about living costs:

"The San Francisco Bay Area is one of the wealthiest regions in the United States. According to the United States Census Bureau, of the 280 defined metropolitan areas, the San Francisco Bay Area has the highest median household income in the nation with $62,024 in the year 2000. The Census Bureau also released data in August 2006 citing San José as having the second highest median household income among large cities. Among medium-sized cities, Pleasanton has the highest household income in the country, and Livermore the third highest. Nevertheless, disposable income is very comparable with the rest of the country, mostly because increased cost of living offsets increased income."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_area