If $ wasn't a issue , which state is your ideal state to live in America?

Not sure, because I haven't been to them all, but the states that intrigue me the most are Oregon, Hawaii, Maine, Washington, Colorado, New Mexico. and Vermont.

 

If money was not an issue, I would have houses in several states.

Summer house in Maine or Oregon.
Ski house in Vail or Aspen.
Hawaii house for the other times.

 

Can we say Adelaide, Australia?

Cali is very close to Colorado. I'm getting very close to buying a place in Breck, but my sister's place in Monterey might be better, except for the damn fog. It's every freaking day.

I live in Boulder and want to move back to Houston. Family and Friends and Rockets

It's about the people, people.

All that said....I'll say, personally I like small towns. Small town Texas where half my siblings were born and I was conceived or small town Illinois where I was born and raised to live and breath basketball.

 

Detroit

 

New York, NY.

 

I'd go New York first, Texas 2nd, CA 3rd for now but looking for replacement. I wasnt too impressed with Florida, hit and miss with Georgia. I actually liked my time in small town Missouri and Arkansas many years back.

I'm in California. The problem with it (myself included) is the transplant out of staters who think being here makes them "better" than what they really are as though residence gives them license to be self absorbed. And too much rockabilly alt-style inked up crazy chicks and dudebros for my liking. Too caught up in its own hype. People seem to assimilate into Houston better even though it has many transplants too

It can be simplistic to say a whole state because theres different regions in a state. Northern Cal does things different than Southern Cal to where theyve wanted to be their own state.

Lots of people in CA relocate to Idaho, supposedly and under the radar state

 

It's not money, it's where my friends/family/interests are. If you throw all that out, I'd pick southern California. Newport Beach, Huntington Beach or Venice areas. Hawaii would be pick number two but it's too isolated.

 

Aspen Glen (summer golf, winter ski, legal weed) Aspen CO

my friends and family are always welcome to stay in the guest house(s)

but I'd be fine in
Jackson Hole WY
Beaverton OR
Sunriver, OR
Santa Barbara CA
Princeville Kauai HI

 

Ditto.

 

Califonia. A state where you can do pretty much anything outdoors. Ski in the north, surf in the south, smell farts in the bay.

 

I'm going Oct 4th-10th to drive around the Aspen colors! Will probably be in Aspen on the 5th and 6th to hike through them.

For those who don't know, Aspen groves are one organism, like the movie Avatar. 1000s of trees connected together via a root system. They change color all together....all at once.

In fact, the largest living single organism on land in the entire World is the Aspen, CO aspen grove.

 

A warm weather location is really tempting, and probably where I'd end up...but, I am very partial to Washington, DC/Northern VA.

 

This is so true.

I am loving Cali but I might vote Oregon. I have no idea why but I've always idolized it and then had some happy years there, rain and all.

 

If money wasn't an issue, I would live in different states every month.

 

California would win, if I could make everybody currently living in that state disappear. The weather is the best; the landscape is the most beautiful. But the people and the culture...ugh. I saw a woman in the clinic the other day presenting with vague GI complaints everywhere. She had just flown in from Los Angeles and was so confused because, "all my chakras are in order." And she is a lot better than the dude from San Francisco who needs to reinvent all his paradigms.

Seriously the amount of narcissism seeping out from Californians is disgusting and completely ruins what would otherwise be one of the best places in the world to live in.

 

I would live on a boat, sailing the Great Loop of the Eastern seaboard year round:

starting in FL, sail up the Intracoastal Waterway, into the New York Harbor past the Statue of Liberty (or into the Chesapeake Bay depending on my mood), up the Hudson River Valley, over the historic Erie Canal, right past The Niagara Falls into the Great Lakes, right into the heart of downtown Chicago, and down the Mighty Mississippi River past New Orleans into the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

I already chose to live in California and it is paradise.

I live and work amongst normal people so the stereotypes, simply don't fit.

 

Washington State and it isn't even close. Mountains, Pacific Ocean, wine, skiing, outdoors, and forward thinking people. Only 6 more years...