If you could move your family anywhere, where would you live and why?

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Irishmom2 said:
Lived on Long Island for the first 35 years of life. Some of our family is still there. We visit there at least once a year, and on the Belt Parkway, at some point because of the traffic, one of us always says “why does anyone live here??” We enjoy our time there because we know it. It’s familiar. It has pizza. Bagels. Beaches. Attitude. But could we ever move back there? Only if we won Powerball! 😃

After NY, we lived in North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and now Maryland. We are looking to move in a few years if my husband retires, but we aren’t sure where we will want to go yet. Can’t take heat, sick of snow, lol! 🙂
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Uh oh. It’s got to be the West Coast, then.
 
Irishmom2 said:
Really? I would never have thought that. Where do you think?
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The only reason I mention it is because it fits both your heat and snow restrictions–which is very hard to do.

I don’t have a lot of exact suggestions, but Sequim WA is a prosperous retirement town.
 
Xantippe said:
The only reason I mention it is because it fits both your heat and snow restrictions–which is very hard to do.

I don’t have a lot of exact suggestions, but Sequim WA is a prosperous retirement town.
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Hmmm, will have to check it out. But my kids are thinking maybe NC. So that’s where we would most likely go too. 😉
 
lax16 said:
This is so interesting!! What is Camp Hosting? Do you teach others how to can and make jam?

If you are camping in a tent, do you use the showers at a nearby facility? (I have only been RV camping).

You are one amazing lady! 🙂

(yes, this is a great thread! 👍)
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Camp Hosting is a great program that is gaining popularity throughout the U.S. Our job is to meet and greet campers, offer help with set up, let them know about stuff in the area, have some things to do with kids, et cetera. We have amazing crafts for kids, a nature scavenger hunt among other things. We host a coffee hour twice a week where we offer coffee, tea, hot chocolate, punch and I also make Native American fried bread.

We host a campfire at least once a week, with a sing along and teach the attendees how to make Campfire Fudge.

I love my Made in Michigan program. I get all kinds of food items that are made here and put on a program discussing the neat stuff that you can do with all the neat stuff. : ) I have a small raffle afterward and the prize is a swell package of Michigan made products.

The weekend closest to August 9 is a boatload of fun. That’s when we celebrate Smokey Bears birthday. We have cake, games and prizes. Everyone gets a Smokey Bear DVD.

We have reports to do and no, we don’t have to clean the johns, but we do check them regularly for TP and stuff. If there are emergencies, people come to us.

We get a small stipend per month to buy coffee, craft supplies, etc cetera.

We love it! This will be our fifth year hosting. Yes, we have showers, but Michigan, being the “Great Lake State”, there is always a lake nearby… tee hee.

I could go on, but typing on a Kindle isn’t easy!

May our Lord bless your evening and have a peaceful night.
 
PolarGuy said:
CFmathews, here’s one: Israel, or New Jersey?

Which has more religious significance?
-but-
Which has more 24-hour diners?

I mean, getting breakfast at 1am with baklava for dessert might be a religious experience to some, but that’s another debate… 🙂
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Israel has the religious significance AND better food! The chocolate blintzes in Israel blow away the whole state of New Jersey! I’ve never tasted anything like them in the states. Good business opportunity. Someone should do it.

Anyway, I like you, PolarGuy…let’s be friends!
 
Texas and Texas.
Part of my heart is still there…so wonderful persons and such a beautiful life.
Bless your land!
 
I have been to texas and I like it, but it’s so big it’s like 20 different places. The gulf coast is different than dallas, which is different than San Antonio, which is unlike hill country.

One of my favorite texas stories: buddy holly was from Lubbock. “The buddy holly story” had a scene where buddy was getting off a bus in Lubbock. When the film was shown in Lubbock, the crowd began laughing because the film showed mountains in the background. Lubbock is flat cotton fields for miles in all directions.
 
PolarGuy said:
If cost were absolutely no object, to the point where I didn’t have to work, I’d spend a lot of time in the adirondack mountains of New York.

What the Adirondacks have that, say, the Rockies do not, is a whole slew of magnificent, deep blue lakes so clean that many homes are watered with unfiltered lake water. On an august day, when, say, Lake George has been baking all summer and the water is like 70 degrees, there is no more beautiful spot on planet earth than right there, floating in the lake. It is heaven, come down and kiss the face of earth.

(It was also minus 15 degrees there 2 weeks ago). If cost were no object, I’m going somewhere warm in the winter.
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👍 Me too. I’m originally from upstate NY in the Adironacks. I’m still an upstater at heart. It is indeed God’s country up there. I miss the little villages & hamlets. Now I live in the Southern most county in the state & the most suburban borough of NYC. Still wouldn’t move from the Northeast, love the change of seasons.
 
ChristianDude said:
In New York City, perhaps Manhattan or Staten Island, because I am really interested in New York City and when I visited my sister I liked it. I like the big city environment (at least as far as I’ve experienced) and I like the idea of living in one of the major cities in the world. I also like the Northeastern United States in general. Maybe my feelings will change later on as I get older, but as of now I would like to live in NYC.
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I’ve lived in Manhattan, Staten Island and Queens. Staten Island didn’t do much for me. But there is no place like Manhattan. It was an awesome experience for me in my early 20’s after leaving home for the first time. But it is not for the faint-hearted. Some parts of Queens and Brooklyn are very nice. Forest HIlls, Queens is great. I’m not familiar with the Bronx. Good luck if you come to NYC!
 
On an autumn day when the Adirondacks turn every color of the rainbow, it is proof positive that God exists.
 
I agree this is a great thread! I was born in NC, so I would move back there in a heartbeat.
I spend lots of time at the coast, I love being on the water. I love everything about it, the longer hot summers, even the humidity, walking outside in the morning and hearing the sound of the waves, and especially the squalls that come up with the wind and rain. Everybody is on “beach time” and life is just slower there. Then let’s not forget the food!
The fresh seafood, shrimp, and flounder. We get together as a family over the Fourth of July and just spend our days playing on the beach. Life is good at the beach.
As a side note, I’ve lived in the high desert, and I came to love the rugged beauty the desert has. I couldn’t live there again, but the desert has a beauty all its own. We were lucky enough to plan a trip to the high desert and it had rained there. The desert had come into bloom and was actually green. It was absolutely gorgeous. We could not believe our eyes, after living in all brown desert for four years, it was stunning.
 
Irishmom2 said:
Hmmm, will have to check it out. But my kids are thinking maybe NC. So that’s where we would most likely go too. 😉
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Asheville NC maybe? A bit too touristy though.

For me, my dream city would be Portland Oregon.

A bit liberal but I will more likely fit in there as a single, childless woman than in a more conservative place with a lot of homeschooling SAHM. Nothing against them but understandably they prefer to stick with other homeschooling families.
 
The West Cost talk reminded me that I also love Napa Valley. Apparently I only want to live in extremely high cost areas.

I want to live on a vineyard with a successful but not overly successful winery. I also want to have a garden where I grow delicious things and cook them in my kitchen overlooking the vineyard. I want to have parties with local friends where we eat all the delicious food I make on rustic wooden tables in my backyard and the perfectly behaved children play with the dogs and run around in pressed white clothing.
 
At this time of the year,:winter: I want to live someplace warm and sunny, so a large beach house in either California or Florida that can fit all my family (plus guests) sounds particularly inviting. :tanning:

When you wrote “anywhere” does that include a large mansion on the beach that’s fully paid for? 😃 Just living someplace warm isn’t enough; I want to be able to* afford * an enjoyable life once we get there. Part of that equation to an “enjoyable life” involves living by family and where my children can also afford to live there as grown-ups with families of their own. I want somewhere that has affordable housing, good job opportunities, safe neighborhoods, big yards, good educational choices, and such. We’re trying to figure out where exactly all that might be found.

Except for the ocean beach, warmth and sun, we have most of the things I want in the Midwest, so here we are. :snowing:
 
lax16 said:
Where in the U.S. would you want to live? Maybe you love where you live right now.

Tell me about it. Thanks! 🙂
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After living in many states and Canada for employment opportunities, when my husband took early retirement we moved back where we started because this has always been home.
 
PhiloMed said:
I want to live on a vineyard with a successful but not overly successful winery. I also want to have a garden where I grow delicious things and cook them in my kitchen overlooking the vineyard. I want to have parties with local friends where we eat all the delicious food I make on rustic wooden tables in my backyard and the perfectly behaved children play with the dogs and run around in pressed white clothing.
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Sounds like life in Michael Chiarella’s Napastyle catalog! 😉 Not a bad life!
 
Irishmom2 said:
Sounds like life in Michael Chiarella’s Napastyle catalog! 😉 Not a bad life!
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That is basically what I was channeling.

Also just about any show on the Cooking Channel.

Some people get lost in novels to escape to another world. I just need a few catalogues.
 
PhiloMed said:
The West Cost talk reminded me that I also love Napa Valley. **Apparently I only want to live in extremely high cost areas. **
I want to live on a vineyard with a successful but not overly successful winery. I also want to have a garden where I grow delicious things and cook them in my kitchen overlooking the vineyard. I want to have parties with local friends where we eat all the delicious food I make on rustic wooden tables in my backyard and the perfectly behaved children play with the dogs and run around in pressed white clothing.
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If fewer people wanted to live in those places, they wouldn’t cost so much. The reason they cost so much is because so many people want to live there. And because of they cost so much, I don’t want to live there–even though I do.

If Napa didn’t cost so much, I might be persuaded to own a neighboring vineyard and garden near you.
 
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