If you could live anywhere....

[momof1princess]

DH and i often joke about moving once DD15 is in college, but we probably never will. we've discussed many places, and the winner always seems to be southern georgia, or extreme northern florida. we can't stand the cold (lived in alabama all our lives), so going north is out. and we don't want to go too far south, to avoid the hurricanes.

as i said though, i doubt all this talk ever amounts to anything. DH owns 75 acres of family land here, and his parents are here, and their health has deteriorated a good bit in the past 5 years, so they're really in no shape to move.

 

[graceesmom]

Well I do love Hilton Head for a vacation, but I wouldn't want to live there with kids. You would pretty much have to put your kids in private school. Most of the year round residents are retirees.

I am a bit partial to Charleston
We have great beaches, great history, great culture, great people, some great schools, and great hospitals. If you do a general search of our public schools they probably will not rank very high. That is because we have a consolidated school district. We have some very highly nationally ranked schools and probably some terrible schools, but you can pretty much figure that out when you are looking at real estate.

We live in Mt. Pleasant (10 minutes to downtown, on the river and 10 minutes to the beach). All the schools in Mt. Pleasant are fantastic. We are 15 minutes from the airport.

Did I mention that Conde Nast named Charleston "Best City in the World" this year?

And we provide comic relief to those who move from up north. If there is even a chance of a snowflake falling within 100 miles of here, the store shelves are emptied of milk and bread.

ETA: I forgot to mention that it is an easy 6 hour drive to Disney!

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Nashville TN. People even kids are very respectibly. Will hold doors open for you - even the kids will do this. You will still have winter but nothing like 8-12 inches of snow. Housing market seems to be priced fairly good. Easy to get around on the streets and highways.

First place I thought of, although my friends there all send their kids to private school.

 

[natfrac]

Another vote for the San Francisco area, if only money were no object We live in Portland, which we do like a lot. I don't mind the rain, but DH gets tired of it.

 

[MrEVILdrPorkchop2u]

We vote for Savannah, Georgia. It is amazing there!

 

[eliza61]

I'm easily a strict East coast gal. LOL.
I do hate the winter and as I get older I'm getting less and less tolerant, that being said I need, love and crave variety.
I need theater, small or large. I need restaurant variety, I once lived in a small town where folks thought olive garden was good italian. I thought I was going to slit my wrist.

I love cities, I love not having to drive to get some thing or some where.

So it looks like I'm stuck. LOL. I actually like Jersey except for the high property taxes. I'm surrounding by NYC, Philly, Baltimore and DC. I've got Jersey and Maryland Beaches, excellent universities and hospitals, great culture and shopping.

I'm thinking of checking out Charleston or Miami for a winter home.

 

[Ginny Favers]

I would love to live in Charleston, SC.

 

[chobie]

I would love to live in Charleston, SC.

Me too. Beautiful town, nice people and great food.

 

[DSNY4ever]

My initial response was Scotland and then I saw that it had to be in the US so I was going to suggest several cities in California, but then I saw you wanted the East side of the US...so I have no idea Good luck, what a nice gift to be able to move wherever you want!

 

[graceesmom]

This is the view from our neighborhood dock taken last week at sunset. Just imagine yourself sitting out there watching the dolphins play in the tidal creek as the egrets perch on dock posts. We really do love where we live.

 

[PatriciaH]

I used to think CA (San Diego,) but I hate to drive and it is pretty polluted around there (ocean water runoff from Mexico, air quality, etc.) I miss FL sometimes (we lived there for nearly 6 years,) but I don't think I would want to move back. The crime is bad and the sprawl is ugly and the summers are awful. I worry about what Corexit did to the Gulf water too. I would love to live in Hawaii for a while, but I think I would feel isolated and would worry about pollution/radiation from Japan (yes, I consider the health of a place before I would move there.) Maybe Europe-but only for a few years. I love where we are now, but hate the winter. Maybe we could travel for Jan/Feb/March

 

[kiki02]

We are a 3 miles from an outrageously beautiful, uncrowded blue blue ocean. How do I attach photos of it?

))

 

[eyor44]

as close to Disney as possible. One day..........

 

[girli565]

I'm a Floridian and will always be a Floridian! Anywhere in FL is nice on the southeast coast or west coast. But I am partial to Tampa. My aunt lives in tampa, Lutz to be exact, and we visit her often. I ADORE it there! It's the best of city living with downtown being a 15-20 minutes drive away and country living in Lutz where everything is spread out and the houses are gorgeous!

I live in Miami and love it here but would move to Lutz in a heartbeat.

 

[momof1princess]

I'm a Floridian and will always be a Floridian! Anywhere in FL is nice on the southeast coast or west coast. But I am partial to Tampa. My aunt lives in tampa, Lutz to be exact, and we visit her often. I ADORE it there! It's the best of city living with downtown being a 15-20 minutes drive away and country living in Lutz where everything is spread out and the houses are gorgeous!

I live in Miami and love it here but would move to Lutz in a heartbeat.

DH's uncle (his mom's oldest brother) and aunt live just outside of tampa, in wesley chapel, and they LOVE it! they're older, and retired, and they rave about the area they live in and the community as a whole.

 

[girli565]

DH's uncle (his mom's oldest brother) and aunt live just outside of tampa, in wesley chapel, and they LOVE it! they're older, and retired, and they rave about the area they live in and the community as a whole.

Yes, Wesley chapel and Lutz are pretty much the same area, lol. They are pretty much the same exits off of I-75. My aunt has a house that's in a community that has a nature preserve (or is it reserve?) off her backyard. It's gorgeous! We will stay with her sometimes and make the drive to WDW, takes about 30-45 minutes, and we save on hotel

 

[Crystal824]

Orlando. If not there, probably Charleston, SC. It is both beautiful, historical, and warm.

 

[BadgerGirl84]

I have the ability to work from anywhere near an airport as well (healthcare IT consulting) and my husband could likely get a job in any decent-sized city.

We currently live in Wisconsin and we hate the long winters and we would also like to move to a state where people are more like-minded to us politically.

We are seriously considering a move to the Dallas/Ft. Worth area of Texas in about 5 years. We have both traveled there extensively for work and we love it there.

I'm hoping that if we make the leap my parents and sister will consider moving, too!

 

[disneymagicgirl]

I was born and raised in Charleston SC and would go back there tomorrow if I could....I will within the next 5 years. We moved in Oct 2011 to Nashville (Franklin), TN for DH's new job. My plan is he either gets promoted so we can go back to SC or he finds a new company....5 year time limit.
Nashville is nice though...since I have to live somewhere other than Charleston I'd recommend it.

 

[chobie]

This is the view from our neighborhood dock taken last week at sunset. Just imagine yourself sitting out there watching the dolphins play in the tidal creek as the egrets perch on dock posts. We really do love where we live.

Wow.