You have been kicked out or your state---where are you going to live now?

[caty]

I think I would like to live somewhere where there are still seasons, but milder. If I move south, the winters will be milder, but the summers will be hotter. I think I might move to northern Arizona. I've heard that the summers are milder in Sedona.

[Burma Jones]

1. California

[caty]

12. I would worry

about the earthquake/fire/mudslide factor in California.:-(

[Gormy Cuss]

19. Two out of three are mitigated by picking the right location

Earthquakes on the other hand...:scared:

[huskerlaw]

70. Fires and Mudslides

are only a problem for people who live in places where houses don't belong in the first place.

Earthquakes, well...every place has their own brand of natural disaster, right? :shrug:

[Guy Fawkes]

2. Ireland.

[Evergreen Emerald]

3. the southern coast of France.

I love it there and would like nothing better than to buy a little cottage in a little town with a little garden and a hot french delivery man....

oops...no sex threads.

[caty]

13. Sounds really nice!

[philosophie_en_rose]

4. Hawaii

:)

[caty]

6. I've often thought of Hawaii.

No mosquitoes. No poisonous snakes or spiders.

[philosophie_en_rose]

15. Very high cost of living, though.

:shrug:

[aclog]

16. Mainly the property values but yeah

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. No moquitos?

Bwuhahahahahaha!

No, seriously, there are mosquitos there.

But I would move back there in a heartbeat. Mostly, not so much flying bugs, so you can sit out on the lanai any time of year and not have to worry about things eating you, biting you, or buzzing around your head.

[caty]

20. Wow...

I've always heard there are no mosquitoes in Hawaii. I'm disillusioned.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

43. There's tons there on the big island right now

and poisonous snakes...tree snakes...been many times and I'll be there next month

[Momgonepostal]

46. But they sure can grow some industrial sized...

cockroaches...eeeewwww!

While visiting some friends on Oahu, I took an umbrella out of the closet and a HUGE cockroach dropped out of it. It was the biggest bug I've ever seen...more like the size of a mouse. Yuck.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

51. They fly on Kauai!

winged bastards that attack you! :scared:

[Momgonepostal]

52. Oh, yuck!

That sounds awful!

[huskerlaw]

71. UUUUGH, seriously?!

I've spent a decent amount of time on Oahu and never saw a single cockroach. Let alone one that flew...and trust me, I would notice that sort of thing. :scared:

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

73. yep,,they are about 3 inches long

but the geckos are cute :)

[huskerlaw]

74. OMG, seriously

I could hurl. 3-inch-long flying roaches?? So much for that dream of living in Hawaii!

Yes, the geckos are quite cute. There was one living in the master suite of the house I stayed in. Soooo cute. But kinda gross when you heard the scuttering of little lizard feet in the middle of the night ;)

[barb162]

83. they call them 747s

[uppityperson]

53. No mosquitos?

[momophile]

45. Me too

my husband is from there so one day we plan to return anyways... in the meantime, dreaming of warm weather...

[terrya]

5. Canada

[baldguy]

10. Canada

[Gormy Cuss]

7. Massachusetts.

Politically to the left of California* and totally in your face about it. Climatewise, there are about six weeks a year that are intolerable (the worst of winter and summer) otherwise it suits me just fine.


*that's a statewide comparison only. No metro area in the U.S. is to the left of the SF Bay Area.:D

[DS1]

9. I slept with my window open last night, after the first few weeks

of winter, 45 degrees is tshirt weather.

Still, I'd move to Washington

[Gormy Cuss]

18. Absolutely right about 45 degrees.

As a native New Englander I rarely don gloves if the temperature is above the teens. :D

[Evergreen Emerald]

23. I love WA

It is beautiful here in the Pacific NW with lots to do. I hike most weekends in the summer and ski most weekends in the winter.

[MiniMandaRuth]

37. Washington is beautiful.

I love Seattle. Gorgeous city. The mountains are great to. Take it from one who has lived here all her short life.

[MissB]

76. Oregon is prettier.

And less crowded.

[MissB]

75. Damn.

Don't move to Washington then. In no time at all, you'd find 45 to be downright chilly.

[Maine-ah]

8. Canada. It's very close.

[bikebloke]

11. New Zealand....

...maybe Hawaii. A wee cottage. Start working permaculture farming and hope I can survive.

Half serious dreaming.

[Momgonepostal]

47. I've always been enchanted by the idea of NZ

It's beautiful, mild climate, low crime, socialized medicine...it all sounds wonderful!

[emmajane67]

98. I had the pleasure of growing up there

and I'd recommend it.

[aclog]

14. tijuana

but maybe thats just my dick talking right now lol

[LynzM]

21. VT, or NH, or Germany....

I really like VT and NH, but the winters are pretty nasty. I miss Europe a lot, lately :(

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

87. I miss Europe too .

And I lived in Germany for 3 1/2 years .

[LynzM]

94. Nice, where?

I miss it, like, every day :( Ah well. We spent 9 months living in Stuttgart (well, really living on the Uni campus) and I loved it, most of the time! Where did you live?

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

97. In Hannover .

[GOPisEvil]

22. Please kick me out!!

:D

I think I'd like to live on the Spanish Mediterranean coast. As long as we're dreaming. California is my back-up plan. :)

[Maestro]

24. La Costa del Sol.

Yep. Good choice.

[WritingIsMyReligion]

25. Somewhere not in this country.

Ireland, maybe. :D

[AKPacker]

26. Costa Rica

On the side of mountain at about the 3,000 foot mark overlooking the ocean. Never too hot, never too cold, and a great view every morning.

[caty]

27. That would be a big climate

change for you. From Alaska to Costa Rica.

[AKPacker]

30. Not really

Southern S.E. Alaska has a very mild climate. If it gets into the 20's here, we are suffering. A couple of summers ago we were up into the high 80's to the low 90's for about a month. No one has air conditioning so the whole town was suffering. I would love to live in a climate that hovered around the 60's and 70's year round.

[caty]

31. I'm surprised about the climate

in Costa Rica. I always thought of it has hot and humid.

[AKPacker]

32. That is why you look for the elevation.

In the valleys I am sure it is miserably hot and sticky.

[caty]

36. Good point--

I never thought of that.

[skygazer]

28. I'd go right back to Vermont

I've been thrown out of better places than this (joke - I love California but that's my standard response when feeling unwelcome anywhere).

[hfojvt]

35. dang I thought you were from Vermont

and they were kicking you out of Vermont

and your reply was Vermont toughness and stubborn-ness saying "nobody's kicking me out of Vermont, I would go right back in!!"

[skygazer]

40. I would if that were the case

I'm from Vermont but I live in California. However, if I was in Vermont and they tried to kick me out, they would be unable to do so. I would hole up in the mountains and they would never find me. I know trails and back ways all over the state, I'd slip out and get supplies and disappear again before they knew what hit them. I'd lead them a merry chase, I would. (insert diabolical laughter here)

[hfojvt]

42. spoken like a true Vermonter

There wasn't even supposed to be a Vermont except that Washington did not want to mess with the Green Mountain boys.

Trouble is, if you were being kicked out, you would have other Vermonters chasing you, and they know the woods and mountains too. So it's a toss up.

[skygazer]

59. A real Vermonter would never chase another real Vermonter out

It would be the bunch of flatlander wannabe's who tried to kick me out in the first place. Damn flatlanders anyway. :grr:

[scarlet_owl]

29. Maybe somewhere in the Pacific Northwest.

I've heard good things about Oregon.

[Radical Activist]

33. East Tennessee

Great area.

[caty]

41. I lived in Paris, TN

for 2 years. It was really nice, but the summers could get really hot. The cost of living was lower than MI, but groceries were higher. No state tax helped.

[buddhamama]

34. the UK or Ireland

It has been a wish/dream of mine for a long while.

[MiniMandaRuth]

38. I've always been interested in living in Canada.

Out of all the places I've ever been, people in Canada have been the sweetest, most intelligent people I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. It might just of been the few area's I've traveled to, but other people have experienced the same.

[hfojvt]

39. this is inconceivable

me - kicked out?

Why, I am a local hero, an icon, a legend. There would be riots in the streets, governments would topple, heads would roll, before I was ever kicked out.

Did I mention that I live in dreamland?

[Initech]

44. Cuba

Hey, if the repukes keep equating liberalism with communism (which is pretty stupid considering that only two countries left in the entire world still practice it!), then it's only natural to want to move to Cuba!

[Momgonepostal]

48. Probably Oregon nt

[Ariana Celeste]

49. I'd move back to WA.

I miss going outside and seeing Mt. Rainier. I miss the light rain. I miss seeing GREEN during the winter.
I miss Snoqualmie Valley. I miss the "aroma of Tacoma". :cry:

Indiana sucks. :(.

[Missy Vixen]

63. We live in the Snoqualmie Valley

Ariana, I'll do my best to snitch DH's digital and take a picture in the next couple of days. I hope you'll get to come back here soon!

In the meantime, here's lots of photos of the valley by an amazing photographer. My favorite is the Novelty Bridge shrouded in fog, and sunset from McCormick Park.

http://www.baileydigitalimages.com/shop/index.php?rec=10&shop=1&cart=9991&cat=24&keywords=&match_criteria=&searchCat=

Julie

[yewberry]

72. I'm looking out my window at where Rainier *should* be

and I'm guessing that it's still there, behind the gray, but I haven't seen 'er for about a month. The grass is a lovely green, though--but so is the moss!

[BuelahWitch]

50. I'd love to move to Chicago if I had the money to do so

I was there a few times last year and found the people very warm (even if the weather was not). There's so many things to see and do there too.

[grace0418]

55. You can have my place. I want to live in Northern Cali

but can't convince my husband.

[flamingyouth]

54. Maybe Oregon.

But more likely California.

[Lady Freedom]

56. Anywhere!! Getting kicked out of Missouri would be GREAT!!

They Make you stay here as punishment!

[JVS]

58. Not if you were sent to Alabama

[caty]

60. What gets me is....

we can live anywhere we want to. Why do so many of us live places we don't really like. Family? Jobs? What keeps us from living somewhere where we might be happier?

[Lady Freedom]

61. Right now it is school. After I get that sheep skin, watch out world!

Because I am not sticking around here!

[patricia92243]

90. Jobs. In spite of Bush's boming economy, jobs are hard to come by and

giving up the one that I actually do have for one that I MIGHT get in a new state is a daunting thought (plus I'm old)

[La Lioness Priyanka]

57. CA

it would be either nyc or sf for me...so getting kicked out of nyc would force me to live in sf

[Lisa]

62. this actually did happen to my parents ...

(In Canada, not the US.)

They were of Japanese ancestry, and in the final months of WWII, they were told that the internment camps would be shut down, and they would not be allowed to resettle in their home communities along the coast (including Vancouver). So my family ended up getting spread out across the country -- aunts and uncles in Alberta, Ontario, and Nova Scotia. A couple of them did return to British Columbia after the ban was lifted (I forget how long after 1945), but I know that my parents did not want to come back to the province where they were born -- possibly a mixture of bad memories, fear of the government, and also fear of racist reprisals by the general population.

I really hope that none of us ever have to go through this kind of uprooting, for real. (One of the reasons why I decided to get my graduate degree in BC was to try to close that chapter in my family's history ... and getting involved in progressive politics was a way to irk the powers who ordered the expulsion.) My folks still worry that the RCMP is going to kick down the door some dark night and haul me off for being in the NDP, or something.

If I were forbidden to live in Ontario or BC -- I would be tempted to try to defy the law and live in the woods, or something, but I'm not good at foraging for food -- in either Great Lakes or coastal environments! Possibly I would go to Manitoba? I worked there a couple of summers, and liked it.

I try not to think about what would happen if I were kicked out of Canada. Emotionally, I don't know if I could cope.

[caty]

69. I certainly hope

that no one ever has to go through something like that. After a conversation with some friends, we were amazed at how many people live in places that they don't like. The question was what would make some one move to a better place for them. Some just don't want to pack up and uproot even if it meant moving to a better climate.

[Oeditpus Rex]

64. Vancouver, B.C.

No-brainer. :eyes:

[Reverend_Smitty]

65. NH or VT

Nothing like New England in the fall

and when I get totally deported I would move to either Ireland or the Netherlands both are cool in my book

[Missy Vixen]

66. We talked pretty seriously about moving to Vermont

It's the closest thing to Western Washington, at least in my mind.

Julie

[gizmo1979]

67. Amsterdam!WooHoo

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

68. I'd move to the Bay Area to be near my sister

Or maybe Ireland or Switzerland.

[tarkus]

77. An excuse to leave the south for good!

I would go to Massachusetts. That would be just fantastic.

[SiobhanClancy]

78. I refuse to leave Maine....

except to move to IRELAND:)

[NMMNG]

79. AZ or NM perhaps. If not there then MA n/t

[barb162]

80. Malibu, CA or NYC or Seattle

[swag]

81. Probably in hell, where I'll join Crazy Goog's Legion.

It'll rock the hard jams.

[Jamastiene]

82. Might as well head to California.

All I ever hear from the local yocals around here is that California is full of freaks and weirdos and that I am a freak and weirdo too. And I fly my freak flag sorta high considering the fact that currently in order to do that I have to duck for cover a lot from the shotgun blasts when I do decide to fly my freak flag. :evilgrin:

I feel as if I belong in the free state, California, that doesn't come cheap. If only I could afford California now, San Francisco would be getting a new citizen asafp. It would be adios North Carolinos. If California wouldn't allow me in, I guess that leaves Seattle. Great music scene, good people too from what I have heard.

[NoSheep]

84. Spain. I like their schedule.

[Jamison]

85. Venezuela

They have a REAL leader there & nice weather to boot.

[wildhorses]

86. never far away from Alabama frame of mind...

Heaven knows this ain't no Margaret Mitchell
where the oak trees meet the pines
I know it might sound kinda simple
oh but it's mine oh it's mine

Thought I heard a logman cuttin' timber
down the Mississippi line
I'm up the old Tombigbee river
high as the pines, all the time

Elegamment les batos passant
ben on la flota vec du van
all I'm trying to say is I'm
never far away from
Alabama frame of mind

Jubilation risin' on the bayou
celebration in the wind
Father Pat gives benediction
cross the Coden bridge again

Crickets spreadin' rumors by the shoreline
with the lonesome lady whine
crab trap full of nothin
I'm high as the tide, all the time

[Dulcinea]

88. Someplace warm with a beach I can be on all year round.

Hawaii!

[Z_I_Peevey]

89. The Rio Grande Valley,

for the pineapple and the flowers.

[KatyaR]

91. Vermont or upstate New York,

maybe Quebec or Newfoundland--I really like that part of the world. I've been in love with Vermont since I was a kid, and I love the Adirondacks as well--they remind me of Oklahoma when I was a kid (not the countryside, obviously, but the lifestyle).

If I had lots of money and could bounce back and forth, I'd like to live in Arizona in the winter--I've only been there once, but it sure beat Oklahoma in January, that's for sure. I'd get my hot-air balloon pilot's license and fly all the time.

[jobycom]

92. A beach. A warm beach. nt

[TheProphetess]

93. Sedona would be nice

I've been there in the summer and it was just amazing.

Second on my list would be San Diego. :hi:

[NYdemocrat089]

95. California.

I'd also consider Massachusetts.

[pitohui]

96. i was kicked out of my state and then kicked out of mississippi too!

in the real situation you will end up living w. whatever relative has the space to handle a refugee or three