To which US metropolitan areas would you absolutely not relocate?

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Anonymous wrote:Baltimore

Youre crazy because Baltimore is one fantastic place. Also, the PP who would not relocate anywhere in the South is also nuts: Charleston, SC, Durham, NC, Birmingham and Mobile, AL, New Orleans or Baton Rouge, LA. Both you xenophobes should stay in your caves,

I would not wish to live in Ohio but if that's where life would send me then I would make the best of it, particularly the Cleveland Symphony.

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No, stay away from Texas. It is an amazing state (the I-35 cities). So if you are the kind of person who has disdain for it, stay away and don't mess up the great state of Texas for all of us who love it.

what is so great about the I-35 cities?

Texas has a good relation in terms of income to living costs and taxes. Much better than here but I think their job opportunities are middle of the road in terms of unemployment (ranked 25)

Unemployment in Texas is only as bad as it is because they have had huge in-migration over the last five years. If no one had moved to Texas in the last five years, the unemployment rate would be less than 2%.

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19:20 - if you want a real beach, then check out the Lake Michigan shoreline from Indiana to Mackinaw City - awesome!

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Detroit, and anyplace that has hot summers...Phoenix, Dallas, Miami, Atlanta. I need to be relatively near an ocean too.

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Yes list is shorter:
Boston
NYC (maybe)
Philly
Chicago
San Francisco (in a heartbeat)
Seattle
Portland
Vancouver
London

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:earthquakes like we had in august happen once every hundred years around here. Tornadoes in this area are rarely as scary as the ones that hit Alabama and Joplin earlier this year. And we have never taken a direct hit from a hurricane.

I'm with you on the snow, but it isn't always like 2 years ago. There have been plenty of years when we've gotten a few inches all winter.

Our weather and chance of devastating natural disaster is so moderate in comparison. I feel like we have a fairly moderate climate - I like having all 4 seasons.

Now, if you want to talk about our chance of terrorist attack, that makes more sense to me.

Some of your points are well-taken. However!!! Although you can technically say that we have all 4 seasons, it doesn't really count when summer and winter last 5.5 months each, and spring and fall are only 2 wks long each. Give me California any day. Hurricanes and tornadoes are foreign concepts, and the earthquakes don't scare me. And the biggest bonus is the lack of political talk!

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And I worked in Detroit for several months. There were some nice 'burbs, but I couldn't do it again....