If you could live anywhere in the US...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Florida.

1st,2nd,3rd and 5th choice.

Will be moving as soon as the job here is done.

But everyone will think less of you, and that you are trashy.

[Anonymous]

Ithaca, NY

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I can and do live exactly anywhere I want and I live in SW Florida. I pay about $1100 a month including condo fee for a beautiful, spacious 2/2 condo with a lanai. I bought it in 2020 so it's now worth about twice as much as I paid for it so there's that, you couldn't get a similar deal now. I think you could rent a 1/1 near here for around $1800 though although rentals get snatched up quickly now because many folks south of here got washed out in the hurricane and have moved a little north.

Unlike the liars would have you believe, there are many places in FL that are beautiful, green, lush and lovely, including where I live. Everyday I look out on palm trees, flowering shrubs and bushes, and green grass. I don't mind hot weather so during the long summer I go to the pool or wait until evening to take my walk or go for a bike ride. For the next 5 months I will also play golf once or twice a week and venture over to the beach or go to festivals and events and parks and shopping plazas.

When I miss my northern friends and relatives I head up for a visit, but I'm always so glad to get back to my lovely home and the place I love the most! Trust me when I say that they often visit me as well. Good luck finding your own paradise.

[Anonymous]

I'm always ready to go back to the PNW, but Western MA, VT, and lots of places in the Midwest also meet your criteria.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Florida.

1st,2nd,3rd and 5th choice.

Will be moving as soon as the job here is done.

But everyone will think less of you, and that you are trashy.

You're exactly the type of person pp is trying to avoid.

[Anonymous]

Florida is a true dump, and anyone urging anyone to move there for "green space" is out of their mind. Miles and miles of round up sprayed astroturf lawns is not "green space"

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Anonymous wrote:Vermont - there’s enough small towns, lots of green, walkable and close enough to Montpelier or Burlington.

Vermont is green for a few months, then turns white and only walkable for bears/moose.

You forgot brown for mud season and private leach fields.

I never took green space to be literal. I think it just means outside space dedicated to nature. Parks, valleys, etc… where you can have trees vs. buildings.

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Anonymous wrote:Vermont - there’s enough small towns, lots of green, walkable and close enough to Montpelier or Burlington.

Vermont is green for a few months, then turns white and only walkable for bears/moose.

You forgot brown for mud season and private leach fields.

I never took green space to be literal. I think it just means outside space dedicated to nature. Parks, valleys, etc… where you can have trees vs. buildings.

Most people who say "lots of green" mean literal greenery- trees and plants and such. Why would you take it to mean anything else?

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Anonymous wrote:Los Angeles

Not green (Florida isnt that green either)

Florida is very green. Don’t know that I recommend it as a place to live…but it’s very green, if by green you mean lush and lots of green grass, trees, plants. Don’t know what the pp was talking about saying florida isn’t that green?

It's green in the way of Round-Up sprayed golf courses, but that's about it. Most people in Florida live far from the woods or deep greenery

That is just simply not true. I'm not talking about woods but it is very swampy, green, and lush throughout Florida there are flowers blooming, Spanish moss, vines and weeds growing everywhere you look. I didn't say it was beautiful greenery or healthy greenery always (lots of invasive species) but there is tons of green unless you're strictly on the coast. The central parts of Florida are incredibly overgrown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Florida is a true dump, and anyone urging anyone to move there for "green space" is out of their mind. Miles and miles of round up sprayed astroturf lawns is not "green space"

You have no idea what you're talking about. Most of the lawns in Florida are not astroturf. They are primarily St. Augustine grass or Bermuda grass. Learn something instead of spouting off about subjects you know nothing about--you sound super ignorant repeating this nonsense.

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Anonymous wrote:Vermont - there’s enough small towns, lots of green, walkable and close enough to Montpelier or Burlington.

Vermont is green for a few months, then turns white and only walkable for bears/moose.

You forgot brown for mud season and private leach fields.

I never took green space to be literal. I think it just means outside space dedicated to nature. Parks, valleys, etc… where you can have trees vs. buildings.

Most people who say "lots of green" mean literal greenery- trees and plants and such. Why would you take it to mean anything else?

In the same way we say crunchy or granola to mean someone who enjoys natural living. That person may not actually eat granola but it’s a term used to describe.

[Anonymous]

Charleston

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Anonymous wrote:Vermont - there’s enough small towns, lots of green, walkable and close enough to Montpelier or Burlington.

Vermont is green for a few months, then turns white and only walkable for bears/moose.

You forgot brown for mud season and private leach fields.

I never took green space to be literal. I think it just means outside space dedicated to nature. Parks, valleys, etc… where you can have trees vs. buildings.

Most people who say "lots of green" mean literal greenery- trees and plants and such. Why would you take it to mean anything else?

In the same way we say crunchy or granola to mean someone who enjoys natural living. That person may not actually eat granola but it’s a term used to describe.

Correct, but "greenery" isn't a term used interchangeably like that. If someone wanted just general nature, they would say that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Florida is a true dump, and anyone urging anyone to move there for "green space" is out of their mind. Miles and miles of round up sprayed astroturf lawns is not "green space"

You have no idea what you're talking about. Most of the lawns in Florida are not astroturf. They are primarily St. Augustine grass or Bermuda grass. Learn something instead of spouting off about subjects you know nothing about--you sound super ignorant repeating this nonsense.

I've lived in Florida. And it was astroturf-style short lawns sprayed heavily with Roundup as far as the eye could see. Interspersed with ugly little strip malls and fast food places. Horrific.

[Anonymous]

Palos verdes CA