To which US metropolitan areas would you absolutely not relocate?

[Anonymous]

We are discussing moving out of the area. We are researching these areas:
-Chicago
-Austin(DH is from there, I love it. But property taxes are outrageous)
-Houston (only because my sisters, mom and niece live in New Orleans)

No Way:
Back to Memphis, Nashville(grew up there&went to college)
Louisiana
Nyc
Los Angeles

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Anonymous wrote:what is so great about the I-35 cities?

Dallas, Austin, San Antonio. All great places to live and visit.

I've never been to Dallas, so I can't comment. But I have spent way more time in SA than I care to, and I REALLY dislike it. Again, the tourist area is fine, but other than the cost of housing, there is nothing else that I would consider to make it such a great place to live. The traffic and sprawl is awful, and only getting worse. Plus, TX real estate taxes stink.

That said, my husband and I are Spurs fans. I just would never live there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are discussing moving out of the area. We are researching these areas:
-Chicago
-Austin(DH is from there, I love it. But property taxes are outrageous)
-Houston (only because my sisters, mom and niece live in New Orleans)

No Way:
Back to Memphis, Nashville(grew up there&went to college)
Louisiana
Nyc
Los Angeles

when we were looking at Austin, we discovered that the taxes pretty much evened out since there is no state income tax, but real estate taxes were quite a bit more. However, the cost of living is generally cheaper since gas and childcare and food are less than what we pay here. Having said that, we were looking at some of the pricier parts of town - the cheaper areas were further from town and we wanted to be much closer to the action for quality of life issues. We didn't want to be in a cookie cutter burb anymore.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from Detroit and if I could find a job there I'd move back in a heartbeat.

Why? Do you like declining areas?

I like areas that aren't filled with smug a-holes.

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I have this sense reading through these that there is probably common groupings depending on the race(s) of the poster. Just an observation and s

[Anonymous]

There is only one city on my "not ever" list and that is San Francisco.

Went to college in LA. There are parts that are ok. I'd live on the west side.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I am entertaining a great offer in a Detroit suburb but don't know about going there........

really? is it a stable offer? Think about the awesome house you could get. I've also seen articles/ references to an artistic movement/ renaissance there.

Who cares about a big house! Artistic renaissance = maybe in the four blocks that make up downtown AA. In visiting in laws there all I've come across is dirty snow, puffer jackets, chain restaurants, ultra-conservatives, and swinger neighbors. Though a couple of weeks in July on the water are pleasant. No thanks!

Detriot is a failed union jobs based city. I would never move there, they have the worse unemployment and everyone is fleeing. It's shit hole of shit holes.

Is this the whole region or just the city?

The entire state.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I am entertaining a great offer in a Detroit suburb but don't know about going there........

really? is it a stable offer? Think about the awesome house you could get. I've also seen articles/ references to an artistic movement/ renaissance there.

Who cares about a big house! Artistic renaissance = maybe in the four blocks that make up downtown AA. In visiting in laws there all I've come across is dirty snow, puffer jackets, chain restaurants, ultra-conservatives, and swinger neighbors. Though a couple of weeks in July on the water are pleasant. No thanks!

Detriot is a failed union jobs based city. I would never move there, they have the worse unemployment and everyone is fleeing. It's shit hole of shit holes.

Is this the whole region or just the city?

The entire state.

Michigan is not a shit hole.

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Anonymous wrote:Well I am entertaining a great offer in a Detroit suburb but don't know about going there........

really? is it a stable offer? Think about the awesome house you could get. I've also seen articles/ references to an artistic movement/ renaissance there.

Who cares about a big house! Artistic renaissance = maybe in the four blocks that make up downtown AA. In visiting in laws there all I've come across is dirty snow, puffer jackets, chain restaurants, ultra-conservatives, and swinger neighbors. Though a couple of weeks in July on the water are pleasant. No thanks!

Detriot is a failed union jobs based city. I would never move there, they have the worse unemployment and everyone is fleeing. It's shit hole of shit holes.

Is this the whole region or just the city?

The entire state.

Michigan is not a shit hole.

I like that retort!

[Anonymous]

I don't think I would like the superficiality or the traffic of L.A.

I know I would hate winters in Chicago, and probably Boston, too.

My company is headquartered in Atlanta, and I've seen enough of that city to say No, thank you.

Basically, I'm pretty content in DC. I could maaaaybe be talked into NY. I'd move back to Philadelphia in a heartbeat. I'd check out the Pacific Northwest if a great opportunity presented itself.

[Anonymous]

i could probably find something to love about even the worst place but i would avoid any place with long sticky summers. Houston or Dallas or New Orleans would be hell on earth to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Same here. My husband keeps wanting to put Austin on the acceptable list, but I don't think I could live there. I can't get over the fact that it's surrounded by Texas.

Don't write it off so easily! We lived in Austin and LOVED it.

Second this. I'm from New England and was very, very nervous about moving to TX, but Austin is just it's own special place, and I absolutely LOVED living there. It's the one city that has a preemptive green-light for relocation. Admittedly I lived there for school, but we still have lots of friends there and it strikes me as a fantastically family friendly place to live, so great for this stage of life as well. The down sides are that it is ridiculously hot in the summer, and there are no real mountains anywhere nearby.

And so much good, relatively inexpensive food. It's making me hungry just thinking about it. (Though my waistline did appreciate the move away.)

[Anonymous]

Could NOT do humidity, lack of reasonable proximity to beach, people who are clueless about snow. Could NOT do anywhere where the people think D.C. is the be all and end all. The people would have to be educated and happy, with zero tolerance for others passive aggressive BS. No one here will get it, even if they guess it.

[Anonymous]

Seattle?

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Anonymous wrote:why don't all the libs in our area move to the west coast and impload themselves in

The earthquakes. And tidal waves. And mudslides. And volcanoes.

I'm fine on the East Coast, thanks.