Best places to live in US for outdoorsy families?
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Anonymous
Np This isn't a good place right now! Fires and protests, no thanks! |
Anonymous
You weren't there for the winters! |
Anonymous
| Asheville, NC |
Anonymous
| Bozeman, Montana |
Anonymous
| I hate giving away this secret, but Hampstead, NC is the best place to live, Especially for outdoorsy families. Small town, 15 minutes to wilmington if you want fun/entertainment/date nights, Raleigh is not too far if you need certain medical care or services of a big city, and the schools are all 8-9’s. COLA is amazing there too. |
Anonymous
Oops, COL* not COLA. |
Anonymous
| Agree Durango, CO. |
Anonymous
I’m curious what you like specifically about Santa Cruz? I live in CA now and I’m under the impression the schools aren’t great there and certainly the cost of living can be hard. The few times I’ve spent a day / night in Santa Cruz the massive amounts of homeless and open drug use have alarmed me. |
Anonymous
I think NM is generally beautiful but I second this. Weird vibe there. |
Anonymous
Also a Denver native living in DC for 25 years with lots of family still there. Denver is very white, housing is now pretty expensive and Denver now has lots of traffic and the brown cloud which I grew up with and had been defeated is back and worst of all people are starting to get uptight and cranky there too. And the traffic to and from the mountains on the weekends is just unbearable and you have to remember the weather limits the how much of the year you can really do stuff in the mountains (there are about 5 months of the year when you can neither ski nor do much else in the mountains) and Denver is still a really boring city and it is dry and brown much of the year. We did some back country camping 2 summers ago and it was crazy how many people we were running into deep into backcountry (10+ miles from the road) on a trail 6 hours from Denver - it used to be once you got out of day hiking range from the parking lot you would only rarely encounter other people but there were dozens of tents we saw every night. Having said that if I was going to live in Colorado there are some really nice smaller towns - I particularly like Fort Collins and Grand Junction. Boulder is one of the most beautiful places in the US but it is very expensive and a bad place politically and culturally now. |
Anonymous
Portland is not what its cracked up to be. Research carefully. It is a hyped up city with some major issues. - Current Portland resident |
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SLC
Seriously my friends from there are always on wild outdoorsy adventures with their whole families. |
Anonymous
| New Mexico has lots of retirees and therefor lots of trailers. |