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Where do you WISH to Live?

About seven years ago, I decided it was time to start thinking about where I'd eventually like to retire. I took two or three online surveys just like the one in the OP. The results were the same every time - either the Pacific Northwest... or Arkansas.

ARKANSAS? WTF? :confused:

Anyway, I took the surveys' advice and here I am today. I LOVE where I live and would never have found it without suggestions from the surveys (since I'm not from here, had no family or friends in the area, and had never been here before). I took the quiz again (the one from the OP) and the results STILL say my best choices are either where I am or Arkansas.

ARKANSAS? WTF? :confused:
 
After checking this site out Best Places to Live: Compare the Best Cities & Small Towns for You! (over the last 8 years) I figured I would ask YOU folks.... Where you want to live?

EDIT: CRAP!!! I pressed the wrong button and I didnt have a chance to enter a poll! I tried to go back and put one in but it wont LET ME!!!! :soap

My wish will be coming true in about 5 years. My wife and I will be moving to Jamay, Mexico then. It is about 160 km SSE of Guadalajara, on the eastern end of Lake Chapala. It's one of the most beautiful places in the world, and the Lake Chapala area has an American expat community of over 40,000.
 
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My wish will be coming true in about 5 years. My wife and I will be moving to Jamay, Mexico then. It is about 160 km SSE of Guadalajara, on the eastern end of Lake Chapala. It's one of the most beautiful places in the world,

sounds lovely

and the Lake Chapala area has an American expat community of over 40,000.

is that a selling point? I tend to try to avoid the ex-pat community down here. If I wanted to live amongst Brits, I'd still be living in Britain. What's the appeal of Mexico if you want to live in a community of Americans? Why not find somewhere beautiful in America?

Just askin'.
 
Where you want to live?

Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains
 
Where the handouts grow on bushes
And you sleep out every night
Where the boxcars all are empty
And the sun shines every day
And the birds and the bees
And the cigarette trees
The lemonade springs
Where the bluebird sings
In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Yeah, I'd be very happy there!
 
I've had the chance to live in two of the most opposite climates in the US...deep south where the heat and humidity will wear you out and in the Alaskan bush where the cold will bite right through you. I prefer the heat of NC to the cold and dark of Alaska but I prefer the beauty and untouched landscape in the frozen north. If I could find somewhere hot and undeveloped, that would be the place for me.

Although, when I lived in San Francisco, I didn't realize how good I actually had it. That was a very nice place, climate-wise. Can't say much for how it's run though. San Diego also seems like a nice place to live.
 
sounds lovely



is that a selling point? I tend to try to avoid the ex-pat community down here. If I wanted to live amongst Brits, I'd still be living in Britain. What's the appeal of Mexico if you want to live in a community of Americans? Why not find somewhere beautiful in America?

Just askin'.

Because we found something beautiful in Mexico, and we would like to live there. We would still be American, and still vote, but I love everything about that area. It is laid back, friendly, extremely nice weather, a decent cost of living, and a paradise like no other I have ever been to, either in the US, or anywhere else in the world.

NOTE: It is also home to a tequila factory. LOL.
 
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About seven years ago, I decided it was time to start thinking about where I'd eventually like to retire. I took two or three online surveys just like the one in the OP. The results were the same every time - either the Pacific Northwest... or Arkansas.

ARKANSAS? WTF? :confused:

Anyway, I took the surveys' advice and here I am today. I LOVE where I live and would never have found it without suggestions from the surveys (since I'm not from here, had no family or friends in the area, and had never been here before). I took the quiz again (the one from the OP) and the results STILL say my best choices are either where I am or Arkansas.

ARKANSAS? WTF? :confused:

I love Arkansas. it would be perfect if not for three things. Chiggars, tics, and barefoot bib overall wearing toothless hillbilly meth addicts running a muck.
 
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