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Which state would you move to if you had your dream job waiting there for you?

Visited Knoxville for the solar eclipse, I REALLY loved that town. Everyone was super nice, tons of new microbreweries, traffic was non-existant compared to the DC area. From what the locals told me, COL was 1/3 of what it is here in Bethesda.

If I moved anywhere, I'd seriously consider Tennessee.

The eclipse was fun. The 'totality' line was about a mile from our house, but we went to a friend's house outside the Smokies for the day. I'll post a photo if I can - got a good one of the "diamond" effect.

What can I say - it's a nice place to live! We complain about traffic but that's because sometimes to get from the far east side of town to the far west takes.....30 minutes! The worst possible day ever it's an hour...

And you've seen Knoxville at its best in decades. Just 15 years ago, there were no micro breweries, no coffee shops or local roasters, downtown was dead after 5 pm, and all the excitement was on The Strip near UT. Now downtown is hopping every night, and all the old, previously abandoned buildings are getting converted to condos or office space. We have cranes downtown for the first time in decades. It's been fun to watch. I spent years without going downtown except to the courthouse to get a drivers license or something, and now we go there for shows or eating or events twice a month or more, especially in summer when they have a big farmer's market every Saturday. And if you like boating, water skiing, kayaking or canoeing, the mountains, trout fishing, bass fishing, mountain biking, road biking, good public golf courses, it's all close by.

A funny thing about downtown is the renewal kind of started with a local guy who bought up a bunch of property on "Market Square" and put in some shops and eating places. Before that it was all but abandoned, except for occasional flea market stuff. Anyway, that started the ball rolling, and he was locally pretty famous. Turns out he was using the properties and businesses in part to launder drug money, and was busted and arrested for a pretty big drug scheme, pot mostly, and some cocaine as I recall. Anyway, by that time there wasn't any turning back and it's been improving every year since.

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I already live in a great state, but I could handle Kauai or Big Island, but money..money.
 
I'd stay right here in Georgia, although I'd like to be a lot closer to Atlanta - that's currently about a five hour drive from home.

Edit: to explain it simply, I like the climate, and I like my friends who currently live in a haphazard distribution across the state. Atlanta is a common area for many of them, and a good launchpad to the rest of them by airplane.
 
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Colorado..... wait, I already live there....

I once said there were only three places I would consider a move of Colorado for: Boston, Bay Area and Calgary. I had offers in two of them and turned them both down. I did not want to leave Colorado.

I live here by choice. I just decided to move to Denver in 1981. I feel blessed everyday I am here.... but, my passions include skiing, mountain climbing, camping and backpacking. Colorado seems like a good fit. Not a great place, however, for people that like beaches and water.

One of the greatest things about Colorado, which not everyone knows, is the weather is incredible. 300 days of sunshine, very mild winters, dry and few bugs.

New York NYC,as cosmopolitan and exciting as İstanbul

Great city. Much, much nicer than when I lived there in the early '80s. Still would not leave Denver for it, but I do get back once per year. (PS - I have been to Istanbul .. but 2 days doesn't give me much of a basis of comparison)

If I had to move: Oregon, Washington, NoCal, Northern New Mexico, Alberta, New Hampshire or Upstate New York (where I am from and still find very nice... in the summer)
 
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Tough choice between Colorado and Arizona. Colorado is just beautiful, it's one of my favorite places I've visited. The people there are nice, and Denver is a cool city. My only complaint is that it gets cold in the winter. Arizona doesn't, so it would be a strong contender too.

California is nice, but it's too damn expensive. Same with Hawaii.

Not really. For the Front Range, anyway, we have about six weeks of days where is more often cold than not.

Days of 60,70 and even 80 not uncommon in February and March (and even January).... rarely do you go 10 days in Colorado without temps in at least the upper 50s... which is pretty warm when the sun it out and the air is dry. I wear shorts most of the days in the winter.

It ain't San Diego or Honolulu, but Denver has one of the nicest climates anyway in the world. One week of hot and one week of cold and 50 weeks of enjoyable.

PS - Denver Chamber of Commerce - you have my address.... Wait, what is that you say... no more people? Yes, I understand.
 
The only states I'd really consider are Hawaii (top choice - loved living there), Washington state (where I'm at now), or California. Why? Didja check how cold the rest of the nation was? Six inches of snow in Flagstaff predicted for today, snow in Tallahassee last week...no, I'm not a fan of cold weather, and the winters are often colder in much of the South than it is in Puget Sound.

Unless the dream job is POTUS, in which case I'd suck it up and move to DC for eight years....

Is this an announcement?
 
My oldest son is an air traffic controller in Alaska. For Xmas he is flying my daughter and I.up rthere this summer.my daughter is worried that we won't.come back.

Is your daughter questioning your son's piloting skills or is she worried you will fall in love with Alaska?
 
I currently live in the State I enjoy best, that's Oregon. I've lived in Alaska and Hawaii, Southeast Alaska is beautiful, when the sun shines, other than that you better have your Ketchikan Tuxedo (rain slicker) with you. Hawaii, is nice, but expensive and just to damn many people. Now I'm just 15 minutes from great fishing, 2 hours from the ocean and 45 minutes from the mountains, and yes, I do have the best job around, retired.
 
Montana. It is where my husband and I both would like to retire. We actually didn't talk too much about it until after we were engaged and my mother had asked him where he would eventually like to live, and he told her Montana, which she assumed was a mutual agreement between us because she knew that had been my dream home state for decades. She told me and that is when we had a pretty good laugh about it because neither of us considered it that important of a thing to matter for our future but found out we both wanted it.

Second on the list is actually either Washington state, West Coast of the state, not desert areas, or here in North Carolina (although many places between where I live now and the Tennessee border would be pretty good for me).
 
Everyone is saying Colorado. I just got back from a 2 week vacation, and spent a few days there. Sicker than a son of a bitch. Apparently I am highly susceptible to altitude sickness. :( So disappointed.

I think if I could choose, and have my dream job, it'd be Asheville, NC, or somewhere in the Pacific NW. Or back home to NY (but with that dream job would have to come with someone to shovel my driveway). :)
 
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