Where would you like to live?

[dorndawg]

We have a thread on the topic of living or not living in Jackson, and by extension Mississippi. If family wasn't a major consideration, you could do your job there, and you could maintain your current standard of living (so no Montana ranches, NYC penthouses, or San Diego) where would you live?

1) Portland or Bend Oregon (they're different but close enough for grouping porpoises) - or honestly, the PNW in general
2) Lawrence KS - large-ish college towns are great, close enough to a major city, and could prolly throw in a lakehouse at Lake of the Ozarks - could also put Columbia MO and Athens GA here

 

[8dog]

Fairhope. Im not going north of the state line and dealing with Winter. And I’m only 4 hours from Starkville.

 

[047Dog]

Been thinking a lot about this but not ready to do serious research yet. I've got my 25 years with the state but my wife has about 5 more years. We also have a blended family with 2 high school juniors. We both started over from post 40 divorces so we have nothing keeping us in the area after the kids graduate.

I think I would really like to try out Chattanooga or maybe further east in TN or possibly NC. Lately though I have also thought I may not be unhappy trying out life on the coast, whether that be MS or AL. Don't think I want to mess with Florida.

My wife's dream would be to end up somewhere in Colorado, but not sure that will be fiscally possible.

 

[T-TownDawgg]

Cherokee, NC or Lake Keowee, SC

 

[ZombieKissinger]

I love eastern Washington, northern Idaho and western Montana. If I have to leave, it’d probably be for North Carolina, but I don’t want to

 

[Hugh's Burner Phone]

 

[ll Martain ll]

If I also have unlimited money, I would have live in 2 cities--a small summer condo in Chicago near the lakefront, and a bigger winter house somewhere mild and pretty, probably central Texas somewhere west of New Braunfels or San Marcos.

Either that, or I'd move to Europe in a place I could comfortably live without a car. I'm thinking London, Denmark, Sweden, or The Netherlands, maybe Germany.

 

[PartTimeGenius]

Somewhere in the mountains where I could walk out the back door and go fly fishing in the summer, Elk/Deer hunting in the Fall.

 

[Smoked Toag]

We'd be neighbors in the PNW dorn. And since you continue to duck my hard questions on this board, maybe we could discuss things Tim Taylor and Wilson style. Probably with beers and legal plants.

 

[johnson86-1]

We have a thread on the topic of living or not living in Jackson, and by extension Mississippi. If family wasn't a major consideration, you could do your job there, and you could maintain your current standard of living (so no Montana ranches, NYC penthouses, or San Diego) where would you live?

1) Portland or Bend Oregon (they're different but close enough for grouping porpoises) - or honestly, the PNW in general
2) Lawrence KS - large-ish college towns are great, close enough to a major city, and could prolly throw in a lakehouse at Lake of the Ozarks - could also put Columbia MO and Athens GA here

First option, South Florida. Would love to be able to get in a boat and go to the Keys or Bahamas, have good beaches, virtually no winter. Reasonable cost of living. Only downside is no winter at all might get old and a long *** way from Mountains and far from family.

Another potential would be the North Carolina Coast - Good mix of having beach/water and close to mountains. Not the best of either but both good. Also have milder summers. I've barely spent any time there though, so not confident on how much I would like it.

After that, I love Seattle but not sure I'd be able to handle the dreariness full time (also not sure on it's trajectory with homelessness and also protest/rioting *** hattery). Like Chattanooga and Nashville, but I like the beach/water too much I think.
I could do a place like Jacksonville or Pensacola, although other than proximity to family and I guess a more similar culture to what I'm used to, they don't offer as much as being further south in Florida.
Like the Fairhope area but it's expensive and has brown water.

 

[Bill Shankly]

The Hebrides, Mull or Skye

 

[biscuit.sixpack]

Sardis Lake

 

[dorndawg]

We'd be neighbors in the PNW dorn. And since you continue to duck my hard questions on this board, maybe we could discuss things Tim Taylor and Wilson style. Probably with beers and legal plants.

Man you KNOW Wilson had the good ****.

 

[Dawgzilla]

Park City, UT

 

[Ralph Cramden]

Central Forida. Probly Merritt Island again. Might try Port Charlotte area tho. DeLand is pretty too if I went inland

 

[Smoked Toag]

First option, South Florida. Would love to be able to get in a boat and go to the Keys or Bahamas, have good beaches, virtually no winter. Reasonable cost of living. Only downside is no winter at all might get old and a long *** way from Mountains and far from family.

Another potential would be the North Carolina Coast - Good mix of having beach/water and close to mountains. Not the best of either but both good. Also have milder summers. I've barely spent any time there though, so not confident on how much I would like it.

After that, I love Seattle but not sure I'd be able to handle the dreariness full time (also not sure on it's trajectory with homelessness and also protest/rioting *** hattery). Like Chattanooga and Nashville, but I like the beach/water too much I think.
I could do a place like Jacksonville or Pensacola, although other than proximity to family and I guess a more similar culture to what I'm used to, they don't offer as much as being further south in Florida.
Like the Fairhope area but it's expensive and has brown water.

Virginia suburbs in DC offer a lot of things like that too.

 

[J-Dawg]

If cost of living weren't an issue, definitely a decent chunk of land in the Bozeman-Missoula, MT area. Maybe a lakehouse near Whitefish or Flathead Lakes near Glacier.

Keeping it doable:

1) Charleston-area in SC (Johns/James Island or Mt. Pleasant)
2) Texas Hill Country
3) NW Ark

 

[PearlRiverCoDawg]

My dream is to retire and live in Montana. So either there or Asheville, NC.

 

[dudehead]

Move back to Crested Butte or to neighboring community, Paonia, CO.

 

[CochiseCowbell]

(so no Montana ranches, NYC penthouses, or San Diego) where would you live?

I happen to be an e-trader, who's good with a horse and a Padres fan. Therefore, I will not be playing your game, sir.

 

[mcdawg22]

Holetown, Barbados

 

[was21]

Denver CO...or more specifically Littleton

 

[fishwater99]

I am pretty close now in Golden, CO. I am looking to move about 20 minutes up in the mountains though.

Near Bozeman, Montana would be another good option.

I also wouldn't mind the North Shore of Kauia, Hanalie Bay.

 

[dawgman42]

Watch those wildfires!

 

[fishwater99]

Denver CO

Come on out... Why Littleton ?

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

in a recent post on the OT @ tigerdroppings average IQ by state was listed. Obviously MS was last following our geographic neighbors. I'd pick somewhere near the top of that list, like Idaho (maybe even Utah).

The old lady doesn't do cold weather though, so I'd have to trade her in on a different model. My love of SEC football is one reason I've stayed, but now with errygame on TV and with all the info on the net, you can stayed plugged into SEC football from anywhere in the world, no longer held hostage by the local paper.

 

[PooPopsBaldHead]

Just going to point out that Bend, OR is probably off the table for this discussion. That place is expensive as 17 now. Just ran a quick Zillow search and of the 272 properties for sale currently, 4 are under $500k.

The mountain west has jumped the shark on pricing over the last 12 months. Places that still have some affordability out here would include Central Washington (Kennewick for example), Eastern Montana (Billings), Western South Dakota (Rapid City), Eastern Idaho (Idaho Falls), and the Western Slope of CO (Grand Junction.)


I'm already planting the seed with my wife on Idaho Falls in case we decide to cash out in the next few years. Airport has the following non stops daily:

6-Denver
5-SLC
2-DFW
2-PHX
1-SEA
1-SNA (Los Angeles Area)

3 hour drive to SLC, Big Sky, and Sun Valley for skiing. 2 hours or less to Yellowstone NP, Jackson Hole, Grand Tetons NP, and the best fly fishing in the world (Silver Creek, The Madison, South Fork of The Snake, The Yellowstone River, and Henry's Fork.) Plenty of stuff to do locally as well.

And in Idaho Falls you get more than twice the house as Bend at this point. So if I hadn't already made my jump and gotten in early, I think Idaho Falls would be real interesting.

Don't want to leave my current spot by any means, but if I did, Eastern Idaho is real interesting from a cost of living and outdoor adventures standpoint.

 

[aTotal360]

Panther Burn, MS.

 

[greenbean.sixpack]

Panther Burn, MS.

Friars Point not good enough for you?

 

[aTotal360]

I'm a man of wealth and taste.

 

[Drebin]

I'm a man of wealth and taste.

Pleased to meet you.

 

[NCDawg.sixpack]

Cherokee, NC or Lake Keowee, SC

I live in a Raleigh, NC suburb. If you don't mind Yankees all around you, it's a good place to live. Atlantic ocean to the east about 120 miles away and mountains about 170 miles to the west.

 

[Nunya.sixpack]

I moved to where we are now from the Texas hill country. Some aspects we sorely miss, all of which are co-joined with having far too many idiots in close proximity.

I actually jumped at an opportunity to be a tech manager at the tire plant in West point. Would have loved to have been local to Starkville to get my fill of all sports.

Outside of that, I have not given much thought to "hey, I could live there". I'm pretty sure the list is easier to populate of "where could I not live"

 

[The Peeper]

On a related matter:

https://twitter.com/MSStateAlumni/status/1526295752615440384

 

[missouridawg]

Somewhere with mountains

I've lived in flat farmland Missouri
Starkville
Houston, TX

Not a hill in sight. I always love traveling over to Austin, TX and into the hill country west of there.

 

[Dawg1979]

1. Pagossa springs, Co (in laws have a place there, and i love it)
2. Chattanooga(ish) area
3. Montana/Idaho

1098739. Anywhere in Mississippi

 

[PooPopsBaldHead]

Somewhere in the mountains where I could walk out the back door and go fly fishing in the summer, Elk/Deer hunting in the Fall.

It's not all it's cracked up to be. At first you think you will hunt them...

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[Bulldog Bruce]

One of my daughters lives in Cape Coral, FL. I would really love to have a house on a canal on that Southwest FL coast where my boat is on a boat lift and I walk out the back door and let the boat down to the water and go.

 

[mstateglfr]

Mainland Belize since it would offer land, awesome terrain, a ton of history and culture, good year round weather, and some fun cycling. Plus its actually affordable. So much of whats been listed so far is straight up unattainable, unless SPS is filled with 1%ers.


If I had money and California wasnt perpetually ablaze, I would heavily consider San Luis Obispo or Santa Rosa CA.

 

[ZombieKissinger]

I stayed in Idaho Falls a couple weeks ago, and I was going to ask you about it. Didn’t see the downtown, but saw they had one, and it seemed like location, size, safety, etc that it is a gold mine. I’d move there but my wife wouldn’t have it. I’d also have to give up casino poker I think