WANTED: New hometown

I was told that's the real gateway to the south.

 

No offense, Moddy. I think there's something about the larger southern cities I don't like. Never been fond of Atlanta, either. I could live in Charlotte, if need be.

I Love the slightly smaller cities like Savannah; Charleston; Greenville; SC; Savannah; Beaufort and even Virginia Beach.

 

Detroit meets all those requirements... ;D

Seriously, SE Michigan isn't the Grand South, but somewhere like Ann Arbor may fit the bill. While it ain't warm and sunny from December thru March it can be argued that it does meet all other criteria listed (and it's still a helluva lot more temperate than Ottawa, though it does lack La Pigale). Housing in pretty much all of Metro Detroit is dirt-cheap now, with many, many homes (old and new) going begging. A-Squared is about 15-20 minutes from the airport. Schools are quality, lots to do in town.

The other city that popped in my mind was Madison. I LOVE it there. Would be one of the few places I'd actively look to relocate. Again, you don't have the benefit of fine winter weather, it's not exactly Yellowknife, either.

 

While The Jones may say "temperate," as I read this thread down I've come to believe that he actually means something else. A Canadian man through and through, toughened by the seasons, he can't bring himself to say it, but what he desires isn't just a state of relative snowlessness. He seeks heat, and in a very narrow range of acceptable new temperatures - from "warm" to "comfortable" to "shorts" to "summerweight kilt" to "I have a fence, so pants off entirely" to "just another 4th of July weekend in Palm Springs with Tori Spelling" to "Liberace Museum parking lot in August" to "heat capable of thinning the blood of an immobilized retiree." Boy wants to feel the sun on his beavertail. And who can blame him?

 

Really? It's so spread out, I would have never guessed. My brother was stationed there for a couple of years. It always felt more like a big suburb than a city.

 

Wow, Va. Beach is twice the size of Richmond - yet Richmond has twice the crime and four times the number of murders:

http://newyork.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Virginia+Beach&s1=VA&c2=Richmond&s2=VA

 

Jones:

How high on the list (pun intended) does "availability of good weed at decent prices" register?

 

I thought Jones was looking for an intemperate place which would probably rule out Salt Lake City

 

http://newyork.areaconnect.com/crime/compare.htm?c1=Norfolk&s1=VA&c2=Ashland&s2=VA

It just depends where you live.

Henrico and Hanover Counties are fine. You just need to live north of the river and away from the east side of town. If you live south of the river, you need to be a little more careful where you live.