WANTED: New hometown

No. It mists.

 

It rains everywhere.
Portland = 36.5" a year
Seattle = 37.2
Austin = 32.1
San Diego = 20.3
Ashville = 47.7
Boston 41.7
Boise = 12
Missoula = 12

You'll get a lot of rain in the winter in Portland and Seattle. You'll rarely see snow. The rain rarely blows to the point you can't venture outside and the vegetation that rain sustains has always seemed worth it to me. But yes, there's something nice about knowing that any weekend from June through August will be dry (Missoula/Boise/Salt Lake etc...)

 

Jones, you cannot start a thread like this and leave everyone hanging.

Have you narrowed your choices?

 

The traffic remains the 800-pound gorilla. Rush hour is horrifying.

 

A friend of mine just got transfered to Atlanta for his job.
The first thing out of his mouth was, "the traffic sucks here."

 

I skipped this thread for a while, so I missed this.

That's not A1A, that's U.S. 1 (which does double duty as state road 5). The stretch on the south side of Key West is the only place where A1A exists below Miami.

And playthrough ... the PCH is nothing like the Overseas Highway.

 

Have you considered Shanghai?

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You don't have to consider it. One day you're just there against your will.

 

Vancouver, Washington, USA.

Right across the river fro Portland. Unbelievable easy access to PDX. Better tax structure than Oregon. State that invests in education, both K-12 and higher ed. Very temperate climate. Yes, it rains from late Oct-late April. But seldom snows. MLS expansion in the immediate future, outstanding college soccer at UP (also closer to Vancouver than much of the PDX metro area), AAA baseball, jr. hockey, and I-AA FB in town and two I-A teams less than two hours away. Three hours to Seattle in bad traffic.

Two hours to the coast, two hours to Mt. Hood, 90 minutes to the wind-surfing paradise of Hood River, etc.

 

Vancouver, home of strip-mall neighborhoods. But a very nice farmers market downtown on Saturday and Sunday, and there's a good Thai restaurant downtown.

Tickets and beer are cheap at a Portland Beavers baseball game. There are nice restaurants in Portland's Pearl District, and you could spend a day in Powell's Books.

Mount Hood rules, and Mount St. Helen's is pretty cool, too.

 

Dothan, Ala., is a pretty decent town, I've come to find.

You wont' get many tornadoes, but you'll get hurricanes.

Little warm in the summers.

Dothan has several flights each day. Tallahassee and Panama City are also close.

 

Camden, NJ