Boise is perfect if you're white
Boise is perfect if you're white
I'd look for somewhere in California but one of the lesser known places, within 1-2 hours of a city but not too near it.
Interesting that Florida isn't mentioned once in all these pages. I really liked it when I went. Not the tourist bits. But then I like flat terrain and heat, and not everyone does.
I wish I could live in the USA actually.
track chick wrote:
I'd look for somewhere in California but one of the lesser known places, within 1-2 hours of a city but not too near it.
Interesting that Florida isn't mentioned once in all these pages. I really liked it when I went. Not the tourist bits. But then I like flat terrain and heat, and not everyone does.
I wish I could live in the USA actually.
well I guess you didn't meet Florida Man then.
flat terrain and heat......pretty much list of what I don't want.
I get the heat bit, but flat? I could never do it....it just feels eerie. what's the attraction? For me a landscape is its topography, its contours.
I didn't use to like flat, then I had an accident and tore several things in my knee, had surgery, then it tore again, and I developed a foot issue too. My biomechanics are messed up - I can walk more easily when it's flat as a pancake, hills... it just doesn't work... can get about 100 metres... if that... I don't bother any more trying to get up them as don't want the pain after... so for me I guess it's an access thing, I can get further. Annoyingly where I live, it's like something out of the hovis advert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE
My street is like that.
Florida seems disliked by a lot of people - because of Disney? Or other reasons. But some of the lesser known places look really good (swamps, can go riding on those things with fans on the back).
California has a mixture of things.
New Mexico looks interesting too.
You have so much choice and variety over there.
Sorry to hear about your injury.
About the choice and variety over here - if only we could learn to appreciate it, not just our part of it.
Your street really looks like that? A lot of people would like that.
Yes it does look like that apart from it is not cobbled, it has a tarmac road, and there is more greenery.
I guess there is choice here too - I have considered moving to Wales, as I really like it there! But the USA is so vast and there is so much variety - it is like a collection of 10-20 countries to me. Say the difference between Alaska, the desert, swamps, mountains, the coast, prairies, lakes, etc.
Wales was nice. Was there a while back and really liked Cotswolds and Lake District, amongst others.
The different parts of U.S. are strikingly different. Maybe i am a little biased, but i am entitled to my favorites, and for me, that's the coasts.
Back to the topic - I'd go for something on either coast, and of the two, the west one.
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed visiting the UK! Maybe the OP should get a camper van and try out lots of different US locations.
I found a nice place to start: Cayucos, California.
GOod choice! The whole Highway 1 route up the coast of California is one of the most gorgeous places on earth. Just amazing.
And yes, I did like England, Wales, Scotland a lot!
G-Night.
track chick wrote:
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed visiting the UK! Maybe the OP should get a camper van and try out lots of different US locations.
I found a nice place to start: Cayucos, California.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Cayucos_CA_-_beach.jpg/800px-Cayucos_CA_-_beach.jpg
Bring a lot of $$ because houses aren't cheap there! (but cheaper than LA, SFO, or San Diego)
California Dream'n wrote:
track chick wrote:
I'm glad to hear you enjoyed visiting the UK! Maybe the OP should get a camper van and try out lots of different US locations.
I found a nice place to start: Cayucos, California.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Cayucos_CA_-_beach.jpg/800px-Cayucos_CA_-_beach.jpgBring a lot of $$ because houses aren't cheap there! (but cheaper than LA, SFO, or San Diego)
i don't get the attraction to that landscape at all... it basically looks like Yakima, Washington with a beach.
Dried up shrub brush has absolutely zero appeal to me.