I second that!!! Although I prefer upstate SC. The Clemson/Greenville area is absolutely gorgeous, nice weather all year round, man I miss living there!

I lived in southeast GA (savannah area) most of my life and its wonderful too. Even the hot humid temps in the summer!

I always told myself that before I settle down and get married, have kids, etc., I'd love to live somewhere urban -- LA (with Maria), or Boston (with Nic), or even Chicago (with Jules!).

However, after my trips of last year and this year, NC and Baton Rouge are pretty nice too (because of K of course).

Still, there is no doubt in my mind that Hawaii is where I want to raise my children. I wouldn't want it any other way.

I'm going to have to third that one. I love living in Georgia. I grew up in Marietta, a suburb of Atlanta, which is beautiful and a great place to raise your kids. Plus, you've got to love that southern hospitality! ;)

i took this quiz and it placed me mainly in the state of oregon.

If I had Lots of money, I think I'd like to settle in Atherton, CA, or Palos Verdes, CA.

That is quite an interesting site! I was amazed that almost every place we've talked about is listed on there! They suggested like four cities in Tenn...my husband is terrified of running into the KKK or something. That's his only drawback with VA...one of his buddies told him about all the very 'Confederate' people that still live there! Oh well, we're still looking! Thanks for all the feedback though! It has definitely helped!

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I like it where I am, thanks.

It's not bad at all. Seriously. I've never seen a problem.

Go and live in a different country for a few years. Live in countries where you never expect to live. Countries in SE Asia, Southern AFrica, South America, etc. You'll thank me later.

WV isn't too bad.

Just depends what you want. There are a lot of undeveloped area's if you like the country and a few decent sized cities that have a lot of the things you may miss from an urban area.

I do find it kind of funny when I hear someone say that they are afraid of all the rednecks and the KKK in certain states. I mean, it's not like we have awareness days and parades wondering down the street.

I've that stuff on tv, but never in real life.

Interesting; I got VA and NYC for my top choices. In all likelihood I'll be in DC within a couple of years, although eventually I'd like to come back to the Boston area (especially the suburb where I live now).

I visited the site...pretty interesting! It placed me pretty much where I wanted to be....warm, beachy climates. Now if I could only find someone to move with me....

I have never really noticed a racial problem in VA. I grew up in the Tidewater area (Norfolk, Cheaspeak, VA Beach). Now I live in Wilson, inbetween Greenville and Raleigh. Not much difference in the two areas. I have been living in Wilson for about 7 years now (4 during college and going on 4 teaching). I think it is about time to move out! Both areas are nice and would be wonderful places to raise a family. Wilson is much more of a family place instead of a single girl in her 20's place.

Since I went to Virginia Tech, I know Roanoke pretty good and then have visited Raliegh and different parts of WV here and there.
Roanoke is really nice, you will get all four seasons as you say and the city is on the smaller side if you are looking for something like that. Winters can be very cold and snowy in the mountains/valley area, but spring through fall is so nice. I like the atmosphere and it was a great area to go to college, so I can imagine it would be nice to have your kids grow up around there. Roanoke has really good schools, some of my friends went to Cave Springs which I hear is really nice.

Someone spoke about the Delta Gamma chapter there, at Virginia Tech they are great. Shari Malone was the advisor for this chapter for many years. It can be hard to find advisors/Alumnae Board members in this area. My Pi Phi chapter is lucky enough to have a great AAC board who live in Blacksburg, but the closest alumnae club is in Roanoke so we dont do that much with them. Since there arent many other alum in the area it can be hard on them though.

As far as racism goes, the Roanoke area is definately primarily white. I dont think there is a problem with racism though, but I cant speak from that perspective of course. But for goodness sake you do not have to worry about running into the KKK as you put it in VA. I guess some people might be considered still "confederate" as your husband's friend said, but thats bc they have confederate flag stickers and the such on their trucks. From people who I know who have them always say its bc it means being proud of being from the south or something like that.

Lots of retired military folks and a fairly large Hispanic population along Colorado's Front Range -- particularly Colorado Springs with Fort Carson, Falcon Air Station, Peterson AFB, The Air Force Academy, NORAD/Space Command, etc. (Also Buckley AFB in Aurora, just outside Denver)

What most people don't realize about Colorado is that the seasons are fairly temperate. Most of the snow is really in the mountains -- not in Denver or the Springs. We've been in the 40's most of January which is not unusual and Denver has as many sunny days yearly as San Diego (altho it's not nearly as warm, obviously)

When we get big snow storms, they can be really big, but because of the bright sunshine and very low humidity year round (another real calling card), the snow burns off much more quickly than other parts of the country.

Hey now, have you been here so long you forgot the vows you took when you became a citizen of Colorado? We're supposed to perpetuate the myth that it's REALLY COLD AND SNOWY HERE ALL THE TIME because if people knew how nice it is, they'd all move here. ;)