Thank you so much everyone for your responses!!
I was originally planning to move to Seattle, but I got a little bummed when I sent a bunch of resumes out there and NOBODY was AT ALL interested. (Part of my problem is that as an attorney, I will have to take a bar exam anywhere I move, so won't be able to practice right away and might have to find a job doing something else for a while, which is okay with me as long as I can find something). So that got me thinking that maybe there would be other places that would be good and I shouldn't limit myself right away.
So my list of potential places, as of right now, includes: Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis, Providence, Charlotte and Atlanta. Because I'm a little goofy, I was thinking about making the decision this way: write down the names of these towns on little pieces of paper, put them in a hat, and pick one. I would HAVE TO move to the one I picked. To make things interesting, I was going to add a town I wouldn't normally pick to the mix, and that's where Memphis came in, although after reading what everyone has to say about Memphis, I am probably scratching that off the list. So anyway, that's where I am now.
I have a few more questions if you all aren't really sick of this already. How southern is Charlotte? Must one excel at the finer points of being a southern belle to have a social life there? Also, how about Atlanta? I get the impression that, while Atlanta is in the south, it's not really "considered" the south? Is that true? And finally, how hot does it really get in Charlotte and Atlanta, and for how long is it hot every year? Heat might be the thing to keep me away from the south, because I don't do well with it at all (every summer in Chicago, my favorite thing to say is I'M MOVING TO ALASKA!)...
Thanks again.
