where's the best?

[JJSZABO]

Stay away from Calfornia, too many earthquakes. 

You also forgot: Massive wild fires, mudslides, polution, Environmental wakos, high taxes, Hollywood types......shall I continue?

Geee Sgt.  did you forget anything about Virginia?

[Dragon]

Stay away from Calfornia, too many earthquakes. 

You also forgot: Massive wild fires, mudslides, polution, Environmental wakos, high taxes, Hollywood types......shall I continue?

Geee Sgt.  did you forget anything about Virginia?

Ha Don't you mean the Soon to Be Island Nation of Kalifstonistan! Won't doubt that it won't be too much longer, before someone finally decides to intervene where Mother Nature has been trying to do, and make it an Island of its own already!!!   Ofcourse if that was the case, better hurry Bitzer, and get your Oceanfront Property in Scotsdale, before it's housing market sky rockets

[Bitzer!]

My ideal would me at least 60degs everyday! I too hate the cold, i'm built for speed not comfort  so have no natural insulation.  I prefer the laid back approach to life where you know your neighbours, leave your back door unlocked (!) and lifes just eases by. I hate city life- its too busy.

All I'm looking for is a nice detached house in nice surroundings and good schooling for my lil girl!

Maybe Virginia is they way to go, SgtDel paints a lovely picture and of course I'll have faith in the local constabulary   

[JJSZABO]

Virginia is a very nice state.  I work in Northern Virginia for a local Government.  I LOVE the Williamsburg area but they can get snow every now and then.  I was in Williamsburg 5 years ago in January for my anniversary and got 6 inches of snow.  Doesn't happen alot, but it does, non the less. 

It was beautiful, by the way.

[Lt.Del]

I work in Northern Virginia for a local Government.

I lived in Northern Va for only the four years I needed to to get my degree from Mason, that place was so busy and urban and expensive, and crowded, and traffic jammed that I headed back to Richmond afterwards.  Fairfax is nice and convenient, but, I am more layed back than for that lifestyle. I loved being only minutes from the nation's capital and smithsonian institute and library of congress, but, I can always drive two hours up I95 to see those.

 

I prefer the laid back approach to life where you know your neighbours, leave your back door unlocked (!) and lifes just eases by

Now I think of my parents' river house when I read this.  Everyone knows everyone and watches each other's property and drives around in golf carts.  I drove my sheriff's car there one day and parked in front of the house when I had to go to a neighboring county to pick up an extradition--I parked at the house to see what was in the fridge, when I walked back to the front door, I couldn't believe all the neighbors standing in the driveway wondering why a sheriff was at the house. When they saw it was me, it clicked in their minds.
     http://www.delbridge.net/meachim

Now, Andy, as far as it never getting below 60 degrees, I think you are out of luck. You can buy coats and sweaters at WalMart--and there are Walmarts EVERYWHERE.  Or, for warmth, you can always go to Mexico or Brazil or Cuba--but I'd triple lock all doors. Any other place and you are dealing with a lot of humidity.  As mentioned before, Arizona and New Mexico may seldomly see temps below that (well, except for at night when it can get cold in the desert) but, the water supply will not last forever there.  Texas is kind of dry and will see warmer temps, but, ask Houstonians about hurricanes.

We haven't received a good snow here in Richmond in years.  Each winter, we may get perhaps two storms that will leave merely an inch or two.  Once in a while we will get a foot of snow, but, that like once in ten years or so. It makes things fun and interesting.  An hour west of here in the mountians, they get their share of the white stuff.   I beleive it got below 30 degrees only two or three time here last winter.

As I type this I am on vacation on the outer banks of N.C. , looking at the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse through the window of the house we rented, five miles distant, and the waves crashing onto the shore, three lots away.  Went to Ocracoke Island yesterday--very nice, but we are in the middle of a wind storm right now. Going to Manteo on Roanoke island today--maybe I'll see Andy Griffith there, going by his house in a bit.  Ocracoke---now there's a place for you Andy--everyone knows everyone, small community, can keep the doors unlocked--this is where Blackbeard (Edward Teach) was killed by Robert Maynard in the 1700's--its claim to fame.  I went by the inlet yesterday where his ship was trapped in by maynard and fought to the death.  However, Ocracoke definatley sees its share of hurricanes.  www.nps.gov/caha