If you were to move South

[warthog]

gregkl, I too have done a fair amount of moving around. Born in PA, moved to NJ, then NY (not the city) then up near Chicago and down to Champaign Urbana IL plus Africa and Peru whilst I was a Peace Corps Volunteer. I would say my favorite of these was the Champaign Urbana area barring IL gun laws.

I moved to IN about 9 years ago because of the cost of living plus at the time had to return to IL for paid healthcare insurance. Recently m healthcare insurance became more portable (not due to the Obamacare fiasco) but had it done so right after aI was hur in a work accident coausing me to be unable to work I would have moved to the Dakotas instead. I have been there a few times for Bike Week plus I do have a fried up there with some land I have visited in ND I loved the place and have wanted to live there since the first time I went there. Beautiful landscape and perfect (for me) weather. I can only hope to live there sometime.

 

[indiucky]

I have a permanent live-in house-guest from Pennsylvania for the last two years. She calls Indiana, "The nothern-most southern state".

One of my customers is from Alabama and I was teasing him about it one day and he said, "I won't take that crap from a Hoosier...You do know that Indiana is the Mississippi of the Midwest don't you?"

I never heard it put quite so eloquently .....

 

[Super Bee]

Tennessee is nice, but you can cross over from Gatlinburg to NC, and there were some absolutely captivating places outside Cherokee, to the northwest. I would move there, no problem, and I'm not one to move.

This.

My great grandmother is 100 percent Cherokee. I love going down to this area as I have distant family there. We camped for 12 days down there this past summer, absolutely beautiful area.

On the short list the Greensboro NC area and the west coast of Florida.

 

[CathyInBlue]

Why is your answer, no?
Do you like IN that much or dislike the south?

Six of one. Half a dozen of the other.

 

[marv]

SE TX. I have some relatives there.

 

[The Drifter]

Up rooting my wife will never happen , to much family here in NW Indiana . To me the hills of south west Indiana are a different state , I would be happy with that ,if I could get her to move . Other then that eastern Tenn. or western N. C. would be my place to live. Love it around there.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

The venomous snakes are better eating, as I understand. Rattlesnake is for sure good.

 

[nickf2005]

Many don't realize that many of the larger cities in Tennessee are crime ridden. You get around Memphis, Jackson, and even Nashville, it's little different than being in any big city you hear about in the news all the time. I wouldn't want to live around any of the touristy areas like Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/etc. either...too many yankees.

I lived in Jackson from 2009-2013. Definitely was going in a downward trend when it came to safety. Memphis is beginning to have a lot of influence on Jackson, in a bad way.

SE TN though, would be prime spot to completely uproot to. Lower cost of living and not state income tax.

I could see my wife and I (we're only 28) eventually buying a winter home in the panhandle or southern Alabama. I doubt we would ever completely uproot from our future build site.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

I wanna go to Oklahoma. They have people beheading each other there, I'd like to run across one o them.

 

[VN Vet]

I love the big hills of NE Georgia. SE Missouri is nice too. I'd have to review the gun laws, because I think Indiana will be hard to beat.

 

[JetGirl]

Like...*out* of Indiana?
Yeah, that's not happening.
Never ever ever.
It'd take more than a whole lot of C4 to get my butt out of the Hoosier state.
And that's not *just* because my butt's big.

Florida

I'm moving to Florida

Gack
Have either of you ever lived there? I don't mean "visited as tourists"...I mean LIVED there for any length of time.
*shudder*

 

[24Carat]

I would move to somewhere around Nashville.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

Like...*out* of Indiana?
Yeah, that's not happening.
Never ever ever.
It'd take more than a whole lot of C4 to get my butt out of the Hoosier state.
And that's not *just* because my butt's big.

Gack
Have either of you ever lived there? I don't mean "visited as tourists"...I mean LIVED there for any length of time.
*shudder*

Wouldn't want to live in Florida. I want to stay north of the Palmetto bugs and gators.

 

[JetGirl]

I want to stay north of the Palmetto bugs and gators.

And fire ants and love bugs and rattle snakes and jelly fish and sand spurs and hurricanes and red tide and sand fleas and the Buccaneers...
Just to name a few...

 

[DoggyDaddy]

And fire ants and love bugs and rattle snakes and jelly fish and sand spurs and hurricanes and red tide and sand fleas and the Buccaneers...
Just to name a few...

 

[wtfd661]

Another vote for TN!

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Had a couple of aunts and uncles and whatnot that retired to FL, Boca Raton, places like that. It was captivating to visit, but it was 1978 and it [bad word] snowed while we were there, so it was kind of a buzzkill. Made appreciating the beach kinda difficult. It was funny, though, my mom was ridiculing me for wanting to take my winter coat to FL, but we had a heck of a time getting back through the [bad word] blizzard, and she was wishing she had hers.

 

[Leadeye]

Says the bloke living in Indiana!

Ah, nice. Good compromise. A happy medium.

Don't get to 35 years without some compromise, although this was an unusual year for unpleasant critters around here.

 

[mbills2223]

I doubt we would ever completely uproot from our future build site.

Even with those ****ty neighbors?

 

[nickf2005]

Even with those ****ty neighbors?

Very true. They are terrible. However, they like guns, so I could maybe put up with them.