Same here....
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finally have my sister convinced that it might be time to be moving on. Been looking for places now for quite a few years.
Without any doubt my favorite places are in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota.... but those winters! OH MY GOD those winters. I have to force myself to be honest... I couldn't survive those winters, not even in the most mild locations in those states.
I'm very fond of Utah... one of my favorite states for sheer beauty... but the rest of my family isn't fond of Utah... too much desert for them - doesn't matter that I tell them some of the lushest forests in the world are in Utah. Same with Az and NM, both of them I love but my family isn't having it because all they think is barren waste.
In all my travels the friendliest people I've come across, and I've traveled extensively and a lot, are in the South... Tennessee, Mo, Alabama, Texas.... although I've been to Georgia, the Carolina's Louisiana, I don't know those states as well.
A state I truly like a LOT but is NEVER mentioned as a nice place to live, or at least is rarely mentioned, is Oklahoma. Great People.... and some beautiful countryside.
Now Eastern Oregon... I really like it... and it fits your criteria, but for that matter so does the far west of Oregon, on the coast.
States that "in my head" I think of fondly but don't really know much about are Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and I've been to all of them but only briefly.
So after all that where would I personally choose? Mostly likely Wyoming... there are a few pockets where the winter, though bad, is not atrocious.
And it should be noted I never, not under any circumstances, think "Cities"... which to me is anything over about 20,000 people.... and even if I HAD to choose a city of 10 to 20,000 people I'd choose something far from town center, like MILES and MILES away.
- JamesJM
Without any doubt my favorite places are in Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, South Dakota.... but those winters! OH MY GOD those winters. I have to force myself to be honest... I couldn't survive those winters, not even in the most mild locations in those states.
I'm very fond of Utah... one of my favorite states for sheer beauty... but the rest of my family isn't fond of Utah... too much desert for them - doesn't matter that I tell them some of the lushest forests in the world are in Utah. Same with Az and NM, both of them I love but my family isn't having it because all they think is barren waste.
In all my travels the friendliest people I've come across, and I've traveled extensively and a lot, are in the South... Tennessee, Mo, Alabama, Texas.... although I've been to Georgia, the Carolina's Louisiana, I don't know those states as well.
A state I truly like a LOT but is NEVER mentioned as a nice place to live, or at least is rarely mentioned, is Oklahoma. Great People.... and some beautiful countryside.
Now Eastern Oregon... I really like it... and it fits your criteria, but for that matter so does the far west of Oregon, on the coast.
States that "in my head" I think of fondly but don't really know much about are Ohio, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and I've been to all of them but only briefly.
So after all that where would I personally choose? Mostly likely Wyoming... there are a few pockets where the winter, though bad, is not atrocious.
And it should be noted I never, not under any circumstances, think "Cities"... which to me is anything over about 20,000 people.... and even if I HAD to choose a city of 10 to 20,000 people I'd choose something far from town center, like MILES and MILES away.
- JamesJM
