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Totally agree. Also if you don't like rain along with awesome weather, So Cal it is.
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a. Portland - Hipster area. You'll run into lots of homeless 20 somethings at night, but overall it has a nice scene. Great public transportation
b. Nashville - Hot, humid, I do know someone who lived there for a few years. He loved every minute of it.
c. Boulder - Never been there, but I hear its nice. It will get cold here.
d. Denver - Always wanted to go here, also will get cold here
e. San Francisco/Bay Area - Expensive, lots of tech people.
f. Chicago - Gets cold here. There are many tech start ups here and a decent financial sector.
g. Asheville - Ask BearsBud
h. Los Angeles - Cop shows on TV ruined LA for me.
i. Seattle - Like a grown up Portland, except still lacking a good public transporation system. Lots of tech people here as well...Real estate is pricey.
j. New Orleans - Hot and humid as hell. I've never been, so I don't know whats there except Mardi Gras.
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In general young people are flocking to Seattle and San Fran in the tech industry as that's where everything is. You can get paid a handsome sum there. But real estate is expensive so you'll be paying a bit for rent/housing unless you live bumfuck far away.
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Of those listed..Id say Chicago and Nashville are the better, but I am hearing a lot of negatives about Chicago lately from friends who still live there
As for Asheville..I live about 45 minutes away in a small town...Great place as long as ya dont go into Asheville much...Its just like S/F without the good paying jobs...The OP wants a good paying job, so Id stay away from most of the south then..There are no unions here, and the pay sucks. Also, its a right to work state. They can fire you on the spot for absolutely no reason and you have no recourse.
Tradesmen here make 14@hour if theyre lucky..Job turnover is huge here..Teachers cant afford to live here on their salary. The county is considering dorms for teachers so they can at least have a roof over their heads
Charlotte NC is an up and coming town..Huge in the finance field too... Ive been there many times..A very nice city..I would recommend the OP looking into it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlotte,_North_Carolina
Duke Energy Center and the Westin
AT&T in Charlotte
Charlotte has become a major U.S. financial center and is now the second largest banking center in the United States (after New York).[citation needed] The nation's second largest financial institution by assets, Bank of America, calls the city home. The city was also the former corporate home of Wachovia until its 2008 acquisition by Wells Fargo in San Francisco CA; Wells Fargo integrated legacy Wachovia, with the two banks fully merged at the end of 2011, which included transitioning all of the Wachovia branches in the Carolinas to Wells Fargo branches by October 2011. Since then, Charlotte became the regional headquarters for East Coast Operations of Wells Fargo, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Charlotte also serves as the headquarters for Wells Fargo's capital markets activities including sales and trading, equity research, and investment banking. Bank of America's headquarters, along with other regional banking and financial services companies, are located primarily in the Uptown central business district.
Charlotte has eight Fortune 500 companies in its metropolitan area, listed in order of their rank: Bank of America, Lowe's in suburban Mooresville, Nucor (steel producer), Duke Energy, Sonic Automotive, Family Dollar, SPX Corporation (industrial technology), and Domtar (in suburban Fort Mill). Other major companies headquartered or with corporate operations in Metro Charlotte include: Chiquita Brands International, Extended Stay Hotels, Babcock and Wilcox, RSC Brands, TIAA-CREF, Time Warner Cable (formerly a business unit of Fortune 500 company Time Warner), Fox Sports 1, ESPNU, Continental Tire the Americas, LLC., Muzak, Belk, Cato Corporation, Harris Teeter, Meineke Car Care Center, Lance, Inc, Carolina Foods Inc, Bojangles', Carlisle Companies, National Gypsum, Electrolux, LendingTree, Compass Group USA, Food Lion, and Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated (the nation's second largest Coca-Cola bottler). U.S. Airways regional carrier CCAir was headquartered in Charlotte.[41][42]
Carowinds Amusement Park, owned by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company is located in Charlotte.
Charlotte is the major center in the U.S. motorsports industry, housing multiple offices of NASCAR, the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Charlotte Motor Speedway in Concord. Approximately 75% of the NASCAR industry's race teams, employees and drivers are based nearby. The large presence of the racing technology industry along with the newly built NHRA dragstrip, zMAX Dragway at Concord, is influencing other top professional drag racers to move their shops to Charlotte as well. The Metrolina Speedway is expected to bring more local racing along with a skate park, shoppes, restaurants, and an upscale hotel.
Located in the western part of Mecklenburg County is the U.S. National Whitewater Center, which consists of man-made rapids of various degrees and is open to the public year round.[43]
One Wells Fargo Center behind the Latta Arcade in Uptown Charlotte
The Charlotte Region has a major base of energy-oriented organizations and has become known as “Charlotte USA – The New Energy Capital.” In the region there are more than 240 companies directly tied to energy sector collectively employing more than 26,400. Since 2007 more than 4,000 energy sector jobs have been announced. Major energy players in Charlotte include AREVA, Babcock and Wilcox, Duke Energy, Electric Power Research Institute, Fluor, Metso Power, Piedmont Natural Gas, Siemens Energy, Shaw Group, Toshiba, URS Corp., and Westinghouse. The University of North Carolina at Charlotte has a reputation in energy education and research and its Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) trains energy engineers and conducts research.
The area is an increasingly growing trucking and freight transportation hub for the East Coast. The Charlotte Center city has seen remarkable growth over the last decade. Numerous residential units continue to be built uptown, including over 20 skyscrapers under construction, recently completed, or in the planning stage. Many new restaurants, bars and clubs now operate in the Uptown area. Several projects are transforming the Midtown Charlotte/Elizabeth area.[44]
In 2013, Forbes named Charlotte among its list of Best Places for Business and Careers.[45] Charlotte has also been listed as the #20 largest city in the US, and the #60 fastest growing city in the US between 2000-2008.[46]
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Portland and Nashville were the top two on my shortlist too. I deceded on Portland mainly because I know some people there.
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I think I'm gonna be moving up to western NC in the next few years. Just outside Asheville. Going to try pulling off maintaining 2 residences, one there and another here (in Central FL). Think I can do that in 2-3 years. BACK TO WORK!
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As for Asheville, if it causes Bearsbud to start hyper-stereotyping about weird peple, it's probably a great place.
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I live in Seattle, well, the East Side actually, where all the tech companies are.
I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Real Estate is pricey compared to some of the places you listed, but cheaper than San Fran or So Cal. Public Transport does suck but they're building more, so maybe in 20 years it'll be better.
If you like music, or outdoors stuff at all, Seattle is amazing. We also have pretty much the best breweries in the US.
I wouldn't want to live anywhere else. Real Estate is pricey compared to some of the places you listed, but cheaper than San Fran or So Cal. Public Transport does suck but they're building more, so maybe in 20 years it'll be better.
If you like music, or outdoors stuff at all, Seattle is amazing. We also have pretty much the best breweries in the US.
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Don't come to Denver. I used to advocate people moving here because of the amazing culture, weather, water, education, etc...but now it's crowded!
Denver is full of blacks, hispters, pot smoke, terrible water, and crazy ass crackers who want to shoot your grandma in the face.
Stay away!
Denver is full of blacks, hispters, pot smoke, terrible water, and crazy ass crackers who want to shoot your grandma in the face.
Stay away!
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Good stuff, everyone. The actual short list is SF, Denver, and Nashville I'm thinking.
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It's a beautiful place. I'm into doing outdoors stuff (hiking, mountain bike riding, camping, rafting etc)...and it's perfect for that. Some pics below. The people (in my experience) are a weird combination of hillbillies, retired people with a bunch of money and hippies. Doesn't bother me at all though, to each their own. I enjoy the diversity. Not freaking out because I saw a lesbian in a drum circle one time, lol.
Pisgah National Forest
Dupont State Forest
Blue Ridge Parkway
Downtown Asheville
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I'd move to Seattle in a heartbeat if it weren't for the weather.
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Most articles I've read has Portland as the #1 city in the US for microbreweries.
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-beer-cities/2
http://www.weather.com/travel/americas-best-beer-cities-20120717?pageno=2
http://www.travelandleisure.com/articles/americas-best-beer-cities/2
http://www.weather.com/travel/americas-best-beer-cities-20120717?pageno=2
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SF is probably better for your line of work ... right?
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Yep. I love diversity and weirdness. Being surrounded by straight-edged people all day is a nightmare.
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I've only visited Nashville but it was freakin amazing when I did. I actually looked up jobs in Nashville when we got home.
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I love Asheville too. Like nvan said, lots of great outdoors stuff to do around there. We go to the zoo a lot.
Now when I go to the zoo I will think of this little book my wife bought called the faithful elephants (or something like that) and I will cry.
Now when I go to the zoo I will think of this little book my wife bought called the faithful elephants (or something like that) and I will cry.