Try Orange County in California, it's where I live.
Houses are high (average of $350,000 for a '60's tract house like I have), employment is excellent! We have the second largest financial district in the U.S. (Irvine/Newport Beach).
Great weather, never snows, a little rain.
Pacific Ocean is here.
Two hours you can be in the mountains (Big Bear, Arrowhead).
Two hours you can be in the desert.
Four and a half hours you can be in Glamis.
And this is the conservative stronghold of California!

 

I didn't think conservative was a spoken word in California[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-shocked.gif[/img]

Chet

 

I was fixin' to to make a similar comment, Chet. [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img] Personally, if you like to live in a free society then California has definitely got to be the worst place to move. The politicians out there are a bunch of ****'s who don't let you do much of anything that the Constitution guarantees you. That in itself is an incentive for me to look somewhere else like Montana, for instance.[img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img]

 

Utah is a great place to live and too many people know that already. Low unemployment, great growth, affordable housing, millions of miles of public ATV trails, and allot of Mormons. We prefer people to just visit though, and leave allot of their money here. We are trying to get more people to move to other states because there are too many people here already.

Good luck on your job hunting.

 

I just love it when people make comments about something they know nothing about. What does anyone from Illinois know about living in California? I've been here for most of my 38 years - and I've lived in Kentucky and spent quite a bit of time in Alabama - talk about living in places where they don't let you live your life.
California is one of the most liberal places to live and if a politician does something the people don't agree with, then his career goes in the sh!tter as soon as his term is up.
Its the same anywhere you live, and its what you make it. regardless of what anyone says, check places out for yourself before basing a decision on someone's ignorant comment

 

Personally, I grew up in CA but moved away around 1980 - it wasn't bad then but has changed since. More crowded, more expensive and more laws. Look at Glamis - the majority of that place has been shut down in recent decades. I think there are still nice places in CA but little by little it (like most states) is being eroded away but bopulation growth, crime, environmentalists, etc....

Utah is awesome, Idaho is awesome, Oregon (from what I know from reading, etc) should be awesome, Wyoming is OK, Colorado is OK - these states still respect the right of ATV and OHVers. I know there are other states but these are the ones I go to and ride.

 

Yo AMADRID quote "California is one of the most liberal places to live " Thats the problem

What was that Govenor of California's name?????? Can you say Gray Davis????? LMFAO

As long as you are a tree hugging, transvestite, Liberal you have you have plenty of rights in California, otherwise you must be an oil company executive trying to destroy the world.

Thank God I live in NH "Live Free or Die" (state motto) although I work as a Lead Network Engineer just outside Boston, in the other liberal bastion, Cambridge, I still get to go home at the end of the day to some sanity, so I am OK.

There are actually plenty of jobs around but you have to start at the bottom, you sould have spent your time working instead of getting a Masters, you would be one wrung higher on the ladder now. Everyone wants to come out of school and earn $100,000, it took me 18 years in the computer field to get to that level.

Good luck