If I didnt haver a job, a place to live and lots of family in the bay, I would be gone.

 

Same here... I moved here from Germany and picked northern CA mostly for the weather and scenery. I refuse to live anywhere near the snowbelt, or in excessively hot and/or humid locales, and I love to be near the ocean. My job and my friends are here. Also, the Bay Area has a broad range of very attractive cultural and recreational offerings while still allowing me to live in rural surroundings. I think it'd be hard to find this combination of characteristics in too many other places, so I just put up with the BS dished out in Sacramento.

 

FL=Hurricanes every year
Coastal TX=Massive illegal immigration on the west coastal region, hurricanes on the east coastal region.
NC=Hurricanes every year

I notice that a lot of the places you want to live are nice because they don't have Conservatives overrunning the state. Of course, there are exceptions, but for the most part...

 

weather is too nice to move.

 

If I had the means to move, yes I would. Short list of possible locations though.

1. A small prefecture on the outskirts of Tokyo or Osaka, Japan.

2. Vancouver, BC.

3. Hawaii is also nice if I stayed in the US.

I like being in, or around a very large metropolitan city, so any of those will accomodate me.

 

im in school still and am very familiar with the bay area (born and raised) so im still comfortable here...i would move to washington, oregon or to tokyo to live with my grandpa

 

right now... for me... a job.

plain and simple. i've been looking for jobs in NV, AZ, OR... i somehow wanted to stay in the west coast and get a public sector job.

but just last week, i applied to a killer gig... but it's in washington DC...

oh well...

 

kalif right now... if you can remember the movie TITANIC... is at the stage where dicaprio is drawing that nekkid winslet...

that iceberg is just right around the corner...