So say you were going to pick everything up and go live somewhere else (in the states), where? Why?

[countryjake]

86. I did that 34 yrs ago & ended up in WA state...

packed up bare necessities, picked up my baby girl, and the two of us drove away from Ohio without looking back.

At first, the climate change was hard to get used to, but the hot summers back home had made working difficult for me; to this day I miss a real winter, but not the unbearable heat. What I eventually found out was that here one can find all the snow you'd like, a short drive away, up into the mountains.

The grey skies have never bothered me, we have exquisite islands here that don't receive nearly the rainy days that the rest of Western Washington gets; the San Juans are almost like paradise, if you can figure out how to stay put on them. So, I guess that Orcas Island might be where I'd love to live now that I'm old (or move back to), tho I doubt that'll ever happen.