Help me pick my next city, considering : Seattle, Philly, Denver, Nova area, Portland

[DevanXL]

Originally Posted by Gaylord_Focker

What a great country huh? Ive heard Minneapolis is like a smaller NYC, but also heard it is crazy freaking cold up there. Never been.

Not really. Vancouver is more like a small new york, but thats a story for another thread. How important is heat to you? Can you deal with cloudy or really snowy weather?

[pnwretired]

Originally Posted by ironcouger

Im renting a 3 bedroom in columbia city area by the new PCC Market for 1200 a month ? And Seattle's been sunny for most of June And all of July we have had not a trace of precipitation. And sunny almost every day. Personally I would take cloudy Skys over deep freeze and cold durring the winter Seattle actually gets les rain than most east cost cities and snow is rare.

How long have you lived here? If you are new to the area of course it hasn't affected you - the grey skies that is. I have been here 30 years now and it started really bothering me about 5 years ago. I guess you can say I enjoyed it for 25 years.

[Gaylord_Focker]

Originally Posted by DevanXL

Not really. Vancouver is more like a small new york, but thats a story for another thread. How important is heat to you? Can you deal with cloudy or really snowy weather?

Yeah, the person that told me that was from Iowa, so any place with skyscrapers to him is like NYC. I don't really like the heat. Love snow, but have never spent a winter in it.

[UrbanPeddler]

Haven't lived in the other cities you have listed, but am considering move to Seattle, Portland, Nashville or ? lol so your post caught my eye. I live in Denver, with kids in your son's age range. Fantastic place with lots of options for variety in the various suburbs.

With the legalization, there are quite a few people moving into Colorado. Vacancies are hard to find, scams are on the rise, and rents are on the high side. Good news is employment is great, wages are above average, all major sports exist in the city, transit is user friendly and above average...you can definitely get around without owning a car and without being inconvenienced.

I moved here from AZ and summer desert heat, never having experienced winters, and Denver is situated in such a way along the mountains that it really doesn't suffer the way other areas do. It may snow for a few days, but all the while the sun is usually shining at some point and the snow is melting quickly. It doesn't stay on the ground for days/weeks like it can in other areas (of course, like Chicago, we've had our record-breaker winters that were uncommonly cold or had alot of snow, but for the most part, it snows for a day or two, then it's sunny and melts away....then it snows for a day or two lol and then it's sunny again); summers get hot so you can enjoy the lakes and outdoors and be reminded of the summer heat in Texas, but breaking up those two seasons are an awesome spring and beautiful fall.

There are wildlife reserves in the area, easy access to mountains, diverse community, decent night life for singles, crime isn't bad (not counting the high number of high-profile shootings Colorado has had), schools are decent and there are an equal number of oil/gas opportunities to green jobs, especially in local farm markets, farm-to-table movements, solar and wind production.

Hope this helps. Contrary to what people are hoping, Denver has not dissolved into a stupor, kids are not toking up on the corner and the cartels have not taken over

[NOVA_guy]

I would suggest NOVA. It's much more expensive than Texas but the job market here is good and the salaries make up for the cost of living. We also have great school systems and our unemployment rates are lower than the national average.

The only drawback is the awful traffic and congestion but beyond that it's a great area with lots of amenities.