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I liked Australia a lot and I've been all over it. I've even vomited out of the back of a C-130 onto 'the outback', However, it wouldn't be my first choice of somewhere else to live.
I would heartily disagree with Mr M. Surfer and I too have spent a good two years or so there in chunks of between 3 days and 6 weeks at a time.
I've spent time in New England staying in a place called Nashua (around 40 miles North of Boston) and LOVED it. Interestingly, New Hampshire has no state tax
Also stayed north NY state, Chicago, Atlanta, Northern Florida, Dallas, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Northern and Southern Arizona, and a few other less memorable places. The only place I ever felt threatened was in a sports bar in downtown Nashua (near Boston).
My favorite place HAS to be New Mexico (Albuquerque). It is relatively unspoilt and un-American (if you know what I mean). The city is really chilled and low rise and south of there, where I stayed is beautifully picturesque if you love open space / desert. There is quite a large native american population and a fair hispanic population mixed, peacefully it seems, with the white population. The people are fantastically friendly and helpful and perhaps surprisingly for a state a lot of americans have never heard of, there is quite a lot native american and white history ! I even dated a half cherokee girl for a little while when I was working there frequently!
New Mexico is somewhere I would live at the drop of a hat if I didn't have ties to the UK. It's the place I saw stunning low mountain pasture for sale at $9999 for 10 acres, and the locals I worked with (doing the same job as me but for TRW and BAE) generally had pools, several cars, a boat and far more disposable income than me. Weather is pretty amazing. Generally about 350 days of sunshine a year, which probably explains the NM symbol is a sun. Yep, beautiful place, relatively normal people, and cheap as chips!
I would heartily disagree with Mr M. Surfer and I too have spent a good two years or so there in chunks of between 3 days and 6 weeks at a time.
I've spent time in New England staying in a place called Nashua (around 40 miles North of Boston) and LOVED it. Interestingly, New Hampshire has no state tax
Also stayed north NY state, Chicago, Atlanta, Northern Florida, Dallas, Albuquerque, Los Angeles, Northern and Southern Arizona, and a few other less memorable places. The only place I ever felt threatened was in a sports bar in downtown Nashua (near Boston). My favorite place HAS to be New Mexico (Albuquerque). It is relatively unspoilt and un-American (if you know what I mean). The city is really chilled and low rise and south of there, where I stayed is beautifully picturesque if you love open space / desert. There is quite a large native american population and a fair hispanic population mixed, peacefully it seems, with the white population. The people are fantastically friendly and helpful and perhaps surprisingly for a state a lot of americans have never heard of, there is quite a lot native american and white history ! I even dated a half cherokee girl for a little while when I was working there frequently!
New Mexico is somewhere I would live at the drop of a hat if I didn't have ties to the UK. It's the place I saw stunning low mountain pasture for sale at $9999 for 10 acres, and the locals I worked with (doing the same job as me but for TRW and BAE) generally had pools, several cars, a boat and far more disposable income than me. Weather is pretty amazing. Generally about 350 days of sunshine a year, which probably explains the NM symbol is a sun. Yep, beautiful place, relatively normal people, and cheap as chips!
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