Top 5 or so states you would live in.

I enjoyed Reno, NV when I was there but I wouldn't consider Vegas.

No state income tax, it's kind of a smaller version of Denver (up against nice mountains) with clearer skies and less traffic and snow. But it is very pricey to live in the mountains towards Lake Tahoe.

I lived in California too, which I liked. But it's too crowded and way too many taxes, at least where I lived (San Jose area).

Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Washington. It's gotta have mountains.

Colorado (native), Wyoming (mountains), Montana, or Alaska. Like chickaree and homeagain....gotta have the Rocky Mountains!

I don't know if I could stand the dark winters in Alaska. Colorado has me addicted to sunshine.

Well, I'm currently in Colorado (my favorite), confusion, and disorder - guess I would add Montana and Idaho. lol

chickaree wrote: I don't know if I could stand the dark winters in Alaska. Colorado has me addicted to sunshine.

I took living in as meaning you wouldn't have to STAY in them. I could do Texas in the Spring and Fall and spend the summers in Colorado.

chickaree wrote: I don't know if I could stand the dark winters in Alaska. Colorado has me addicted to sunshine.

YEP,that's
why alot of people move back down to the lower 48......kinda' like up here on the mountain. Fall in love with the state in the summer,
experience 18-24 months of the TRUE Alaska and opt to leave....just like up here,kinda' weeds out the riff-raff The KEY to living
up there is purchasing a "sun box"....(full-spectrum lighting) which mimics "daylight". On the SECOND time around(in Wasillia) I bought
one and would grab my coffee at 7AM,sit in front of the "sun" and watch Northern Exposure Living in Alaska is much like living up here on the mountain......you either love it and CAN NOT imagine living any other place OR you have one of those "slap your forehead
moments and think WTH was I thinking,get me the he-- out of here. There is NO middle ground.....(for those who have "heard" this before,in one of my posts on PC,I'm sorry to be a broken record )This broken text thing is driving me batty....looks good in preview and then breaks up when I hit send.

I do know that after spending a week back east with the cloudy, hazy skies I am desperate to see the sun. I guess I'm just a Colorado girl born and bred.

I grew up here, I am a creature of habit and I think the only way I could live somewhere else would be if I lived near the california beach in the winter. But I don't see myself leaving Colorado. I am dug in.

I liked San Diego and La Jolla but pineinthegrass is right......way to many people.