nelie, I'm like you, I'm a wanderer!

1. I grew up in Duluth, MN... too small for me.
2. Went to school in a small town in WI... fun for college, not for anything else
3. Moved to a small town in South Dakota ... beautiful but only good temporarily
4. Back to mid-size MN city... fun people but WAY too conservative
5. Then I lived in two cities in Fairfield County, Connecticut. LOATHED IT. Horrible people. Very wealthy and unfriendly.
6. Then I moved to Minneapolis, MN. LOVE IT there. One of my favorite places in the country and I've visited 46 states. But the winters suck (though not as bad as Duluth!). I would live here again but probably after I've lived half a dozen other places first.
7. Currently living in Busan, South Korea. It's okay but I liked Mpls better.

Where to next?
Strongly leaning towards Melbourne, Australia (even though it is sort of on fire?)

Back in the US:
1. NYC. Favorite city on the planet. When I lived in CT, I was essentially in the NYC burbs so I went there often. The only thing to dislike is the rents. Otherwise I'd live there in a heartbeat.

2. Seattle/Portland. My boyfriend wants to move to either of these cities when we move back. They are cool and interesting but I'm not a rain & gloom person and I understand it's overcast and dreary many months of the year. I'd take cold & snow as long as its sunny.

3. California. Again, I love California and I'm quite liberal and I like how progressive they are. Plus great weather and beautiful coastline. The hang-up with this place is the transportation. LA public transit is a joke and SF wasn't that great either. I really don't want to own a car again but I feel like a car is a must in California.

4. Southwest. I'm not a small town person but sometimes I do get a little bit of that hankering and I would love to live in the desert. I've only driven through AZ & NM but it's gorgeous. I grew up in thick woods and I love how open the desert is.

5. Chicago. Many from Minneapolis move on to Chicago and I've been there frequently. I love big cities but it doesn't have the self-importance that you find in NYC & LA.

I'd live exactly where I live, in Westchester County, right above Manhattan & the Bronx. Only I'd want more $$ to live more comfortably -- enough for a country place to go to on weekends up in Columbia County or over in the Catskills.

I tried to be happy in the Syracuse area, where I grew up, but as soon as I became old enough, I was always taking bus trips down to Manhattan. (I can't believe I'd ride in a bus for five straight hours from the crack of dawn to get there, but I was young & really very driven.) The countryside was lovely but the job market was dismal. I didn't mind the weather as much back then, because that was all I knew. Now, it would be hard to return & re-adapt.

I guess I live where I'm suppose to...

Some of my top choices from findyourspot.com are:

Chattanooga, TN
Amarillo, TX (100 miles north from where I am and where my sis lives)
Tulsa, OK
Clarkesville, TN
Lubbock, TX (Where I live currently)
Enid, OK
Louisville, KY
Bowling Green, KY
Abilene, TX (about an hour SW from where I live)
Evansville, IN (Where my husband use to live and has family currently)

I like the climate in places like Seattle, Portland, San Diego but I could not live in those states. I need to live in fairly conservative "red" states. But even within Texas I won't live in certain places such as Houston, Austin or El Paso.

The only problem with where I live now is I have to drive a ways to go to really good concerts. I'd like to live maybe an hour or two from major cities like Fort Worth (which I miss terribly).

My husband and I both commented that when we were in Fort Worth Sunday it felt like we were home, but we do not like Dallas at all.

I guess ideally I'd like to live in a small town maybe an hour outside of Fort Worth like Granbury (which we looked at when my husband was still in the military).