(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

clt says Chicago is amazing from June to Sept.

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

A really nice place to get shot. Lovely.

(05-11-2022 04:11 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

A really nice place to get shot. Lovely.

clt says stay away from the white Sox stadium and you will be fine,

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

I've lived in Chicago, Memphis, and Las Vegas where I live right now. I've never seen a more beautiful downtown than Chicago in the U.S.. Even San Francisco looked dirty next to it. As for Denver, I was there for just one day. Got to drive around the downtown area, and I was not impressed to be honest. Maybe I was expecting more.

As for weather, unless you live in So. Cal, the weather sucks everywhere in the U.S. for one reason or another.

(05-11-2022 04:11 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

A really nice place to get shot. Lovely.

Quit watching fake news. Most all of the murders in Chicago are happening in a less than two square mile radius. Chicago is 234 square miles.

Here's a list of the most dangerous cities in the USA.

Most Dangerous US cities

Notables on the list.
44. Pompano Beach, FL
41. Greensboro, NC
39. Cincinnati, OH
31. Chicago, IL
26. Tulsa, OK
19. Houston, TX
18. Nashville, TN
16. Wichita, KS
03. Memphis, TN

Like I said, most of the crime is happening in an isolated area.

edit: Sorry Tulane, I forgot one.

15. New Orleans

(05-10-2022 10:11 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 07:50 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 06:52 PM)Tulsa Guy Wrote:  Whether the large city metro area expansion AAC strategy works remains to be seen but AAC got the big metro areas correct it appears. Ditto for B12. Texas had 4 of the top 10. Based on Penske rental data, for whatever that's worth.

1. Houston (Rice)
2. Las Vegas
3. Phoenix
4. Charlotte (Charlotte)
5. Denver
6. San Antonio (UTSA)
7. Dallas (UNT)
8. Orlando
9. Austin
10. Chicago

I would only consider Denver on that list.

Funny, I had the same thought. In fact, there is nowhere on that list I want to live.

Actually, there is almost nowhere in the U.S. I want to live full time. Almost every place is either too hot in the summer, or has too much snow and ice in the winter.

So, I really need a summer home and a winter home, lol.

My top 5 summer homes:

1. Durango CO
2. Mackinac Island MI
3. Bar Harbor Maine
4. Bozeman MT
5. Estes Park CO

My top 5 winter homes:

1. Dripping Springs TX
2. Moab UT
3. Seaside FL
4. Monterey CA
5. Key West FL

How is Dripping Springs not Austin?

Have you been to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe or Spearfish, South Dakota?

(05-11-2022 06:38 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

I've lived in Chicago, Memphis, and Las Vegas where I live right now. I've never seen a more beautiful downtown than Chicago in the U.S.. Even San Francisco looked dirty next to it. As for Denver, I was there for just one day. Got to drive around the downtown area, and I was not impressed to be honest. Maybe I was expecting more.

As for weather, unless you live in So. Cal, the weather sucks everywhere in the U.S. for one reason or another.

That's why I said I needed 2 homes, one summer and one winter. The weather sucks at some point everywhere but SoCal. But the crowds and the taxes there will kill you.

(05-11-2022 08:55 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 10:11 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 07:50 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 06:52 PM)Tulsa Guy Wrote:  Whether the large city metro area expansion AAC strategy works remains to be seen but AAC got the big metro areas correct it appears. Ditto for B12. Texas had 4 of the top 10. Based on Penske rental data, for whatever that's worth.

1. Houston (Rice)
2. Las Vegas
3. Phoenix
4. Charlotte (Charlotte)
5. Denver
6. San Antonio (UTSA)
7. Dallas (UNT)
8. Orlando
9. Austin
10. Chicago

I would only consider Denver on that list.

Funny, I had the same thought. In fact, there is nowhere on that list I want to live.

Actually, there is almost nowhere in the U.S. I want to live full time. Almost every place is either too hot in the summer, or has too much snow and ice in the winter.

So, I really need a summer home and a winter home, lol.

My top 5 summer homes:

1. Durango CO
2. Mackinac Island MI
3. Bar Harbor Maine
4. Bozeman MT
5. Estes Park CO

My top 5 winter homes:

1. Dripping Springs TX
2. Moab UT
3. Seaside FL
4. Monterey CA
5. Key West FL

How is Dripping Springs not Austin?

Have you been to the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe or Spearfish, South Dakota?

Dripping Springs is 25 miles west of Austin, so technically a suburb, but I make the distinction b/c it's in Hill Country and Austin is just on the edge, and the weather is cooler in the shoulder seasons further up in the hills.

On the first of April, I drove from New Braunfels up into Canyon Lake (18 miles away) and the temp was 25 degrees cooler.

Plus, way less crowded, but close enough for all the big city perks.

Yes, I've been to that side of Lake Tahoe. That's nice, too.

And I plan to visit Spearfish when I head to the Badlands next year.

(05-10-2022 10:11 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 07:50 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 06:52 PM)Tulsa Guy Wrote:  Whether the large city metro area expansion AAC strategy works remains to be seen but AAC got the big metro areas correct it appears. Ditto for B12. Texas had 4 of the top 10. Based on Penske rental data, for whatever that's worth.

1. Houston (Rice)
2. Las Vegas
3. Phoenix
4. Charlotte (Charlotte)
5. Denver
6. San Antonio (UTSA)
7. Dallas (UNT)
8. Orlando
9. Austin
10. Chicago

I would only consider Denver on that list.

Funny, I had the same thought. In fact, there is nowhere on that list I want to live.

Actually, there is almost nowhere in the U.S. I want to live full time. Almost every place is either too hot in the summer, or has too much snow and ice in the winter.

So, I really need a summer home and a winter home, lol.

My top 5 summer homes:

1. Durango CO
2. Mackinac Island MI
3. Bar Harbor Maine
4. Bozeman MT
5. Estes Park CO

My top 5 winter homes:

1. Dripping Springs TX
2. Moab UT
3. Seaside FL
4. Monterey CA
5. Key West FL

My son attended Fort Lewis college in Durango. He loved it, married a local girl and now has been there almost 15 years. Great town!

(05-11-2022 10:30 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 06:38 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

I've lived in Chicago, Memphis, and Las Vegas where I live right now. I've never seen a more beautiful downtown than Chicago in the U.S.. Even San Francisco looked dirty next to it. As for Denver, I was there for just one day. Got to drive around the downtown area, and I was not impressed to be honest. Maybe I was expecting more.

As for weather, unless you live in So. Cal, the weather sucks everywhere in the U.S. for one reason or another.

That's why I said I needed 2 homes, one summer and one winter. The weather sucks at some point everywhere but SoCal. But the crowds and the taxes there will kill you.

I had a vacation home in Cayucos CA (San Luis Obispo Co.) Absolutely loved it there. Then I saw the tax bill. Yikes!

(05-12-2022 05:47 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 10:11 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 07:50 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 06:52 PM)Tulsa Guy Wrote:  Whether the large city metro area expansion AAC strategy works remains to be seen but AAC got the big metro areas correct it appears. Ditto for B12. Texas had 4 of the top 10. Based on Penske rental data, for whatever that's worth.

1. Houston (Rice)
2. Las Vegas
3. Phoenix
4. Charlotte (Charlotte)
5. Denver
6. San Antonio (UTSA)
7. Dallas (UNT)
8. Orlando
9. Austin
10. Chicago

I would only consider Denver on that list.

Funny, I had the same thought. In fact, there is nowhere on that list I want to live.

Actually, there is almost nowhere in the U.S. I want to live full time. Almost every place is either too hot in the summer, or has too much snow and ice in the winter.

So, I really need a summer home and a winter home, lol.

My top 5 summer homes:

1. Durango CO
2. Mackinac Island MI
3. Bar Harbor Maine
4. Bozeman MT
5. Estes Park CO

My top 5 winter homes:

1. Dripping Springs TX
2. Moab UT
3. Seaside FL
4. Monterey CA
5. Key West FL

My son attended Fort Lewis college in Durango. He loved it, married a local girl and now has been there almost 15 years. Great town!

Yeah, I kind of like the idea of Durango in the summer and Moab in the winter. Either is close enough to the other to go back and forth during shoulder seasons.

At my age, I intensely dislike extreme weather, mostly hot summers, but also extremely cold weather with lots of snow. Snow is beautiful for a few minutes, but a pain in the butt to live with regularly.

My ideal climate would be 60 degrees for a high year round, and 40 for a low, lol.

I suppose San Fran comes closest to that ideal. I loved that place decades ago, but now I would never live there. Too crowded, high taxes, etc.

It's funny, I was born and raised in Memphis and lived in big cities all my life, but now I live in a small town in east central Alabama, and discovered late in life that I was actually a country boy.

Or maybe I evolved to that as I grew older. I still like a city to be close enough to visit now and then (3 or 4 hours away), but I definitely prefer rural life now, by far.

(05-12-2022 08:16 AM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 10:30 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 06:38 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

I've lived in Chicago, Memphis, and Las Vegas where I live right now. I've never seen a more beautiful downtown than Chicago in the U.S.. Even San Francisco looked dirty next to it. As for Denver, I was there for just one day. Got to drive around the downtown area, and I was not impressed to be honest. Maybe I was expecting more.

As for weather, unless you live in So. Cal, the weather sucks everywhere in the U.S. for one reason or another.

That's why I said I needed 2 homes, one summer and one winter. The weather sucks at some point everywhere but SoCal. But the crowds and the taxes there will kill you.

I had a vacation home in Cayucos CA (San Luis Obispo Co.) Absolutely loved it there. Then I saw the tax bill. Yikes!

One of the road trips on my agenda is the part of the PCH that includes Big Sur and Monterey, plus Hearst Castle. I've never been to San Luis Obispo, but would like to see it once.

Visit, yes. Residence, no.

Btw, your take on Chicago is the opposite of mine. I used to work for a company based in Chicago, and spent a good deal of time there. I liked nothing about that city. I realize you are a native Chicagoan and love it there, but I disliked the hot summers, brutal winters, crowds, traffic, noise, etc.

I feel the same about Washington DC, another place where I worked for years.

My happy places (during the correct time of year) are Maine, rural Florida, Colorado, Montana and southern Utah. Probably upper Michigan, but I have yet to visit there.

clt says too many fires in ca and rado

(05-12-2022 08:26 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 08:16 AM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 10:30 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 06:38 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 12:08 PM)grapes Wrote:  Chicago <3

I've lived in Chicago, Memphis, and Las Vegas where I live right now. I've never seen a more beautiful downtown than Chicago in the U.S.. Even San Francisco looked dirty next to it. As for Denver, I was there for just one day. Got to drive around the downtown area, and I was not impressed to be honest. Maybe I was expecting more.

As for weather, unless you live in So. Cal, the weather sucks everywhere in the U.S. for one reason or another.

That's why I said I needed 2 homes, one summer and one winter. The weather sucks at some point everywhere but SoCal. But the crowds and the taxes there will kill you.

I had a vacation home in Cayucos CA (San Luis Obispo Co.) Absolutely loved it there. Then I saw the tax bill. Yikes!

One of the road trips on my agenda is the part of the PCH that includes Big Sur and Monterey, plus Hearst Castle. I've never been to San Luis Obispo, but would like to see it once.

Visit, yes. Residence, no.

Btw, your take on Chicago is the opposite of mine. I used to work for a company based in Chicago, and spent a good deal of time there. I liked nothing about that city. I realize you are a native Chicagoan and love it there, but I disliked the hot summers, brutal winters, crowds, traffic, noise, etc.

I feel the same about Washington DC, another place where I worked for years.

My happy places (during the correct time of year) are Maine, rural Florida, Colorado, Montana and southern Utah. Probably upper Michigan, but I have yet to visit there.

Yeah Cayucos was 30 miles south to the South entrance to Sur. Magnificent views. SLO (what the natives call Opispo), is picture post card. Lots of vineyards. My wife loved it with a passion. Just gorgeous. 12 miles from Cayucos.

Been to So Utah many times. Beautiful national parks. Not terribly exciting if you're into restaurants.

I wouldn't live in downtown Chicago. Too hectic. It's the neigborhoods around it I like. Like Lincoln Park, North Shore, etc. Concrete jungles are fun to visit, but not to live in as far as I'm concerned.

edit: Hearst Castle is really cool. How they got all that stuff up the mountain to make that place is hard to believe.

(05-12-2022 10:02 AM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 08:26 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 08:16 AM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 10:30 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-11-2022 06:38 PM)Memphis Yankee Wrote:  I've lived in Chicago, Memphis, and Las Vegas where I live right now. I've never seen a more beautiful downtown than Chicago in the U.S.. Even San Francisco looked dirty next to it. As for Denver, I was there for just one day. Got to drive around the downtown area, and I was not impressed to be honest. Maybe I was expecting more.

As for weather, unless you live in So. Cal, the weather sucks everywhere in the U.S. for one reason or another.

That's why I said I needed 2 homes, one summer and one winter. The weather sucks at some point everywhere but SoCal. But the crowds and the taxes there will kill you.

I had a vacation home in Cayucos CA (San Luis Obispo Co.) Absolutely loved it there. Then I saw the tax bill. Yikes!

One of the road trips on my agenda is the part of the PCH that includes Big Sur and Monterey, plus Hearst Castle. I've never been to San Luis Obispo, but would like to see it once.

Visit, yes. Residence, no.

Btw, your take on Chicago is the opposite of mine. I used to work for a company based in Chicago, and spent a good deal of time there. I liked nothing about that city. I realize you are a native Chicagoan and love it there, but I disliked the hot summers, brutal winters, crowds, traffic, noise, etc.

I feel the same about Washington DC, another place where I worked for years.

My happy places (during the correct time of year) are Maine, rural Florida, Colorado, Montana and southern Utah. Probably upper Michigan, but I have yet to visit there.

Yeah Cayucos was 30 miles south to the South entrance to Sur. Magnificent views. SLO (what the natives call Opispo), is picture post card. Lots of vineyards. My wife loved it with a passion. Just gorgeous. 12 miles from Cayucos.

Been to So Utah many times. Beautiful national parks. Not terribly exciting if you're into restaraunts.

I wouldn't live in downtown Chicago. Too hectic. It's the neigborhoods around it I like. Like Lincoln Park, North Shore, etc. Concrete jungles are fun to visit, but not to live in as far as I'm concerned.

I'm actually into restaurants, so I'm like you are about downtown Chitown. Like to visit so Utah, but wouldn't live there (other than Moab, which is close enough to Grand Junction, Vail, Denver, etc.)

My sister and I travel in a new camper van, so we cook a lot of meals, but we are foodies, too, so restaurants are a high priority. Not the upscale city types, but more the fun, quirky, local cuisine, no-chain types.

Our planned southern Utah and northern Arizona trip is a challenge in that regard, lol. So we're doing our foodie thing mostly on the way out there and back.

(05-12-2022 08:22 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 05:47 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 10:11 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 07:50 PM)vick mike Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 06:52 PM)Tulsa Guy Wrote:  Whether the large city metro area expansion AAC strategy works remains to be seen but AAC got the big metro areas correct it appears. Ditto for B12. Texas had 4 of the top 10. Based on Penske rental data, for whatever that's worth.

1. Houston (Rice)
2. Las Vegas
3. Phoenix
4. Charlotte (Charlotte)
5. Denver
6. San Antonio (UTSA)
7. Dallas (UNT)
8. Orlando
9. Austin
10. Chicago

I would only consider Denver on that list.

Funny, I had the same thought. In fact, there is nowhere on that list I want to live.

Actually, there is almost nowhere in the U.S. I want to live full time. Almost every place is either too hot in the summer, or has too much snow and ice in the winter.

So, I really need a summer home and a winter home, lol.

My top 5 summer homes:

1. Durango CO
2. Mackinac Island MI
3. Bar Harbor Maine
4. Bozeman MT
5. Estes Park CO

My top 5 winter homes:

1. Dripping Springs TX
2. Moab UT
3. Seaside FL
4. Monterey CA
5. Key West FL

My son attended Fort Lewis college in Durango. He loved it, married a local girl and now has been there almost 15 years. Great town!

Yeah, I kind of like the idea of Durango in the summer and Moab in the winter. Either is close enough to the other to go back and forth during shoulder seasons.

At my age, I intensely dislike extreme weather, mostly hot summers, but also extremely cold weather with lots of snow. Snow is beautiful for a few minutes, but a pain in the butt to live with regularly.

My ideal climate would be 60 degrees for a high year round, and 40 for a low, lol.

I suppose San Fran comes closest to that ideal. I loved that place decades ago, but now I would never live there. Too crowded, high taxes, etc.

It's funny, I was born and raised in Memphis and lived in big cities all my life, but now I live in a small town in east central Alabama, and discovered late in life that I was actually a country boy.

Or maybe I evolved to that as I grew older. I still like a city to be close enough to visit now and then (3 or 4 hours away), but I definitely prefer rural life now, by far.

Dripping Springs is suffering from “Austin creep.” I have good friends in Stonewall and Wimberley. Much nicer IMHO. I did 12 summers in Dallas though…. never again will I do a Texas summer.

I live full time in the Hamptons and have loved it since my folks bought a place there in the mid 60’s. G/F and I move around some in winter: Nevis, Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende, Zihuatanejo. Will be in Amsterdam and Brussels in November for concerts.

I thank and love SMU for both training me as an athlete and giving me the tools to earn a great living once it mattered.

Along the way I earned paychecks in 47 if our 50 states so I can speak to much of small town ‘Merca.

Charleston is a great town with a pretty good climate, culture and surf nearby. I thought about it…. I’ll stick with a friend of mine who has an Air BnB on Sullivan’s.

And yes…. I endorse this thread hijack.

(05-12-2022 10:34 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 08:22 AM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 05:47 AM)SadderBudweiser Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 10:11 PM)TripleA Wrote:  

(05-10-2022 07:50 PM)vick mike Wrote:  I would only consider Denver on that list.

Funny, I had the same thought. In fact, there is nowhere on that list I want to live.

Actually, there is almost nowhere in the U.S. I want to live full time. Almost every place is either too hot in the summer, or has too much snow and ice in the winter.

So, I really need a summer home and a winter home, lol.

My top 5 summer homes:

1. Durango CO
2. Mackinac Island MI
3. Bar Harbor Maine
4. Bozeman MT
5. Estes Park CO

My top 5 winter homes:

1. Dripping Springs TX
2. Moab UT
3. Seaside FL
4. Monterey CA
5. Key West FL

My son attended Fort Lewis college in Durango. He loved it, married a local girl and now has been there almost 15 years. Great town!

Yeah, I kind of like the idea of Durango in the summer and Moab in the winter. Either is close enough to the other to go back and forth during shoulder seasons.

At my age, I intensely dislike extreme weather, mostly hot summers, but also extremely cold weather with lots of snow. Snow is beautiful for a few minutes, but a pain in the butt to live with regularly.

My ideal climate would be 60 degrees for a high year round, and 40 for a low, lol.

I suppose San Fran comes closest to that ideal. I loved that place decades ago, but now I would never live there. Too crowded, high taxes, etc.

It's funny, I was born and raised in Memphis and lived in big cities all my life, but now I live in a small town in east central Alabama, and discovered late in life that I was actually a country boy.

Or maybe I evolved to that as I grew older. I still like a city to be close enough to visit now and then (3 or 4 hours away), but I definitely prefer rural life now, by far.

Dripping Springs is suffering from “Austin creep.” I have good friends in Stonewall and Wimberley. Much nicer IMHO. I did 12 summers in Dallas though…. never again will I do a Texas summer.

I live full time in the Hamptons and have loved it since my folks bought a place there in the mid 60’s. G/F and I move around some in winter: Nevis, Mexico City, San Miguel de Allende, Zihuatanejo. Will be in Amsterdam and Brussels in November for concerts.

I thank and love SMU for both training me as an athlete and giving me the tools to earn a great living once it mattered.

Along the way I earned paychecks in 47 if our 50 states so I can speak to much of small town ‘Merca.

Charleston is a great town with a pretty good climate, culture and surf nearby. I thought about it…. I’ll stick with a friend of mine who has an Air BnB on Sullivan’s.

My work was much the same as far as travel. Went all over the country for 20+ years.

I lived in condos and rental houses in Charleston and out on Seabrook Island for 5 years for work. I absolutely love that town, but the summers are too brutal for me now. 8 months a year, it's great.

(05-12-2022 08:55 AM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says too many fires in ca and rado

Yes. Kind of stopped the Reno/Lake Tahoe plans from moving forward. The West has major water supply issues ahead of them.

(05-12-2022 12:47 PM)ESE84 Wrote:  

(05-12-2022 08:55 AM)ghostofclt! Wrote:  clt says too many fires in ca and rado

Yes. Kind of stopped the Reno/Lake Tahoe plans from moving forward. The West has major water supply issues ahead of them.

I've been reading that Lake Mead is at its lowest level ever (or in a long time). I'm sure that's just one indicator of the larger issue out west.