Where should I go?

Sonoma/SF Bay Area is my best guess for you. Great food, clean air, access to all of the world's great wines, tons of wine tastings, and lots of jobs in the wine industry; for example, more importers are located here than anywhere else.
 
I agree. Detroit; why would you ever leave? Over the long haul Detroit is where it's at, man. Plus, it's not that far from Toledo. And you could go up to Saginaw and plant a vineyard. You'd have a ready-made home market.
 
originally posted by Putnam Weekley:
Since this is turning into a bit of a spam-ish job-seeking classified ad, I will also mention that I have an interest and practice in visual communication: graphic design, photography, etc. Words rarely fail me either.
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With my handy-dandy hammer, let me propose computer graphics: there are plenty of websites out there that could look a whole lot better. As long as you have a broadband connection, you can work from anywhere and at pretty much any time of day. Depending on your need for salary, you can do freelance (i.e., sporadic) or align yourself with a bigger consulting firm.
 
Let's go ahead and take Knoxville and Baton Rouge off that list, ok? Not to offend the extremely large Disorderist population in either place or anything. Among places in the southeast US, I'd have to say RTP area would have some appeal if I were in your shoes -- for the reasons vlm mentions -- although the area also has suburban sprawl, congestion and general corporate chain and cultural blandness issues that my part of the southeast US suffers from as well and to a somewhat larger degree. (I do have to warn you, though, that my particular piece of advice may just be a hangover resulting from just having had a couple great days in the area, including wonderful meals at Rue Cler and Vin Rouge in Durham and choosing where you'd live based on the access to wine geeks, finding Tete and Baudry on winelists, and the quality of the chicken liver pate and the duck confit in Durham may not be exactly standard tools of the career-counseling trade.)

And when in doubt, just follow Horace Greeley's admonition. Lots of wine being made out west.

Most importantly, though, wait a few months as there may be cheap housing to choose from throughout the United States and the EU. Detroit may have just been at the forefront of that trend.
 
Hope about Montral? The problem is getting the immigration papers, but great city.

If I wasn't 66-years-old I would be moving there.

It also helps to speak French.

You already have cold weather outfits from living in Detroit.
 
originally posted by Joe Dressner:
Hope about Montral? The problem is getting the immigration papers, but great city.
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I agree, Montreal is great!

If I wasn't 66-years-old I would be moving there.

It also helps to speak French.
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Even in an accent no one understands, because they speak qubcois anyway!!!!
 
No job listings for statisticians, need I say more?
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Yeah, what are the odds?

I also don't understand the criticism of Silicon Valley's public transportation. You get in a car, you drive it in public, packed gill-to-gill with other public transportees. What's not to love?

(OK, OK, I got stuck on 101 *and* 17 today during two different trips, and am a bit irritated.)

I like Joe's suggestion of Montral. Have you considered Trieste? Ljubljana?
 
originally posted by Putnam Weekley:
I love hockey, but NHL games leave a lot to be desired by the way.
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If I lived in a college hockey town, I'd go see games.

I like the NHL even if it is the worst run professional sport, excluding sports that have had Bud Selig as a commissioner. Of course the ticket prices are ridiculous, the season goes on too long, and the playoffs last forever, but the games are often fun to watch, at least in person or in hi-def.
 
In person they can be most depressing. The last live hockey game that was entertaining was when Samsonov (now with Boston Bruins?) played with the minor-league local Vipers, or some such. He looked like Barry Sanders the way he manipulated the ice ...

These things are hard to find these days.
 
originally posted by Putnam Weekley:
I'd take a real job. If only I was qualified for one!

I'm flexible. I can rise early or stay up late (but not both). I've lived and felt comfortable in rural areas (Tzintzunzan,...
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Wow. You've been there also? I had a mystical moment during my one-day visit
there.

Being another denizen of what most of the country calls an economic baslet case
(Upstate NY, in case you ask), I give you credit for staying the course. What is
so wrong about staying in a place you like but maybe not as fashionable as the other addresses of the other hip geeks here? You're the guy who has those wild hunting parties drinking barolo, right? Come east, I say. But not to the east of the fast growing sunbelt where pigs are grown in 1000-pen farms and a cesspool tank of excrement to match, or to the east of overpriced housing (yes, even still) of Florida or the Carolina coast, or to the suited capitol of the Republic. Nah, skip all that and some to where the air is clean, the water pure, and their are mountains and fields to climb and hunt in. Of course, I mean my own backyard: Central NY. You already love (or can deal with) winter, the northern latitudes suit you, and the people here have an orneryness that will welcome lost souls. Oh the places you will go, until you've found (or it finds you), Home.
 
originally posted by MarkS:

Nah, skip all that and some to where the air is clean, the water pure, and their are mountains and fields to climb and hunt in. Of course, I mean my own backyard: Central NY...
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The Marcellus shale runs up your way, I believe. Has there been any talk yet about exploiting the natural gas? Apparently there's a big boom in the mountains north of Williamsport, PA, with companies snapping up mineral rights in places with access to gas pipelines. Some Williamsport folks are excited about an economic boom in the area, others are worried about the environmental effects of hydroextraction, which can use huge amounts of water and leave a big mess.
 
The Marcellus shale runs up your way, I believe. Has there been any talk yet about exploiting the natural gas? Apparently there's a big boom in the mountains north of Williamsport, PA, with companies snapping up mineral rights in places with access to gas pipelines.
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Steve -

yeah, the Marcellus formation runs north nearly the length of the Allegheny Plateau. There has been testing done last year (had to put up with myriad helicopter flights over my house last summer and fall since many of these places
were inaccessible to roads and I live close to the airport) and in many places it is feasible and companies have and continue to pressure certain landowners
to sign leases, but I think the state has put a moratorium on actual drilling until many issues are sorted out (mainly, environmental ones). The Town of Newfield, adjacent to Ithaca, has had some pretty interesting discussions about this. Have you seen 'There Will Be Blood'? "I take a strawww,...."
 
originally posted by MarkS:
The Town of Newfield, adjacent to Ithaca, has had some pretty interesting discussions about this. Have you seen 'There Will Be Blood'? "I take a strawww,...."
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Haven't seen the movie yet, but sounds like I probably should. I'll check the web to see what I can find out about the Newfield discussions. My immediate vicinity is just south and east of the formation so there won't be any drilling here, but it's a big issue for the area, and Pennsylvania appears to be moving faster than New York.
 
originally posted by MarkS:
originally posted by Putnam Weekley:
I'd take a real job. If only I was qualified for one!

I'm flexible. I can rise early or stay up late (but not both). I've lived and felt comfortable in rural areas (Tzintzunzan,...
Click to expand...

Wow. You've been there also? I had a mystical moment during my one-day visit
there.

Being another denizen of what most of the country calls an economic baslet case
(Upstate NY, in case you ask), I give you credit for staying the course. What is
so wrong about staying in a place you like but maybe not as fashionable as the other addresses of the other hip geeks here? You're the guy who has those wild hunting parties drinking barolo, right? Come east, I say. But not to the east of the fast growing sunbelt where pigs are grown in 1000-pen farms and a cesspool tank of excrement to match, or to the east of overpriced housing (yes, even still) of Florida or the Carolina coast, or to the suited capitol of the Republic. Nah, skip all that and some to where the air is clean, the water pure, and their are mountains and fields to climb and hunt in. Of course, I mean my own backyard: Central NY. You already love (or can deal with) winter, the northern latitudes suit you, and the people here have an orneryness that will welcome lost souls. Oh the places you will go, until you've found (or it finds you), Home.
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Wow. I'm half sold too.

What sort of hunting is available? I'm an upland bird man myself.
 
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