Originally Posted by
powerofdeath
New York State is a pretty nice place to live. I am currently in New York in Rochester the city, but our uni campus is like very far away from the city. It's definitely pretty cold there compared to majority of the United States. But for someone like you, New York temperature is probably perfect. It's not really overpriced, I currently am renting an apartment there and I have a small simple job that pay 20 an hour which is enough to pay for the apartment and food and stuff, though I am splitting the price with a friend lol. I would recommend staying away from New York City unless you really want to live in the city lifestyle.
I guess New York lifestyle is kinda like Moscow. I mean, I'd totally visit it if I traveled abroad, but probably not staying there for long.
People who live in California is a little bit biased since they would think California is the best state.
I have lived in 6 different states, and traveled to like 30-40 of them, I lost track.
California is nice, very huge though. Though I can't really say much about California. Only been there a couple of times. Texas is probably too hot for you. Florida is like Canadian's French Providence or whatever. You basically need to know Spanish, but not really required. Just like that french providence where its recommended to know French. Also Florida is probably too hot for you. Also very rainy and stormy there.
Yeah, the weather is definetely too much for me in southern states.
I lived in New Jersey for 10 years, its very very crowded. The plus side is that you would probably only need to drive like 5 to 20 minutes to get anything you want. (sometimes even like 1-2 minutes) It literally have everything so close together. Like there would be 3-5 restaurants next to each others I would recommend southern New Jersey, since the Northern New Jersey have all the negative stereotype, like bunch of highways and factories and "Jersey Shore" stereotype as well.
Actually, some of New Jersey streets look just like the streets I'd love to walk on (the ones with mostly 3-4-story block houses, likeable warm colors, green areas. Could you please tell me more about it since you lived there for so long?
I've lived in Tennessee, there is a lot of open land, and you would probably have to travel a lot. I remember driving with my dad for like 2-3 hours to go to a specific store because my dad needed something specific, but these days people use Amazon to order stuff.
Right, I had this question yesterday but forgot it. Do you really need to own a car that much to travel around the place you live? I mean, I'm totally not into driving, at all. I have neither interest nor any practice or knowledge in this sort of thing. I understand that having your own car makes life a lot easier, especially in such a huge country, but is it really essential if I'd pick a rather small town to live in or use public transport more?
I lived in North Carolina Beach briefly, beautiful place, but probably not for you since you aren't into beach life style.
Yeah, totally. Maybe for a week vacation, but not for everyday life.
Honestly, if you prefer a good place to work and form a business, Northeastern states and California are probably the best bet for you. It depend on your taste and style.
If there are some nice towns/little cities with such streets as I described above, why not? I mean, it's almost as I expected, North-East. By the way, what are the North Central states like?
Also, USA uses mostly imperial system, but we do occasionally use metric system. So if you use metric system, we can still understand it. I also believe that while metric system is Canada's main system, they occasionally still use the imperial system. (might be wrong)
Yeah, like Brendan mentioned before, imperial system isn't gonna be a problem once I get used to it in common routine. So it's fine anyway.
I've been to Alaska once. Expect to eat a lot of seafood there. You would probably be living in harbor and stuff unless you want to live in middle of nowhere in very snowy place, like russia in middle of nowhere.