re: Which state in the US is the best place to live?

Does anyone know how the cost of living in Denver compares to Salt Lake City? Specifically the cost of real estate?

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I lived in Oahu for 3 years and Kauai for 3 years. Military.

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What were your problems with Hawaii? Island fever, cultural issues, distance from family etc? Which island did you like the least? I love the north shore of kauai and if money were no object that's where I would be living right now.

That seems to be very antidotal in nature with a lot of variables independent of what state they are in.

I accrue 16 days of leave a year that freely rolls over year to year. It increases with senority to 26 days of leave a year. (About your wife's Boston position)

I get 5% match to my 401k, along with a lump sum profit sharing bonus which is between 4-9% a year in my experience. (So again, basically the same as your wife's job in Boston).

And I've been very happy with my health care benefits...only complaint is that they switched providers on perscription drugs which low balls a bit on coverage.

And this is all in a non-management position (and they get coddled even more in those at my company).

I was talking about business environments, which is why I said while working, and right now Texas is hard to beat. No income taxes, undervalued housing market, booming economy (as far as anything can boom in current status), etc, etc, etc.

It's not "well I know some folks whose employer's skimped on benefits so Texas sucks! They should pass a law or something to make them give more!"

Let's just say living there and visiting there are 2 different things. If your white it will take you about 4 years to truly develop a real type of friendship with a local. If you want to know what a black person went through in the 50s and 60s; be a white guy in Hawaii. If you ain't OT ballin arse rich status then just forget it. If your thinking "oh I will just move there and live within my means and get a studio apt and live aloha". Well that's doable but be prepared to do about 3 to 5 minimum wage jobs just to get by. You won't even enjoy the place because you will be working all the time just to make rent and utilities. Have fun paying for 3.65 gallon of gas as it stands now. Hard work will get you nowere out there it's all about who you know. If a friend of yours is getting married or you have a funeral to attend back in the mainland be prepared to drop 1500 on a plane ticket just to attend. The only people I have met that truly love it out there that were not rich are surfers and that's the only thing they care about in life.

The place is beautiful and the weather is great but those 2 qualities can only take you so far.

Texas

Where in Georgia do you live?

outside of Athens that state is pretty shitty.

Johns Creek

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Washington has everything CO has plus more and you can actually breath.

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What do you mean? Are you saying Denver is overpopulated?

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Where in Georgia do you live? outside of Athens that state is pretty shitty.

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Haha what? Athens is a great college town but other than, I can't imagine why someone would live there unless you worked for the school.

If you are living in the metro atl area, you have two options, in the perimeter and send your kid to a private school or out the perimeter and live in one of the good northern school districts. If you can be in one of those two groups it would be difficult for you to tell me a better living arrangement anywhere in the country. Cost of living is very low, schools are great, HOPE is absurd, more jobs than ever. I graduated from GT with everything paid for. How many states offer that?