Comments on: Which USA City is Great to Live in?

By: Dolit

Dolit — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:03:55 +0000

Hi Arun
reading your blog backwards , I just found it …
We can offer you our house in Sunnyvale CA , for up to 5 weeks
in Jan - Feb . In return you will only need to walk/feed the dogs.
It is an hour drive from Berkeley which is the alternative area
you are looking for I guess. If it is interesting in anyway you can
email me: dolitg@gmail.com

By: arun

arun — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:06:00 +0000

Thanks for the suggestions everyone!

With visas and other complications we are now looking at two short trips to the US, so keeping things relatively simple. But we are planning some extended house swaps in the coming years, so BIG thanks for the tips!!

By: Madeline

Madeline — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 00:56:04 +0000

I live in GA now but have lived all over the Northeast and have spent lots of summers in N.C. I agree that Asheville fits your needs. I wish that we weren’t tied to a farm and could move there.

By: Ren

Ren — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 00:42:12 +0000

To this (now) Southern gal, Albuquerque and just about anywhere in CO seem very expensive compared to here. Even Asheville, which we consider expensive, seems cheap by comparison.

By: Erika carlson

Erika carlson — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 20:28:46 +0000

Colorado is wonderful - 310 days of sun a year, beautiful mountains nearby, mostly progressive people (at least in the Boulder County area and some mountain areas). No beach though!

By: Summer

Summer — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:31:16 +0000

I live in Oklahoma. This state has very liberal aws eguarding homeschooling, prtty much anythign goes. Which has helped a fairly large unschooling community to flourish here. We’re in the center of the country, almost. The weather is gorgeous. Warm summers, beautiful falls, sparkling winters, and green springs. Also the cost of living here is fairly low.

By: shawna

shawna — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:45:18 +0000

1st place that comes to mind for me is Colorado–a very crunchy state and beautiful, although I have been born and raised in California myself

By: Schuyler

Schuyler — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:17:01 +0000

Albuquerque is lovely. Good and alternative. Dry enough to appeal to the drought-ridden from NSW. Good unschooling community. Not terribly expensive. A big city though. A long way from where you are now, isolation wise. But easy, access to amazing hiking and outdoors stuff, and it doesn’t light quite as frequently as the outback in Oz seems to.

If I were going to pick places I wanted to move back to in the U.S. it would be either the Southwest, Albuquerque specifically, or the Northwest, but the Northwest is far more expensive.

By: Heather

Heather — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 16:22:13 +0000

Yeah, totally, what Ren said. I was going to add that I saw the folks on the AlwaysUnschooled list wanting you to go around western North Carolina, and I was thinking, Hey, how do I draw a big circle on the map around Northeast Tennessee, Western North Carolina, and Southwest Virginia, and then show that to you? Ah, well, you get the idea

By: Ren

Ren — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:45:26 +0000

Oh, and I should add that one of the reasons we chose this area, is you don’t NEED alternative type communities in order to BE alternative because agriculture is alive here and there is land galore if you want to get away from environmentally unfriendly living.
It’s really inexpensive still too….. I can have Bleu email you some listings if you think you’d like to have a U.S. home.:)