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I say Seattle. I lived there for awhile last year, before moving back to San Francisco (for the weather and the city life), and some day when I'm braver and it's grown a little, I'll probably move back. The weather isn't too extreme, and the summers are wonderful. It's very well-educated and cultured, and very beautiful. Portland is a dump by comparison. It's full of anti-free-market hippies with no ambition to get an economy going and create progress and jobs. Bleh...

Chicago is way too midwestern and COLD. Did I mention COLD? Great city except for the summer and winter.

Phoenix is absolutely sterile and cultureless. It's a great place to vacation in winter, if you just want that cheapy plastic golf/resort feeling, ya know? But no place for a culture guy to live.

Austin is nice, but not very big, and way way hot. And it's still Texas, so you have lots of that country bumpkin machismo baloney.

SEATTLE!!!

what's up with the overly religious ppl replacing sports fanatics in Chicago? no...not really. let's not get started with new age hippie cultists that swarm around the west coast. Chicago owns unless you can't handle the cold--then whatever, you don't need to be here. :] Oh yeah, boston is pretty boring and has a small scene for music or anything. phoenix is also awful. so stick to the pacific midwest. heh.

don't they pay homeless people to live in seattle? so yeah, i'd say seattle.

I've been telling you to leave Utah because it sucks from day 1. I clearly have excellent foresight as to what is a good and what is a sucky place to live. So...give extra weight to my vote for Boston (even though I have personal bias). There is humidity in the summer, but it is not even in the same realm as DC. You also get to be an hour from the "live free or die state," a couple of hours from Maine (which is great) and a half days drive to NYC.

Don't go to little Utah...you'll find it to suck as much as the real thing, but you don't even get seasons.

Come visit and I'll sell you on Boston.
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I'm with those other guys...? I have been fighting the urge to move to Portland or Seattle for a couple years now. Rebecca wants to move to the northwest too... we could make it a family affair. Dan- are you in? Actually, I vote you move back to CO first.

I'm with Dean. Austin is where it's at. Lots of tech compaines. I even have a room you could rent. I love it here. I voted Phoenix though because I love it there too. It's like Utah weather except you stay inside all day in the summer and go do things all winter. No show shoveling or lawn mowing (it's too hot to grow grass).

I'm with the Ju- stay here. If you must ditch me, go to Seattle-- I'm most likely to visit you there than in Boston.

NO! I forbid it! Even if it means your happiness, you cannot move! Unless.... you move to SLC. Yeah, move up here and we'll go for bike rides.

PS I was born in Portland, so if you had to move anywhere, I'd say there. Because look at the coolness it's provides, aka me.

Don't worry about the impending Armageddon, you have a concealed weapons permit. Isn't that what it's for?

Boston kicks ass (except the drivers). Phoenix would suck. Chicago would be a tit bit nippley. I've never been to the other two but have heard good things.

I vote Seattle, something cool is brewing in that city, I can feel it. I think it's the city that is more scooter friendly. I was thinking the other day about moving there in the future. Don't worry, I'm not following you.

can I vote Other: Austin, TX? I keep on thinking lately that I'd like Austin. An awesome techie scene as well as a thriving indie music scene. I've also thought Boston would be cool. Of course I could also say Atlanta, just cause I'd want to hang with you.

Oregon Trail was an awesome game!! I'd play it again in a heartbeat.

sam, I wouldn't go to Boston if I were you. What if one day you're out enjoying the weather, walking around in the park and you happen to sit down on a bench?

Before you know it bomb squad will show up and blow you up for fear that you might be a bomb shaped human.

I lived in Boston for a couple of years, and the winter can be somewhat brutal, the road system sometimes hard to navigate, but overall, I think the city has a lot to offer. I really enjoyed it.

I'm biased, but I really think you should move to Portland.