suggest a place for me to live

[boxingguy]

I'm tired of the city I live in (Las Vegas, NV).

Some problems (in no particular order):

traffic (hit and runs every day, 2 or 3 people killed every week)
pollution
attempted murders every day
successful murders 2 or 3 times a week
second highest auto theft rate in the country
too many angry people
poor performing schools (One of my tennis partners is an 8th grade teacher, he gets cursed out every day and the parents don't care)
. . .

I'm looking for a place where:

the above problems aren't quite so bad
tennis is played outdoors year round at a good public facility
I can buy a little house for 100K
natural disaster threat is low (hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc.)
people are free to not practice religion
. . .

Any suggestions?

 

[diegaa]

any middle size city in europe may be the answer to those issues, with the exeption of the traffic maybe.

 

[DRtenniS1112]

Outside of the being able to play outdoor year round Maine would be the perfect place. There are NO natural disasters. Foliage is beautiful right now. Crime is minimal. Schools are usually at the top of states in education. Population is never too crowed. Housing is anywhere from 100k-several million (many rich folks have summer homes and such in Maine), unless you are on the ocean or large lakes. Summers are gorgeous and do get quite warm. Only problem is that darn snow comes and it comes hard (though last year was easy). Plenty of indoor courts though, southern maine really is a gem that few are aware of.

 

[boxingguy]

Outside of the being able to play outdoor year round Maine would be the perfect place. There are NO natural disasters. Foliage is beautiful right now. Crime is minimal. Schools are usually at the top of states in education. Population is never too crowed. Housing is anywhere from 100k-several million (many rich folks have summer homes and such in Maine), unless you are on the ocean or large lakes. Summers are gorgeous and do get quite warm. Only problem is that darn snow comes and it comes hard (though last year was easy). Plenty of indoor courts though, southern maine really is a gem that few are aware of.

Thanks for the input, DR. I don't react well to snow. I would have to hibernate for the winter. Any particular towns in southern Maine you would suggest?

 

[zhan]

how about...
my community?
Lower Merion, Pennsylvania
Top ranked schoosl, no murders, no bad people, racially homogenius, people are rich, people dont care about time, police are responsible, everything is very close..
...
You cant get a house for less than 100k...
You cant get a condo for less than 100k...
LOL
no natural disasters ... (good)
LOL
Top ranked tennis clubs all around... I personally know there are like 10 courts in the area within 5 miles radius of where reside... but i know there are so many more! lol!
Up north here... religion is not everyday topic like down south ^^

 

[Ky0shiro]

If you like skiing or snowboarding, Colorado is a nice place to go.

 

[boxingguy]

Thanks all for suggestions. Hmmm . . . I'd really like to buy a little house for about 100K.

 

[psamp14]

is it necessary to buy a little house? i mean if it is, then i'm not quite sure of where i'd suggest you to live...

if you could be fine with say a small townhouse or condominium, then look to something in the LA/san diego area or the bay area....

somewhere in the suburbs, where traffic is less, and tennis can be played outdoors all year long

or maybe look into somewhere in arizona, or some place on the east coast in say new jersey/new york/maryland..suburbs obviously, where perhaps if you cant play tennis outdoors in the winter, could play at a club where there are indoor tennis courts

i suggest looking for a place in the suburbs of california though

hope i helped a bit

 

[racingdad23]

North Eastern Oklahoma. Lakes, trees, hills. Very mild winters with little or no snow. 100K will buy a nice 1100-1200 sq ft home with enough money left over to buy you a nice "lake toy" (or two).

 

[boxingguy]

North Eastern Oklahoma. Lakes, trees, hills. Very mild winters with little or no snow. 100K will buy a nice 1100-1200 sq ft home with enough money left over to buy you a nice "lake toy" (or two).

racingdad, you have my attention sir. Which towns are you thinking of? Easy access to courts? Any twisters come through there? Thanks!

 

[Andres]

the above problems aren't quite so bad
tennis is played outdoors year round
I can buy a little house for 100K
natural disaster threat is low (hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc.)
people are free to not practice religion

Mar del Plata, Argentina.
You can play tennis outdoors ANY TIME in the year.
Natural disasters, NONE. Perhaps some HAIL eventually, but nothing to worry.
You can buy a BIG beautiful house for 100K.
Religion is not a problem.
And you have the atlantic ocean right there.

A liiittle pic of Mar del Plata I took myself:

 

[35ft6]

The 100K part pretty much rules out all of Southern California.

 

[KBalla08]

hmm u could live in dallas or austin tx. tennis year round, cheap houses. id say houston cause im here and the tennis is great, but hurricanes are a threat

 

[Swissv2]

I'm tired of the city I live in (Las Vegas, NV).

Some problems (in no particular order):

traffic (hit and runs every day, 2 or 3 people killed every week)
pollution
attempted murders every day
successful murders 2 or 3 times a week
second highest auto theft rate in the country
too many angry people
poor performing schools (One of my tennis partners is an 8th grade teacher, he gets cursed out every day and the parents don't care)
. . .

I'm looking for a place where:

the above problems aren't quite so bad
tennis is played outdoors year round
I can buy a little house for 100K
natural disaster threat is low (hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc.)
people are free to not practice religion
. . .

Any suggestions?

welcome, my south neighbor!
I am from Reno

 

[BiGGieStuFF]

I guess asking you to show me around while i'm in vegas 2 weeks from now is out of the question? I'd love to get some tennis in while in Vegas but bachelor party will take up all our time.

 

[lorenza]

I guess asking you to show me around while i'm in vegas 2 weeks from now is out of the question? I'd love to get some tennis in while in Vegas but bachelor party will take up all our time.

how is that a bad thing?

 

[BiGGieStuFF]

how is that a bad thing?

Because I like tennis and would love to play in different cities to say I've played there . Be there from 9am thursday all the way to Monday 1am.

I was at venice beach and I saw them playing that mini-tennis?? The one with the paddles and the small version of a tennis court. That looked like fun too.

 

[lorenza]

Because I like tennis and would love to play in different cities to say I've played there . Be there from 9am thursday all the way to Monday 1am.

I was at venice beach and I saw them playing that mini-tennis?? The one with the paddles and the small version of a tennis court. That looked like fun too.

hmm. i guess i have only ever played tennis in houston. that sucks. and the only mini tennis i have ever heard of is played with on a smaller court, but the raqcuets are the same size as regular tennis...

 

[racingdad23]

racingdad, you have my attention sir. Which towns are you thinking of? Easy access to courts? Any twisters come through there? Thanks!

If you like small town living the city of Grove is on beautiful Grand Lake. There is a active tennis community at the Shangri-la resort on the lake there. Rogers Ark and Joplin Missouri are an hour away and have very active tennis communities along with Tulsa a hour to the SW. Very few twisters up in NE Okla. I have alot of people ask me about tornados when I say I'm from Okla. But in all my life (40 yrs) I've only seen one actual tonado and I was miles away from it. I'm a little more than a hour south of there and we are considering buying a second home now to eventually retire to in that area. Besides we spend enough time up there in that area to justify a weekend cabin. Its nice, quiet, low crime, community living and with the real estate market like it is its a buyers market right now. Cost of living is extremely reasonable in this part of the country. Anyway check it out online, you might like it.

 

[BiGGieStuFF]

hmm. i guess i have only ever played tennis in houston. that sucks. and the only mini tennis i have ever heard of is played with on a smaller court, but the raqcuets are the same size as regular tennis...

I found out what it is. It's called paddle tennis. It's pretty darn popular on Venice beach. Never even knew about it until i visited there.

 

[ibemadskillzz]

give me that 100K, let me go to some of your casinos, I will make it over 1 million if you have 100K. I guarantee it. I will give you 200K back.
email me if interested

 

[lorenza]

I found out what it is. It's called paddle tennis. It's pretty darn popular on Venice beach. Never even knew about it until i visited there.

lol. paddle tennis? yeah, never heard of that till just now...

 

[BiGGieStuFF]

lol. paddle tennis? yeah, never heard of that till just now...

 

[tennisadict]

Downtown La

 

[atatu]

Isn't Southern Utah just up the road ? maybe you should check that out, I heard that it's great there and I'm thinking of retiring there. Saint George is what I had in mind.

 

[DRtenniS1112]

Thanks for the input, DR. I don't react well to snow. I would have to hibernate for the winter. Any particular towns in southern Maine you would suggest?

Well the expensive rich towns are the best. They are Falmouth, Yarmouth, Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Raymond, and Scarborough. These are among your best bets. But if you can't do snow then don't bother.

 

[Roffey]

I can suggest Charlsetown, though you can't play year round out doors.

If you live on the south shore of MA then the YMCA is very inexpensive with great indoor hard courts, and 4 indoor har-tru courts under a bubble that they take down in the summer, additionally, there are two har-tru courts that are always outdoors.

 

[tennis-n-sc]

I have lived all over and highly recommend the upstate of South Carolina. The cities are big enough to give you virtually anything you want yet traffic is quite low. Low cost of living and low crime rate. My wife teaches and schools range from excellent to ok. The tennis community is very active and you can play year round with the exception of a few days. I have played in every week of every month of the year. Greenville area (where I live) is about 3 hours from Charleston, 1.5 hours from Asheville, 2 hours from Atlanta and 1.5 hours from Charlotte. Clemson is about 30 minutes south and USC in Columbia is 1.5 hours. We have Furman University in town. College sports are everywhere. You can fly fish, kayak mountain rivers, hike, play tennis, go to a play or concert, check out the many festivals during the spring, summer and fall, go to the beach, go to a Carolina Panthers game, and go to church or not. No one is concerned with your religious leanings if you aren't. High employment rate. Give it a look.

 

[chroix]

100k for a house could be prohibitive... I love the Southeast personally and if you avoid the coasts no hurricanes. I live in Central Kentucky and the winters are fairly mild. Heard a lot of good things about Birmingham and it stays warmer there in the winter and has a low cost of living.

 

[boxingguy]

Mar del Plata, Argentina.

You can buy a BIG beautiful house for 100K.

A liiittle pic of Mar del Plata I took myself:

Andres, I can picture myself in that photo. We're talking 100K US$, correct?

 

[alcap26]

My friend East TN (Knoxville) could be what you are looking for. No state income tax...live outside of the city and you can get a reasonable house and mild winters. We do have our cold snaps but they are usually gone in a week or two. Good luck in your search.

 

[boxingguy]

Thanks all! Wow, I'm getting some great stuff here. Okay, I'm sifting through the suggestions:

Out:
California (traffic, costly housing)
Southern Maine (snow)
Lower Merion (costly housing)
Houston (hurricanes)
Colorado (snow, costly housing)
Southern Utah (costly housing)
MA (snow, costly housing)

In:
Northeast Oklahoma
upstate South Carolina
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Sweden

On the bubble (need more info):
Dallas or Austin (traffic?, crime?)
Central Kentucky (housing?)
Birmingham (traffic?, crime?)
East TN (crime?)

Keep 'em coming!

 

[boxingguy]

I guess asking you to show me around while i'm in vegas 2 weeks from now is out of the question? I'd love to get some tennis in while in Vegas but bachelor party will take up all our time.

Bachelor parties in Vegas are a total drag. Bring your racquets, let's play!

 

[boxingguy]

Isn't Southern Utah just up the road ? maybe you should check that out, I heard that it's great there and I'm thinking of retiring there. Saint George is what I had in mind.

St. George is a beautiful town. I went to the Braden tennis college there. Housing prices there have skyrocketed the past few years, just like Vegas.

 

[BiGGieStuFF]

Thanks all! Wow, I'm getting some great stuff here. Okay, I'm sifting through the suggestions:

Out:
California (traffic, costly housing)
Southern Maine (snow)
Lower Merion (costly housing)
Houston (hurricanes)
Colorado (snow, costly housing)
Southern Utah (costly housing)
MA (snow, costly housing)

In:
Northeast Oklahoma
upstate South Carolina
Mar del Plata, Argentina
Sweden

On the bubble (need more info):
Dallas or Austin (traffic?, crime?)
Central Kentucky (housing?)
Birmingham (traffic?, crime?)
East TN (crime?)

Keep 'em coming!

Hmmm....Out of those I'd probably do a texas city. You'd be within driving distance of Houston, Austin, San Antonio, and Dallas. All different cities with their own personality and you could always visit one dependent on your mood. Are you single? Austin would be the way to go. There are plenty of things to do as far as outdoor activities go and FOR ME the people are more laid back and easier to meet, especially when going out on the town. I'm guessing that isn't your cup of tea so much anymore since living in vegas but you have the lake the hills to partake in and the weather is slightly better than that of the other texas cities. Tennis? Well hard to say since I haven't played much up there but I'm sure there is more than enough tennis to suit your needs plus there seems to be plenty of TW members who live there as well.

Plus hurricanes is no reason to count out Houston. Usually the bark is worse than the bite.

 

[BiGGieStuFF]

Bachelor parties in Vegas are a total drag. Bring your racquets, let's play!

Man I'd love to but it's my cousin getting married hahaha. Not sure if he'd be down with that, even though he's a tennis guy himself hehehe.

 

[Phil]

I'm tired of the city I live in (Las Vegas, NV).

Some problems (in no particular order):

traffic (hit and runs every day, 2 or 3 people killed every week)
pollution
attempted murders every day
successful murders 2 or 3 times a week
second highest auto theft rate in the country
too many angry people
poor performing schools (One of my tennis partners is an 8th grade teacher, he gets cursed out every day and the parents don't care)
. . .

I'm looking for a place where:

the above problems aren't quite so bad
tennis is played outdoors year round
I can buy a little house for 100K
natural disaster threat is low (hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc.)
people are free to not practice religion
. . .

Any suggestions?

How about Jersey? Plenty of tennis courts, weather is fairly stable thanks to the heavy amount of sulfer and other chemicals in the air, and no one will question your religious preferences. I suggest the Bayonne, Mahwah or Elizabeth areas...if you look really, really hard, you may find something at around 100K...a shack at the end of the Newark In'tl runway, or something...nice 'n cozy.

 

[emcee]

Ha nice one Phil. NJ has lots of traffic and quite a bit of pollution and not too cheap BUT it's got low crime and pretty good schools. Still, I don't consider it a great place to live and houses here will cost a lot more than those OK houses.

 

[Phil]

Ha nice one Phil. NJ has lots of traffic and quite a bit of pollution and not too cheap BUT it's got low crime and pretty good schools. Still, I don't consider it a great place to live and houses here will cost a lot more than those OK houses.

Yep. All the bashing NJ gets (including mine), and it's actually a pretty nice state once you get past the swamps...worked in Morristown for a few years and that part of Jersey really does justify the name "Garden State". I used to think that name was some kind of ironic joke, having only known the areas across from the Statan Is. Bridge. No cheap houses out there, though...

 

[Radical Shot]

How about Australia!

We have to welcome you...

1. The Box jelly fish
2. The Taipan
3. The King Brown snake
4. The funnel web spider
5. The cone fish
6. The red-back spider
7. The blue-ring octopus
8. ..and a whole bunch of other nasties that will kill you quicker than you can say.."Crikey!"

..oh, and our national footwear is a pair of black thongs!

 

[atatu]

Regretfully, I can't recommend Austin. First, forget about buying a nice house for under $100k, that won't happen. Second, the truth is that there are not that many good public tennis courts here. The City has not built any new courts in many years. The tennis community worked to get a bond proposal passed to expand one of our few tennis centers. It was voted on and approved. Of course, the courts were never built due to lack of funds. Finally, eight years later the funds were available, but the neighbors objected and the Mayor and the City Council killed the project. They are supposedly building new courts in a new location, but it's way out of town and those courts will not get used. Also, the traffic is getting worse and worse as more and more people move here. Austin twenty years ago was a great place, now it's just another overcrowded city. I will say that it is better than Dallas, although they have better courts in Dallas.

 

[BiGGieStuFF]

Regretfully, I can't recommend Austin. First, forget about buying a nice house for under $100k, that won't happen. Second, the truth is that there are not that many good public tennis courts here. The City has not built any new courts in many years. The tennis community worked to get a bond proposal passed to expand one of our few tennis centers. It was voted on and approved. Of course, the courts were never built due to lack of funds. Finally, eight years later the funds were available, but the neighbors objected and the Mayor and the City Council killed the project. They are supposedly building new courts in a new location, but it's way out of town and those courts will not get used. Also, the traffic is getting worse and worse as more and more people move here. Austin twenty years ago was a great place, now it's just another overcrowded city. I will say that it is better than Dallas, although they have better courts in Dallas.

Thanks for the insight. YOu'd know best since you live there. And with that comment. COME TO HOUSTON . plenty of courts everywhere. Well I know where most of the courts are from the galleria area all the way down to my house near the belt and 59 . Friend introduced me to this nice tennis center for New Territory residents. Pretty darn nice free courts.

 

[boxingguy]

How about Australia!

We have to welcome you...

1. The Box jelly fish
2. The Taipan
3. The King Brown snake
4. The funnel web spider
5. The cone fish
6. The red-back spider
7. The blue-ring octopus
8. ..and a whole bunch of other nasties that will kill you quicker than you can say.."Crikey!"

..oh, and our national footwear is a pair of black thongs!

What, no sharks with lasers attached to their heads?

 

[Phil]

Thanks for the insight. YOu'd know best since you live there. And with that comment. COME TO HOUSTON . plenty of courts everywhere. Well I know where most of the courts are from the galleria area all the way down to my house near the belt and 59 . Friend introduced me to this nice tennis center for New Territory residents. Pretty darn nice free courts.

No offense, but I've heard that Houston is one of the ugliest, most polluted and dangerous cities in the US. And the weather is horrible. I've only been there once-for a day-and-a-half, and I didn't have a chance to see the "sights", so I'm only repeating what friends and acquaintances have told me.

 

[boxingguy]

Regretfully, I can't recommend Austin. First, forget about buying a nice house for under $100k, that won't happen.
They are supposedly building new courts in a new location, but it's way out of town and those courts will not get used.

Thanks for the info. I don't really need a "nice" house. Just a modest little house for myself.

I wouldn't mind being the only one using the new courts way out of town. Any idea where they will be?

 

[Radical Shot]

What, no sharks with lasers attached to their heads?

Ah yes, thanks for the reminder. How could I forget the Great White Pointer? Many a South Australian fisherman and surfers would swear by the fact that they've got some sort of seeking device programmed something like....

1. Smell the food
2. Swim toward the food
3. Chomp the food...including anything in the way (surfboards, boats, tanks, wetsuits etc.(you've seen Jaws right?)

Repeat as necessary. Scary stuff

 

[boxingguy]

Thanks for the insight. YOu'd know best since you live there. And with that comment. COME TO HOUSTON . plenty of courts everywhere. Well I know where most of the courts are from the galleria area all the way down to my house near the belt and 59 . Friend introduced me to this nice tennis center for New Territory residents. Pretty darn nice free courts.

Okay, Houston's on the bubble.
What is "New Territory"? Sounds exotic.

 

[BreakPoint]

if you could be fine with say a small townhouse or condominium, then look to something in the LA/san diego area or the bay area....

i suggest looking for a place in the suburbs of california though

The problem is in the Bay Area or LA/SD areas of CA, you can't even buy a small condo nor townhouse for $100K. Not even close. You need more like $500K at a minimum. For $100K, you might be able to buy a small garage to park your car in and then you can just live inside your car.

 

[Phil]

The problem is in the Bay Area or LA/SD areas of CA, you can't even buy a small condo nor townhouse for $100K. Not even close. You need more like $500K at a minimum. For $100K, you might be able to buy a small garage to park your car in and then you can just live inside your car.

Why not just sell the car and furnish the garage as a studio apartment-a 55-gallon drum placed in the back corner will work just fine as your "toilette". I've always liked carriage apartments...this would be the next best thing.

 

[BreakPoint]

Why not just sell the car and furnish the garage as a studio apartment-a 55-gallon drum placed in the back corner will work just fine as your "toilette". I've always liked carriage apartments...this would be the next best thing.

Because in California you NEED a car.