If you had to move to a ideal place

[Chief]

Admins, if this is in the wrong spot please feel free to move as you see fit.

NOW, Is there any place in the good ol USA where the weather is good most of the year, IE, 16 inchs of rain, very little if any snow. This is needed in order to ride most of the year. Other things needed would be nice roads with mild traffic. Now about friendly people and a low crime rate. :bike: Can such a place even be found?

 

[mdisher]

Hrms, I don't now where all of those fall together...

But I'd love to sell all my shit and go live on the beach in the Virgin Islands like that one guy (who's name escapes me).

 

[dbvolfan]

I'd have to go with Maryville, TN...yes, Maryville you read that right.

I have all of the following nearby:

Motorcycle riding

Road and Mountain Bike riding

White water kayaking

Hiking

Family

and.......Tennessee Football!

 

[wheatonFJR]

For my wife and I, Greenville, SC is starting to look attractive. She would only be 3 to 4 hours from the beaches she likes, and I would only be and hour or less from some curvy roads and Smokie mountains...I believe that I should be able to ride most months of the year down there.

'course I would need to find out whether we will have to knock out a few of our teeth to fit in,

and whether I should hide the fact when talking to the locals that Abe Lincoln was the best president there ever was,

and, when doing reroofing or siding work, whether sheet metal is the locally approved and preferred material.

As you can see, I'm still in the middle of research, so I'll have to get back to you on that.

 

[Scab]

Hrms, I don't now where all of those fall together...
But I'd love to sell all my shit and go live on the beach in the Virgin Islands like that one guy (who's name escapes me).

Pierre? FJRPierre? FJPierre? Sumpin' like that. I was too jealous to commit to memory.

 

[evil_henchman]

Big Sur. If only I could commute to Sacramento from there....

 

[Grumpy]

Doesn't this sound like La Jolly, CA?

jim

 

[feejer222]

Never been on a road trip in the USA so wouldnt know but over here forget mainland UK, already choked and getting worse by the minute.

It would Deffinitely have to be Ireland for me. Population 4 million, mainland is something like 65 million with pretty much the same land area.

It's scenic, the roads are in good condition and quiet. We went a couple of years ago and didn't see a single speed camera. (Don't know if thats a good thing, but no tickets arrived yet).

The people are great, the food and beer is good. Bugger it, we will go back there later this year....decision made!

 

[HaulinAshe]

Never been on a road trip in the USA so wouldnt know but over here forget mainland UK, already choked and getting worse by the minute.It would Deffinitely have to be Ireland for me. Population 4 million, mainland is something like 65 million with pretty much the same land area.

It's scenic, the roads are in good condition and quiet. We went a couple of years ago and didn't see a single speed camera. (Don't know if thats a good thing, but no tickets arrived yet).

The people are great, the food and beer is good. Bugger it, we will go back there later this year....decision made!

You know, it's sorta funny. Not HaHa funny, just peculiar. In the US, we refer to anyone who lives in a box as homeless. Yet our brothers across the bondpond are locked into what amounts to... a BIG BOX.

I'll never move any place north of that Manson-Nixon line. As soon as I reach VA, I start to feel out of place and unwanted. My Dad was born and raised in Shelby NC. Nice foothills, short winters with only a few days of snow, real (hardwood) trees, people who wave at strangers, two hours from the Dragon, four hours from the beach. Guess I better buy some property and get packin'.

 

[Jackson]

The Black Hills of South Dakota meet all of the requirements except for the length of the riding season. We have 16" of precip. a year, about 25" of snow annually, more sunny days than cloudy days, great bike roads, low traffic, low crime rate, friendly people.... but, due to cold weather, the riding between November and March is a little nipply nippy.

 

[twowheelnut]

Carver, quick, lock the doors!

Central coast of California, vis-a-vis Creston. :good:

 

[Toecutter]

Doesn't this sound like La Jolly, CA?

Werd.

But Fresno's pretty nice, in a low-income kind of way. I can hop on my bike and be somewhere really nice west (coastal twisties) in a couple of hours or or east (mountain twisties) in ten minutes. And you can still get into a house for a quarter mil.

 

[twowheelnut]

Doesn't this sound like La Jolly, CA?

Werd.

But Fresno's pretty nice, in a low-income kind of way. I can hop on my bike and be somewhere really nice west (coastal twisties) in a couple of hours or or east (mountain twisties) in ten minutes. And you can still get into a house for a quarter mil.

La Jolla and Fresno don't exactly qualify as areas of mild traffic... Um jus sayin.

 

[FJRPierre]

Hrms, I don't now where all of those fall together...
But I'd love to sell all my shit and go live on the beach in the Virgin Islands like that one guy (who's name escapes me).

Pierre? FJRPierre? FJPierre? Sumpin' like that. I was too jealous to commit to memory.

Not me but I wish (I think it's apierre in the Azores who is living the dream...) My favorite spot would be somewhere warmish in Ca

 

[jwhite518]

I vote somewhere in the Colorado Rockies. Man those roads are good! Northern Cali ain't too bad either, but I'm biased.

 

[Bike Effects]

I live in Napa, CA and have since '78, plus 3 years previously. The weather here is about as perfect as you can get. I do ride year round on some beautiful back roads. I could list boatloads of shit wrong with California, but all things considered, I live in a great place and I hope that I never have to leave here.

 

[FJRSTAR]

Admins, if this is in the wrong spot please feel free to move as you see fit.NOW, Is there any place in the good ol USA where the weather is good most of the year, IE, 16 inchs of rain, very little if any snow. This is needed in order to ride most of the year. Other things needed would be nice roads with mild traffic. Now about friendly people and a low crime rate. :bike: Can such a place even be found?

Kerrville, Tx. Yes...Kerrville, Tx.

 

[Barabus]

Smitty had very nice things to say about Bonne Terre, MO. Ride into the mountain right by his house into Arkansas. Seemed great for riding and no traffic. Smitty even mentioned other driver were courteous. Is there such a thing? I live in SoCal, the worst meanest drivers in the US.

 

[dcarver]

Carver, quick, lock the doors!
Central coast of California, vis-a-vis Creston. :good:

Too dry and hot in the summer, to cold in the winter, people are really unfriendly, way too many mad cowz running around.. Nope, no one should live there..