Not that I'm looking to move south any time soon, but I generally can't resist a "find the best city for you" quiz. I'm weak that way. I think it's because I've lived a fairly nomadic life, having had almost 20 different places I've called home so far.
aside:
Little known Carrington fact: I've lived in two different U.S. states, a dozen houses and apartments around Toronto, a dormitory, and have even called a hotel home at two points in the past. My family has celebrated Christmas in one of those hotels, once on a ship, and another time in a company boardroom. There's talk of holding this year's yuletide festivities at a theme park. And you thought your family was strange.
end of aside
When I clicked the "Stumble Upon" button in FireFox and it lead me to findyourspot.com's where-to-live quiz, I plunged right in to see what it would suggest.
The quiz is a bit long, but I suppose that means it's just taking more into account when it suggests I load my life into a U-Haul and head to a new home town.
Here are the top 5 supposed-best places to relocate my pale Canadian ass:
- Tucson, Arizona: Sonoran Desert Oasis
- Dallas, Texas: The Star of the Lone Star State
- Norfolk, Virginia: Heart of the Hampton Roads
- Charlotte, North Carolina: The Queen City
- Chesapeake-Virginia Beach, Virginia: The Southern Tidewater Region
Both Tucson and Dallas seem to appear at or near the top whenever I take a quiz like this, but this is the first recommendation I've had to relocate to Norfolk. I always thought that city would have too much military and too little theatre for my taste.
Plus, while I'm a Canadian and perhaps my knowledge of U.S. city stats is vague, I seem to recall that Norfolk has 3 times the national average of crime but a third of the hospitals. Or am I making that up?
At any rate I'm not packing my bags any time soon, but it is nice to daydream of a new view from my bedroom window.
