Originally Posted by CoRWiN
Greetings Quiet Man, i've been doing a lot of thinking about this exact thought lately. My girlfriend will be finishing college this semester and we have plans to live together right away, she being a teacher we want to find the ideal place to start. Now personally i'm going upstate New York, to Orange/Sullivan/Ulster county some big towns around there are Middletown, Montgomery. Here's some of the adavantages...
A. Train that goes to New York City is right in Middletown, it takes about 1 hour and is only like 7 bucks.
B. Much cheaper taxes then Long Island, which is the typical sub-urb of the city.
C. LOTS of space for development, I use to live up their and it's amazing the poulation boom goin on up their. Theirs a ridiculus amount of more space available. I laugh when people talk about thier big 1/4 acre property acre here, when i was living on 17 acres (very typical) up there.
D. Combination of small quaint towns, with mass market areas. Middletown for instance has a huge strip with mall, walmart, etc... where as the town of montgomery is all mom and pop stores.
E. If your interested in opening your own business it's ideal to the massive influx of population.
F. Don't know your family situation, but this area has some Excellent School districts.
Now the other area I want to check out is North East Pennsylvania. The reason for this is it has all the things listed above except MUCH cheaper taxes. From what i've researched though land is being quickly bought up.
If you live in either place and you can get a job in the city, you have plenty of top options in terms of Martial Arts.