Florida is its own region due to being huge. It was amazing and easily one of our favorite states and regions. It has many options for places to live, a fairly low cost of living for what you get and a…
Regional Roundup 8: Texas
Texas is certainly big enough to be its own region. Despite this, it was also a bit of a crossroads state as well. It is surely a bigger one, but even so, it had both Western and Southern qualities. The plant life…
Regional Roundup 7: Oklahoma
The next few entries are about four individual states that defy regional category. Three do so because they are huge; they are basically their own regions. One does so just because it doesn’t fully fit anywhere else. Oklahoma seemed like a true…
Regional Roundup 6: The Mountain West
The Mountain West is a region that I almost feel like I’m making up, but when we asked people in Utah, Idaho and Montana where they thought they were regionally, this is what they said. Wikipedia does acknowledge it as the Rocky Mountain region…
Regional Roundup 5: The Pacific Northwest
The Pacific Northwest most definitely includes Oregon and Washington State. We are choosing to include the far north of California as well, as it felt more similar to Oregon than to San Francisco. The top of Idaho can go in as well,…
Regional Roundup 4: The Southwest
The Southwest was amazing. It includes New Mexico, Arizona, Southern Nevada and Southern Utah. I think this was our favorite region. It has gorgeous weather in that it is hot or warm with the most days of sun per year out of…
Regional Roundup 3: The South
The South is is not just ‘the part of the US that is not in the north’, but the cultural South, most of which was in the Confederacy in the Civil War. This includes everything from Virginia down to the Florida Panhandle in the east and…
Regional Roundup 2: The Midwest
The Midwest includes everything between North Dakota and Michigan and then down to Kansas and across to Ohio. Pluses for the Midwest include the relatively low cost of living. The Northern Midwest in particular is generally very well run in terms…
Regional Roundup 1: The Northeast
We thought we would analyze what we most liked and disliked about the various regions of the country. Keep in mind we are not giving this as an absolute analysis of what is ‘the best’, but rather what was most…