What are North Eastern and West Coast parts of USA like?

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Beware, USA does not have free Health Care. They do for senior citizens I think and for people with disabilities but in some states have you pay for medicare, just a little money.
You also need a working permit since you are not a US citizen.



Portland and Seattle are not small towns by the way, neither is Eugene. Portland and Seattle have over 500,000 thousand people. Portland has more than 2,000,000 in the metro area.


Portland is a very nice livable city. It has very reliable transportation. They even have a website and you can plan your trips online. Just put in your address and the address you want to go to it tells you what bus line or train line to take. But Portland has lot of rain during fall winter and spring. We also tend to get wind storms and freezing rain. But it does get hot in the summer but not too bad. 70's and 80's.
This place is also filled with immigrants.

Actually, Tennessee isn't as conservative as the rest of the South.

I don't know about that. But even if it isn't as conservative, it is still conservative. Five of it's cities make up a part of what is called the "Buckle of the Bible Belt". And the state is pretty much surrounded Living there you'd be in it pretty deep. I'll be moving there in a year or two though.

And to the OP, these are some other areas you may want to watch out for:
"There are also several locations outside the Bible Belt that are centers of evangelical Christian activity, many of them are often called "Exclaves of the Bible Belt". They include Prescott, Arizona; Colorado Springs, Colorado; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Wheaton, Illinois; Lancaster, Pennsylvania; and parts of Southern California, particularly Orange County."

you only get Medicare if you or your spouse ever worked enough hours to earn it. Every state citizen has to pay Medicare premiums (of about $96. a month) and it is only 80% of the health care costs.




which is exactly what the original peoples (the 'Indians') said when the current settelers started living in their lands!

Merle

Yes, I've heard Colorado Springs called the most conservative town in the country!

Also, my friend who lived in the outskirts of Chicago had many evangelical friends (she herself was not evangelical- just everyone who lived around her was).

I've heard that immigrating between nations in the British Commonwealth (old British Empire) is extremely easy, as is immigrating to any nation that is part of the European Union (which the UK is). The US is quite xenophobic at the moment and has clamped down HARD on immigration. Few people are getting in unless they have an extremely specialized skill. Sneaking in from Mexico is usually not an option unless you're already Hispanic. Westerners in Mexico tend to "disappear". If they turn up, it's as a skeleton in the desert. Many never do. Mexico is pretty lawless and run by feuding drug smuggling gangs. Westerners are hated in Mexico and are targets. The only other way to get in to the US is to claim political refugee status, which an Englishman couldn't. I would say go to Australia, or maybe Canada.

I love where I live but this is a loaded question, and quite subject to the "grass is greener on the other side" concept. Things can vary suburb by suburb, city by city, street by street. It's impossible to know until you are physically there. Which isn't so easy, because with VISA's et al, I think you need to be fairly well set before you ever arrive.

We are quite crowded here, in most areas. The big open expanses are not always accessible or open to individual use.

The social net is a lot smaller. While people are often "live and let live," they are also "I take care of myself, so you do the same." Medical insurance is expensive and if you are self-employed you may not be able to get it all.

With good skills and get charge attitude, there are many great places to live. But there are always trade offs.

I wish you luck in figuring it all out.

Rural or outstate Missouri is definitely in the "Bible Belt," but the major urban areas—Saint Louis and to a lesser extent Kansas City—do not qualify (Missouri's biggest political and cultural split is between St. Louis and Kansas City on the one hand and then pretty much everywhere else on the other). Columbia is also fairly progressive because it's a college town. Springfield is another college town, but I think it's also the headquarters of some major evangelical church or something.

My free health care is free. I got it because I'm on SSI. It's called Care Oregon. But I also get healthcare from work and it costs 35 bucks a month. They cover part of the medical bills but you have to pay the rest and they cover certain places like The Providence hospitals.

Social Security signed me up for medicare when I lived in Montana and it was free, they didn't charge me. In Montana anyone can apply for free medicare if they have low income. But I found out in some states its not free because they take it out of your Social Security check. it's not that much compare to how much money you get from them. Every state is different about Medicare. In Oregon you have to be on social security or be a senior citizen, that's the only two things I can remember. I assume Care Oregon is medicare but different name.

BULL!! !! What you state is the "law". It is managed by the employer, who pays LESS! I have spoken with enough employers and employees to know that. It is COMMON KNOWLEDGE in the IT industry that they get paid LESS! The government doesn't care. They just keep raising "quotas".



Again, not true in practice!



They HAVE deported, or at least threatened to, even white british and irish people.(that I know of) Apparently, the idea of permanency isn't valid either.

OK, I took you a bit literally. Mosquitoes can travle like 20 miles a year, and can stray as much as a mile from their birth place. All it takes is a little stagnant water to stay for a few weeks to make one MANY. Obviously, mosquittos are rare in much of California, but they do exist.



Yeah, and pasadena at least USED to be a nice place.



Oh well, parts of Africa are really prejudiced against WHITES! HECK, places HERE are! BTW People join the military for like 5 reasons(benefits, travel, experience, patriotism,fighting, last resort). THREE of those will attract people that are either down on their luck, or in hard times. So you can't say that 80% of the military in a given place is racist and thus 80% of the US is.

I lived most of my life in California. In fact, I often went to pasadena with my mother for a daytrip on the weekends.(shop, eat out, etc...) NOW, I am living in Boston.

BTW Alaska is NOT great because of the no income tax. They are ALSO COLD much of the year, isolated from the other 49 states, and prices can be HIGH. So it is almost like another country. I'm not saying that is bad, but it MORE than offsets the income tax.

not to mention palin is from there

The Assemblies of God is the one headquartered in Springfield.

Do those oil royalty checks help the people up there much?

I am wary of any state that doesn't have an income tax. The states have to make money somehow and nothing is free so what does it matter if there's an income tax or not? Either way you are going to have to pay for the state no matter what that's life.