virescent-phosphor:

immortalspark
replied to your post “I kind of want to move out to England and get a piece of property…”

The Pacific Northwest has quite a few England-like locales that are very mild, rural, and farm-friendly. Lacks the ancient history but makes up for it in pioneer ruggedness and funky cultural centers *native PNWesterner who dated a Brit for 7 years*

Oooooooh. That’s quite tempting. I’ve also thought about Texas, somewhere close enough to Austin so it’s still kind of culturally liberal and I won’t completely stick out like a sore thumb. I love living in the LA area, but it’s so expensive…

Yeahhhh! It was an interesting experience. We actually had our first “date” in LA and toured around Disneyland, Griffith Park, etc. Good memories ^^

I have also lived in CA (Sac area, rural town of Woodland) and now in Texas, but nowhere near Austin unfortunately. I spent every summer growing up basically in Los Angeles, so it’s almost a second home to me. I have also lived in the Midwest, briefly, and visited the East Coast.

Of all the places I’ve lived, I was personally happiest in Woodland…partly because of the proximity to LA (compared to where I grew up anyway) and partly because of the climate. But if you want to live somewhere in the US that is probably the closest in climate to England…I’d definitely recommend the PNW on the coastal side of the Cascades. There are some truly lovely farms to be had and the culture is typically liberal. Land can be quite expensive as opposed to Texas (land is super cheap here aaaah) but not as bad as LA. And there’s water for crops and animals, lush pastures year-round. The land is GREEN IN THE SUMMER. It’s a weird place 😛 Rains a lot, but so does England. Gets a little snow and ice in the winter, but not more than a dusting, usually. My BF and I used to constantly have the same weather patterns. It was a bit funny. There’s a ton of choices in area too, everything from gently rolling prairie to mountain hide-aways to rocky shores. My favorite was the little hidden valleys surrounded by mountains, full of small farms. People riding their horses down the street, etc.

There is a HUGE difference between living in a city and living in a small town, and the PNW area really seems like the best compromise, where you aren’t right in the city all the time, but you’re never so far away that you don’t have options (unlike where I live now, which I don’t recommend unless you absolutely hate all human beings and/or grew up in nowhere). Farm life is not for everyone, but it is a fantastic way to live! I’m sort of starting a mini-farm of my own (eventually, when I get my house built).

Texas has mood swings in weather. I don’t know much about the Austin area except that they get flooding down there, sometimes pretty bad. Where I currently live in North East Texas, we don’t get heavy ice or snow or hail like they get in Dallas. We do get tornadoes, normal wind that tears shingles off houses, hard hard hard rains like I never saw in the famously rainy PNW, hot humid sticky wet air, lightning strikes…and all of that can happen in the space of 24 hours. I wouldn’t call it mild at all. It is a bit more relaxing than the Midwest.