Ok, i lost my job and now looking for new one. I have the ability to go anywhere luckly with being a nurse but not sure where i would like to live. I would love some suggestions, Where, why, what is so good about the town/state.
thanks

Don't come here. Seriously, this town is going to "hell in a hand basket." Everything is closing down, layoffs keep coming one after another, and the Town Council won't let anything new come in. I really don't know how people are surviving here. It's pretty depressing!

well there is good hospitols here in oregon
especially at the ohsu in portland.

and where is here?

do u guys get a lot of snow or rain in oregon I live in Michigan and would really like to get away from that.

Sorry, "here" is in a little town called Marion, Virginia. Although there are some great places to live and work in this state, Marion is not one of them.

You should come to Texas!

Have a spare room.. seperate bath .. but I live out in the boonies easter part of Ohio 65 miles to Pittsburgh 75 to cleveland. 50 TO AKRON.. YADA YADA.. But they at least are hiring nurses here.

there are tons of jobs posting for texas but it is so damn hot there in the summer. True? Fun things to do? Best place in texas to live?

According to an article I found on the web, Houston TX is one of the best cities for nurses. It has a higher than average salary average, with a lower cost of living. Of course, that might not be true now, because I just checked the date and it was from winter 2007.

I hear ya wanting some warm dry weather.
Texas sounds good, or Colorado.

dolphin, do you know steve goss? the wrestler? or the maylins? or dore's? i lived there for awhile.

bay city....i know why you want out of there, lol. it's as bad as flint and saginaw almost.

perhaps down to the big easy....you're sayin bro?

Washington State is good - I live in a small town, maybe 7000 population, mostly mom and pop shops. The hospital is small, about 26 beds but they have postings for hiring nurses right now too. I have worked there for 6 years now, some really nice people, a few idiots, but get that anywhere.

The town is about 3 hours from Seattle. Climate is mild, we do get wind and rain, some snow but usually is gone fast and not deep. Some years none, this year had the most, but a inch or so and gone in a day or two. Nothing major. Surrounded by water on 3 sides.

Some heat in the summer, but usually fairly mild summers too.

hey my friend!, no, i went to Central mich university, and steve was my roomate. i was a pole-vaulter then. i moved to nola and fla in 82.
how's the culture shock coming along?

I would like to suggest that you join the traveling nurses company. Then you could travel wherever for work and get to see where you may want to settle down at. I could find the info for you if it sounds interesting; my cousin is doing it now and is in Washington for the next month.

we always get rain. but where i live (salem) we hardly ever get snow. so thats not much of a worry. we had snow in dec which that harldy ever happens.

now if you move to eastern oregon like in bend, klamath falls, in that area, its a higher climit so they always gets snow

small town life...is strange

It's funny you should mention that! There was this guy walking down Main St. carrying a big stick and I asked him if he was a pole-vaulter.

He said, "No, I'm a Swede...........but how did you know my name was W(V)olter

yes i know steve goss well, went to school with all of the above. In the big town of Auburn.

Come to Arizona. To hot in the Valley of the Sun...(aka Phoeni)..Look at Flagstaff or Prescott area. To cold in Flagstaff/Prescott area. Look towards Kingman. When it is hot in the summer ... mountains are right here to cool off in or to live in. Close enough to Vegas for weekend get aways. And we have houses/condos that are available at reasonable prices.