>>>Other than the research required for locating a good job, have you visited the states before? Would you prefer everything being located closeby, mass transit, walking to the corner grocery store or wide open spaces, driving an hour to work and few neighbors? Hot dry weather, cold damp winters, or hot sticky summers? Tornadoes, earthquakes, snow storms, or hurricanes? No snow or 3 feet of snow? Virtually no rain or 39 inches of rain a year? All scenarios exist in the U.S. in different locations.
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>>Umm, no. Located closeby please, walk to grocery store,
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>Sorry, doesn't exist here. The shops are in their own ghettos (most of them), and the residential ghettos have no shops at all. You may be lucky to find one of the few places where there's any point of interest within walking distance, and isn't New York.
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Residential neighborhoods with shopping within walking distance do exist here, but they are harder to find in the south. They are mainly in cities and inner suburbs, often leaving you with a choice of high prices or crime and bad schools. That tends to be the choice in the two big cities where I have lived, Washington and San Francisco. Medium-sized towns and small cities, mainly in the northeast, can offer walking, affordability, and safety, but may have less to do, especially if there is no college. I don't know about Miami, since I have never been there. I know that it has interesting neighborhoods inside the city, but I don't know if any of them are both affordable and safe.

But it sounds as if Kev isn't so concerned about walking to the store.

Arlington VA, where I live, is like many inner suburbs - very expensive, low crime, good schools, and pretty easy walking (except in my corner of it). People are likely to take transit to work, but drive to stores and restaurants on evenings and weekends. When I am ready to buy a house, I will probably have to leave Arlington, where prices have doubled in a few years.