Best of The Worst Places To Live?

[Valka D'Ur]

Wasn't ained at you.

Vancouver Island has a bad reputation?

For being expensive. That whole region of British Columbia is insanely expensive for anyone trying to buy, build, or rent.

Vancouver itself has its high-crime areas. I'm not sure about the island, as I never spent more than 3 days at a time there, either in campgrounds or in a rural area where my great-uncle's family lived. It was out in the middle of nowhere, the family was into logging and fishing, and it rained the whole time we were there. I was bored stiff by the people who lived there (the only thing allowed on TV was tennis, which I am NOT interested in), so except for meals and using the bathroom, I spent that time holed up in the Winnebago, reading books.

Thank goodness I'd had time for a book run before we left Vernon to go out to the Island and down to Washington state. I had a medium-size box of science fiction novels, Roman historical novels, Archie comics, history/anthropology books, and some others. I remember the woman at the bookstore staring and asking if all of that was for me. I told her I had eclectic reading tastes and yes, all of it was for me (including the two French language books), except for the murder mystery - that was for my grandmother. I had all this stashed in the upper bunk in the Winnebago, and it saved my sanity.

 

[Zardnaar]

For being expensive. That whole region of British Columbia is insanely expensive for anyone trying to buy, build, or rent.

Vancouver itself has its high-crime areas. I'm not sure about the island, as I never spent more than 3 days at a time there, either in campgrounds or in a rural area where my great-uncle's family lived. It was out in the middle of nowhere, the family was into logging and fishing, and it rained the whole time we were there. I was bored stiff by the people who lived there (the only thing allowed on TV was tennis, which I am NOT interested in), so except for meals and using the bathroom, I spent that time holed up in the Winnebago, reading books.

Thank goodness I'd had time for a book run before we left Vernon to go out to the Island and down to Washington state. I had a medium-size box of science fiction novels, Roman historical novels, Archie comics, history/anthropology books, and some others. I remember the woman at the bookstore staring and asking if all of that was for me. I told her I had eclectic reading tastes and yes, all of it was for me (including the two French language books), except for the murder mystery - that was for my grandmother. I had all this stashed in the upper bunk in the Winnebago, and it saved my sanity.

Kinda like NZ UK and USA has cheap options if you're willing to go there.

Here not so much. Typical town is 250k USD on up.

You pretty much have to go fully rural or very small town to find much cheaper than that.

I'm wrong NZ Appalachia is still 240k so you would have to try even harder than that. Think that's our poorest province.

 

[Bestbank Tiger]

Staying near the happening college town of Hattiesburg was definitely the right choice - and it would be my nomination of best place to live in Mississippi.

Hattiesburg is ok but the Coast would be better. The Coast has cheap, fresh seafood and quicker access to big city amenities.