findmyspot.com

I know there are lots of people on here with relocation questions. I found this web site to be amazing. You take a quiz and it list the top 24 perfect places for you.

And no, I do not work for the site. Jusy wanted to make people aware.

Not sure I'd be willing to relocate based on this test. My #1 place was Tulsa, Oklahoma. As a 30-something single professional woman, I seriously doubt that a NYer like myself would be happy in cowboy land.

I listed museums and cultural events as a high priority. Somehow thier midwestern museum wasn't what I had in mind.

I tried this site as well and can't see me moving to my top spot - Cincinatti. Why would I move there?

I, too, got results of places I'd never consider. I guess their criteria are too cut-and-dried, or their weighting program is flawed!

I tried it and it worked pretty well--gave me Eugene, OR, as my #1 pick which is a place we have lived in and loved and would live again. It also suggested Valencia, CA, which I never heard of but sounds intriguing. For it to work, I think you have to pick a geographic region of interest. I picked the Pacific NW, so it didn't give me top choices in say, Texas or Ohio.

Valenica is the home of Magic Mountain amusement park - a park full of gang members. Valencia itself isn't horrible if you don't mind tract home after tract home and an hour commute to get to any culture.

LOL -- My top spot was where I live. As a matter of fact 4 out of the 24 "spots" were towns in the state I already live in. An interesting site. Thanks.

Valencia, haha. No one who didn't have to live there would. Vast wasteland of tract homes and long commutes into LA. Magic Mountain has been gangland since it opened long before 6 flags took it over. Valencia is not intriguing.

I took this qiz, too. No matter how I changed my answers, Cincinatti came up as my top spot. A nice city I'm sure but it can't be the answer to everything!

Hmmm, Valencia came up as a top-10 spot for me, too!

Cincinatti was my #3 and Valencia my #6. They don't really seem to have any similarities. Do you think that there are certain cities that are sponsoring the website?

Yes, that sponsorship (or bribery) notion did occur to me. BUT would someone really relocate because of that site? Is it really worth their while to risk such an underhanded strategy?

Boston
New Haven
Santa Fe
Danbury
Albuquerque
Reno

What's with New Mexico? Most of the places on my list were in Connecticut, New Mexico or Wisconsin. I live in New York City, and while I love it, I am not sure it's right for me forever. I've considered Connecticuty...but who knows, maybe NM or WI would make me happy. This was fun.

At the risk of sounding too mee-too, Danbury was also no my top-10 list. Now I suspect that the emerging pattern is based on them having a limited numbers of sites that the program recommends.

Did you all provide that personal info they required before they would release the list? I didn't so I'll never know. They spent too much time on church and weather.

Little Rock, Arkansas
San Bernardino, Calif.
Shreveport, LA
Alexandria, LA
Sacramento, Calif.
Honolulu, Hawaii

I put a mid-sized city as my choice and got everything from 60,000 to 1,800,000. And the last time I checked, Little Rock wasn't near the ocean. Looked like Charlotte was going to win for awhile (kept appearing at the top of the screen) until the section about church/religion.

When I did the Money magazine quiz last year, Pueblo, Colorado was #1.

I think the church and weather stuff were supposed to help them sort out the places! If you're Jewish or Catholic and want a faith community around you, they won't send you to a town in the Bible belt where you'll be the only Jew or Catholic in town.

Tried it and found it fairly dead on innaccurate. Must have weird weightings and/or believe all those silly magazine lists

I tried it and I thought it was great. My top 24 were interesting places that I had never thought of before. Many were in West Virginia. I seemed to be meant for the east coast and New England area according to this. Interesting because I live in the SW and hate the weather here.

For larry