Best Places to Live

[FishDiver]

I plan to retire soon and relocate to a place with awesome local diving. I want to stay in North America and travel a bit in addition to local diving. Ideally, the location will have good shore diving and numerous offshore dives a short boat ride away.

Tell me about your experiences, either where you have lived, traveled to, or just heard about. Where is the Best Place to Live for local diving?

 

[DeputyDan]

It you are into dry suit diving I would say the puget sound area!

 

[AndrewJD]

Monterey, CA

 

[Joe-Diver]

I'd buy a place in the Keys. Largo, Tavernier, Marathon...upper to middle Keys personally.

 

[shakeybrainsurgeon]

I agree with south florida. Not only good local diving, but sites like the ABCs, Cayman's are much easier and cheaper to get to from Miami than they are from California or the Northeast...

Hawaii might also be nice, but more expensive, I suspect.

I hear the Fla real estate market is having a down turn right now, too

 

[shotthebreeze]

Boston MA...

 

[shakeybrainsurgeon]

Boston MA...

 

[dittohead]

So Cal diving is wonderful, and a short plane trip to Hawaii. I just spent the whole summer snorkelling and diving these two locations, best summer I ever had. I probably put in 2-3 hundred hours in the water this summer, At least 2-3 hours a day. The real estate prices are brutal in California, but the weather is always nice, rarely humid. Traffic sucks though.

 

[wreckchick]

I'd vote for WPB/Jupiter. Lots of shore diving, the keys are a quick drive down and Spirit is flying out of Ft. Lauderdale. Also, there are some pretty nice deals you can get on American which flies out of Miami to pretty much the entire world.

Rachel

 

[Hank49]

Florida. I'd say Hawaii too but it's not really part of North Amerca. But I like warm water. The Pac NW seems to have some interesting marine life though (cooold) and a lot of friendly divers. (at least here on SB)