Where would you move to if ...

[SeaHound]

Lets say you had a job in which you were making money of the internet. No office, no 9 to five crap! Since you worked in cyberspace, you could move to any dive destination in USA buy/rent property there and live. Where would you go? Hawaii? Florida? Washington? North Carolina? US Virgin Islands? Keep in mind other factors besides diving like crime, cost and standard of living, property prices etc

 

[LeadTurn_SD]

Puako, Big Island of Hawaii.

Oh wait, I already live about 1.5 hours away.....

But it would be nice to wake up, gear up on the Lanai, walk across the backyard, wade into the water, and get a before-breakfast dive in.

As it is, I can only do lunch break dives here in Hilo... (sorry, couldn't resist).

Best wishes.

 

[BabyDuck]

north florida. somewhere in alachua, lafayette, gilchrist, or suwannee counties. that's the 5 year plan...

 

[vladimir]

Lets say you had a job in which you were making money of the internet. No office, no 9 to five crap! Since you worked in cyberspace, you could move to any dive destination in USA buy/rent property there and live. Where would you go? Hawaii? Florida? Washington? North Carolina? US Virgin Islands? Keep in mind other factors besides diving like crime, cost and standard of living, property prices etc

If the US Virgin Islands are in play, then Guam and American Samoa must be as well, right? I'd be thinking along those lines. I haven't dived in Guam, but the fact that it's a short hop to Palau is good enough for me. American Samoa, "consisting of five rugged, volcanic islands and two coral atolls," how bad could the diving be? Typhoons, on the other hand, might be an issue.

 

[Tanked]

Do I have to bring my wife, and 3 kids?

 

[fisheater]

Under those conditions, why chose ONE place? I'd be moving to where ever I was interested in diving at that time.

 

[vladimir]

I wouldn't (obviously) rule out living outside the United States. As an expatriate, your first ~$100K of income is tax free in the United States. Hong Kong has a top bracket of 17% and Singapore's is 20%. Any tax paid abroad is a credit against your US liability. And Singapore has great proximity to Indonesian and Malaysian dive sites--take the Tuesday SilkAir flight to Manado, come back on Saturday and squeeze in a few days of diving in Lembeh. From Hong Kong, so far I have been doing long-weekend trips to Thailand and Bali, but the Philippines is nice and close too.

 

[aquaregia]

It's possible that I may consider a move to St Kitts.

 

[RJP]

Lets say you could move to any dive destination in USA buy/rent property there and live.

I'd move someplace where there's more diveable shipwrecks than anyplace else in the world.

Oh, wait a minute...

Just click your fins together three times and say..."There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home."

 

[DennisS]

I moved to Dania Beach, good shore dives 5 minutes away with a dive shop 2 minutes away.