[deanmoriarty]

Regardless of the salary, I have never seen a place as beautiful as the West Coast, specifically the cities of San Diego, LA and SF. It still gives me goosebumps and watering eyes today when I land there. It might be that I am conflating the opportunities that the area has given me with the actual beauty, but I don’t think so.

And I was born and raised in the beautiful Mediterranean coast in Europe.

[jpgvm]

Heh. Come to Australia. West coast is nice but has nothing on Australia or New Zealand when it comes to beauty.

[Mandatum]

I agree the US coast don't have much to write home about, however Montana, Colorado & rockies, Yellowstone, there's so much nation park lands and accompanying towns in the US that really do match up to AU and NZ.