Where to move?

BAZARUS

BAZARUS

alien in a strange land
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Hi all

I'm fixing to move the hell out of Arkansas in january. I'd like to ask you for some advices where would be good area to relocate for a serious pool player like me. Whats more important to me is a lots of non-handicaped tournaments with good competition. I've been thinking about north-east coast, but I'm not sure exacly where. Those hurricanes are holding me back a little. I'd prefer a city up to 1 milion people. Also I need a apartment with a large room for my pool table (minimum 19' x 14.5') I can spent for a rent as much as $500-600. Any suggestion would be appreciate.
 
BAZARUS said:
Hi all

I'm fixing to move the hell out of Arkansas in january. I'd like to ask you for some advices where would be good area to relocate for a serious pool player like me. Whats more important to me is a lots of non-handicaped tournaments with good competition. I've been thinking about north-east coast, but I'm not sure exacly where. Those hurricanes are holding me back a little. I'd prefer a city up to 1 milion people. Also I need a apartment with a large room for my pool table (minimum 19' x 14.5') I can spent for a rent as much as $500-600. Any suggestion would be appreciate.
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Well if you like nice weather you should check out California. Places like L.A. and San Francisco are very diverse environments with all races, religions, and cultures. That is what I love about living here. Aside from that, there is just about every kind of food you can imagine. Not in the mood for Japanese? How about Persian, or Italian, I love it! There are places out here in the San Fernando Valley that rent 1 bedrooms or Studio apartments for about $500-700 per month. If you ever do consider moving out here, just do some research on the area you would move to. Most of L.A. is nice, but there are some very dangerous areas to live because of gangs, etc.

The best pool action in California is up north in the Bay Area, but there is some down here. A player of your caliber would fit right in at Hard Times in Bellflower. Alot of great players go there, and they have some huge monthly tournaments that many pros play in if they are in town.
 
Boston might be a good choice. You could hit the Joss tour events. I think the cost of living is pretty high but that is true for any large city. Of course you'll be looking at real weather in the north east but you'll get used to it.

DawgAndy
Coming to you from the WORST place for a poolplayer to live!!!!!
 
AW Arkansas aint that bad. Im from their and will be moving back late next year. Dallas texas area is a great place for pool players with a low cost of living. Also Northern Virginia has the best pool imo of anyplace Ive ever lived. But your better off moving in someone elses place. Maybe get a job at a pool hall so you can shoot for free. California has tons of players but you will probably pay a fortune for a place to live.
 
BAZARUS said:
Hi all

I'm fixing to move the hell out of Arkansas in january. I'd like to ask you for some advices where would be good area to relocate for a serious pool player like me. Whats more important to me is a lots of non-handicaped tournaments with good competition. I've been thinking about north-east coast, but I'm not sure exacly where. Those hurricanes are holding me back a little. I'd prefer a city up to 1 milion people. Also I need a apartment with a large room for my pool table (minimum 19' x 14.5') I can spent for a rent as much as $500-600. Any suggestion would be appreciate.
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Howdy,
Inaddition to the sites mentioned by others,u may consider Phoenix,AZ where u have tons of good players but most of the weekly tournaments are handicaped.Cheers
Vagabond
 
DawgAndy said:
Boston might be a good choice. You could hit the Joss tour events. I think the cost of living is pretty high but that is true for any large city. Of course you'll be looking at real weather in the north east but you'll get used to it.

DawgAndy
Coming to you from the WORST place for a poolplayer to live!!!!!
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Boston is a nice city (as cities go) and I think you'd find the Joss events and a regional tour called "The Killer B's" (there better than B's IMO) much to your liking, but in Boston proper I think you'd find it very difficult to find an apartment to meet your needs for 5-600 a month. Maybe you could find something in one of the outlying cities, especially in some of the somewhat economically depressed former textile/shoe manafacturing cities. Providence, RI. might afford you decent pool with access to pool in the Boston area and a long but reasonable ride to NYC. There are others on this forum who know the rent structure in Providence better than me. The winters aren't that bad, compared to no winter at all in the south they are, but the ocean warms us up and I'd rather be here than in hurricane (tornado) alley.
I would at least give the northeast serious consideration, but then I've lived here my whole life and am a bit prejudiced toward it.
Good luck with your hunt.
 
BAZARUS said:
Hi all
I'd prefer a city up to 1 milion people. Also I need a apartment with a large room for my pool table (minimum 19' x 14.5') I can spent for a rent as much as $500-600. Any suggestion would be appreciate.
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For that amount, it's going to be hard for you to find a city with that population and room for your pool table. How about a place with a little less? I lived in the High Deserts of California for 10+ years and it's not bad at all. At one time, I had a 1 bedroom apartment that has a garage that was converted to a room that accomodated my 4 1/2x9 and it only cost me $400/mo. Smack in the middle of Los Angeles, San Diego and Las Vegas(2hrs15min drive) plus just an hour to Big Bear if you care to go skiing every once in a while. You can move 20 minutes closer to Los Angeles and San Diego if you find a place in the Low Desert somewhere in the outskirts of Palm Springs.

Pool action? Your week is covered as there's always a league night or local tournament going on plus action from the locals and all the poolplaying personnel from the 29 Palms Air Ground Combat Center. Travel a little during the weekends and you have tournaments and action that you can handle in the San Bernardino, Riverside, Los Angeles and San Diego counties. And of course there's Vegas!
 
I would say the Baltimore/ DC area would be a good choice. You would be w/ in 6 hrs of everything between central NC to NYC. The planet poo l tourneys are great, proven by the fact that they regularly draw 100+ players...

You'd be kind of near DCC, very near the Carolina's Open, and Norfolk too. There are a goood amount of weeknight events as well.

Beware the traffic!

-piga
 
Thanx for all the info. So far it goes either east or west.
I've been in Virginia 3 times so far and I think I'll move there. Like someone mentioned its within resonable driving distance to almost anywhere in north-east coast. Whether is a little bit crazy, but I can choose something more inland and be just fine.
 
I've lived in SC right between Atlanta, GA & Charlotte, NC, and I've lived in Dallas, TX before moving to PA..... Both the Carolina's and TX were GREAT pool action area's (more SC than TX if you can believe it). Do NOT move to PA unless you like 8 ball on bar tables where everyone plays on a league!
 
St. Louis!!!!

I recommend St. Louis area! There are some pretty strong players, plenty of places to play, the Mid-West 9ball Tour is in this area, many road players stop thru, St. Louis is centrally located in the US, so traveling around the States would be convenient. If you're looking for a job, there's plenty of companies, factories, sporting events.
St. Louis is a pretty nice place to live and it's not that expensive, compared to other areas and the weather changes seasonally. Summer 75-100 degrees, Winter down to 10 degrees, but generally not that bad.

Zim
 
BAZARUS said:
Hi all

I'm fixing to move the hell out of Arkansas in january. I'd like to ask you for some advices where would be good area to relocate for a serious pool player like me. Whats more important to me is a lots of non-handicaped tournaments with good competition. I've been thinking about north-east coast, but I'm not sure exacly where. Those hurricanes are holding me back a little. I'd prefer a city up to 1 milion people. Also I need a apartment with a large room for my pool table (minimum 19' x 14.5') I can spent for a rent as much as $500-600. Any suggestion would be appreciate.
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Personally, I'd look into the Cincinnatti area. Lots of Viking tour events, and you're centrally located to lots of options to play. 3 hours in any direction, and you can find action.
 
BAZARUS said:
Thanx for all the info. So far it goes either east or west.
I've been in Virginia 3 times so far and I think I'll move there. Like someone mentioned its within resonable driving distance to almost anywhere in north-east coast. Whether is a little bit crazy, but I can choose something more inland and be just fine.
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Bazarus, you've gotten a lot of good advice in this thread. I think you're on the right track. To help bring your game to it's highest possible level, there's nothing better than the top two regional tours in America, the Florida Men's Tour and the Joss Tour. I'd say move somewhere where you can commit yourself to playing in one of them. Northern Virginia is a pretty good idea, but Southern Virginia is way too far from most Joss events.
 
sjm said:
Bazarus, you've gotten a lot of good advice in this thread. I think you're on the right track. To help bring your game to it's highest possible level, there's nothing better than the top two regional tours in America, the Florida Men's Tour and the Joss Tour. I'd say move somewhere where you can commit yourself to playing in one of them. Northern Virginia is a pretty good idea, but Southern Virginia is way too far from most Joss events.
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Well, I'll propably have to consider southern Virginia. Right now anywhere I drive is from 8-20 hours, so if I can cut this down to 6-8 hours in any direction, I'd be satisfied.
 
BAZARUS said:
Thanx for all the info. So far it goes either east or west.
I've been in Virginia 3 times so far and I think I'll move there. Like someone mentioned its within resonable driving distance to almost anywhere in north-east coast. Whether is a little bit crazy, but I can choose something more inland and be just fine.
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Southern Califonia is too expensive and too crowded. The average monthly rent for a 2 bedroom apartment in Los Angeles County is $1200, and the average (median) home in Los Angeles is just short of $500,000 - and we're talking 3 bedroom 2 bath, and 1500 s.f.

Even the desert areas have skyrocketed. The condo's in Palm Springs that were selling for $75,000 are $200,000 and so on.

Chris
 
BAZARUS

Sorry Arkansas has been so bad for you. Charlotte seemed nice when I visited my brother a couple of years ago. Nice rooms and people. BTW what happened to turn you so sour on Arkansas. I have lived here for my whole life and basically the people are the same anywhere I have visited. PM me if you want.

FATS
 
FATS said:
BAZARUS

Sorry Arkansas has been so bad for you. Charlotte seemed nice when I visited my brother a couple of years ago. Nice rooms and people. BTW what happened to turn you so sour on Arkansas. I have lived here for my whole life and basically the people are the same anywhere I have visited. PM me if you want.

FATS
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Its not people, but most of all driving distance to any major tournaments that I want to play in, like for example: US Open - 20hours, DCC - 10 hours, Glass City Open - 15 hours and many more tourneys on north-east coast. I wanna cut down my driving hours to 6, so I can play every week somwhere. Here all I can play is in Atlanta or Memphis. Arkansas has only few major tournaments and most of them on bar tables anyway.
 
BAZARUS said:
Well, I'll propably have to consider southern Virginia. Right now anywhere I drive is from 8-20 hours, so if I can cut this down to 6-8 hours in any direction, I'd be satisfied.
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I don't think Southern Virginia would accomplish that, Bazarus. If you moved there, I'm guessing your typical drive to a Joss event would be about ten hours, and your typical drive to a Florida Men's tour event would be about twelve hours.
 
sjm said:
I don't think Southern Virginia would accomplish that, Bazarus. If you moved there, I'm guessing your typical drive to a Joss event would be about ten hours, and your typical drive to a Florida Men's tour event would be about twelve hours.
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I'm not sure which Virginia that is. So far I have in my mind Roanoke, Richmond & Norfolk. From any of those places is about 6-8 hours to New York.
 
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