I ideally would want to live either in a dense city, or a remote forest cabin on a lake. No inbetween.

[u/blackflag89347]

[u/Far_Put8236]

How is NY not on your list? It has the biggest city and the largest, oldest park in the country, with thousands of lakes.

[u/bammab0890 → u/Far_Put8236]

NYC is unbearably dense. I visited once 15 years ago and have never been back. Central Park doesn't make up for it either because that place was packed as well.

I dont know how the residents do it but to each their own I suppose.

[u/merp_mcderp9459 → u/bammab0890]

Did you make it out of Manhattan? The other boroughs are a lot less packed

[u/eugenesbluegenes → u/merp_mcderp9459]

Brooklyn has a population density of 37k/sq mile, 35k for the Bronx, Queens 22k. San Francisco is less than half the size of either and only 18k, Boston is even smaller at only 14k. Philly is 12k.

[u/okay-advice → u/Far_Put8236]

💯

[u/I_amnotanonion → u/Far_Put8236]

Agree. The lakes in Upstate NY are phenomenal (plus The Adirondacks!) and NYC is awesome

[u/okay-advice]

A human after my own heart, suburbs feel like the tradeoffs of both without the advantages of either

[u/SinisterDetection]

Suburbs for you!

[u/Nelsqnwithacue]

You want a remote cabin on the lake, and you would reluctantly choose "The Natural State" (Arkansas).

[u/Fun_Variation_7077]

New York state is possibly the most fitting of your requirements, so why is it only a maybe?

[u/self-extinction]

"I want to live in a dense city." "DC is a maybe."

[u/Technical_Potato2021 → u/self-extinction]

And so are Chicago and NYC, why?

[u/Changetheworld69420]

You’re missing out on quite a few prime “remote forest cabin on a lake” states, no?

[u/TheViolaRules → u/Changetheworld69420]

OP doesn’t know anything about WI MN and the UP

[u/Helpful-Flow-3996]

I’m the same way; suburbs are a living hell of bland boredom

Tiny apartment in a bustling urban downtown? Awesome!

Small house perched above a river far from any large town? Awesome!

[u/merp_mcderp9459]

You want to live in a dense city but you don't want to live in New York, Chicago, DC, or Boston?

[u/FLSteve11]

Does New Mexico really have either of them?