I am seeking the best gay place to live. I would like the climate to
be warm to cool, affordable real estate, low taxes, culture with
theater, parks and things to do, good health care, good AA support.
Currently I live in Fort Lauderdale Florida, where the housing it
getting out of control and the hurricanes are too much. Plus the
population is growing and we are become too congested. Am I asking too
much? Please let me know. Thank you, Keith

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Request for Question Clarification by politicalguru-ga on 20 Feb 2006 05:22 PST

Dear Keith, 

Are you still interested in an analysis after the links given to you?
Do you have specific countries in mind (and if you don't mind me
asking - what is your citizenship, i.e., where could you currently
legally live?).

This may be helpful:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=454657

Best regards,
Rainbow

And these:

http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=495939
http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=174351
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=248073

Rainbow~

This list might be of help:

50 best gay-friendly cities
http://www.fabcities.com/FabCities/Cities/CityList.html

Sydney, Australia.

Hi,

  One of the best place to live with the said features is Phuket in Thailand.

  
...Hardy

The Montrose area of Houston, Texas is a relatively nice area to live
in. The community is pretty firm.

Keith,

Can you expand a little on the type of things you are looking for? 

Broadly speaking, would you still like to live in the US or outside of US?

If within US, would you prefer living in Florida or are you open to
any other state within the US?

I work for the real estate industry and do a lot of research around
this space and may be able to help out based on the details you can
provide.

Here are rankings for gay and lesbian friendly cities:

http://www.queerful.com/gay-friendly-cities/
http://www.queerful.com/lesbian-friendly-cities/

<a href="http://www.queerful.com/gay-friendly-cities/">http://www.queerful.com/gay-friendly-cities/</a>
<a href="http://www.queerful.com/lesbian-friendly-cities/">http://www.queerful.com/lesbian-friendly-cities/</a>

Try going to http://www.findyourspot.com/ .  That site provides a free
survey that will help find the top 20 locations for you.

One note however, it is limited solely to US cities.

Bangkok

How about Montreal ? http://www.go-montreal.com/areas_village.htm

We have all you want, and more :)

Lakewood, OH

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakewood,_Ohio
http://www.ci.lakewood.oh.us/

Plenty to do, fair weather (warm in summer, cold in winter, although
last year was mild), great arts section

Lakewood has a very active gay population and has large gay population
within the city

chelsea, west hollywood, or the castro.