Thanks everybody!
I'm still in contact with my US family, most of them live in Columbus, OH. But it's obviously not a coastal city
None of them visited VA beach.
My oldest brother lives in Columbus. It is a great place. Ohio State University, A diverse ethnic scattering, pretty good job outlook from what I can tell.
You have not mentioned your skills aside from your many languages. That in its self will be impressive. you might want to look into jobs with companies that are multinational and promote your linguistic skills. Hire on as a Translator maybe.
Cities as you have heard, are vast, and well honestly most of the EU can fit inside Texas alone LOLOL! Now, I will give you a rundown on the states I have lived in as being military I have moved around a few times. West Virginia (from birth till 15yrs old), Wild and wonderful it is. Dense forest and beautiful land. Draw back, not a lot of employment and Opioids are a large problem, as they are in many states these days. North Carolina (16 -21), another huge state going east to west. Divided into 3 regions. Coastal Plain, the Piedmont, and the Mountains. I grew up the second half of my life in the mountains of NC. Much like West Virginia, Asheville is the main attraction, lots of great schools for university level, Asheville has become very expensive to live in as has much of the mountains.
The Piedmont includes Charlotte, Raleigh/Durham (also known as the medical triangle), and Winston Salem. It has been too long to give you any good job outlooks but primary industry is banking and medical, and manufacturing. There are many more however I don’t have any info on them.
Coastal: I can not tell you a lot, but I did live in a big area called Wilmington NC. I went to school there a bit for university, but I cannot give you much in the way of better information.
Florida. So many options but south FL is very different lifestyle wise than North Florida, then you have ocean side and bay side. N. Florida is pretty much Orlando to the GA border. Jacksonville is very military oriented as there are 3 bases there, there is industry but it’s also been a while since I lived there. Jax (as it’s referred to) sorta is more like very south GA. It’s very hard to explain, you kinda just have to be there and travel around to understand it. South FL is very laid back usually conservative politically, Miami (never been there and a world unto its self LOL)
Now to Texas: it’s almost 50 / 50 politically, I advise staying away from Huston, just don’t like that area. The San Antonio to Austin area is amazing. Full of rich history, German decent people (your Dutch may still come in handy) in the Hill country area. Lots of diversity everywhere. You have the coast to the northern panhandle.
From there we go to the Pacific North West. You can read about Seattle and the industry around there and Portland Oregon. Lots of Tech, Aviation, and commerce.
So for a fairly half descent skimming off the top of my head there you are, I hope this helps ![]()