MUST VISIT places in Miami, Florida?
ocean drive is great, a little pricey though. a MUST visit is vizcaya and the lighthouse at bill baggs state park. I would also recommend visiting gator park since the everglades is major park of southern florida and take an air boat ride. you can also go to the miami seaquarium and metro zoo. there are many great clubs on south beach and downtown. I would recommened mansion, liv, vagabond, or diskotekka. sawgrass mall is great and so is pembroke gardens. dolphin mall has strike miami and cinebistro which is great.
Why is North Carolina so cheap all around?
North Carolina is where I was born, and have lived my entire life (and still do). We're not necessarily cheap, but we're like buying a sheep farm in a 3rd world country compared to LA. The reason is because people don't need as much money here. We make a reasonable proportion of what we sell, and therefore local items are common. Cost of living is low. I'm from a town called Boone, NC. It's right on the border with Tennessee and about a 45 minute drive to Virginia. It is way up in the mountains, and therefore a bit different from the rest of the state. However, my father moved from Greensboro to here, and therefore I've been to Greensboro and the area many, many times. NC is a great place to live. It's practically a different country from west to east though. Where I am in the west, it's mountainous, extremely conservative (outside the town in the rural parts, where I live), full of a weird mix of dudes with coonskin hats and liberal college students. Locals speak with an entirely different dialect of English known as "southern appalachian english" which came from the Scots-Irish that settled here (I'm scots-Irish). It's like we're 20 years behind everyone else, and most people don't want to change that. Growing up I knew families who only let their girls wear bonnets and skirts, and they all played the fiddle incredibly well, and could flat-foot dance to the music. Oh yeah, and weather wise, it was -15° F last week. Not as temperate as L.A. Then in the east, you have sandy islands, palm trees, hot sandy shores, bikini girls (lol), and the small towns are totally different. It's much more multicultural. Most towns out east are about 40% black, 40° white, and the rest are other races. It's evenly split between conservatives and liberals, and if you like warm weather, that's the spot for you. I'm sorry I can't give more info on the east; I've never been there. Good luck, and I hope you receive a warm welcome in NC :)
Is it illegal to live in the wilderness? In USA?
Ok your getting some crappy answers, In national parks it is illegal ti camp for more than a certain period of time. Now if you wanted to go to say northern wisconsin you would have no problem finding a suitble place in the woods to live for a long time without comming across anyone. I lived in northern wisconsin in a debris hut for 3 months and did not meet or hear a single soul for those 3 months. I was not on anyones property that I know of, no one bothered me, no one could find me etc... you could go to alaska and live in the wild and never be found as well. It is not illegal if you stay on the move, if you stay in one spot for months at a time like I did it can become a problem if your on someones property etc...Use your head, if your prepared to live in the wilderness I am sure you can get away with it pretty easily, pick a good location, build shelters that blend in with the natural surroundings and no one will bother you If your erecting a huge log cabin and plan on living somewhere you need to own the land. But like I said, if you stay on the move or have a small shelter you will fine. Don't pay attention to weather it is legal or not follow your dream and don't let the government put a damper on things. But do not try and live in or near a national park that is definitly illegal. if you must live in a government establishment atleast find a remote national forest, there are very few laws that govern national forest. Places like montana are a good start if you want to live in the wilderness, but also places like northern wisconsin should not be overlooked in the lower 48 states, lots of opertunity and not many people to bother you or care what your doing. Good luck living in the wild can be a very rewarding experience!
Is it legal to live off the grid in the Alaskan Wilderness?
No it is not legal to just "go somewhere in the Alaskan wilderness, build a shelter and live there?" if you pull that nonsense on private lands it is trespassing. It may be wilderness, but the bottom line is lands in Alaska are owned, by the government, state, tribal groups, corporations, and private owners. And none of those groups are overly excited about you squatting on their lands living out your off the grid dream life. You will need to purchase the land or secure the permission of the owners. Guns are perfectly legal. But do not expect to keep them if you are illegally hunting game or taking animals out of season. There is no tolerance for people who do not respect the hunting and fishing regulations in Alaska. I hope you have also considered the reality of living off the grid in a remote location, as romantic as it sounds it is an amazingly difficult lifestyle. And it gets even more challenging when one has to deal with arctic winters. Into the Wild may be the best known story of an unprepared cheechako in Alaska, just the best know. The reality is the number of people who come up here thinking of doing what you are doing is large, the number who actually pull it off even for a short time is miniscule.
The Best Vacation Ever?
Kind of a vacation; when I moved from Ohio to Alaska this June. Sold everything before I left except what I could carry on my motorcycle, and ended up riding 6 days across the lower 48, hitting the Badlands, Black Hills, Bighorn & Beartooth Mountains (this was in late May/early June and when I got there the passes through Yellowstone and Glacier NP were both closed due to snow. I did make it up above 10k feet elevation on the Beartooth Hwy, though). Rode a full week up through Canada, by way of Calgary, then Banff & Jasper, then west to the Cassiar Highway and north to the Yukon. From there, on the Alaska Highway to Whitehorse, then up to Dawson City and over the Top of the World Hwy to Alaska. Traveled through Tok and Fairbanks, then south through Anchorage to the Kenai Peninsula before heading back north and eventually ending up in Wasilla. Altogether about 2 1/2 weeks and ~6000 miles straight riding through all kinds of weather and road conditions; an experience of a lifetime.