move out of Seattle

I’m done with Seattle. I’ve lived in or around it for my 21 years and am getting nothing done. I work a lot, make enough to save and leave. I’ve decided to move to the east coast. Maybe Maryland or Virginia.

I’m not so sure I want to leave any more. I know it will happen eventually because I am a wanderer—-but I guess I don’t feel the urgent need to leave that I felt before. Things have smoothed out.

Well, I have decided to stay, to live in Seattle but to make many excursions away from the city. Including going to Los Angeles for two weeks at the end of this month. I don’t have a place to stay yet. Don’t even know how I am getting down there but I am going. To spend time training with Bikram, to get my teaching certificate renewed, to do yoga every day, to reconnect. I am excited about this descision. Health, time away.

I want to leave, but I don’t know where I want to go. Here are the criteria for the city I will move to:

Does not require use of a car (I will not own one!)
Totally accesible by bike or public transportation
Active theater and film world
Good public outreach and support of the arts
Diverse community
Organic foods available
By or in a BIG city
Access to water
lots of ability to walk
good coffee shops
Excellent library resources
Dogs can sit in the cafes
Public art
Easy going lifestyle

SO – where the heck is this place??