Any good cities for Atheists?

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Aurora, IL

In a couple years I hope to go into Grad school and move out of the suburbs, anyone know of a good city I should check out? One with a strong atheist/skeptic community.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:49 am

Moonstruck wrote:

In a couple years I hope to go into Grad school and move out of the suburbs, anyone know of a good city I should check out? One with a strong atheist/skeptic community.

Austin, TX of course! If not an atheist community, at least a very liberal one. If you were to look at the red/blue map of how Texas counties voted in the 2004 presidential election, Travis County is the only blue one in Texas. Austin really was an awesome place to live and go to college...wish I was still there.

Maybe I should be getting around to asking for a name change now that I am no longer an Austin Atheist.

Newbie First Class Joined: Dec 11, 2004 Posts: 26

How about Albuquerque? Anyone have any experience there? I'm thinking of moving there at the end of this year.

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Aurora, IL

AustinAtheist wrote:

Austin, TX of course! If not an atheist community, at least a very liberal one. If you were to look at the red/blue map of how Texas counties voted in the 2004 presidential election, Travis County is the only blue one in Texas. Austin really was an awesome place to live and go to college...wish I was still there.

I have always wanted to visit Austin but it seems to hot to live there.

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 12:27 pm

Moonstruck wrote:

AustinAtheist wrote:

Austin, TX of course! If not an atheist community, at least a very liberal one. If you were to look at the red/blue map of how Texas counties voted in the 2004 presidential election, Travis County is the only blue one in Texas. Austin really was an awesome place to live and go to college...wish I was still there.

I have always wanted to visit Austin but it seems to hot to live there.

Yeah, I remember a few summers ago it reacher 100 degrees Fahrenheit for over 30 days in a row. But that is what Barton Springs is for!

Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 1:10 pm

London, Berlin, Stockholm, Vancover...

Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2008 5:56 am

Sydney Austrailia.

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 26, 2008 Posts: 519

Greenwich Village, NY. Might not be a very decent neighborhood now; probably too many stoners. You could always go to France. 25% of the nation is atheist/agnostic and they have a great establishment clause.

The Learned Joined: Jun 13, 2005 Posts: 115

According to Adherants the most atheists per capita can be found in Sweden, followed by Vietnam, Denmark, Norway, Japan, Czech Republic, Finland, France, and South Korea...

It would be very interesting to see if someone can get reasonable figures for individual cities - and would probably influence a lot of us who are considering moving.

N.

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 26, 2008 Posts: 519

Norway also has the most protections on free speech.

Newbie Joined: Feb 26, 2008 Posts: 13 Location: Aurora, IL

As much as I would love to flee the country I think it would be rather hard to get anyone to take me. *sighs* Unless someone abroad wants to get married Smile

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Just Arrived Joined: Mar 20, 2008 Posts: 2 Location: NY

I went to grad school at the Univ of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. It's a great little university town, very safe, very fun, and very free-thinking.

While it gets pretty cold in the winter, most of the bars have ATMs so you don't have to leave the bar to get cash.

The UI Hospitals and Clinics is a great place to study. The Iowa River runs through town and divides the city into UIHC and the rest of the univ. If you're in a biomed field, it's marvelous. If you're not, then you're on the OTHER side of the river, where the lib arts and non-biomed sci are. Stipends on the OTHER side of the river are about half of what biomed-related field stipends are. If you're debating between microbiology and botany, say, choose micro.

TK Kenyon

Just Arrived Joined: Apr 12, 2008 Posts: 7

Moonstruck wrote:

As much as I would love to flee the country I think it would be rather hard to get anyone to take me. *sighs* Unless someone abroad wants to get married Smile

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No need to get married. You just need a work permit and you should have no problem getting one if you are educated and are not going to become a social burden.

There are many of us Americans living over here in Europe. I NEVER want to leave. Don't get me wrong....I love the USA and all that but I also love the European mindset much better then the small mindedness of the majority of Americans. Been here for 12 years now!

Plenty of GREAT jobs over here and you get paid in EURO (unless us work for the US Government over here)!!!

Graduate Thinker Joined: Mar 26, 2008 Posts: 519

I would like to go live in France or Germany or Sweden. Europe's a good continent.

Hey GermanyBert, what do those German sentences mean?

Newbie First Class Joined: Mar 29, 2008 Posts: 48

Problem with Europe is that while the Xtian pop is dropping the Muslim pop is rapidly going up. If things continue at the current pace many nations (France, Spain, UK) will be Islamic states within the century. Europe is becoming Eurabia.


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