Re: Question for those who live in the US
Eeeeh... Dark, New York City and the general New England Metropolitin area has the best public transit on the continent. We don't really even have trains outside of that area, Chicago, and maybe a couple other places (do they have trains on the west coast, or is it mostly buses?). I told you before but you didn't believe me . In about an hour, I'm going to walk half a mile in the hot and humid Louisiana summer to get to the LCB training building (oddly enough, will then start on "bus travel". I know absolutely nothing about how any bus system in the area works because apparently even the center full of blind people just doesn't use them that often, they're that useless. Cabs, walking, and sighted people with vehicles are the only ways anyone travels. And cabs in Ruston, LA are unusually cheap. Emphasis on "un!usually".)
As for the climate in Charlotte, NC... I should point out that everything from Maryland south has been record-breakingly hot for the past month. The heat index in some places got over 45C in the past couple weeks. It's mostly hovering around a slightly more sane 35-40, and a storm system came through this week which made things much less dehydrating (but also much wetter).
If you plan on going anywhere once you move in, I'd suggest Chicago, especially if you can afford to travel during the winter.
If you want a coastal area, there are lots of blind people in the San Francisco area. I haven't been there and find all the pressures in that direction kinda unpleasant, but it's an option. I have been to Las Angeles, and the weather there even in July is downright wonderful, but I would be surprised if it's all that blind-friendly.
Florida is a slightly better version of the blistering south I mentioned, climate-wise. In the Orlando area, you can set your clock by the afternoon thunderstorm, but outside of El Niño years, it's more the "Oh, hey, the water is cooler than it was as vapor" than anything troublesome. It's humid and hot, but less hot, somehow (sea breeze, or something?). Orlando has decent buses, because it's a tourist city. The shuttles you can hire, however, are outrageously overpriced. (I paid $50 to get from a hotel to the airport. I agree; I totally got ripped off.)
I should say, though, that these "nicer" cities are horribly expensive. If you can find an apartment for under $2400/month in any major city in California, it's probably a trap. I'm not sure about New York, but it sounds like the situation is similar. Things are much, much cheaper in Flyover Country, but of course, that comes with a lack of decent infrastructure and zany weather and wildlife. And I don't mean the wolves, coyotes, mountain lions, lynxes, or bobcats. The ones you gotta watch out for have more than 4 legs.
So, eh, maybe Charlotte isn't that bad a choice, with all of those things in mind. I haven't been there, and haven't heard much about it.
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