Best place to live in America ?

I am thinking of my future after I finish my education. I want to live somewhere where I will experience the least amount of prejudice and hate. I am currently living in Miami and its probably the most racist and classicist place I have ever lived. The ironic thing is its minority v.s. minority here. Anyway, I heard Vermont is nice and so is Rhode Island. Which do you think (or know) is the best?

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1. California, hands down. I grew up in Virginia, and people ALWAYS noticed that I was Middle Eastern [I'm half Persian], and were obviously prejudiced about it. I remember during 9/11, I actually had a few strangers cuss me out, because of my heritage... In Cali, everybody is themselves. There are a lot of gangs and such, depending on where you live, but generally, the gangs fight amongst themselves, and tend to be in the ghetto places [LBC, Garden Grove, South Central, etc], instead of all over. I live in Orange County [Huntington Beach] myself, and I've been here for 4 years almost...I absolutely love it. It's nothing like "The OC" that everyone perceives it to be. It's just a chill place to live, where people don't get on your back for being yourself. EDIT: a lot of people down CA because of the cost of living, but its not really that bad...if you live in Miami now, it will be no different here
2. I laughed when I read the "minority vs. minority" it's really sad but its true. I wouldn't recommend Vermont , but maybe Rhode Island and the NYC area. Cleveland and Boston are places where the people are educated enough not to be prejudice. Cali is also that way , Seattle as well and mostly Los Angeles. The west side seem to have better perspective of races because people are more educated , same with areas like Boston. I found that larger cities are more diverse and have more culture. According to studies done , cities like San Francisco, Seattle, NYC, Los Angeles, and Boston tend to have more diverse and culture where in areas like Kansas, and smaller places tend to have more discriminative treatment
3. I would like to say that my chosen home is one of the best in the U.S. I am talking about the Raleigh - Durham - Chapel Hill triangle area of North Carolina. There is diversity, above average income, above average educational achievement, and little or no racial tension. I can stand on my front porch and turn left to go the mountains two hours in one direction, or turn right and go to the beach two hours in the other. High tech jobs are plentiful ( or were before the depression ). There are four seasons without the extreme mountains of snow in the winter. Not a bad place at all. Just ask all the yankees that are moving here from the frozen north.
4. I'm in the Seattle area and I have to agree with wonkaman - we're a pretty open group over here. But you don't want to go too far east because the hunting, fishing redneck group gets thicker the further east you go. Of course you'll have to like the rain, but it is a pretty green place with a mild climate. Plus, Seattle is the home of the Grunge rock movement, and that's right in your name already! I'm surprised to hear about Miami though - I kind of thought they were a melting pot.
5. I'm from Midwest but have lived in DC since 1999 (my 2nd time) and I have to say that I like DC because I think it has lots of different cultures. I think that DC, NY and LA are the true "melting pots" as far as having 100's of different races, cultures, and languages. You have every kind of restaurant, mixed couples, cultural things, etc I won't pretend that some areas of the city aren't very diverse but if you have the money you can live where ever you want. I can say that I have friends that are Indian, white, black, jewish, african, etc Which when I grew up you saw white or black and very few of any other race. I can walk to Spanish market and pick up Goya malts or I can go and eat Korean food after visiting China Town. I think the minority vs minority thing is everywhere -it's sad but true but the thing I realized is that if you are on a certain level- race becomes unimportant to some they just want to be surrounded by others of similar thinking, education, etc. If I had to choose between the 2-- I would choose Rhode Island. Come visit DC
6. the best place in America to live is NEW YORKKKK.. specifically LONG ISLAND... more oppertunities here than anywhere else.. New York is a melting pot as I am sure you've heard..