There’s a town for everyone in America

 　　Whether you want to live like a rock star or a cowboy, or become an urban gardener or just opt¹ for the simple life, there is a town in America to suit everyone’s taste.

　　Wannabe cowboys should head to Casper, Wyoming. Urbanites with a green thumb and a desire to start an organic garden should settle down in Red Hook, in the mid-Hudson Valley in New York.　　Fairfax, California is the place to pursue the suburban² ideal and Nashville is the city for aspiring³ music stars, according to the magazine Men’s Journal.

　　But if you want to keep a boat near New York City, look no further than Red Bank, New Jersey⁴, and head to Reno for outdoor pursuits far from the madding crowd.

　　"We ran with the notion that when somebody makes a big move it is for a specific reason, so we threw out about 28 specific reasons why one might pick up and head elsewhere," said Will Cockrell, the editor of the magazine.

　　"It could be everything from someone who lives out there and wants to get closer to culture and jobs, to someone who has lived in a city for a long time and is looking to get a bit of space around them."

　　The magazine also considered factors such as access to activity, culture, the culinary scene and the good life.

　　"In each of these you may be sacrificing one of those to be having more of another. But each of the 28 (cities) has some element of that," said Cockrell.

　　One of the not so obvious choices, he added, was Reno.　　"We found that Reno, Nevada has pretty much everything that Boulder⁵, Colorado has," Cockrell explained. "It is a non-obvious choice in that most people would not think of it as an adventure or active town."

　　Another surprising finding was St. Augustine in Florida, which came out tops for living in the very old south, which people might not associate with Florida.

　　Even further off the beaten path was the Black Hills of South Dakota, which Cockrell said was a lot less expensive than Montana for people hankering for more space and land to build their dream house.

　　"If what you are looking for is space and the aesthetics⁶ of some dramatic mountains then that would be a good spot," he added.

　　And for anyone looking to buy someone else’s dream home, Las Vegas would be hard to beat. Housing prices have nosedived 50 percent and recently built homes can be a bargain at $100 per square foot, according to the magazine.

1 opt   

vi.选择，决定做某事

参考例句：

• They opt for more holiday instead of more pay.他们选择了延长假期而不是增加工资。
• Will individual schools be given the right to opt out of the local school authority?各个学校可能有权选择退出地方教育局吗？

2 suburban   

adj.城郊的，在郊区的

参考例句：

• Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
• There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。

3 aspiring   

adj.有志气的；有抱负的；高耸的v.渴望；追求

参考例句：

• Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
• He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句

4 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

5 boulder   

n.巨砾；卵石，圆石

参考例句：

• We all heaved together and removed the boulder.大家一齐用劲，把大石头搬开了。
• He stepped clear of the boulder.他从大石头后面走了出来。

6 aesthetics   

n.(尤指艺术方面之)美学，审美学

参考例句：

• Sometimes, of course, our markings may be simply a matter of aesthetics. 当然，有时我们的标点符号也许只是个审美的问题。 来自名作英译部分
• The field of aesthetics presents an especially difficult problem to the historian. 美学领域向历史学家提出了一个格外困难的问题。