Thread: East Coast or West Coast?

Ok, as some of you may or may not know, i'm going through a relatively exciting (and grueling) period in life and finishing up flight school. Now, as graduation nears, my class has just gotten our list of potential assignments and i have to rank order them and turn them in by friday. I'm having a bit of trouble in choosing which one i want as my #1. The ones on the bottom were fairly easy, but i'm torn between two choices for the top slot, one going to the east coast, one going to the west coast (I yearn to leave flyover country...).

So, i thought i'd poll for some advice from you guys. The airplane and mission are the same at both places, so that's not a factor. The choice is between Travis AFB, CA (between San Francisco and Sacramento) and McGuire AFB, NJ (just outside Trenton and very close to several ginormous cities.

The big draw to McGuire is the proximity to so many big cities and the amount of opportunities/things to do which that brings. The big draw for Travis is that it's freekin' Cali! Gorgeous place and weather, along with SanFran relatively close by. If i go East coast, i will fly into Europe much more often, and if i go West coast, i will fly into the the Pacific and SouthEast Asia much more often. I would love either assignment, and it's much more a matter of picking the better of two good things than the lesser of two evils, but i'm having trouble deciding.

What's your opinion on which i should pick? (and why)

Go east coast IMO.

Go AWOL, those places sound awful.

from what ive learned you put where you want to go at bottom and where you dont on top.