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I could make the same amount of money anywhere with internet at this point, so there's no obvious place to move in particular. I loved the idea of hitting the W

I could make the same amount of money anywhere with internet at this point, so there's no obvious place to move in particular. I loved the idea of hitting the West Coast until the smoke of the last few years caused me to reconsider. As I consider if climate extremes are likely to keep getting worse, upstate New York or Vermont are seeming more and more viable to me.

stirfish 5y ago
Vermont is one of my favorite states in the union. The state motto is "freedom and unity" and you get the feeling that everyone is on the same team there. New Hampshire's state motto is "live free or die." If you die in New Hampshire, it's probably because someone else was living free.
- renewiltord 5y ago
  It always amazes me that so many "freedom" states heavily police individual behaviour more than I have experienced in the Bay Area, which doesn't have that rhetoric. I can go buy magic mushrooms here, but in so-called Freedomland you can't even eat what you want. Whacky. I moved to Texas for a short while and hoo boy, Austin is nice, but the peeps in Texas really love to tell the government to tread on them. You can't even get weed brownies here. Talk about big government.
  - _huayra_ 5y ago
    These folks shout "freedom" because shouting "fascism" is too overt. I remember how some of my family in southern California was so upset that prop 8 (banning gay marriage) was overturned by the supreme court, and I'm honestly impressed by the level of cognitive dissonance they could hold in their head: simultaneously talking about "muH FrE3DomS" yet wanting to curtail the same freedoms to other people that, in those people exercising those freedoms, have zero impact on their lives. When I pointed it out to them, they basically sputtered something incoherent about "well I'll have to explain to cousin Timmy why those MEN are holding hands in Safeway!". idk maybe suck less as a parent?!
  - stirfish 5y ago
    You can buy drugs in any state in the union if you're cool enough
    - renewiltord 5y ago
      You can, but then one day, the jackboots will come.
      - stirfish 5y ago
        I bet you $10 the jackboots are already buying and selling drugs

stirfish 5y ago

Vermont is one of my favorite states in the union. The state motto is "freedom and unity" and you get the feeling that everyone is on the same team there. New Hampshire's state motto is "live free or die." If you die in New Hampshire, it's probably because someone else was living free.

renewiltord 5y ago
It always amazes me that so many "freedom" states heavily police individual behaviour more than I have experienced in the Bay Area, which doesn't have that rhetoric. I can go buy magic mushrooms here, but in so-called Freedomland you can't even eat what you want. Whacky. I moved to Texas for a short while and hoo boy, Austin is nice, but the peeps in Texas really love to tell the government to tread on them. You can't even get weed brownies here. Talk about big government.
- _huayra_ 5y ago
  These folks shout "freedom" because shouting "fascism" is too overt. I remember how some of my family in southern California was so upset that prop 8 (banning gay marriage) was overturned by the supreme court, and I'm honestly impressed by the level of cognitive dissonance they could hold in their head: simultaneously talking about "muH FrE3DomS" yet wanting to curtail the same freedoms to other people that, in those people exercising those freedoms, have zero impact on their lives. When I pointed it out to them, they basically sputtered something incoherent about "well I'll have to explain to cousin Timmy why those MEN are holding hands in Safeway!". idk maybe suck less as a parent?!
- stirfish 5y ago
  You can buy drugs in any state in the union if you're cool enough
  - renewiltord 5y ago
    You can, but then one day, the jackboots will come.
    - stirfish 5y ago
      I bet you $10 the jackboots are already buying and selling drugs