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Who else clicked on that article while thinking "please don't say my state, please don't say my state"?

by karaterobot 5y ago

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nikodunk 5y ago
What’s your state?
SllX 5y ago
Florida, Texas, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, Hawaii and maybe even Tennessee. I’m not pulling that from the article, but did I hit one of yours?
- the_only_law 5y ago
  I’ll gladly trade someone a spot in Florida. I’m ready to go somewhere with seasons.
  - taylodl 5y ago
    That's why I ruled out Florida as a place to move to: no seasons. I'm looking for milder winters, but not no winter at all. Southern Tennessee looks attractive, specifically Chattanooga.
    - the_only_law 5y ago
      I’ve only ever passed through but I’ve heard great things about Chattanooga for years.
    - madcaptenor 5y ago
      I live near Atlanta. There are definitely seasons even this far south (although our "winters" are kind of a joke).
      - the_only_law 5y ago
        Hah, I grew up in the Atlanta area. I actually returned there briefly for some work parties late last year. I knew I had begun to adapt to Florida weather when Atlanta winter had me paralyzed.
        madcaptenor 5y ago
        I grew up in the Philadelphia area, then went to Boston (college), back to Philly (grad school), San Francisco, now Atlanta. I like just a little bit of cold, so Atlanta winter is about right. But whenever it snows in Atlanta I think "hey, I know how to drive in snow!" and start laughing at how people here don't. But I don't know how to drive in snow, because I didn't learn to drive until not long before I left for college, and I didn't have a car in college or grad school.
    - meragrin_ 5y ago
      Other reasons to rule out Florida: fire ants, mosquitoes, mosquito spraying, love bugs, huge roaches, spiders the size of you hands, near constant heat and humidity, consist afternoon rain which makes the heat and humidity so much worse, hurricanes, sink holes.
  - meragrin_ 5y ago
    Why aren't you ready to go somewhere without fire ants, mosquitoes, mosquito spraying, love bugs, huge roaches, spiders the size of you hands, near constant heat and humidity, consist afternoon rain which makes the heat and humidity so much worse, hurricanes, sink holes, and whatever else I forgot?
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  Arizona has been the number one state for Californian emigration for awhile now. Adjacent or nearby west coast states will always get the bulk of it.
mywittyname 5y ago
I don't think I'd mind. Then again, Ohio isn't really a state I have to worry about being attractive to anybody whose never lived here. In my experience, most people who land here do so by accident. It's the PHP of states. Most people hate it because it's popular to hate, but once you get here, you find that there are some pretty nice things about it.
- seanmcdirmid 5y ago
  I don't know. I found my 4 years living in Toledo to be not be very attractive. Ya, they have some nice forests, but it is so flat and economically depressed (but true on the landing there by accident). But for all that, Toledo is a much better place than Vicksburg Mississippi (where I spent the next 4 years of my life).
- dxbydt 5y ago
  > It's the PHP of states See, this is what I'm talking about! This I understand. It speaks volumes to me. So, Ohio == PHP of states. I live in Indiana, your neighbor state. imho, Indiana is the R of states. Its terse, unfathomable to the outsider, very cheap, fast enough & gets the job done.
- cafard 5y ago
  My experience in the Washington, DC, area is that there are plenty of former Ohioans around, and that generally they speak well of Ohio. I think that a co-worker may end up back there after retirement.
- taylodl 5y ago
  Fellow Ohioan here - you're letting our secret out! The fact Ohio isn't cool makes it super cheap to live here! I have a home that would be more than $1.5M in the cool states where everyone is griping about homes being priced out of reach. Yeah, duh! I couldn't afford to live in a house like I live in now in those locations! Ohio is the PHP of states - that's awesome! Not sexy, not cool, just getting the job done with little fuss. That's Ohio!
exabrial 5y ago
No kidding. Please leave the bad ideas in California and don't wreck of the USA.
scotuswroteus 5y ago
Some of you whiny purple staters need to take these gripes up with your own tourism industries, because your reps are using your precious tax dollars on telling people like me in super blue America that I'd make a great fit in your neighborhood. Ohio is advertising all up and down California asking people to move there. Ohio is specifically targeting the folks who live just north of Berkeley, California, where they make the mold for the stereotype you purple staters love to hate. Ohio is also advertising that same message in Redhook in Brooklyn, again, where you can find the folks whose pictures are basically meme templates that old Trump voters use on their Facebook groups about antifa and critical race theory. Maybe you all actually just dislike rich, out of touch, Ivy League elitists who move into neighborhoods and ruin them for locals. If that's the case, going to a coastal college doesn't make a person coastal. Last I checked, the Ivy League recruits from every state in the union, including your purple states, and most Californian cities actively demonize those same people who are ruining California cities too. Anyway, this weekend, I'll be headed up to NASCAR Spring Smash in Roseville, California, where I will no doubt run into the types of Californians who ACTUALLY move to your states. They have all of your cultural tastes, and they read the same stuff you do, and they share your distaste for the archetypal Californian.
- taylodl 5y ago
  Let me explain how politics works in Ohio - one of the most famous of purple states or "battleground" states. It's a population of 12 million that's nearly evenly split between high-density urban areas and rural sprawl (that explains why Ohio is the 10th most densely-populated state in the U.S.). The folks in the urban areas tend to be extremely liberal and diverse (where I live has been a popular spot for homosexuals for decades and women can walk around topless and have been able to for decades and most are onboard with a progressive agenda). In the rural sprawl areas? Nope. Polar opposite. Ultra-conservative who've taken well to Trump. They call us purple, but we're not: we're red and blue. Move to an Ohio city and you'll do better if you're an "archetypal" Californian but if you move to the rural areas you'll do better if you're an archetypal Trumper. The biggest thing that unites us all is football, and no, I'm not even joking. Football is the biggest reason we can coexist peacefully and Trump tried to screw that up!

Who else clicked on that article while thinking "please don't say my state, please don't say my state"?

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nikodunk 5y ago

What’s your state?

SllX 5y ago

Florida, Texas, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, Hawaii and maybe even Tennessee. I’m not pulling that from the article, but did I hit one of yours?

the_only_law 5y ago
I’ll gladly trade someone a spot in Florida. I’m ready to go somewhere with seasons.
- taylodl 5y ago
  That's why I ruled out Florida as a place to move to: no seasons. I'm looking for milder winters, but not no winter at all. Southern Tennessee looks attractive, specifically Chattanooga.
  - the_only_law 5y ago
    I’ve only ever passed through but I’ve heard great things about Chattanooga for years.
  - madcaptenor 5y ago
    I live near Atlanta. There are definitely seasons even this far south (although our "winters" are kind of a joke).
    - the_only_law 5y ago
      Hah, I grew up in the Atlanta area. I actually returned there briefly for some work parties late last year. I knew I had begun to adapt to Florida weather when Atlanta winter had me paralyzed.
      - madcaptenor 5y ago
        I grew up in the Philadelphia area, then went to Boston (college), back to Philly (grad school), San Francisco, now Atlanta. I like just a little bit of cold, so Atlanta winter is about right. But whenever it snows in Atlanta I think "hey, I know how to drive in snow!" and start laughing at how people here don't. But I don't know how to drive in snow, because I didn't learn to drive until not long before I left for college, and I didn't have a car in college or grad school.
  - meragrin_ 5y ago
    Other reasons to rule out Florida: fire ants, mosquitoes, mosquito spraying, love bugs, huge roaches, spiders the size of you hands, near constant heat and humidity, consist afternoon rain which makes the heat and humidity so much worse, hurricanes, sink holes.
- meragrin_ 5y ago
  Why aren't you ready to go somewhere without fire ants, mosquitoes, mosquito spraying, love bugs, huge roaches, spiders the size of you hands, near constant heat and humidity, consist afternoon rain which makes the heat and humidity so much worse, hurricanes, sink holes, and whatever else I forgot?
seanmcdirmid 5y ago
Arizona has been the number one state for Californian emigration for awhile now. Adjacent or nearby west coast states will always get the bulk of it.

mywittyname 5y ago

I don't think I'd mind. Then again, Ohio isn't really a state I have to worry about being attractive to anybody whose never lived here. In my experience, most people who land here do so by accident. It's the PHP of states. Most people hate it because it's popular to hate, but once you get here, you find that there are some pretty nice things about it.

seanmcdirmid 5y ago
I don't know. I found my 4 years living in Toledo to be not be very attractive. Ya, they have some nice forests, but it is so flat and economically depressed (but true on the landing there by accident). But for all that, Toledo is a much better place than Vicksburg Mississippi (where I spent the next 4 years of my life).
dxbydt 5y ago
> It's the PHP of states See, this is what I'm talking about! This I understand. It speaks volumes to me. So, Ohio == PHP of states. I live in Indiana, your neighbor state. imho, Indiana is the R of states. Its terse, unfathomable to the outsider, very cheap, fast enough & gets the job done.
cafard 5y ago
My experience in the Washington, DC, area is that there are plenty of former Ohioans around, and that generally they speak well of Ohio. I think that a co-worker may end up back there after retirement.
taylodl 5y ago
Fellow Ohioan here - you're letting our secret out! The fact Ohio isn't cool makes it super cheap to live here! I have a home that would be more than $1.5M in the cool states where everyone is griping about homes being priced out of reach. Yeah, duh! I couldn't afford to live in a house like I live in now in those locations! Ohio is the PHP of states - that's awesome! Not sexy, not cool, just getting the job done with little fuss. That's Ohio!

exabrial 5y ago

No kidding. Please leave the bad ideas in California and don't wreck of the USA.

scotuswroteus 5y ago

Some of you whiny purple staters need to take these gripes up with your own tourism industries, because your reps are using your precious tax dollars on telling people like me in super blue America that I'd make a great fit in your neighborhood. Ohio is advertising all up and down California asking people to move there. Ohio is specifically targeting the folks who live just north of Berkeley, California, where they make the mold for the stereotype you purple staters love to hate. Ohio is also advertising that same message in Redhook in Brooklyn, again, where you can find the folks whose pictures are basically meme templates that old Trump voters use on their Facebook groups about antifa and critical race theory. Maybe you all actually just dislike rich, out of touch, Ivy League elitists who move into neighborhoods and ruin them for locals. If that's the case, going to a coastal college doesn't make a person coastal. Last I checked, the Ivy League recruits from every state in the union, including your purple states, and most Californian cities actively demonize those same people who are ruining California cities too. Anyway, this weekend, I'll be headed up to NASCAR Spring Smash in Roseville, California, where I will no doubt run into the types of Californians who ACTUALLY move to your states. They have all of your cultural tastes, and they read the same stuff you do, and they share your distaste for the archetypal Californian.

taylodl 5y ago
Let me explain how politics works in Ohio - one of the most famous of purple states or "battleground" states. It's a population of 12 million that's nearly evenly split between high-density urban areas and rural sprawl (that explains why Ohio is the 10th most densely-populated state in the U.S.). The folks in the urban areas tend to be extremely liberal and diverse (where I live has been a popular spot for homosexuals for decades and women can walk around topless and have been able to for decades and most are onboard with a progressive agenda). In the rural sprawl areas? Nope. Polar opposite. Ultra-conservative who've taken well to Trump. They call us purple, but we're not: we're red and blue. Move to an Ohio city and you'll do better if you're an "archetypal" Californian but if you move to the rural areas you'll do better if you're an archetypal Trumper. The biggest thing that unites us all is football, and no, I'm not even joking. Football is the biggest reason we can coexist peacefully and Trump tried to screw that up!