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These Are The "Worst Possible States To Live In" As Ranked By Their Residents
It should come as no surprise that when Gallup recently conducted a poll asking residents to rank if their state is the "worst possible to live in" a whopping 25% of its residents, by far the most of any states, responded Illinois. Which were the other "worst possible" states? The table below ranks them all.
How about the opposite: the best US states to live in? Here is the full list in descending order.
And some commentary from Gallup:
Residents of Western and Midwestern states are generally more positive about their states as places to live. With the exception of the New England states of New Hampshire and Vermont, all of the top 10 rated states are west of the Mississippi River. In addition to Montana and Alaska, Utah (70%), Wyoming (69%), and Colorado (65%) are among the 10 states that residents are most likely to say their state is among the best places to reside. Most of these states have relatively low populations, including Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, and Alaska -- the four states with the smallest populations in the nation. Texas, the second most populated state, is the major exception to this population relationship. Although it is difficult to discern what the causal relationship is between terrain and climate and positive attitudes, many of the top 10 states are mountainous with cold winters. In fact, the two states most highly rated by their residents -- Montana and Alaska -- are among not only the nation's coldest states but also both border Canada.
With the exception of New Mexico, all of the bottom 10 states are either east of the Mississippi River or border it (Louisiana and Missouri). New Jersey (28%), Maryland (29%), and Connecticut (31%) join Rhode Island among the bottom 10.
The results are based on a special 50-state Gallup poll conducted June-December 2013, including interviews with at least 600 residents in every state. For the first time, Gallup measured whether residents view their states as "the best possible state to live in," "one of the best possible states to live in," "as good a state as any to live in," or "the worst possible state to live in."
Few Americans say their states are the single best or worst places to live. Rather, the large majority of respondents say their states were either "one of the best" or "as good a state as any" place to live.
One in Four Illinois Residents Say Their State Is the Worst Place to Live
Illinois has the unfortunate distinction of being the state with the highest percentage of residents who say it is the worst possible place to live. One in four Illinois residents (25%) say the state is the worst place to live, followed by 17% each in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Throughout its history, Illinois has been rocked by high-profile scandals, investigations, and resignations from Chicago to Springfield and elsewhere throughout the state. Such scandals may explain why Illinois residents have the least trust in their state government across all 50 states. Additionally, they are among the most resentful about the amount they pay in state taxes. These factors may contribute to an overall low morale for the state's residents.
Texans Most Likely to View the Lone Star State as the Very Best
Although Texas trails Montana and Alaska in terms of its residents rating it as the best or one of the best places to live, it edges out Alaska (27%) and Hawaii (25%) in the percentage of residents who rate it as the single best place to live.
Texans' pride for their state as the single best place to live is not surprising when viewed in the context of other measures. According to Gallup Daily tracking for 2013, Texans rank high on standard of living and trust in their state government, and they are less negative than others are about the state taxes they pay. The same is true for Alaska and, to a lesser extent, Hawaii, which had relatively average scores for trust in state government and state taxes, but ranked high for standard of living. The three also have distinct histories, geographies, natural resources, and environmental features that may contribute to residents' personal enjoyment and pride in their locale.
Bottom Line
Residents with the most pride in their state as a place to live generally boast a greater standard of living, higher trust in state government, and less resentment toward the amount they pay in state taxes. However, the factors that residents use to determine whether their state is a great place to live are not always obvious. West Virginia, for example, falls far behind all other states on a variety of metrics, including economic confidence, well-being, standard of living, and stress levels. Still, over a third of West Virginians feel their state is among the best places to live, giving it a ranking near the middle of the pack.
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I just took my "Don't Californicate Oregon" bumper sticker off my car, funny you should say that!
coming from California myself the best advice is not to brag about where you been and what youv'e done. nobody cares. even if you have lived the life. God, I want my 30's back! life is pretty lame now.
Depends on where you live. I've been near the swamps and now on higher, dryer ground (I know....that's REALLY relative in Florida)
But I'd rather have blood suckers I can see and hear comnig. In St. Mary's, Georgia right across the FL / GA state line they have these things called N0-See-Ums. Think of mosquitoes so small you think they are a tiny speck of dirt....that's if you "See Um" at all.
But BOY HOWDY....when they bite ! It's like the worst burning, itching senstation ever. You can't see them....but you FEEL them. It's because they don't have a proboscis like a hyperdermic needle as the mosquitoe does. Their proboscis is like a WEED TRIMMER. It saws your skin open to get to your blood. And it KEEPS sawing because they don't have the anti-coagulant factor that mosquitoes do.
Insect repellent doesn't work all that well either. Truly SATANIC insect. I will NEVER live in St. Mary's or that part of GA again.
http://noseeums.org/
I been thinking that all these south of the border types being dumped secretly all over the US would be no-seeums.
Maude who're they?
Fuck, Harold, I never saw the dirty little scabied beggars before
Like no-seeum's till they bite, eh?
The really sick shit is Lyme disease came from that off Long Island biolgical island lab run by the Food and Drug Admin but really run by intel to weaponize bilogicals. Plum Island. Then the Obam police state wants to move it near the food supply in Kansas. Well NY wanted the money and was fighting to keep thie dangerous biological weapons lab. This shit is directly out of that one Aliens movie where they have a space weapons lab of aliens.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18r0d6_conspiracy-theory-with-jesse-ve...
Doing the NWO (god's) work because it was a lab set up for the Nazi's to continue their research after WW2.
The wind carried the ticks to Lyme, CT.
Kudos, Freddie.
Not many people know that. Especially before Jesse's show. Way back when it was known, by simply connecting the dots, that it was no FDA research station. Then there was the mysterious die off of all the once plentiful lobster and oysters in the Sound. Contemporaneous with the failure of a water filtering system at Plum. Likewise, a massive air filter failure in the building where research on tick and other infestation borne illness was carried out.
Then later, when Hillbillary was elected and not for the first time, after she'd said during elections that the place was dangerous and should be closed.... Why? It's a farm research station, FFS, no?
No
She has a buncha behind closed door meetings in DC and quietly drops the whole subject. And it becomes public that there're whole daily transfers between Plum and Ft Detrick MD where bio-research is done and out Dugway (UT) surrounds.
Yup
Hell, I was bitching and warning about the place when I was working in NYC, commuting in and out and everybody told me I was a fucking nut case Conspiracy Theorist.
Uh huh
I have been very troubled about the incidence of chronic wasting disease in elk and deer in Colorado and Nebraska. I've heard some troubling rumors about prion research but nothing definitive. Though confined to animals at this time, the jump to humans is theoretically possible. Prions are nothing to be trifled with.
Miffed;-)
Prions. Uh huh.
Pure genetics
Am I not correct in that prions in the form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy has already made the jump to humans in the form of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease? I can't give blood in the US having lived and traveled frequently to the UK for the last umpteen years.
It would surprise me if there was not active work going on in the field, from a weapons standpoint.
Seriously.
Some CJD is sporadic (basically a scientific way of saying we don't know the cause, but the genetic mutation occurs somehow, maybe radiation?) and some is genetic. Quite some interesting history tracking it through the centuries. Some is transferred via incorrectly cleaned medical tools. New Variant is based on bad meat.
The Kuru(?) got it by eating the bodies of the people they conquered. Interesting that men ate the good parts (legs arms, etc) and the ladies got the bad parts (brains), therefore ladies got it more often....
Prions. Kindler and gentler Skull and Bonzman GHWB 1 did not get rid of Reagan with his buddies crazy Manchurian candidate kid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hinckley,_Jr.
Hinckley’s father was a financial supporter of George H. W. Bush's 1980 presidential primary campaign. Hinckley’s older brother, Scott, had a dinner date scheduled at the home of the Vice President's son Neil Bush the day after the Reagan assassination attempt.[26][27] Neil's wife, Sharon, indicated in a newspaper interview the day after the shooting that Scott was coming to their house as a date of a girlfriend of hers, and that she did not know "the brother [John]" but understood "that he was the renegade brother in the family." Sharon described the Hinckleys as "a very nice family" and that they had "given a lot of money to the Bush campaign."[28] This also led to various conspiracy theorists speculating that the Bush family had something to do with the assassination attempt.[29]
So they did not get non-Bonzman Reagan so later he got slipped a prion aka faked Alzheimers.
It would not be the first VP who wanted to get rid of the Pres aka see LBJ for starters.
Isn't it interesting that, at least according to National Geographic, Plum Island is presently owned by "Homeland Security"?
What Is Lyme Disease? New Findings Deepen the Mystery
You gotta love the comments on this puff piece. For anyone afflicted with Lyme Disease I'd urge them to study the work of Dr. Royal Rife. If someone with the skills of Miffed lived near me, I'd like to electronically bombard BB cultures while they were being observed microscopically by someone with her ability. I can bulid the devices but becoming a DIY microbiologist and building a lab isn't really practical. We're all done with Lyme anyway.
The CDC is another fraudulent .gov outfit. Take one doxy and you'll be brand new. Yeah right.
I can bulid the devices
A Rife machine?
The wind carried the ticks to Lyme, CT.
Birds carried it over, Freddie. Fuckin' Birds.
I have a dose of that crap. I would not wish this on my worst enemy. The pain is incredible.
You know that I broke my ankle on the weight bearing bone, did not have it casted and walked on it since???
It was no more intense than any other pain in my body.
Lyme Disease is incurable in its late stages.
Of course I am a walking, breathing Biological Warfare Lab as I am a carrier. Hmmmmm....
Where are those ticks that I am raising? I sure hope those rich Banker's kids at that Private School don't find them...(Obvious SATIRE)
I need to go hunting.
I am sorry to hear it. I would guess the birds go it or had ticks. It is sickening how the govt lies as it is so obvious that Plum Island did this.
I remember years ago that IBM CEO Gerstner's brother got it. He was pretty high up in IBM and he got it and had to stop working. His brother then goes from Philip Morris or another cig company to run IBM.
I'm in the Gainesville area.
I had an experience with chiggers when I was working out in the panhandle, hateful little bastards. They got on me at the bottom opening of the pant leg just from walking. People have a tendency to scratch up and down (bad move with these little bastards) they were to my inner thigh before I realized I needed to be stroking DOWNWARD ONLY...lol.
Rubbing alcohol killed them...nasty little bastards.
Tuck yor pants in your socks and then put kerosene on your socks to keep the chiggars away.
If they still get to your skin, just light your socks on fire, works every time !!!
Sounds a lot like the cure for pubic lice...aka crabs. You shave half the forest then set the other half on fire. When they come running out, you stab 'em with an ice pick.
ROTFL!
ROTFLMAO !!
DAMN ! THat's what I call M.A.D. Mutually Assured Destruction
Go Gatas
A lot of my friends & co-workers are Gators (good, salt of the earth people), its not like it was when Spurrier was here. They were shocked when they found out I'm a diehard Nole, apparently they were told we had a third eye in the center of our foreheads or sumpin, they had never seen one ;-)
No-See-Ums nothing, those are Georgia Bulldog pecker gnats.
No-See-Ums in SE South Carolina too. But, the WORST bugs I ever had to deal with were in N Quebec in summertime. Ask anyone who lives way north, the further north you are (in general) the worse the mosquitos, biting flies, biting gnats and other biting insects are in the summer. They swarm!
Got Mosquito problems? Eat more ONIONS.
"The crazy people are all transplants...I think."
Their from Illinois and they wantg to turn Florida into one large Chicago..
Yep. I know I've related this one before but it shows the difference in cultures & humor.
I had one of these transplants (as a slander) say to me one time "Man, you guys drive like shit around here!" I said yeah, cuz there ain't none of us left.
He didn't get it until I was in my truck and smiled at him as I drove off.
And they say we're goobers...lol...what a dolt ;-)
I'd worry more about these and the disease they are bringing from Central America via the Obama railroad.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triatominae
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im tellin ya this looked like one of those towns straight out of a horror film. then i saw the sign for the high school and knew i truly was in the fucking twilight zone...
http://www.okaloosaschools.com/laurelhill
new Illinois state motto:
A tranny in every house, even the White House.
I see an IRS audit in Joan Rivers future ;-)
That's the least of her worries. She'd be lucky to escape the anal probe and the subsequent nail gun enema.
Miffed;-)
She just spoke the truth about it.
It is rather funny that, somehow, we are all supposed to be shocked, as if we did not know that.
I'm more cynical. I think that Hollywood has given the green light to ridicule Obama, in order to further the cause of Hillary. Obama is about to "take one for the team".
if heaven ain't a lot like Texas...
lulz, been there, it ain't my cup of tea but people who live there do seem to have a high opinion of it. higher than hawaii? don't think so personally.
It's a shit state. I lived there for a year and couldn't wait to leave. I mean admittedly I'm going to Oklahoma soon, which sucks even worse than Texas, but at least the Oklahomans don't have this completely delusional notion of their own superiority.
Lived in both states for a time 20 years ago....so true what you said.
I am a transplant in Texas from New Mexico (Land of Entrapment). The complaint I have about Texas is the good ole boy society and the damn heat. Summer is just so bleeping hot here. NM is one step from a 3rd world nation. What can you do?
I've worked in both Texas and Hawaii and I'll take Hawaii any day over Texas even with the higher costs, etc.
"I've worked in both Texas and Hawaii and I'll take Hawaii any day over Texas even with the higher costs, etc."
Hawaii? The place sucks if you are Haole (white) and you're anything but a hard core Marxist progressive.
I think the people in OK are nicer. I liked the people in Kansas too. Yeah - Texans talk a lot of shit and Rick Perry is doing nothing about the border invasion and Gov. Bush did nothing to stop Waco. The Bushes, Clintons and oBama are the same people.
Texans border is being invaded like the **king Alamo and all they think about is football and other bullshit.
why does the wind blow in oklahoma?
because texas sucks.
Dump on TX all you want, but they tax land and not labor and it shows in their economy. Yes, if you live in a million dollar house, you will pay through the nose in property taxes, but so what?
That being said, we're retiring in Wisconsin, though it wouldn't be bad to have an address in TX if TSHTF.
if it weren't for TCAD Texas would be perfect...
Wisconsin is a wonderous place. Just got back from Hillsboro a few mins. ago took county highways all over the place. Madison is full of crazies and Milwaukee is on its way to becoming another Detroit but the rest of the State is very nice.
Shhhhh....this state sucks.
I live on the western part of the state...i just wish Chicago was a little closer :)
Today was a beautiful day (we were north towards Eau Claire working on a shed)... 73F and sun in the mid afternoon in early July with a breeze
"Today was a beautiful day (we were north towards Eau Claire working on a shed)... 73F and sun in the mid afternoon in early July with a breeze."
We've been to Wisconsin in the winter time when it felt like it was -73F degrees with gale force winds.
The shit is hitting the fan NOW in Texas. In 20 years they'll be flying La Raza's flag from the Statehouse in Austin
Truly enjoy Texas. However, met a couple a few years back outside of Girdwood, AK. They spent their summers in AK, and the rest of the year in HI. I remember thinking that they were on to something
Yes and every texan has drank water out of a muddy horse hoove print;)
Considered a possible candidate for the Democratic primary of the 2016 Presidential Election, Schweitzer has become known for his unfiltered talk and proneness to politically incorrect gaffes. In a June 2014 interview with the National Journal, he made headlines for controversial comments deemed offensive to Democrats, Republicans, women, Southerners and gays. In the interview, he referred to Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein as a prostitute, saying: "She was the woman who was standing under the streetlight with her dress pulled all the way up over her knees, and now she says, 'I'm a nun,' when it comes to this spying!". He also said that outgoing House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, married 25 years and father of three, set off his gaydar because southern men have effeminate mannerisms
Brian Shwetizer, former Montana Governor.
Who knew...honesty pays?
"...set off his gaydar because southern men have effeminate mannerisms."
Really?...lol...wait till I tell Billy Ray, he'll make him squeal like a pig ;-)
Funny, I have been to 47 of the states...missed OKlahoma, Kansas and Delaware...and my favorites are Montana, California and Mass.
I like Aerosmith, the dream of once was and the seclusion of what could be.
Just watch out for the Rats in the Cellar ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wYfYG4qsv9Q
Live and learned from fools and sages...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHRNSeuvzlM
Freddie Mercury's favorite state was the Castro
Can't comment on Delaware (I've only been there for a short time), but Oklahoma sucks. Kansas requires some time to appreciate. You can't come to love it as a visitor, in my opinion. I grew up there and thought for my whole life that it was a shithole, and it was only after I left that I realized I had internalized a lot of its values. In particular, it's very possibly the most socially egalitarian place I've ever been in my entire life and I've seen every state in the lower 48 and several other countries. It's the kind of place where even if you go to the frat houses at KU you will see barely any luxury imports. It's not that they can't afford them, it's that it would be seen as pretentious to drive one and even more pretentious if the money for it was just parental financing. Texans, on the other hand? People will spend every dime they own and then some in order to drive luxury cars. BMWs and Audis fucking everywhere, and the drivers were all broke as hell.
Kansas it is! Good endorsement. No sarc.
I came to enjoy Puerto Rico as a visitor so anything is possible.
Oh Gawd, you didn't dilute the gene pool on your short stay in Texas did you now? We don't like to clean up other people's shit.
That's probably the case in Dallas. Austin has it's share of "posers", but overall it is still mostly laid back and unpretentious. There's a very nice steakhouse a few miles down the road from us. You'll see everything from folks dressed to the 9's, to jeans and flip flops on any given evening. Ditto if you go to the ballet.
California: Land of Yosemite, Sequoias, Death Valley and the Shasta....but also the land of MS-13 and white-trash neck tattoos.
Have you seen Billy Ray dance ? He did make squeal like pigs though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byQIPdHMpjc
That Billy Ray always set off my gaydar too ;-)
LOL !! Right.
Wow!
That was some mullet back in them days!
And the babes! They was manufactured before trans-fats and corn syrup!
Cantor is from "southern" Haifa.
Socialistic statism is a wonderful way to live!
DaddyO
edit: I guess with all the newbie trolls on the 'hedge, a /sarc is in order...
Pittsburgh isn't even listed.
But I'm here. Therefore it am.
Uummm......Pittsburgh as far as I know isn't a state.
He lives in the state of confusion... he'll figure it out soon
Pissburgh, Philthadelphia, Harassburg, Scrotum... what's not to like about that state?
Scranton construction traffic, nuff said.
pods
Pittsburg is heaven compared to Philly. When the shit hits the fan - PA will be an interesting place.
There are about 14.6 million licensed hunters in America. PA has close to 1 million of them.
Maybe not, the next is state is police.
It's the mullet haircut that hides the small brain.
Business in the front....party in the back.
The Missouri Compromise? The Tennessee Waterfall?
do they really boot cars up there? saw that shit on a television show and i was like wtf?
New Hampshire, we live free or die.
Good luck. Your're surrounded by states that rather die than live free. And then there is Quebec above you.
However, the drinking age in la belle province is 18 and the strippers will wrestle your crocodile for a 100 FRNs.
Wish I had know that before I made my 2 visits there. I am 14 hours by car so may never get back there.
Use your Flintstone Flyer. That shit yabba dabba
Convicts make those "Live Free Or Die" license plates.
LOL
That's like one of my progressive golf buds said yesterday.... "We've invaded all those countries in the Middle East and not a one of 'ems become a democracy."
Like , uh, oh .... I don't know anymore ....
We live in a Kafkaesque movie by Fellini
lol...its like a majority want Sharia Law or sumpin ;-)
Yeah! I said to him "It's cultural, dude!"
And he said "Yeah, but what they're doing is wrong!"
WTF? When Bush was in the orifice he'd a said it was cultural, can't be changed and what they do is their own business.
Now, just a plain sad lament that its all gone to shit on his Messiah's watch.
Tell us another bedtime story, 'Bo
"We've invaded all those countries in the Middle East and not a one of 'ems become a democracy."
Because democracy (technically we are a Republic) only works in Christian nations.
But gotta admit JLee, it does transplant best when shoved down people's throats with mass murder and deprivation, foreign armies, etc....
Most effective means of introducing it to the wary...
I disabused my long-time NH resident grandfather of that about 8 years ago.
While I was visiting, he proudly pointed to the "Live Free or Die" motto on the license-plate of his car and said something along the lines of, "That's a great thing." I, being very libertarian, didn't miss a beat and asked him if he would choose to die instead of renew his plates later that year?! He gave no response.
Thailand , pattaya because I gave up on the police state
Excellent. In Thailand, the police state i.e. military rule, trumps the Shinawatra corporatocracy. This is an extremely unusual case of the Military taking over in order to FAVOR the people. In Thailand, this is an outstanding and beneficial result.
If this is of interest please have a look at http://altthainews.blogspot.com.
NO MOTTO
One night in 2011 I was in "Chiraq". I parked my car in a free parking zone to get some Harold's Chicken and when I came out, I had a $100 parking ticket. That night I realized Chicago was done for. If they're brave enough to issue BS tickets, I can't imagine what they'd do if they caught you with a couple $100's or more on you.
When I lived in Iowa, I was part of the 1%.
In the deep darkest jungles of Africa you'd be Caligula his very own self, providing over a diseased madness for free
That's 'presiding over' (I think).
Oh yeah.... you're right.
Thanks.
Just can't get the socialist dogma out of my head anymore....
Well, that explains it. ;)
I live in IA and am quite certain I am NOT part of the 1%. If I am than the 1% don't have it nearly as good as I was led to believe.
Was it the drivers?
I actually like Des Moines. Been there several times. Give the state credit. It has amazing soil, gets a shit ton of rain (too much this year) and has a long growing season. I'd still live across the river in Omaha (awesome zoo, more to do), but Iowa isn't that bad...then again i've never lived there. Winters usually have a lot less snow then here in Wisconsin (where i live) and usually are milder (sometimes by a lot). Des Moines can be 70F while I could be 40F with a snow glacier on the ground.
The only drivers around here you have to worry about are the illegals with no insurance and the farmers who take up 2/3's of the road moving equipement from one section of land to the next. Notice I said section, not many smaller guys that farm an 80, or half section anymore. And don't ever mention to a farmer that all those subsidies are a form of welfare; you never can tell if they will start to yell at you or laugh loudly because they know it's true.
Well that's because the Texans are just fucking deluded. I spent some time living in Texas and I was continually astounded by how many Texans had barely ever left their state in their entire lives. They grow up on all the 'rah-rah Texas' bullshit pounded into their skulls and after enough time eventually they start believing it.
Awe, not this again. I'm sorry. Pussies do have a hard time living in Texas. Where you from, south Chicago?
Texas must have something going for it. Just look at all the people moving here from exotic places like California (the worst), Minnesota, Illinois, Kansas, even Maine, - place is lousy with 'em. Then there are those poor souls fleeing third world shit holes like Guatemala, Honduras and Oklahoma.
I lived in Plano, TX north of Dallas, very beautiful and comfortable place to live. Generally high standards of living. I was very disappointed when I moved to New Jersey/New York. Roads in NJ/NY are shitty, customer service is the worst, and everything costs a lot. In Dallas you can buy a palace for the same money you can buy a small studio in NYC.
you thought plano was beautiful? yeah i guess, if you like seeing the same fucking national chain store every other mile. swear to god i thought i was driving in circles cause everything looked the same and it just never ended
NYC is garbage in comparing cities and cleanliness. Been there many times and people always have their hand out and are unappreciative. Can't wait to leave every time I'm there. They also seem to be always on edge, jacked up with coffee. Taxes are also outrageous.
For the downgraders who don't understand the word "pussy," be entertained. Cannibal, you wont enjoy this at all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgjmD93pTVE&feature=kp
South Chicago is rougher than any part of Texas. If you can survive that place then Texas is a cakewalk.
I also lived in Texas for some time. It is a great place to live if you don't mind fat, ignorant people, college-educated or not. On a plus side, Texans are generally nice and welcoming people, some are very good-looking when they are young.
I like them too. The women usually have big a**es not in a good way. Texans are also not great people to do business with like Mormons in Utah, You get cut out of deals in a skinny minute and Texans just shrug - nuthin personal - just business. The people in Oklah, Kansas are pretty good. Most midwesterners are nice too. Chicago is not the midwest - it is ***king hell.
"I also lived in Texas for some time. It is a great place to live if you don't mind fat, ignorant people, college-educated or not."
Did you live there to be close to family?
Well that's because the Texans are just fucking deluded. I spent some time living in Texas and I was continually astounded by how many Texans had barely ever left their state in their entire lives.
I had to laugh at this. Replace "Texans' with the USA and you'll see that's the way the rest of the world looks at the whole country :)
Texas? At least Texans live in a big state so have that as an excuse. Try the people in Fascistchussettes...some of the most parochial people you will ever meet, while pretending to be worldly, i.e. the "hub of the universe." Most have never been beyond New York, with maybe a trip to Europe. West of the Mississippi? Never! I was at a party in Boston once, maybe 100 males present...not a single one (except me, originally from Minnesota) had ever been hunting or even fired a gun...not that big a deal but reveals a lot about where they are coming from...
5+ years in Montana and I don't ever want to leave.
Use this site and map to plan where you live in Montana.
Site: http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/doc/egp.ii.042
Map: http://plainshumanities.unl.edu/encyclopedia/images/egp.ii.042
Count me in the 25%... Illinois Sucks... ehh... actually Cook County sucks. It's a cancer on the entire state. I've lived all over Illinois and currently work in Chicago. Cook steals the wealth of the rest of the state. We have the same issues in Cali and New York. Big Cities were/are a terrible idea but that's where the money flows...
In early adulthood, I decided to move from my state of origin (one of the worst) to another (one of the best). Eventually this strategy paid off big-time.
Advice to the young: Stay out of debt and go where the opportunities are. Even if it means moving out of the US.
That is great advice!
"Fortune favors those who dare." *
* Worked for me
Me too!
I wouldn't go north of Indianapolis but southern Indiana is a pretty fine place to live.
Early in my career I used to go to southern Indiana about once a month (Jasper area) and found the people to be some of the finest in the county.
+1 for southern Indiana
Man, I was driving through southern Indiana about 5 years ago. I had to stop for gas in a town called Santa Claus (no joke). Just a speck of a town. Anyway, the girl behind the counter at the gas station was the most beautiful I had seen to that point. I mean, just stunning. I thought about staying...
What about the rich enclave of Carmel- that is north of Indianapolis?
It really doesn't matter where you are, it's who you're with that determines your satisfaction.
Me, I can be happy all by myself but am lucky to be happily married. I have a house and a pool, we make our own fun.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2myYbHAt6a0&feature=kp
YES, this right here ... read thru the entire thread just to see if anyone felt the same as I. ^5 Shad_ow!!
It matters not WHERE you are geographically, it matters more WHERE you are in your heart and soul (some might say spiritually).
New York is a piece of shit but we just gotta give Cuomo and Deblobbio some time.
Brought to you by Gallup ? These are the same geniuses who said Romney was going to win
He probably did but Soros-Diebold-NWO runs the big elections. He one most of the swing states but there was late voting in all those states plus rampant fraud.
Maryland is ok... Once you leave it.
Damn... the Land of Spirochete Agnew
And great John Waters movies
Maryland is great. It's the fucking cunt Socialists who live off the Government, abuse the people, and think the party is going on forever. I live here, and sometimes wonder if this will be Ground Zero when SHTF.
It will when both western Maryland and the eastern shore tell Baltimore/PG/etc., to go fuck themselves.
+1
Western MD, the shore and other rural areas are very pretty like parts of NY, NJ and other states. The police state liberalism just ruins these states and it is spreading everywhere.
......Ok now sing it with me!!!
Almost heaven, West Virginia, Blue Ridge Mountains, Shenandoah River.
Life is old there, older than the trees, younger than the mountains, blowing like a breeze.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads.
All my memories gather round her, miner's lady, stranger to blue water.
Dark and dusty, painted on the sky, misty taste of moonshine, teardrop in my eye.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads.
I hear her voice in the morning hour she calls me, the radio reminds me of my home far away.
And driving down the road I get a feeling that I should have been home yesterday, yesterday.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads.
Country roads, take me home to the place I belong.
West Virginia, mountain momma, take me home, country roads
Deliverance
banjos
That song was written about Clopper Road in Germantown, Maryland. The suburban hell I now live in.
"Danoff and Nivert then told him about a song that they had been working on for about a month. Inspiration had come while driving to a family reunion of Nivert's relatives in nearby Maryland. To pass the time en route, Danoff had made up a ballad about the little winding roads they were taking...... Clopper Road still exists today, but the landscape has changed drastically from the bucolic scenery that once surrounded it.[9]"
But but but....
John Denver made it famous, right?
Didju know that he died in a plane crash, taking off from Monterey CA airport and crashed into Monterey Bay?
Had a small experimental job.
Toxicology reports said he was super dooper liquored up.
And they never found his head.
For a couple of months thereafter, all the fire rescue and police divers did a whole lot of extra practice diving time where the plane went down.
I figure if you got his head, you coulda opened a small shrine down Cannery Row, charging big bucks to touch the thing. Maybe even make big time world tour with that, Lenin's Tomb, the holy meteorite in Jeddah and the Blarney Stone
The moral of the Denver story is to always test your reserve tank and your ability to switch whilst flying.
BTW, I have Denvers head over my mantel, right next to my singing Bass. Right now I have it singing, "crashing, on a high performance plane, won't ever be back again !!!"
Hulk, I'll betcha you're one of the few that remembers about the fuel.
The report was that he was too loaded to figure out the "problem"
Was pretty big news out hereabout in the People's Republic of Make Me Feel Good and You're OK Then, Too.
They were very upset about loosing somebody as feelie goodie as Johnie. Hear tell that people still flock to somewhere on Monterey Bay every year for a memorial.
Jesus....
Amazing that some people have nothing more constructive to do than tearfully wank off over John Denver.
The real depressing thing about the Denver Death is that it was 17 YEARS AGO, 17 years !!! Fuck I'm getting old...
I was a bigger Bob Denver fan myself.....l'il buddy.
"actually Cook County sucks. It's a cancer on the entire state."
Therefore Illinois is a cancer on the whole country.
Illinois politically nurtured Obummer.
Langley nurtured Obama. His cutout fake mom too plus Geithner's dad via the "Ford Foundation."
I am glad that Mississippi is rated poorly. It keeps the freak tard libs out.
Otherwise, they would fall in love with the beautiful women, great food, etc. and screw it up for everyone else.
I will freely admit that a huge number of the co-eds at Ole Miss in Oxford are some of the finest women on a college campus. Wow!!
Colorado is great for a lot of reasons and horrible for more reasons. Party alliances are negated by the fact that people here don't give a shit about government and just are living their lives. Bad part is our "shit" government sold a large number of mineral and water rights to mega corps which is lame and the fight is started to revoke those given rights as well as Boulder suing Xcel Energy to fight for the ability to have more energy sources than that monopolization of the industry by one company.
Plus the weed is good, the weather is great, and the state pushes itself on health and physical strength.
While it has its downsides of cost of living, low paying jobs, and other downsides it is a great place to live if you work hard and stay responsible for yourself.
You're in a liberal state now! I give CO a decade before it climbs up the list.