Board 8 > Do you like your current home state?

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Follow up question: do you think your state is the best one? If not, what is the best state?

i live in Jersey and I love it, but I know we arent the best state. I firmly believe top 5 though. Wish it were cheaper.

Let me tell you it kicks ass not having to pump my own gas

CANADIANS ARE WELCOME IN THIS TOPIC

ZenOfThunder posted...

CANADIANS ARE WELCOME IN THIS TOPIC

I see I'm not welcome here

Kansas is salvageable. At least it's not Nebraska, Missouri, or Oklahoma.

ZenOfThunder posted...

i live in Jersey and I love it, but I know we arent the best state. I firmly believe top 5 though. Wish it were cheaper.

we are coming apart at the seams.

Murphy was great but my support is waining.

No, its boring as fuck and not very good looking either

Massachusetts - yeah! Home of Nelson Mandela!

my birth state was ok i guess (south australia)

i don't live in a state now tho

I live in Virginia and yeah it's one of the best states imo.

California is my "home" state but they have problems galore.

I was born in Florida, absolutely not.

Currently in Colorado and love it here

KingButz posted...

I live in Virginia and yeah it's one of the best states imo.

California is my "home" state but they have problems galore.

Looks like we swapped places!

I like CA besides the cost of living and, in recent years, the few weeks of constant smoke. I liked living in VA a lot too, though. Both high tier states.

I love the sheer audacity of making a topic that deliberately excludes non-North American B8ers at the peak time for non-North American users despite the fact that nearly every country in the world has some sort of regional divisions and quite a few are divided into states too lol.

I live in a nation that refers to itself as a state and its alright except for healthcare (getting better) and public transport (lol no chance). The province is nice but expensive.

probably about the safest state I could be in, so there's at least that going for it!

Ohio. There is a lot of suburbia, a few cities that I really like, and Athens which is probably the best singular place in the US. Hills in southeast Ohio area beautiful. Kings Island and Cedar Point.

If it wasn't for the politics, I think I'd rank it quite high.

Illinois kinda sucks, but I do like living here for the most part.

Ohio, for all we complain about it, the grass is greener on this side versus the states around.

Virginia is relatively pretty good, but definitely disappoints often like all states do

I grew up thinking my home state was boring and terrible

It's still those things, but I've come to learn that nearly every other state is worse!

Ontario... it's kinda alright. I'm in a suburb of the GTA though and it's a real NIMBY paradise which sucks, but it's a decisive region that teeters around good and bad choices that lead to rather shitty provincial governance. Love when I go in the city, but obviously shit's expensive and unsustainable, which is creeping further into suburbs like mine. Transit in the city's obviously great, but so is the broader regional transit (GO), at least within the GTA.

Sadly the way things are even my dad is being priced out of our hometown since he's a renter, if he ever gives up this place he's been locked in for years there'll be nothing to afford again. My mom's doing fine but she's very much one of those NIMBY liberals who wanna profit off the dire living conditions of today.

ZeeksFire posted...

Ohio, for all we complain about it, the grass is greener on this side versus the states around.

Yeah, this.

Indiana sucks.
Kentucky sucks.

Pennsylvania I'm sure has redeemable qualities and might be better, but I'd prefer any of the big 3 cities to Pittsburgh.

Michigan is colder probably

MrSmartGuy posted...

Kansas is salvageable. At least it's not Nebraska, Missouri, or Oklahoma.

I live in Nebraska and we think the same way about Kansas. (well, except for basketball. And the Chiefs but that's Missouri, I think.)

Wyoming is way worse than Nebraska though.

Yeah I actually really like NJ and how dense it is, feel like everything is really easy to access

roads kinda suck though

Delaware is aggressively mediocre at best, but we have no sales tax which is an S+ bonus

NY. It's in the conversation at least.

Lived in Wisconsin almost my whole life and see no reason to move.

• Politics are bipartisan instead of dominated by one group of idiots or the other
• Taxes are low - a 5.5% sales tax is pretty nifty and income tax isn't terrible
• We have a state appetizer of fried cheese curds, which is pretty distinctive
• The food in general is pretty great (including our local fast food places)
• There are plenty of beautiful places and buildings to see if you know where to look
• The Packers and Badgers (in football, women's volleyball, and men's basketball) have been phenomenal for the last 30 years, and the Bucks are finally good. For those who care about sportsball, anyway.
• We aren't skipped over for concerts or tours, though in some cases going to Chicago is required

One issue is the ice in winter. I don't mind the snow or cold, just the slippery roads and sidewalks. And also polar vortexes when we get them. The other issue is that though the people present themselves as hospitable, there's an underlying xenophobia (especially in my area). I don't mind. I'm an introvert.

I'm from Jersey and I loved it. I live in north Carolina now and I love it even more. Mainly because property taxes are 1/5 the cost lol

Alanna82 posted...

I live in Nebraska and we think the same way about Kansas. (well, except for basketball. And the Chiefs but that's Missouri, I think.)

Wyoming is way worse than Nebraska though.

After I posted this, I actually had a little introspection about why I included Nebraska when it's actually pretty similar to Kansas. But there's nothing there either so whatever, it remains on my list lol

I'm still a Jersey boy at heart (central) but moved to Ohio.

I... like my area, but I'm not a fan of the state itself for three things.

First, the weather. I love the cold, but I absolutely despise this time of year where it zigzags so much between temperatures and pressures that my sinus-problem-for-life head can't keep up.

Second, the food. Ohio veggies and fish are fine but pale to NJ's. Most of the restaurant food is fried in some way, and I'm fat enough, thanks. And good lord the baking sucks- I grew up near two amazing bakeries - one Jewish, one Italian - and I had to learn to bake for myself because most everything baked is such crap in comparison around here. I miss good salt bagels, and the only decent baked thing I've had around that I didn't make is a sour cream doughnut. Which, again, fried/fatty.

Third, geography. I miss being able to drive ten minutes and be riverside, or twenty another direction and be at the beach, or ten south to be in the pine lands, or thirty north and in the mountains. Nay, I drive 45 minutes in any direction here and it's just plains. Pass.

As for reasons I moved to Ohio from Jersey: money, dear boy. My rent is ridiculously cheap in comparison. Of course, my pay sucks too, but at least I have benefits and the job I have now is a good'un that suits me well.

Oregon and yeah, it's great!

also

ZenOfThunder posted...

Let me tell you it kicks ass not having to pump my own gas

My home state was Indiana, which is a beautiful place with ugly people.

Now I live in Florida, another beautiful place with ugly people.

I like it.

Arizona

I despise the heat, but really it has everything I need here. I was offered to move to Georgia a while back, but there is really nothing to do there.

so yeah, it's alright

I grew up in Montana. Moved to Indiana in the mid 90s.

Recently I've been beginning to hate both states because the goddamn weather can't make up its mind. Snowing Saturday, high 60s on Sunday. I hate it.

I'll pretend Indonesians are welcome as well.

I like the town I live in just fine, but the province itself is eeeh... A lot of corruption going on.

Florida and its fine. No state income tax, decent sales tax. Bright futures means any competent student can go to in-state college for relatively little. Plenty of theme parks and amusement parks (Universal studios is probably the best overall, but the 4 Disney parks and busch gardens are all decent too). And water parks as well.

Decent weather, a little too hot in the summer but never gets really bad, no snow to deal with so maintaining a cars a lot easier. Decent selection of cruises go out of florida as well if you like that kind of thing (I enjoy one once in a while)

Only real complaint is food isn't amazing, but we are starting to get more good options and we have most types of food covered at least.

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Ohio. There is a lot of suburbia, a few cities that I really like, and Athens which is probably the best singular place in the US. Hills in southeast Ohio area beautiful. Kings Island and Cedar Point.

If it wasn't for the politics, I think I'd rank it quite high.

Pretty much this. Gerrymandering, gotta love it. And by love it I mean hate it immensely.

The eastern part of PA is decent. I just wish it didn't get cold in the winter, but, well, that's what winter does.

Virginia

It's fine, I guess. I don't like my area much (far south edge of NOVA), but everywhere else in Virginia is great. Well, except for summer being too hot/humid for my liking, but even that's not so bad compared to states further south.

South Carolina. No. Id move if I could.

Nevada

Kind of weird to analyze the state itself when it's basically Vegas and then a ton of nothing, but I live in Vegas and it's pretty nice so

Indiana and no it blows

I'm glad to be back in Michigan. I don't think too many people would say it's the best state, but it is maybe among the most underrated. It's got cities worth visiting all over the state from Detroit (obviously), Grand Rapids, Traverse City, Ann Arbor, Saginaw, etc. but we've also got a boatload of nature to check out. The Great Lakes are one thing, but the woodlands in the heart of the mitten and of the Upper Peninsula, and even the porcupine mountains. The weather isn't anything special, but you really get a taste of every season.

I'm probably opining a bit much about Michigan because I just came back here after living three years in Ohio. It sucked. I hated most every minute there. Now that I'm back, and in one of the most highly regarded cities in America no less, I'm thrilled.

Massachusetts is pretty good I suppose. Politically one of the better ones, although I think the elected officials are generally a couple notches below what the popular sentiment seems to be. I guess that's the downside of being a long-term Democratic stronghold. You don't have to deal with many right-wing nutjobs in power, but Establishment Democrats are pretty entrenched. Not a ton of forward-thinking leaders.

Also could be better on racial diversity, New England in general is pretty white, especially outside larger cities.

Texas, and I love it. Tried living elsewhere and it just didn't work for me, never leaving again.

Yes but not my living arrangement

Lived in Michigan all my life. It's ok.

Janus5k posted...

Kind of weird to analyze the state itself when it's basically Vegas and then a ton of nothing

Oh hey, that's where I live, and it's actually been good to me so far.

California, and I think it is, unfortunately, one of the better states.