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Good reminder. I am a proud Oaklander and won't hide it, so I'll just say again. Oakland!
Also what's your date of birth and mother's maiden name?
And the name of my first pet and my elementary school for good measure.
Spot, and Jefferson Davis Elementary. Only limits that to half hr country, though I kid of course.
San Antonio, Texas. Disparage away. Any chance of change happening is incredibly slim. My city only had about 14.81% turnout during our last primary election.
This is by design. Voter fatigue is very real.
That's depressing. Cheers.
West Michigan, helping turn a previously red district purple.
I actually kind of love Michigan. It’s a beautiful state and the people are generally kind and friendly. But it does have some bullshit, especially when you get outside the cities. Though I suppose that’s true everywhere.
I'm in, and from, Florida. Am over 50 so have seen the devolution of the political situation as we get more populated. But am in a very diverse city with a large queer community, and I think that's what people get wrong about Florida, we have ever been diverse, not like up north where it's more stratified. Everyone here, at least in the more populated areas, most neighborhoods are mixed on just about any axis you can spin us on. Like my street has old people, families, black, white, Asian, Muslim, Catholic, protestant, atheist, conservative, progressive, gay, straight, trans, able bodied and disabled.
Respect for staying and staying strong. That devolution has been rapid and concerning.
You sticking around encourages every person (disclosed or otherwise) in any of those groups to stay, and eventually force that SOB running your state out.
My partner is a huge Disney fan, and I see behind the magic and respect everything they do to hide the actual mechanics of it all. It pains us that we can’t get on a WN flight to MCO because we refuse to spend money (that we are aware of) in states behaving that way generally.
We miss Nashville, too, as well as a place between Nashville and Orlando that sells stuff people failed to “claim” for cheap.
But I’m not buying gas in GA or FL, much less anything else, in the current environment.
Miami once was a haven and a melting pot, and I personally welcome everyone to this country. But… current state of affairs.
I couldn’t do it, we are both straight and a conventional married couple (mosly, aside from things that are no one’s biz). We fled a Midwest state because, among other things, we got tired of defending that WE wore masks/used hand sanitizer over a period of years.
Fuck those people, we are not hurting them by vexing cautious. Turns out (it seems, per current research) we were right.
The diesel bros are slowly feeling the long term results.
It's fine. Boycotts will hopefully get the attention of the businesses and they will push, we are dependent on tourism money. So yes, stay away if you need to, it may help eventually. DeSantis is such a fool to push the culture war stuff - as I said in a different thread, I'm tempted to run for governor myself on a platform of Make Florida Freaky Again. We have a culture of circus folk and drag queens, it's literally part of our heritage.
The state is gerrymandered to fuck, the legislature doesn't represent us, as you can tell by all the constitutional amendments. But on the ground here, it's still vibrant and diverse in my city and neighborhood, and there is so much I do like about this state, the actual land and creatures here, we have so many state and city and county parks, lots of public land.
Methdesto, CA
Oakland makes this city look like Carmel by the Sea. 🤣
Bruh I'm in Hemet, CA. All desert and tumbleweeds but hey at least I can afford to live here
I'm in rural PA.
Pennsylvania is a weird state because we have half the population in cities, Philly and Pittsburgh are the big ones, but we've got quite a few smaller cities peppered throughout. The other half live in the middle of nowhere, Amish country and farmers for miles.
The rural is deep red. I can see a Confederate flag from my porch. We can't even claim that as "our heritage" or whatever bullshit the South says to justify it.
Feel free to disparage my area, it's pretty disgusting.
Oh, man. My condolences.
But, seriously: rural PA can be gorgeous. The issue is, as you said: the politics. When we first moved there, a new friend told me: "Pennsylvania is Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and Alabama in between."
Another replier to your comment said they lived outside Allentown - I don't consider that "rural" PA. The suburbs in PA are vast, and while it can look rural, you don't know PA rural until you drive to somewhere like New Berlin: through coal country. I knew people who'd grown up within 3 miles of where their grandmother grew up, lived there their entire lives, and never ventured more than a few dozen miles from the Mainline. Never visited Gettysburg, a mere 4-hour drive.
And you're so right! The Mason-Dixon line is the Southern border of PA, and yet Confederate flags abound. That, and Trump signs; they just never take those down, campaign year or not.
We moved to Minnesota from PA (answering OP's question) and I was surprised at the political similarities. Around The Cities it's fairly liberal, and even through the few-hour drive to Deluth. But once you get off the main commuter thoroughfare, those Trump signs start appearing everywhere. Iron ore is to MN what is coal to PA, and mining is mining. Although, the property around the big Northern lakes is all lake-homes owned by urban families who can't afford lake homes around The Cities, so there are pockets of Blue out there. Anyway, I found the similarities to be surreal. The biggest difference is that the PA coal country is far poorer than MN iron country.
But I'll repeat: the countryside in PA is amazing, especially in the Poconos, but also in the farmland. Just beautiful.
No argument from me on the beauty of the countryside. I had moved to Cleveland for a few years, and came back to hillbilly Town because it was worth having a crick for my kids to play in. That's not a typo, my PA folks get it.
Texas.
It's okay. I don't blame people for hating our legislature, just try to remember that not all Texans are shitty people.
Howdy neighbour. The same goes for me and many people I know in the Bayou State. The legislature especially recently makes me want to barf.
I live in Urbana, Illinois. In couple of days. I'll be going on a mission to Moon to help the USAA with the set up of one their bases, Clavius Base.
San Diego, carne asada fries in hand, ready to put on my thickest winter coat when it hits sub 60 degree temps.
Given the time you posted this, you’re going to get biased replies
~~Inevitable.~~ 🤷♂️
Literally asking US Lemmies, I somehow missed that.
Not really? Most people in the US are awake at the same time. Posting at 2am EST will get you biased results
Posting at a time where most Europeans are awake and most Americans are asleep will also get you biased results. The Earth is round. Like I said, it's inevitable. Or am I misunderstanding you somehow?
Read the question. It’s asking Americans for their information at a time when half of Americans were asleep.
Ah yes.
Washington State
A couple hours north of you in the central valley. Hi neighbour.
In a house.
new mexico!
Seattle
Oklahoma
Currently in Oakland too! Wish more bay area folk would find their way here so I can stop relying on the subreddit🙃
DFW area of Texas. There's a lot that's good here, but the number of people who combine various levels of being small-minded and short-sighted are indeed very frustrating.
And they all have cars that contribute to our THUNDERDOME traffic situation these days. I legit don’t even like driving anywhere in the metroplex these days out of safety concerns.
Switzerland
So it's true. The USA has colonized the rest of the planet. Howdy neighbor!
West Side Chicago
South side here
North side
When our powers combine...
Jersey. The best state.
Hahahahaha! I'll buy you a drink. This was most unexpected Jersey pride.
I carry a bunch of pride for all of my favorite places I’ve lived in (I was easily bored in my early 20s), but…
Jersey?
Kidding, ofc, friend.
Lived up and down the east coast along the way, including places whose current inhabitants I would not want to publicly associate myself with.
South Central PA wasn’t per se “appealing,” but it was home for many years so I get it. Neither good nor bad, just home, but easily judged.
I still smile a lil when I happen to cross US 30 and notice it, so I get it. Feels like I “could” make that turn and be “home”
OC, MD was “the” vacation dest growing up so…. I have very little affinity for Jersey. A few years working for a guy who was proudly “from JC” (sorta) and a giant dick didn’t help my perspective, to be honest.
including places whose current inhabitants I would not want to publicly associate myself with.
Long way to say Staten Island.
And a giant dick from JC sounds like someone who moved in sometime after 2000. I feel like the old timers, the real legit JC people, are anything but dicks. That city went through some hard, hard times, and it's in its golden age right now, it's nice to see.
I think NJ tends to be a love it or hate it kinda place. I lived outside of NJ a couple of times, but it pulled me back in, as they say.
As for South Central PA, closest I've gotten was probably King of Prussia, perhaps. Don't really know much about it, but I'm always interested. Got a family now, and being able to pop them in a car to go to some kind of experience, versus the cost and hassle of flying (i.e. doors fall off), is appealing to me. And I'm at a point in my life where I can bring my kids to places I find interesting but they find incredibly boring, but when they get to my age they will continue the cycle (barring the apocalypse, of course).
And as for OC, MD, I feel like if you have a beach place you go to, that's where you go. I've been going to essentially the same place for 37 years, at this point. On our way there, we pass Ontario license plates for all them who head down to Wildwood or maybe to MD too. I'll probably take the family to Rehoboth or Ocean City, MD, at some point, just for the sake of checking the box (barring them being underwater, of course).