I drove through Arkansas once and there seemed to be an odd smell that started when we entered the state and stopped when we crossed the border. Is it possible that has something to do with the highways? It was not a pleasant smell.
I drove through Arkansas once and there seemed to be an odd smell that started when we entered the state and stopped when we crossed the border. Is it possible that has something to do with the highways? It was not a pleasant smell.
under any circumstances? you mean like earning a $1 billion a year? Pretty sure I'd live anywhere in he US and I'm pretty sure you would too.
P.Whelan wrote:
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia. That is about it, I would live just about anywhere else, I just know I wouldn't fit in well in these states.
Obviously you are close minded and not well traveled. Probably borderline intellectually dishonest.
NoFatty wrote:
I drove through Arkansas once and there seemed to be an odd smell that started when we entered the state and stopped when we crossed the border. Is it possible that has something to do with the highways? It was not a pleasant smell.
it is all the incest.
Death Valley, on top of Mt. McKinley, in a prison . . . there are plenty of places.
Florida.
Two words
Dela Ware
kenya dig it wrote:
Agreed. Arkansas has a bad rap, but it is one of my top ten favorite states. I've been to all but Hawaii. The eastern part of Arkansas along the Mississippi is boring flat flood plain, but the whole western part of the state is beautiful.
All states have their beauty - it's the people that I don't want to have to deal with on a daily basis. I would not live in a place where religious-speak, anti-gay-speak, anti-female-speak, etc are commonplace. I would not live anywhere with extended suburbia (strip malls and developments). I would not live anywhere with winters that you cannot either 1) xc ski for at least 3 months or 2) run in shorts. I would not live anywhere where teaching ID creationism is considered "only fair". I would not live anywhere without a broad selection of microbrews easily obtained from any small market or restaurant. I would not live anywhere that the state would fund a Noah's Ark theme park.
I wouldn't live any place where people like me aren't in the majority.
In particular, I wouldn't live anywhere that 51% or more of the population didn't vote the same as me in the last presidential election.
addddae wrote:
P.Whelan wrote:Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia. That is about it, I would live just about anywhere else, I just know I wouldn't fit in well in these states.
Obviously you are close minded and not well traveled. Probably borderline intellectually dishonest.
To be fair, two of those states made the list as a result of football or basketball rivalries. I also have no idea what being "intellectually dishonest" means, so I might be that? Can't really say.
I'm a Chicagoan who took a job in Florida (Miami) 10 years ago. I've been living here ever since. At first I hated it. But I've learned to make the best with where you are. There's actually some pretty cool stuff to do here any time of year. Check out 10,000 Islands (Everglades City). It rules.
The Stache wrote:
SKG wrote:Anywhere in red
http://timesonline.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/07/10/2004_electoral_map_2.jpgThis is not the most recent electoral vote map. Here you go:
http://trainwreckpolitics.com/2008/11/02/twps-final-2008-electoral-map-prediction/Note changes in IN, OH, VA, NC, CO, NM, NV, MO and IA. Of course, this still could hold true that you might not want to live in these states. I digress....
We must never forget...
middle professor wrote:
All states have their beauty - it's the people that I don't want to have to deal with on a daily basis. I would not live in a place where religious-speak, anti-gay-speak, anti-female-speak, etc are commonplace. I would not live anywhere with extended suburbia (strip malls and developments). I would not live anywhere with winters that you cannot either 1) xc ski for at least 3 months or 2) run in shorts. I would not live anywhere where teaching ID creationism is considered "only fair". I would not live anywhere without a broad selection of microbrews easily obtained from any small market or restaurant. I would not live anywhere that the state would fund a Noah's Ark theme park.
You seem to have a problem being around people with differing religious beliefs. Why are you so close minded? It is obviously affecting your quality of life. You are so small and sad. Embrace diversity.
Thanks for the info. I'll check 10,000 Islands.
I've been to Miami, Tampa, Naples, West Palm Beach, and Boca Raton, but only for two or three days at a time. Last time I went to Boca Raton to visit a friend, he took me to a few bars where I didn't like the crowd--loud, half-naked, hyper-tanned...but maybe I wasn't in the mood.
Dumb question.
Everyone would live anywhere they had to if that was the only place they could survive.
I just got back from North Dakota. It was -5 as a high one day with 40mph constant winds. It hurt to walk from the house to get into the car.
I would find it nearly impossible to be happy living in a climate like that. It was interesting and fun for 4 days but living there would be brutal.
Cleveland, Ohio. I lived there in the 90s and hear that things there have somehow managed to get worse.
(by the way, to the guy who posted about border towns, El Paso, TX is one of the safest cities in the US despite being across the river from Ciudad Juarez)
I imagine North Dakota would be bleak. Lovely as they are, I don't think I'd have much in common with folks in Idaho or Wyoming. Oklahoma sucks, pretty much straight across the board. I've never been in Nebraska but I don't hear good things.
A lot of places that were once promising are now miles and miles of spirit-killing highway, gridlock, and malls. I'm thinking of Arizona and Florida.
There are certainly some parts of New Jersey I would never wish to inhabit. And Buffalo. God bless those Buffalonians, but when are they all gonna just move out...like the North Dakotans did?
And no to Fairbanks, Alaska, kind of stuck in the middle of nowhere.
The deep south, San Francisco, Seattle, Alaska, Hawaii, any city with a population of more than 2 million.
LA would be my absolute last choice of a place to live in the US.
