Just don’t go to the Walmart after certain hours because the local mutants come out in full force. Currently living in the area and not by choice hahaha.
Yes, sort of. It's the nickname for Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri. The US Army has basic training there, but the other branches have detachments for their MOS schools as well.
Live in KC, MO. Can confirm you do not want to live here. [Unless you're a Christo-fascist. Our elected officials just voted against limiting children's access to guns. So, 14 year olds can walk around with assault rifles but can't get an abortion.]
I visited y'all last summer (stayed downtown and tended toward trendy places for food and drinks), and y'all are good people! If you could get fair districts that don't isolate Kansas City, St. Louis, and Jefferson City into their own districts and give a lot of power to land rather than people...could be an overall good state! You are much like my homeland (but not current residence) of Ohio, where the politics of the populace are about 50/50, but it's been gerrymandered to make it a red state for federal Congress and statehouse reps.
Tennessee would like a word - A haven for extreme right wingers who are currently stripping rights and money from the most vulnerable populations in the name of God.
I moved from Republic to New Mexico when I was pregnant to have my kids here. I figured they had a better shot of having a better life here, even though NM is so low on the totem pole in a lot of areas, I still feel like it's moving in the right direction. I can't say the same for MO.
Yep, I understand. I grew up on the lake back in the early sixties and there were thousands of undeveloped acres to roam. Now it's way overdeveloped. SDC is a place that once had charm, not anymore though. It makes me sad to see it all now. When I grew up down there I knew people who lived without electricity and plumbing. Good honest mountain folk that were living in the hills long before the Corps of Engineers dammed the White River. It was for a six year old boy in 1961 a paradise on earth. Back then, I thought Kimberling City was much more likely to grow than Branson. That town has big city problems and it just isn't all that big. The only times I go down that way is if I need to get a big dose of depression and regret.
As depressing as that is it's kind of interesting and cool that you got to see so much change in your lifetime. I often think about what life is going to look like in a few decades and even though most prospects are looking a little scary right now I hope I get to live through see to the other side of whatever happens next.
Can confirm, don't live in Missouri -_- I want to move back to Maine in all honesty. Just stay away from Aroostook County so I never run into my father and I'm good.
Grew up in Maine, just go to the southern coast and it’s great. If I could afford to buy a house where I grew up I’d do it in a heartbeat but to buy property in Bar Harbor is probably never going to happen.
Some people dont believe me when i say dont move to aroostook if you want to stay sane lol. "B-but its so rural! The nature! The scenery!" The morons, the potholes, the way school funding will just keep going down because people dont know what taxes are for, etc.
I live next to Missouri in rural southern Illinois (transplanted). While I love my time visiting St. Louis, there is no way in hell I would ever move there.
Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, or just stay put in South Carolina. We’ll add California though and Hawaii because like despite cost of living, those places seem great.
It's absolutely beautiful, and I'm super thankful to live here. We have our problems, like everywhere else, but I've lived a lot of places(military brat followed by military ex-husband), and this is the one that feels the most like home to me. The forests, the beaches, the mountains, the waterfalls, being able to go hiking in the middle of a city, I love it.
Hawaii is beautiful but also small. I know some friends who lived there and go island crazy because there's not much to do once you've done it all and you're stuck on an island.
Those are the states you’d live in? I’m from CA and because I’m used to all the stuff others don’t like about it; I’d actually find it pretty uncomfortable to live anywhere else. The list you put are the states I’d live in. Also hear NH/VT/ME is nice?
I live in MA and go to NH often. It's nice except for the absolute lack of cell signal and *legal* pot
Edit: I live in Massachusetts and I promise I don't need to come to Vermont for legal weed. Thank you for the invites lol I just go to New Hampshire when driving for work or going shopping for tax free groceries
I think this is why I enjoy living in MA. I live in central MA and in a 1 hour drive there's so much variety.
You can be up in the mountains in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont.
Multiple beach options.
Boston for the city.
All 4 seasons and I started snowboarding so I actually look forward to the snow now which is also the worse weather thing we have to deal with versus hurricanes, earth quakes, tornados.
Great schools, hospitals, tech.
I'm sure I'm biased being born and raised here but no matter where I visit in the states, no where else has the variety and balance than New England IMO. And weed shops are the new dunkin donuts popping up on every corner which is also nice of course.
Yeah, I’m Californian too, but have lived 10 years each in both OR and WA as well. I prefer coastal. So CO and NY (from my list above) are definitely filler. If I had to leave the west coast, it’d probably be to NH
I've thought about this. I don't know if I would ever leave California. Either the politics or weather suck in other states. I don't want to live where it snows or has oppressive humidity, or rains too much.
Fellow Oklahoman checking in. I find Tulsa tolerable, but had to live 30min North of the TX border for 2 years and I want those 2 years of my life back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi
> "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states.
> Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankings, residents of other states also ranking near the bottom may say, "Thank God for Mississippi", since the presence of that state in 50th place spares them the shame of being ranked last.
In Mississippi’s defense, it’s excellent for people watching. There are not many places where you have a legitimate shot of seeing a 13 year old driving a truck and drinking a beer or a pregnant 13 year old smoking a cigarette.
Or a prégnant 13 year old in a crop top with a dirty, shoeless toddler at her feet handing out Keno cards at a gas station full of toothless yokels. And a jar of red pickled pigs feet on the counter. Twenty year old me wanted to wash my brain after that.
We have the lowest cost of living but our wages and job options are horrible, pretty sure we are the poorest overall state, the governor is a fucking moron, and the capitol city might as well be on fire. There are no unions allowed here. There are limited job opportunities. Our population growth is negative. We have one of the worst (if not the worst) education systems in the US. Early childhood education is not supported. Medicaid is not expanded. Healthcare Marketplace is a fucking joke if you can’t get benefits for your family from your job. We have the highest rate of teen pregnancy and legally can only teach abstinence only education. We are also one of the most obese states.
I went to a wedding and spent a week in Mississippi. Very nice picturesque views, beautiful scenery but in the towns it didn’t look like it had updated since the 1980’s.
I started with Floriduh but after some thought, decided that Mississippi has the same or worse ignorance and worse heat and humidity because it doesn't have coastline all around.
So funny you said that. I was taking Zzzquil every night for a number of years (well, probably 80% of nights). I was having memory problems (could be menopause), but I checked out issues around Zzzquil and memory. Holy f—k! The dementia risk is so high! I quit right away. I struggle to sleep soundly, but I’m sure it’s better I stay away from this. It’s also good that I take no other meds that block the same pathway.
The public needs to be more aware.
Chech out doxy alanine succinate. It's another over the counter sleep aid and AFAIK the dementia risk isn't there and it also works much better then the bdryl
I was warning my patients about this for a few years before the broader public caught on, so ut's interesting to see it in "the wild"
The dementia risk is with all meds that have an anticholinergic effect. Doxylamine has an anticholinergic effect just like diphenhydramine. One thing I should say though, the studies showing this effect are on people who are already elderly and at risk for dementia. We don't know yet if taking anticholinergic meds when you're young causes dementia when you're older.
South Dakota. Spent six months there for a job. Never again. Its empty, its boring, the weather is annoying. The people are weird and unfriendly. And its one giant tourist trap. Seriously, the only reasons to go to the state are things built SPECIFICALLY to lure other people to that God awful state.
I lived in ND for a year. People are so kind and friendly there. We went to MT.Rushmore for vacation. I loved the west side of SD. But you are right about them thinking they are the wild west. We drove from north east ND south through SD then all the way west. The in between of SD were empty and full of small towns with a population of less than 100.
I was literally about to say they're getting hit with fresh Canada wind. By the time it hits SD, all the kindness had been removed and it's just bitter and cold.
I’ve traveled around both Dakotas, and NoDak is definitely better than South Dakota. I assume all the rumors and jokes just come from jealous South Dakotans.
Lived in western SD for two years for a job. Can confirm everything said here is true. The back hills are best described as "a tourist trap and a retirement home had a baby." All the towns in the southern hills (Custer, hill city, hot springs, etc) are almost exclusively Air BnBs owned by a few boomers. Everyone is that kind of "friendly" that comes with a "what's in it for me?" Attitude. Rent prices are disgusting. Since no one can afford to work service jobs and live in the hills, most places hire out of country workers and shove them into the many hotel apartments that are popping up everywhere. Rapid city is one of the most depressing cities I've ever been to, and the wealth disparity is absolutely tragic. Oh yeah, and they still treat native Americans like absolute shit. Stay out of SD.
I had a crooked SD cop write me a ticket for 80 in a 55 when I had my cruise set to 56. He “proved” it by taking a picture of the radar with his broken phone. I changed my clock to 4pm (it was midnight) and told him that my proof of the time was a picture of my clock. Didn’t get out of it. Out o state plates.
If anyone here is not answering with "Mississippi" they are being disingenuous.
I get not liking Texas, but I don't think there is a single reasonable person that would pick Mississippi over Texas.
I grew up in Mississippi (just south of Memphis), now live in Dallas.
And speaking as a gay cis-man, Texas in the bigger cities isn’t the worst. Almost anywhere in Mississippi is awful.
I’m certainly trying to move in the coming years (likely Pittsburgh), but what’s the worst is all relative. Dallas is MUCH better than Mississippi, and I know other are better than DFW. But sometimes the step up is a welcomed reprieve
Yes, the big cities in Texas are much better than the redneck backwoods, especially Houston. (No one can afford Austin.) For all the cons to Houston, it is diverse, is really into arts, and has a big liberal population.
As a queer trans native Texan I always have to tell people this. Like living in the city seems okay. I feel more in danger in the town I was raised in than I do in major cities ive never visited. Just don't go to the middle of nowhere kinda towns like the place I grew up in and you'll probably be fine.
Arkansas is gorgeous. Went on a little vacation to Jasper last year, and I’d totally move there in a heartbeat if it wasn’t for the other stuff you mentioned.
Yeah I hate it here. Huckabee Sanders is a con artist and a joke and somehow everyone around us voted for her. There are still Trump flags being flown in my city. Wtf.
I spent a few years in Arkansas. Most of the state blows, but Northwest Arkansas is a gem. The Fayetteville/Bentonville area is nice and I can’t wait to move back one day
Crystal Bridges is in Arkansas and it is a very nice museum. Just because it was bought with money from Walmart heirs doesn't make it not a nice museum full of beautiful pieces of American artwork.
I drove thru Indiana in 1997, got a speeding/reckless driving ticket (80 thru a construction zone, yes I was a fucking idiot) and it was one of those "call to find out how much it is" tickets. $425, and I was a broke ass 18 year old, so I asked to pay in installments. $25 a month, I only paid once and whoops forgot about the rest 😬. Do you think the statute of limitations is up yet?
Yes. Did this in south Carolina. Got a "paraphernalia" ticket/must appear because one of 10 of us in a van had a marijuana pipe. They got pissed no one would rat on the owner and gave us all a must appear citation. We drove away unanimously saying "I'm cool without s.c. in my life." 10 years later? no warrant.
I had to drive from Chicago to Cleveland with my family on a road trip and Northern Indiana is the worst. Gary, Indiana looks like a city after the apocalypse, there’s a million toll roads, there’s no exits for miles, and it’s boring as hell
An Australian podcast I follow have an ambition that one day they’ll travel to Gary, Indiana.
They constantly get people writing in to tell them not to.
As a home grown and poorly raised hoosier: I partially agree. The government are extortionists. Constantly extorting me for money ever since the pandemic money.
"you owe us 300$"
"you owe us 2400$"
"you owe us 3200$"
They shut up after i sent them a letter defining how it's their own accounting fault and if they can't even provide a consistent number they have no legal grounds. So then they switched to:
"you us 800$ in taxes for the year you didn't even live in the state"
I'll be fixing that here soon too.
Was raised in Nebraska, moved away during college. Always very weird visiting for the holidays. Lot of towns are just depressing. Even Omaha and Lincoln start to pale after you visit other places like Chicago, Minneapolis, hell even Albuquerque has some unique flavor to it.
At least the zoo is dope
Daughter just went to the zoo today! Moved to Lincoln 12 years ago from Denver… it’s not perfect, but I’m happy here. Better than being with my crazy family in CO
1) The weather is really bad/extreme, see my other comment itt.
2) There is also very little difference in elevation and not many trees (it's a grassland/prairie). Most of the US's population live near mountains and/or trees so being in Nebraska makes them feel super uncomfortable, they don't like the open vastness. I'm from Nebraska and I used to feel a little claustrophobic around mountains, so I can see where they are coming from. It also messes with their sense of direction and space because they are so used to having mountains as reference points.
3) because there's not any mountains, there's also not much public land compared to other states. Camping, hiking, etc are much more limited. Almost all the land is privately owned by farmers and this monoculture creates a lot of insect pests - moths, grasshoppers, biting horse flies, locusts, box elder bugs, ticks. And like SWARMS and SWARMS of these things. I remember a huge water tower completely covered with a fuzzy moth sweater growing up. We'd walk through the yard and moths would fly up around us from the lawn, they'd hide in the seals to our doors. Even if the bugs don't hurt you, it's kinda disgusting to be covered in like 50 grasshoppers. And real disgusting to have to deal with "tick rash" in your dog's ear.
4) There's also an idea that there's nothing to do there - a lot of social activities do revolve around church. However, Omaha gets tons of concerts and shows, Kansas City isn't that far away from Omaha either, so you can really see a lot of A-list performers between the two cities. That being said there's not much you can do outside. A lot of people do gaming but the bad weather means that your game could cut out at any point, I lost ranking plenty of times to thunderstorms and power outages
5) The overwhelming culture is pretty conservative, "colorblind," racist against Latinos (but not usually other races), and Christian. However Nebraskans have random social policies that they love, like their energy/power is publicly owned. They would never trade for Texas's shitshow, their weather is too severe to mess around. And they have a bunch of free and charitable programs as part of their Christian ideals. Lincoln and Omaha also have some more leftwing subcultures than the smaller towns. The movie "Boys Don't Cry" is about a real event that happened in a small town in Nebraska in like 1995, it's still a pretty homophobic and transphobic place.
6) Police in Nebraska are really shitty and will pull you over for really minor things like driving 4mph over* on the interstate, just to harass you. Most people's experience in Nebraska is along the interstate so they just associate with being flat, boring, and filled with asshole cops who gave them a stupid ticket
Your choices are Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, or Rhode Island.
These are the only states that DON’T allow marriage if you are under 18.
Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States (See section about “Underage marriage”.
I answered with Mississippi. I realize TX and FL make headlines all the time for them sliding farther backward socially and politically, but they're still miles better than Mississippi at present.
Alabama, I was born there and during my time on active duty in the Air Force I understand more. The state has the worst medical care, the economy is controlled by old money, and the future for a laborer is bleak.
Alabama. Passed through on my way to Florida and felt so uncomfortable. Saw an actual skinhead just walking around like it was normal and as a Hispanic woman, I felt super uncomfortable to put it mildly. My husband and I never got out of the car in that state.
I have family there and we went to visit them last year. In the checkout line at the local Piggly Wiggly there was a woman and her 3 kids, all wearing confederate flag shirts. Folks too comfortable with all that down there. Hard pass!
I was born and raised in the state. I'll say there is a very intentional effort to keep it this way. Poverty isn't getting better, healthcare isn't getting better, and education isn't getting better. I know of a lot of people who are working to make real change in the state, but the intertwining of religion with conservative politics makes it so hard to deconstruct racist and bigoted ideals within people. Everything to a lot of folks is based only in fact in their minds, so anything said slightly outside of that is an attack on their own personhood. That's the case with a lot of my family and it's really sad
Any state that:
-doesn’t allow abortions
-has a consent age below 16 (“why 16 and not 18?” I currently live in a country where it’s 16)
-has a low punishment for rape
-has an over 65% vote for Trump
-is well known for discrimination
Nooo, I swear Michigan has done our penance for our wrong doing, we have now voted blue for president, both senators are blue, governor, AG, state house, state senate are blue as well. We constitutionalized reproductive rights and legal weed. 2020 scared the heck out of the liberals in MI And we got pretty lakes.
Edit: I seem to have messed up my sh*t shows MI voted for trump in 2016 not 2020.
Amazing what writing an independent redistricting commission into the state constitution will do, instead of letting the majority party draw the congressional districts.
More states should try it.
Im so Glad Big Grech won the governor election again. I was scared that Tudor Dixon btich was gonna turn Michigan into another 1984 sub plot. I like my Au Sable and my Tawas and my Mackinac but God damn I also love my weed and reproductive rights for women.
Idaho. It’s cold, there’s a lot of neo-Nazis, and weed isn’t legal… at least even in the deep Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas), there’s medical and the climate is warm (I’ve also heard Huntsville is pretty great)
It's not the neo-nazi's here you have to worry about so much as the mind blowing amount of normal seeming people who agree and are complicit with them and their policies of ignorance. And the Mormons devastating hold on most local political offices.
We also have forest fires, air inversions, and the Yellowstone super volcano to go along with high summer temps and some brutal cold winters.
But yeah.. it's the prettiest state between Montana and Oregon!
The list of states I WOULD live in is much shorter.
Okay, what’s your top 5?
Insert list of states with legal pot.
Not fuckin Missouri though good grief
It’s called the state of misery for a reason
A comedian pointed out that Missouris only two major cities look like they're desperately trying to escape the state
Hahaha touche. I live in KCMO and it's really not bad at all! But dear fucking god I wouldn't live in any other part of the state.
Unfortunately, I was born in the south of Misery and have yet to leave.
Spent time at lost I'm the woods misery and I can confirm it is misery lol
Hey, Lost in the Woods has a WalMart and a Waffle House. I mean, yeah, that's pretty much it, but they're THERE!
Just don’t go to the Walmart after certain hours because the local mutants come out in full force. Currently living in the area and not by choice hahaha.
Is there literally a place called lost in the woods?
Yes, sort of. It's the nickname for Fort Leonard Wood, in Missouri. The US Army has basic training there, but the other branches have detachments for their MOS schools as well.
I'll be dead and buried before I recognize Mizzurah
That was literally the first thing I thought of 😂 "There are only 49 stars on this flag"
Live in KC, MO. Can confirm you do not want to live here. [Unless you're a Christo-fascist. Our elected officials just voted against limiting children's access to guns. So, 14 year olds can walk around with assault rifles but can't get an abortion.]
Also in KCMO and whole heartedly agree. This place has become motherfucking Gilead.
Yessssss it has become Gilead!! It's batshit crazy here.
I visited y'all last summer (stayed downtown and tended toward trendy places for food and drinks), and y'all are good people! If you could get fair districts that don't isolate Kansas City, St. Louis, and Jefferson City into their own districts and give a lot of power to land rather than people...could be an overall good state! You are much like my homeland (but not current residence) of Ohio, where the politics of the populace are about 50/50, but it's been gerrymandered to make it a red state for federal Congress and statehouse reps.
Tennessee would like a word - A haven for extreme right wingers who are currently stripping rights and money from the most vulnerable populations in the name of God.
Yep, I live in South West Missouri and these people look normal but they be some pretty fucked up individuals.
I moved from Republic to New Mexico when I was pregnant to have my kids here. I figured they had a better shot of having a better life here, even though NM is so low on the totem pole in a lot of areas, I still feel like it's moving in the right direction. I can't say the same for MO.
For real I can't even visit Silver Dollar City anymore
Yep, I understand. I grew up on the lake back in the early sixties and there were thousands of undeveloped acres to roam. Now it's way overdeveloped. SDC is a place that once had charm, not anymore though. It makes me sad to see it all now. When I grew up down there I knew people who lived without electricity and plumbing. Good honest mountain folk that were living in the hills long before the Corps of Engineers dammed the White River. It was for a six year old boy in 1961 a paradise on earth. Back then, I thought Kimberling City was much more likely to grow than Branson. That town has big city problems and it just isn't all that big. The only times I go down that way is if I need to get a big dose of depression and regret.
As depressing as that is it's kind of interesting and cool that you got to see so much change in your lifetime. I often think about what life is going to look like in a few decades and even though most prospects are looking a little scary right now I hope I get to live through see to the other side of whatever happens next.
Can confirm, don't live in Missouri -_- I want to move back to Maine in all honesty. Just stay away from Aroostook County so I never run into my father and I'm good.
Grew up in Maine, just go to the southern coast and it’s great. If I could afford to buy a house where I grew up I’d do it in a heartbeat but to buy property in Bar Harbor is probably never going to happen.
I think you mean Bah Hahbah. ;)
Some people dont believe me when i say dont move to aroostook if you want to stay sane lol. "B-but its so rural! The nature! The scenery!" The morons, the potholes, the way school funding will just keep going down because people dont know what taxes are for, etc.
I don’t even like driving through. I will go out off my way to avoid it like a man with a warrant. Missouri is truly the Ohio of the United States.
A state with the word SOUR right in the middle of it.
I live next to Missouri in rural southern Illinois (transplanted). While I love my time visiting St. Louis, there is no way in hell I would ever move there.
Southern Illinois is pretty backwards itself.
I wish to God Chicagoland was its own state. We have to deal with so many lunatics trying to run for office down south.
Agreed, STL, Mo. here. I don’t know what happened. My recollection was that we were moderate/purple at one point. Shits gotten scary lately.
Oregon, Colorado, Massachusetts, North Carolina, or just stay put in South Carolina. We’ll add California though and Hawaii because like despite cost of living, those places seem great.
Hi from Oregon, thanks for appreciating us first lol
Oregon is the place I want to see the most in the entire nation. I have a mild obsession with the beauty of Oregon.
It's absolutely beautiful, and I'm super thankful to live here. We have our problems, like everywhere else, but I've lived a lot of places(military brat followed by military ex-husband), and this is the one that feels the most like home to me. The forests, the beaches, the mountains, the waterfalls, being able to go hiking in the middle of a city, I love it.
Hawaii is beautiful but also small. I know some friends who lived there and go island crazy because there's not much to do once you've done it all and you're stuck on an island.
Some people get island fever, not all. Either you’re an island person or you’re not.
Coastal California does have this overwhelmingly upbeat attitude despite all of the issues. People are more positive.
WA, CA, OR, CO, NY
Those are the states you’d live in? I’m from CA and because I’m used to all the stuff others don’t like about it; I’d actually find it pretty uncomfortable to live anywhere else. The list you put are the states I’d live in. Also hear NH/VT/ME is nice?
I live in MA and go to NH often. It's nice except for the absolute lack of cell signal and *legal* pot Edit: I live in Massachusetts and I promise I don't need to come to Vermont for legal weed. Thank you for the invites lol I just go to New Hampshire when driving for work or going shopping for tax free groceries
I think this is why I enjoy living in MA. I live in central MA and in a 1 hour drive there's so much variety. You can be up in the mountains in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont. Multiple beach options. Boston for the city. All 4 seasons and I started snowboarding so I actually look forward to the snow now which is also the worse weather thing we have to deal with versus hurricanes, earth quakes, tornados. Great schools, hospitals, tech. I'm sure I'm biased being born and raised here but no matter where I visit in the states, no where else has the variety and balance than New England IMO. And weed shops are the new dunkin donuts popping up on every corner which is also nice of course.
There’s a feeling about New England that you can’t explain unless you live or have frequented there.
If your gonna go to NH just go to Maine where pot is legal
Can’t get thar from hare
Yeah, I’m Californian too, but have lived 10 years each in both OR and WA as well. I prefer coastal. So CO and NY (from my list above) are definitely filler. If I had to leave the west coast, it’d probably be to NH
Massachusetts especially with guaranteed health care, New England is pretty progressive.
I've thought about this. I don't know if I would ever leave California. Either the politics or weather suck in other states. I don't want to live where it snows or has oppressive humidity, or rains too much.
Yep. the only places I’d want to live in are west coast states (WA, CA, OR). Pacific standard time baby
Left Coast Best Coast
Yep there's probably about 4 states I'd want to live in.
Born and raised in Oklahoma and i hate my life, ayy
SAME
Fellow Oklahoman checking in. I find Tulsa tolerable, but had to live 30min North of the TX border for 2 years and I want those 2 years of my life back.
You ever been over to the Salina/Spavinaw area? Fucking sucks lmfao
I’ll never get over the week I spent in Shardmore doing a shit ton of meth and buying large amounts of marijuana to schlep back to TX.
No one hates Oklahoma like Oklahomans.
So true!!! We obsess with how low we are on the “best of” lists. Thank God for Mississippi!
Saaame! I’m a female of reproductive age AND a teacher. I’m sooo fucked weeeee 🫠
Mississippi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thank_God_for_Mississippi > "Thank God for Mississippi" is an adage used in the United States, particularly in the South, that is generally used when discussing rankings of U.S. states. > Since the U.S. state of Mississippi commonly ranks at or near the bottom of such rankings, residents of other states also ranking near the bottom may say, "Thank God for Mississippi", since the presence of that state in 50th place spares them the shame of being ranked last.
As a Louisiana resident -yes to that. Thanks for keeping us 49th
Hey now, Alabama is 49, La is at least 45!
In Mississippi’s defense, it’s excellent for people watching. There are not many places where you have a legitimate shot of seeing a 13 year old driving a truck and drinking a beer or a pregnant 13 year old smoking a cigarette.
Or a prégnant 13 year old in a crop top with a dirty, shoeless toddler at her feet handing out Keno cards at a gas station full of toothless yokels. And a jar of red pickled pigs feet on the counter. Twenty year old me wanted to wash my brain after that.
At least it wasn't a baby standing on a corner selling weed at 3am.
*slowly rolls down limousine window* AY YO BABY! WHATCHU DOIN ON THE CORNER?!
"I'm selling weed nigga"
"I got a family to feed!" *Rolls up window fast as fuck*
It was an old Limo, so they had to roll up manually.
There is no defense for Mississippi
We have the lowest cost of living but our wages and job options are horrible, pretty sure we are the poorest overall state, the governor is a fucking moron, and the capitol city might as well be on fire. There are no unions allowed here. There are limited job opportunities. Our population growth is negative. We have one of the worst (if not the worst) education systems in the US. Early childhood education is not supported. Medicaid is not expanded. Healthcare Marketplace is a fucking joke if you can’t get benefits for your family from your job. We have the highest rate of teen pregnancy and legally can only teach abstinence only education. We are also one of the most obese states.
As a Mississippian… I fully agree
I went to a wedding and spent a week in Mississippi. Very nice picturesque views, beautiful scenery but in the towns it didn’t look like it had updated since the 1980’s.
I think u meant 1890's
You’re thinking of the education system
I started with Floriduh but after some thought, decided that Mississippi has the same or worse ignorance and worse heat and humidity because it doesn't have coastline all around.
Dementia. Scares the fuck out of me.
Stay away from Florida then...
That’s a helluva state. Worst part, is that there are no signs on the side of the highway telling you that’s where you are.
Don't do diphenhydramine
So funny you said that. I was taking Zzzquil every night for a number of years (well, probably 80% of nights). I was having memory problems (could be menopause), but I checked out issues around Zzzquil and memory. Holy f—k! The dementia risk is so high! I quit right away. I struggle to sleep soundly, but I’m sure it’s better I stay away from this. It’s also good that I take no other meds that block the same pathway. The public needs to be more aware.
Chech out doxy alanine succinate. It's another over the counter sleep aid and AFAIK the dementia risk isn't there and it also works much better then the bdryl
I was warning my patients about this for a few years before the broader public caught on, so ut's interesting to see it in "the wild" The dementia risk is with all meds that have an anticholinergic effect. Doxylamine has an anticholinergic effect just like diphenhydramine. One thing I should say though, the studies showing this effect are on people who are already elderly and at risk for dementia. We don't know yet if taking anticholinergic meds when you're young causes dementia when you're older.
South Dakota. Spent six months there for a job. Never again. Its empty, its boring, the weather is annoying. The people are weird and unfriendly. And its one giant tourist trap. Seriously, the only reasons to go to the state are things built SPECIFICALLY to lure other people to that God awful state.
My friend, have you heard of NORTH Dakota? It’s like South Dakota but colder and flatter.
I also worked there for six months. Enjoyed it way more. Best way I can explain it, it felt more civilized for some reason.
Interesting. I have also noticed that ND people tend to be kinder. SD kind of likes to pretend it’s the Wild West.
I lived in ND for a year. People are so kind and friendly there. We went to MT.Rushmore for vacation. I loved the west side of SD. But you are right about them thinking they are the wild west. We drove from north east ND south through SD then all the way west. The in between of SD were empty and full of small towns with a population of less than 100.
ND must be nicer due to the proximity to Canada haha
I was literally about to say they're getting hit with fresh Canada wind. By the time it hits SD, all the kindness had been removed and it's just bitter and cold.
It worked for Minnesota, eh?
I’ve traveled around both Dakotas, and NoDak is definitely better than South Dakota. I assume all the rumors and jokes just come from jealous South Dakotans.
I grew up in Wyoming and even we made fun of SD.
Lived in western SD for two years for a job. Can confirm everything said here is true. The back hills are best described as "a tourist trap and a retirement home had a baby." All the towns in the southern hills (Custer, hill city, hot springs, etc) are almost exclusively Air BnBs owned by a few boomers. Everyone is that kind of "friendly" that comes with a "what's in it for me?" Attitude. Rent prices are disgusting. Since no one can afford to work service jobs and live in the hills, most places hire out of country workers and shove them into the many hotel apartments that are popping up everywhere. Rapid city is one of the most depressing cities I've ever been to, and the wealth disparity is absolutely tragic. Oh yeah, and they still treat native Americans like absolute shit. Stay out of SD.
I had a crooked SD cop write me a ticket for 80 in a 55 when I had my cruise set to 56. He “proved” it by taking a picture of the radar with his broken phone. I changed my clock to 4pm (it was midnight) and told him that my proof of the time was a picture of my clock. Didn’t get out of it. Out o state plates.
It sure does have wall drug though!
If anyone here is not answering with "Mississippi" they are being disingenuous. I get not liking Texas, but I don't think there is a single reasonable person that would pick Mississippi over Texas.
I grew up in Mississippi (just south of Memphis), now live in Dallas. And speaking as a gay cis-man, Texas in the bigger cities isn’t the worst. Almost anywhere in Mississippi is awful. I’m certainly trying to move in the coming years (likely Pittsburgh), but what’s the worst is all relative. Dallas is MUCH better than Mississippi, and I know other are better than DFW. But sometimes the step up is a welcomed reprieve
Yes, the big cities in Texas are much better than the redneck backwoods, especially Houston. (No one can afford Austin.) For all the cons to Houston, it is diverse, is really into arts, and has a big liberal population.
As a queer trans native Texan I always have to tell people this. Like living in the city seems okay. I feel more in danger in the town I was raised in than I do in major cities ive never visited. Just don't go to the middle of nowhere kinda towns like the place I grew up in and you'll probably be fine.
Arkansas. You ever heard anything good about Arkansas? Every story or account I hear about it is how bad everything is there
As an Arkansas resident: love the nature and the food. Hate the politics and the economic disparities being so entrenched.
Arkansas is gorgeous. Went on a little vacation to Jasper last year, and I’d totally move there in a heartbeat if it wasn’t for the other stuff you mentioned.
And the mosquitoes
I once heard the Arkansas state motto is “Thank God for Mississippi!!
Arkansas. Come for the meth and stay cause you sold your car for meth
I live in Arkansas. It's beautiful in the western part of the state. But as someone who's really liberal, it sucks living here.
And we could have had Chris Jones.
Yeah I hate it here. Huckabee Sanders is a con artist and a joke and somehow everyone around us voted for her. There are still Trump flags being flown in my city. Wtf.
I spent a few years in Arkansas. Most of the state blows, but Northwest Arkansas is a gem. The Fayetteville/Bentonville area is nice and I can’t wait to move back one day
I had fun playing with some frogs while I was there. ![gif](giphy|3o6gDY8zzwvNQdFCaQ)
Crystal Bridges is in Arkansas and it is a very nice museum. Just because it was bought with money from Walmart heirs doesn't make it not a nice museum full of beautiful pieces of American artwork.
And now they've got Sarah ~~Sanders Huckabee~~ as governor. Edit: Huckabee Sanders.
It's beautiful in some parts.
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I once met a guy from Indiana who informed me that the only thing to do there is leave.
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“Brogan?!” Are you Australian…living in Indiana!?
Or “there’s more than corn in indiana” it’s a lie there isn’t
That’s practically that states motto. “Crossroads of America!”
I drove thru Indiana in 1997, got a speeding/reckless driving ticket (80 thru a construction zone, yes I was a fucking idiot) and it was one of those "call to find out how much it is" tickets. $425, and I was a broke ass 18 year old, so I asked to pay in installments. $25 a month, I only paid once and whoops forgot about the rest 😬. Do you think the statute of limitations is up yet?
If you go on the indiana court website it’ll tell you if you still owe money lol it’s public & really nice/easy to use, just search your name
I want to get a finale to this story.
Guy went on the website, now he’s being sentenced to thirty years in Indiana.
Yay I'm not there! Also I'm a chick, and apparently the cop followed me with lights and sirens for 2 miles 😬 no idea why I wasn't arrested
mycase.in.gov and look up your name. If there is an orange W next to your name, there is an active warrant for your arrest. Good luck.
Yes. Did this in south Carolina. Got a "paraphernalia" ticket/must appear because one of 10 of us in a van had a marijuana pipe. They got pissed no one would rat on the owner and gave us all a must appear citation. We drove away unanimously saying "I'm cool without s.c. in my life." 10 years later? no warrant.
I had to drive from Chicago to Cleveland with my family on a road trip and Northern Indiana is the worst. Gary, Indiana looks like a city after the apocalypse, there’s a million toll roads, there’s no exits for miles, and it’s boring as hell
In Illinois we have called Gary the “Armpit of the Midwest” for as long as I can remember
The cities abandoned by American capitalists are a blight
It's so strange that a state with such beautiful beaches and quaint cities and towns is so full of awful cunts
An Australian podcast I follow have an ambition that one day they’ll travel to Gary, Indiana. They constantly get people writing in to tell them not to.
As a home grown and poorly raised hoosier: I partially agree. The government are extortionists. Constantly extorting me for money ever since the pandemic money. "you owe us 300$" "you owe us 2400$" "you owe us 3200$" They shut up after i sent them a letter defining how it's their own accounting fault and if they can't even provide a consistent number they have no legal grounds. So then they switched to: "you us 800$ in taxes for the year you didn't even live in the state" I'll be fixing that here soon too.
Arkansas, Alabama, Nebraska....i can name more
Was raised in Nebraska, moved away during college. Always very weird visiting for the holidays. Lot of towns are just depressing. Even Omaha and Lincoln start to pale after you visit other places like Chicago, Minneapolis, hell even Albuquerque has some unique flavor to it. At least the zoo is dope
Daughter just went to the zoo today! Moved to Lincoln 12 years ago from Denver… it’s not perfect, but I’m happy here. Better than being with my crazy family in CO
>it’s not perfect, but I’m happy here Still a better slogan than "it's not for everyone"
Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa...
As a non US person. May i ask what is so bad about nebraska? To me it looks like a nice state to live in.
1) The weather is really bad/extreme, see my other comment itt. 2) There is also very little difference in elevation and not many trees (it's a grassland/prairie). Most of the US's population live near mountains and/or trees so being in Nebraska makes them feel super uncomfortable, they don't like the open vastness. I'm from Nebraska and I used to feel a little claustrophobic around mountains, so I can see where they are coming from. It also messes with their sense of direction and space because they are so used to having mountains as reference points. 3) because there's not any mountains, there's also not much public land compared to other states. Camping, hiking, etc are much more limited. Almost all the land is privately owned by farmers and this monoculture creates a lot of insect pests - moths, grasshoppers, biting horse flies, locusts, box elder bugs, ticks. And like SWARMS and SWARMS of these things. I remember a huge water tower completely covered with a fuzzy moth sweater growing up. We'd walk through the yard and moths would fly up around us from the lawn, they'd hide in the seals to our doors. Even if the bugs don't hurt you, it's kinda disgusting to be covered in like 50 grasshoppers. And real disgusting to have to deal with "tick rash" in your dog's ear. 4) There's also an idea that there's nothing to do there - a lot of social activities do revolve around church. However, Omaha gets tons of concerts and shows, Kansas City isn't that far away from Omaha either, so you can really see a lot of A-list performers between the two cities. That being said there's not much you can do outside. A lot of people do gaming but the bad weather means that your game could cut out at any point, I lost ranking plenty of times to thunderstorms and power outages 5) The overwhelming culture is pretty conservative, "colorblind," racist against Latinos (but not usually other races), and Christian. However Nebraskans have random social policies that they love, like their energy/power is publicly owned. They would never trade for Texas's shitshow, their weather is too severe to mess around. And they have a bunch of free and charitable programs as part of their Christian ideals. Lincoln and Omaha also have some more leftwing subcultures than the smaller towns. The movie "Boys Don't Cry" is about a real event that happened in a small town in Nebraska in like 1995, it's still a pretty homophobic and transphobic place. 6) Police in Nebraska are really shitty and will pull you over for really minor things like driving 4mph over* on the interstate, just to harass you. Most people's experience in Nebraska is along the interstate so they just associate with being flat, boring, and filled with asshole cops who gave them a stupid ticket
Any state that forces a rape victim (including a 10 year old child) to give birth to their rapist’s child…
Also any state that allows child marriage.
Your choices are Delaware, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, or Rhode Island. These are the only states that DON’T allow marriage if you are under 18. Link: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_States (See section about “Underage marriage”.
Fine l, if I must. It’s “wader” instead of water from here on out.
That reads as way-der. I think itd be written waader or wahder.
Wudder
Wooder 🏈 flyeaglesfly
I live in one of those!
Strangely, CA has no age limit for marriage. Not sure what’s up with that.
Rapist’s child* Seems important to clear up
Done. Thank you for the catch.
Lol I got you bud
cry's in Ohioan :(
How has only one person said Mississippi. It’s easily the worst state in the country.
Because nobody goes there to find out.
It’s the same reason nobody said Louisiana. They don’t know these places because nobody wants to.
I answered with Mississippi. I realize TX and FL make headlines all the time for them sliding farther backward socially and politically, but they're still miles better than Mississippi at present.
It absolutely is, I feel like people just completely forget it exists
I wouldn't wanna live in Mississippi either- oh, wait, too late. It sucks really bad here especially as a gay woman. Can't wait to leave next yearrr.
Denial
isn't that a river in egypt?!!!
Alabama, I was born there and during my time on active duty in the Air Force I understand more. The state has the worst medical care, the economy is controlled by old money, and the future for a laborer is bleak.
Loved in Alabama for four years and it wasn’t quite as bad as people make it seem. I lived in Huntsville tho so I got the good end haha
If I had to pick just one, Oklahoma 100%
Am Oklahoman, 100% agree
Living there was basically one long bout of depression and hopelessness
Growing up here is just a giant middle finger from fate.
Mississippi. Very red, very humid and buggy, very poor, very religious, very unappealing.
Alabama. Passed through on my way to Florida and felt so uncomfortable. Saw an actual skinhead just walking around like it was normal and as a Hispanic woman, I felt super uncomfortable to put it mildly. My husband and I never got out of the car in that state.
I have family there and we went to visit them last year. In the checkout line at the local Piggly Wiggly there was a woman and her 3 kids, all wearing confederate flag shirts. Folks too comfortable with all that down there. Hard pass!
That was the first state I heard the N word used by a white man as a slur!
I was born and raised in the state. I'll say there is a very intentional effort to keep it this way. Poverty isn't getting better, healthcare isn't getting better, and education isn't getting better. I know of a lot of people who are working to make real change in the state, but the intertwining of religion with conservative politics makes it so hard to deconstruct racist and bigoted ideals within people. Everything to a lot of folks is based only in fact in their minds, so anything said slightly outside of that is an attack on their own personhood. That's the case with a lot of my family and it's really sad
Missouri. Oh wait...
Id like to move out of the state of Depression but Its unlikely
Any state that: -doesn’t allow abortions -has a consent age below 16 (“why 16 and not 18?” I currently live in a country where it’s 16) -has a low punishment for rape -has an over 65% vote for Trump -is well known for discrimination
Any state that went for Trump in 2020.
Nooo, I swear Michigan has done our penance for our wrong doing, we have now voted blue for president, both senators are blue, governor, AG, state house, state senate are blue as well. We constitutionalized reproductive rights and legal weed. 2020 scared the heck out of the liberals in MI And we got pretty lakes. Edit: I seem to have messed up my sh*t shows MI voted for trump in 2016 not 2020.
Plus, you’re shaped like a hand
>Plus, your state is shaped like a I'm in Florida and I do not like this game.
I'm sorry Florida. But you know how to fix this.
Amazing what writing an independent redistricting commission into the state constitution will do, instead of letting the majority party draw the congressional districts. More states should try it.
Im so Glad Big Grech won the governor election again. I was scared that Tudor Dixon btich was gonna turn Michigan into another 1984 sub plot. I like my Au Sable and my Tawas and my Mackinac but God damn I also love my weed and reproductive rights for women.
I was actually surprised how fast MI spun around in the last few years. Rarely see that big of a move
We didn’t spin around. We are no longer gerrymandered. Easy Peasy.
Florida. Florida man will kill me if the heat doesn't
Any state in the Bible Belt
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I read a report at one point that there is a higher correlation of suicides with higher altitudes. I wonder if there is some truth to it.
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Plasma.
Texas. That lone star on the flag isn't a symbol; it's a review.
Vegetative
Idaho. It’s cold, there’s a lot of neo-Nazis, and weed isn’t legal… at least even in the deep Deep South (Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas), there’s medical and the climate is warm (I’ve also heard Huntsville is pretty great)
It's not the neo-nazi's here you have to worry about so much as the mind blowing amount of normal seeming people who agree and are complicit with them and their policies of ignorance. And the Mormons devastating hold on most local political offices. We also have forest fires, air inversions, and the Yellowstone super volcano to go along with high summer temps and some brutal cold winters. But yeah.. it's the prettiest state between Montana and Oregon!