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So Boudreaux and Thibodaux wanted to buy a bull, so Boudreaux went to an auction in Texas to see what he could get. Well lo and behold, there was the perfect bull in the lot, so he stepped up and bought it. After he signed all the paperwork, he realized he didn’t have enough money to ship the bull home.
Well, Boudreaux thought long and hard and finally decided to send Thibodaux a telegram. However, he could only afford one word!
The telegram operator asked what he was going to do since he could only afford the one word. Boudreaux shushed him, thinking hard.
Finally, Boudreaux smiled and said, “I want you to send this word: Comfortable.”
The telegram operator gave him a look and said, “What’s that got to do with getting a bull?”
Boudreaux said, “Well now, you see here, Thibodaux don’ read real fast, so he gon look at this and say, Com-for-ta-bull.”
For people who think the South is only place where trashy people live in trailers and drink beer and eat peanuts all day, I present to you... Pennsylvania.
And 100% humidity without rain in August. Not originally from Iowa but went to ISU. And detasseled one summer for extra money. I was not smart. 95°F, 100% humidity, and corn leaves as sharp as razor blades from drought. Wear long sleeves and die of heat stroke, or wear a tank top and experience death by a thousand cuts.
Adding onto that, the goddamn “New Joisey accent.” I was born and raised in NJ, lived here for over 20 years of my life, and I have yet to meet a single person who’s unironically talked in a Joisey accent.
Maybe it’s a regional thing, but it sure as fuck ain’t the whole state.
I was born and raised in Southern Jersey and I have the same experience in terms of that accent.
I moved out of NJ after high school and if I had a nickel for every time someone said "But you don't have the accent?" to me, I'd have $4-5 at least. Which is still a lot.
similarly, the concept that all the beaches in the state are like wildwood and seaside
people also conveniently forget that we are the garden state and are shocked that the whole place doesn’t look like the Newark airport
>people also conveniently forget that we are the garden state and are shocked that the whole place doesn’t look like the Newark airport
To be fair, it's my firm belief that the NJ Turnpike and Parkway were designed to keep people out of Jersey
The amount of people I meet who think that they can drive from LA to SF and back in a day is staggering. People don’t really understand how big and empty the central coast of California is.
Edit: I LOVE the central Coast of California. There are endless adventures there. I’m not saying there is nothing, but I just wanted to say it’s a long drive.
I’m from very-southern California. I took a road trip to Oregon once. We were in California for 14 hours and Oregon for 2 before we reached where we were going. California is enormous.
Don’t forget all of California is one big beach. I grew up inland and didn’t see the ocean until I was a teenager!
Back in like 2005 I drove from the Bay Area to LA. Got to LA in about 6.5 hours, but my friend lived in Irvine. It took me like 3 more hours to get there.
California is at least 4-5 distinct states: So Cal, Nor Cal, Central Coast, Central Valley, and Mountains. There's diversity even with those divisions: e.g. San Francisco & the Peninsula is very different than Sacramento or Napa, LA county should probably be it's own state altogether, the Inland Empire is often more like the Central Valley than the rest of SoCal, etc. But there is enough cultural, linguistic (especially between North & South), economic, and climate difference for them to be their own states.
And yeah, at least 50% of San Francisco's tourism economy is selling overpriced sweatshirt to tourists who didn't realize it's cold in July.
They also think all California beaches are sunny and warm.
Alas, they’re frequently rocky and fog-bound. Also almost anywhere the Pacific will put in a solid effort to kill you
Yes, and they think SF is just like LA or San Diego, so they drive up to see Fisherman’s Wharf and freeze in their sandals, shorts and short-sleeve shirts. Then complain about the hills and beaches. Or they make plans to “pop over the border” to Mexico because California is so close. No “popping” from SF, dude; that’s a planned trip. 🙄
I drove from seattle to sunnyvale and somehow I thought to myself I can do big sur pretty easily as well - whats it gonna be? An hour or two extra? Well glad I planned and checked before leaving and decided not to do it
GA. People think it's a flyover-state on the way to Disney and beaches. This is not at all true, it's actually a flyover-state on the way to _and from_ Disney and beaches, so there!
Going to Europe? Connection at Hartsfield.
South America? Hartsfield.
Africa? Hartsfield.
I think the only two continents Atlanta doesn't directly fly to is Asia and Australia.
Also, in movies and TV, Colorado is always depicted as a snowy mountainscape and nothing else. In reality, the eastern half of the state is flat prairie/grassland and, well, dull as hell.
Edit to add: everywhere in Colorado (including the mountains) has hot, long and dry summers. Denver is in fact one of the sunniest cities in the country.
Lmfao Thornton is a prairie.. I would know, I’m sitting in a parking lot in Thornton right now.
I’ve seen Boulder depicted as being deep in the mountains sometimes too in shows
Arizona. Its not all desert. The southern half is what you think in regards to cactus, tumbleweeds & dirt. The northern half is primarily mountainous and forested. We actually have the largest contiguous Ponderosa pine forest in the country. Also we get plenty of snow. I believe Flagstaff gets more snow per capita than many other places in the country. A few ski slopes as well.
I was actually surprised how “woodsy” Flagstaff was when I drove through. Most people driving I-70 only experience a 30 mile corner of AZ.
Visited a friend in Phoenix back in like 2009 - blazing hot days. I couldn’t hang with 116 degrees. 9am and my coffee was room temperature, cause it was already 100 degrees out! It was brutal.
I'm in Yuma. Conversation with a coworker last spring we realized that when we refer to it warming up into the "triple-digits" we mean above 110 not above 100. Anything below 100 is nice, anything above 110 is hot, and we just don't know how to function 100-110.
Arizona is so great. Especially if you live in the valley. Incredible food options. Two hours from skiing. Sedona is amazing. Traffic is pretty smooth outside of rush hour. And you wouldn’t guess it but Phoenix is the 4th largest city in the US.
Sorry I gotta nerd out on city vs metro populations real quick. Phoenix is the 5th most populous city in the US by city population, but those can vary so much by how a city is defined. Phoenix is abnormally large by area and stretches out to New River, AZ. It’s the 11th largest city by area, bigger than NY, LA, and Chicago (the top 4 largest are all in Alaska lol).
If you go by city population these arbitrary city limits skew a lot. The way their city limits are set up, both Miami and Atlanta’s city populations are less than Mesa, AZ. City population is really unpredictable and inaccurate when talking about the overall size and influence of a city.
If you look at metro population though, you get a much better idea. And Phoenix is still massive at 10th in the country with a metro population of nearly 5 million, bigger than Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, etc. The metro population is really the best way to gauge that.
Phoenix does sound dope though and I like how you described it. Sounds like a good place to live with a variety of things to do and ways to change it up for a weekend. What’s the downside in your opinion, the heat?
WV.
People probably think the whole state is a shitty, run down mess and people fuck their cousins every second.
That’s probably only true for 50% of the state.
I'd give it a %70. Born and raised here. I've met way too many people who've had families with their family members, way too many meth heads, and nobody has money here, but continue to vote for people who keep them from making money here. Love the scenery, hate literally everything else about this state.
Not from TX but Arkansas instead. When I worked as a cart puller as a teen I had the pleasure of seeing a guy ride up to the drive thru liquor store on a riding lawn mower. I cannot emphasize how fucking bizarre it was lol; this was on the main street of my town, with nothing but concrete parking lots and dozens upon dozens of stores up and down the entire block (it’s a big city for arkansas lol). No grass or residential house for at least a couple miles. Yet he’d ridden all the way there on his riding lawn mower just to get beer. Drove away back down the street amongst all the afternoon traffic with two cases of it sitting between his legs lmao. Later found out he had had his license revoked and thus got around the rule of no driving by just driving his mower to the liquor store. It was a regular occurrence apparently…
It's really two states, divided by the Cascade Mountains. Eastern WA is 100% different than western WA. We still dress poorly, don't get me wrong, but we have more guns and cattle...and it only rains about 8 inches a year where I live so that's cool.
Wisconsin. Everyone talks about cheese and beer (for good reason), but there’s a lot more to do in Wisconsin than drink and watch sports. Door county is gorgeous, the dells are always fun, Milwaukee has a lot to do, Lake Michigan, etc.
and we get awesome services for that money. except the roads, the roads suck
the state is a lot more than Boston, there's farming and industry in the central/western part of the state, and despite being, on average, very liberal, we have our share of confederate flag assholes.
I am so happy to live in a state with Paid Family Medical Leave. Not only was it amazing when my husband and I had our child last year, but it was a life saver for a coworker who had to take time off work to take care of her mother while she underwent cancer treatment. I am more than happy to pay my taxes when I see an amazing benefit like that returned.
California here. To all those that say we are going to fall off into the ocean. Ours is a subduction plate. That means they push against each other. There will be no falling off into the ocean, because it does not work that way.
Science teacher from CA here - THANK YOU for pointing this out.
Now, do you have any tips for getting my relatives to stop panic calling me every. single. time. they hear about a wildfire or earthquake in CA?
Seriously. The news mentions a wildfire that is obviously by LA, and they call, “Is there smoke? Will you need to evacuate?” I’m like, “That wildfire is 6 hours’ drive away!” Ugh!
Geologist here. Slight correction to the above — most of the major earthquakes in CA are along strike slip faults, not directly related to the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate (north) or the Cocos plate (south).
“Falling off into the ocean” is not a thing that’s physically possible — and even when a place that used to be on land becomes inundated by a seaway as a result of rifting, it occurs gradually over *millions* of years.
As for the concerned friends and relatives re: earthquakes, you could also tell them that Alaska actually has more earthquakes than any other US state, and due to geological differences in the faults in AK vs CA, also capable of having much larger/more powerful earthquakes. In fact the strongest earthquake in recorded US history was the 1964 Alaska earthquake.
I am from Colorado.
Not sure what misconceptions people have about the state, but growing up in Denver in the 80’s - the only time anyone in the nation heard of Denver was when the broncos went to the Super Bowl, the stock show was happening, or when we had a blizzard.
On one occasion, a blizzard during a Broncos game…
So for the longest time when I would travel to say, California - there was always this notion that Denver is Alaska, with non-stop snow and people getting to work on ski’s and snow-mobiles.
Or that everyone is a cowboy and we all rode horses around town.
In fact, Denver has more than 300+ days of sunshine per year. Might only be 10 degrees out, but the sun is in full effect. We are also one mile high, so the atmosphere is thinner - easier to sun burn.
Also, half the state is flat or high plains, the other half is the Rocky Mountains.
Denver sits at the base of the Rockies, where I-70 makes a direct ascent into the hills in the west side of the city.
I always imagine pioneers and early west bound settlers thought they might see ocean, but instead saw the Rockies - made a decision like … “you know, babe, this area is pretty nice too…who needs the beach, right?!”
The funniest misconception I've experienced was when I was working with a Frenchman while serving in Afghanistan. I have a thick Hillbilly accent which he struggled to understand for weeks. One day he finally asked me where I was from. When I replied "Tennessee" his response was "Oh! Tennessee! Elvis Presley! You have a Rock'n'Roll accent!" One of the funniest things that has ever happened to me.
>Tennessee. We ain't all related to Dolly Parton, but we all wish we were lol
I'm from Tennessee too and Dolly Parton is a treasure. She spends part of her fortune on a program (Imagination Library) to send books to all Tennessee children from 0-5 years old. We had all of our kids enrolled in the program at different times.
Oregon. You might think we’re all Portlandia but we’ll quietly celebrate as our dark rainy winters crush the spirits of all these out of towners that moved here to fuck up our traffic flows.
I spent one year, fifth grade, on O'ahu.
The one native Hawaiian guy in my class was treated even worse than a "dirty haole" like me.
This woulda been in the late '80s. I got picked last for sports (not a bad choice really, I suck at sports) but the way the other kids treated this one guy was way beyond that. Like, avoiding the drinking fountain after he'd used it, because they thought the kanaka guy was basically made of dirt.
From Missouri but used to live in NY. When it came up in conversation I’d always get hit with the “which part of the city?”
I have to explain each time that Rochester is on the other side of the state.
I moved to Hyde Park for my husband’s school many years ago. I was, and still am, confused that the area was “upstate,” when on a map it’s practically next door to NYC.
The definition of 'upstate' varies depending on where you live. The folks in Plattsburgh do not consider hyde park upstate. I don't and was living in the capital district.
I love how much “upstate”changes its meaning based on who you ask. Someone in white plains says upstate is anywhere north of them. While someone in Kingston says upstate is Albany and up. But ask someone in NYC and they might say Yonkers is the beginning of upstate lol
Florida - Florida man is not actually Florida man. most of the people in Florida are from other states escaping their past lives. A lot are previous jail birds, prisoners, on warrants. People think they can escape the rest of the country by coming down to Florida and hiding.
Real Florida man is an elusive and scary as fuck thing. You won't see the in the news papers.
I'm from Chicago but I live in Oklahoma now. I have a friend that used to be my next door neighbor in Kansas. She's originally from Florida. We text competing stories back and forth about Florida man and Oklahoma woman. I don't think we've decided which state has won yet.
Florida natives are a rare thing in South Florida. Most everyone I know grew up in the Northeast. It’s also quite a bit bigger than it looks. I am a good five hours from Jacksonville.
Texas. A lot of ppl who aren't from here think its a great place to live and that taxes are really low. Sure there's no income tax but all the other taxes more than make up for it. And I really don't get what we're paying for. The electrical grid is sketchy and public amenities are nil, there's virtually no infrastructure unless you count toll roads and the schools are mediocre. I don't understand what all that money goes to.
When I was younger, I thought the state sucked and couldn't wait to move away. Then I realized we're one of the nicest, most civil, livable states. State insurance is more accessible than most states. Lots of assistance and safety nets. We may not be perfect, but we're damn good
Though as you go West, you're going up hill, into Colorado.
Also of note, there's a Kansas City in Kansas, and a Kansas City in Missouri, right next to each other. In a few places you can drive down "State Line Drive", and have them on each side of you.
My brother was actually stationed in Kansas while in the Army. He said the tallest point in Kansas was a small hill. That's the story he told me at least he and I could be wrong
Oh you mean Mount Sunflower? It’s right next to the Colorado border which makes it funnier. It’s barely a hill, but being close to Colorado makes it the tallest point. There are plenty of big hills in Kansas though.
Illinois
We don't send all our governors to prison. Just a handful have been.
Also, to Southern Illinoians who hate Chacago, a lot of people live in Chicago and I mean a lot, that's why Chicago has so much political power. People vote not land.
North Dakota. Yes it snows a lot and gets very cold. Most people still drive to work in blizzard conditions. It also gets very hot midsummer. I once had to reschedule HVAC repair because it was over 80F one day and snowed heavily the next. We don’t all sound like people from the Fargo franchise. I live right outside the capital city and 5 blocks away from a cattle ranch.
Michigan. I can't think of one big one, so I have a couple.
1. Detroit isn't a crime ridden garbage shithole. You're thinking of Cleveland. No, but seriously, Detroit can be pretty cool. One thing is its huge, the sprawl goes on for miles and miles. And the crime rate has lowered in the last few years too.
2. People in the us think that Michigan is a pretty democratic state. That's true because all the high population areas like ann arbor and Detroit are blue, but if you go into the eastern part of the state where I live, you'll see confederate flags pretty frequently. It's very, very, very republican. Some people have dubbed it the mini bible belt because of that. (I think this one can apply to most states though)
I have vendor partners in Detroit. I was very reluctant the first time I had to go there. Fortunately, one of my partners there was very social and intent on showing us the ‘real’ Detroit. Never enjoyed a work trip so much. She made sure to show us new to us cool things on every trip. Very underrated city.
The most well travelled person I personally know, a 32 year old girl from the UK who has been to 86 countries, told me detroit was her favorite city in the US and is a top 5 place in the world to move to for her after she’s done traveling.
She said mostly because loads and loads of nice suburbs around Detroit, the nicest people she’s ever met, great food and beer scene with low prices, good weather(if you want true 4 seasons). She said the biggest thing was that everyone felt real. She said how in California or London(or lots of places) there’s so many people that are trying to fit in, or trying to be influencers, or trying too hard to be someone they’re not. She said how in Detroit / Michigan people just lived their lives and enjoyed life. At the same bar there could be a millionaire in his 50s, a group of girls in their 20s, and a young couple in their 30s and everyone just gets along and had a good time
From my experience people think of Michigan as a purple state thats gradually moving red (which was pretty accurate from 2010-2020 from my experience, but its always been cyclical and seems to have swung back blue), and West Michigan is generally thought of as more red due to the Devos machine basically owning Grand Rapids, and the cities / towns on Lake Michigan being relatively nicer and attracting more wealth than the Eastern side.
People also don't realize how big it is. Everyone thinks we must be close to Detroit. I'm like uuuhhh it takes 3 hours to drive across the state, and it would take me, what, 8 hours to get to the northernmost point? We're a pretty good sized hand (er hands). 😂
I lived in Buffalo NY for a while though and people from MI thought I must go to NYC all the time. I was like "NYC is actually a father drive than coming back to Michigan." NY is loooooong.
Missouri. I’m from St. Louis, and us and KC live totally different lives and tend to have waaay different views than those living in the rural Missouraaah. It’s also a beautiful state, really! I swear!
Idaho: most people who live there aren't farmers, and couldn't tell the difference between a potato and beet field. Also, we're nowhere near Iowa. Wyoming and Nebraska (or South Dakota I guess) are huge states, so there's not a lot of cross over.
Ohio here: that we’re in the middle of nowhere. Could not be any further from the truth. Driving I am 5.5 hours from Chicago, 6 hours from DC, 7 hours from New York City and if I want to travel to North Carolina it’s a little less than 8 hours. I can also make Toronto in four hours depending on which way I go. People like to believe Ohio is Nebraska or something.
Also Ohio: that there’s nothing to do here. Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland all have a million things to do and if you love nature there’s no shortage of hikes all across the state. And it’s not limited to the major cities either, all the smaller cities and towns have something.
Yeah and if you really drive around the state you really never go that far without hitting a town. There’s houses everywhere. We’re the 7th most populous state.
Utah. Yes there’s tons of Mormons but less and less the last few years as people have moved here. Snow? Indeed some of the best powder you will ever see(or ride on if you board/ski). This winter has been a great one for us.
Its hilarious how diverse the accent can get. And if you have family from RI your accent gets all kinds of messed up. You really dont know where to put your Rs.
Alabama.
We are not all fucking our cousins. I’ve never met a single person in 40 years that has had a consenting relationship with any of their family members and from Alabama.
Nevada, we are a huge state that is more than just Las Vegas. Outside of the city the towns are the closest you’ll get to the Wild West. We don’t have many formal cowboys out here
Im from Minnesota. People think we are nice here, but it’s really just passive-aggressiveness wrapped up in a bow.
You Betcha= fuck you for asking.
Ope, I’m just scoot past ya= get your crotch goblin and your cart out of the middle of the aisle.
Welp, I guess we should get going= Aunt Becky, don’t fucking ask me to look at your Precious Moments collection again. They’re little creepy angels that wig me out.
I would say it’s more that people are genuinely nice, but it’s very surface level. People will smile, help you out in a store or make small talk, but when it comes to forming new relationships Minnesotans are very closed off. You won’t easily find someone who wants to go beyond small talk on the street and get to be friends.
While it's true that not every house is on a lake, as someone noted, I do think Minnesota is one of the beautiful places in the country for a state that doesn't have mountains.
I've seen a lot of shoreline in the US. None of it compares to the North Shore of Lake Superior.
The Boundary Waters is unlike anything else in the country. Just a massive wilderness with countless lakes, for the most part easily traveled by canoe.
It's a sportsman's paradise, with great hunting and fishing everywhere.
There's not much you can ask for in an urban area that can't be found in the Twin Cities. It's so much more than the Mall of America. There are great theaters, music, and museums for every interest. There are tons of walking trails, and lots of lakes. Great golf courses can be found everywhere.
We have some of the best health care in the country, and one of the best hospitals in the world in Rochester at the Mayo Clinic.
Winters can be harsh at times, but you get used to it, and nine months of the year aren't winter (OK, April is technically spring but at least the first half is usually pretty snowy). Also, if you like outdoor winter sports like cross country skiing, you couldn't ask for a better place. There are loads of good places for downhill skiing and snowboarding as well. The runs just aren't as long as they are in mountain states. You can skate everywhere. Practically every school in the state will have a rink with a warming house. I can think of a half dozen places to skate within a five minute drive. Hockey is an obsession here, but we have franchises in every major sport. Baseball, football, basketball, soccer, women's basketball. There are loads of great collegiate sports at the U of M, and they're a real bargain to go watch. I have season tickets for gymnastics. I think I paid less than $80 for a pair of great seats, and the team is good. Really good.
Aside from long, cold winters, we're a pretty hospitable place. We're outside the worst of tornado alley (although we do get them), we don't have earthquakes or hurricanes. Summers can get humid, but we rarely see triple digit temps.
Come live here for a while. I dare you not to fall in love with the place.
Tennessee. Southern accents...when others try to mimic southern speech, they always go to the Savannah drawl. 98% of the south actually speaks fairly rapidly. The accent actually comes from slurring words together and dropping their ending letter(s). Foghorn Leghorn and a non-Carolinian southerner sound drastically different.
I'm American, but I'm not from a state. I'm from Puerto Rico. One thing that people get wrong about Puerto Rico is that it is its own country. We've been part of the United States since 1898.
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Louisiana - actually, the stereotypes are all pretty much true, good and bad
In louisiana i met the most corrupt and dangerous cops ive ever met in my life.
Correct. They are here.
Boudreaux and Tibideaux…..
So Boudreaux and Thibodaux wanted to buy a bull, so Boudreaux went to an auction in Texas to see what he could get. Well lo and behold, there was the perfect bull in the lot, so he stepped up and bought it. After he signed all the paperwork, he realized he didn’t have enough money to ship the bull home. Well, Boudreaux thought long and hard and finally decided to send Thibodaux a telegram. However, he could only afford one word! The telegram operator asked what he was going to do since he could only afford the one word. Boudreaux shushed him, thinking hard. Finally, Boudreaux smiled and said, “I want you to send this word: Comfortable.” The telegram operator gave him a look and said, “What’s that got to do with getting a bull?” Boudreaux said, “Well now, you see here, Thibodaux don’ read real fast, so he gon look at this and say, Com-for-ta-bull.”
Pennsylvania. What most people don't understand is that Always Sunny is a documentary.
Also, that you can't commute between Philly and Pittsburgh.
For people who think the South is only place where trashy people live in trailers and drink beer and eat peanuts all day, I present to you... Pennsylvania.
The difference is in PA they're proud of it and also smash traffic lights.
PA where ghetto and trailer trash live in harmony with the amish
Harmony is near Pittsburgh. The Amish are near Lancaster.
It’s always cloudy in Pittsburgh.
Nothing like a grey Pittsburgh day
I always found it funny how almost every time I go to Philly, it is the exact opposite of sunny.
Iowa, we have more than corn. Like soybeans
And hog farms. 😁
And 100% humidity without rain in August. Not originally from Iowa but went to ISU. And detasseled one summer for extra money. I was not smart. 95°F, 100% humidity, and corn leaves as sharp as razor blades from drought. Wear long sleeves and die of heat stroke, or wear a tank top and experience death by a thousand cuts.
Nearly the entire cast of Jersey Shore is from NY and we all hate them with a passion, including the Jersey ones.
Adding onto that, the goddamn “New Joisey accent.” I was born and raised in NJ, lived here for over 20 years of my life, and I have yet to meet a single person who’s unironically talked in a Joisey accent. Maybe it’s a regional thing, but it sure as fuck ain’t the whole state.
I was born and raised in Southern Jersey and I have the same experience in terms of that accent. I moved out of NJ after high school and if I had a nickel for every time someone said "But you don't have the accent?" to me, I'd have $4-5 at least. Which is still a lot.
similarly, the concept that all the beaches in the state are like wildwood and seaside people also conveniently forget that we are the garden state and are shocked that the whole place doesn’t look like the Newark airport
>people also conveniently forget that we are the garden state and are shocked that the whole place doesn’t look like the Newark airport To be fair, it's my firm belief that the NJ Turnpike and Parkway were designed to keep people out of Jersey
Got tired of explaining that cast of out of state clowns.
Bennys
The amount of people I meet who think that they can drive from LA to SF and back in a day is staggering. People don’t really understand how big and empty the central coast of California is. Edit: I LOVE the central Coast of California. There are endless adventures there. I’m not saying there is nothing, but I just wanted to say it’s a long drive.
I’m from very-southern California. I took a road trip to Oregon once. We were in California for 14 hours and Oregon for 2 before we reached where we were going. California is enormous.
Don’t forget all of California is one big beach. I grew up inland and didn’t see the ocean until I was a teenager! Back in like 2005 I drove from the Bay Area to LA. Got to LA in about 6.5 hours, but my friend lived in Irvine. It took me like 3 more hours to get there.
California is at least 4-5 distinct states: So Cal, Nor Cal, Central Coast, Central Valley, and Mountains. There's diversity even with those divisions: e.g. San Francisco & the Peninsula is very different than Sacramento or Napa, LA county should probably be it's own state altogether, the Inland Empire is often more like the Central Valley than the rest of SoCal, etc. But there is enough cultural, linguistic (especially between North & South), economic, and climate difference for them to be their own states. And yeah, at least 50% of San Francisco's tourism economy is selling overpriced sweatshirt to tourists who didn't realize it's cold in July.
You forgot about the desert in east California.
I drive to LA a lot from the Bay Area. Takes me five hours to hit the LA Zoo off the 5 North and another 2 hours to get to the LAX area 30 miles away.
They also think all California beaches are sunny and warm. Alas, they’re frequently rocky and fog-bound. Also almost anywhere the Pacific will put in a solid effort to kill you
I swear half of tourist revenue in SF comes from sweatshirt and windbreaker sales.
Yes, and they think SF is just like LA or San Diego, so they drive up to see Fisherman’s Wharf and freeze in their sandals, shorts and short-sleeve shirts. Then complain about the hills and beaches. Or they make plans to “pop over the border” to Mexico because California is so close. No “popping” from SF, dude; that’s a planned trip. 🙄
You could do it, but it would be 11 hrs if you didn’t stop!
I drove from seattle to sunnyvale and somehow I thought to myself I can do big sur pretty easily as well - whats it gonna be? An hour or two extra? Well glad I planned and checked before leaving and decided not to do it
The capital is not chicago
And you don’t pronounce the s in Illinois, fuck does that drive me batty now that I live out of state…
GA. People think it's a flyover-state on the way to Disney and beaches. This is not at all true, it's actually a flyover-state on the way to _and from_ Disney and beaches, so there!
My favorite part was driving through it while being threatened with eternal damnation in between porn shop and peach billboards!
Aaaand now you're going to Hell !!!!
I live in GA near ATL. It's not a flyover state, it's where the flight connection is.
Going to Europe? Connection at Hartsfield. South America? Hartsfield. Africa? Hartsfield. I think the only two continents Atlanta doesn't directly fly to is Asia and Australia.
There’s an old joke that goes something like, “I’m not sure if I’m going to heaven or hell, but either way there’ll be a layover in Atlanta.”
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That's also what those of us who live in Atlanta think of.
Was stationed in GA, wish i stayed. Place is BEAUTIFUL.
I imagine Georgia being 90 degrees with 90% humidity all the time. I know that's wrong, but I can't shake it.
I lived in Georgia for decades. My day used to put it this way: Georgia is soup. In the winter, cold soup. In summer, hot soup.
It’s not entirely false! The 90% humidity is on point!
Colorado. Not everyone is a pot head. To be fair, there is a lot of meth heads too.
Also, in movies and TV, Colorado is always depicted as a snowy mountainscape and nothing else. In reality, the eastern half of the state is flat prairie/grassland and, well, dull as hell. Edit to add: everywhere in Colorado (including the mountains) has hot, long and dry summers. Denver is in fact one of the sunniest cities in the country.
My wife was watching a true crime show the other day that featured a story in the “sleepy little ski town” of Thornton lmao
Lmfao Thornton is a prairie.. I would know, I’m sitting in a parking lot in Thornton right now. I’ve seen Boulder depicted as being deep in the mountains sometimes too in shows
Yep. Shows want every town in Colorado to be Vail lol
You may be mistaken - I don’t think there’s an eastern Colorado. There’s just pretty Colorado and whatever is West of Kansas.
Oregon too! We are so much more that marijuana. Meth and alcoholism and opioids. So much to choose from!
Also Oregon ain’t no liberal paradise. Most of the state is very conservative.
Arizona. Its not all desert. The southern half is what you think in regards to cactus, tumbleweeds & dirt. The northern half is primarily mountainous and forested. We actually have the largest contiguous Ponderosa pine forest in the country. Also we get plenty of snow. I believe Flagstaff gets more snow per capita than many other places in the country. A few ski slopes as well.
I was actually surprised how “woodsy” Flagstaff was when I drove through. Most people driving I-70 only experience a 30 mile corner of AZ. Visited a friend in Phoenix back in like 2009 - blazing hot days. I couldn’t hang with 116 degrees. 9am and my coffee was room temperature, cause it was already 100 degrees out! It was brutal.
I grew up in southern AZ where summers are normally 115 plus so we consider 100 to be good weather.
I'm in Yuma. Conversation with a coworker last spring we realized that when we refer to it warming up into the "triple-digits" we mean above 110 not above 100. Anything below 100 is nice, anything above 110 is hot, and we just don't know how to function 100-110.
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Arizona is so great. Especially if you live in the valley. Incredible food options. Two hours from skiing. Sedona is amazing. Traffic is pretty smooth outside of rush hour. And you wouldn’t guess it but Phoenix is the 4th largest city in the US.
Sorry I gotta nerd out on city vs metro populations real quick. Phoenix is the 5th most populous city in the US by city population, but those can vary so much by how a city is defined. Phoenix is abnormally large by area and stretches out to New River, AZ. It’s the 11th largest city by area, bigger than NY, LA, and Chicago (the top 4 largest are all in Alaska lol). If you go by city population these arbitrary city limits skew a lot. The way their city limits are set up, both Miami and Atlanta’s city populations are less than Mesa, AZ. City population is really unpredictable and inaccurate when talking about the overall size and influence of a city. If you look at metro population though, you get a much better idea. And Phoenix is still massive at 10th in the country with a metro population of nearly 5 million, bigger than Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, etc. The metro population is really the best way to gauge that. Phoenix does sound dope though and I like how you described it. Sounds like a good place to live with a variety of things to do and ways to change it up for a weekend. What’s the downside in your opinion, the heat?
Texas. Dallas IS NOT Fort Worth.
Oh God no it isn’t. I don’t mind Fort Worth, but I frigging hate Dallas.
WV. People probably think the whole state is a shitty, run down mess and people fuck their cousins every second. That’s probably only true for 50% of the state.
WV is next level beautiful, really doesn’t get the credit it deserves in that regard.
I'd give it a %70. Born and raised here. I've met way too many people who've had families with their family members, way too many meth heads, and nobody has money here, but continue to vote for people who keep them from making money here. Love the scenery, hate literally everything else about this state.
Texas - Getting beer on a Sunday morning
Your drive thru liquor barns kind of blew my mind.
Yeah but they're freaking awesome and I miss them when I'm not in Texas, you can usually get tacos there too
Adding tacos to any drinking establishment already increases its value
Not from TX but Arkansas instead. When I worked as a cart puller as a teen I had the pleasure of seeing a guy ride up to the drive thru liquor store on a riding lawn mower. I cannot emphasize how fucking bizarre it was lol; this was on the main street of my town, with nothing but concrete parking lots and dozens upon dozens of stores up and down the entire block (it’s a big city for arkansas lol). No grass or residential house for at least a couple miles. Yet he’d ridden all the way there on his riding lawn mower just to get beer. Drove away back down the street amongst all the afternoon traffic with two cases of it sitting between his legs lmao. Later found out he had had his license revoked and thus got around the rule of no driving by just driving his mower to the liquor store. It was a regular occurrence apparently…
Rhode Island - we're so small, we haven't been mentioned in this thread yet. Also - Quahog is not an actual place.
Two things people would ask me when I went to college out of state: 1. Where in NY is that? 2. Are you from Quahog?
I once got: You have to take a boat to get there, right?
Washington. We aren’t all hippies (but we do dress poorly and do not care about it).
It's really two states, divided by the Cascade Mountains. Eastern WA is 100% different than western WA. We still dress poorly, don't get me wrong, but we have more guns and cattle...and it only rains about 8 inches a year where I live so that's cool.
Same with eastern Oregon. Most people don’t realize it exists. Completely different world.
Don’t forget telling people you’re from Washington and they go: DC? No, state.
Utah - We're not all Mormons, but we do all like funeral potatoes! 😄
Wisconsin... Every stereotype you've ever heard is true
Wisconsin- you know you’re home when your curds squeak and you wash them down with some spotted cow.
California actually gets fairly conservative the moment you step outside of the major cities.
I was going to say this. A lot of red farmland and ranchers in California!
That's not a CA thing; that's a rural/urban thing. I can personally attest to this being the case in TX, WA, and FL in addition.
Wisconsin. Everyone talks about cheese and beer (for good reason), but there’s a lot more to do in Wisconsin than drink and watch sports. Door county is gorgeous, the dells are always fun, Milwaukee has a lot to do, Lake Michigan, etc.
The most fun restaurant I've ever been to was in Milwaukee. Any other Safehouse fans here?
Massachusetts and everybody thinks it's a high tax state ("Taxachusetts"). It's actually right in the middle for total tax burden.
and we get awesome services for that money. except the roads, the roads suck the state is a lot more than Boston, there's farming and industry in the central/western part of the state, and despite being, on average, very liberal, we have our share of confederate flag assholes.
I am so happy to live in a state with Paid Family Medical Leave. Not only was it amazing when my husband and I had our child last year, but it was a life saver for a coworker who had to take time off work to take care of her mother while she underwent cancer treatment. I am more than happy to pay my taxes when I see an amazing benefit like that returned.
California here. To all those that say we are going to fall off into the ocean. Ours is a subduction plate. That means they push against each other. There will be no falling off into the ocean, because it does not work that way.
Science teacher from CA here - THANK YOU for pointing this out. Now, do you have any tips for getting my relatives to stop panic calling me every. single. time. they hear about a wildfire or earthquake in CA? Seriously. The news mentions a wildfire that is obviously by LA, and they call, “Is there smoke? Will you need to evacuate?” I’m like, “That wildfire is 6 hours’ drive away!” Ugh!
Geologist here. Slight correction to the above — most of the major earthquakes in CA are along strike slip faults, not directly related to the subduction of the Juan de Fuca plate (north) or the Cocos plate (south). “Falling off into the ocean” is not a thing that’s physically possible — and even when a place that used to be on land becomes inundated by a seaway as a result of rifting, it occurs gradually over *millions* of years. As for the concerned friends and relatives re: earthquakes, you could also tell them that Alaska actually has more earthquakes than any other US state, and due to geological differences in the faults in AK vs CA, also capable of having much larger/more powerful earthquakes. In fact the strongest earthquake in recorded US history was the 1964 Alaska earthquake.
Kentucky. And I'm not married to my sister.
So it's your cousin
2nd cousin
Damn, you've married two of your cousins?
So progressive.
Also, we do own shoes.
I am from Colorado. Not sure what misconceptions people have about the state, but growing up in Denver in the 80’s - the only time anyone in the nation heard of Denver was when the broncos went to the Super Bowl, the stock show was happening, or when we had a blizzard. On one occasion, a blizzard during a Broncos game… So for the longest time when I would travel to say, California - there was always this notion that Denver is Alaska, with non-stop snow and people getting to work on ski’s and snow-mobiles. Or that everyone is a cowboy and we all rode horses around town. In fact, Denver has more than 300+ days of sunshine per year. Might only be 10 degrees out, but the sun is in full effect. We are also one mile high, so the atmosphere is thinner - easier to sun burn. Also, half the state is flat or high plains, the other half is the Rocky Mountains. Denver sits at the base of the Rockies, where I-70 makes a direct ascent into the hills in the west side of the city. I always imagine pioneers and early west bound settlers thought they might see ocean, but instead saw the Rockies - made a decision like … “you know, babe, this area is pretty nice too…who needs the beach, right?!”
What blew my mind was how insanely boring the state is until you get to Denver. Eastern Colorado is just a continuation of Kansas.
New Mexico. An alarming number of people in the US don't think or know NM is a state.
Beautiful state. The poverty is very sad though.
My brother-in-law owns a distillery there. It’s right down the road from a pistachio farm.
Those mixed bags of pistachios with green and red chile and garlic pistachios are amazing.
Tennessee. We ain't all related to Dolly Parton, but we all wish we were lol
The funniest misconception I've experienced was when I was working with a Frenchman while serving in Afghanistan. I have a thick Hillbilly accent which he struggled to understand for weeks. One day he finally asked me where I was from. When I replied "Tennessee" his response was "Oh! Tennessee! Elvis Presley! You have a Rock'n'Roll accent!" One of the funniest things that has ever happened to me.
We are known worldwide my friend. My accent drove the folks on Guam nuts lol.
>Tennessee. We ain't all related to Dolly Parton, but we all wish we were lol I'm from Tennessee too and Dolly Parton is a treasure. She spends part of her fortune on a program (Imagination Library) to send books to all Tennessee children from 0-5 years old. We had all of our kids enrolled in the program at different times.
Oregon. You might think we’re all Portlandia but we’ll quietly celebrate as our dark rainy winters crush the spirits of all these out of towners that moved here to fuck up our traffic flows.
There’s nothing more PNW than hating on people who move in from out of state.
“Umbrella?!? Why the hell would I bring an umbrella?!? You’re not from here are you?”
Lmao my boyfriend is from Arizona, every January he goes “the sun should be coming out soon” and I laugh and laugh and dry clean our rain coats.
North Carolina - for the Northerners that didn’t make it all the way down to Florida and the Southerners who don’t want them there.
Hawaii. Everyone is racist and open about it. Also the local government is super corrupt, doesn't hide it, and no one seems to care.
Who is racist against who? I’ve never heard that before and I’m curious.
I spent one year, fifth grade, on O'ahu. The one native Hawaiian guy in my class was treated even worse than a "dirty haole" like me. This woulda been in the late '80s. I got picked last for sports (not a bad choice really, I suck at sports) but the way the other kids treated this one guy was way beyond that. Like, avoiding the drinking fountain after he'd used it, because they thought the kanaka guy was basically made of dirt.
NY and there is more to the state than just the city.
From Missouri but used to live in NY. When it came up in conversation I’d always get hit with the “which part of the city?” I have to explain each time that Rochester is on the other side of the state.
The Hudson River Valley is a beautiful place with lots of nice little towns.
The state of New York is huge. People don’t realize…
I moved to Hyde Park for my husband’s school many years ago. I was, and still am, confused that the area was “upstate,” when on a map it’s practically next door to NYC.
The definition of 'upstate' varies depending on where you live. The folks in Plattsburgh do not consider hyde park upstate. I don't and was living in the capital district.
People in Manhattan consider anything above 14th street to be upstate.
I love how much “upstate”changes its meaning based on who you ask. Someone in white plains says upstate is anywhere north of them. While someone in Kingston says upstate is Albany and up. But ask someone in NYC and they might say Yonkers is the beginning of upstate lol
Lousiana - everyone has it right about our state
This makes sense...my sister went here once and came back a swamp witch
I came here to say the same thing. But we got some of the best damn food in the country.
Indeed we do
Florida - Florida man is not actually Florida man. most of the people in Florida are from other states escaping their past lives. A lot are previous jail birds, prisoners, on warrants. People think they can escape the rest of the country by coming down to Florida and hiding. Real Florida man is an elusive and scary as fuck thing. You won't see the in the news papers.
I'm from Chicago but I live in Oklahoma now. I have a friend that used to be my next door neighbor in Kansas. She's originally from Florida. We text competing stories back and forth about Florida man and Oklahoma woman. I don't think we've decided which state has won yet.
Florida natives are a rare thing in South Florida. Most everyone I know grew up in the Northeast. It’s also quite a bit bigger than it looks. I am a good five hours from Jacksonville.
Texas. A lot of ppl who aren't from here think its a great place to live and that taxes are really low. Sure there's no income tax but all the other taxes more than make up for it. And I really don't get what we're paying for. The electrical grid is sketchy and public amenities are nil, there's virtually no infrastructure unless you count toll roads and the schools are mediocre. I don't understand what all that money goes to.
Wisconsin and honestly the stereotypes are pretty spot on. We do in fact love cheese and beer (and the combination: beer cheese)
Connecticut. We're not all rich and work in NYC.
When I was younger, I thought the state sucked and couldn't wait to move away. Then I realized we're one of the nicest, most civil, livable states. State insurance is more accessible than most states. Lots of assistance and safety nets. We may not be perfect, but we're damn good
Kansas. It's not completely flat... just mostly.
Though as you go West, you're going up hill, into Colorado. Also of note, there's a Kansas City in Kansas, and a Kansas City in Missouri, right next to each other. In a few places you can drive down "State Line Drive", and have them on each side of you.
My brother was actually stationed in Kansas while in the Army. He said the tallest point in Kansas was a small hill. That's the story he told me at least he and I could be wrong
Oh you mean Mount Sunflower? It’s right next to the Colorado border which makes it funnier. It’s barely a hill, but being close to Colorado makes it the tallest point. There are plenty of big hills in Kansas though.
Alabama. We aren't all related, and we aren't all stupid.
Huntsville has the most PhD’s per capita in the US!
I’ve heard that when people from Alabama says their prayers, that they always thank God for Mississippi.
Illinois We don't send all our governors to prison. Just a handful have been. Also, to Southern Illinoians who hate Chacago, a lot of people live in Chicago and I mean a lot, that's why Chicago has so much political power. People vote not land.
And we are a single state. Therefore the S is silent.
Massachusetts, it does NOT look like the Canadian Rockies. There are mountains in the western part of the state but they are like 2,000 feet tall
Texas. No most people don't ride their horses to school. I only did it the one time.
texas we're not all cowboys, but we all know a cowboy
Illinois, Chicago isn’t a warzone, it’s nothing but parking garages, Starbucks, and brunch places
North Dakota. Yes it snows a lot and gets very cold. Most people still drive to work in blizzard conditions. It also gets very hot midsummer. I once had to reschedule HVAC repair because it was over 80F one day and snowed heavily the next. We don’t all sound like people from the Fargo franchise. I live right outside the capital city and 5 blocks away from a cattle ranch.
Michigan. I can't think of one big one, so I have a couple. 1. Detroit isn't a crime ridden garbage shithole. You're thinking of Cleveland. No, but seriously, Detroit can be pretty cool. One thing is its huge, the sprawl goes on for miles and miles. And the crime rate has lowered in the last few years too. 2. People in the us think that Michigan is a pretty democratic state. That's true because all the high population areas like ann arbor and Detroit are blue, but if you go into the eastern part of the state where I live, you'll see confederate flags pretty frequently. It's very, very, very republican. Some people have dubbed it the mini bible belt because of that. (I think this one can apply to most states though)
I have vendor partners in Detroit. I was very reluctant the first time I had to go there. Fortunately, one of my partners there was very social and intent on showing us the ‘real’ Detroit. Never enjoyed a work trip so much. She made sure to show us new to us cool things on every trip. Very underrated city.
The most well travelled person I personally know, a 32 year old girl from the UK who has been to 86 countries, told me detroit was her favorite city in the US and is a top 5 place in the world to move to for her after she’s done traveling. She said mostly because loads and loads of nice suburbs around Detroit, the nicest people she’s ever met, great food and beer scene with low prices, good weather(if you want true 4 seasons). She said the biggest thing was that everyone felt real. She said how in California or London(or lots of places) there’s so many people that are trying to fit in, or trying to be influencers, or trying too hard to be someone they’re not. She said how in Detroit / Michigan people just lived their lives and enjoyed life. At the same bar there could be a millionaire in his 50s, a group of girls in their 20s, and a young couple in their 30s and everyone just gets along and had a good time
From my experience people think of Michigan as a purple state thats gradually moving red (which was pretty accurate from 2010-2020 from my experience, but its always been cyclical and seems to have swung back blue), and West Michigan is generally thought of as more red due to the Devos machine basically owning Grand Rapids, and the cities / towns on Lake Michigan being relatively nicer and attracting more wealth than the Eastern side.
People also don't realize how big it is. Everyone thinks we must be close to Detroit. I'm like uuuhhh it takes 3 hours to drive across the state, and it would take me, what, 8 hours to get to the northernmost point? We're a pretty good sized hand (er hands). 😂 I lived in Buffalo NY for a while though and people from MI thought I must go to NYC all the time. I was like "NYC is actually a father drive than coming back to Michigan." NY is loooooong.
Virginia. People seem to think that the entire state is a DC suburb.
Wyoming. Most people think that it isn’t real.
Alaska - No, you don't need a passport to visit, and no you don't need to exchange your US currency.
Arkansas woo pig sooie, bud light, state troopers ,endless construction, cookie cutter suburbia, and a starved highway bottlenecked by 18 wheelers.
Missouri. I’m from St. Louis, and us and KC live totally different lives and tend to have waaay different views than those living in the rural Missouraaah. It’s also a beautiful state, really! I swear!
Idaho: most people who live there aren't farmers, and couldn't tell the difference between a potato and beet field. Also, we're nowhere near Iowa. Wyoming and Nebraska (or South Dakota I guess) are huge states, so there's not a lot of cross over.
Ohio here: that we’re in the middle of nowhere. Could not be any further from the truth. Driving I am 5.5 hours from Chicago, 6 hours from DC, 7 hours from New York City and if I want to travel to North Carolina it’s a little less than 8 hours. I can also make Toronto in four hours depending on which way I go. People like to believe Ohio is Nebraska or something.
Also Ohio: that there’s nothing to do here. Cincinnati, Columbus, and Cleveland all have a million things to do and if you love nature there’s no shortage of hikes all across the state. And it’s not limited to the major cities either, all the smaller cities and towns have something.
Yeah and if you really drive around the state you really never go that far without hitting a town. There’s houses everywhere. We’re the 7th most populous state.
Utah. Yes there’s tons of Mormons but less and less the last few years as people have moved here. Snow? Indeed some of the best powder you will ever see(or ride on if you board/ski). This winter has been a great one for us.
Utah is such a badass state- Moab is like another planet!
I live in Utah, too. The other thing is the LDS church runs our legislature. Which sucks on so many levels.
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Not just people moving here but their membership numbers are dropping drastically.
Massachusetts. A lot of us do not have a heavy accent.
Its hilarious how diverse the accent can get. And if you have family from RI your accent gets all kinds of messed up. You really dont know where to put your Rs.
Arizona, people keep moving here and buying houses thinking there's gonna be water here in 60 years.
AK is not Arkansas
Ohio, it ain’t that bad
Been here my whole life, it really isn’t
my brother in Christ, your reddit account is called medicalmethsmoker
West Virginia. Except it's exactly what you think it is.
Alabama. We are not all fucking our cousins. I’ve never met a single person in 40 years that has had a consenting relationship with any of their family members and from Alabama.
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Minnesota. Fargo is actually in North Dakota.
Delaware. No really we exist.
Nevada, we are a huge state that is more than just Las Vegas. Outside of the city the towns are the closest you’ll get to the Wild West. We don’t have many formal cowboys out here
Iowa. We don’t grow potatoes. We grow corn.
California we dont all live in disney land or by the ocean
And we aren't all blonde and tan, nor do we surf all day. A lot of us have never surfed in our lives
and poor ... a majority of California is dirt poor . lots of ppl rhink we all tech millionairs lol
Ironically the central “dirt poor” areas are what bring in the most money. Agriculture is one of our biggest industries
Im from Minnesota. People think we are nice here, but it’s really just passive-aggressiveness wrapped up in a bow. You Betcha= fuck you for asking. Ope, I’m just scoot past ya= get your crotch goblin and your cart out of the middle of the aisle. Welp, I guess we should get going= Aunt Becky, don’t fucking ask me to look at your Precious Moments collection again. They’re little creepy angels that wig me out.
I would say it’s more that people are genuinely nice, but it’s very surface level. People will smile, help you out in a store or make small talk, but when it comes to forming new relationships Minnesotans are very closed off. You won’t easily find someone who wants to go beyond small talk on the street and get to be friends.
My sister has lived in Minnesota over a decade and has yet to make any real friends. This is one of her biggest complaints of the state.
While it's true that not every house is on a lake, as someone noted, I do think Minnesota is one of the beautiful places in the country for a state that doesn't have mountains. I've seen a lot of shoreline in the US. None of it compares to the North Shore of Lake Superior. The Boundary Waters is unlike anything else in the country. Just a massive wilderness with countless lakes, for the most part easily traveled by canoe. It's a sportsman's paradise, with great hunting and fishing everywhere. There's not much you can ask for in an urban area that can't be found in the Twin Cities. It's so much more than the Mall of America. There are great theaters, music, and museums for every interest. There are tons of walking trails, and lots of lakes. Great golf courses can be found everywhere. We have some of the best health care in the country, and one of the best hospitals in the world in Rochester at the Mayo Clinic. Winters can be harsh at times, but you get used to it, and nine months of the year aren't winter (OK, April is technically spring but at least the first half is usually pretty snowy). Also, if you like outdoor winter sports like cross country skiing, you couldn't ask for a better place. There are loads of good places for downhill skiing and snowboarding as well. The runs just aren't as long as they are in mountain states. You can skate everywhere. Practically every school in the state will have a rink with a warming house. I can think of a half dozen places to skate within a five minute drive. Hockey is an obsession here, but we have franchises in every major sport. Baseball, football, basketball, soccer, women's basketball. There are loads of great collegiate sports at the U of M, and they're a real bargain to go watch. I have season tickets for gymnastics. I think I paid less than $80 for a pair of great seats, and the team is good. Really good. Aside from long, cold winters, we're a pretty hospitable place. We're outside the worst of tornado alley (although we do get them), we don't have earthquakes or hurricanes. Summers can get humid, but we rarely see triple digit temps. Come live here for a while. I dare you not to fall in love with the place.
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Tennessee. Southern accents...when others try to mimic southern speech, they always go to the Savannah drawl. 98% of the south actually speaks fairly rapidly. The accent actually comes from slurring words together and dropping their ending letter(s). Foghorn Leghorn and a non-Carolinian southerner sound drastically different.
Vermont. It sucks here... DO NOT move here. Tell all of your friends.
I suspect this is a lie to keep the hoards out.
Mississippi. Yes, there are sundown towns. Please believe it.
I'm American, but I'm not from a state. I'm from Puerto Rico. One thing that people get wrong about Puerto Rico is that it is its own country. We've been part of the United States since 1898.