Snob Test. Where Would You Live?

I would totally live in Blackpool if I had stable work there. Sure it is a bit run down, but it is a beautiful bit of the country with loads more beautiful bits of the country close by. There are plenty of places that almost as impoverished but do not have the surrounding beauty. I would find it much harder to live in a concrete jungle.

Same. Woukd I want to live there. Not really. Would I live there if I had to or job sure.
 
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Like Bird, I didn't quite understand what sort of experiment I'm involved in, so I might be imposing my own shape on the question.

In the scenario, I don't have to and am not allowed to work. So at least the second most significant element of the experience would be having a lot of time on my hands (after being in greater danger than I am presently in my life, which the scenario stresses through its references to gangs and such).

So what I think I'd try to do with my time is volunteer. I have sufficient culinary skills to work in a soup kitchen. I have basic fixer-upper-style skills. I could tutor kids. So I would make contact with the public school and the local parishes in town (Blackpool has four Catholic churches; even Durant has one), and nose about for how my labor could be put to good use. I might have to seek out sources of funding for materials and borrow tools, but old lady who needs a ramp installed? done. People will be suspicious of a do-good interloper, but if I can convince the parish priests of my sincerity, maybe they can set people at ease on that account.

If the idea behind money is that I have pretty much only enough for basic survival, then that's what I'd do. If the budget is sufficient that by scrimping, I can free up some funds for discretionary purchases, one of the first would go to safety--an extra deadbolt on the door. I'm not too worried on that front, b/c presumably I don't possess much worth anyone's stealing. After that, I'd save up to be able to buy a round of drinks at the local pub for whatever lucky bastards were there on the day I pulled the funds together. (I'd go at a time when there were only three or four present.)

Blackpool and Durant each have a public library, so I'd get a borrower's card. Hunker down after dark and read.

I'd pick Blackpool b/c I'm an Anglophile, so whatever touring I was able to do, even if limited to the town itself, would flesh out my knowledge of English history and culture.

You can look for work. The UBI thing was mostly to account for getting work in such places would be hard.

More a test of if the basics are taken care of where would you be willing to live if you had to is the test.

Sure you coukd go digital nomad and relocate somewhere nice but CFC gets to laugh at you.
 
Rural Mississippi is the worst place? :lol:

For a free house and high disposable income? :lol:
 
Rural Mississippi is the worst place? :lol:

For a free house and high disposable income? :lol:
Given the current political situations in the U.S. and Canada, I wouldn't live there even in a hypothetical thought experiment.
 
Holmes County, Ohio, is an interesting county. It is, AFAIK, the most Amish county in Ohio. Horses and buggies are very common up there, as are e-bikes, which are more common among the Amish than among the English (non-Amish).
Given the current political situations in the U.S. and Canada, I wouldn't live there even in a hypothetical thought experiment.
Rural Mississippi is actually fairly diverse politically. Holmes County, Mississippi voted over 80% Democratic in 2024. Many of the Delta counties are Democratic, and many of them are also among the poorest. Generally, the poorer, as well as the more African-American, the more Democratic the county is.

Of course it can swing the other way too. I've been to Hinds County, MS (73% Democratic, urban) and Jeff Davis County, MS (57% Democratic, rural), but also Pontotoc County (84% Republican, suburban/rural) and Lee County (70% Republican, urban) [all stats are 2024 U.S. presidential]. At a state government level, the Republicans have been in charge for a while, but at a local level, it's perhaps more diverse than most places. You won't find a rural Democratic county in Ohio, for example, even if the overall state balance might be closer to 50:50.

Not saying it would be my first choice, the poverty can be quite noticeable in some areas, and it would be hot and humid in the summer (the primary reason I'd prefer somewhere farther north), but you could probably find a neighborhood that you agreed with politically regardless of what your political beliefs or rural/urban preferences were.
 
Holmes County, Ohio, is an interesting county. It is, AFAIK, the most Amish county in Ohio. Horses and buggies are very common up there, as are e-bikes, which are more common among the Amish than among the English (non-Amish).

Rural Mississippi is actually fairly diverse politically. Holmes County, Mississippi voted over 80% Democratic in 2024. Many of the Delta counties are Democratic, and many of them are also among the poorest. Generally, the poorer, as well as the more African-American, the more Democratic the county is.

Of course it can swing the other way too. I've been to Hinds County, MS (73% Democratic, urban) and Jeff Davis County, MS (57% Democratic, rural), but also Pontotoc County (84% Republican, suburban/rural) and Lee County (70% Republican, urban) [all stats are 2024 U.S. presidential]. At a state government level, the Republicans have been in charge for a while, but at a local level, it's perhaps more diverse than most places. You won't find a rural Democratic county in Ohio, for example, even if the overall state balance might be closer to 50:50.

Not saying it would be my first choice, the poverty can be quite noticeable in some areas, and it would be hot and humid in the summer (the primary reason I'd prefer somewhere farther north), but you could probably find a neighborhood that you agreed with politically regardless of what your political beliefs or rural/urban preferences were.
I would happily visit the Grand Canyon. I've always wanted to see it for myself, and once upon a time my dad started making a plan for the two of us to travel around some parts of the U.S. and see the more geologically interesting areas. He especially wanted to show me Yellowstone, as that's where he and my mother went for their honeymoon. Life got in the way, though, and we never went.

But actually living in the U.S.? Thanks, but no. I don't care which state. The answer is no, for a variety of reasons.
 
Holmes County, Ohio, is an interesting county. It is, AFAIK, the most Amish county in Ohio. Horses and buggies are very common up there, as are e-bikes, which are more common among the Amish than among the English (non-Amish).

Rural Mississippi is actually fairly diverse politically. Holmes County, Mississippi voted over 80% Democratic in 2024. Many of the Delta counties are Democratic, and many of them are also among the poorest. Generally, the poorer, as well as the more African-American, the more Democratic the county is.

Of course it can swing the other way too. I've been to Hinds County, MS (73% Democratic, urban) and Jeff Davis County, MS (57% Democratic, rural), but also Pontotoc County (84% Republican, suburban/rural) and Lee County (70% Republican, urban) [all stats are 2024 U.S. presidential]. At a state government level, the Republicans have been in charge for a while, but at a local level, it's perhaps more diverse than most places. You won't find a rural Democratic county in Ohio, for example, even if the overall state balance might be closer to 50:50.

Not saying it would be my first choice, the poverty can be quite noticeable in some areas, and it would be hot and humid in the summer (the primary reason I'd prefer somewhere farther north), but you could probably find a neighborhood that you agreed with politically regardless of what your political beliefs or rural/urban preferences were.
I bet they have chiggers there! That would be a no go flag for me. Been there done that in NC.
 
So I have to live poor but not starve (since I have UBI), and not work, so I need to pick a poor place where I don't have to worry about that (?).

I'm trying to imagine a place that's beautiful but also disgusting. Maybe the leeward side of some Carribean island: hang out in some pirate's shack but then head on over to the tourist spots and party down!
 
Blackpool is the one I'd prefer climate-wise of the three in the OP. I am very much a cold-weather person.
 
I definitely wouldn't want to live in Blackpool. It's in the middle of nothing, the weather likely is dire there and it's a small town (around 140.000 according to google).
 
I definitely wouldn't want to live in Blackpool. It's in the middle of nothing, the weather likely is dire there and it's a small town (around 140.000 according to google).

Ruatoria 750-900, Holmes county 2200 or smaller;).

Synobuns winning so far, you might be losing. I think most people here have picked Blackpool assuming you had to move.
 
So I have to live poor but not starve (since I have UBI), and not work, so I need to pick a poor place where I don't have to worry about that (?).

I'm trying to imagine a place that's beautiful but also disgusting. Maybe the leeward side of some Carribean island: hang out in some pirate's shack but then head on over to the tourist spots and party down!

Well that kind of defeats the point of the thread. Snob Test right in the title.

Yes you can do that but live in a cheap CoL country especially a tropical one lol.
 
$400/week is fine here, yes. Including if you are renting (well unless the rent is half that, which it can be if you try).
There are a lot of terrible areas in Greece. And also a few good ones. From my trips with the train, to Athens and back, from the window Amfissa and Larissa looked horrible.
 
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