The Last Conformist
Irresistibly Attractive
Stereotyping! In Scandinavia, everybody is mad, and very cold.
You're forgetting the depression.
Tell us about the states
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You're forgetting the depression.
Supposedly it has no sales tax, and New Jerseyans go there to shop. Supposedly.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
1/2 Redneck? I don't see that many Rednecks down here (were the exception to the South
). I'd say were Part-Hispanic/Part-Snowbird.
Chandrasekhar
Determined
Washington State? Rainy on one side, too effing dry to survive on the other. Infested with hippies. Bad traffic.
I suppose it has nice scenery, at least.
I suppose it has nice scenery, at least.
Miles Teg
Nuclear Powered Mentat
1/2 Redneck? I don't see that many Rednecks down here (were the exception to the South
Most of the rednecks hang around the panhandle. Namely where I live.
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Fight Club is set in Delaware. DuPont is in Wilmington as well -- they hired my grandfather and that's how my family ended up in the States.
Nate128
Bow to your king.
Rhode Island is the epitome of insular (pun somewhat intended). No one tends to think beyond state limits; a drive from Providence to Newport, no more than an hour, is considered excruciatingly long. Additionally the op-ed section in the local paper is completely provincial, shying away from national or even inter-regional issues.
It is also where bureaucracy rules over all. The state's government is highly inefficient and corrupt, as evidenced by the last 30 years.
Providence, who's population has plummeted by over 80,000 since its peak in 1940 is experiencing a resurgence. Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, despite his gangster friends and *ahem* questionable means did manage to get the city back on track.
But I live there, so that makes it infinitely more palatable.
It is also where bureaucracy rules over all. The state's government is highly inefficient and corrupt, as evidenced by the last 30 years.
Providence, who's population has plummeted by over 80,000 since its peak in 1940 is experiencing a resurgence. Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci, despite his gangster friends and *ahem* questionable means did manage to get the city back on track.
But I live there, so that makes it infinitely more palatable.
cthom
3,011,451,295
my sister lives in illinois. is it a nice town? does it have stuff like electricity? she won't say.. :
If she lives in a log cabin near Starved Rock I'll say no.my sister lives in illinois. is it a nice town? does it have stuff like electricity? she won't say.. :
Where does she live in Illinois?
sonorakitch
Overseas hunter
Arizona. Sunshine, heat, cold, rain, and everything in between. There is abundant diversity throughout, with cactus, canyons, pines, and lakes. Arizona is a great place for outdoor enthusiasts. Germans love Arizona. The cowboy culture is still alive in the rural parts, and the fast growing urban centers (Phoenix is the fastest growing city in the country) have separated from this western culture, instead favoring golf, spas, and fast cars. Politically a bit different than the rest of the country...a bit difficult to always pick the winners here. Generally Republican, Arizona has a libertarian heritage that produced Barry Goldwater and Carl Hayden. Three of the past 10 Supreme Court Justices hail from here. Astoundingly beautiful. Negatives? Well, hotter than hell in the southern half for 5 months a year. The 30,000 people moving to Phoenix every year is beginning to take a toll on the traffic. On the front lines of our homegrown invasion. Too close to California...
~Chris
~Chris
Okay, the Columbus Zoo is trash, and everybody here knows it. The Cleveland Zoo is much nicer, but lets be honest...there is no point in going to an Ohio Zoo. Cedar Point is amazing though, and everybody should go.
Columbus, by and large, is pretty nice I think, with the exception of the ghetto parts around Ohio State (one of the largest universities in the country. The school is SEVERAL times larger than my hometown). Cleveland is right up there with Detroit and DC though as butts of jokes.
I think the worst part of the state is SouthEast ohio, by Kentucky and WV. I swear, its like the end of the world. Every sterotype you've heard about applicaican people is true. Even the incest. Seriously.
From what I understand, Polygamists are isloated in a few towns in the southern-most part of the state, next to Arizona (the largest, oddly enough, is named Colorado City). I was told that the reason many legal authorities are hesitant to go in and bust everybody is because they're unclear as to who's juristiction (Arizona, or Utah), it is. Plus, its really messy, and hard to find evidence.
The Mormon church though, has a pretty hardline stand. If you have more than one wife, you are kicked out, no ifs, ands, or buts. Polygamy is not even a discussion topic anymore...that was over 100 years ago.
Northern Virginia - too distinctly different to be categorized with Virginia. Lots of suburban shopping malls stretched about major roads. Lots of open fields though for sports. Good amount of nature. But, at the same time, lots of cars.
Washington State is wired. I would guess there are more washingtonians per capita that are internet saavy than any other state.
Washington state is green too, both physically and in attitude. Camping, hiking, kayaking, and biking are common past times
Washington State is divided though. Western washington is green, wet, liberal, chock full of lesbians and stoners. Eastern Washington is flat, dry, not so green or forested, and comparatively conservative.
In downtown Seattle, there are literally a few Starbucks per city block. Literally, some will be in shops off the sidewalks, and every skyscraper has one inside it's lobby area. I would guess there are over 100 Starbucks in 20 blocks of downtown Seattle.
The country is beautiful, the people tend to be a bit clique-ish, and washignton probably has one of the highest rates of crazy colored hair or tattoos or peircings or combination of any state. It boasts companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Starbucks. Older companies include Boeing and Paccar (maker of Kentworth and Peterbuilt long haul trucks).
Washington state is green too, both physically and in attitude. Camping, hiking, kayaking, and biking are common past times
Washington State is divided though. Western washington is green, wet, liberal, chock full of lesbians and stoners. Eastern Washington is flat, dry, not so green or forested, and comparatively conservative.
In downtown Seattle, there are literally a few Starbucks per city block. Literally, some will be in shops off the sidewalks, and every skyscraper has one inside it's lobby area. I would guess there are over 100 Starbucks in 20 blocks of downtown Seattle.
The country is beautiful, the people tend to be a bit clique-ish, and washignton probably has one of the highest rates of crazy colored hair or tattoos or peircings or combination of any state. It boasts companies such as Microsoft, Amazon.com, and Starbucks. Older companies include Boeing and Paccar (maker of Kentworth and Peterbuilt long haul trucks).
Mr. Dictator
A Chain-Smoking Fox
i've considered moving to either portland or seattle in a few years.
how hard would this be?
how hard would this be?
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
Zarn
Le Républicain Catholique
No Canton (among other things)? Ohio has a bit of a football presence. Even if many outside the US and Canada don't like football, it is still a major part of American culture.
Anyway: New Jersey (where I live) is a lot of houses, roads, and people per square mile. It is very densely populated, because it is between NY and Philly. It is the home of Atlantic City, the location of gambling addicts on the East coast. New Jersey is usually divided in two parts (North and South Jersey) for reasons only a New Jerseyan could explain. Where it is divided is often debated. NJ is the home of one of the worst crime cities in the nation. That is Camden, but not all of it is bad, as it is doing a bit better in some places.
New York (where I was born) is split up in to 3 parts (from a Long Islander perspective). There is the great Long Island, then NYC, and finally upstate. NYC and Long Island are places often wrongfully accused of being rude and arrogant.
Spoiler :
The Columbus Zoo is pretty nice. It has a ton of different animals. One of the only ones to have manatees I think. The Cleveland Zoo seemed good (though I havnt been there in 8 years). The Columbus Zoo will be great after it's expansion plans though (it will be like twice the size of the Cleveland Zoo). I definatly never heard anyone call the Columbus zoo trash. Its easily the best thing to do if your stuck in Columbus for a few days...Now if you are thinking of trashy, Wyandote Lake next door to the zoo thats a different story.
I probably shouldnt have forgot about Canton-Massilon and Football. I also left out our horrible former governor though (Bob Taft (Great-Grandson to William Howard Taft) was rated worst governor in the United States before the last election..he had under a 30% approval rating at one point.) I also had the privilage of meeting this guy several times...
Quasar1011
King of Sylvania
1. Pennsylvania, the state of my birth. 
Except for the very SE and NW, it is very hilly. Lots of rivers- which tend to mean lots of floods. Very picturesque because of the terrain. Lots of tunnels too. Pittsburgh is a city of more than 200 bridges; as it is situated where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join to form the Ohio River. In my lifetime, the Pittsburgh sports teams have won 10 major championships: 5 for the Steelers (football), 3 for the Pirates (baseball) and 2 for the Penguins (ice hockey). Philadelphia is a major port on the Delaware River, and is historic too. Gettysburg National Battlefield is the site of perhaps the turning point of the American Civil War. Pennsylvania is rich in coal, though that industry has declined in the past 40 years. Taxes are high, and roads aren't too good. A lot of my cousins there seem obsessed with the lottery. 
2. Alabama, the state where my dad retired. Typically southern, racially mostly black or white. Not too many Asians or Hispanics, though their numbers are increasing. Contrary to what a previous poster said, Alabama is not all flat; in the northeast it is very hilly, being the southern end of the Appalachian mountains. Because of this, any time it snows, the state shuts down. It lacks enough snowplows to clear the roads quickly, because snow is uncommon. Tornadoes are common each spring, and the south gets an occasional hurricane. Mosquitos will eat you alive, and carry diseases. Lots of spiders and snakes too. One reason is that Alabama is heavily forested, and lumber is a top industry.
3. California, the state I live in now. Multi-cultural. As a white guy, I'm a minority. Many places conduct business in Spanish here, in southern California. This state is a dichotomy. 36 million people crowd 3 or 4 major metroplitan areas. The rest is mountains, deserts, and forests. Agriculture and aerospace are the top 2 industries. Taxes are high, petrol/gasoline is high, houses are outrageously priced- heck, this place is just expensive! Wages are high though too. 
Lots of good looking women here, and most of them are in shape. There are fewer obese people in this state than anywhere else I've seen. The weather is great here, but the smog can get bad. Better mass transit here than many places back east, but still not as good as in Europe.
Except for the very SE and NW, it is very hilly. Lots of rivers- which tend to mean lots of floods. Very picturesque because of the terrain. Lots of tunnels too. Pittsburgh is a city of more than 200 bridges; as it is situated where the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers join to form the Ohio River. In my lifetime, the Pittsburgh sports teams have won 10 major championships: 5 for the Steelers (football), 3 for the Pirates (baseball) and 2 for the Penguins (ice hockey). Philadelphia is a major port on the Delaware River, and is historic too. Gettysburg National Battlefield is the site of perhaps the turning point of the American Civil War. Pennsylvania is rich in coal, though that industry has declined in the past 40 years. Taxes are high, and roads aren't too good. A lot of my cousins there seem obsessed with the lottery. 2. Alabama, the state where my dad retired. Typically southern, racially mostly black or white. Not too many Asians or Hispanics, though their numbers are increasing. Contrary to what a previous poster said, Alabama is not all flat; in the northeast it is very hilly, being the southern end of the Appalachian mountains. Because of this, any time it snows, the state shuts down. It lacks enough snowplows to clear the roads quickly, because snow is uncommon. Tornadoes are common each spring, and the south gets an occasional hurricane. Mosquitos will eat you alive, and carry diseases. Lots of spiders and snakes too. One reason is that Alabama is heavily forested, and lumber is a top industry.
3. California, the state I live in now. Multi-cultural. As a white guy, I'm a minority. Many places conduct business in Spanish here, in southern California. This state is a dichotomy. 36 million people crowd 3 or 4 major metroplitan areas. The rest is mountains, deserts, and forests. Agriculture and aerospace are the top 2 industries. Taxes are high, petrol/gasoline is high, houses are outrageously priced- heck, this place is just expensive!
Wages are high though too. Lots of good looking women here, and most of them are in shape. There are fewer obese people in this state than anywhere else I've seen. The weather is great here, but the smog can get bad. Better mass transit here than many places back east, but still not as good as in Europe.They both stink. I dunno, maybe it doesn't seem so special to me, because I live around Columbus. I've never heard anybody mention it as one of the nation's best zoos or anything though. The place feels like its been under construction my entire life.
Zarn is right, football is HUGE in Ohio. Ohio State football (American College) is a religion...its bigger than God, and around here, thats saying something. Ohio has two professional football teams with rabid fan bases (although neither of them are really any good, and havent been any good for at least 15 years)
High School, or Prep football, might be the biggest though. Its not uncommon for a town of a few thousand, with a school thats falling apart, have a state of the art football stadium that seats more than the town population, and have it be totally packed on fridays. I'll try to get a few pictures of some stadiums for you.
Did anybody ever read/see Friday Night Lights? That could be about most Ohio towns too.
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