Which U.S. state would you rather live in?

[WillJ]

I know it's a tough choice, so here's some info that might help:

Pros for living in North Dakota:

• no need for air conditioning
• location of a 50-foot-high pyramid of empty oil cans, the highest oil can structure in the world
• just a short walk from Canada
• if you're boring by Californian standards, you're Fun Central by North Dakotan standards
• agricultural subsidies from the federal government
• automatic acceptance into Ivy League schools seeking geographic diversity
• clean air
• honest people with strong moral fabric
• home of the nation's only synthetic natural gas producer
• lack of minorities inflates property values
• cool nickname: the "Roughrider State"

Pros for living in Mississippi:

• no need for central heating
• #1 in illiteracy
• location of world's largest cactus plantation
• double consonants in the state's name are constant source of joy
• faithful populace always full of admirable hope for a chance to "rise again"
• home of the nation's largest Bible-binding plant
• site of future new urbanist development
• Mississippi State University has world-renowed program in veterinary medicine
• only state with Confederate flag still in its state flag
• bordered by both Alabama and Arkansas
• birthplace of the concept of selling pairs of shoes in boxes

 

[bhsup]

North Dakota. I think my beloved Missouri is too hot and humid from May through mid-September. I'd just die in Mississippi.

 

[Godwynn]

Where's the "Rather not live" option?

 

[Narz]

Close call actually.

I voted Mississippi but now I'm having second thoughts. I have a good friend from NYC who moved to North Dakota.

I think I'll have to go with Mississippi though simply because North Dakota winters are brutal (I've heard) and both my girlfriend and I hate the cold.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

I vote for Maryland, cause it pwns every other state!

 

[skadistic]

ND much less people cramping the place up.

 

[SuperBeaverInc.]

North Dakota, as then I could just cross the border back into Canada.

 

[CaptainF]

Mississippi.

Simply because the women are probably hotter.

 

[WillJ]

Mississippi.

Simply because the women are probably hotter.

This is true. The grass is green and the girls are pretty.

 

[Fugitive Sisyphus]

Mississippi: The weather and the babes.

 

[puglover]

I can't spell Mississippi without looking!

I'd rather live in North Dakota. It probably has nicer scenery (and untouched by hurricanes)

 

[Tycoon101]

I dislike Mississippi, so I have no qualms about choosing North Dakota.

 

[ummmm........]

Mississippi's closer to Alabama, so that's my pick . . .

 

[Bootstoots]

I'd rather live in North Dakota. It probably has nicer scenery (and untouched by hurricanes)

Nicer scenery? There's nothing there! Still, I went with North Dakota, primarily because I prefer cold to heat and humidity.

 

[ummmm........]

Humidity does both suck and blow. I'll not deny it.

I'm pretty much permanently dehydrated during the summer months . . .

 

[Babbler]

Pros for living in North Dakota:

• just a short walk from Canada

So? It touches Manitoba and Saskatchewan.

I consider that a minus.

 

[DBear]

North Dakota. I'll take cold over hot and humid anytime.

 

[general_kill]

Um, North Korea?

I'd prolly go with missi because it is closer to better things. ND just feels so isolated from everything. It's like its a whole other world.

Besides, I like sweating at the park with a gallon of water. If I live in Missi, I'll probably never grow fat. In ND on the other hand... I can just imagine my love handles growing into love couches (bad analogy/metaphor/whatever, but you get the pictures).

 

[The Yankee]

[*]no need for air conditioning

Are you kidding? The upper Great Plains region can get VERY hot in the summer. And VERY cold in the winter.

Still, probably North Dakota. No threat of hurricanes (yet) and a quick trip to Canada for cheaper beer. Even though I'd rather have "neither."

 

[ummmm........]

Yes, and you do actually need central heat during Mississippi's two week winter season. I think he was generalizing for comic effect . . .