Serious question; do people actually live in Ohio by choice?
I always figured it had a steady population coz people don't wanna trigger their ankle monitors..
Serious question; do people actually live in Ohio by choice?
I always figured it had a steady population coz people don't wanna trigger their ankle monitors..
It's because the social benefits money isn't enough to rent in other cities
consumed by avarice
Turncoat moved there by choice.
But he's a painslut lol
what do u think of Kentucky xena?
Serious question; do people actually live in Ohio by choice?
I always figured it had a steady population coz people don't wanna trigger their ankle monitors..
It's because the social benefits money isn't enough to rent in other cities
I'll grant that Ohio is cheap, but there's definitely other affordable places to rent that are far less miserable
It's a bit rednecky, but ppl were nice enough when I was there.
It's flat and boring topographically, tho.
I didn't stay very long. I was on my way to somewhere else.
what are ur 10 favourite US states?
Listing my 10 favourites would be a bit premature... there are a few that I haven't seen. And a few, like Kentucky that I drove through on my way to somewhere else and didn't stay in long enough to form a strong opinion about.
But here goes nothing :D
The mountain states are beautiful to look at. So Washington, Oregon and Northern Cali made for beautiful travelling. I hated Cali, tho. She was like a pampered ambitious bitch with no soul. The people were horrid. I'll never go back there if I can help it. Idk about the others. Apparently, Oregon was voted one of the best places on the continent to live (in 2018 I think?) But I was only there for a few days.
Loved loved loved Colorado. I see why Stephen King made that the backdrop for the "good guys" of his apocalypse in The Stand. Picturesque mountain towns always make me feel closer to Divinity/Eternity. That kind of beauty just leaves me godsmacked and awestruck. The people were interesting, as well. The ones I met had a different kind of way about them, like they didn't share the usual Murrican sensibilities.
Utah was gorgeous, too.
I didn't spend much time in the desert states (except for Nevada which I didn't care for, either.) Deserts are ugly in the winter lol. Tho I did find it cute that some town council decided that a weird plastic wannabe tree with a bunch of dangling billiard balls where its leaves should be would look nicer than thousands of acres of wet sand :D
The midwest farm states were meh.
Minneapolis was buried under a fucking blizzard, so that was a no go as well. People seemed strangely distracted, like they didn't want to talk to me. But if some goofy foreign chick came up to me in a shopping mall asking all kinds of touristy questions, I might brush her off too lol
I had fun in Texas. It was nowhere near as awful as I thought it would be after watching the Ewings on tv ;D I went to Gilley's with another goofy Canadian in a shiny red western shirt and 10 gallon hat, who tried to teach me to two step. That was a hilarious disaster. I'm glad we were 2 of only 3 people in the place.
(Yeah, the place was massive. It was Mickey Gilley's original intention to pack the place with hundreds of ppl every night. But we were so late to the party that the crowds of the early 80s were just a fond memory , and the reality was near bankruptcy from believing that the place would attract enough drunken fans to pay for itself.)
The other guy looked like he was drunk off his ass, so I don't think he noticed that I have 2 left feet :D The place was shut down a few months later.
I liked Louisiana. I saw my first gator there. Unfortunately, it was roadkill :( The second one was alive, tho :D
I spent the most time in Tennessee and Georgia. I picked up a sweet young fiddle player near Dollywood in Pigeon Forge. He played with the Smokey Mountain Jubilee (one of the more upscale and less folksey dinner and a show type of places in the area.) And he was fucking GOOD. I put $60 down on a used Fender for him, and he entered a live mic contest at a local bar to pay the rest. He played "Devil Went Down to Georgia" on his fiddle and I thought I was IN LOVE lol. So that won him $200 :D I stayed with him for over a month bc THE MUSIC. He was only on the cute side of average, adorkable in a Tobey Maguire sort of way. But his musical proficiency made him TOTALLY HOT :D We had some awesome sex in that time :D
I went back a few years later and found my Bobby McGee had got himself a wife *le sigh* I wish him well. With talent like that, I have no doubt that he's never been out of work or hungry. I hope he's happy, too.
I met other people up in those mountains, in the trailers and little houses on the winding roads. The place looked like the sort of thing that Hollywood writers judge unfairly to write disturbing movies like Winter's Bone. But I enjoyed my visit there. Those people had a sort of wisdom, a pragmatism that comes from doing everything homegrown. Dolly Parton is a great figurehead for the region. She really does embody the overall value system and worldview that people in rural parts of the state share.
Not so sure about Knoxville or Nashville or any of the other big cities. They all kinda flew by in a blur of RLLY BIG HAIR and White Rain smells lol
And Gorgeous Georgia <3 That old sweet song <3 Sultry breezes and peaches and those crazy trees where Santa hangs his beard in the wintertime.
(Don't you dare talk to me about Strange Fruit. Luckily, I didn't see any of that.)
I met a lovely family there who took me in for a few weeks. I did some babysitting in exchange for room and board. Their kids were SO adorable. Idk why I thought that the accent only happened in the movies, or only with adults once I started to get used to the way people talk in the south. Every time I met somebody new, the southern drawl amazed me all over again. The kids were the most amazing.
Ikr. Idk why it threw me that little kids have southern accents in the south lol But they sound so cute when they say their little "y'all"'s.
Idk why... The Southern hospitality, or just the general way those people had about them... I really loved the people in Georgia. (And all the peach flavoured EVERYTHING :D)
I always meant to go back to Florida, too. Loved the little Welcome Centre in Tallahassee with the free orange juice :D It was WARM. In February. And everybody was so happy and chatty.
So the last three are probably my favourites. I also find parts of Northern MI pleasant, but possibly only bc I grew up nearby and spent enough time to get to know the state.
So Maine and MI are probably around the 7th, 8th 9th or 10th spots.
I'd put CO around 4th place and Louisiana 5th?
I'd have to think awhile about the other 3 states to make a complete list of 10. It has been 25 and 30 years since I was in the US for longer than a few hours. And 15 years since I was in the US at all.
lol dumb dumb's hitting me with a circular "why."
My favourite troll bait :D
1) I answered bc Trouble asked.
2) Kentucky is rednecky bc it's in the Southern US. See: American Civil War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War
3) Idk why ppl in Kentucky were so nice. Maybe bc I'm so charming? xP
4) Apparently all of Kentucky is not flat. Pretty sure I was just passing through this part:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatwoods,_Kentucky
But I was sleeping and somebody else was driving, so I missed most of Kentucky. I only got out of the truck to eat.
5) Idk why she asked me what my 10 favourite US states are.
Ask her :D