If You Could Live Anywhere In The USA, Where Would You Live?

[Leo Gura]

34 minutes ago, fabger said:

Massachusetts

Massachusetts is the crappiest place I ever lived. I cannot understand how people like it there. It's miserable and so expensive.

[Terell Kirby]

New York, NY. Cold but cultured and a melting pot of all different kinds of ppl.

Edited Thursday at 05:01 PM by Terell Kirby

[Leo Gura]

5 minutes ago, integration journey said:

Do you like Oregon or Washington state or is it too cold for you? 

They are nice.

2 minutes ago, UnbornTao said:

I have no idea how I would start making this decision. Visiting a bunch of cities first, perhaps.

Austin sounds like a good place, though.

Austin is great but the traffic is a nightmare.

[ROOBIO]

1 minute ago, Leo Gura said:

They are nice.

Austin is great but the traffic is a nightmare.

Would you ever like to move to South east asia? Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia. I was living there for several months last year. Was incrediable, so cheap and great service, beautiful nature

[Vibes]

Somewhere in Arizona or New Mexico, for nature.

[Mirra]

I like New England, specifically pretty close to Boston with the older architecture, beautiful suburbs, beautiful forests, and it's like an actual part of civilization other than Florida which was a nowhereville (I don't understand how Carl Hiaasen could turn Florida into an ideology basically). Though right there is one of the most expensive places in the country.

Though my favorite place to live was in the Bennington Triangle because of the creepiness aesthetic factor and it's cheap rather than expensive.

I went to school in Bennington VT. Back in the 50's ten people vanished there in the woods. I think two of the corpses reappeared a year or so later and their internal organs had been removed though their bodies showed no signs of decomposition or dissection.

Supposedly there's a flat rock on one of the mountains surrounding the town that depending on who's telling the story was an altar for human sacrifice or causes anyone who steps on it to disappear from this plane of existence.

On the college's campus I saw migrating birds flying in formation reach a certain point over the field in front of the residence halls and scatter in all directions. Also, Native Americans in the area would not make camp there and wouldn't bury their dead there because they thought the land was tainted.

Go for a bike ride in Bennington, VT around dusk. It's the only time I've ever been terrified of a place other than the basement in my old house.

I have a friend who lived in Woosick Falls just across from Bennington but over the border in NY. Her foster father was a trucker in that area and knew all the Bennington Triangle stories. He said he's seen strange shit on the roads in that area during the night and would never go on the mountain even if you paid him. Driving around there is nuts because it's just roads with no lights and looming mountains surrounding you all the time with not a soul around for god knows how far.

[Leo Gura]

15 minutes ago, ROOBIO said:

Would you ever like to move to South east asia? Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia. I was living there for several months last year. Was incrediable, so cheap and great service, beautiful nature

I don't want to live in another country permanently.

[MrMog]

7 minutes ago, Leo Gura said:

I don't want to live in another country permanently.

Why not? The quality of living in Thailand is really good, for example.

[Davino]

I liked Boston

[Mirra]

There's stores in Asia you can't get into if you're a westerner.

Without a guide.

Even Tokyo has them. Some left over bunkers from WWII.

But the most interesting in Thailand and China.

The thing is, we're so judgy and uptight they just don't want the hassle of "stupid americans".

It's a real eye opener if you can visit China with an actual Chinese guide who trusts you.

I was in Beijing, and the Taxi driver was obviously "old school commie".

He was going on about the latest insult from Japan. Over some Island I believe, but it was hard to understand.

My guide translated his words something like:

"If Mao were alive, he'd nuke the Japanese bastards! Even with those shitheads the americans protecting them. Tonight we're all going out with baseball bats, and smash Toyota car windows!"

There was a comocous as he asked them something, they looked horrified, and then everyone turned back to look at me.

The guide said, "Oh no.. She's Swedish, not american!"

All I could do was smile at him and say, "Yaaaa."

[Leo Gura]

6 minutes ago, MrMog said:

Why not? The quality of living in Thailand is really good, for example.

The infrastructure is just not the same.

[integration journey]

27 minutes ago, Vibes said:

Somewhere in Arizona or New Mexico, for nature.

Utah has great national parks too 

[Mirra]

Also if you like Halloween there's Salem, Massachusetts.

They have like 7 Halloweens, the whole week leading up to the 31st is just crazy.

[PurpleTree]

20 minutes ago, Mirra said:

 

It's a real eye opener if you can visit China with an actual Chinese guide who trusts you.

I was in Beijing, and the Taxi driver was obviously "old school commie".

He was going on about the latest insult from Japan. Over some Island I believe, but it was hard to understand.

My guide translated his words something like:

"If Mao were alive, he'd nuke the Japanese bastards! Even with those shitheads the americans protecting them. Tonight we're all going out with baseball bats, and smash Toyota car windows!"

There was a comocous as he asked them something, they looked horrified, and then everyone turned back to look at me.

The guide said, "Oh no.. She's Swedish, not american!"

All I could do was smile at him and say, "Yaaaa."

And that wae a good thing?

Sounds horrible.

[Mirra]

 I just mean that if you move to a foreign country there are weird things like this, cultural differences.

The reason I was there is because my dad is an engineer who sells computer chips to companies in Asia, and he has white hair. So they stereotype him as a "madman" like Albert Einstein or the back to the future guy. Because those are the only white guys with white hair they saw in media.

By the way, in Japan they get a big bucket of Kentucky Fried chicken for their "christmas" meal.

They aren't Christians. In fact, the Zen masters there used to crucify Christians.

But they've picked up some of our most popular holidays.

It's just that they twist them into some kind of pseudo California statement.

I believe on Valentine's day, the office women buy the men chocolate.

But the reason for the Bucket of Kentucky fried chicken on Christmas is surely that Santa Claus and Colonel Sanders look the same to the Japanese.

My dad gets plagued with that in Asia also.

Little kids who never saw a white guy before, look up at him and ask for chicken.

Worse, small dogs bark at him.

[Alex_R]

Miami bc i'm Latino

[r0ckyreed]

4 hours ago, Leeo_SA said:

Was just curious why @r0ckyreed is limiting it to USA. Maybe he wants to move to another place...?

 

I am thinking about moving in 2 years and want to still be a US Citizen and live in America.

Edited Thursday at 07:15 PM by r0ckyreed

[PurpleTree]

1 hour ago, Mirra said:

 I just mean that if you move to a foreign country there are weird things like this, cultural differences.

The reason I was there is because my dad is an engineer who sells computer chips to companies in Asia, and he has white hair. So they stereotype him as a "madman" like Albert Einstein or the back to the future guy. Because those are the only white guys with white hair they saw in media.

By the way, in Japan they get a big bucket of Kentucky Fried chicken for their "christmas" meal.

They aren't Christians. In fact, the Zen masters there used to crucify Christians.

But they've picked up some of our most popular holidays.

It's just that they twist them into some kind of pseudo California statement.

I believe on Valentine's day, the office women buy the men chocolate.

But the reason for the Bucket of Kentucky fried chicken on Christmas is surely that Santa Claus and Colonel Sanders look the same to the Japanese.

My dad gets plagued with that in Asia also.

Little kids who never saw a white guy before, look up at him and ask for chicken.

Worse, small dogs bark at him.

Yea i also been to Asia a bunch.

Stayed in a village and Kolkatta in India.

Stayed in Thailand basically in a jungle when i was 4

etc.

[r0ckyreed]

Seattle was the coolest city I’ve been to. I was there when it wasn’t raining though.

[integration journey]

Los Angeles is so crappy. It has some nice neighborhoods but expensive AF