elizabethsmum

Hi all,

We are hoping to be moving to North Carolina in July, my husband lived there as a child but I've never been, what is your best and worse thing about the States you live??

ian-mstm

In Kentucky, you don't need a front license plate on your car which makes the Mustang look very nice! On the other hand, I live in a dry county!

Ian

Pulaski

Best, the weather doesn't try to kill me, doesn't destroy my property, and rarely makes driving difficult, .... worst? ..... A strange obession with basketball.

dc koop

Best thing is I live in California and not North Carolina worst thing is I cant afford 9 million dollar ocean front home in Malibu

Pulaski

At last you have posted something I agree with!

tom169

I've lived in NC for the past 4 or so months... So far the best thing apart from being with my wife is the good food and common courtesy expressed.

dc koop

I overlooked the very worst thing about California. Some of it's money will end up funding N.C a state which helped put that half crazy Schmuck in the White House

dc koop

Yes we suffer from he same thing here in California, good food and friendly courteous people also

Pulaski

So you think Donald Trump is "half crazy"? It sounds like you're warming up to him.

SultanOfSwing

Illinois. I like the food. Don't like the 55mph interstate speed limits in the Chicago area. 70 or GTFO.

It's also very flat and boring, and it snows. That's shite too.

Bob

MA...it's on the coast...it's on the coast.

elizabethsmum

Wow I just read the title I put! I promise I am not 12 and can read and write LOL.

Rete

I am a USC but I moved to the State of Mississippi in June of 2016 to be with my husband in the home we purchased as a retirement home. I am originally from the State of New York.

Mississippi is one of the most bigoted and racial areas I have ever been to in my 68 years. There is no diversity here, no culture, and no decent shopping.

Lower New York State is surrounded with areas of beauty, i.e. woodlands, ocean, rivers and lakes for relaxation and exploration, museums of quality, theater, music, etc.

I utterly dislike Mississippi and if hubby dies before me, I will be out of here as soon as he is cremated, the house packed up and listed with a real estate agent. I will return to the NE, preferably to a town north of New York City or in the Finger Lakes region of the State.

Hiro11

Northern Illinois upsides:
The people are generally friendly, smart, interesting, humble and unpretentious. The open faced woman with blonde bangs and an accent as flat at the Kansas plains? Yeah, she has a law degree from Yale and spent ten years in Vienna. You should talk to her.
Chicago is a cosmopolitan city. Good restaurants, good culture, people from everywhere.
Brats and good beer. Seriously, the beer in Chicago is diverse and excellent.
If you can afford to live in a pricey town, you get really good schools for the kids. I've been impressed.
It's not absurdly expensive compared to, say, San Francisco.
The public facilities are nice in upscale towns. The public pools are immaculately maintained waterparks. The schools are all brand new. The library is silent, beautiful and chock full of goodies.

Northern Illinois downsides:
If you take a walk, they'll tax your feet. Seriously, taxes here suck, and it's all being stolen.
It's a physically ugly part of the USA. I moved here from New England. New England is beautiful. Illinois? Not so much.
When you leave Chicagoland, it turns out that it's extremely Midwestern around here (may be an upside for some). Corn is heavily featured.
The cycling isn't great. Hope you like flat.
Suburban monoculture is a real thing. I submit that Naperville is Stepford incarnate.
Parts of the city have the violence levels of Cartegena circa 1986, no jobs, horrible schools, no good food and harsh policing. As this doesn't affect anyone who doesn't actually live there few people outside care. It sucks to be poor in Illinois. This pisses me off.

Pulaski

There's plenty of "diversity" in MS, .... there's no integration.