Jensmate

Best: Vermont. Why? No bill billboards littering the sides of its interstates, visually stunning most of the year, best farmers markets in the nation and the cheese........ !

Worst: Vermont.....mud season.

ironporer

I remember when I lived in the TX hillcountry, an old salty Texan told me that there are only 3 kinds of people in the country:

1- Texans
2- Damn Yankees
3- GD Okies
He then hacked up a lugie and spat...indicating his opinion of Okies.

ironporer

Drove thu once, all I remember was that the only thing on the radio (all I had was AM) on Friday night was HS Football...and God. 50 f**ing stations of God. Every flavor of God you could imagine.
Even Birmingham don't got that much God.

Leslie

They're horrible people and should be drowned at birth.

cindyabs

winter ain't exactly for sissies there either.

rivit

Yes, living in New Hampshire we share the same things, how about spring when the snow melts and everything turns to mud, it even has it's own season. And lets not forget about the Horse Fly, named not because they look like a horse but bite like one.
Then there's the tourists, they come up here from all the big cities where people really want to live to vacation in the country, creating big backups on our little roads and it's a fight for survival if you go into your local Hannafords.

Nope, i would'nt want to live anywhere else.

cindyabs

SagenOnion

I have to disagree. I lived in Southern California for 20 years then moved to Maine. Never looked back.

Bob

If you didn't have to work and weren't to old to worry about shovelling snow, mid coastal Maine would be a nice spot to live...especially during spring/autumn.

Poppy girl

Bollocks Northern Cali is lovely, I was driving back from San Jose today and thinking how beautiful and green the place looked.


I have visited alot of the states and for me it would have to be Virginia, yes opposite to Cali but there is something about it that I love.

Lived in Illinois hell hole hated the place never agian.
Just not a lover of the mid-west sorry folks.

SagenOnion

Its beautiful and green right now......give it a couple of months and it will be back to mottled sand colour with shades of brown


How are you darling?

Poppy girl

Very well thanks sweetie life is real good at the moment, makes a change waiting for the sh@t to happen as it always does sooner or later lol.

SagenOnion

2 can play at that game

Poppy girl

You're a Sh@t LOL

Steerpike

I have to agree, Northern California is simply the best place to live. I've visited around 25 states at this point and always think 'could I live here?' - and the answer is always no. People have misconceptions about CA, but the reality is, it's full of people who are interesting and who work hard; there's plenty of places to eat great food, the weather is unbeatable and there is plenty of work.

You can drive to the coast for year-round mild weather and greenery; head inland for warmer and drier climes; and head further inland for mountains. The warm weather comes with no humidity - it's the humidity that rules out the entire eastern and central part of the country for me. We have the tallest mountain in the contiguous 48 states (Mt. Whitney at 14,000+feet; the lowest point (death vallley); the hottest point (Death Valley) and often one of the coldest (Truckee in the Sierras). The tallest trees (Redwoods up in the Redwood forests), the trees with greatest mass (Sequoias, in Sequoia National Park). We have Yosemite National Park.

I have to admit, though - Utah has the best National Parks with Zion and Bryce being unbelievable.

Biggest problem with CA is that it is expensive. No getting around that one ... definitely a strike against it but if you came here a while ago like I did, it's not such a big problem.

I came to the states 29 years ago on vacation and traveled across the country by greyhound (CA->NY !) as a poor student. I fell in love with San Francisco back then and still love the Bay Area today.