What do you like about your state?

[SarahB]

[WindRavenX]

1. gays can marry

And no one cards me in Boston :7

[RevolutionaryActs]

3. Damn, you crazy libruls!

:crazy:

[WindRavenX]

8. yupper

And the funny thing is....MA hasn't sunk into a sea of fire NOR have I "turned" gay- in fact, nothing bad happened when our fellow citizens could finally marry.

[SarahB]

2. Connecticut

I always like it because it's blue. Today, I like it because I can always buy prepared Jamaican beef patties in the grocery store.

[NewJeffCT]

30. Many reasons for Connecticut

1) It's very close to both New York City and Boston.
2) We have 4 distinct seaons.
3) Except for governors, we're a pretty blue state.
4) good public school systems overall.
5) within 2-3 hours of a ton of good universities - MIT, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, etc.
6) You have a choice of being a Red Sox or Yankee fan.
7) Husky hoops.

[SarahB]

43. Well, yes...

Those are the really good reasons. Being a non-sports person, it gets really annoying with all the basketball stuff, but my daughter plays it (she beats the boys her age too :7), so it's most definitely a good place for that considering her needs.

I made a longer list awhile back about the good things in this area (hey, I just searched the archives because, well, I actually can now):

1. It's an hour and a half from Boston.
2. It's an hour and a half to New York.
3. Many (if not most) of the nation's best universities are within a 100 mile radius.
4. Real estate prices aren't exorbitant.
5. Plenty of cultural activities if you seek them out.
6. Lots of areas with open space. Eastern Connecticut anyway is largely unspoiled by highways, development, etc. (I'm sort of on the line of eastern and central CT).
7. 40 miles from beaches and rarely do hurricanes that reach Long Island Sound cause much more than rain inland.
8. Rarely do we have problems from tornados, earthquakes, or volcanos.
9. It's a solid blue state (we just ignore Lieberman now).
10. Multitudes of refined babes.

[Nye Bevan]

58. "a choice of being a Red Sox or Yankee fan"......

They are not the only options!

[NYC Liberal]

4. It's uber-Liberalness.

:hippie:

[Longgrain]

5. It's Massachusetts.

Home of the Craddle of Liberty, center for the Flowering of New England, and the home of the Kennedy's.

[carolinayellowdog]

6. Triraciality

NC seems to have a high awareness of the interconnections among white, black and Native Americans. That's important to me as a descendant of all three.

[rustydog]

7. beautiful whine country....Dino Rossi lost !

Actually, Mt. Rainier, Okanogan country, Puget Sound, San Juan Islands extremely beautiful, Central Washington sucks though.

[RevolutionaryActs]

11. Dino lost, Dino lost. *dances around*

Still makes me happy! :D

[roguevalley]

9. its beauty and its odd mix of prehistoric and futuristic: Alaska

[Nite Owl]

10. Well, where to begin

It's New York

I love the variety. The people, all kinds, all colors. The Big Apple and the Adirondaks, Niagra Falls and the ocean.

[ewagner]

12. Wisconsin

We're still blue and there are lots of good, old fashioned Fighting Bob Progressives around.....

School system is great......

The city I live in is the best place in the world to have a heart attack in.........20,000 population but 600 of those are medical docs or PhDs........

[driver8]

60. Where in Wisconsin??

My wife is from Osh Kosh -- her dad was a professor at University of Wisconsin at Osh Kosh.

I partied with some girls from Madison while on Spring Break one year...those girls can party!!

[ewagner]

65. hehehehe

I hear that UW Madison gives scholarships for partying!!! :evilgrin:

[BeatleBoot]

13. Anywhere you go, you are no farther than 10 miles from a lake...

Michigan.

The State motto:

"If you seek a pleasant penninsula, look about you."




on edit: spelling

[Beaverhausen]

14. It's Blue and We have the best Senator- Boxer

[driver8]

59. Amen to that!!

Also, the weather in southern California is awesome.

[GreenPartyVoter]

15. It's Maine. What's not to like.. except the very long winter and mud

season?

[qnr]

29. Some of us happen to like those too. n/t

[GreenPartyVoter]

42. I like them better when they are shorter, but then the summers

would be too hot. Can't win. :)

[qnr]

47. heheh

I love the cold myself. We used to make patrols in the Caribbean, and I'd have to hide in Radio Central where the air conditioning was always on.

[MuseRider]

16. It is beautiful.

I know it is a fly over Red state and nobody thinks it is anything but flat and horrible. Big sky, interesting weather, rolling hills in Eastern Kansas that are simply beautiful, especially in spring after the burn. Lots of wildlife, wildflowers. The people are friendly, you will get a sore arm driving in the country around here because everyone waves. Strong, independent types of people who are infinitely interesting. I love it here, I just wish I did not feel quite so alone politically. I will not be leaving here, it is perfect in every other way.

Edit I AM speaking of Kansas

[ZombieNixon]

17. I live here and I'm great!

:evilgrin:

[SOteric]

18. It's green. I mean the colour green. There's even a rain forest.

And it has some of these:

[Amaya]

19. I'll get back to you on that....

[Bouncy Ball]

20. The Hill Country in April

when all you can see are cacti and bluebonnets.

The Tex-Mex food.

Black's BBQ in Lockhart.

The South By Southwest Music Festival in Austin. Austin City Limits. Willie Nelson. Barbara Jordan. Ann Richards. Jim Hightower.

Greasy sausage and saltines.

The German heritage--Fredricksburg. San Marcos. New Braunfels.

The Czech heritage.

Big Bend National Park. The sand dunes in West Texas. The piney forests and twangy drawl of East Texas. Caddo Lake. Jefferson, Texas.

The dinosaur footprints in Glen Rose.

The Dr. Peppers made with real cane sugar in Dublin, Texas.

That gas station attendant in a no name town who had the bluest eyes and the biggest smile I'd ever seen.

Driving through south Houston and Stinkadena in the middle of a cloudy night and seeing the fires from the oil refineries light up the skies.

The two lane road from Bryan to Caldwell at sunset.

When you love a place, truly in your heart, even the ugly is pretty.

[GOPisEvil]

31. BLACK'S BBQ?!?!?!

KREUZ' DAMMIT!!!!!

Oh wait...SMITTY'S DAMMIT!!!!!

Oh screw it...Lockhart BBQ rules! You can't lose!

Love your list! Love it!

[Bouncy Ball]

34. Ain't it the troof?

Ever had "Lockhart sausage" at Blacks?

Oh my bloody hell.

Orange grease running down your arm, you eat hot slices of it on saltines and wash it down with a cold DP or a cold Shiner.

Enough to make you want to slap your momma. Twice.

Mmm.

[GOPisEvil]

39. LOL!!!

Yep...slap yo momma good! :9

Oh...and WHO NEEDS SILVERWARE?! Eat with yer fingers off butcher paper!

[Bouncy Ball]

40. Butcher paper

Tom's BBQ in College Station, practically an instution. Get a slab of BBQ beef, a pickle, a wedge of cheese, a pitcher of BBQ sauce (but only weenies use that), half an onion, and a half loaf of Baird's bread on butcher paper.

That's ALL they serve.

[GOPisEvil]

41. Girl, I graduated from A&M...Tom's was my second home!

:9

[Bouncy Ball]

49. THAT'S RIGHT I FORGOT THAT!!!

LOL!!! HOw did I totally forget that?

Tom's......ah.....drooling now.......

Did you hang out at Duddley's Draw? That's where us weirdos tended to go. Weirdos meaning we thought for ourselves, and thus never fit in.

Whacking myself on the head for forgetting you are an Aggie, too.

[GOPisEvil]

50. Actually...I was a Chicken guy...

Remember the Cow Hop...a Cow Pie and fries and drink was CHEAP. Sure the health dept. shut it down every now and then, but it was great. It's gone now. You know the mud lot behind the Chicken and Duddley's? It's a PAVED PAY TO PARK LOT NOW. :grr:

[Bouncy Ball]

53. I KNOW!!!! GRRRR!!!

Ew, the Chicken was where all the CTs hung out. I once walked from the front to the back of the Chicken and was pinched SO many times in that few minutes that the next day my ass cheeks had big bruises on them. GRRRRRRR.

The Cow Hop RULED!!!! COW PIE!!! The trick was not to look at the grill. That's WHY the burgers were so good--they never cleaned it.

Mmmm, stop it! I am eating a breath mint right now. :cry:

Duddley's was WAY cooler, btw. ;-)

[GOPisEvil]

55. Several of my friends were CTs.

Still got that pinchable butt? :spank:

[Bouncy Ball]

56. Heh.

Well, um. Being 34 years old and looking like a mom, probably wouldn't result in nearly as many pinches this time. As in none.

But that'd be fine by me. OUCH!

[GOPisEvil]

57. Yeah, but don't turn your back on me!

LOL! :D

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

21. What do you mean by "your state"?

Where you are currently living, or where you grew up?

There's not much I like about Florida. I don't consider it to be "my state". I just happen to be here. The only thing I like about Florida is the winter weather, and the weather is quite nice right now.

Maine is where I grew up, and the majority of my life was spent there (birth to 23 years). I've only lived in Florida for 3 years. We're going to be moving in 4 months too (yippee!).

Maine is nice because there isn't too many people there. Everyone minds their own business pretty much. Strangers don't ask you intrusive questions like, "Do you go to church?". They are especially careful to keep religion out of public schools.

The crime rate is very low in most Maine towns. It's a very safe place to raise a family. I felt I had a great deal of freedom there. My brother and I would ride our bikes all over town in the summer, and we'd cross country ski all over town in the winter.

There are lots of nice state parks for camping, hiking, swimming, etc. The mountains and trees are especially nice. Florida is lacking in these two things.

No billboards in Maine. They are illegal. I wish they were outlawed in more states. Billboards are so ugly. Most Mainers, in general, tend to care a lot about maintaining the natural beauty of the state. I wish more people were like that in Florida. Reduce, reuse, recycle... all that kind of stuff is heavily emphasized in Maine public schools.

I also like how Maine is lacking in the rich asshole demographic. I never saw a Hummer until I moved to Florida. I didn't see any in Maine when I went there last summer either. The rich people in Maine are kept in check by the large amount of working class people. Granted there are a few on the coast. Often they only live there in the summer. Everyone considers them out-of-staters. Real Mainers stay to endure the winter.

[Emops]

22. I live down the street from the US Air Force Museum

The greatest museum I've ever been to, and I've been to the Smithsonian.



Plus, Neil Young wrote a song about us!



...although that's not really a good thing...

[Orsino]

23. Zell Miller is no longer a Senator.

And there are some lovely people here.

[amjucsc]

24. There's a national park on both sides of the Golden Gate Bridge

[AlCzervik]

25. I love SanFrancisco and going to Carmel

[Swede]

26. Is that it's called a province.

:-)

[Elidor]

27. It's legal to eat roadkill!

All those squirrels that used to go to waste…

[VOX]

28. Barbara Boxer is one of our senators, I'm 15 mins. from the beach...

and 1 1/2 hours from the desert and mountains.

There are truly some of the most beautiful places on Earth in California: the redwoods, Death Valley, Carmel-By-the-Sea, The Sierras, the Bay Area, etc.

[Withywindle]

32. Lots!

1. best indie-rock and free-jazz scenes on the planet

2. My baseball team's going to break its World Series curse ANY YEAR NOW....really!

3. Not only are both Senators Democrats, they're both unnervingly hot. (Yes, I said BOTH. In very different ways, of course.)

4. Weather, every season except summer. (Yes, I'm one of those sickos who loves cold and snow)

5. Virtually no one in politics here has any sense of shame whatsoever. Never a dull moment!

6. Watching out-of-staters trying to pronounce our Governor's name.

7. My city is almost as dense as New York and a hell of a lot cheaper.

8. Fascinating toxic Great Lakes wildlife.

9. It's not Indiana.

10. If you're more than three blocks away from a good Mexican or Thai place, you need to move.

[ProfessorGAC]

69. Sicko!

The cold and snow thing makes me think you need serious psychiatric help! I hate the cold and snow, 'round here.

I'm only 50 miles from you, so the weather's the same. You should wish only for 80 and sunny! No snow. No cold. I know a really good therapist who could make you loathe winter like all the other good Chicagoans.
The Prefssor

[SmileyBoy]

33. That it's a quiet, peaceful place.

Maybe even TOO quiet and peaceful...

If you live in the big city, and just can't take the stress and rat-race anymore and just want a peaceful, relaxing life, move here.

[MuseRider]

36. I have never been there

but have always wanted to go. It sounds a bit like Kansas but colder in the winter. Peaceful is wonderful, I love peaceful.

[Modem Butterfly]

35. Spring in Georiga

The Indigo Girls were right- there's just something about the southland in the springtime.

Beyond that, it's never boring...

[sundog]

37. ummm...

ummm... well... ummm

I'll get back to ya on that :7

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. MrG and my kids live here.

:hi:

[mopinko]

44. the bluest of the blue

4 of the congressmen that voted to reject the ohio electors were from illinois.
and i live in chicago, the best city on the planet.

[welshTerrier2]

45. it spells the same thing forwards and backwards ... (n/t)

[barb162]

46. It has a lot of Democrats and a really big city with great museums

and universities

[pres2032]

48. Dec. of Ind., Constitution, first capitol, Gettysburg, Hershey chocolate

what more can i say, Pennsylvania is the best!

Pennsylvania: America starts here.
Gettysburg: America saved here.

[DS1]

51. It's a liberal haven.

While it has its conservative parts, they are few and far between, and easily avoidable, which I do, consciously, just like I'm conscious about how many commas there are in this post, I'm starting to write like NSMA :D

[Aristus]

52. We've got two lady Senators, a lady Governor, all Dems,

although Cantwell seems to be a bit of a DINO. We're blue, even though we're green. And we have Seattle, coffee, the Fremont Troll and Mt. Rainier!

[Warren Stupidity]

54. It is very close to where I live.

[NNadir]

61. It's New Jersey.

Beaches, forests, proximity to major cities. Two Democratic Senators. Rush Holt (congressman) Frank Pallone (Congressman) A disgraced former governor who used to lick coal dust off Dick Cheney's boots and ended up going home in a veil of girly tears, 3 nuclear plants, Princeton...

[grace0418]

62. It's blue and Chicago is pretty cool

and we have Barack, which I'm hoping is a good thing. He's a hottie, that's for sure.

[Withywindle]

64. Heee! See my post (#32) above - I'm talking about IL too.

Not only is Obama indisputably hot, I have to admit in addition to that I'm lately feeling surges in my little Durbin crush.

[ProfessorGAC]

66. Where In Illinois, Grace?

I'm about 50 miles south (and a pinch west) of Chicago. Southern Will County. As XNASA would say, "The Middle Of Nowhere".
The Professor

[grace0418]

70. Chicago, Lincoln Square

I keep moving further northwest on Lincoln Avenue. I used to live at Lincoln/Ashland/Belmont now I live at Lincoln/Western/Lawrence.

[Ramsey]

63. It's blue and Philly is pretty cool

OK, I copied, but it's true.

[kwassa]

67. Crabs, the bay, the blue state, the liberalness,

Maryland

Crab feast central

Proximity to DC, beautiful rolling countryside

Dislikes: too hot and humid in the summer quite often, too long a drive from these suburbs to the ocean (comparing to my former home in California, which really does have much better weather)

The snow on the trees was beautiful this morning though

[Misunderestimator]

68. It's warm and sunny with lots of beaches... otherwise it sucks.