Also what's your date of birth and mother's maiden name?
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And the name of my first pet and my elementary school for good measure.
Spot, and Jefferson Davis Elementary. Only limits that to half hr country, though I kid of course.
April 1st, 1969. Crapper. Why do you ask?
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Texas.
It's okay. I don't blame people for hating our legislature, just try to remember that not all Texans are shitty people.
Howdy neighbour. The same goes for me and many people I know in the Bayou State. The legislature especially recently makes me want to barf.
A suburb north of Denver.
You are going to find a metric fuck-ton of political diversity in Colorado. While it somewhat follows a fairly standard pattern of cities being blue and the countryside being red, it gets much more complicated than that here. (The elevation and mass quantities of craft beer does strange things to a human after a time.)
Yeah, Colorado (along with the New England states) is one of few places in the US where rural does not necessarily mean red.
San Antonio, Texas. Disparage away. Any chance of change happening is incredibly slim. My city only had about 14.81% turnout during our last primary election.
This is by design. Voter fatigue is very real.
That's depressing. Cheers.
In a house.
Switzerland
So it's true. The USA has colonized the rest of the planet. Howdy neighbor!
I'm in, and from, Florida. Am over 50 so have seen the devolution of the political situation as we get more populated. But am in a very diverse city with a large queer community, and I think that's what people get wrong about Florida, we have ever been diverse, not like up north where it's more stratified. Everyone here, at least in the more populated areas, most neighborhoods are mixed on just about any axis you can spin us on. Like my street has old people, families, black, white, Asian, Muslim, Catholic, protestant, atheist, conservative, progressive, gay, straight, trans, able bodied and disabled.
I've lived in a few different states and I was born in a foreign country. I absolutely love Florida. South Florida is an amazing place with great weather and great people.
It all depends on the cultural lens which you use to look at it. One shopping plaza looks different to a Jew then it does to a Brazilian then it does to a Haitan. The Jew may come for the hummus lunch place and the Brazilian goes for the Brazilian nightclub. They exist in the same physical space but it's like a parallel universe because they don't see each other. I find this so fascinating.
When you take the time to really explore you see a massive depth of different cultures. I love living among immigrants, including many fresh people right off the boat.
Up north it simply isn't the same. In Chicago there's a lot of Latinos, but they're virtually all Mexican. In South Florida you get every single type. Brazilian, Venezuelan, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Colombian, Central American.. Mexicans are a minority.
I don't know if there's another place in the world that has such a diverse mix of people from around Latin America. So many opportunities and interesting things to do.
I wouldn't trade it for the world. I hate the government, but I refuse to move.
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I'm in rural PA.
Pennsylvania is a weird state because we have half the population in cities, Philly and Pittsburgh are the big ones, but we've got quite a few smaller cities peppered throughout. The other half live in the middle of nowhere, Amish country and farmers for miles.
The rural is deep red. I can see a Confederate flag from my porch. We can't even claim that as "our heritage" or whatever bullshit the South says to justify it.
Feel free to disparage my area, it's pretty disgusting.
I'm outside Allentown, but half my family is from up near Towanda. It is an odd state due to how we're spread out.
We've got Confederate flags around here as well. Less things plastered with Trump signs lately, but the last few months I've seen businesses with Houck signs all over. He's an anti abortion activist that twice assaulted a 70+ year old man that was a patient escort at a clinic.
All the people I meet from all over the state are usually very kind, but politically what many of them believe just confuses me. I just didn't know what would ever change their voting bloc if things haven't done so by now.
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DFW area of Texas. There's a lot that's good here, but the number of people who combine various levels of being small-minded and short-sighted are indeed very frustrating.
And they all have cars that contribute to our THUNDERDOME traffic situation these days. I legit don’t even like driving anywhere in the metroplex these days out of safety concerns.
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Methdesto, CA
Oakland makes this city look like Carmel by the Sea. 🤣
Bruh I'm in Hemet, CA. All desert and tumbleweeds but hey at least I can afford to live here
new mexico!
Currently in Oakland too! Wish more bay area folk would find their way here so I can stop relying on the subreddit🙃
Santa Cruz, CA. Hi neighbor!
Hat tip.
One of my favorite small cities. Would live there if I could, but it's unfortunately too expensive.
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Washington State
Oregon here.
Have a lot of friends in the bay area and have visited Oakland a few times. Lovely place. Fuck the haters!
Man, the closest I ever give to my location is in the south, in the Appalachians. Nobody needs to know more than that online, and fuck anyone that doesn't like it lol.
Every state here has dumb shit going on all the time. Political stupidity, economic stupidity, environmental stupidity, you name it, there's something stupid going on in any given subject matter in most states. You find one that's great at one thing, they'll be horrible in another. Mind you, I'm talking the people; the land itself is incapable of stupidity, what with being mostly dirt and plants.
Anyway. If you're worried about disparaging people in a given state, just do what I do (and just did). Blame the idiots in California for a given issue, but don't specify who you think the idiots are. Nobody objects to those other people that are idiots being disparaged. Why would they? Those other people are morons.
That's not even a joke. I mean, it's meant to be vaguely humorous, but it's legit.
San Diego, carne asada fries in hand, ready to put on my thickest winter coat when it hits sub 60 degree temps.
Hampton Roads area of Virginia.
I live in Urbana, Illinois. In couple of days. I'll be going on a mission to Moon to help the USAA with the set up of one their bases, Clavius Base.
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West Michigan, helping turn a previously red district purple.
I actually kind of love Michigan. It’s a beautiful state and the people are generally kind and friendly. But it does have some bullshit, especially when you get outside the cities. Though I suppose that’s true everywhere.
Colorado here, north of Denver
Jersey. The best state.
Hahahahaha! I'll buy you a drink. This was most unexpected Jersey pride.
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