Which State Would You Never Choose to Move to?

I love the beach, but it's the ragged, rough, rocky Pacific beaches I love, especially in winter.

I couldn't pick just one. Although on the thought of California, I think living in Northern California up by the redwoods would be beautiful.

I honestly don't want to move anywhere but California. haha I just loooooove the weather there (specifically Southern CA)..I really can't get enough of it. I don't like cold weather at all.

LOL, I was about to say tornadoes really aren't that bad. I've been in a tornado and I've been in an earthquake, and the earthquake was definitely more alarming. You get warning with tornadoes too though not as long as you get with a hurricane... though generally you get a feel for the weather patterns and know when "tornado weather" is coming, so you know that the weather can take a bad turn within the next day or so.

Most people living in a city will never in their lives actually experience a tornado. Yes, I've been in one - but my mom and dad, who were sitting at home which is literally just a few miles away from work, didn't experience it. Mostly you just have warnings and watches and you go sit in the basement or in the bathtub and watch TV/listen to the radio for a while, sometimes you end up taking a nap, and then it's over and you go back to your life as usual.

Now, if I lived out in the middle of the country, yes, I might be slightly more on edge... but the plan of action would be the same. Go to the basement, hunker down, and wait it out. But honestly my biggest concern living in the country in the Midwest would be the **** deer running across the road all the time. Tornado? PFFT. Deer damage to my car? Now that's something to be worried about.

Renee...you might like the Oregon coast. It's very rugged and fabulous storms with waves crashing up on the volcanic rocks that go on forever. Maine is also beautiful and their coast is quite like the Oregon coast. When we lived in NJ, we vacationed in Maine a lot. My brother lived there and my sister-in-law still lives there...has forever. The Washington coast is a mixture of both sandy beaches and those rough, rocky beaches. And Puget Sound...inland from the open Ocean has the pebbly, beaches and some sandy beaches, but mostly small rocks. I love the tide pools that form in those kinds of beaches with all the little anenomes and star fish, crabs and mussels.

So, 10,000 lakes is remarkable and I know how beautiful that can be. But nothing is like the salt water...the smell of salt air, the bracing, medicinal feeling of the salt on your skin if you're brave enough to get in that cold Puget Sound water. LOL. To me, it's more interesting...so many kinds of sea life. (and yummy crustaceons) Mmmmm...I'm getting hungry for Dungeness (the absolute best) crab and prawns. Pike Place Market...here I come. (not until December though)

Anywhere where Ya'll is a normal word. (Or where the first thing people ask you is "What church do you belong to?") So Texas, South Carolina is cutting it rather close, goergia, tennesse, mississippi, Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana... ect. Florida is Ok though, I'd live there. I dont count florida towards the southern states... even though its like the most southern. :lol-sign: Virginia is cutting it kinda close, mostly because the first thing my friends neighbour asked me is "What church do you belong to?" My answer? "Satans". My friend actually kicked me for that one and told me this is a very sirious question for them. I thought he was JOKING. Alas he was not. After a weird laugh or two I was like, um. I don't believe in God, so I don't belong to any church... then I walked away kinda quickly.

Yikes . . . long list here . . . but with the caveat that I can probably be talked into anywhere if I don't have to live in an apartment in a big city. There are CITIES I'd never move to . . . starting with NYC. But states . . . well, I don't like heat and humidity, and I don't like long dark winters (though I love cold), and I'm emotionally tied to the Eastern half of the country. But I'm pretty flexible: just about every state has some virtues.

No kidding. Deer are so prevelent here, it's scary just driving down the little highway here...going anyplace. It's unbelievable! And I have this new (to me) beautiful car. I tell you....it's enough to make a horse leave it's oats, it's so worrying.

Earthquakes, unless there's a severe one and you're in the city on a bridge or something...piece of cake. In fact, in a lot of cities, like Seattle, they've been making very good buildings that resist earthquakes well. I mean, they sway with their flexibility. Very good. Of course, there are those older buildings.....But depending on where you are, it's usually not a bad thing. Houses don't tend to collapse or anything. You get a few seconds of some jiggling, rockin and rollin' and then it's over with. I do worry about the "big" one that's over due...that might make a 9 on the Richter scale. Sometimes they can predict some rumbling going on ahead of time, but there's not a lot you can do about it.

:rofl1::rofl1::rofl1: I love it! I knew there was a reason I liked you.


Actually, I love "Ya'll." And I love that southern accent, culture and hospitality...their cooking too is phenomenal! But I never thought of that... "What church d'ya'll belong to?" That's hilarious!

Pennsylvania.

But now I live in the state (despite really not wanting to tho!). Blech blech blech. I go to MD frequently, and it's like I can instantly tell when I cross the state line back into PA. I've lived in CA, NH, GA, the Netherlands, and did one too many road trips. . . Out of them all, I of course end up in the one place I can't stand, lol.

It's hard to choose just one because it's a whole REGION that I wouldn't want to live in, LOL......ANY of the southwest states, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, California, even Nevada is cutting it too close, LOL

But I guess if I had to pick just ONE out of all those, it would be Arizona.......I've lived there before, therefore I know just how bad it s.u.c.k.s. :lol-sign:

I am quite happy in the midwest with our extreme season changes. If I ever came into BIG money, I'd still live right here in the midwest and just visit other places for short periods

Hahahaha this is actually exactly how he asked us. :rofl1: He also had "God's car" on his lisence plate. Which is why I think he was not the "normal" virginian. So I may move to Virginia, if I had too.
I don't mind the southern culture at all, there were just some things that kinda bugged me which I was in SC and NC, that irked me. The the "respect your elders spiel". I was YELLED at in a parking lot, by an elderly lady, because I parked in a parking lot. She was leaving and was just going to drive straight through the lot I just parked in. Boy was she POed. She started lecturing me on respecting the elderly. :yikes: And then people were BACKING her. (She actually got out of her car to YELL at me.) I siriously did nothing wrong here. If you can't pull out of a parking lot backwards, you have no buisness driving.at.all.
What also buggered me is that people down there tend to drive sllllllloooooooowwwwwwwwwww. Then again, I was trying to beat the GPS time on the car. (I beat down half an hour muhaha)

This. I swear once I get out of here I'm never coming back

LMAO oh man... the first time I ever got flipped off driving was by an old lady. I was leaving the mall and the openings from the perimeter road into the lot are pretty narrow, so they are marked as "in" and "out" openings. There's really no room for two cars. So here I am, leaving the mall, and I am going out the "out." I stop to wait for it to be clear, and coming around the corner is this woman and her old granny or whatever in the passenger seat - and they swing around to try and pull into the same opening where my car is sitting! I'm sitting there just waiting, thinking the whole time "Um... you can't come in here. For one thing, this is the OUT. For another... I'M SITTING HERE."

The lady driving tried to wedge in for a few minutes, then I saw her mouth moving furiously and it obviously had finally connected that HER CAR WAS NOT GOING TO FIT... so she slams on her brakes, backs up (nearly backing into somebody else) and lurches forward to enter the parking lot at the next opening (which was, in fact, an "in" opening.)
And as she's doing this, the old granny LEANS OVER from the passenger side, and gives me the middle finger. And then she SAT THERE giving me the middle finger the entire time the driver was doing her ridiculous maneuvering.

What else could I do? I just flicked her off right back and sat there with my middle finger up the entire time SHE sat there with her middle finger up. (And then considered pulling out, then swinging back around, following them, and getting into a fistfight in the mall parking lot.) Seriously, what did they want me to do? It was OBVIOUS there was no room for two cars there... did they want me to back up just so they could wedge their car in where there was no room AND so they could go the wrong way? Uhhh. no.

So yeah, I thought that was hilarious. I was like "Not only was I doing NOTHING WRONG, but I just got flicked off by an OLD GRANNY!!" I don't get it, LMAO. Some people really shouldn't drive... or be driven around for that matter.

I've dealt with both. All you anti-tornado people should move where Ash and I live. We are literally dead center of tornado alley. You don't get more tornados than where we are (except for Moore maybe. Moore gets hit with a huge one every year).

As soon as I can though, I'm moving somewhere it snows a lot and there's lots of mountains. The beach is okay but it is NOTHING compared to mountains and American wilderness.

I don't think I could live in the New England either... Too much of a culture shock. Northwest though... definitely. Wyoming is my favorite state. Alaska is a close second though.

Btw guys... Texas is not in 'the south' really nor is it really in the southwest. It's kind of it's own entity culture-wise. And I'm not really sure where Oklahoma falls... it's just kind of there.

On the way back from Colorado once going to Oklahoma City we went all the way down through the Texas panhandle just to avoid Kansas. Now that's pretty bad. What's worse is the extra several hours on our trip were TOTALLY worth it.

I don't have a whole lot of experience with most states so I would have to say Florida.

LOOOOOOVE to go visit florida but I couldn't live there.

I can't handle the summers. we went last year in July and I hardly left the house the entire time lol. I couldn't do it.

I never plan on living anywhere out of New England. I like the seasons, I like the woods, I like the nature (and the fact that most of it is not highly poisonous). I don't think I could live anywhere that is very hot all the time, or very conservative. Plus I like to say wicked all the time.

Alabama