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I've always said I'd be happy if I never left Georgia again, but in this hypothetical scenario I might feel trapped. Even when I was living in California with the Navy I was feeling trapped because I couldn't just pack up and leave whenever I felt like it (not easily anyway).
As I alluded to earlier, what I'd value here is: diversity of urban and natural areas > large geographic area > a lot of educated/"intellectual" people > a sense of newness/change/cosmopolitanism.
Top 5:
1. California
New York
Washington
Texas
Colorado
Bottom 5:
51. Delaware
Washington DC
Rhode Island
Arkansas
Mississippi
When I said "never leave", I meant that you would never be able to leave the borders of that state again. Basically, if you're in Mass and you try to cross into NH, you get taken out Squid Games style.
If that’s the rules, then California. I’d want both ocean and mountains plus a real city. I could make New York work. Washington.
I'd stay put in Oregon. We have rugged coast, several bodies of water for recreation, mountains, lush forests, deserts, barren flats, redwoods, hilly valleys, thousands of waterfalls, and so on. The diversity of landscapes would keep me from getting bored. We have one medium sized city with a couple of small ones so I'd get my urban needs met.
Assuming everyone else is participating in this hypothetical, California would be way too crowded. Otherwise, that might be my answer.
California wouldn't make my top 20.
I might be able to tolerate Truckee parts of the year.
The rest of it is spotty/ semi-bearable.
My winner would be Massachusetts. New England has surf, even quite good at times, mostly tolerable seasonal weather, and a good urban /suburban/ country mix/ size. M a ssoles can be somewhat entertaining. They even use a fair amount of sand/ salt/ common sense for their highways in the winter. Crazy we know.
2nd choice probably Colorado, as it has fewer bugs, and somewhat less cold/ barrenness/ badlands than Wyoming. But if the politics gets too nutty, like if too much Californiacation. i guess it's already too late. Can i change my answer later?
Rhode Island is very small. That's a small space to be confined to living. Or is it? And for its entirety i find surprising similarities between RI's stunning coastal towns and Central California's coast. I'd take RI in a New York minute. And you could be in NYC in about 2 and a half hours on the new Amtrak Avila.
Was this footage shot in California?
Looks a lot like Windansea or someplace like 'County Line' north of LA.
The Californian posters were fooled. They thought it was Steamer Lane (Santa Cruz) or nearby spot.
It's Newport, RI. In this collage, the similarities are striking.....
I think its interesting everyone in the smaller states wanting to stay partially because 'its easy to go somewhere else'. Premise of the thread is that you can't leave unfortunately lol. In this scenario doesn't matter how close you are to a city in another state - you can't go. I would have stuck with Washington State if the criteria let you leave.
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