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Due to tourism the areas with the most out of state plates I've seen are Orlando, Las Vegas, the Florida Keys, and Washington DC. Also plenty in New Orleans as well.
New York actually not so much because most tourists don't drive into New York City. Besides taxis are half the traffic in NY. Los Angeles actually didn't have as many out of state plates as I expected.
Yeah, I think it was still at least 90% Illinois plates but sometimes you'd see those, or other Midwestern states like Iowa and Michigan. Once in a while I'd see California, Texas, Georgia, Colorado, Florida, New York, etc. but I can see why Chicago is known for not being that nationally cosmopolitan and mostly attracting other Midwesterners.
A record 56 plus million visitors and not nationally cosmopolitan? Most tourists fly in and fly out. I have seen alot of New York plates in Chicago lately, though.
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I definitely got a lot of double takes and random conversations started driving across the deep south and up the east coast with my bright yellow New Mexico plates when I moved up to Vermont a couple weeks ago. I also think people aren't use to seeing as many different license plates at this time of year, rather than the typical summer travel season with the exception of snowbird migration. Now I'm driving around small towns here in Vermont, I'll get out of my car and hear"wow, that's quote a change" having moved from NM to VT.
I remember visiting Phoenix and driving around Arizona during spring break, seems the most common plates were from Washington and Oregon along with a lot of western Canadian plates (BC, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba), all chasing the sun.
If you look at the parking lots of marijuana dispensaries in Colorado during tourist seasons, you'll see many of them full of Texas and Oklahoma plates.
I dont think you'll ever see a DC tag outside of the DMV. I'm surprised you dont see MD in Atlanta.
You'll see DC and MD tags in Fulton and Clayton Counties. I have. Due to the employer I work for, I've seen all the states West Coast and Eastern seaboard states (plus PA, lol). Hawaii, Guam, Alaska, DR. The Midwestern states like OH, Illinois, Michigan, etc are heavy in metro Atlanta too. Ontario every now and then.
I definitely got a lot of double takes and random conversations started driving across the deep south and up the east coast with my bright yellow New Mexico plates when I moved up to Vermont a couple weeks ago. I also think people aren't use to seeing as many different license plates at this time of year, rather than the typical summer travel season with the exception of snowbird migration. Now I'm driving around small towns here in Vermont, I'll get out of my car and hear"wow, that's quote a change" having moved from NM to VT.
New Mexico's turquoise plates have one of the most distinctive color schemes in the country. I think they have replaced the yellow plates in recent years?
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