Where wouldn't you live for free? (restaurant, family, opinions, Mexico)
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How about not wanting to live in a place like North Korea?
Believe me, Kansas, Florida or anyplace in the US (even a hell hole like Detroit), is preferable to North Korea or Iran, Uganda, China, Syria or countless other places.
I've lived in 3 of those places and I'd pick Uganda over the rest. I would, however, have a much different view if I was lgbt.
You know, just about every place in the country has great things to do and see. People who say otherwise just haven't traveled much. However, in the spirit of the thread:
Orlando.
Any place where it starts snowing in October and doesn't let up until May. That means places like Fairbanks, Alaska.
Talking strictly about the States, I would agree with each of your listed places. I would also not live in any place that does not display even a modicum of care for the less fortunate, like many blanket white upscale places with mcmansions. Just me, imoho.
I just love blanket, uninformed statements such as this.
Unfortunately I've lived in some of these and it was, by choice, briefly. Affluent white neighborhoods do what they can to keep taxes high and the "riffraff" out. Having worked for the American Red Cross, one of my duties was to find homes for homeless people who were literally driven (by car or van) from affluent communtiies where they somehow landed to, shall we say, more "regular" communities that make provisions for the less fortunate. These homeless kids were ridiculed and bullied for being homeless and it's pretty brutal coming from many among the upper class kids. Now it is kind of ironic that some in the affluent areas are going to food pantries, whereas up till now that was considered a social tabboo. Yes many affluent volunteer, etc. but believe me they don't want the poor as their neighbors.
ETA: I did not state that all affluent areas are like this. I said I would not (again) live in such an area that is.
My baloney detector is redlining at this post. I've lived in a good number of places, and I find Southerners to be rather caring and compassionate people, particularly to those less fortunate. If you actually lived in those places, it sounds as if you encountered one or two isolated incidents and then decided to tar the entire region with the same brush.
What a fun question . . .hmmmm . . . lavish house in a place you detest . . .
Barstow Fresno Bakersfield Las Vegas Lubbock Tijuana Tracy Los Banos Basically, any ugly, hot place. Edited to add all of the Southern U.S. and any other ugly, dry, flat places with no character or rigid religious or political atmospheres.
Is the rigid liberalism of the Atlantic and Pacific coastal states OK? They're for the most part neither ugly, dry, nor flat.
Like the OP, am also originally from Chicago, but that would not be my worst choice. I also am quite fond of Wyoming, but those winters and the wind might be a little too much. Asuming only US locations, my purgatory would be San Francisco. For myself, it would be like being placed in a time machine and transported back in time and distance to Moscow during the Soviet era. SF represents the poster child for just about everything in American society that is backwards, evil, or just plain wrong.
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