Info on American States?

[Arnwyn]

You know, maybe we should make stuff up for the non-USers.
Think it'll work?

You seem to be mistaking non-USers for... well... yourselves. We can do that to you and be successful. You can't.

 

[Stormborn]

If it snows while I am at work, of course I am going to drive in the snow. How else would I get home?


glass.

You went to work when it might snow? When there was even a CHANCE of flurries?Obviously not from Alabama.

 

[Arnix]

California: Yes they are crazy, and its infectious. I have relatives who moved out there and more than one has gone crazy. Earthquakes. Frequently. Why do people choose to live somewhere like that?

South Carolina: One of the most depressingly desolate places I have ever driven through. Btw, Charleston was the first place to Seceed from England and from the Union (according the them at least). Interresting group of people.

Indiana: How many miles of corn does it take to make a driver fall asleep at the wheel?

Tennessee: Home of the great "Rock City", Rocky Top, and the Vols.

Virginia: Home of George Washington, Robert E. Lee, and part of Arlington Cemetary (same property btw)

North Carolina: Pretty. Interresting cities. Biltmore.

Alabama: Sigh. The worst roads. Ever. I think they could learn something from Roman technology for smooth transportation. You really don't need a sign to tell you that you left Georgia and entered Alabama.

Florida: It is a northern retirement community. Its not the South if I can't buy Sweet Tea. no Lipton from a fountain doesn't count nor does a spoon, some sugar, and cold unsweetened tea. Hurricanes. Why do people choose to live somewhere like that?

Georgia: Very Rural and Rednecky. Savannah is beautiful. Atlanta is large and northern in feel. Augusta is a "large" city but has a small town feel. Everyone known everyone, its closer to 3 degrees of seperation. The place where it is correct to call a georgia man a "cracker" and a georgia woman a "peach" (see the histories of these words). Oh, and we are home to Jimmy Carter...

Louisiana: Swampland, but a load of fun in New Orleans.

West Virginia: One big happy family, literaly. They don't have family trees so much as family braids. Its not their fault really.

Oklahoma: Isn't it called Tornado Alley for a reason? Why do people choose to live somewhere like that?

Texas: Yeah, very much a place of interresting people. Be careful how/when you insult on. Home of "open containers and gun racks". Isn't it still legal to shoot a person on your land, not just inside your home? Home of the Alamo and the Cowboys.

In the South, everything north of Virginia is "New England". We don't care how its defined. I should be able to buy sweet tea at any resteraunt. If you don't serve it, I won't come back. Bar-B-Que is great. Friends are like family and we can insult each other at will, but you don't get to insult us at all (see Texas).

 

[rogueattorney]

A few things about Illinois...

Number one: It's pronounced Ill-annoy.

If anyone ever tells you they're from Chicago, they're lying. They're actually from a suburb and are afraid you've never heard of it. Anyone who's actually from the city of Chicago will tell you what part of Chicago they're from - South Side, North Side, West Side, or even the neighborhood, Lincoln Park, Rogers Park, etc.

Chicagoans like to think they're somehow different from the rest of the state. It isn't true. If you scrunched Peoria, Springfield, Rockford, Bloomington and Danville together, you'd get something that looked an awful lot like Chicago. Chicago is so neighborhood oriented, unless you are right down town, it doesn't feel as much like living in a big city. That's a good thing. I love Chicago.

We're generally political pragmatists here. Our Democrats tend to be a little right of usual and our Republicans tend to be a little left of usual. Political ideology usually isn't very important. That might sound nice, but political corruption on both sides of the aisle is an epidemic. We're so used to it, that we take it pretty matter of factly.

The weather is simply amazing. Not amazing good. Amazing as in it will constantly amaze you. The old saying is if you don't like the weather, wait five minutes, it'll change. It's absolutely true. If you live in Illinois for more than a few months, you WILL use your heater and air conditioner on the same day at some point.

R.A.

 

[drothgery]

California: Yes they are crazy, and its infectious. I have relatives who moved out there and more than one has gone crazy. Earthquakes. Frequently. Why do people choose to live somewhere like that?

Cold winter day in coastal SoCal - low of 50, high of 60 (we keep our snow in the mountains where it belongs).
Hot summer day in coastal SoCal -- low of 70, high of 80 (we keep our heat waves in the desert where they belong).

Any questions?

 

[Crothian]

Cold winter day in coastal SoCal - low of 50, high of 60 (we keep our snow in the mountains where it belongs).
Hot summer day in coastal SoCal -- low of 70, high of 80 (we keep our heat waves in the desert where they belong).

Any questions?

How can you live with such boring weather??

 

[Greylock]

Chicagoans like to think they're somehow different from the rest of the state. It isn't true. If you scrunched Peoria, Springfield, Rockford, Bloomington and Danville together, you'd get something that looked an awful lot like Chicago. Chicago is so neighborhood oriented, unless you are right down town, it doesn't feel as much like living in a big city. That's a good thing. I love Chicago.

As someone who lived near Chicago, and in south central Illinois, there's a funny map distortion that goes on in the minds of Chicagoans. They really can't fathom how long and big the state is. People from southern Illinois or St.Louis area are just outside the suburbs as far as they know.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

I'll point out: 1/5th of the Conferderate troops came from North Carolina. The South wouldn't have won the War of Northern Aggression without North Carolina.

Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.

Thank y'all very much.

Quasqueton

Touche, Monseur!!

 

[Glyfair]

I think the same is true of any reasonably large metropolitan area. I think the Washington, DC area has it the worst for "people are all from somewhere else," though.

I have a few friends that live or have lived in that area. One of them had a theory that the reason driving is so bad in DC is because so many people are from other countries.

This wasn't a stereotypical "foreign drivers are bad" comment he was making. He believed that a lot of people were used to their own laws and habits in their country. When they came to DC and mixed with other drivers, driving habits start to clash. You get a dozen different habits on the same stretch of road, and you begin to get a mess. That leads to the local drivers getting used to an "every man for himself" attitude, and that compounds the problem.

 

[Darth K'Trava]

If it snows while I am at work, of course I am going to drive in the snow. How else would I get home?


glass.

Heck. Everytime it snows, I STILL have to go to work! And the lamearses who only live less than five MINUTES away normal driving time, can't get there! But yet I can get there. A guy who WALKS to work can get there!...

At least people have recently started listening when they say don't get out.... not as many do as they used to.... and they do buy up all the milk and bread they can... :\