What's So Great About Your State?

I've often wondered what it would be like to live in another area of North America. I think if you have a lot of friends in your area, you'll have fun even if your town is small and there isn't that much to do.

But I got to wondering about stuff people could do in their state that I would never be able to do here in landlocked Alberta. (Such as surfing) So I was wondering what makes where you live special?

For myself, I live in the province of Alberta, in the city of Calgary. The winters here can be pretty harsh, but they are punctuated with Chinook winds that come 4 or 5 times a winter. This is a patch of warm air that sweeps down from the mountains and melts some of the snow. It's a really nice break from winter, and makes it a bit more bearable.

Skiing, snowboarding, and hockey are big up here. There are a ton of hiking trails that will keep you occupied for years.

Our city also has a ton of golf courses. You seriously can't drive 10 minutes without hitting one. We've also got a pretty renowned fly-fishing community, and a river running through downtown, where people fly fish during lunch. There are also a lot of bike paths, and you can pretty much go anywhere in the city with a bike, if you have the time.

There is also the Calgary Stampede that rolls through here every year, which gives everyone an excuse to eat a free breakfast everyday, (usually flapjacks, sausage, and scrambled eggs) cook a lot of barbecue, and check out hot women at all the bars. The city literally shuts down for a week in July and no work gets done. It's like a second Christmas holiday.

Summers here are generally between 20 to 30 degrees Celsius (that's 68 to 86 Fahrenheit) but we do only get 3 months of it with the springs and autumns averaging about 10 to 20C (50-68F)

There ain't a lot of other big cities around here, so road trips usually consist of world renowned Banff about an hours drive west, and Edmonton, an industrial city with the second largest mall in the world. (soon to be third when the Dubai one opens.)

If you like skiing, winter sports, golf, or fly fishing, you'd love this place. If you like coastal cities with a lot of greenery and a big urban/ethnic scene, you'll hate it. Calgary is pretty much a desert city for 5 months of the year, and a winter wonderland another 4.

What's so great about your state/city?

There's NOTHING good about Minnesota. Trust me, you don't want to even think about living here, if "living" is the correct term.

The two days of rain we get in California's a'ight.

It's really hard to come up with a comprehensive list.

I haven't found a place that merges civilization with nature better. In a half hour, I can leave the city and be in the woods, on the water, or wherever. Like people? Move to Metro Detroit. Don't like people? Move to the Upper Peninsula. Want both? Move to one of the farm towns around Lansing or Flint.

No natural disasters, great sports town/teams. Summers are warm, if a bit humid, but we have the longest coast in the continental United States. Hunting is huge in Michigan, and we have vast tracts of land to fish, hunt, or otherwise enjoy.

We have guns, booze, pot's legal, taxes are relatively low. The state government doesn't interfere with our lives all that much, and they're constitutionally bound to balance the budget every year. The state is pretty moderate, with a twinge of suspicious populist/conservative, so there's no partisan shit going on.

Yeah, it's a real dream here. Might be hard pressed to find a job these days, but other than that, it's nice.

There is nothing at all special about the lower part of Michigan. Farmland, cities, and nothing really interesting.

When you get to the edges, though, or the north, then it gets great! There is nothing like the Great Lakes, and the further north you are, the better they are. The wild forests, hills and interior lakes of the Upper Peninsula are special as well.

If I were to come back to live permanently in the States (instead of just maintaining a residence but not actually being there all that much), I would not necessarily live in Michigan. But it certainly wouldn't be last on the list, either, especially if I could be at least 100 miles away from Detroit.

​

Oh yeah, we make Faygo and Vernors. That alone should put us in the top 10.

*needs to have himself a Boston Cooler*

And we have the Detroit Tigers, too--the only real baseball team!

(We won't talk about the Lions...)

​

^Lions did pretty well this off season; they'll do better next year, since that's supposedly going to be defense-heavy.

I've heard really bad things about the city Flint.

Yeah Scorp, if you ever want to move to the states and start your own advertising firm (or whatever), feel free to try this place out.

You'd be pleasantly surprised.

Well, for starters, I'm here. So that's most of it. Other than that, it's a pretty decent town.

Honestly though, if you want to know, Michigan communities are generally... segregated. That's been changing lately, but it doesn't help that in Flint or Detroit, to get elected, all you need to be is black. Now, without going on a racist tear, all I'll say on the matter is that the largest voting group in the city has the worst part of town.

But still, things are improving. If you were in another part of town, it wouldn't look bad. A few miles out? You'd be in an affluent suburb or a farm.

All exaggerated and untrue.

In reality, Flint is much worse than that...

​

Nah.

They're going to connect the Universities, which will be nice. Opened up a few new restaurants downtown too.

I'm near the sea. Hours from the mountains. Quite pleasant in warm & hot weather.

Downside is having to suffer my eardrums through hordes of Eddie Punchclocks, Joe Sixpacks, greasemonkeys & other boorgoise flotsam blasting baseball, football, basketball games & their idea of "music", , as well.



These are the Clueless Joes who gave us 8 years of Bosh/Cheney after all

Beaches & mountains are fine, so long as you know where the so-called "working man", , is congregating so his ilk don't pollute your downtime with their "culture".

My sharing. I hope you "people" have now become a centimeter more refined

Georgia has decent weather, great fishing, a coast, a few mountains up north, low cost of living.....this balances out many ghettoish cities.

Nothing, nothing is good about California, don't move here, don't even visit it's awful, you've been warned.








btw - Who's the ass hammer who put this shitstain of a thread in the Red Room?

you call those mountains?

Outside of parts of Atlanta, where's the ghetto? I thought the rest of the state was just trailer trash and chicken farms.

I live here.

Not a comprehensive list but ultimately the most important reason for me.

Uh, you living there is the greatest thing about your state?

Mind if I ask what state?

[-]Meeeeeee! [/-]

Phooey, someone's done that already. Now I have to be serious.



http://www.mobot.org/

http://www.stlzoo.org/

Plus three out of four major U.S. leagues (although they're concentrated in K.C. and St. Louis, of course) and Mizzou and SLU have basketball. Some less-major leagues in St. Louis as well.

Oh you're right I should know where every member lives.

Anyway, so how are things going in Laos?

The best thing about Oklahoma is that it's not too crowded.

We have the same things that other places have,
but they're easy to get to.

Hey NAHTMMM, I've been to St. Louis, even rode the funky elevator type thing to the top of the arch. Great view. It's an older city, plenty of character, good food, humidity to spare and the home of Anheuser-Busch since 1860.

Of course InBev has tainted that legacy.

Assuming the thread subject was intended ironically, the fact that it can produce both a garamet and a liet. And of course, Hillary is a native. There's so much good stuff about new york I wouldn't know where to start.

We have more people per square inch tucked away down in the SE that can better spend your money or live your life than you - than any place other than perhaps Taxachusetts or San Fran.

Try again bub, UK isn't a state.

I could give all kinds of reasons why Massachusetts is a great state to live in, but, honestly, after a year in Rochester, NY, the main reason why I'm happy to be back here is that it's not upstate New York.