Geogia requires Jim Crow like quiz for US citizens from Peurto Rico to obtain a drivers license

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ch33zw1z

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Never had that happen. I live in a reasonably quite neighborhood, though every few years a band of thieves drive through and rob every truck on the street. They've got me three times since 1991.

Maybe lock your truck and turn on the alarm.

Edit: hey look, @IJTSSG disagrees with locking your truck and arming the alarm to deter theft. But remember, he's super smart and everyone else is a fucktard or whatever insult he's over using again. Lol...
 
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[DHT]Osiris

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- Honestly? Because its god damn beautiful. As someone who grew up in Southern California and now lives in Northern California, the sheer amount of green in the deep south is magical. Also, history of the eastern states has a sort of allure to a westerner where everything seems to have been built in either the last 50 or 20 years. Most people are perfectly polite, they know how to fry things, and everything is third world levels of cheap.

This story is some straight up bullshit though. Throw the book at 'em.
What the shit section of the south have you lived in? I lived in SC and GA for close to a decade and all I saw was brown grass, brown hallways of pine trees, and a bunch of shitty swamp land.

Now upstate NY? That gets positively fluorescent in the spring. The grass glows.
 

pmv

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-I too have watched that documentary and can say with confidence that it's fake news ;)

Who am I gonna believe? Documentary footage or some lying tourist guide book?

I can see myself stumbling around, politely explaining to survivors that it's certainly a very attractive place, but the person at the travel agency never mentioned all the chomping and the screaming and the reanimating, and can someone please direct me to the British consul and a place to buy marmite.

Actually the politics of TWD are not without interest. It didn't seem to do very well with representation of black people, at least at first, though it seemed to improve. And of course it had an implcit pro-gun message, but I chose to ignore that. I'm prepared to accept a world where a zombie apocalypse can actually happen would be a world where gun ownership makes sense.
 
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kage69

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The low cost of living is a definite draw, though I do have to factor in the cost of the golf cart I'll need to drive to the bathroom from the sofa.

Perhaps a comment on real estate, but it really makes you sound like Mississippi native already.

Mississippi ranks as Fattest State

I hope that's not the case, obesity and diabetes are serious problems. It'd be a shame that's the way you find out Mississippi also ranks 49th in healthcare access and affordability as well. As someone who cites poverty and homelessness as a motivator, you do realize Mississippi has worst poverty rate in the country, right?

No earthquakes though, I'll give them that.
 

Greenman

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Maybe lock your truck and turn on the alarm.
Never would have thought of that
Perhaps a comment on real estate, but it really makes you sound like Mississippi native already.

Mississippi ranks as Fattest State

I hope that's not the case, obesity and diabetes are serious problems. It'd be a shame that's the way you find out Mississippi also ranks 49th in healthcare access and affordability as well. As someone who cites poverty and homelessness as a motivator, you do realize Mississippi has worst poverty rate in the country, right?

No earthquakes though, I'll give them that.
There are a lot of fat people around Mississippi, my wife commented that she looks like a movie star compared to most of them.
 

Maxima1

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Perhaps a comment on real estate, but it really makes you sound like Mississippi native already.

Mississippi ranks as Fattest State

I hope that's not the case, obesity and diabetes are serious problems. It'd be a shame that's the way you find out Mississippi also ranks 49th in healthcare access and affordability as well. As someone who cites poverty and homelessness as a motivator, you do realize Mississippi has worst poverty rate in the country, right?

No earthquakes though, I'll give them that.

it depends on if the factors are being accounted for, which not all reported stats in the media do. Using the supplemental poverty measure, CA has ranked the highest for a number of years. it's why so many low income flee CA.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.co...lifornia-poverty-rate-20180913-htmlstory.html
 

hal2kilo

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Atlanta is in Georgia. Atlanta is great.

Once you get outside of Atlanta, and a few other metro areas in Georgia, it's basically Mississippi.
Yep, went to tech school in Atlanta. Still, had their share of basically hill billies. That was in the early 70s. I'm sure it's improved somewhat. But outside of Atlanta metro area, pure deep south.
 
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hal2kilo

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I've lived a from seventy-five to a couple of hundred miles inland off the East Coast the majority of my life and while hurricanes do generate a lot of rain and wind, neither of us suffer from probably the worst impact of a hurricane...storm surge. I'll take a hurricane any day vs. a tornado or wildfire.
I feel like I spent way to many times cleaning up flooded basements for the leftovers of huricanes like Camile. This is in Arlinton Va. So the effects can be wide spread.
 

dainthomas

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The low cost of living is a definite draw, though I do have to factor in the cost of the golf cart I'll need to drive to the bathroom from the sofa. I didn't see the poverty, or the racial inequality, but me being there will be one more voice against it, so that's a net plus for the down trodden. I assume the local hospital accepts my insurance, and it appears to be a good one. I'm not worried about the quality of education since I won't be attending classes, though I will contribute by paying my taxes.
I will have to give up homeless encampments and people shitting on the street, I may also miss some of the panhandlers that hang around.

For now. Rural hospitals are closing at an accelerating rate all over the country due to the effed up medical system.