If you were stuck in one state for the rest of your life...

[BurnItDwn]

Have lots of family in IL and WI as well. More in IL, but my mom, grandma, and favorite uncle all are in WI. Also I have a house in IL, and it would be difficult to sell my house if I wasn't able to be in the state to sell it.

So, I guess I'd pick IL, even though I'd honestly rather always stay in Wisconsin.

 

[dainthomas]

If price were no object, I'd pick Cali. I love the climate in Oregon, but it would be nice to occasionally go somewhere warm in the winter. I also love the beach and skiing, so there's not really another option in the US.

I honestly don't get people picking states in the Midwest. I used to live out there, but the monotony drove me nuts. Would be boring af being stuck in Michigan or Wisconsin for 40-50 years.

 

[Anubis]

Maine
fuck not weather

bring on the moose

 

[lxskllr]

Maine
fuck not weather

bring on the moose

I'll go with Maine. If countries are on the table, Norway.

 

[dethman]

gotta be california for me. i can golf year round and can drive to the beach or to the mountains to ski or snowboard within an hour and a half. 78 deg in feb today. love it.

 

[Leyawiin]

California of course. It would be easy to stay put. I haven't left the state since 2002 to begin with (seriously). I've been from one end of it to the other and from the ocean to Sierra Nevada during that time, just haven't had any reason to leave.

 

[Vdubchaos]

a) one should never be stuck in ANY place
b) I already live in a state I like and enjoy. If I didn't, I wouldn't be here.
c) each and every state has it's pros and cons

 

[Craig234]

Gaseous, then I could travel anywhere, cheaply.

Reading your posts, you are already there, aren't you?

 

[JulesMaximus]

This thread needs moar poll!

Oh, and California.

 

[zinfamous]

what, you didn't like your time in Fayet-nam?

 

[zinfamous]

Does South Carolina have good skiing?

lulz

 

[Fern]

I'm surprised no one picked NC. Like CA it has mountains, skiing, beaches and surfing/fishing/sailing/diving. NC just doesn't have a desert. But it has plenty of water (both oceanfront and drinking) and the real estate costs a lot less than CA. Tons of golf courses too.

No earthquakes, tsunamis, annual wild fires or mud slides.

Fern

 

[Fern]

Does South Carolina have good skiing?

No, not SC. You'd have to go across the border to NC or TN.

Fern

 

[MrSquished]

Cali!

 

[bigrash]

Hawaii. No doubt about it.

 

[Midwayman]

I'd say hawaii, but never being able to leave.... everyone I talk to who grew up there can't seem to wait to leave.

I'd pick California for the same reasons as most. There is a ton of variety in the state that I don't think you can really match elsewhere. There are other areas I wouldn't mind living in if you redefined it as you can't ever go more than a day's drive or similar time based method that would make the smaller states more appealing.

 

[zinfamous]

No, not SC. You'd have to go across the border to NC or TN.

Fern

He said Good skiing. NC has shit skiing. I am from NC. It is utter dreck for skiing.

NC does have those things you mentioned, of course, but the options are far more limited in general. It has also been overrun with metric loads of dickstains and Art Pope acolytes at the political level. It will soon fall into oblivion, unfortunately....which sucks, because it is a beautiful and wonderful place to live otherwise.

I do think it is a good suggestion, but CA is still superior in all of those classes (except real beaches: CA has no real beaches. fucking cold and gross. NC has the Outerbanks. can't beat that anywhere in the US)

 

[werepossum]

solid

Tennessee. Or North Carolina. Or South Carolina. I'm easy.

 

[mrblotto]

Ahnuld/ cumming day and night. It’s terrific, right? /Ahnuld

 

[Jeff7]

:hmm:
PA's been ok to me. It's got snowy winter wastelands in the north, where you still are expected to be at work on time in winter conditions that would kill 75% of the population in most other parts of the continental US, and slightly better conditions farther south. Not much in the way of earthquakes, no major severe weather issues where I'm at. I've never seen a mudslide or forest fire, nor had any reason to be concerned about them at all.
Plenty of rural areas that are devoid of people.
There's Amish country and really good crumb-topped cherry pies made using lard.
PA Dutch food.
....and lots of trees and cows? I don't know.


I might like a high-elevation desert environment. Something not oppressively hot like Arizona, but still very dry. I don't know what long-term water supplies/sustainability is like in places like that though. Idaho?

 

[twinrider1]

My first instinct was California. But really, my experiences were that the beaches weren't nearly as nice as those in Florida or the Gulf Coast of Texas.
California beaches that I visited were more like gravel than sand. And they have all that freaky looking seaweed with the bulbs that are ready to pop and release who knows what.

South Carolina. Not too hot, not too cold. Nice beaches.

 

[mrblotto]

Grew up in PA (northwest corner). It was awesome as a kid. All 4 seasons are there. Could walk home from school.

But I guess I graduated at the wrong time (or right perhaps lol). In my hometown there were pretty much 3 career choices: Nursing home, Oil refinery, or catalog shopping center (Blair wear anyone?)
Ok, make that 4 choices: the last one being the many bars in town.

Don't get me wrong, it was wonderful to grow up there, but the job prospects weren't (and still aren't) plentiful in my old stomping grounds.

Give me NC any day of the week

 

[RLGL]

I am currently in the state of Confusion, love it here.

 

[Jeeebus]

Florida. Beaches, fruit trees, wearing shorts/sandals while working in the yard this weekend, fishing, etc. Even we Floridians think California is full of crazy people.

 

[eldorado99]

Hmm, I would choose a solid which is in a state of sublimating to gaseous. Seems the coolest to me!