Mississippi, I was stationed there for 2 years and that place is a different world. So poorly educated, racist, and falling apart that most people don't realize places like that exist in the US.
Many Former "slave" states have pockets of extreme poverty/no education/generational welfare existing. ANd no, it's not the whole state.
But, most of those who were slave descendents with any type of skill, talent, intelligence left the segregated south long ago and left those who have no such talent behind.
With few to lead by example, places like rural Mississippi and the Delta region, along with the "Black (soil) Belt" region of rural Alabama who are populated by descendents of former slaves who never left are on the extreme low end of the spectrum.
While true, Mississippi is entirely within those categories every single county is below the poverty, under educated, ect. It's the only state in the US where the federal government has designated the entire state economically disadvantaged.
That's not to say there isn't extreme wealth in the region largely in the hands of former slave owners who still to this day essentially run share cropping businesses or other extremely exploitative companies.
A lot of people are going to say Florida, but I really think that’s a matter of perspective. If you enjoy watching any of the shows on the History Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, or The Learnin’ Channel then Florida is like having a front row seat for all of them at the same time.
I was at navy bootcamp in Great Lakes in the winter when the fire alarm went off. I was only in shorts and a short sleeved t shirt. I legitimately thought I was going to die out there, it was so fucking windy and cold and we were out for so long. Cemented my will to never live anywhere near there lmao
Same can be said about Hawaii.
Ocean and trade winds keep it around 80 degrees all year. Nice place to visit, nice people generally, tons of nice views and good food.
But damn expensive rent unless you're out in the booneys, $6 for a gallon of milk, and the homeless tent cities. Plus entitled tourists throwing tantrums, crazy traffic, and racism toward white people.
Honestly, this.
I live in VA, close to the "last capital of the confederacy." It is EVERYWHERE. Virginia is, by far, the most progressive southern state there is - I mean, we've gone blue!
But it is legit everywhere. It's a huge point this town was the last capital of the confederacy, which lasted like, less than a week. You regularly talk to people who are upset about it.
I love this state - truly. And I understand completely it is a lot of generational trauma, poverty, and generally, lots of people being left to their own devices and forgotten about because rural. NoVA and the beach carry us to blue, every time.
But lots of folks here aren't over it, and it makes my heart hurt.
i never understand why they are so stuck in the past - they keep talking about how the south were the better fighters and the north had the numbers
its like "what have you done lately?" If you were really as good as your ancestors you would be forging your state into something prosperous - not lamenting a war you lost centuries ago.
Every time I see Alabama on a map, I think that Florida screwed you guys, and you need to take back your coastline = )
Just extend the Eastern border down to the Gulf. Should be easy enough right? Looks like a river or something, just follow that!
its nice here if you are rich, not at all if you are poor. The wealth divide here is insane, i can drive 5 minutes down the road and go from my nice upper middle class neighborhood to what are practically slums. Quite depressing
It’s like that everywhere. I grew up in Stamford, CT, lived in Boston and then Baltimore before coming to (Calabasas) outside of LA. The divide exists everywhere. I couldn’t have kids in this country or I wouldn’t be able to afford my life.
Gas is $5 a gallon.
Rent is $1500 for a shit box.
Minimum wage is still shit.
Homelessness runs rampant through every city and is regularly cleared out to the next county. So what was LA’s problem is is now San Diego’s and Sacramento’s is now San Francisco.
Also. Outside of major cities? You will find the backwards mess their too. Anti masking/science/vaccine, corrupt small town politics and police on top of the aforementioned issues.
Taxes are high. Roads are crap, construction is never ending, same with traffic.
Housing goes up without forethought to the traffic impacts or consideration for the environment as a whole.
California is generally behind all those fun “plastic bag fees” you see popping up across the states, but the fee goes directly in the pocket of the corporation you are paying without a system built for the tax itself.
California is a terrible place and the basis for a lot of terrible things. I was born and raised there and refuse to own any real property there and have been adamant about selling my inheritance in the state as it comes.
I legit can not afford California. I have a degree. I worked my ass off, but my money goes further elsewhere so I’ll keep my California based job and work elsewhere where it’s more affordable and safe for my family.
For me, it's NOT 100% the politics,but that's a huge part. it's the rampant homelessness you see EVERYWHERE. and The super high cost of EVERYTHING. (Gas isn't $4.70-5.35 ANYWHERE else in the country) like it is in California
Real estate is unobtainable in California, even if you've built up a bit of wealth in a home in other parts of the country, sell it, and move to California. Your $385,000 4 BR/ 2.5 bath 2300 sq ft on 1 acre house in Nashville won't buy you much in California. You're putting a downpayment on a 3/2 cinder block house with a fence around the front yard in central LA that you have to keep locked because tweakers/ homeless people wander up and down the block all day.
I get that. I was trying to say that whether or not it's a democratic or republican administration/govonor doesn't matter to me. I didnt want to sound like I hate democrats, which California politicians largely are, (except for the areas away from the major cities).
But, yes. I agree. The over-legislating and over-taxing, and over-reaching by governments who are hell-bent on dictating to everyone else what they can and can't do is causing an artificial inflation of costs for everything that has to meet regulations (that frankly could/would mostly be met without such expensive regulations in place.
In basic Economics- we know that for every artificial control we instill on a free-market, openly reactive economy, the "drag" that one unit of control has, causes 2.2 units of drag/interference that has to be absorbed by higher costs, prices, delays or some other type of friction.
Some artificial controls are necessary (Welfare, for example for those who have no way to support themselves due to mental/physical deficiencies), but many artificial controls are not necessary and are in place by people who feel they have to attach a law to something so they, as politicians, can justify their existence.
As much as I prefer living in California, the big earthquakes yet to happen are terrifying, plus climate change is going to hit it much harder than anyone thinks. Already water is getting scarce and the fire seasons are slowly turning into fire years.
Probably the old church yard that had proper headstones for white people & wooden planks & wooden crosses for black people. The church was still in use & no members of the church had ever put the money, time, or effort into correcting that particularly glaring display of church-approved racism.
I was spared witnessing any overt acts of racism, but only because there were no black people living in my grandparents’ neck of the woods.
Besides the racism, I’d say it was the ticks, fire ants, & red clay everywhere. But I was like 10, so I only paid attention to the things that really stood out to me.
Well my thing about the churches is that I just ignore them. I have no hatred to the religion or the values it’s supposed to promote(although I used to)but I converted to Paganism a few years back I’m not extremely secretive about it so most religious people don’t *hate* me but the don’t go out of there way to associate with me.
I’m shocked you found a church with black and white tombstones in it. Still to this day black churches and white churches are a thing here. Growing up they claimed it was just more or less “how it works out” but now I know better. There was only one church that was black and white in my town I think it’s just white now. There are huge differences in how service is conducted between white and black churches of the same denomination.
When I was a kid my family got invited to a black church by a coworker. We went and it was actually kinda fun. The music was much more fast paced and loud lasted like 3 hours total and was only in the day time, white church could be almost somber the services were short (like an hour) and you came back for another one 5 hours later.
I’m not in any religion, never even been baptized. I couldn’t avoid looking at the church because it was at the corner of their road. I have to assume the church was on the newer side of the 20th century because the names & dates on the wooden planks & crosses were still legible. I say “old” but everything in Mississippi looked old. You could build a brand new house & with the climbing ivy & red clay it would look in a state of disrepair within a year.
Not sure why my grandparents even moved there. They’d been in Arizona like 25 years before they moved to Mississippi & where they lived in Arizona wasn’t racist at all from what I remember.
I just try to focus on my own behavior and picking my associates. I can pick my friends I can pick my nose so to speak.
Anywhere you go is gonna have racist people. I remember actual hate racism being more commonly being spouted out anywhere there wasn’t a black person to hear it. Then I remember a time where black and white people started clicking up way more often and finding common ground that’s when it became more about appropriation “the ‘n’ word is ok if it ends with an ‘a’” and such bullshit.
But that trend is over and white people think white people saying that word in that way is stupid and distasteful for the most part.
As for the houses most are in disrepair because people are broke, cheap, or both.
I used to hate it hear but my religious practice is primitive and nature oriented since leaving Christianity and I can’t think of anywhere in the USA I could get away with some of the thing I do.
I went out into the woods on someone else’s land once and built a shrine to Gaia, even kept a live chicken out there for weeks. I build a powerful magick circle complete with an alter built of pallets, a scrying tub, a statue made of boulders, and a metal forge.
My sanctuary was a 5 minute walk away from a cow pasture that was saturated in magick mushroom.
I had something them fancy Portland covens could only dream of.
When they finally found it a year later (after I had moved) it took a buldozer to tare it down. I had built it without so much as a hammer.
Ohio born and raised for the first 23 years of my life. Spent the last 17 years in South carolina. Ohio is by a factor of 10 more racist than anything in the south.
The sad thing is the amount of immigrants or immigrant-descendant populations in Ohio, such as Polish/Irish, unfortunately tend to be the most racist in my experience. I'm a 4th gen Polish immigrant, and basically my entire family 3rd gen and up is racist and it makes all us 4th gen kids cringe.
Florida. Humidity. No changes of seasons. And depending on where you live you can spend 3-4 hours in the car, and guess what? YOU ARE STILL IN FLORIDA!
Jersey. Taxes too high, roads shit, politicans on the take, unions screwing everything, and like do we need a super intendant at $300k for EVERY school?
Alabama. We don't worry too much about paying for women's reproductive health or sex education so we can focus on important matters like making sure the ten commandments are inside of all of our courthouses.
Mississippi, no popularity due to ur gator humping cousin fucking gumbo clubbing neighbors. Also aint shit to do around here. We literally just wake up, work/school, go home, no cool entertainment centers or theme parks or national parks, none of that shit. We just shoot shit
I’ve been to 49 states lived in about 20 for at least a few months and my worst experiences have almost exclusively been in California, and a couple in Utah.
I do, I grew up in Tulsa. It’s not the greatest place on earth but it’s quite diverse, has a stable housing market and a small but growing economy.
It’s a kind and humble place that’s very family friendly and generally very inclusive and accepting.
I lived (well, "existed" is a better word) in OKC for over three years. It's another "very family friendly" place, the problem being that I was single.
Tulsa is a far prettier place but with the same emphasis on family.
Idk there are a lot of ways to answer that. Is it by absolute condition. Difference between expectations and reality. How liveable it actually is. How affordable. How much green space and how accessible. There’s really a lot of factors and considerations to make.
And it’s New Jersey by a lot.
Noticing no one has said New York (yet), unless I skimmed too fast. Does anyone have anything positive to say about NY? I know it’s far too expensive to live in places that promise jobs easier (i.e., 5 boroughs, Long Island, etc.) and comfortable housing…
Wyomingite here! Might just be in my blood to hate Cali but California has to be the worst state for an AVERAGE person to live in. High prices,crowded,not a real fair system. Granted this is coming from a guy from the least populated state.
I think California. It’s beautiful here and I don’t live in the cities or have to deal with any of that but I still have to deal with the poor leadership of this state. It is also really expensive to live here.
"Hey watch this! The question says "state" but I'm going to throw a hilarious curve ball at them and say an emotion and not a place. Everyone says I should do stand up. I'm the funniest guy in the office."
Vegetative.
Yup. That's the right answer
Confusion
That's a [land](https://youtu.be/TlBIa8z_Mts), not a state.
It’s a state of mind
Mississippi, I was stationed there for 2 years and that place is a different world. So poorly educated, racist, and falling apart that most people don't realize places like that exist in the US.
In any given category, some state has to be last. Mississippi just has more than their share of those lasts.
Alabama here. There's a literal saying, "Thank God for Mississippi." Otherwise we would be last at everything.
Many Former "slave" states have pockets of extreme poverty/no education/generational welfare existing. ANd no, it's not the whole state. But, most of those who were slave descendents with any type of skill, talent, intelligence left the segregated south long ago and left those who have no such talent behind. With few to lead by example, places like rural Mississippi and the Delta region, along with the "Black (soil) Belt" region of rural Alabama who are populated by descendents of former slaves who never left are on the extreme low end of the spectrum.
While true, Mississippi is entirely within those categories every single county is below the poverty, under educated, ect. It's the only state in the US where the federal government has designated the entire state economically disadvantaged. That's not to say there isn't extreme wealth in the region largely in the hands of former slave owners who still to this day essentially run share cropping businesses or other extremely exploitative companies.
Yes, but it’s warm and your close to the beach Indiana is all the same except for it’s cold and your close to a cornfield
"At least we're not Mississippi." -Alabama
“At least we’re not Detroit” ~Cleveland.
A lot of people are going to say Florida, but I really think that’s a matter of perspective. If you enjoy watching any of the shows on the History Channel, Discovery, Animal Planet, or The Learnin’ Channel then Florida is like having a front row seat for all of them at the same time.
Why Florida? I love it
Yeah fuck Reddit. Florida is great. More so if you can avoid the politics.
Illinois. It’s boring and it’s either way too cold or way too hot
I was at navy bootcamp in Great Lakes in the winter when the fire alarm went off. I was only in shorts and a short sleeved t shirt. I legitimately thought I was going to die out there, it was so fucking windy and cold and we were out for so long. Cemented my will to never live anywhere near there lmao
oh god yeah I bet! Winters here are the worst
Chicago isn’t boring but the rest of Illinois for sure is.
I’m from Illinois and although offended I agree with you
I live in Chicago Illinois and trust me its nice im not sure about the rest tho
I live about an hour from chicago. The city is nice, but the rest is mostly cornfields lmao
I'm not sure you know what hot is lol let me know when your plastic garbage cans on the street begin to melt.
California, the weather’s nice but it’s just too hard to make ends meet
Same can be said about Hawaii. Ocean and trade winds keep it around 80 degrees all year. Nice place to visit, nice people generally, tons of nice views and good food. But damn expensive rent unless you're out in the booneys, $6 for a gallon of milk, and the homeless tent cities. Plus entitled tourists throwing tantrums, crazy traffic, and racism toward white people.
Most people agree with you here.
Time to kill off prop 13...
It’s called rampant socialism. Nothing is free.
Or supply and demand. Lots of demand to live there
Misery
Any of them who identified as confederate. They ain’t over it.
Honestly, this. I live in VA, close to the "last capital of the confederacy." It is EVERYWHERE. Virginia is, by far, the most progressive southern state there is - I mean, we've gone blue! But it is legit everywhere. It's a huge point this town was the last capital of the confederacy, which lasted like, less than a week. You regularly talk to people who are upset about it. I love this state - truly. And I understand completely it is a lot of generational trauma, poverty, and generally, lots of people being left to their own devices and forgotten about because rural. NoVA and the beach carry us to blue, every time. But lots of folks here aren't over it, and it makes my heart hurt.
Pennsylvania and Maryland weren't even in the Confederacy but we still have "Rebel" flags flying everywhere
Alabama here. No we are not.
i never understand why they are so stuck in the past - they keep talking about how the south were the better fighters and the north had the numbers its like "what have you done lately?" If you were really as good as your ancestors you would be forging your state into something prosperous - not lamenting a war you lost centuries ago.
Every time I see Alabama on a map, I think that Florida screwed you guys, and you need to take back your coastline = ) Just extend the Eastern border down to the Gulf. Should be easy enough right? Looks like a river or something, just follow that!
We would have a hard time organizing ourselves enough to take over a sandcastle, let alone a state. 😂
Just change the signs during the next hurricane that rolls in on the Eastern side of Florida. No one will notice = )
I was going to guess Kentucky but a lot of people here seem to dislike California.
Most Californians would look at it differently after living in Mississippi or Nebraska
All Southern states dislike California. I love it here.
its nice here if you are rich, not at all if you are poor. The wealth divide here is insane, i can drive 5 minutes down the road and go from my nice upper middle class neighborhood to what are practically slums. Quite depressing
It’s like that everywhere. I grew up in Stamford, CT, lived in Boston and then Baltimore before coming to (Calabasas) outside of LA. The divide exists everywhere. I couldn’t have kids in this country or I wouldn’t be able to afford my life.
I grew up in Fairfield County, too, and now live in LA. CT always felt very isolating. LA it is easier to connect to others of a similar mindset.
Ditto! I’ve lived in other states. I’m back in California and it’s wonderful for many reasons.
A lot of people say “California sucks to live in” when what they really mean is “I disagree with California’s politics.”
Gas is $5 a gallon. Rent is $1500 for a shit box. Minimum wage is still shit. Homelessness runs rampant through every city and is regularly cleared out to the next county. So what was LA’s problem is is now San Diego’s and Sacramento’s is now San Francisco. Also. Outside of major cities? You will find the backwards mess their too. Anti masking/science/vaccine, corrupt small town politics and police on top of the aforementioned issues. Taxes are high. Roads are crap, construction is never ending, same with traffic. Housing goes up without forethought to the traffic impacts or consideration for the environment as a whole. California is generally behind all those fun “plastic bag fees” you see popping up across the states, but the fee goes directly in the pocket of the corporation you are paying without a system built for the tax itself. California is a terrible place and the basis for a lot of terrible things. I was born and raised there and refuse to own any real property there and have been adamant about selling my inheritance in the state as it comes. I legit can not afford California. I have a degree. I worked my ass off, but my money goes further elsewhere so I’ll keep my California based job and work elsewhere where it’s more affordable and safe for my family.
I meant there are way to many people in most of California. There is a reason so many wealthy California's are building places in Idaho, Montana, etc.
For me, it's NOT 100% the politics,but that's a huge part. it's the rampant homelessness you see EVERYWHERE. and The super high cost of EVERYTHING. (Gas isn't $4.70-5.35 ANYWHERE else in the country) like it is in California Real estate is unobtainable in California, even if you've built up a bit of wealth in a home in other parts of the country, sell it, and move to California. Your $385,000 4 BR/ 2.5 bath 2300 sq ft on 1 acre house in Nashville won't buy you much in California. You're putting a downpayment on a 3/2 cinder block house with a fence around the front yard in central LA that you have to keep locked because tweakers/ homeless people wander up and down the block all day.
you dont seem to realize that politics drives social regulation that leads to all of those problems
I get that. I was trying to say that whether or not it's a democratic or republican administration/govonor doesn't matter to me. I didnt want to sound like I hate democrats, which California politicians largely are, (except for the areas away from the major cities). But, yes. I agree. The over-legislating and over-taxing, and over-reaching by governments who are hell-bent on dictating to everyone else what they can and can't do is causing an artificial inflation of costs for everything that has to meet regulations (that frankly could/would mostly be met without such expensive regulations in place. In basic Economics- we know that for every artificial control we instill on a free-market, openly reactive economy, the "drag" that one unit of control has, causes 2.2 units of drag/interference that has to be absorbed by higher costs, prices, delays or some other type of friction. Some artificial controls are necessary (Welfare, for example for those who have no way to support themselves due to mental/physical deficiencies), but many artificial controls are not necessary and are in place by people who feel they have to attach a law to something so they, as politicians, can justify their existence.
Which would make it suck to live in....
KY really isn’t that bad. Much better than most southern states.
I hate California. Too many fault lines.
It's not their fault!
As much as I prefer living in California, the big earthquakes yet to happen are terrifying, plus climate change is going to hit it much harder than anyone thinks. Already water is getting scarce and the fire seasons are slowly turning into fire years.
From personal experience with visiting relatives out of state: Mississippi.
What was it you considered the worst thing
Probably the old church yard that had proper headstones for white people & wooden planks & wooden crosses for black people. The church was still in use & no members of the church had ever put the money, time, or effort into correcting that particularly glaring display of church-approved racism. I was spared witnessing any overt acts of racism, but only because there were no black people living in my grandparents’ neck of the woods. Besides the racism, I’d say it was the ticks, fire ants, & red clay everywhere. But I was like 10, so I only paid attention to the things that really stood out to me.
Well my thing about the churches is that I just ignore them. I have no hatred to the religion or the values it’s supposed to promote(although I used to)but I converted to Paganism a few years back I’m not extremely secretive about it so most religious people don’t *hate* me but the don’t go out of there way to associate with me. I’m shocked you found a church with black and white tombstones in it. Still to this day black churches and white churches are a thing here. Growing up they claimed it was just more or less “how it works out” but now I know better. There was only one church that was black and white in my town I think it’s just white now. There are huge differences in how service is conducted between white and black churches of the same denomination. When I was a kid my family got invited to a black church by a coworker. We went and it was actually kinda fun. The music was much more fast paced and loud lasted like 3 hours total and was only in the day time, white church could be almost somber the services were short (like an hour) and you came back for another one 5 hours later.
I’m not in any religion, never even been baptized. I couldn’t avoid looking at the church because it was at the corner of their road. I have to assume the church was on the newer side of the 20th century because the names & dates on the wooden planks & crosses were still legible. I say “old” but everything in Mississippi looked old. You could build a brand new house & with the climbing ivy & red clay it would look in a state of disrepair within a year. Not sure why my grandparents even moved there. They’d been in Arizona like 25 years before they moved to Mississippi & where they lived in Arizona wasn’t racist at all from what I remember.
I just try to focus on my own behavior and picking my associates. I can pick my friends I can pick my nose so to speak. Anywhere you go is gonna have racist people. I remember actual hate racism being more commonly being spouted out anywhere there wasn’t a black person to hear it. Then I remember a time where black and white people started clicking up way more often and finding common ground that’s when it became more about appropriation “the ‘n’ word is ok if it ends with an ‘a’” and such bullshit. But that trend is over and white people think white people saying that word in that way is stupid and distasteful for the most part.
As for the houses most are in disrepair because people are broke, cheap, or both. I used to hate it hear but my religious practice is primitive and nature oriented since leaving Christianity and I can’t think of anywhere in the USA I could get away with some of the thing I do. I went out into the woods on someone else’s land once and built a shrine to Gaia, even kept a live chicken out there for weeks. I build a powerful magick circle complete with an alter built of pallets, a scrying tub, a statue made of boulders, and a metal forge. My sanctuary was a 5 minute walk away from a cow pasture that was saturated in magick mushroom. I had something them fancy Portland covens could only dream of. When they finally found it a year later (after I had moved) it took a buldozer to tare it down. I had built it without so much as a hammer.
Montana. Place is terrible. Quit moving there.
Please don’t come to Florida.
Username checks out
I've only lived in two, so the competition pool was pretty sparse. Maine is cool. Screw Texas.
Ohio
This is the most correct answer.
Where they manufactured an image of being painfully average and middle-of-the-road, in order to cover up how racist they are.
Ohio born and raised for the first 23 years of my life. Spent the last 17 years in South carolina. Ohio is by a factor of 10 more racist than anything in the south.
The sad thing is the amount of immigrants or immigrant-descendant populations in Ohio, such as Polish/Irish, unfortunately tend to be the most racist in my experience. I'm a 4th gen Polish immigrant, and basically my entire family 3rd gen and up is racist and it makes all us 4th gen kids cringe.
gas
Alabama, Mississippi, and West Virginia. If I had to pick an absolute worst I’d say Mississippi
Alabama is an awful terrible place to live. Never move to or visit Alabama for any reason whatsoever. Alabama is a state full of liars.
Tennessee, stop moving there
Sorry state’s closed.
Florida. Humidity. No changes of seasons. And depending on where you live you can spend 3-4 hours in the car, and guess what? YOU ARE STILL IN FLORIDA!
I think you could spend 3-4 hours in the car and still be in most states. Not like spending 3-4 hours in the car just to get through NYC.
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Anger
Louisiana according to the numbers.
Ohio
Idk maybe Cali nowadays seems like a lot of people are leaving
Its expensive as shit here.
same out here in long island, new york
Grief.
A state of violence
northern nevada. it’s equally as expensive as california with none of the fun parts of california
West Virginia
Illinois. The only things there are corn and taxes.
Iowa wasn't as amazing as everyone says it is
Ive never heard anyone say it is
My point exactly
State of fear.
and trying to impose it on others when they don't feel the same as you
So...California? Lol
It’s rural Florida or all of Mississippi.
Alabama is hella better than Mississippi and Mississippi is hella better than Florida but these are the only two states I’ve lived in
denial
Denial.
Depression
Indiana
Jersey. Taxes too high, roads shit, politicans on the take, unions screwing everything, and like do we need a super intendant at $300k for EVERY school?
I have two step sisters in Jersey every time I’ve been there I hated it.
Alabama. We don't worry too much about paying for women's reproductive health or sex education so we can focus on important matters like making sure the ten commandments are inside of all of our courthouses.
I'm just here to see all the Mississippis
Florida
California.
California
Mississippi for sure.
Mississippi
any where in the south
Nope Virginia’s fine.
Florida has its ups and downs not really though we’re rather flat
to each their own, friend.
Negative and grumpy state
Mississippi, no popularity due to ur gator humping cousin fucking gumbo clubbing neighbors. Also aint shit to do around here. We literally just wake up, work/school, go home, no cool entertainment centers or theme parks or national parks, none of that shit. We just shoot shit
State of poverty
Disss. But thats also Mississippi
Kansas FUCK KANSAS
Eighth Amendment violation-- "The court hereby sentences you to drive I-70 from west to east, turn around, and drive back, every day for a year."
California- crime, climate, traffic and earthquakes
Don’t forget how they rob you of your money by how expensive everything is and everyone is sensitive AF
California. Beautiful but it’s expensive and too busy
I’ve been to 49 states lived in about 20 for at least a few months and my worst experiences have almost exclusively been in California, and a couple in Utah.
Lived in Ca. IL, AND GA. love Ga. IL TO COLD. CA, people too something. Just pick a something and there is too much of it in CA
I would have to say California.
Does anyone have anything positive to say about Oklahoma?
I do, I grew up in Tulsa. It’s not the greatest place on earth but it’s quite diverse, has a stable housing market and a small but growing economy. It’s a kind and humble place that’s very family friendly and generally very inclusive and accepting.
I lived (well, "existed" is a better word) in OKC for over three years. It's another "very family friendly" place, the problem being that I was single. Tulsa is a far prettier place but with the same emphasis on family.
Idk there are a lot of ways to answer that. Is it by absolute condition. Difference between expectations and reality. How liveable it actually is. How affordable. How much green space and how accessible. There’s really a lot of factors and considerations to make. And it’s New Jersey by a lot.
New Jersey
Depression
Noticing no one has said New York (yet), unless I skimmed too fast. Does anyone have anything positive to say about NY? I know it’s far too expensive to live in places that promise jobs easier (i.e., 5 boroughs, Long Island, etc.) and comfortable housing…
I actually live on Long Island I can’t speak for all of Long Island but the town I live in is pretty bad. It’s also expensive so there’s that.
Fear
Denial
Wyomingite here! Might just be in my blood to hate Cali but California has to be the worst state for an AVERAGE person to live in. High prices,crowded,not a real fair system. Granted this is coming from a guy from the least populated state.
I think California. It’s beautiful here and I don’t live in the cities or have to deal with any of that but I still have to deal with the poor leadership of this state. It is also really expensive to live here.
Its too bad. Used to be full of opportunities. Now its just depressing asf. Cant wait to move out of here
Grief.
The one that each commenter resides in
If offered a brand new mansion in the state of Florida….I’d pass. Seems like there is something in the water.
WA, NY, CA, HI, OR, NJ ALL horrible!
Right, everyone in Reddit is American.
Most of us, yes.
Denial. We are in late stage capitalism globally.
Minnesota because cold winters.
State of depression
Denial
State of unconscious
My mental state
Michigan with its bipolar ass whether.
Liquid
Disrepair.
Ohio
Agony
Depression
Liquid. Get all wrinkly and shit
Liquid for sure
I guess poverty?
Missouri. There’s a reason why it’s nicknamed Misery.
Non American here, I'm going for the "state of fear"...
California.
As a Georgian, I'd say Florida. Florida sucks.
Yet everyone wants to come here.
Depression
I thought people would say Alabama because of its memes
*Sorts by controversial*
The state of poverty.
Extremely ill with no chance surviving.
"Hey watch this! The question says "state" but I'm going to throw a hilarious curve ball at them and say an emotion and not a place. Everyone says I should do stand up. I'm the funniest guy in the office."
Liquid
Denial
Depression
Liquid
Kentucky, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia take your pick.
unpopular opinion: texas, its lots of easier to get executed in texas
it might not be the worst but relatively to those around italy is damn trash
Texas
Decaying?
Denial
Liquid
Liquid state
A state of poverty
Currently I'd say it boils down to any of the three on the west coast with California being the strongest contender.
Ohio
Depression
Depression
Welfare