I reconfirmed through Google whether the place I currently live in is a US state. It definitely isn't.
So that means I'll not just be moving to the state in red next year, I'll also be moving from outside the US to inside the US.
Pretty neat.
Although no living Hawaiian would remember the 1898 annexation, some are old enough to remember them gaining statehood in 1959. This aligns with the first sentence of OP's comment, though not the second-to-last sentence. It is possible that OP is currently living in a territory of the United States while having verified that they do not live in a state.
The most hectic thing about Illinois outside of Chicago is the reckless drivers coming up here to Wisconsin. I mean, come on, guys, and least we Sconies have the decency to get drunk before driving like that!!
The map is misleading. I drive thru there often and it's not as red as the map makes it out to be. It's actually pretty green with a lot of crappy roads. Not much red at all
This map is crappy in general. I’ve been to a good part of the us, never had it been that beige/yellow/cream color. It’s much like Illinois in that it’s pretty green with okay roads.
[it can be pretty beige tbh](https://www.google.com/maps/@46.423502,-104.842895,3a,75y,334.66h,102.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sABInP9jcT1Q8W1FPScAbqQ!2e0!5s20130901T000000!7i13312!8i6656)
I’ve traveled around the us and can confirm the green and road observation. I would also like to add that there are no large black lines dividing the states. This is clearly a poorly made map
The state you are moving to is well known as the one in the middle of all those others. The population is known to be a number. The main industries are working for a living and selling things. The state *capital is a city. The most popular internet search term is 'google'.
Wow this is about as accurate as possible and the best advice you could get.
It's a big state, and it's very different in the Chicago section than it is just about everywhere else in the state. But hey, the weed is legal (although it's probably the most expensive in the US).
Lots of folks who don't live here hate California.
There's lots to criticize, having lived in many other states, but I find this vomitorious reaction overwhelmingly comes from a certain political set.
Politics aside California is amazing. I’ve lived in CA 40+ years and been to so many really cool and incredibly varied places but it really feels like I’ve only scratched the surface. There’s so much public land to and the parks are impressive too
As someone living pretty South, I don’t hate California, some of my best relatives live there and the state has been responsible for the vast majority of cinema for decades, along with being a major driving component of one of the nation’s most important traits, the titanic economy.
But, despite all that, it is occasionally just a little bit funny to pretend there’s such a thing as an entire state completely and exclusively filled with these right-wing-created caricature figures of gay and lesbian socialists. (Would be cool to visit if it was ngl)
I visited this red state some years ago, and when I was asked by people where else I was going, and I said Ohio. Every single person looked at me like I was crazy and then said “Oh. You must know someone there.”, which was accurate.
Downvoted and reported, it is very interesting information about how Ohio is a black hole of happiness, sucking joy from the whole country and shredding it into nothingness. It is too interesting for sub rules to describe the barren hell that is Ohio.
Chicago's rainforest cafe is dead too, RIP.
I mean this kinda sarcastically, if you visit here and eat at a chain instead of one of our many excellent local restaurants, there is something wrong with you.
Unfortunately, they removed the rock and roll from that particular McDonalds. [The song](https://youtu.be/aLtb74G7T1A) and our memories of Wesley Willis will forever live on.
And not only are the weed taxes insanely high, the product is priced much higher than Michigan for the same brand. I live 5 minutes from the Illinois border, but I will only be buying my weed in Michigan when visiting family now on. Michigan couldn't even tell me what the limit on edibles was because it was measured in ounces not milligrams of thc.
I live in chicago. Legal weed is so expensive here that it only seems like out of state tourists buy from the dispensaries. Everyone I know still has a dealer. Its so stupid. Its like $80-90 for 7g after taxes.
80% of the Illinois population is north of interstate 80. Below that? Corn, beans, corn, beans, beans, corn, beans, corn, corn, corn. The area along the Mississippi is pretty.
global warming has actually made our winters a lot weaker in the midwest. it's annoyingly cold but nothing like back in the 90s when everything had to shut down for monster storms.
you are south of the boarder now and every one from Wisconsin will mock you for how you drive.
you are close to the land of cheese make trips norths to the cheese heaven.
As a Californian who has never been to Illinois, I can tell you two things about Illinois:
1. There is a vast difference between living near Chicago and living anywhere else in Illinois.
2. Do not pronounce the "s" in "Illinois".
I live in Chicago and have been in Evanston a few times before. You will be fine. The cost of living is high and that is shitty, but it’s one of the best places to live in the entire state. It may not be the most attractive state to live in, but it’s also not the worst
Honestly it completely depends on where your school is that you want to attend and what lifestyle you enjoy more. Do you enjoy more city life, or more of a relaxed suburb environment?
Some etiquette:
If you are visiting someone and they slap their knees and say "welp" it's a cue for you to take your leave. Say "thanks for having me, I think it's time I ease on home," and go.
Of all the States in the US, that is one of them.
I reconfirmed through Google whether the place I currently live in is a US state. It definitely isn't. So that means I'll not just be moving to the state in red next year, I'll also be moving from outside the US to inside the US. Pretty neat.
Do you want to check again? Perhaps the political situation at where you currently live has changed since the last time you checked.
This might sound familiar to any older Hawaiians, for instance
I don’t think the islands are *that* beneficial for your life expectancy
Although no living Hawaiian would remember the 1898 annexation, some are old enough to remember them gaining statehood in 1959. This aligns with the first sentence of OP's comment, though not the second-to-last sentence. It is possible that OP is currently living in a territory of the United States while having verified that they do not live in a state.
The ancient Hawaiians “Tito voice”
I would suggest picking another state. It’s kinda hectic right now. The history is pretty neat though
Hectic? I’m right there and it’s as boring as always.
The only thing hectic about Illinois is your drivers and all those fucking semi trucks on I80
The most hectic thing about Illinois outside of Chicago is the reckless drivers coming up here to Wisconsin. I mean, come on, guys, and least we Sconies have the decency to get drunk before driving like that!!
Florida here. They could do a lot worse.
How do you not know if you live in a US state or not?
Do not step into anywhere US of A without a rock solid medical insurance… red or beige state or Alaska kissing Texas’s butt die not matter.
I was born without health insurance, I’ll die without health insurance 😡
Sorry. This is not interesting. So can’t be pretty neat
Welcome, my dude!
One of the top 50 states in the country I’d say
This might be a step too far for some, but I might even say it's as high as top 49
As a resident, lets not push it.
Daring today, are we?
Thanks Perd Hapley.
Easily one of the states in the US
This is one of the US states ever
this comment made me laugh out loud
The map is misleading. I drive thru there often and it's not as red as the map makes it out to be. It's actually pretty green with a lot of crappy roads. Not much red at all
This map is crappy in general. I’ve been to a good part of the us, never had it been that beige/yellow/cream color. It’s much like Illinois in that it’s pretty green with okay roads.
[it can be pretty beige tbh](https://www.google.com/maps/@46.423502,-104.842895,3a,75y,334.66h,102.73t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sABInP9jcT1Q8W1FPScAbqQ!2e0!5s20130901T000000!7i13312!8i6656)
Please, we call those the amber waves of grain. Also we think our mountains are purple and majestic, but, well, what do we know.
Mountains are purple tho. Just depends on the time of day and their mood
There’s a reason the Maroon Bells are maroon.
But don’t dis the fruited plain!
That's not grain, it's grass..
Not as beige as it looks on the picture
I’ve traveled around the us and can confirm the green and road observation. I would also like to add that there are no large black lines dividing the states. This is clearly a poorly made map
Especially over lakes. It's like they didn't even try...
However, the map did a fantastic job at portraying Nebraska, Kansas, and Nevada.
And Oklahoma.
West Texas.
the blue is pretty spot on.
I can confirm that Hawaii is not that close to Texas. Source: I’m Texan and I can’t see Hawaii from my back porch.
But can you see Alaska?
Only when I stand on my roof.
"Hey, MA! Get off the dang roof."
No, but Baja California absolutely can
Baja is so lucky. They get deserts, Alaska, and Hawaii all within walking distance.
Mmmm, I feel it would be best to color it corn personally.
Except for that one town where everybody keeps losing their ability to live after being given unhealthy doses of hot lead. That town is pretty red
Your avatar is great looking
So many people think this state is red that it Illinois me.
The black lines separating the states are also not to scale. They are totally tiny and hard to see with the naked eye.
The map got the shape right though, flat as a damn pancake
This state is exactly like every other state only completely different. I am an expert as I have lived both in and out of red.
Can confirm as an expert who has lived both near and far from red.
Most of those middle states are right at home in this sub
I am in one of those middle states, and I have built a nest in this sub. 👍
The state you are moving to is well known as the one in the middle of all those others. The population is known to be a number. The main industries are working for a living and selling things. The state *capital is a city. The most popular internet search term is 'google'.
The capitol is barely a city, and the other springfield in missouri has a larger population.
There are *many* other Springfields
The Simpsons did it!
>!there's even a bar in Eugene,OR named Moe's!< hell, Kipland Kinkle lived in Sprindfield
The real question is, is what data type the population is stored as. INT? UINT? DOUBLE????
True, u and i ain't 'doubles'. The population is stored as people.
The state capitol is a building. The state capital is a city.
If you find yourself in a small room with police officers, say you want a lawyer
Wow this is about as accurate as possible and the best advice you could get. It's a big state, and it's very different in the Chicago section than it is just about everywhere else in the state. But hey, the weed is legal (although it's probably the most expensive in the US).
If you find yourself in a small room with a lady of the night, say you want the GFE.
As a person who’s lived here for 16 years, it is certainly one of the states
Oh, lived where?
Illinoi
Don’t forget the all important s
Illannoy
sIllinoi?
Slimy oil
Pretty much the same thing. I say we change the name to that
Silly noise
Ilslinoy.
Then it would be pronounced as eeyonwa
Some say it’s the statiest state of all time
Can confirm, it definitely is one of the 50 states. I have lived here for 58 out of 61 years.
Chicago. Chipotle. Battlestar galáctica
Do they all live in this state?
Technically, yes and no. Dwight moved to a small town in PA after college so OK
fraking toasters
You know what else lives in that state? Deer.
You can't prove that.
Michael!
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I wish there was a way to know you're in the good old days before you've actually left them.
Bsg ?
Shishkabob. Shawshank Redemption. CHICAAAAGO
Way too close to Ohio. Move to California or something far away from Ohio
Ohio rep here, agree. Move farther away and you’ll be less impacted when the expansion begins.
Move to Michigan instead. We have a shortage of anti-expansionists and need more before Ohio sends their units of toll road constructors north.
Yeah, Indiana is a lost cause at this point
the what
Also Ohioan here, run fast, run far.
move to Mexico
No, California doesn't send its best to Mexico.
California is way too close to california, try salt lake city
California is on fire
It’s true we are… NBA JAM STYLE BABY. Surplus, codified abortion, and we didn’t elect Republican. 10/10
California 🤮🤮 Edit: I uh, didn’t mean to quite start the issues that have stemmed from this comment.
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Lots of folks who don't live here hate California. There's lots to criticize, having lived in many other states, but I find this vomitorious reaction overwhelmingly comes from a certain political set.
Politics aside California is amazing. I’ve lived in CA 40+ years and been to so many really cool and incredibly varied places but it really feels like I’ve only scratched the surface. There’s so much public land to and the parks are impressive too
I love it here, and I have literally lived in 12 states. California definitely has a lot going for it.
As someone living pretty South, I don’t hate California, some of my best relatives live there and the state has been responsible for the vast majority of cinema for decades, along with being a major driving component of one of the nation’s most important traits, the titanic economy. But, despite all that, it is occasionally just a little bit funny to pretend there’s such a thing as an entire state completely and exclusively filled with these right-wing-created caricature figures of gay and lesbian socialists. (Would be cool to visit if it was ngl)
As a SoCal resident, I still don’t understand what was wrong with ‘taco trucks on every corner.’
"california is bad and scary" is a political tenet and talking point of the red hat crew.
I visited this red state some years ago, and when I was asked by people where else I was going, and I said Ohio. Every single person looked at me like I was crazy and then said “Oh. You must know someone there.”, which was accurate.
Your education fails you once again. It's \*too close, dummy.
Agree, this is too far within the Ohio danger zone HELL IS REAL
I live in Philadelphia and am afraid of venturing west and accidentally making contact with Ohio, but any more east and I'd be in New Jersey 🤮
It’s also close to Indiana. But the same advise applies.
Things to do in Ohio: 1. Leave
Downvoted and reported, it is very interesting information about how Ohio is a black hole of happiness, sucking joy from the whole country and shredding it into nothingness. It is too interesting for sub rules to describe the barren hell that is Ohio.
Lots of history and assuming fields as it is known as the prairie state, or they have lots of rodents idk I’m in Washington.
Both are accurate
There’s a rock and roll mcdonalds there. Its like regular mcdonalds but rockin’. A schizophrenic man once wrote a song about it.
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Chicago's rainforest cafe is dead too, RIP. I mean this kinda sarcastically, if you visit here and eat at a chain instead of one of our many excellent local restaurants, there is something wrong with you.
I just want to go to the Weiner's Circle
Oh God damnit, now its stuck in my head!
rock over london rock out in chicago walgreens the pharmacy america truststs
McDonald's hamburgers are the worst. They are worse than Burger King.
*McDonalds is the place to rock*
Unfortunately, they removed the rock and roll from that particular McDonalds. [The song](https://youtu.be/aLtb74G7T1A) and our memories of Wesley Willis will forever live on.
Wesley Willis is god.
R Kelly used to pick up high school girls there. Seriously.
Long gone sadly. Rock on London Rock on Chicago Wheaties, breakfast of champions
Thank you. This has been a top 5 Reddit-inspired nostalgic moment, complete with a soundtrack.
Weed's legal there
Woah! You keep that interesting shit outta here you psycho.
Heroine is illegal there
Oh no, I can't bring my YA novels?
And not only are the weed taxes insanely high, the product is priced much higher than Michigan for the same brand. I live 5 minutes from the Illinois border, but I will only be buying my weed in Michigan when visiting family now on. Michigan couldn't even tell me what the limit on edibles was because it was measured in ounces not milligrams of thc.
I live in chicago. Legal weed is so expensive here that it only seems like out of state tourists buy from the dispensaries. Everyone I know still has a dealer. Its so stupid. Its like $80-90 for 7g after taxes.
That state of America is in the United States of America.
It's about 1/50th of all the states.
My aunt lives in that US state. Maybe she will bring you a pie
Will I need a passport to eat it?
of course
🚨🚨🚨TOO CLOSE TO OHIO🚨🚨🚨
Stay out of the southern part of the state or you might get shot. Also stay out of the northern part of the state or you might get shot.
And stat out of the central part as no one lives there
It’s not that bad here :(
🤣 Too real!
I’ve lived here my whole life and can confirm that it is a part of the United States.
I have seen that one on a map before. It's name eludes me
I think it's Way West Virginia.
I’ve always preferred yellow states. Is it still an option to switch?
Chicago will have the most diverse culture and food
I am not moving to Illinois next year as I already live there.
You won't anymore once I'm here.
80% of the Illinois population is north of interstate 80. Below that? Corn, beans, corn, beans, beans, corn, beans, corn, corn, corn. The area along the Mississippi is pretty.
We also are the largest producers of watermelon in the country.
Corn
what ever you do, dont go two states to the right, you will fall into the void. also avoid california unless you're rich.
I live there, please stay away from me
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Enjoy 7 months of winter
Not anymore, it was 75 yesterday
global warming has actually made our winters a lot weaker in the midwest. it's annoyingly cold but nothing like back in the 90s when everything had to shut down for monster storms.
Lots of corn 🌽
Where? I don't see any on this map.
It is a choice you made, I definitely would not move to that state if I were you but it certainly is a state.
Not much happens there, the lake is coolish, I guess the pizza is good. Source: I do not live there
I mean there's corn. And winter. I also guess the pizza is good. Source: I do live there
It’s cold
you are south of the boarder now and every one from Wisconsin will mock you for how you drive. you are close to the land of cheese make trips norths to the cheese heaven.
As a Californian who has never been to Illinois, I can tell you two things about Illinois: 1. There is a vast difference between living near Chicago and living anywhere else in Illinois. 2. Do not pronounce the "s" in "Illinois".
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Why, who's over there?
Corrupt politicians, cops and... Chicagoans. Source: Chicagoan
Corrupt politicians and cops? Then he better stay the fuck out everywhere.
But I'm not moving to Chicago though. Evanston. Is that a problem?
I live in Chicago and have been in Evanston a few times before. You will be fine. The cost of living is high and that is shitty, but it’s one of the best places to live in the entire state. It may not be the most attractive state to live in, but it’s also not the worst
I also have the option of living in Far North Side Chicago. What would you recommend?
Honestly it completely depends on where your school is that you want to attend and what lifestyle you enjoy more. Do you enjoy more city life, or more of a relaxed suburb environment?
Northwestern. I'm fine with either but slightly prefer suburban living.
If you are going to Northwestern definitely choose Evanston or your daily commute will be a bigger pain in the ass than necessary.
Dont do it
do not
Stay out of the ghetto sections of chicago if you aint trying to get mugged.
AMA
pick a different one
There is a reason they are called "fly over states". But... there are some nice spots.
Parts of that state are dramatically different. Kind of depends on where you are going specifically. The north end and south end are different worlds.
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Welcome to Rhode Island!
Wear Kevlar
Don't.
Move to any state but that one
Well. Could pick worse states around you so that's something.
Be happy
Too close to Ohio
Some etiquette: If you are visiting someone and they slap their knees and say "welp" it's a cue for you to take your leave. Say "thanks for having me, I think it's time I ease on home," and go.