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Net Favorability of U.S. States
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I'm surprised Jersey is rated so low relative to Texas having lived in both states.
Georgia deserves its score. Georgia is great aside from the Atlanta traffic design.
I'm surprised Texas is so high, but I'm not surprised that NJ is low, isn't there an old meme to the effect that New Jersey smells bad/ is full of toxic industrial chemicals or something?
Texas may have some crap politics statewide, but the major cities are top notch and Hill Country is a national treasure, same goes for the brisket and the old style country music.
One of these days I’ll get down to Big Bend and up to the mountains in the west.
I recently got down to Austin and was lucky enough to see the bats fly out from the bridge downtown. Millions of bats, was a sight to behold.
I'm in the process of preparing for a move to San Antonio, and the thing I'm genuinely scared about is the politics. This admin, the governor, being gay, on the left... The whole idea is very frightening, to be honest. I'm hearing good things about San Antonio, though, and I'm hoping being in a city will insulate me from the other stuff a bit
the new mayor is openly gay, if that's any reassurance to you.
There is! They even joke about it in Futurama.
New Jersey's negative reputation is almost entirely due to people from NYC jeering at an outgroup
People from Philadelphia and the whole of Delaware also routinely dunk on NJ for many reasons.
Pine Barrens: Am I a joke to you?
Seriously though, NJ has some seriously varied ecology from the Delaware basin to the Piedmont, the Skylands, and more. People from outside just don’t think much about it because their experience of NJ is the clusterfuck that is flying into Newark Airport and driving to Manhattan through the meadowlands sprawl.
All I know is at least when the world ends I’ll at least make for a good Warboy; if I can drive in this mess unscathed then I can definitely handle the wasteland.
NYC has so much more influence that my comment still stands.
Plus, NJ is Philadelphia's collective weed man, and would be more bearable to share a state with than rural PA (see: SEPTA funding issues [and Pittsburgh is having issues with their public transit too])
Jersey is the only state where if you tell someone you're from there, they will tell you why they hate it (and the poor soul probably got stuck in traffic there once while passing through).
I think my response of "Good, don't come back then" probably makes them even more unfavorable to NJ lmfao
Atlanta (the city proper) is getting better, despite GDOT's best efforts to sabotage it. It's the metro Atlanta suburbs that really suck.
I'm still butthurt the Atlanta suburbs managed to block the MARTA expansion that was voted for and funded.