Jonathan Bailey
Well-Known Member
In all 50 states and in every city, so it seems.
The compromises:
In cheap states/cities mostly in Red/Republican as in my current Lawton, Oklahoma:
the pros: cheap rent albeit crappy housing quality, cheap vehicle registration, pro-gun, pro-hunting
the cons: death penalty and heavy use of it, poor weather conditions, boring, bible-thumpers, roads and streets in poor repair, limited employment opportunities, poor education system, limited welfare/social services/health care/dental care, ignorant people, lack of education, racism, homophobia, high grocery taxes, limited consumer choice as in shopping/supermarkets
In expensive states/cities mostly in Blue/Democrat as my former California:
the pros: beautiful natural scenery, more favorable weather conditions, better welfare/social services/healthcare/dental care, better grocery shopping quality, not-so-boring culture, better-maintained roads, better education, better employment opportunities, more educated people, more accepting of diverse sexual orientations
the cons: expensive rent, expensive real estate, anti-gun, anti-self-defense, higher crime rates in larger cities, more congestion, higher vehicle costs
These red states have mostly poor people ironically who tend to still vote Republican. They feel their gun rights and deer-hunting rights are more important than healthcare, quality affordable housing, quality nutrition and welfare benefits if they are poor and union-scale wages if they are working. I'm pro-gun but feel I have to sacrifice quality social services benefits to enjoy the right to lawful self-defense against thugs. I have to get a crappy moldy apartment in a dump like Oklahoma to afford to have no roommates.
I left Boise, ID this month and came to Lawton, OK for a 1 br $420 apartment and gain the freedom of being able to live roommate-free. I would not be able to live roommate free in Boise, ID or California on my meager VA pension disability benefit at $1,127/mo. Coming to Lawton, OK also puts me at lower elevation than Boise, ID so my asthma is less aggravated and the high humidity here frees my lungs up some. Dry air makes breathing more labored.
Except my cheap apartment smells moldy, Lawton is a slummish white-trash town and Oklahoma is full of nasty flash floods and tornadoes. The streets here are badlands with huge cracks and potholes. Not bike-friendly. No bike lanes in south-central Oklahoma like Boise, ID. No nice parks and river bikeways like Boise. Not a nice place to ride a bicycle. There are a bunch of stupid yankee-hating hicks with Southern drawls and trashy-looking people all around here. The poor people always get the crappy end of the stick anywhere and everywhere.
Pick your poison my fellow poor Americans: high rent sunny California, extreme gun-grabbing and still expensive New York or cheap-housing/expensive groceries dumb-redneck Oklahoma in tornado alley?
The compromises:
In cheap states/cities mostly in Red/Republican as in my current Lawton, Oklahoma:
the pros: cheap rent albeit crappy housing quality, cheap vehicle registration, pro-gun, pro-hunting
the cons: death penalty and heavy use of it, poor weather conditions, boring, bible-thumpers, roads and streets in poor repair, limited employment opportunities, poor education system, limited welfare/social services/health care/dental care, ignorant people, lack of education, racism, homophobia, high grocery taxes, limited consumer choice as in shopping/supermarkets
In expensive states/cities mostly in Blue/Democrat as my former California:
the pros: beautiful natural scenery, more favorable weather conditions, better welfare/social services/healthcare/dental care, better grocery shopping quality, not-so-boring culture, better-maintained roads, better education, better employment opportunities, more educated people, more accepting of diverse sexual orientations
the cons: expensive rent, expensive real estate, anti-gun, anti-self-defense, higher crime rates in larger cities, more congestion, higher vehicle costs
These red states have mostly poor people ironically who tend to still vote Republican. They feel their gun rights and deer-hunting rights are more important than healthcare, quality affordable housing, quality nutrition and welfare benefits if they are poor and union-scale wages if they are working. I'm pro-gun but feel I have to sacrifice quality social services benefits to enjoy the right to lawful self-defense against thugs. I have to get a crappy moldy apartment in a dump like Oklahoma to afford to have no roommates.
I left Boise, ID this month and came to Lawton, OK for a 1 br $420 apartment and gain the freedom of being able to live roommate-free. I would not be able to live roommate free in Boise, ID or California on my meager VA pension disability benefit at $1,127/mo. Coming to Lawton, OK also puts me at lower elevation than Boise, ID so my asthma is less aggravated and the high humidity here frees my lungs up some. Dry air makes breathing more labored.
Except my cheap apartment smells moldy, Lawton is a slummish white-trash town and Oklahoma is full of nasty flash floods and tornadoes. The streets here are badlands with huge cracks and potholes. Not bike-friendly. No bike lanes in south-central Oklahoma like Boise, ID. No nice parks and river bikeways like Boise. Not a nice place to ride a bicycle. There are a bunch of stupid yankee-hating hicks with Southern drawls and trashy-looking people all around here. The poor people always get the crappy end of the stick anywhere and everywhere.
Pick your poison my fellow poor Americans: high rent sunny California, extreme gun-grabbing and still expensive New York or cheap-housing/expensive groceries dumb-redneck Oklahoma in tornado alley?
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