Which state do you live in. Are you happy where you live or do you which you lived in a different state. Specify which state you would rather live on and why. Which state did you grow up in. How many states have you lived in total.
I’ve lived in NC, KY, and MD—and Chicago as a very small child.
MD—just outside DC—was frenetic, overpriced, and overcrowded, but we lived between two parks and could walk two blocks every evening to watch the deer come down to the creek to drink. They were so urbanized that they looked both ways before crossing the road.
KY was a weird mix of Southern, Northern, and Midwestern culture. I had to re-learn how to read people when I lived there. I suppose the best way of saying it is that in Louisville, KY, work is fast-paced, as Northerners like it; home life is slower-paced, as Southerners like it; and social interactions are full of that peculiar Midwestern “nice”ness, even if people don’t like you.
NC people talk slow and drive fast, especially us minorities. Women are under severe pressure to look great well into their 80s. Men, not so much—it’s common among rich couples that when they go out to eat or for an evening at the theater, the woman is dressed up and made up well enough to accept a civic award and be photographed for tomorrow’s front page, while her husband has on a golf shirt and Dockers khakis.
In both KY and NC, if you’re more than 30 minutes from an interstate highway, you’ve stepped back in time at least 50 years—in some cases 100, and in extreme cases anywhere from 150 to 200 years. In Maryland, sophisticated people aren’t as hard to find outside of the cities, and conversely, unsophisticated people aren’t as restricted to the “rural” areas.
Chicago was a blend of impressions—the snow that was taller than I was, the rabbits in our tree-lined backyard (they loved when Mom set out carrot peelings for them in the winter), the boy down the street who had a red plastic pedal car that truly fascinated me, the firehouse two doors down, the lullaby Mom and Dad sang so my brothers and I would go to sleep, the blue and white nautical-themed bedspread, and the green and yellow train engines that would slowly pull long lines of train cars over the tracks at the end of the street. What I didn’t know is that just over the berm supporting the tracks was I-90, all (I believe at the time) eight lanes of it.
Vacations in Miami, NYC, and Atlanta, along with visits to Williamsburg and the VA, NC, and SC coasts, as well as business flights in and out of multiple major USA airports, have shown me that I live in a reasonably good area of the country. Once I’m free of the responsibility of being my parents’ primary caretaker, we may move to an area that’s more gay-friendly.
NCbear (who’s probably told you more than you needed to know in this somewhat long-winded response)
I havent decided which state I'm gonna move to yet. Can anybody recommend the states that has the sexiest men and good job market, and good restautants? Also one where the weathers not very cold.