Youtube comments of andyjay729 (@andyjay729).

  1. David: The bird without legs. Bird: WHAT-WHAT-WHAT-WHAT-WHAT!!! WHO, WHO!!
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  2. I know everyone likes to bash LA these days, but one way where I don't think anyone can deny the city has improved is with pollution. My parents lived in Anaheim in the late '70s, and even on the best days you could barely see the Puente Hills about 10 miles away. On bad days, your eyes would sting. Nowadays you can see Mount Baldy on most clear days. I'd call that an improvement.
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  3. 15:15 Remember, 6 months of "forever sunsets" also means 6 months of forever night.
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  4. I know it's too big for this list, but what do y'all in Minnesota think of Duluth? I was greatly impressed by that town; spectacular natural setting at the foot of the cliffs, a nice-looking downtown, and some cool industrial scenery along the waterfront. It made me think of a smaller version of Seattle.
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  5. I thought everyone knew "Deliverance" was filmed in Georgia (though not far from the Tennessee border), and I thought "squeal like a pig" was the big memetic line.
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  6. The fact that Chicago and its railroads displaced St. Louis and its riverboats as the main transportation hub of the central US was a major factor in the ongoing St. Louis-Chicago rivalry.
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  7. PS: Yes, Taliaferro County is actually pronounced to rhyme with "Oliver". It was named after Benjamin Taliaferro, a scion of an Anglo-Italian family whose name pronunciation was altered by the same trend in English pronunciation which turned, for instance, Wymondham into Windham ("Windum"), Cholmondeley into Chumley, and Belvoir into Beaver, among many, many others. I'm not from the area and don't know anyone from there, but I've had a longtime interest in geography and language and I've learned some local pronunciations over the years (such as "Cayro" for Cairo, Illinois, among others). To any Georgians from the area in the thread; do people often confuse with it fellow Georgia county Telfair?
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  8. Visited Alaska last year; yeah, Fairbanks seemed pretty sketchy and depressing, which wasn't helped by some of the worst wildfire smoke I've ever seen. I think that smoke gave me either a cold or allergy attack (those can be hard to tell apart).
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  9. I used to live in San Diego; we once got rats out in the suburbs. Interestingly, I've heard most of the rats in SoCal are black rats, as opposed to brown (or Norway) rats in most of the rest of the country. Apparently black rats (which I guess are also called "roof rats") prefer higher places (such as trees and rooftops) as opposed to brown rats sticking closer to the ground. Considering all the citrus trees in California (and of course the climate), it's especially a paradise for black rats.
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  10. Not just Dollar General, of course; there's also Family Dollar, Dollar Tree, Big Lots, and in the Northeast, Ocean State State Job, among many other local chains.
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  11. Don't you want to at least skin and gut the mice before putting them on a pizza? Yeah, cats and snakes eat them raw and whole, but cats and snakes have tougher digestive systems than us.
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  12. South Dakota's also physically divided by the Missouri River (it almost divides ND, but makes a 90-degree turn toward Montana about two-thirds of the way up that state). I've heard (mainly from encyclopedias) that the main geopolitical divide there is east of the river (more built-up and dependent on crop farming) vs. west of the river (more rural and dependent on irrigation and cattle ranching); is that right, South Dakotans?
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  13. Y'know, maybe climate change will make Anchorage and Alaska's other cities the next boomtowns. Duluth, Minnesota is already being touted as a "climate refugee" destination
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  14. Speaking of castles in Liechtenstein, the main home of the Prince of Liechtenstein, Vaduz Castle, is closed to the public (unlike, say, Windsor Castle or Buckingham Palace). Even though the Liechtenstein royal family supposedly has one of Europe's best art collections.
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  15. Wait, Massachusetts has the BEST drivers? I thought it was the other way around...
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  16. New York, be glad you don't have the DC Metro or San Francisco's BART, which will literally have to be completely rebuilt from the tracks up because of shoddy original design. See, the NYC subway was designed and built like an actual railroad; it just needs proper maintenance and a new signal system. The DC Metro and BART meanwhile were designed by aerospace engineers because that was thought to be the wave of the future (hence why their stations and trains look more Disneyland rides than actual transit systems). Now 40 years later, that once-state-of-the-art technology is breaking down. On BART, the wheels themselves are wearing out because the aerospace eggheads used the wrong kind of metal, which is responsible for the notorious squeal BART trains produce at speed. TLDR: For all its problems, the NYC subway was built to last by people who knew how to run actual railroads instead of the Disneyland Monorail or Peoplemover.
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  17. There's also a trolley tour you can take showing the Depository, Oswald's house, and the Texas Theater. I went on it shortly after the 50th anniversary of the assassination; would highly recommend the Sixth Floor Museum in the Depository.
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  18. Also, aren't insurance companies refusing to ensure Florida homes lately?
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  19.  @sirusfox  It did use to have a lot of farms, and there actually still is more agriculture than you might think. It's actually ranked fifth among the states for blueberry production.
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  20. A little surprised to hear about lots of Californians moving there year-round, considering how cold it gets.
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  21.  @bevdavis4148  This list is for small towns, not large cities.
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  22. Surprised Seattle didn't make the list. I live there and like it, but I have heard about "the Seattle Freeze" and how hard it is to make friends, and I tend to be a loner, so I'm not the best judge on these things.
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  23. One caveat about Moscow, Idaho (and much of Idaho, as well as eastern Washington and Oregon) is that they're (usually) downwind from the forest fires in the Cascades. For at least a few weeks out of the year, there will sadly be some periods of scary air quality. And then there's the possibility of volcanic eruptions... Tacoma may get the mudflows, but Yakima, Spokane and Moscow will get the ash. Most of Mt. St. Helens's ash fell east of the 'Cades.
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  24. As someone who's flown into both Chicago airports, maybe the rumor about Midway started because it seems more crowded due to its tiny size and terminal, whereas O'Hare is of course ginormous. Still kinda fun (or scary, however you look at it) to land and Midway and think you're going to crash into the houses.
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  25.  @75aces97  The same thing that ruined Detroit has also been the ruination of Appalachia; overreliance on a collapsing industry; in Appalachia's case, coal mining. And before people start blaming global warming activists, the region's fate was sealed when power companies started switching to lower-sulfur coal from the Powder River Basin in Wyoming back in the '70s. And lest we forget, coal deposits, like all minerals, are not infinite. Also, to OP, I too was surprised and saddened to learn of the deep poverty of parts of South Dakota, especially its Indian reservations.
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  26. Visited Alaska last summer, including Anchorage. It's not the prettiest city in the state (that would be Juneau, at least from what I saw), but it still has some nice-looking neighborhoods. Honestly, it reminded me a bit of my hometown of Seattle. TLDR, I could see myself living in Anchorage (not so much, say, Fairbanks; and Juneau doesn't have any road connections which lends it a bit of a claustrophobic atmosphere, plus the steep cliffs probably lead to a significant avalanche risk).
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  27. It has been since about the '70s, when heavy industry started shutting down.
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  28. One thing about Greenville (which as Briggs said, is near Mound Bayou); Jim Henson was born there, and I've heard there's a state historical marker commemorating him (and his boyhood friend Kermit). Although he moved to the Maryland suburbs of DC early on (his dad worked for the US Department of Agriculture as an agronomist, and he got his start in puppetry on a DC TV station), which may explain why didn't have a Southern accent. (Although if I didn't know any better, I would've guessed he was from Minnesota or Wisconsin.)
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  29. Looking at maps, that seems to be a problem in most Texas metros (and Florida). Public transit is "communism" but toll roads aren't?
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  30. 11. Breaking Bad took place there
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  31. Speaking of people with big political connections coming from rural Nevada outposts, Richard Nixon's wife Pat was born in a mining camp near Ely. In 1912, when it was even more isolated than today. (I've been to Ely to ride the Nevada Northern Railroad, since I'm a train buff, and to see Great Basin National Park, one of the least visited in the system. I dunno if I'd want to live there, but it's a nice little place to visit.)
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  32. One caveat for the SLC area of Utah (and since that area has the most population and thus jobs, that's likely where most would-be Utahns will end up) is that they're pretty prone to smog for the same reason as LA; the Wasatch Mountains plus the desert climate form an inversion layer that traps exhaust on hot, dry days. And even in SLC at 4000 feet elevation, summers can get pretty hot (into the 90s and even 100s).
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  33. Surprised a place in Imperial County didn't make the list.
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  34. 6:48 San Francisco had made America's top 10 biggest cities by the 1900 Census, but that quake obviously knocked if off by the 1910 Census (and set off LA's rise as the chief city of the West Coast). Considering how a lot of its rapid growth was due to financing a lot of the Western mines, it unfortunately makes sense how its being crippled would have an even worse long-term effect on all the rural mining towns, if Beatty is any example.
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  35.  @ganymeade5151  It's also getting increasingly hard to insure your home in Florida.
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  36. Seriously, what is with all the Russia simps lately?
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  37. Whichever cities or states put them on that bus is also to blame too.
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  38. When you said Osceola, Iowa, I had to check Google Maps, because some of my relatives are from Osceola County, Iowa, which is in the northwest corner of the state. Turns out the city of Osceola is kinda in the far south. I wouldn't have been surprised if Osceola County had a free land program, because from what I saw of it the one time I've been there, it seemed pretty depopulated and economically depressed.
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  39. He probably started work on this before the hurricane, but yeah, sad timing.
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  40. Thinking that everything has to turn a profit is part of the reason we're in the mess we're in. Government should NOT be run like a business.
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  41. Fun fact about Windsor: it's at about the latitude of Boston, so almost half of the US is north of it. Including Detroit, due to a bend in the Detroit River where you half to go south to enter Canada from the US.
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  42. I dunno if all states are "supposed to" grow so much as break even in terms of population. Especially if water is an issue, as in the Southwest (one could even argue that those states SHOULD lose people).
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  43. A Lonely Planet guidebook I got in preparation for my trip to Alaska last year said that Anchorage indeed has one of the largest ethnic Polynesian communities in the US (including Native Hawaiians, heh).
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  44. But again, if everyone moves to Forney or Ennis because of overcrowing, those small towns won't stay small for long.
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  45. Some have wondered if the White River Monster in Arkansas was an elephant seal that somehow made its way not just up the Mississippi River system deep into the continent, but also passed through tropical waters on its way. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_River_Monster
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  46.  @TheOldTapeArchive  Let's just say I would much rather walk around downtown Chicago after dark than I would, say, downtown Jacksonville.
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  47. I've heard that until about the early 1900s those countries were actually pretty poor (hence all the Scandinavian immigrants to the US and Canada).
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  48. Yeah, those "Keep X Weird" stickers have aged like egg salad. I'm surprised some other cities (especially ones with a square, non-hipster reputation) haven't started "Keep X Normal" stickers.
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  49. Ditto for Portland, OR. Some have opined that a lot of that city's problems can be traced back to this.
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  50. Sounds like what happened to California too.
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  51.  @MrJedi5150  Yeah, unlike in, say, Florida, we can actually get homeowner's insurance here.
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  52. Yeah, I thought I heard that at least one year, Seattle was the rattiest city in the US. I live there, and a couple years ago I saw one in broad daylight in Lincoln Park in West Seattle. Maybe they've stepped up pest control efforts since then.
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  53. Re. Belarus, you forgot another MAJOR handicap holding them back: most of the fallout from the Chernobyl meltdown fell there (the plant is located just across the Ukrainian border), so a large swath of the country's southeast is contaminated and depopulated. On top of that, they're run by Alexander Lukashenko, who has been called Europe's last dictator.
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  54.  @UTxTheArchangel  It might also have been based on loss of life as opposed to property.
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  55. Gary was a company town, so it makes sense that as soon as US Steel upped stakes, it would die. Meanwhile...yeah, the Loop and North Side of Chicago are perfectly fine (thought it is a pity about the South and West). But I guess we shouldn't talk too loud; you know what happens when places get popular. Let the Tucker Carlson fans believe in the "Chiraq" meme.
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  56. Florida's getting expensive from what I hear. Same with Texas. As long as you don't live too close to a river or the coast, hurricanes won't be as much of an issue in NJ.
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  57. So I guess Meatball's War on Disney wasn't a good move? Is a state really "business-friendly" when the government has an actual vendetta against you?
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  58.  @ljwilson55  Australia and New Zealand would be my ideal escape hatch countries.
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  59. I was genuinely thinking number 1 would be Idaho for its literal Nazis, or (yes, really) California for the fact that it has the largest number of hate groups (hey, you did say Number 1 would be shocking). Of course, that last one may just be because CA is still the most populous state, and unfortunately the average number of hate groups probably goes along with population numbers, so perhaps the best way to "calculate racism" might be to compare the number of hate groups versus population (that is, if there's a rather large number compared to its population).
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  60. Sadly, I agree with you.
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  61. Maybe that's also true for Central Asia at the same latitude.
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  62. If the accents of Buffalo and Syracuse are any indication, did you get ever questions like "You're really from New York? Are you sure you're not from Detroit or Chicago?" A lot of the Upstate accents sound more Midwestern.
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  63.  @nealbaker2132  Do you think that's a bad thing?
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  64. Because a lot of Florida's bedrock (if you can call it that) is limestone, which is incredibly porous. That's why caves tend to form in limestone-heavy areas (including Kentucky, which saw a sinkhole swallow part of the National Corvette Museum), and also explains all those lakes around Orlando. They weren't formed by glaciers, obviously.
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  65. Considering Massachusetts's size versus its population, economy, and cultural contributions, I'd call it the most bang-for-your-buck state.
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  66. One warning about Winnipeg; it's colder on average than Edmonton in the winter despite being much further south. To any weather junkies, does that have something to do with it being almost due south of Hudson Bay, and does Hudson Bay serve as sort of a channel for Arctic air like how the Gulf of Mexico channels tropical air? Might also have something to do with how Minnesota and North Dakota have such cold winters.
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  67.  @1969bones69  I'm sure your city is a poverty-free paradise. Every city has its poor sections except for yours. Lucky you.
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  68. ​ @scotcoon1186  Idaho invited them? Seriously? If so, why? There's not a lot of people there and no major industries, therefore a minimal tax base. Eastern Oregon is a beautiful part of the country (Hells Canyon and the Blue and Wallowa Mountains are some of the most underrated vacation destinations in America), but it's underpopulated for the reasons much of the West is underpopulated. Also, I thought Idaho didn't want any more people; don't they think Boise and Coeur d'Alene are getting too big and libturd? For Idaho in its current state, that just sounds like a petty "cut off your nose to spite your face" decision. Ditto for the "State of Jefferson"; they would actually beat out Wyoming as the least populated state and would thus have to deal with the representative and financial downsides of living in Wyoming (minus Wyoming's oil and coal revenue).
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  69. Seriously. I spent my early childhood in an inland SD suburb, later moved closer to downtown, and when my brother and I would meet up with a friend of ours back inland around Christmas, it was quite noticeable how much colder it was. This is true of most of California, BTW; in July Corona can be about 20 degrees hotter than Santa Monica on the same day, Livermore can be about 40 degrees hotter than San Francisco, etc.
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  70. Not to mention it was hit pretty hard by the last major hurricane.
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  71. Thanks to fracking, that's true.
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  72.  @sr7312  Don't people from Chicago's South Side and southern suburbs like Joliet and Homer Glen tend to use Midway more often though, at least for intra-national flights?
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  73.  @Patriot-oi7mj  And yet...which states are the poorest again?
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  74. @Oodie Ju Bro Isn't Florida also seeing house prices go through the roof lately due to AirBNB, Blackstone, and Chinese "tourists"?
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  75.  @guyinreallife6035  Also some recent grads had more brains (to a point) than money; thinking they'd be able to afford one of those classy SF Victorians after just a few years working at Apple or Google, and now they're the ones living in their cars. Whatever your thoughts on low-cost housing, it couldn't have hurt those corporate giants too much to build worker housing, especially for the fresh-out-of-college newbs.
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  76. Also can't get it in Florida lately.
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  77. It helps that AZ has one of the best state flags.
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  78.  @rickpartlow534  Sure it was, if you were in finance. If you were in a blue-collar field, things were on the downward trend they've been in since the '70s.
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  79. Just didn't want to make it awkward, I guess.
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  80. People who want to move to Colorado are distracted by the mountains. Maybe eastern CO should secede.
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  81. MY HUMPS MY HUMPS MY LOVELY MALE HUMPS
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  82. Maybe one thing that's still keeping visitors away from Guyana is the fact that Jonestown was there. Yeah, it's not the Guyanans' fault, but still, that's some bad vibes.
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  83.  @catholiccrusader5328  Hey, they're tough little buggers. That's why their numbers are so high around the world.
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  84. Do you think people aren't allowed to say anything nice about LA? Why?
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  85. Not surprised about 1 and 2, but since when is Portland sinking? It's quite a ways inland and not built on much reclaimed land that I know of. And I live in Seattle; parts of it probably are sinking, esp. in the reclaimed by the port and SoDo, but much of the city consists of very steep hills.
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  86. Re. poor red states like Alabama: their negative aspects certainly deserve criticism, and a lot of their wounds are self-inflicted, but I can't bring myself to truly HATE them. Even in these angry times, "hate" is still a strong word. If anything, I feel sorry for them. And I say this as a moderate liberal; in fact, a lot of American liberals might seem less like hypocrites if they had more pity for states like Mississippi and West Virginia.
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  87. Hopefully those Orlandoans will remember that in November 2024.
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  88.  @piglet7943  Sounds like what they said about GM...
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  89. I'd say Southern California's two seasons are more like "shorts and T-shirt season" and "long pants and hoodie season". Even at sea level it still gets cold enough at night to where you wouldn't want to wear just shorts and a T-shirt.
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  90. ​@roltthehunter They're getting a little better in recent years though. I saw some xenophobia poll a few years ago, and these days America sadly seems to be more xenophobic than Japan.
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  91.  @r.pres.4121  Sounds like the most common complaints from former Seattlites and Portlanders.
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  92. At least supposedly have good chili dogs in Toledo at Tony Packo's. Corporal Klinger (played by real-life Toledo native Jamie Farr) name-dropped Jamie's once on MASH.
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  93. The center gets tornadoes.
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  94.  @nobodyimportant7804  The difference is that Seattle's rain is mostly in the winter, and in drizzle or light rain. Miami seems to get it all at once in huge thunderstorms.
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  95. Blue Origin
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  96. If you're willing to go further north, have you considered Enumclaw, Washington? It's a gorgeous little Seattle-area exurb at basically the foot of the Cascades with some excellent views of Mount Rainier and a lot of farms. It's main problems are that it's on one of the main roads from Seattle to Mt. Rainier and, oh yeah, it'll eventually be wiped out after Rainier blows. Still worth a look around.
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  97. There's one with slogan "Isn't Texas cute?" with Texas fitting into the map of Alaska.
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  98.  @cronicscream  Tell me just what's SO great about Putin's Russia? Why is he a leader for the world to emulate?
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  99. I'm guessing none of this generation has heard Sam Cooke's song "Don't Know Much About History".
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  100. From what I've heard, that is indeed how Cairo is pronounced by downstate Illinoians.
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  101.  @elwoodblues9613  I thought it was a popular vacation spot for Bay Area and Sacramento residents. Then again, the book that made me think of that dates from 1994.
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  102.  @anderander5662  The whole country had a bit of a homeless problem in the '30s.
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  103.  @nogood629  What does it say about California? Please enlighten us, o smart redpilled one.
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  104. @One Hundon Hippy Days didn't specify Oregon.
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  105.  @Hippydaze35  Seattle. Just stay out of the International District if you don't like the homeless. Unfortunately it's also super expensive.
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  106. Yeah, deer mice may be cuter than rats, but they're just as deadly, if not more so.
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  107. Was the rat about 3 feet tall and wearing red underpants with white buttons? ;) Seriously, rats like a lot of the same things we humans like, so it isn't surprising to hear about large numbers of them in warm climates with a lot of fruit trees.
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  108. I thought Number 1 might be "Breaking Bad took place there"; it wasn't THAT far off...
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  109.  @wicked-smaht  What did LePage do? The opioid crisis (which is a nationwide thing, as you should know) began under his watch.
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  110.  @MK-zy3yd  I spent most of my life in San Diego so maybe I'm not qualified to comment, but visiting my relatives in New England, even Maine, the humidity is very noticeable in summer.
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  111. And on top of that, they usually enter or exit through just one thoroughfare. I spent most of my life in Southern California, and some of the worst traffic I've ever seen was on I-95 in Southern Maine on Labor Day weekend.
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  112.  @oceanblue5794  Duluth is gorgeous. It actually reminded me a little of Seattle, as well as Portland, Maine.
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  113. Next time, will there be a ranking of Australian states and the one territory? Yes, they're called "states" in Australia, not provinces. They also have a House of Representatives instead of a House of Commons (which Canada has).
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  114. Oklahoma should probably put up a welcome sign saying "We make Texas look like Massachusetts!"
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  115.  @chizorama  In "Travels with Charley", John Steinbeck wrote about Bismarck, North Dakota, on the Missouri River: "Here is where the map should fold. Here is the boundary between east and west. On the Bismarck side it is eastern landscape, eastern grass, with the look and smell of eastern America. Across the Missouri on the Mandan side it is pure west, with brown grass and water scorings and small outcrops. The two sides of the river might well be a thousand miles apart."
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  116.  @Jody-kt9ev  Isn't there already an underground mall in Houston?
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  117.  @arozi1391  I agree with you; I was replying to the guy who was saying Minneapolis should be on this list.
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  118. Someone else has probably already pointed this out, but Beaufort, North Carolina is pronounced more like the spelling, "bo-fort".
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  119. One caveat about the Medford, Oregon area, including Jacksonville, is that it gets HOT in the summer. Seriously, every time I've ever passed through that area it's always been in the 90s. Also gets some pretty bad forest fires.
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  120. It has a somewhat well-earned reputation for xenophobia.
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  121. Maybe all the unfriendly New Yorkers retire (or get exiled) to Miami.
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  122.  @jasonknight5863  Which would eventually cause Mississippi to rise to Florida/California/and also Texas prices...
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  123.  @helenamartinez3415  You're a bot, right?
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  124. Sounds like Seattle (or San Diego, or a lot of other American cities these days)
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  125. Why would anyone want to drive in SF with their public transit? Especially if you're just visiting. A lot of BART stations outside the city have park-and-ride lots; that's what my folks and I did last time we visited.
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  126. "Evil energy"???
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  127. I thought in recent years Indiana was getting a lot of Stranger Things jokes. (And back in the '80s when Stranger Things was set, one of the main things outsiders knew about the Hoosier State was Larry Bird.)
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  128. One friend of mine moved to the UK after meeting a local boy and getting married. Another moved to Japan after getting fed up with crime and the increasingly unstable political situation in the US. They both seem to like it so far.
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  129. I'm currently unemployed, so most desirable countries probably wouldn't want me.
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  130. Detroit's new city motto: "At least we're not Memphis".
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  131.  @truthsayer9534  So Jackson, MS might actually be the worst on the list?
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  132.  @tracymarquez6875  Actually, CA's air quality is much better now than it was in the '70s, especially in the LA area. My parents lived in Anaheim in the late '70s; it was only very rarely that you could see Mt. Baldy due to the smog. Nowadays you see it more often than not.
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  133.  @beenadickarnold5666  Didn't Briggs put TX on a recent "declining states" video?
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  134. HGTV's House Hunters is produced by a production company called Pie Town Productions. Wonder if it was named after Pie Town, NM? (Don't judge me; my former dentist's office used to show House Hunters in the waiting room and I kinda got hooked.)
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  135. Seattle and the Northwest have plenty of water, and it doesn't get literally colder than Mars in the winter.
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  136.  @rexx9496  But the cities like Boise and Bozeman, where most people are moving, are getting "too big for their britches".
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  137.  @infini.tesimo  And then those states are going to turn into the next Denver or SLC. As I've said a few times now, the thing about small towns and rural areas is if "everyone" moves there, they don't stay small and rural for long.
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  138.  @joanndanielson8173  Doesn't South Florida have even worse bugs? (As well as feral pythons in the Everglades.)
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  139. I was right now years old when I learned they drain the San Antonio River to clean it.
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  140. Port Arthur's refinery is bigger than that ginormous one in Long Beach, CA (you know the one I'm talking about; right next to the 405; can't miss it if you're driving from LAX to points south)? Dayum, most be huge.
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  141. Your releasing of this on the eve of Hurricane Laura wasn't intentional, was it?
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  142. I'd actually like to visit Miami someday (since it, Key West, and St. Augustine are the only places in Florida with any culture), but no way would I want to live there.
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  143. Oh, and Belarus was also where most of the fallout from Chernobyl landed. About a quarter of the country is an "exclusion zone". Not exactly a happy place.
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  144. How are your property tax and power bills? You don't have that ocean breeze anymore.
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  145. And the rumors about Pennsyltucky are true. That area is spooky af.
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  146.  @SmokyOle  What's YOUR "news company"? Do you think they tell the truth all the time?
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  147. I wonder if any of the folks who like to use the homeless as a political football have any suggestions for the issue. As for me, I think a start would be to bring back mental institutions for the really far-gone drug addicts.
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  148.  @nobodyimportant7804  Yeah, I might like to visit Florida someday (once COVID has somewhat died down), but no way would I ever want to live there.
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  149.  @karlstrauss2330  Yes, especially in Ohio. How have supply-side economics worked out for them and the rest of the Rust Belt? And don't tell me the results haven't come in yet because it's not a hot new revolutionary doctrine anymore. Ronald Reagan was elected 42 years ago. The man has now been dead almost two decades, and those vigorous Young Republicans are now nearing retirement age themselves. Reaganomics is now as much of a hidebound orthodoxy in certain parts of the country as the New Deal was in 1980. So how has it worked out for Ohio, Wisconsin, Kentucky, etc. since then? For all of Portland's problems, if you want to see REAL destitution...
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  150.  @mztokyo7630  And our once-proud manufacturing sector has gone the way of the dodo, leaving thousands out of work, a huge swath of the country turned into an impoverished, polluted wasteland, and a lot of people bitter and looking for easy answers and scapegoats. Honestly, we're basically a combination of Mexico and Russia by now. (Not that a lot of the West, including Mother Britain, is that much better off. I guess that's what happens when the powers that be regard people as commodities instead of people.)
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  151. Re. Louisiana: Apparently Monroe and Shreveport (two other mid-sized cities) aren't doing so hot these days either.
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  152.  @willis7404  Mm, I have family in Maine, it's the whitest state, and there are actually some very conservative areas, so I wouldn't have been too surprised.
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  153. How so? Yes, I know about Britain's poverty and the race riots last summer.
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  154.  @jimmydee1130  What kind of growth rates?
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  155.  @rickpartlow534  I'd agree with you that at least now the US isn't collapsing (and neither are Australia, Canada, or the EU countries), but there are some grim trends afoot. The middle class has almost disappeared with a reversion to an elite minority lording over an impoverished majority. Large sections of the country are poor enough to arguably be considered 3rd World. The (ahem) events of the past decade have made Americans on both sides of the aisle increasingly skeptical about our government and legal institutions. And then of course there's the culture war... If pundits and many members of the general public are seriously wondering if there's going to be a Civil War 2, then no, I don't think America's in a good place right now. And yes, given Canada's similar socioeconomic issues and instability with Quebec secessionism, they also have some reason to be worried.
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  156.  @acbulgin2  See what I said below about nu-America and Putinland. And I don't think it will be much of a push to send this country into full-on police state status, "Russia with baseball" as I like to think of it. I'm no fan of Trump, but I don't want him to be assassinated. With this land in the current socio-politico-financial swamp it's in, and with 9/11 still recent enough to be used as a political weapon, I kinda believe that President Pence's first act would be to declare "temporary" martial law ("until ALL the criminals who committed this treacherous, cowardly act are brought to justice"), just like how the Patriot Act was supposed to be temporary. And I mean complete with armed soldiers and armored vehicles on every corner, sunset curfews, bans or at least limitations on public gatherings, "temporary" revocation of habeas corpus, travel bans, etc. Maybe Australia and New Zealand might relax their immigration restrictions at some point (Canada will probably fill up pretty quick).
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  157. They look like penguins that lost some weight.
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  158. Wait, North Korea's only the THIRD most corrupt country? Who are the other two and what the hell is their secret?
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  159.  @milomilo55  It's all about "stickin' it ter teh libturd establishment, MAAAAAAN!" Seriously, some of the elites need to be slapped in the face once in a while and be reminded of where they came from, but America has gone wayyyyy too far in the opposite direction. We deserve better than to have dog breeders, infomercial hosts for designer pillows, and Faux Noose's resident quack serving as our highest medical gurus.
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  160. They probably think that killing Fauci AND Bill Gates will make the virus miraculously disappear.
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  161.  @ollietwist9894  As much of an asshole as Trump is, his fancult is worse. He seems to know deep down that his words have consequences (remember how he slunk away from the media after Bleachgate?). His stormtroopers aren't in any political office, so they have nothing to lose.
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  162. You think it's bad now? Ask your parents what it was like in the '70s and '80s.
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  163. Doesn't the DC Metro (and San Francisco's BART) have to be literally rebuilt from the tracks up because they used the wrong materials and became over-reliant on automation?
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  164. Okay, I was a bit wrong about BART using the wrong metal in their rails. What I should've said was that BART's rails are flat, whereas most rails are slightly curved, which requires expensive, custom-designed wheels. On top of that, it also has "a unique 1000-volt power traction system" that "can't be repaired or replaced with off-the-shelf technology". And on top of all of that, the system was only designed to carry 100,000 people per week, and now carries about 430,000 per day. https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/03/25/has-barts-cutting-edge-1972-technology-design-come-back-to-haunt-it/ So again, count your blessings, NYC.
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  165. I'm more surprised that the British government waited until 1929 to start a pest control program for government buildings. Seriously, one of the main reasons we domesticated cats all those millennia ago was to fend off mice and rats from our food supplies and homes. You'd think every monarch since Alfred the Great and all the aristocrats and bureaucrats would've kept at least one cat in their palaces in the days before mousetraps and effective rodenticides.
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  166.  @celestepalm6949  Yeah, I have a Time-Life "America in depth" book on the West Coast from about 1967 which actually describes Portland as "staid". And Oregon as a whole was actually pretty conservative until about the '90s. Yes, Briggs points out that some rural areas still lean rather far to the right, but from what I've heard that's not so true anymore for most of the Willamette Valley and the coastal towns.
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  167. Yeah, I heard about that. There was a drought, followed by some heavy rains, followed by a bumper crop of wheat, followed by hordes of mice. Their fellow rodents the lemmings and voles also have similar booms and busts in population depending on the amount of food.
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  168. I like to read maps; I remember seeing Monkey's Eyebrow. There's also a place called Ragland there, right?
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  169. That's the problem nationwide; the places everyone wants to live are expensive and getting more so.
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  170. With a fan inside the freezer for some reason
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  171. I like those signs at the state line: "Speed checked by radar" and "Hand-held radars illegal".
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  172. I thought St. Louis's violent crime rate was actually worse than Detroit's, at least at one point, and East St. Louis was the worst in the country.
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  173. @broederbond60  I think I've heard the short version. You think Ukraine doesn't have the right to put missiles on their side of their border with Russia, right?
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  174. Probably NYC, Boston, Chicago, or San Francisco.
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  175. 7:20 Again, Hartford is in Connecticut (though Hartford's airport is occasionally referred to as "Hartford-Springfield" since it also serves Springfield, MA). EDIT: Never mind. But Hartford's airport is occasionally billed as "Hartford-Springfield". Check an airport arrivals/departures screen next time you fly somewhere (whenever that will be).
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  176. You probably won't last long in Maine, sorry to say. Most Mainers would be glad to have a winter like y'all do in South Texas.
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  177.  @nat9909  Just got back from a thread about the coming housing crunch. God damn are a lot of vacation home-owners out of touch. I'm not saying they're ALL bad (my uncle has a cabin on a lake near Augusta which has been in his not rich family for almost a century), but given America's housing crisis, how aloof do you have to be to not see how an increasing number of people don't take too kindly to so many houses just sitting empty for most of the year? To say the least about Blackwater and the Chinese buying up properties. Is it REALLY "Marxist" to call this crap out? EDIT: By "Blackwater" I mean Blackrock, heh. Not that Blackwater is much better (hell, their CEO is downright evil).
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  178.  @nat9909  Seems like most Americans (heck, most Westerners) are pretty pessimistic these days.
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  179.  @mannyquintana8074  I would say you don't get the hot, humid summers of Maine (yes, really), but in about the past 15 years or so, I'd also say the monsoon season in SoCal has gotten more protracted and summers there have gotten more humid. That's part of the reason why I live in Seattle now (which actually has rather dry summers; most of the famous rain falls in the winter).
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  180. To me (I have relatives in the Augusta area, so I go back there regularly), the best time to visit is in the spring or fall, so you avoid the humidity and bugs of summer and the bitter winters.
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  181.  @marktwaine9344  According to Briggs's previous video TX looks like it's about to fall down the same cliff. It took a little longer since its population is smaller, but the same chickens are coming home to roost there (especially in the big cities).
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  182.  @rexx9496  Even in these comments those states consistently seem to be called the best or "the only good ones left". Even the Right's favorite place is about to fall down CA's cliff if Briggs's previous video is any example.
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  183.  @CoolPapaJMagik  "Antiwhitism"? You're not exactly helping to dispel certain stereotypes about conservatives there.
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  184. Low-cost housing needs to be a priority. Period. Also the mental hospitals Reagan closed need to be reopened to get the crazies and addicts off the streets. And considering international politics are coming into play, the number of offshore investors (especially from China) snapping up properties throughout the US (and other countries; it's become a major issue around Vancouver) are something that the feds could possibly handle.
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  185. Based on Briggs's previous video, I'd imagine a lot of Texans are saying the same thing. When did we decide that permanent growth had to be our prerogative?
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  186.  @Cyrus992  Does it have to be constant, though? Maybe we Americans need to rethink that ideology.
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  187.  @josephbowman1092  Maybe he should take the massive hint he received 2.5 years ago then, and go slink off to retire and play golf (assuming he doesn't go to jail) instead of trying to force himself back into the spotlight again. He's done enough damage over the past 40-odd years.
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  188.  @pbmpharmacist  South Carolina also has quite a bit of crime (especially violent), but as Briggs pointed out, it also has a lot going for it. If SC can pull it off, why not NM?
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  189. Also on rural crime. A lot of Americans seem to think crime only happens in the big cities. Never mind that if anything, the opioid epidemic probably the rural areas the hardest.
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  190.  @Thomas-yr9ln  It's getting a little better, especially the cities. I personally couldn't take the heat though.
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  191. Have you thought about the Northwest too? I live in Seattle; we have plenty of water (at least west of the Cascades), our summers are usually pretty mild (New England can actually get pretty hot and humid, maybe not as brutal as Texas, but still uncomfortable), and our winters are also rather mild for our latitude.
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  192.  @rockymountainjazzfan1822  My mom has a copy of that book; I think it was actually written in 1986.
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  193. The winters are actually relatively mild in Seattle. We do get some snow, but it usually melts within a week; the rest of the time it doesn't get much lower than the low 40s.
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  194.  @willp.8120  Plus it's fairly close to Atlanta, right? So you have the big-city amenities (like art museums, theater, major-league sports, and an airport with a lot of direct flights) not too far away if you want them.
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  195.  @gracedagostino5231  Even if the politics in Texas were better, I couldn't take the summer heat. Here we are on the cusp of fall, and it's still in the 90s in Austin!
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  196.  @cindyleehaddock3551  Fallen brush was part of what made the Maui fires so deadly. Maybe try to spread the word about clearing that out.
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  197. To any Idahoans, do you consider yourselves part of the Mountain States or the Northwest?
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  198. Louisiana's status despite all of Nawlins's tourist dollars is just sad. But Mississippi making strides in education is genuinely uplifting.
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  199.  @juleswins3  And they pollute. Don't get me wrong, I think it's a concept that should be looked into, especially in dry cities like LA and SF, but no way do I trust a grifter like Elon to handle such a project.
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  200. You did notice that Mexico City and Beijing are inland, right? The problem isn't necessarily being on the coast; it's pumping out excess amounts of groundwater. Being built on a dry lakebed doesn't help. (Wouldn't be surprised if Salt Lake City, which was actually underneath the enormous Lake Bonneville during the last Ice Age, is also facing this issue.) And speaking of withdrawing groundwater, Orlando is in what they call "Sinkhole Alley". All those lakes you see in maps of the city? Those were formed by the fact that the ground is composed of porous limestone and occasionally tends to collapse into watery holes, occasionally swallowing up buildings and streets.
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  201. And Galveston used to be Texas's main port city before the 1900 hurricane. Now it's just Houston's main beach resort. Likewise, San Francisco was the main city on the West Coast before 1906; if not for that, LA might today be half or a quarter of its current size.
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  202. Mm, seems like much of Oregon (including outside Portland) is becoming more prone to devastating wildfires lately, heck, as bad as California's.
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  203. Will you do a video explaining the "Sidelined Seven" (the commonwealths and territories)?
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  204.  @skyeshwin  Okay, maybe a better term would be "the state that punches highest above its geographic weight".
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  205. Is that why it has a AAA bond rating?
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  206.  @juleswins3  But sales taxes tend to hit the poor the hardest since they're applied across the board to all consumer goods. Something for the folks who want this "because they're so poor" to consider.
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  207. If those eastern Oregonians REALLY want to joint the Potato State, then I won't stop them (esp. since I don't live in Oregon). But I wonder how many of them who want to do it "because taxes" know that Idaho has a sales tax, while Oregon doesn't.
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  208. Oregon can actually be pretty sunny (and hot) in the summer. It's mainly in the fall, winter and spring that it's gray and rainy.
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  209.  @Nolan-55  It is (or at least was) a necessary part of the economy, but coal mining was a major reason why West Virginia has stayed so poor. Mining seems to systemize poverty, especially the "company town" sort of mining where they pay miners in scrip and force them to buy groceries at a company store at inflated prices. How are you supposed to build a thriving middle class with that? Same goes with industrial company towns in general. And since that cat's out of the bag, that's what killed WV, not any form of progressivism. The Democrats south of the Mason-Dixon Line were the opposite of progressive before about 1970.
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  210. The way Tucker Carlson and his disciples talk, you'd think it (and my hometown of Seattle) was as bad as Mogadishu.
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  211. Maine can get pretty hot in the summer. I have family there and usually go there in the summer or fall, so I know. Heck, lately I've been trying to visit mainly in the spring or fall since New England summers can be brutal, and you know about the winter.
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  212. Seriously, if NYC seceded from NYS, NYS would be more like Michigan.
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  213. I'm sure the comments section for this video will provoke much enlightened, peaceable discussion and totally not descend into a cutthroat hyperpartisan shouting match.
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  214.  @lilshaz8378  I"ll never forget passing through there on a vacation during a summer monsoon storm and floodwaters going up to our car's hubcaps due to the inadequate (nonexistent?) storm drains.
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  215. No offense but Hawaii seems like one of many "nice to visit, wouldn't want to live there" places. Same with Alaska.
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  216. I'm guessing the beaches are on the Colorado River and maybe some reservoirs, but aren't some of the beach towns on the Gulf of California in Mexico relatively close to Phoenix and Tucson?
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  217. A lot of places in the Northeast (including Boston) had their populations peak in the 1950 Census.
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  218.  @naverich4603  The way I see it, we should have public healthcare for prescriptions and regular checkups, and also private healthcare or insurance for surgery, chemotherapy, and other more major procedures. That way the benefits of one system can balance out the shortcomings of another.
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  219.  @653j521  By whom?
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  220. Like with poor, crime-ridden states, I find it hard and a little sad to actually hate a poor, crime-ridden city, especially one that's had problems for a long time. Would I avoid going there after dark? Yes. Doesn't seem to be a reason to actually hate it; more like feel sorry for it. Do you think the locals actually LIKE the crime and degraded infrastructure, especially the ones who can't afford to leave?
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  221. Especially for the Upper Midwest, since "Minnesota nice" is actually passive-aggressiveness. Those people are experts at damning with faint praise.
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  222. It has been since the '70s. We never recovered from the OPEC crisis, the loss of our heavy industry and resulting transformation of the Manufacturing Belt into the Rust Belt, and the embarrassments of Vietnam and Watergate.
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  223.  @seanmcdirmid  From what I've seen of Fairbanks, that place was kind of a dump. From what I saw of Anchorage, there are some pretty scary hobos downtown, and some kinda sketchy-looking neighborhoods, but also some nice ones, and a nice trail along the shoreline. I'd rather live there than, say, Houston or Miami.
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  224. You're right, the rest of the country doesn't want to be like Texass.
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  225. @Citizen De Watts To be "fair", the Right has recently ramped up its attacks on Portland (the major city that has possibly come the closest to European-style walkability), Seattle, and occasionally even Dallas and Houston since they've started getting sick of Texas's right-wing BS recently. Talk about eating your own with those last two... If your a Faux News zombie, you probably think Portland looks like Berlin in 1945 and CHAZ has completely taken over Seattle.
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  226. @Citizen De Watts As a moderate liberal (former) Californian, I will be the first to say Californians can be quite arrogant and think the rest of the country if not world revolves around them. It certainly has its share of problems; reliable water supply perhaps being the most ominous (that's part of the reason why I wanted to move to Seattle). But yeah, a lot of the current anti-California rhetoric recently is way over the top. Of course, most of it is trying to score political brownie points, so with a lot of those posters, God help you if you say California ISN'T actually hell on earth, or if you'd rather live there instead of Texas and its insane heat and humidity or Florida and its even more insane heat and humidity (and tendency to get smacked by hurricanes every year) or Arizona (if you think California's in a dangerous place because of water issues...).
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  227.  @moedark4390  That's one thing people tend to overlook when they emphasize urban crime. Per capita is the best way to rank these things.
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  228. Florida seems like the ultimate "nice to visit; wouldn't want to live there" place.
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  229.  @AnthonyPrince01  Not that much more, actually. It had just 18,469 people as of 2020.
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  230. That was actually Harvey, IL.
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  231. Go back and listen to Briggs's criteria again.
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  232. Pay attention to the criteria for this video.
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  233. Did you miss the part where Briggs said this list only has towns with <15,000 people?
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  234.  @LilJessye94  Briggs should do a similar video including cities under that threshold. Rural/small town crime is (ahem) criminally overlooked in this country.
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  235. They literally fund the rest of the country.
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  236.  @Your100percentrightbut  You do realize it's extremely earthquake-prone, right?
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  237.  @misty2montana1  Define "business friendly".
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  238.  @misty2montana1  Where is "commifornia"?
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  239.  @sarahm9723  How would you define "the radical left"? Which politicians would you call "non-radical left"?
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  240. "I saw the writing on the wall when I left in the '70s" - Californian in the '90s, probably
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  241. It's overcrowded anyway.
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  242. That's why I prefer to live in the inner suburbs of a city. Not nearly as much fire danger, plus fire stations are usually nearby. And inner suburbs are usually walkable.
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  243. Well, the Spanish founded Santa Fe before the Pilgrims founded Plymouth, and the Pueblo Indians founded Acoma about a century before Notre Dame Cathedral was finished, so that might go part of the way toward explaining New Mexico's racial attitudes versus Colorado's.
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  244. Same with California.
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  245.  @carlpaladino427  By now you'd think regular viewers would know poverty=cheap real estate=but also crime. I mean, everyone knows about Detroit's problems, and how you can get some houses there for about a dollar.
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  246. Also St. Louis County, Minnesota, home of Duluth. I've been to Duluth once; liked it a lot. It reminded me of a miniature Seattle with its hilly terrain, spruce forests, and heavy industry along the waterfront.
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  247. I was waiting for a Georgian to give some advice on how it's pronounced. I don't live in the area or know anyone from there, but I've long had an interest in geography and language and I've learned some local pronunciations over the years. From what I'd read, I thought this county was pronounced "Tolliver". Does it ever get confused with fellow GA county Telfair?
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  248. Or hamsters or rats (and rats are really underrated as pets IMHO).
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  249.  @stephencrandellsr4915  Isn't Imperial County one of the poorest too? Also Lake County, which I was surprised to hear because it's relatively close to the very wealthy Napa Valley and Bay Area.
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  250. Sadly, that's true of a lot of big cities.
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  251.  @rexx9496  No matter your politics, I have no idea why so many people in a free society would choose to live in a city that doesn't get below 90 degrees about three months out of the year (as in, the overnight lows are still in the 90s).
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  252.  @ssa2211  This is part of the reason I was glad to move from San Diego to Seattle.
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  253.  @soutakanaka463  You seriously think more toll roads will make things BETTER?
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  254. Cruise liners NOT dangerous, you say? I seem to remember stories about all kinds of outbreaks on those floating septic tanks years before the Rona.
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  255.  @francostacy7675  yeah that's why france and england have so many immigrants and tourists...get real
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  256.  @gotaylor  Sounds like the same reasons ignorant tourists might label New York as the rudest city. It's a working city, not Disneyland or a Vegas casino.
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  257.  @r.pres.4121  Sounds like Portland, OR. It wasn't equipped or meant to be quite as big as it became either.
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  258.  @CroisMoi  True, although DFW briefly experienced Minnesota-like temperatures during their deep freeze event a couple years ago.
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  259.  @damienjackson7534  I used to live in San Diego, so I know about that city's potholes. That's kind of an eye-opener about Indy.
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  260.  @Abel-Alvarez  As I've said a few times in these comments; the funny thing about small towns and rural areas is if "everyone" moves there, then they don't stay small towns or rural for long.
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  261.  @Landonmoto39  What would you say is the prettiest?
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  262. Phoenix?
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  263. I can understand pity and sadness for Detroit, but why hate? Have Americans gotten that callous?
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  264. Another issue affecting Japan is a major rural brain drain. Young Japanese people overwhelmingly want to move to the cities, and especially Tokyo, which has led to some small towns to be almost abandoned, which in turn has led to for instance rural schools closing.
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  265. Some people prefer older houses, y'know. And won't they be in for a surprise when they get their FL insurance bill.
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  266. How are those insurance premiums?
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  267. If it does happen, won't those folks who wanted it to happen because taxes be in for a surprise when they find they have to pay a sales tax. Especially if they're poor or on a fixed income.
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  268. New York and Chicago get much colder.
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  269. Enjoy literally Arctic winters then. If you think Seattle weather is terrible, spend a year in North Dakota.
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  270. It is interesting how so many members of an ancestrally tropical people settled in cold-weather cities (although Seattle winters aren't nearly as cold as the Twin Cities)
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  271. From what I've heard, Florida's rain comes mostly all at once in huge thunderstorms mostly in summer (that's how the Tampa Bay Lighting got their name; "Tampa" actually means "thunder" in the local Indian language), whereas Seattle gets most of its rain in steady drizzle during the winter.
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  272.  @wwbaker3  They are indeed free to move, and if they don't like the local politics, they always have that option. But if they'd been paying attention to some of Briggs's other videos, they'd know Alabama (to use your example) and the rest of the rural South has some pretty scary violent crime stats.
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  273.  @julianpaul680  True. Especially how one "side" seems to think crime only ever happens in the cities. Wasn't the opioid epidemic actually worse in the country?
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  274. More like fights between drug dealers and cartel members.
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  275. And perhaps why Asian food in general didn't really take off until about the 1970s, despite the large Asian emigre communities mostly on the coasts who've been here since the 1800s.
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  276. It is gorgeous, but to date Anchorage is the one place I've been to where a homeless guy told my dad and I that another homeless guy was physically attacking people on the street, so we crossed the street. I live in Seattle, and I've seen homeless talking to themselves or walls and yelling at passersby, but this was the only time to date that I was told a homeless guy might well assault us.
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  277. Cacti are kinda rare in northern Arizona because it's higher up and gets a lot colder in the winter.
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  278. Maybe it's more greater Bostonians who take pride in Boston instead of the Bay State as a whole. But yeah, if Boston were a state, it might possibly rival Texas in terms of state pride.
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  279. I actually haven't been through ATL Airport yet, but I have passed through its northern rival ORD (Chicago O'Hare) quite a lot. I've heard some surveys claiming Illinois is the state with the least state pride; maybe Briggs will do that one next.
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  280.  @ChumStun  Well, y'all don't have Denali.
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  281. I would say the Netherlands and the Scandinavian countries, but even they seem to be falling prey to overpriced housing and ethnonationalist beliefs.
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  282.  @rickpartlow534  Unfortunately it does mean that the areas that were dependent upon certain industries that have supposedly become obsolete have never recovered economically, like the Rust Belt. And some industries basically perpetuate poverty, like the Appalachian coal country and the mining towns in the UK, or the feudalistic plantation economy in the South.
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  283. And say which countries most of them are moving to. (One friend of mine moved to the UK a couple years ago, another to Japan earlier this year.)
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  284. 1:98 One other way of putting it; El Paso at the west end of Texas is basically Phoenix, Houston at the east end is basically New Orleans.
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  285. Then why don't you build a time machine and go back and stop the pandemic from happening then?
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  286. Do you want the homeless off the streets or not?
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  287. That's true, but remember the line was built back in the 1800s, and the original builders chose what seemed like the most cost-effective route, along the coast. Much of the land between SD and LA away from the coast is very hilly, so an inland line would've required a lot of tunnels.
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  288. And the drunks and party animals. No, PB's not a good place to raise a family.
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  289.  @acbulgin2  There wasn't anything about Trump in your first post; I was just assuming that my post comparing America in its present state to Putin's Russia would act as a lightning rod for replies along the lines of "STFU LIBTURD SNOWFLAKE MAGA 2020".
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  290. When did you realize how similar nu-America is to Putin's Russia? It just has slightly less draconian law enforcement and a much higher violent crime rate. And before we start going down THAT road, the rot set in long before Trump. No one in any position of power, whether in business or politics, is accountable to anyone anymore. Hell, it's pretty much expected that they won't.
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  291.  @heather957  There are lot of examples of that throughout the US. I've heard Versailles, Kentucky is locally pronounced "ver-SALES", Montevideo, Minnesota is "monna-VIDEO", Calais, Maine rhymes with "palace", etc.
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  292. From what I've heard, Cairo is in fact pronounced "Care-o" in downstate Illinois. Okay, maybe not so much anymore, since the interviewed resident of the region said his generation has adopted a more "General American" accent, but his parents' generation would've pronounced it "Care-o".
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  293. 12:30 Those New Sweden colonial log cabins (actually adapted from a Finnish design since Finland was ruled by Sweden at the time) were actually the basis for the standard American log cabin. I hope Abe Lincoln had time to thank the Swedish ambassador for ultimately inspiring his birthplace (Finland didn't become an independent country until 1917).
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  294. Wait, since Wyoming's oldest building was built out of dinosaur bones, wouldn't that make it the oldest in the country by quite a long shot?
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  295. Taos Pueblo is older than quite a few old European buildings. If that foundation date of 1000 AD is right, they didn't even start construction on Notre Dame Cathedral for another 163 years.
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  296. 10:39 I think those are most-recognized companies based in those respective states.
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  297. "Youse" is more NYC, right? And I've heard that maybe about 100 or so years ago, "youse" was actually heard much more often throughout the Northeast, including New England, New York's archrival. What they say in (parts of) Pennsylvania, from what I've heard, is "yins" (short for "you ones").
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  298. So it's basically a bird panda.
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  299. Imagine if aliens left a spy human in, say, the middle of Times Square (after COVID has eased up). From a distance he/she might look normal, but close up it'd look like a department store dummy. I wonder if those prairie dogs had a reaction similar to what we'd have to that off-camera.
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  300. Unfortunately Delta still seems to have a LOT of old planes still in service. Seriously, I watched a jet enthusiast takeoff video at their main hub in ATL with notes on the planes' service entry dates and destinations. About half of them were more than 10 years old.
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  301. He looked emo.
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  302. A long, long time ago I can still remember how those raptors used to make me smile And I know if I had the time That I could watch a T. rex tryin' To catch some triceratops for a while. But Chicxulub, it made me shiver With that iridium it delivered Bad news in Yucatan It ruined all of my plans I can't remember if I cried When the melted glass came down from high But something ate out my insides The day the dinos died.
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  303. For the same reason humans are often less active and more depressed during the cooler, darker months.
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  304. So I'm guessing Australians don't like Bugs Bunny OR Mickey Mouse cartoons...
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  305.  @Raydensheraj  #QAnonIsATerroristMovement #LockColemanRogersUp
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  306.  @Yahreshohn  I'm sure the virus will just MIRACULOUSLY disappear once we draw and quarter Fauci, Bill, and Melinda, right?
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  307.  @MatterIsNotSolid  Please provide proof, good sir.
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  308. Did anyone else get an ad for Subway before the video?
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  309. 3:41 Close but no cigar.
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  310. Why didn't the East Asian snow macaques join their fellow primates, us humans, in coming across the Bering Land Bridge to North America? Obviously there's a pretty big treeless gap there, and it was even bigger back during the Ice Age, but aren't snow macaques more adapted to life on the ground? And that's how bears, moose, and several other animals also got here (and how camels and horses got to Eurasia).
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  311. Maybe it went around Niagara Falls by going through the Welland Canal?
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  312.  @yadiaag7771  Not south of about Sonoma County, at least not in the Holocene. During the Ice Age, Southern CA had a climate somewhat similar to the redwoods in the north. Like I said, the Torrey pines around San Diego, as well as the pine forests in the mountains, are a legacy of that former cooler, wetter climate.
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  313. Are the large conifer forests in the American South a legacy of a formerly cooler climate? That's actually the explanation for Southern California's distinctive Torrey pine, which has a very small natural range but is doing quite well thanks to its popularity as an ornamental tree. Crumbly sandstone soil in much of its natural range probably also helps.
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  314. Oh, and I didn't know until now that Trump calls his limo "the Beast". So if VP Pence were to park too close to it and leave a ding in the side, or a bird were to shit on it, you would call those marks...
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  315. The first Peter should've been posthumously named Peter the Great.
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  316. 7:43 Or maybe he wandered off again and ate one of the Queen's cygnets.
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  317.  @alexandersims1613  Maybe because they ship them to SF and Seattle.
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  318.  @Orlando_Steve  You seriously still believe the soy myth?
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  319. What would you suggest?
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  320. I thought you were going to say the statistics said North Korea was the most Christian country (a "form" of Christianity which of course glorifies Kim Jong-Un is tolerated there). Seriously, Christianity actually took off in a relatively big way on the Korean peninsula (in part because it seemed to offer an alternative to the traditional Confucian emphasis on hierarchy; sadly, under both Chinese and Japanese rule the Korean peasantry was often at the bottom of the traditional social ladders), and before the Korean War broke out, Pyongyang was by some accounts the most Christian city in the peninsula. Kim Il-Sung's father was actually a minister.
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  321. Why? It's not perfect, but it seems like they have a lot to be proud of.
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  322. I've only visited Chicago and I'd have to agree. I don't know if I could ever live there with the cold winters, but I do love its excellent public transit and of course the food.
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  323.  Nun of the Above  Connecticut (where a lot of my family is from) is No. 3? Dang, they really should count their blessings there.
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  324. I would kinda tell Connecticutians and Massachusians (?) to count their blessings.
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  325. Same with California, Oregon, and Washington.
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  326. Who'd've thought Portland, OR and Tampa would both be the least churchgoing cities? (Considering Florida's reputation these days, I'm rather surprised at that.)
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  327. Did you think Briggs was too nice to PDX or something?
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  328. Thank developers only building million-dollar condos because muh bottom line and reactionaries in the South putting their mentally homeless on westbound buses.
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  329.  @R.B.90  Doesn't Denver have its sketchy areas too, like all big cities do?
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  330. I am. They can be very cute once domesticated (as pets, they're kinda like a combination of a cat and a monkey). I'd agree that the wild variety (which is an invasive species) should be kept under control by any means necessary, but overall it's not their fault that they were shipped around the world and often infected with such horrible diseases (which often hurt them as much as us). They like a lot of the same foods and sensations as us, and they tend to follow us around for our garbage, so their unwanted presence is mostly our fault.
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  331. They feed off our garbage and we ultimately spread them around the world from their native Southeast Asia so yeah, they're pretty much our fault. Think of rats (and roaches) as humanity's dark followers.
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  332. I think there were some rats, but yeah, he did show deer mice and even some squirrels.
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  333.  @KingKasper69  Do you mean the guy who killed those U. of ID students?
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  334.  @outbackigloo6489  What I meant is that they all have the official designation of "city" as opposed to "town".
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  335.  @outbackigloo6489  Actually, they're all official "cities".
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  336. NC currently has too much water; Aridzona has the opposite problem.
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  337. Sounds like Austin (and Seattle).
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  338. Yeah, bad climates.
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  339. Law enforcement, firefighters, judges, and parole officers are government workers.
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  340.  @Mssummer362008  I'd like New Zealand too, but they have rather strict immigration and I'm currently unemployed, so I probably have about zero chance of getting in. Same with Australia.
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  341. Unfortunately it seems like that attitude is spreading throughout the whole country lately. Australia and New Zealand seem pretty nice, though of course they have their own issues, and I think they've also tightened up immigration restrictions lately.
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  342. So the whole country is going down the tubes, is what you're saying? Frankly, I'd argue that's been the case since the '70s.
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  343.  @nealbaker2132  Is that the used toilet paper Tucker is flinging at you lately? "They give unemployment to death row inmates?"
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  344. LAX Airport is pretty poorly laid out, esp if you're changing planes.
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  345.  @StatelessOne  That's also true for New York, I'd imagine.
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  346. How?
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  347. So we'll split into a bunch of independent countries? I'll take that over Civil War 2.
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  348. @Stang_Gang_8  By "last time" I was actually referring to a comment I made for the previous video on this subject. Sorry for the confusion.
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  349.  @Stang_Gang_8  Maybe not imminently, but political polarization has reached gridlock stage, poor areas of the country are basically 3rd world status, liberals and conservatives both have growing distrust of our federal and legal institutions (if for different reasons), and the middle class has basically disappeared. Like I said last time, if pundits and the general public are seriously wondering if there's going to be a Civil War 2 or just a USSR-style breakup (Marge Greene called it "a national divorce") then no, I don't think the US is in a good place right now. Ditto for Canada (which has similar socioeconomic issues as well as Quebec perennially threatening to secede along a movement for the western provinces to secede) and the UK (where the Scots have been speaking more strongly about secession).
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  350. How so?
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  351. They did in the previous video.
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  352. How was it provoked exactly?
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  353. There's a monument in Buenos Aires that looks a bit like the Washington Monument.
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  354. One question that so far I don't think Briggs or anyone in the peanut gallery has adequately answered: what exactly does it mean for a country to collapse? For just the government and its institutions to shut down? As several commenters have noted, life often goes on for the common people in a lot of countries with nonfunctioning governments like Somalia and Yemen. For a country to get militarily invaded like Ukraine? Whatever your thoughts on that war, Zelenskyy and his government are still hanging in there, at least for the moment. For a country to de-facto split up like Somalia, have areas it doesn't fully control like Mexico, or be contested by a bunch of overlapping claims from other countries like with Western Sahara? Again, life for the common people can get miserable to the point where a lot give up and try to migrate to (somewhat) more stable surroundings in the First World, but a lot still manage to tough it out.
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  355. He got them last time. This video is in response to the commenters.
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  356.  @phillipmel  Jimmy Carter (probably our last truly great president) is from Georgia.
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  357. 5:48 When you said "a nice city, just not a big city", I'm assuming you meant St. Paul, the "other" Twin City. Madison is in Wisconsin.
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  358. Illegals shipped in? If you actually believe that BS, you are beyond help?
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  359. Summers can be pretty humid too...at least from a West Coast perspective.
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  360.  @paulmarion7578  If you actually believe that shit, you're beyond help.
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  361. I think by now we can all agree that anti-wokers are just as insufferable, petty, and screechy as wokers, if not more so. Like, consider that MS principal who got fired over showing kids Michaelangelo's "David", or the YT commentors who start screeching at you if you dare call it "Denali" instead of "Mt. McKinley"
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  362. ​ @srdxxx  An arid climate which made them dependent on aqueducts as well as an emphasis on building mainly mansions for the Hollywood beautiful people and tech bigwigs instead of low-cost housing for the lower-income workers who train the spotlights on the beautiful people and run code for the tech bigwigs. A similar thing happened in New York City, especially when a certain obese developer started using the Big Apple as a gold mine and building million-dollar penthouses and elite hotels left and right (but no affordable houses); 40 years later, like SF and LA, it's also a "rich ghetto" with a large homeless population.
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  363. Since when does the Right care about the middle class?
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  364. Is it really the fault of those states that they have large homeless populations if the red-state sociopaths put their "undesirables" on a bus (or a plane in Hawaii's case)?
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  365. When was it not in every state? And since when are Hollywood and Big Tech not capitalist?
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  366.  @JBoy340a  Sounds like Prop 13 just created another affordability problem. What's your solution?
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  367.  @8731GC  How so?
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  368. Sure, let's do that in the 2nd most populated state too.
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  369. B-b-but Commiefornia HAS to build on the mountain slopes and in the canyons to bring house prices down!
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  370.  @therealking6202  A lot of people commute to Silicon Valley from SF and the rest of the peninsula. Apple actually provides transit for their employees, as does Microsoft up in Seattle. Hey, there's one positive thing about those tech giants; pretty sure ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, and Amway don't provide free employee transportation. Going back to your comment, housing in the Valley proper is also outrageously expensive, as you probably know, and much of the flat land and a large part of the foothills is now built up.
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  371. It's the biggest factor. Did Tim Cook et al. and, yes, Nancy Pelosi really think all those fresh-out-of-college tech workers would just be able to nab one of those pretty Victorians within their first year? The same thing of course also turned NYC and other desirable cities (including Austin, TX) into "rich ghettoes" with huge "unhoused" populations. Low-cost housing needs to be a priority.
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  372.  @briansullivan5908  If they ever succeed, they'll be in for a surprise when they realize Idaho has a sales tax (Oregon doesn't). Also, I hear some conservatives actually like pot, but doesn't Idaho have the kind of anti-pot laws where possession of even a tiny amount can put you away for a very long time?
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  373.  @Glenningway  That's true, especially the folks who rant and rave about Section 8 because muh precious property values.
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  374.  @Cyrus992  If you're talking about restricting INTRAnational migration (state-to-state), that would be unconstitutional. American citizens have the right to live in whichever part of the country they want.
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  375.  @Cyrus992  Just illegal immigration, or ALL immigration?
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  376. Even if you're a remote worker?
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  377.  @economycollapseimminent  It's currently only 61 in Seattle. Definitely feels like fall now.
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  378. Plus, aren't the SC winters actually colder than WA (at least western WA)? My brother and I live in the Sea-Tac metro; his wife grew up in NC (near Winston-Salem) and says the winters are definitely colder there on average.
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  379. You think Idaho and South Carolina are liberal?
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  380.  @billwilson3609  I think he was being sarcastic; even guidebooks tell you not to tour New Orleans's cemeteries alone. Then again, I have heard people say "in the North, the cities are bad and the small towns are nice; in the South it's the opposite".
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  381. Reactionary South Carolina and Idaho were also on his list. Did you miss those parts?
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  382. Didn't PA used to have some of the worst roads in the country? I've heard I-80 was especially notorious.
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  383.  @ronaldbradley1028  But you said that in this video Briggs "picked every up and coming 'shit hole' state and said it was improving." And of course he listed Idaho and SC.
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  384. Are you saying reactionary Idaho and South Carolina are also declining shitholes?
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  385.  @tlw1950  Köszönjük a hozzájárulást! 5 forint került a számlájára.
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  387. And so many Murkins seem to think crime only happens in the big cities.
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  388. Winters in WA (at least western WA) are actually pretty mild for its latitude.
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  389.  @AngelloDelNorte  Utah might be worse. Far northern CA (like around Mt. Shasta) tends to get more rain and snow; that's actually where the bulk of the state's water supply comes from. Meanwhile Utah is mostly arid.
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  390. It has some gorgeous scenery, but yeah; nice to visit, wouldn't wanna live there.
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  391.  @tlw1950  SC is also a one-party state...
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  392. Because they suck. The property taxes will make up for however cheap your house and tax bill may have been. And mildew on your clothes is a thing, as are alligators, crazy ants, and hurricanes. And then there's the summers...
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  393. It's kind of a "boutique city" like Savannah, right?
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  394. Summers are actually rather dry. The winter is when the bulk of precipitation falls.
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  395. Some may find out the hard way that crime isn't all restricted to cities.
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  396.  @ilenegallo374  Where in Georgia are you? I've heard there are some sketchy areas in Atlanta.
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  397. Yeah, Idaho's scenery is gorgeous, but the people are less so. Nice to visit; wouldn't want to live there.
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  398. Nice to visit; wouldn't want to live there. Same with Idaho.
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  399.  @gerhartleischner2519  American here who loves to watch dashcam videos. I saw some videos of Edmonton and was surprised at how pretty the river valley is. The city in general seems to be a lot greener than you'd expect for a prairie city. (Also, one thing I've been wondering; how do they pronounce the numbered streets like 80 Avenue? Is it "80 Avenue" or "80TH Avenue" like with numbered streets in most American cities?)
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  400.  @drivecalgary6095  Plenty of Americans own property in Mexico and Costa Rica (as do some Canadians).
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  401.  @rayb.6537  Yeah, there's a lot more crime in rural areas than Tucker Carlson and his ilk want you think. Appalachia was where the meth epidemic hit the hardest.
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  402. I think in most cases state officials created those weird local laws just for shits and giggles.
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  403. I drove through there on the way to Lake Itasca and was stopped by a train at the railroad crossing. Later found out the railroad was the Northern Pacific transcon. It had a nice looking American-style downtown, from what I remember. What do other locals think?
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  404.  @CeruleanSky1111  True, but they often get major snow and ice storms in the winter.
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  405. There's a major faultline running right next to SLC. Why do you think the Wasatch Mountains rise up so suddenly?
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  406. Seriously, as soon as you starting talking about the weather in Colorado, it started pouring where I'm at (San Diego).
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  407.  @outbackigloo6489  Just stay away from the reclaimed areas like the Marina District (you know, the area that had a bunch of areas collapse and burn during the 1989 quake) and Embarcadero.
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  408. Muskrat will come up with something along the lines of his hyperloop; an insanely overengineered, untested, and expensive "solution" to a seemingly simple problem which totally won't be a scam to bilk investors and taxpayers and divert funds away from more feasible solutions and projects already in the works.
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  409. If you live in a seismically active area, that's part of the problem. Those areas turn into mudflats in major earthquakes (the process is called "liquefaction").
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  410.  garyallen8824  And Lovecraftian creatures are unleashed by the sinkholes? You might be onto something.
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  411.  @naptime0143  Upper Manhattan is pretty hilly, esp around Washington Heights. Unfortunately JFK and LaGuardia airports will probably get flooded out.
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  412. My dad I went to Alaska (by plane, not cruise ship), and Juneau was our first stop. Probably one of the prettiest cities in the state, and likely the prettiest state capital.
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  413. My dad and I went there on our first night in Juneau (and Alaska; we just flew into Juneau on a plane-based Alaska trip)
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  414. Did you go to El Sombrero? My dad and I went there on our first night in Juneau (and Alaska) and it was pretty good!
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  415. I think my childhood 1990 edition World Book Encyclopedia classified Idaho as a Rocky Mountain state. Yes, I have heard it referred to as a Northwest state as well; what would you in the peanut gallery say?
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  416. How did Toronto, Montreal, and Vancouver not make this list? Yes, they probably have outrageous housing prices, but they are still Canada's biggest cities, and I don't see that changing for the foreseeable future. Just like how I don't see NYC, LA, and Chicago losing their status as America's big 3 cities despite their expensive real estate.
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  417. Edmonton is the only North American major city further north than London; it's at about the latitude of Dublin, Liverpool, and Hamburg.
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  418. You do realize that Oregon doesn't have a sales tax, but Idaho does, right?
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  419. If you're from Oregon, you do realize that Idaho has a sales tax, right? Hey, if those Clint Eastwood wannabes want it, then they do they. They just gotta remember the consequences of their actions.
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  420.  @KTJohnsonkidThunder  Oh, but I thought you righties thought representation doesn't matter; only "freedom" (however exactly you define it). That's why rural areas have about 3x as much voting power in presidential elections thanks to the Electoral College, and why gerrymandering is GOOD when it's in Ohio, North Carolina, and Alabama, right? Also, "voting is a privilege, not a right", amirite?
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  421. I wonder if those Oregonians know that Idaho has a sales tax. Especially since a lot of them are pulling their little stunt "because taxes".
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  422. Mostly vacation homes. There's some big ski resorts near Bend, and a lot of other outdoor activities.
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  423.  @jim2376  The B-52s.
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  424. So if North Dakota's taught us guys anything, it's that binge-drinking enlarges your dick.
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  425. Has extreme heat drawn out over a long portion of the year ever been linked to depression too? That might partially explain the depressive rates in some Southern cities.
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  426. What is "COL"?
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  427.  @supermaple1919  It's basically Michigan without NYC. Beautiful, but a lot of burned-out, impoverished industrial towns and empty space.
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  428.  @davidfikes5849  Neither
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  429. 8:20 That does not look like Virginia, or any state east of the Rockies.
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  430. Ticks and mites are actually arachnids. Thought you were going to point that out with a "stop typing". EDIT: I already knew ticks were arachnids, but I had to consult Google to find out mites' species.
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  431. No Northern states made the list? They may not have chiggers and fire ants, but they do have plenty of mosquitoes as well as blackflies. Some of my Maine relatives have said that blackflies are way worse than mosquitoes.
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  432. As you pointed out in talking about Mississippi, some Southerners regarded the boll weevil as a blessing in disguise in encouraging greater variety of crops and adoption of better farming practices. There's actually a statue of a boll weevil in Enterprise, Alabama.
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  433. Were you in South Georgia for basic training? In the Peach State they talk about "the Gnat Line", which parallels the geological Fall Line along the East Coast; it marks the head of navigation along many major rivers (as such, many prominent cities were built along it, from Montgomery, AL in the south to Trenton, NJ in the north). In Georgia, north of the line the famous red clay prevails as the main soil; south of the line the soil turns sandy. Gnats breed in sandy soil, thus become much more numerous south of the Fall Line city of Macon. Both lines actually mark an ancient shoreline; in a sense the land south and east of the Fall/Gnat Line is recently risen seafloor. Geology is fun.
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  434.  @Jamalama555  The summers are actually rather dry, even west of the Cascades.
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  435. Where did you hear that?
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  436. Huntsville has become Bama's biggest city? That's news to me.
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  437.  @Connerflows  Only if you like hurricanes, alligators, feral pythons, and fire ants.
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  438. That's true, although New Jersey does have some scenic areas as well, especially in the hills in the northwest corner. A lot of summer camps there (including the one where they filmed Friday the 13th).
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  439. Re. the lack of hospital beds: you can thank the Idahoans who refuse to take COVID seriously and get vaccinated. ID doesn't have many intensive care units, so a lot of them get shipped to Seattle hospitals. Same with Alaska.
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  440. Florida's had some pretty nasty riots too, y'know.
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  441.  @thomasgrabkowski8283  Yeah, it seems like it's only the area from the Pacific coast about 10 miles inland that has truly cool summers (and downright cold ones in the case of San Francisco).
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  442. It gets dark for 3 months straight, bitter cold, and there's a LOT of alcoholism.
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  443. Meanwhile, there are more Texas (and Florida) license plates in Washington than you might have been led to believe.
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  444. Plus, like LA, the Wasatch Mountains create an inversion layer which makes SLC also have a smog problem.
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  445. Seriously, take out the cities which trumptards say are "ruining" Texas (DFW, Houston, San Antonio, and of course Austin), and you get "Tejas".
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  446. To any Canadians watching, is that also true of Lloydminster, Alberta/Saskatchewan? That town is kinda interesting; whereas Texarkana (and Kansas City) is actually two cities in their respective states, Lloydminster actually has only one city government despite straddling the provincial border. Residents and businesses still use their respective province depending which side of the border they live on, and the respective rules of each province apply on their respective sides, but they both vote for the same mayoral and city council candidates.
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  447.  @tomwilliams6744  Seconding Briggs' comment; what does "Deez Nuts" mean in reference to NJ?
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  448. The Patriots' stadium is actually to Providence than Boston.
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  449. Who else roots for Detroit sports teams even if you're not from Detroit, just wanting them to catch a lucky break for once?
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  450. When did the mudslides happen? My dad and I went on the White Pass Railway in late June and had a great time (aside from the locomotive breaking down near the summit; fortunately they got it running again)
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  451. :(
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  452. Sometimes rural areas can smell less-than-great, especially if there's a large farm with manure pits or a paper mill (which you might find in Montana's forested areas; Lewiston, Idaho is notorious for its paper mill stench). I know, locals will say "it's the smell of money", but if you're trying to escape the crowds in California or Seattle, you might want to do some research and avoid towns near factory farms or paper mills.
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  453. And yet they still have the highest possibly Moody's ratings and some of the most expensive real estate in the country. What do those millionaires and billionaires know that we don't?
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  454. Well yes, because people who vocally disapprove of Vlad tend to come down with terminal cancer or other illness, or fall out of high windows. Also, check out some Street Views of Russian small towns (or cities not named Moscow or St. Petersburg) and see how much that economic miracle is reaching his entire citizenry. (I guess rumors about Russian propaganda infecting the American general public are true.)
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  455. It does get blizzards and occasional tornadoes.
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  456. What does SF need to come back from? Where did it go?
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  457. Hasn't been since at least the '70s.
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  458.  @SA-hz1rs  An earlier Briggs video showed that Montana and North Dakota have a lot more violent crime than Tucker Carlson would care to admit.
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  459. Remember Rick Snyder and his attempt to dissolve elected governments?
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  460. Well then the video probably wouldn't leave Montana or North Dakota. According to an earlier Briggs vid those states actually have much higher violent crime than you might think.
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  461.  @MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia  Which California cities? The ones with AAA bond ratings?
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  462.  @MichiganUSASingaporeSEAsia  You're delusional if you genuinely think San Francisco should be on this list. For one thing, if anything SF's problem is too MUCH money pricing people out. They have no trouble keeping the lights on, unlike Flint and East St. Louis.
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  463. Seriously, Nevada would be the least populous state if it weren't for legalized gambling. The climate and terrain are quite harsh. Not just heat in the summer, but also some serious cold in the winter.
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  464.  @michelletidler6773  I'd like to visit Miami once COVID dies down (whenever that is) but I sure as hell wouldn't want to live there.
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  465. Especially with those summers (though Briggs did a similar video on Arizona recently)
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  466.  @MrJames1471  I know what you meant; I'm just saying that western Oregon provides more tax revenue and Congressional representation than the east, so if for some the west seceded then the state would take a much bigger hit.
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  467.  @MrJames1471  Not as much as if the west seceded. Also, as I've said a couple times now, hopefully those would-be Idahoans realize that the Gem State has a sales tax.
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  468.  @lewizzrocks  Better yet, park in Fremont or Daly City and ride the BART in.
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  469.  @philipenos2930  So you're just gonna go "la la la can't hear you" on that Reader's Digest article?
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  470. Sounds like a lot of sprawling cities, especially ones expanding into mountainous areas.
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  471. Including Los Angeles?
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  472.  @TerryAnnOnline  Outgrowth from Austin? I know Austin isn't TOO far from San Antonio; aren't those two cities kinda merging together?
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  473. Damn, when did San Antonio outgrow Dallas?
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  474. OK bot.
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  475.  @mattdecker6791  Hey, if you can handle the cold and wind (truckers call it "wonderful windy Wyoming"), then enjoy. There sure is some beautiful scenery up there.
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  476.  @chrisv9186  He actually had a white supremacist as one of his writers, right? Yeah, I know, "he wasn't doing it during work hours", but that's why "vetting people" is a thing, right?
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  477.  @Rhaspun  Righties don't like it when people point out that their views/conceptions don't always line up with reality.
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  478. Let's just say that "certain" folks lately think it's illegal to say anything positive about California, and get rather mad if you call them on it.
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  479. Same with some of downtown LA's buildings. The downtown of that city is surprisingly hilly.
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  480. Also, the northern border is closer to Canada than Mexico. It's at the same latitude as Chicago, and just south of Detroit and Boston.
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  481.  @CanofArizona  Stay out of the Pacific NW once Aridzona runs out of water and move somewhere like Houston. Four years ago we learned they have quite a bit more than enough water there. They don't seem to know how to manage it properly, but I'm sure a rugged individualist like yourself will know how to cross that washed-out bridge when you get to it, right?
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  482. Proof on that, s'il vous plait?
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  483.  @agolftweetler3995  These days a lot of people working at SD companies commute all the way from Murrieta and Temecula. I think quite a few people in greater SD would say those cities are part of SD's domain instead of LA's (just recently moved from SD to Seattle)
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  484.  @agolftweetler3995  I've seen some references to Sonoma as "North Bay". I get that there's probably some debate as to who is what (like whether Temecula is more affiliated with LA or San Diego).
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  485.  @agolftweetler3995  PS: No offense if you're a proud Norcal resident, but I wonder if Southern CA residents have gotten a bit more cautious during red flag warnings and with campfires, since there haven't been quite as many apocalyptic fires there in recent years. Or is the large number of fires up north because there are more forests there? More forested Oregon is also being hit harder lately.
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  486.  @agolftweetler3995  You don't consider Napa and Sonoma part of the Bay Area?
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  487.  @agolftweetler3995  Seems like the north and Bay are having much worse issues with fires than the south lately.
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  488.  @philerrup4113  Well, there's quite a few TX plates in CA as well (and in my home state of WA). Are people maybe getting sick of the Bullshit State's property taxes, hurricanes, humidity, and despotic homeowner's associations (to say nothing of its "voting is a privilege not a right" politics)?
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  489. @Citizen De Watts Seriously. You gotta love how righties love to use the homeless to shit on "Commiefornia" but don't suggest any kind of solution to the issue (other than "the final solution" in a few cases; seriously, check out some of the comments for some "CHECK OUT THESE SCARY HOMELESS PEOPLE!!!one!" videos). Unfortunately, one thing not even many liberals have suggested is reopening the mental hospitals to get the really far-gone drug-addicted homeless off the street. That's why I don't donate to the ACLU.
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  490. Why the fudge would he move out of Maine to Texass?
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  491. Maybe this is another "stop typing" thing, but when did Wyoming surpass Vermont in population?
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  492.  @lancasterritzyescargotdine2602  It's true that most mines eventually get exhausted, like with all extractive industries, but they also require a lot of financing and investment from city-based banks. The Gold Rush was partially how San Francisco got its start as a banking center (and of course Levi's and Ghirardelli got their start outfitting the miners; "mining the miners", they called it). Yes, most of the Western ghost towns are due to their respective mines getting exhausted, but given the timing with some of the near-ghost towns mentioned here, I have to wonder if the disruption of the 1906 quake also played a role. Look at the economic downturn that occurred after the Twin Towers fell just blocks from Wall Street itself, and of course the current post (?)-COVID economic slump.
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  493. In Alaska they sell a T-shirt with TX fitting into AK with the line "Isn't Texas cute?"
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  494. What's to hate about Connecticut? It's mostly suburban, low-crime (except for the big cities), and pretty anonymous, which seems like it fits pretty well with Murkins in their current state (which is not exactly a good thing).
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  495.  @chuckhenry1740  SF was pretty corrupt itself during its early years, as were a lot of the Western boomtowns.
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  496. 35,808 people. It's over the threshold.
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  497. That's the story of a lot of American small towns.
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  498. Watch this again and pay attention to Briggs's population criteria.
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  499.  @lioneldemun6033  Do you have to serve in their military?
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  500. So you CAN try that in a small town after all?
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  501.  @geminiecricket4798  So then rent. Why is there such a stigma about renting?
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  502. Actually manatees are closer related to elephants, not hippos. (Whales are hippos' relatives.)
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  503. MS has another town named Chunky, as well as Hot Coffee.
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  504.  @sunsetwalker2923  That's kinda sad, especially with a country as small as NZ. I understand the desire for national sovereignty, but there is such a thing as being too restrictive and "nativist".
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  505. I've heard they've been making it a bit more difficult to immigrate there in recent years (like, you need to have a minimum amount of money and to have a job already lined up).
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  506. New Zealand.
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  507. I was just shocked to hear in the previous video that ANYONE at all was moving to Belarus (aside from maybe Russians). It actually took the brunt of the fallout from Chernobyl (which is just south of the Ukrainian border); a huge swath of the country is basically abandoned.
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  508.  @JakeKoenig  Mentally ill white guys who watch a bit too much Tucker Carlson?
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  509.  @marvinbone1379  Sounds like immigrant bashers' go-to argument.
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  510.  @mcherylyn  And speaking of infrastructure, at least in Cleveland they have the excuse of snow and ice (and the effects of deicing).
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  511. Last I checked, California was a state, not a city.
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  512. Passed through B'ham on Amtrak once. Probably one of the most depressing places I've ever seen.
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  513. I was thinking Briggs would say Honey Grove sounds like a porno store, heh.
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  514.  @shadfletcher6815  So what's your solution?
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  515.  @azules9780  Do you not like having clean air and water? Because that's what the EPA stands for.
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  516. As someone who spent most of his life in California but also has relatives in New England and frequently visits them (plus I lived there from when I was 1 1/2 until I was 6, and thus my earliest memories are in New England despite having been born in CA), I kinda feel like I have both feet on both coasts. And as early as when I was a teenager in the late '90s I kinda felt like Californians could be rather smarmy and arrogant in an "everyone just KNOWS we're the best" sense, much like Americans in general. Even with California's supposedly ideal climate and breathtaking scenery, did they never conceive that residents of the other 49 states might still be defensive of them and their virtues? After all, some people from, for instance, Maine actually take pride in the harsh climate ("keeps out the riffraff"). Did they not remember San Franciscan Sly Stone's notion of "different strokes for different folks" and think that some people have different notions of paradise? So yeah, it's sad and ironic but perhaps inevitable as a backlash that about half of Americans would eventually develop the dogma that California doesn't represent "REAL America". And I say this as a moderate liberal (and present-day Seattle resident). Going back to comparing Californian arrogance to American arrogance, it's also sadly ironic how many conservatives bristle at the very idea of foreigners harboring similar disdain ranging to hatred of America because of said American arrogance (as well as our propping up dictatorial regimes to further our commercial/military interests).
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  517.  @burmy1552  Don't know if there's any such thing as a fireproof house. And fires scare me much more than earthquakes.
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  518.  @TM-ic1eb  Bet they're loving that increased sales tax too, huh?
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  519.  @jamesholland8057  Wut
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  520.  @relaxedleisure4766  How?
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  521.  @ricdynasty  What's so great about it?
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  522.  @michaelturano7522  What are you basing that comment on?
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  523. That's the story with a lot of the Western states, including California.
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  524.  @lizhoward9754  Can't speak for Kentucky, but rural northern Maine (the whitest state, and leaning rather conservative in the past decade) has a lot of burglaries.
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  525.  @porzingod1344  How about Fargo? Fargo's actually been growing a lot recently, hasn't it?
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  526.  @Patriot-oi7mj  Also, thanks to conservative Democrats (yes, they still do exist) Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema, you need not worry about the Green New Deal anymore.
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  527.  @Patriot-oi7mj  Like I said above, the Appalachian coal industry was doomed once most power plants switched to low(er)-sulfur Powder River coal. Joe Biden has a lot of skeletons in his closet (which was why I didn't vote for him in the primary), but "killing the West Virginia coal industry" which started dying 50 years ago isn't one of them.
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  528. The destruction began in the '60s, when power companies started switching to lower-sulfur Powder River coal from Wyoming.
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  529.  @lizhoward9754  I think West Virginia is trying to capitalize on their scenery for tourism ("Wild Wonderful West Virginia"), and they certainly do have plenty of that (being within a day's drive of much of the Northeast Corridor doesn't hurt in that regard). Kentucky, also having some very scenic areas, should perhaps consider a similar campaign, especially advertising toward the Indianapolis and Cincinnati metro areas (as well as the still-large Detroit, Cleveland, and Chicago metros) which are not too far away. Meanwhile Mississippi is rightfully calling itself "the birthplace of America's music" and would do well to capitalize on tourism "music trails".
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  530.  Big Dick Black  The Democrats were once conservative-libertarian and the Republicans were once social democrats who tried to halt a corrupt type of big business (that includes Teddy Roosevelt), so you're not wrong. If the Earth's magnetic poles can completely switch places, why shouldn't American politics?
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  531.  @Siansonea  Well, the Republicans of 2022 act more like the Democrats of 1862 and vice versa, so there's that. Plus segregationists Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms switched parties like the magnetic fields switched places, so maybe he's right (Obi-Wan voice) "from a certain point of view".
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  532.  Big Dick Black  Yeah, for all that conservatives have been demonizing the cities for being hotbeds of crime and murder (not always without justification, I must admit), rural crime and violence should definitely warrant more awareness. For instance, rural Maine (the whitest state) has a pretty big problem with meth and burglaries of late. The Heartland is no longer a pure, innocent virgin, if it ever was.
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  533. Ah yes, the Cumberland Gap, one of the main passages across the Appalachians. Interesting how human geography can come down to the arbitrariness of past events.
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  534. I assume you meant Issaquena County. Issaquah is an upscale outer suburb of Seattle. (Do you live in the Seattle metro area? I moved to Seatown last year.)
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  535. Why not? The UN should be impartial, and there is indeed some wretched poverty in the richest country. And yes, they should investigate poverty conditions in, for instance, the UK (some of their coal mining areas are about as destitute as ours).
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  536. Doesn't he do a video of that every year or so? But yeah, it should indeed be recognized that rich Connecticut has some areas of dire poverty, and impoverished Mississippi has some very wealthy areas. Maybe that video could be done by city, especially since the more densely populated Northeast has some very rich and very poor areas not far apart. For instance, in Connecticut filthy rich Greenwich and notoriously poor and dangerous Bridgeport are in the same county (Fairfield).
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  537. Speaking of interesting names in Owsley County, KY...I wonder if its name got some chuckles in the '60s, because one Owsley Stanley (who was actually born in Kentucky; I wouldn't be surprised if he was related to the county's namesake) was one of the biggest producers of LSD ("Owsley Acid" became the de facto standard), and on top of that, engineered the Grateful Dead's "wall of sound" system and helped design the Dead's skull logo. His nickname was "Bear", and the "Jerry Bears" were created as an homage to him. I hope you comment readers enjoyed my two attempts to leaven a rather depressing video about a very depressing subject.
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  538. ​ @kenanderson5739 Definitely true for the UK right now.
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  539.  @tombrown9424  She's actually mostly Filipina and native Hawaiian.
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  540. @roltthehunter  A non Japanese friend of mine moved from the US to Japan just this year. The immigration bureaucracy has been pretty sluggish, but so far she likes it a lot, and also feels a lot safer there after dark. Also, her daughter started 1st grade there, and her classmates have been really friendly.
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  541.  @Declan_Payan  Seattle occasionally gets snow, but not out-and-out blizzards. You want to go to the Midwest or Northeast for that.
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  542.  @Declan_Payan  You must love hurricanes and tornadoes.
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  543. It's the same in San Francisco.
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  544.  @alainbergeron4520  Nice question dodge. What do you think should be done about America's homelessness crisis? I for one think we need to bring back mental hospitals for the truly far-gone mental wrecks who pose a threat to passersby.
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  545.  @alainbergeron4520  What do you think should be done, since you're such an expert? Build a wall around downtown and make the homeless pay for it (oh, wait...)?
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  546. The original Portland is nice. It's shame so few people seem to have been there or heard about it (or maybe it's a good thing).
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  547.  @LordTylerBluGunderson  Maybe that's why people are getting the hell out of the Marital Aid State. Personally I think Disney should move ALL corporate presence out of there. Sell the park to an independent contractor, which is actually how Tokyo Disneyland is run. And if a lot of Floridians end up losing their jobs, I guess it'll be down to that "personal responsibility" thing the righties love talking about.
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  548.  @RedLeo-pf9yo  How?
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  549. Forgot to mention that Oymyakon had the lowest temperature outside of Antarctica on record. How cold is -90F? Well, to give you some idea, the coldest temperature ever recorded in North America was -81.4F in Snag, Yukon Territory, Canada, in 1947. The weather observer there reported that his breath instantly froze and fell to the ground with a tinkling noise, and could easily hear people talking and dogs barking from about four miles away, since extreme cold amplifies sound waves. An airplane that passed at about 10,000 feet up was heard when it was 20 miles away from Snag, and described as "deafening" when it passed directly overhead. People living near the airport thought it was landing. Teh Wiki doesn't describe anything about that in Oymyakon, but I wouldn't be surprised if they've experienced similar phenomena during their deep cold snaps. http://www.islandnet.com/~see/weather/events/life-80.htm
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  550.  @ggjr61  I wonder where the US would've been ranked if it were eligible.
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  551. Canadians voted on this too; I guess they have SOME self-awareness. And yeah, they can be VERY passive-aggressive (as can Minnesotans just over the border).
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  552. Seems Canucks are a bit more self-aware.
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  553.  @mikenixon2401  Thank you for confirming many Canadian stereotypes about Murkins.
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  554. Just about everywhere south of Key West and the Rio Grande, if you think about it (with the obvious exceptions of Cuba and Venezuela, which do openly hate the US).
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  555. And red tide
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  556. Sounds like California. For all of Texans' supposed disdain for Californians, it seems they're now looking down the barrel of the same gun as the Golden State.
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  557. So 50-60 years from now (or less) Texas will probably be facing the same cliff CA now is.
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  558.  @Zed1776  Sounds lovely. I dunno if I'd want to live in Asheville, but I've seen pictures and I'd like to visit.
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  559. I watch the weather regularly. It's been pretty hot there already the past week, right?
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  560. Well, the thing about rural places is, if "everyone" moves there, they won't be rural much longer. Boise's metro area is already at 764,000 people; three-quarters of a million. And there's quite a few comments in here about how they remember Austin as being a cute relatively small town.
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  561. If the cities are getting as overcrowded as they say, it was inevitable.
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  562. Did you already do hottest cities?
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  563.  @lisabranson9166  That goes for just about every place east of the Rockies.
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  564. Joseph Smith AND Brigham Young were actually born in Vermont. Just sayin
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  565. Actually there was one episode of one of those true-haunting shows on the Travel Channel* (forget which one) about a ghost at a gas station/garage. * Ghosts are on the Travel Channel, aliens on the History Channel, and a very strange combination of 90 Day Fiancee and disgusting medical practices are on TLC.
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  566.  @ZeusAVI  Their loss.
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  567.  @VulcanLogic  State Farm and Allstate have already started refusing to provide fire insurance in California due to the increasing wildfires there, so we're already seeing a form of this sad, climate change-induced collapse
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  568.  @ZeusAVI  Well, all Briggs said, Dallas proper has lost population to its suburbs, just like Detroit did.
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  569.  @ZeusAVI  Read the book "Once in a Great City", about Detroit at arguably its finest hour in the early '60s. In early 1963 a sociologist at Wayne State University examined trends among wealthy people of all races steadily leaving the city, and predicted that the city would show a marked loss in population by the 1970 census (which of course turned out to be true). He also observed that the people who tended to be staying behind were retirees or unemployed youth. So even that early, another non-dense, car-dependent city was seeing the writing on the wall.
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  570.  @ZeusAVI  Maybe more people are voting by mail these days. I have been since the 2000s.
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  571.  @ZeusAVI  Do you think that's a good thing?
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  572. 3:29 And there's a nearby town called Frog.
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  573.  @darter9000  Maybe they're just behind Japan.
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  574. I now kinda wonder if the USA will look like Eastern Europe 30 years from now. Or Mexico.
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  575. And Spain and Greece.
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  576. You didn't watch the video, right?
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  577. Maybe it's just a coincidence, but it seems like the two extremes of climate and sun exposure are becoming less popular.
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  578. Two of my friends left the country in just the last two years (one to England, one to Japan)
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  579.  @underground9260  Isn't that already happening in Texas? Austin especially is almost as expensive as a lot of CA cities.
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  580. Wait 50 or even 20 more years; think of CA as an example. CA was the sexy new boom state too once.
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  581. It's the 100+ degree summers (and late springs and early falls) that are the problem in Texas.
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  582.  @KamBar2020  There's a lot of them here too.
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  583.  @emilysmith259  Won't those tax-haters be in for a surprise when they find they have to pay sales tax. Especially the poor and fixed-income ones.
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  584.  @roberthadlock6555  And the air pollution. You think LA is bad? Well, it is, but especially SLC is getting downright toxic.
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  585.  @Travis12861  It sounds like they're the Oregonians who demand that Oregon's and Idaho's state governments (as well as US Congress) set aside time for their wants. That almost sounds like the definition of "snowflake" there.
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  586. Ah yes, liberal West Virginia, Mississippi, and Alaska.
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  587. We certainly need more videos about the homeless crisis ALL across America so "certain" folks will think twice before using it as a political football.
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  588. Someone (it's attributed to Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, or Stalin) said "We will sell you capitalists the rope you use to hang yourselves."
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  589. He might've been from Portland. That's where his plane took off from.
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  590.  @amandawilcox9638  Mt. Rainier
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  591. Seriously, at least Portland doesn't have to worry about water supply.
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  592.  @MichaelRei99  ??????
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  593.  @wadecrawford8494  Yes, because it's ancient. It long predates the interstate system, being opened in 1916.
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  594. @Drock How exactly? Yes, the Democrats also played a role in real estate in many big cities becoming hyperinflated. If you think all Democrats are diehard supporters of more corporate-friendly Dems like Pelosi, think again. Anyway, I work for a company that serves as sort of a go-between for government agencies and consultants, including architects. Low-cost housing projects are on the rise, though they should've been years ago. So what I want to know is, how is a strictly profit-based approach to housing going to get non-addicted, mentally healthy people off the streets ASAP? (Yes, the addicts and mentally ill should be institutionalized; the closure of the asylums was a mistake by both parties.) As long as real estate in Portland and other cities like San Francisco and LA is so grossly overvalued, why wouldn't for-profit builders only seek the biggest bang for their buck by building more million-dollar condos? No, low-cost homes should not be Frasier-sized penthouses with all the amenities. Yes, residents should be encourage to move out once they save up enough money. But they need to have somewhere to start if you want the homeless crisis to end.
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  595. What do you think about, say, Toledo, Ohio and other Rust Belt burgs?
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  596. Briggs should've mentioned Portland's archaic governmental setup. Basically it's a large city that's run like a small town. Whichever side of the aisle you're on, you have to admit that is rather inefficient.
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  597. It seems like hipsters are loathed just about everywhere in this country these days, so Portland's troubles might not be the only reason why residents don't announce they're from there. In certain corners of the nation, saying that might even get you shot.
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  598.  @MyRandomboy  I'm not saying let them have gorgeous pads out of Frasier or Friends. Basic stuff, studios and the like. That's how you actually keep low-cost housing low-cost. After they've (hopefully) saved up, then they can "move on up". But they need a place to start first.
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  599. Low-cost housing, to be precise. If you build only million-dollar penthouses and the like, you only exacerbate the problem. Yes, the insane and the addicts should be institutionalized, but how are you going to get sane and actually down-on-their-luck folks off the streets if you need to be a millionaire to afford any form of housing?
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  600. :(@Schrader.quail.slayer
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  601. If statehood for DC is ruled unfeasible, I think the "civilian" areas of the city should be ceded back to MD (including city government buildings), and the federal areas can remain a separate federal district.
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  602. Lumberton, NC; Faytteville, NC; North Charleston, SC; Jackson, MS @OleLockAndKey 
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  603.  @shadfletcher6815  What do you mean by that?
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  604. I wonder if the Bakken oil boom has something to do with North Dakota's violent crime rate.
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  605. There's a lot of poverty in Alaska, and a lot of alcoholism; couple that with the long winter nights. Yeah, I've heard that if you're a woman, you do NOT want to go there alone. @wertz987 
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  606. You shaved-headed gentlemen aren't very subtle.
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  607. NYC isn't a state
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  608.  @sisknothinbutruth2684  Are you claiming Maine is actually in the "top 10"'?
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  609. Also the long winter nights, especially in Alaska and northern Montana and North Dakota.
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  610.  @indianapatsfan  The Indian reservations are VERY poor, and poverty tends to drive crime, so that answers your question.
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  611. A tip-off about "Roll Tide" not referring to the ocean is that Tuscaloosa (home of the University of Alabama) is hundreds of miles inland.
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  612. Yeah, esp. considering Idaho had (still has?) compounds of literal Nazis. (Is the Aryan Nations camp still around?)
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  613. Considering that Maine is actually the whitest state, and has some very reactionary areas and people (I have family there), I wouldn't have been too surprised if Briggs said it was, sadly.
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  614. Yeah, y'all often get colder in the winter than most of the West. I used to live in San Diego (now Seattle). I once went to New Orleans in the winter (I know it's not in GA, but doesn't it have a similar climate to South GA?) and was surprised at how cold it was, especially at night. Plus I noticed they have those "bridge freezes before road" signs; in CA you only see similar signs in the mountains or far north. In San Diego (which is at about the latitude of Macon), they occasionally get frost in the winter but not full-on icing.
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  615. I guess it all depends on whether you're more hot or cold-tolerant. Me, I could never live in Texas with its summers. That said, it seems to get colder in the winter than Southern California (despite Houston being much further south than even San Diego).
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  616.  @jimarcher5255  He was actually born and raised in Brooklyn.
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  617. Just about every American city has problems.
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  618.  @BRR42922  The US is basically Mexico + Russia now, so you're kinda right.
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  619.  @bchristian85  What.
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  620.  @oilslick7010  The proper term is "vatnik"
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  621. What makes you say that?
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  622. Cryptoshit should be banned worldwide as a Ponzi scheme and danger to the global economy.
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  623.  @donna8243  Especially if Donny tries to make us the cryptoshit capital. Cuz that's working out SO well for El Salvador...
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  624.  @maryhobbs4183  Because it's just SO easy to switch countries, especially when a lot of them these days are making it hard as possible to get in.
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  625.  @SipadeSur  How so? Care to tell the class?
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  626. Russia's Western, especially according to the Putin-simping "tradwestbros".
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  627.  @hardystein114  What exactly about Australia makes you think they're about to collapse?
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  628. Seriously, what makes you people think that?
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  629.  @geneotrexler8246  As bad as those cities are, you need to get out more if you think that's the very bottom of the barrel.
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  630.  @Peacetotheworld-i8u  How so, for both countries?
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  631.  @rickpartlow534  How so, vatnik?
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  632. The US is basically Mexico+Russia at this point.
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  633. If the USA seriously decides to follow El Salvador's lead and stake a lot of its fortune on cryptoshit, it might just follow El Salvador's path. I've said a few times now that Murka is looking like a combo of Mexico and Russia lately.
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  634. What makes you say that?
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  635.  @rickpartlow534  I certainly hope so, and so should you.
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  636.  @WorldAccordingToBriggs  Even though you say that, it still makes sense to me. No two people are completely alike, so some people will dislike things that others will like, as in how some people prefer colder temperatures, some hotter. "Different strokes for different folks."
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  637. Maybe Rand will run off to Mexico again until the heat goes down.
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  638.  @hectorheck1353  Literally wut
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  639. Me, from Seattle: First time?
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  640. You think British trains are bad? Come to the USA. Or Canada.
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  641. 1:20 I would also have asked her if she would prefer to move to the US to be with that guy or if she'd rather stay in Japan and have him move there.
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  642. Do Australian convenience stores have the same problem with dingoes, taipans, or saltwater crocodiles?
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  643.  @fredbloggs8072  PS: Even a primitive whale got the suffix "saurus"; Elasmosaurus.
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  644.  @fredbloggs8072  If any species of animal really deserves the suffix "saurus", which is Greek for "lizard", it'd be these guys, since you probably know birds are the lineage of "dinosaurs" that survived the K-T asteroid. I personally think Reptilia should be split up into snakes/lizards (Squamata), birds and their closest living relatives the crocodilians (Archosauria or maybe "Avisuchia"), and turtles (Testudinia), which are slightly closer to birds/crocs than snakes/lizards but not that much.
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  645. Yeah, this was during a major El Nino event, so I've heard. I wonder if the royals were surprised by all the rain in SD then.
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  646. That's true of a lot of big cities, unfortunately.
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  647.  @hurryandleave9680  Why? Unless they've committed robberies or assaulted people, what crimes have they committed?
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  648. Not to mention all those coastal neighborhoods. Yeah, San Diego is kinda in a natural cul-de-sac, and its one-runway airport also doesn't help. If Lindbergh Field were somehow shut down and the railroad were cut off (like, say, during a major earthquake), the city would be screwed. They really should've moved the airport to Miramar.
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  649. That area's really hilly though. It would probably require a lot of expensive tunnels.
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  650.  @cjs83172  True, but given the glacial pace of the current HSR project, I wouldn't hold your breath for that.
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  651.  @joelincolnlincoln6315  Do you want to shut down I-5 then?
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  652. There's also Flixbus. Last December I flew down from Seattle to San Diego to visit some friends and take Amtrak's Coast Starlight back from LA. I'd heard about the track closure then but thought there'd be a bus from Oceanside to Irvine, but then when I arrived at the Santa Fe Depot they said the next train wouldn't be leave until night. And that's how I found out about Flixbus, and was able to spend a nice evening in Hollywood and LA.
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  653.  @atid42  None (so far), but one did cause a near-fatal one. https://flightsafety.org/a380-wake-turbulence-encounter/
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  654. A380: Hold my 3000-foot vertical column of disturbed air in my wake AND my coming obsolescence in a marketplace shifting from a hub-and-spoke model to more direct flights.
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  655.  @icyganov  They also compete with Airbus, y'know. And it seems like it's more than just brand/region loyalty that's making Europeans say these days, "If it's Boeing, I'm not going". FYI, there should be at least a third major airliner producer, preferably more. Maybe Embraer could step up to the plate?
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  656.  @irgids  Well ya know, maybe if the government body that's supposed to be independently and objectively regulating the aviation industry (including Boeing and the airlines) weren't in bed with one of the key players in America's aviation industry, maybe 737 Max wouldn't have been greenlit in the first place. Can you call the FAA independent and objective if it's just a sock puppet yes-man for the industry? But hey, maybe you're right. Maybe Wall Street really does know how to run this country better than dem pointy-headed bureaucrats. Let's staff the FDA with Yum! Brands' board of directors and the EPA with ExxonMobil's. Oh, wait...
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  657. Remember Ian Malcolm's quote in Jurassic Park about John Hammond standing on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as he could without acquiring the discipline? Just reading what others had done and taking the next step without actually knowing what they were doing? Hammond is Boeing's current board of directors and designers and the 737 Max is the T. rex. Before they even knew what they had they'd patented it and slapped some plastic airline logos on the tails.
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  658. Bit surprised that Owyhee County is Idaho's "worst", considering that it's pretty close to Boise, the state's largest city. Also, as a resident of San Diego, I was surprised to see Imperial County no longer occupying this space for CA, and also a bit surprised to see Lake County there. Yeah, it's north of the Napa Valley and Sonoma, but isn't it also a vacation destination for Bay Area and Sacramento residents?
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  659. Lemur street names for millipedes: Pede, M-Pede, Big M, Big Thousand, Big Thou, Bug, Caterpillar, Cat, Worm
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  660. I didn't know crabs could jump.
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  661. If God was drunk when He made sarcastic fringeheads, He was on bath salts or something when He made starfish.
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  662. This hole...It was made for me!
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  663. He's not pining for Milford Sound or All Blacks tickets! He's randy! This parrot is amorous! He's ready for love! He's erect and ready to mate! He's stiff! Concupiscent! Twitterpated! His hormones have gone full blast! He wants to pass on his genes! If you were a female kakapo, you'd be expecting a chick in a little while! THIS IS A HORNY PARROT!!!
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  664.  @thetruthchannel349  It certainly is a mystery to me how you can propagate a whole species from just two individuals and not have any incest-derived effects.
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  665.  @thetruthchannel349  Is that why he went hog-wild for alchemy and possibly gave himself mercury poisoning as a result?
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  666.  @thetruthchannel349  All I know is that if you only have one male and one female representing a given species, you're gonna have incest, and the results won't be pretty.
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  667.  @thetruthchannel349  To date, only minimal DNA of dinosaurian age has been found (and whether any actual dinosaur DNA has been is still hotly debated), far too little for any kind of genome project, let alone cloning them back into existence.
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  668.  @thetruthchannel349  And speaking of Noah, how saving only two of every species totally won't just lead to incest and all its aftereffects.
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  669.  @thetruthchannel349  Now, why don't you tell the class about flash-frozen mammoths and Noah ignoring the dinos and thus defying God's orders.
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  670.  @thetruthchannel349  So why didn't Noah put them on his ark? God specifically told him to save EVERY creature. I guess he and Charles Darwin are now probably cellmates down in hell, along with the dudes who wrote the Song of Solomon and the other "X-rated" parts of the Bible.
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  671.  @thetruthchannel349  The Ice Age glaciers melting.
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  672.  @thedwightguy  The southwestern corner of North Dakota.
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  673.  @MarkNOTW  Again, incest would become a MAJOR problem if there were only one male and one female of their species on earth, and their offspring were thus all siblings. Heck, even when there are multiple males and females but still below a certain number, that creature is basically considered a dead species walking. That's what zoologists and biologists mean when they talk about gene pools.
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  674.  @MarkNOTW  My point is (and I mean no offense to you personally), if Noah only brought ONE male and ONE female Tyrannosaurus on the Ark, their offspring (who would've been the sole following generation of Tyrannosauruses) would've had incest as a hurdle, since the only Tyrannosauruses then would've come from the same parents. To me that's the fatal flaw of creationism, especially "scientific creationism".
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  675.  @MarkNOTW  So why aren't T. rexes, velociraptors etc. still around today? And while we're at it, how are you supposed to save every creature by only saving one male and one female? You have heard of incest and its effects, I assume.
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  676.  @MarkNOTW  In a similar vein, don't you want to tell the class about flash-frozen mammoths? Or why Noah apparently didn't bring the dinos on board his big boat despite God's orders?
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  677. It hasn't been since at least September 13, 2001. Even then, airlines had basically become Greyhound with wings by at least the late '90s.
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  678.  @windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823  Just two months ago "my" mechanic forgot to put the cap back on my car's engine after an oil change.
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  679. So wait, 17 years after 9/11 we still don't have door locks on airliner cockpits?
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  680. For all the real and exaggerated issues with city life, at least denser populations won't allow wildfires to get this out of control. This is why I refuse to live in the suburbs or backcountry. Not since I got evacuated by the 2007 Witch Creek Fire in the San Diego suburbs.
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  681. He apparently has a band on one of his legs, so it's likely that he escaped from a farm or private collection. That said, once in a while birds do turn up in unfamiliar areas (like when an Arctic-dwelling Ross's gull appeared at Southern California's Salton Sea; the furthest south it has ever been seen), so keep an eye out for an unbanded mandarin someday.
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  682.  @boopaboob  What are they lying about? How do you know it's a lie?
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  683.  @jordandthornburg  One word: Incest
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  684.  @jacobfromallstate4963  There's a scale timeline of Earth's history carved into the front walk of Dinosaur State Park in Connecticut (which includes some preserved dinosaur footprints). In the grand scale, it's astounding how close to the end (now) the dinosaurs were. The K-T impact was comfortably within the last quarter.
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  685.  @jordandthornburg  Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjSJV0WoDQ&t=2s
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  686.  @qwertyuiopas4285  Well, according to one school of thought, yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVjSJV0WoDQ&t=2s
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  687.  @afcgeo882  Actually they are still alive today. Nowadays we call them "birds".
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  688.  @rufio4130  Actually there were early primates and rodents around then. (They're both actually pretty closely related.)
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