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Nick here is a quiz question for you.
Who was the artist who sang Thank You For Being A Friend? and what was his biggest hit? Try it without Google 😂 or help from the Mappy family😂😂😂😂.
Great video again. As a Generation Xer, I delude myself into thinking I am retired, even though I am not, because I will continue to work to avoid perpetual boredom. By performing that type of psychology, I am less prone to thinking that I will have to work another 15 years.
When I visited Boise 5 years ago, I actually thought that would be an excellent retirement venue. The weather is relatively good all year. You have 2 major biomes right at your doorstep. The cost of living is reasonable and it has a low crime rate.
Cultural and recreational activities are commonplace. There is Bogus Basin for skiing outside of Boise and Sun Valley is not terribly far too. Downtown Boise has some excellent restaurants and shops.
The river through town adds a nice riparian ecosystem reminiscent of the Northeast USA, so if you get tired of the parched landscape of the Great Basin, then you are minutes away from water.
Also, the Pacific Ocean is 7 hours away.
NH is awesome too, but I am partial to the mountain west. SD is nice around the Black Hills, but that is about it. The eastern part is devoid of any scenery sans the MO valley and is colder in the winter. Omaha, NE is good culturally and has awesome rock concerts. In fact, the scenery around the MO valley is nice there, with Loess Hills on the Iowa side. The city has some great architecture too. The biggest drawback there are the property taxes, which can easily eat away at a fixed income.
Great video Nick, you will be retired before you know it.
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Guessing: Jackson, MS, Detroit, MI, St Louis, Memphis, TN, Baltimore, MD, Camden, NJ, Newark, NJ, Cleveland, and Bato Rouge
Going for 5
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This looks run down, but it stills pales in comparison to the South Bronx and Harlem in the late 70 s and early 80s. Projects in those areas back then were huge buildings that had the same appearance in clusters of 10 or more. There was also a fair amount of burned out buildings too looking like a war zone.
It was unsafe to drive in some parts in NYC back then during the day. Forget running stop signs, try running every stop light.
Back in the late 70s to early 80s, I used to have family in Coney Island, and though not as unsafe as the aforementioned, there were still areas that one would not venture into. Projects were everywhere.
Surprised Gary is as dilapidated as it is, being that it is relatively close to Chicago, which has somewhat of an economy. It sits in a good location near Lake Michigan and is accessible by I-80 and I-90.
Good video, seeing how the areas return to prairie land, amazes me. But at the same time, it is sad, and I feel bad for the young kids there trying to avoid trouble.
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Guessing again: Humidity especially during the summer, Crowded, Low Wages, cannot determine the line of demarcation between the actual Orlando and Disney World, shiitake schools, water can easily Pool there after a rain, horrible drivers, tourists, traffic, road work, scenically devoid, alligators, bugs, mold.
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Guessing, once again: Memphis, Detroit, St Louis, Baltimore, Hartford, Cleveland, Rochester, NY, Buffalo, NY, Chicago, Camden, NJ
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Great video!!!!
I have not been to Charleston since the summer of 2002. I spent the night in White Sulfur Springs, WV the night before, spending the day in Charleston. It looks virtually unchanged for the most part, but the drug epidemic was probably less prevalent, but then again, our society had less real time information.
However, I do remember the air quality was much worse there in the early 2000s.
It is sad to see, but the rest of the country, for the most part is headed in the same direction. (i.e, low paying jobs in tandem with the ever increasing cost of virtually everything).
Fortunately, Charleston proper, and many other parts within the state have affordable housing and the property taxes are low, and in my opinion, I would rather have shelter there, than be homeless on the west coast or in Arizona, where danger lurks 24/7. The latter is getting worse by the day.
Definitely think the scenery in Appalachia is awesome.
Like rural Iowa, where I visited in late 2022, both places are stuck in time.
That Empty Glass place has similar music that is played regularly on Sunday mornings on 89.7 the River out of Council Bluffs, IA. The radio show is about the live Americana music from around Charleston.
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This is going to be difficult but my guesses are: Denver, Colorado Springs, Omaha, Des Moines, Burlington, VT, Austin, TX, Raleigh-Durham, Charlotte, Seattle, and Boise.
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I have not been to Pennsylvania for several years, but my guesses are: York, Upper Darby, Wilkes-Barre, South Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, Coatesville, Hazelton, Allentown, Reading and probably parts of Pittsburgh.
Aside from the last one mentioned, those are the only places I remembered that had more problems than average. But again, I could be wrong altogether. Going for 1 or more.
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Awesome video, very accurate, lived there from my date of birth in late 1967 to 1985. The north end of Bridgeport and Black Rock were the nicer parts because the former started to get more like Trumbull and the latter was next to Fairfield.
Bridgeport was worse years ago. According to your labeled map of CT, you had a different color for Norwalk, CT within Fairfield County. From what I experienced years ago living there in my youth, were that the bordering towns pretty much thought it was ghetto too, not realizing that there some fantastic areas there like : Shorehaven, Cranberry, Rowayton, Silvermine, Sono, awesome 🍕joints, seafood places, and Chinese restaurants. The people were also much less pretentious. It kind of reminded me of parts of NJ where I lived for 6 years afterwards and Omaha, Nebraska where I lived for 15 years after that.
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Excellent video and interview. I lived in both Omaha and Bennington from 1995 to 2011. Used to love to go to Neale Woods which is in north Omaha in the Ponca Hills section. State Street is an awesome road to drive, but can scary in the dead of winter. They have haunted steps at Hummel. Beautiful bluffs across the Missouri River with great hiking. Fontanelle in Bellevue is nice. The Wabash Trace trail is cool too. The nicest people I met and worked with were from North Omaha.
Live in Tucson now, and have been since 2015. Downtown Tucson along Broadway is somewhat similar to Omaha regarding the restaurants, but safety is a huge factor here relative to Omaha, Phoenix is even worse regarding safety. Love the outdoor options here, but I definitely get the vibe in the city of Tucson, and more so in Phoenix, that someone is within 5 minutes away from asking me for cash.
We left Omaha for Tucson for business reasons and a warmer climate, so Tucson has been a good move.
The one thing I remember about the Omaha area were the huge property taxes. Basically that 300000 to 400000 k house is going to easily be upwards of 5000 to 6000 a year.
Making a visit this Christmas and I am looking forward to all the changes that have occurred since 2015.
Have to admit, their interstate system is much better than Tucson. We do not have such a thing as a 680 or a 480.
Awesome pizza on 132nd Street, NY style, called Frank’s, I think.
Still got family there which is good.
Silicon prairie, not Silicone prairie right???
Again great video
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My guesses are: Hutchison, KC, West End of Witchita, Leavenworth, Garden City, Salina, Topeka, and the rest probably sit along the Southeastern part of the state.
Those are virtually the only towns that come to mind when I think of KS
The others I know are Manhattan (K State and the Konza Preserve), Liberal (Dorothy’s hometown from the Wizard 🧙♂️ of Oz), Goodland (NW KS along the 70 shy of the CO border), and Olathe (KC suburb, but more affluent).
Those aforementioned would not be dangerous.
Visited KS several times when I lived in the Omaha área years ago, but I cannot remember most of the towns I went through.
Lawrence (U of K) is/was a very nice town. Nice houses and shops from what I remember, but I have not been there since 2004.
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Every time I hear Winslow, AZ, I think of Take IT Easy. It is 106 in the Tucson area today, but it is still slightly cooler than Phoenix because of altitude and it is less of a concrete jungle.
IMO Tucson is closer to nearby mountains with cooler temperatures than Phoenix. However, we do not have the Salt River, which is pretty nice.
Unfortunately there has been a fire for weeks in the Catalinas outside of Tucson, limiting travel to the cooler climate and recently making the air unpleasant to breathe.
Some of the worst winds occur on the 10 between Phoenix and Tucson.
Car tires have been known to explode in the extreme low desert heat.
Skiing is Ok, but not great in AZ. You get the crowded Snowbowl in Flagstaff, the hard to reach via secondary roads (Sunrise), and the unpredictable MT Lemmon (The USA’s most southern Ski area). MT Lemmon is unpredictable because one never knows when they will be open, nor do they make snow. In addition, the road to MT Lemmon closes during heavy snowfall, which would probably be the best time to ski it. However, I would not want to be on that road when it is covered with snow, because it would be a death trap.
Great video Nick.
You made my state sound less boring.
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Great video, and I almost guessed MI, due to Flint, Detroit, Saginaw, etc. and they have high property taxes.
No offense, but some of the pictures that accompanied both NM and NV, looked like they were from somewhere else, the former looked like Appalachia, and the latter looked like Baltimore or Philadelphia.
At least AR has the NW corner and KY has some growing cities like Louisville , Lexington, and the central to western part of the state have some fertile land to support agribusinesses.
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Guessing;: San Bernardino, Bakersfield, Fresno, Palmdale, Victorville, Visalia, Inglewood, El Centro, Modesto, Compton and Ontario.
Maybe I will get one, that was tough guessing
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I got 9, 😀, that was my best. I guess NC is more of a New Yorker destination. IMO CT is worse than NJ, I had better memories of the latter by far. SW CT has always taken snobbishness to another level sans Bridgeport, most of Norwalk, and Stratford. NW CT is second home people from NYC metropolitan area. NE CT is probably the least expensive region in CT.
NE NJ is the most urbanized. NW and West Central NJ have more open land and low mountains all less than 1803 ft above sea level. Central NJ is crowded with less and less open land. Coastal NJ has both excellent and less than favorable beach towns.
South NJ, sans places like Cherry Hill are more affordable. In fact, there are places in the Pine Barrens that resemble rural Mississippi more than NYC or North Jersey. Not sure what it is like today, but there was a rivalry between the inhabitants of North Jersey and South Jersey. When I went to school there for 4 years, I met great people both north and south of the Interstate 195.
NJ in my opinion, is more down to earth, but at the same time there can be annoying people there too. However, I will put NJ in a more favorable position versus CT. I lived in both up until I was a young adult and have experienced both.
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I have only been there once in 1991 but I will take a stab at it. It is what I do.
Expensive due to transplants, hot summers, traffic, probably not the best for public transportation, liberal city in a conservative state leading to political dissension, 🐜s, road construction 🚧, food snobbery, beer snobbery, aside from nearby hill country, not much by the way of majestic scenery, and a more pronounced widening gap between the have and the have nots via the tech influx.
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Poverty can be relative depending on the person. From a financial perspective 100 k is a different animal in Irvine, CA versus Lawton, OK. From a psychological perspective one can be in an affluent family and have no self confidence and have a poor mindset devoid of any type of spirituality (IMO, I am not referring to Yoga, New Age philosophies or anything that deviates from the Bible).
Anyhow I am going to guess before watching the video: WV, AR, AL, MS, LA, NM, KY, OK, TN, and MO
However, the people that I have met in some of my aforementioned states would have a much better chance of handling adversity than someone who is a slave to corporate America via a white collar job.
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