Youtube comments of Outback Igloo (@outbackigloo6489).

  1. The country on this list that surprised me was Azerbaijan, as they are a predominantly Muslim country and I never heard of them being particularly atheistic. Two countries that I’m surprised were not on the list were Netherlands and New Zealand.
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  2. Wouldn’t El Paso be the most Mexican city, if 560,000 of 680,000 people there have Mexican heritage? That is over 80%.
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  3. Well done video. Makes me feel sorry for the decent people who have to live in places like these.
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  4. It’s the Northeast Kingdom, due to it being the NE corner of the state. You said “Northwest Kingdom.”
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  5. The city on this list that surprised me was Anchorage. The city has a very high crime rate,, and it is the cloudiest and coldest US city with 250K or more people.
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  6.  @scottsimon1  - And Azerbaijan has not been part of the Soviet Union for the past 30 years. Anyway, and in spite of Briggs’ video, I don’t believe that 65% of Azeris are atheist, as 97% of them are Muslim, mainly Shias. My educated guess is that two thirds of Azeris regard religion as of only slight to moderate importance but they are still Muslims and therefore believe in Allah/God.
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  7. You mispronounced Ashtabula. ASH-ta-BYOO-la.
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  8. It makes sense for Oil City to be in Pennsylvania. The first oil well in the US was in Titusville, only a few miles from there.
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  9. The top two cities on my dream list are Seattle and San Diego. They seem like polar opposites, but I like Seattle’s scenery and San Diego’s climate.
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  10. Another factor in the number of homeless in the two cities no doubt is the costs of housing. Portland, OR averaged $539K. Milwaukee, WI averages $196K. A huge difference.
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  11. I am surprised that Seattle wasn’t on this list. (Maybe they were 11th.)
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  12. Nebraska’s new official state motto: “It’s boring, but it’s cheap!”
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  13. Another isolated city with over 100,000 people would be Punta Arenas. 🇨🇱
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  14. I half expected Briggs to say that when the California bear population declined, the state became unbearable. 😁
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  15. The best state flags have no letters or words on the design, although Colorado and Ohio are noteworthy exceptions. The really good flags have a fairly simplistic design that can be seen at a distance with the flag flying in the wind. The worst flags have the state seal on a blue background. IMO, the best State flag is New Mexico and the worst is Nebraska. (My favorite flag, however, is Ohio, but that’s partially because I used to live there. 😁)
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  16. Your arrow landed on Massachusetts when you called “New York”. 😆
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  17. Glad to see that Hartford got a reprieve. 😂 Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse are well known for their winters but the snowiest of them is usually Syracuse.
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  18. Never thought I’d see Soviet and luxury in the same sentence. However the apartment looks very nice. 🙂
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  19. I think Oklahoma is a major omission from this list!
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  20. I said it before but I’ll say it again, If and when I decide to move, my politics are part of my package. If you don’t like it, kiss my ass!
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  21. Amarillo’s new city motto: “A Great Place to Pee!”
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  22. Yucatán is pronounced as \YOU-ka-tan\.
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  23. It really did not look that bad to me. I liked looking at the trees, which are not the kind you see in the Northeast.
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  24. Did DJT consult Alaskans on this name change? I somehow doubt it. I think Denali is the only correct name for the mountain, as it has been so named by the Athabaskans for many centuries.
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  25. Rhode Island, Delaware, and Vermont do not belong with the other states on this list; the title did say nine emptiest states. I was expecting the nine states with the lowest population density, with #1 being Alaska.
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  26. And you are welcome to stay away!
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  27. Good video. I would have thought New York as having the highest percentage of immigrants, but it makes sense for it to be California. Mappy should use his magical skills to make you a better singer. 😎
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  28. 2:20 - “Florida was the 36th lowest cost of living in the United States.” In other words, Florida has the 15th highest cost of living!
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  29. So, what are the ten states that actually want newcomers?
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  30.  @itsnathanhere2578  - My “failed politics” just won the 2020 Presidential election. I’m so glad that liberals are different than conservatives. You never hear those living in blue states saying “you can move here but keep your politics away.” Because it is a stupid thing to say! Most people are not changing their political affiliation just because they changed their address.
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  31. Asheville looks pretty nice, except for what looked like graffiti in the middle of the video. I’ve been there once and liked the area. What you described as “rural” around 14:00 or so sure didn’t look rural to me.
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  32. I try to pronounce it as \new-fund-LAND\, stressing the final syllable.
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  33. 12:35 - Canada has more people than the NYC and LA metro areas, although California has more people than Canada at about 39 million. The most populous metro area in the world is Tokyo with about 37 million.
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  34. 6:51 (Augusta, Montana): “Known as the last original cow town in the West”... Not Vacaville, California? 😏
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  35. My favorite Blazing Saddles scene around 10:50... “How about some more beans, Mr. Taggert!” “I’d say you had enough!”
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  36. Great list, Briggs. The biggest surprise on this was Michigan, but it really is a beautiful state that deserves to be here. Two other states that should have been mentioned are Washington and New York. In my opinion, the #1 state should have been Alaska, by far. The only reason Alaska had fewer votes than California is because AK had fewer visitors, but both of them are awesome states.
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  37.  @DerFleisch  - And he’s entitled to do that as it’s his video, but using raw numbers is misleading, in my opinion.
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  38. I haven’t driven in Canada in 20+ years, but I recall that the flashing green lights mean different things in different cities. I recall that in Toronto the flashing green light means a left turn was allowed, while in Vancouver it meant the light was about to turn yellow.
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  39. I visited LA a couple of times about 20 years ago. Wouldn’t care to live in LA, but it’s a great place to explore. I guess the worst time to visit would be summer due to wildfires. The best time might be midwinter when it’s still going to be in the 60’s on most days. 🙂
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  40. I’ve had Hawaiian pizza. Pineapple is one of my favorite pizza toppings, although I can also order pizza with just cheese and pepperoni. If you don’t like pineapple on pizza, that’s fine. More for me! 😊
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  41. “The devil’s lettuce?” I’ve never heard that term before, but I presume it’s a euphemism for marijuana. I know: Briggs doesn’t want to be demonetized. But how about calling a spade a spade? YouTube just seems to be beyond ridiculous sometimes.
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  42. Another city that is colder than Duluth in terms of average annual temperature would be Anchorage, AK. Average annual temperature is 37.6°F according to their Wikipedia article.
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  43. Good video. I would have thought of Boston as being another possibility although it would be more expensive than other cities on this list. If I relocated, I could see myself moving to most of the places listed here, particularly Columbus or Madison.
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  44. I am also an atheist. I am willing to respect other’s beliefs if they do likewise, but too often they do not. 😕
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  45. Some great choices here. Will there be a Part 2?
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  46. You prefer Sasquatches instead?
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  47. I am not sure that someone making $200,000 a year living in New York City or San Francisco would be considered “rich”.
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  48. I think Bostonians are fine with people who (1) don’t like the Yankees and (2) don’t drive in their already congested city.
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  49. About four billion years ago the Earth collided with an object about the size of Mars. The Moon is what remains from that collision.
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  50. At 5:16, you mispronounced “Tolland”. It’s pronounced \TAH-land\. Connecticut has eight counties, but no county government or county seats.
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  51. When I saw the title of this video, I was thinking Cleveland and also Dayton, but neither city is among the 50 largest cities. I can’t really argue with any of the places on this video, although I’m a little surprised at Phoenix and Las Vegas, and would have thought Philadelphia and Milwaukee.
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  52. The Hmong are from Southeast Asia. Not Southwest.
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  53. I have never been to Yuma, but it’s a city with over 90,000 people. The average high temperature in July is 107°F with the temperature once hitting 124°F. Those are one or two degrees higher than Phoenix. (Neither place is for me.)
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  54. Finland is also not a Scandinavian country.
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  55. Well, one West Coast state. But your point is taken.
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  56. At 11:36 : You misplaced Birmingham inside of Mississippi.
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  57. Because Florida has lots of people moving there from other states.
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  58. I agree with Mappy’s assessment of the strawberry flag from Arkansas: keep it simple. The other county flags were mediocre at best with their county seals on the design.
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  59. I think San Jose should be on this list.
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  60. As for #17, I don’t think the first letter of Humble is pronounced. I’ve never been there, but have heard the pronunciation.
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  61. This New Englander often does that, too.
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  62. Briggs, I enjoyed your video. However, I understand that Hamtramck, Michigan is the only Muslim-majority city in the US, and would hence be the city with the highest percentage of Muslims. Drew Binsky had a very good video about Hamtramck.
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  63. Having to root for the Flyers.
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  64. I predict that the state with the lowest percentage of residents born in that state will be Nevada. Others on this list will be CA, AZ, ID, AK, CO and TX. Maybe FL, WA, and OR.
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  65. And he would have fallen at 9.8 meters per second squared if he misjudged the steps. Just like everyone else.
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  66.  @robertholland7558  - True, you only live once. So I want that life to be as long as possible. And I think avoiding high staircases without railings is one way to achieve that goal. 😁
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  67. One European country I’d love to visit is Norway. It looks like a beautiful place where I can enjoy the midnight sun. Other countries (not on this video) that I’d check out are Sweden, Finland, Czechia, Croatia, and a few others.
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  68. My two favorites on this list are Seattle and San Diego. I’ve never been to San Francisco, but it sounds like it would be my third favorite if I had. The city I have visited by far the most often is New York; I live about 100 miles from there. I love visiting NYC but would not want to live there. One city that is also “a nice place to visit, but…” is Las Vegas. Definitely not a summer destination though.
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  69. I have never heard of “The Deep North” before; I have heard MN, ND, SD, and WI referred to as the “Upper Midwest”. Of these states, I’d like to see Minnesota. Another good video.
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  70. Wimp. 😎
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  71. I actually thought Russia would be on this list. Otherwise, there are no real surprises here.
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  72. I’m really curious which states finished 16th and 17th. 😁
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  73. Ketchikan, Alaska. If you move there, I hope you like rain! The city averages over 150” of rain a year, about four times that of Seattle.
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  74. Or Toronto.
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  75. I suspect the true ending to the story is that after Briggs sped away, the three kids looked at each other, laughed, and walked in the opposite direction back home. 😆
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  76. Looking forward to the 10 best states for retirement. I suspect a lot of Midwestern states on that list, along with Florida.
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  77. I thought Guadalajara would have made this list. But I also thought Mexico City was the largest North American city, with New York a close second. I liked this video.
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  78. Itz_Ranger - in 1953, a tornado hit Worcester that killed 94 people. The Bay State is not Tornado Alley, but tornadoes do occur. As for Dunkin Donuts, I agree that DD is alright. There just seem to be too many of them around here.
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  79. 🎵There’s no place like Nome for the holidays...
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  80. Briggs’ next video : “10 Reasons why Everybody is moving to Atlanta!” 😁
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  81. My two favorite parts of the country back-to-back. 🙂 Too bad no places west of the Cascades were mentioned, although I guess it’s more pricey there.
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  82. I think your comments about Glastonbury, CT are on the money. I don’t think their weather is that bad, but I’m from the area. And it’s a little expensive, but towns in Fairfield County (in SW Connecticut) are much pricier.
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  83. Philadelphia has about 1.5 million people. So 200 homicides in that city is only about 13.3 per 100,000, which is not high enough to make Briggs’ list.. (Remember, Washington DC had a homicide rate of 22.8 and they were only 10th.) I am more surprised that Camden, NJ did not make the list!
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  84. When was it ever 116 degrees in Portland, Oregon?
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  85. And Drew Binsky has been to all of them!
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  86. Germany, Switzerland, Luxembourg is my guess of three rich countries. EDIT: In terms of per capita, they probably still are in the top 10. But Switzerland and Luxembourg are small countries so they did not make this list.
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  87. “If I had to live here, this is where I’d move.” — Briggs
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  88. I visited a Russian Orthodox church in Sitka when I vacationed in Alaska; probably the only time I ever visited a church as a tourist. It was interesting, but I was not allowed to take pictures. Given Alaska’s history, it makes sense they would have a high Orthodox population.
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  89.  @jules4626  - Understood, even though it wasn’t my point. Briggs mentioned the climate differences in his video and I don’t think I need to expand on that. It’s hard not to be homeless if you can’t afford the price of housing.
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  90. Move into one of the sinkholes; you should have enough room there.
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  91. My choices would be cost of living, followed by crime, and followed by jobs, as I am near retirement. I would also assess the climate, which I’d rank on a par with crime.
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  92. 9:45 - Are humans making the global warming/climate change situation worse? Yes, they are, and it’s not even debatable.
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  93. I am from the USA and would have known these.
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  94.  @SirManfly  - New York and New Jersey each had three mentions (NJ really had four, including Camden which he wasn’t going to really list…. 🤪) Actually I think New York is a pretty nice state overall although the City is too intense for my tastes.
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  95. This may be the first video Briggs has done on Colorado that didn’t mention Blucifer. 😆
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  96.  @cletushatfield8817  - It only takes one misstep…
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  97. If, 40 years ago, you had asked me which states had the most and least expensive utility costs, respectively, I would have said Connecticut and Washington. Some things never change.
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  98. Big changes ahead. Looking forward to the next five years. I think a partnership, either with a family member or another YouTuber, seems the most reasonable. The partner would make videos in WA2B infrequently at first and then more often as you approach retirement. After you retire, your partner would own the channel although I think you might still create an occasional video. 🙂 That is my two cents anyway.
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  99. Provided the cars would even start.
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  100. Chuck Wagon (a.k.a. M RC) - Among cities with at least 250,000 people, Anchorage is the coldest US city. The average temperature over the entire year in Anchorage is 37°F, and no other large city averages under 40°F. Among US cities with less than 250,000 people, I would say that Fairbanks is the coldest. (And I would be wrong.)
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  101. Of the states on this list, I am most intrigued by MN, WI, IA, and NE. I used to live in OH (suburbs of Dayton), and while I sometimes miss it there, I would look at the Columbus area if I moved back there. NH and VA are great places, but pricey. I like MI except for Detroit and Flint. Best Presidents from before I was born: FDR and “Ike”.
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  102. 9:51 - 17 murders in 2022 after 40 in 2021 is not a 50.57% decrease for Wilmington, DE. It is a 57.5% decrease. This video is interesting, but I think the sample sizes are all too small for these percentages to be statistically significant. This list should be restricted to cities of over 500,000 in my opinion.
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  103. China has 1.3 billion people. Africa has about 700 million, and about half of them are Christian, give or take. Spain and her neighbors have maybe 100 million people. So these missionaries were correct. Go figure.
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  104. I like your list. I also live in the Northeast but agree that the west has the best scenery. I was fortunate enough to visit Alaska a few years ago, and it absolutely is the most scenic state. Also, I enjoyed California’s diverse scenery and would have placed it second on the list, with Colorado and Washington vying for third. I don’t think you left anything out, but I would have made Vermont the honorable mention.
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  105. I’m sure that the more religious a place is, the more violent it is. Consider that the state with the highest murder rate is Louisiana and the state with the lowest murder rate is New Hampshire.
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  106. Nor should it be.
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  107. He also drove past a stop sign at 11:45.
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  108. Isn’t Florida pretty much screwed anyways?
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  109. Ecuador might be alright. They have the US Dollar as their currency, it’s inexpensive, and Spanish is relatively easy to learn. My biggest reservation is that the nicer climates are at an altitude of over 8,000 feet and I’m not sure how easily I could adjust to that.
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  110. SA is in Connecticut? I always learn new stuff from your videos! 😂
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  111. That video would be too long.
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  112. Puebla is east of Mexico City. (Okay, it’s also slightly south, but much more east. I made a similar comment about Rochester and Buffalo.)
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  113. Beautiful car. But if I get an EV6, I would get the RWD. It won’t be as fast, but it will have 310 miles EPA range and have a decent amount of rear storage.
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  114. This is a great video! The top five countries I would consider relocating to that are not on your list are Norway, Finland, Ireland, Australia, and Chile. From your list, I would choose either Uruguay, Portugal, Sweden, or New Zealand.
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  115. I figured my state (Connecticut) would be about 10th safest (or #42 on this list), but it was actually #48. (You wouldn’t know it from watching the local news.) For the most part, the states were about where I expected them to be.
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  116. I live in Connecticut and don’t know anyone that fits that stereotype! 🤣
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  117. 0:30 - you said you would be looking at places under 50,000 in population. Later, you brought up Flint, which has about 80,000.
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  118. Seattle is one of my favorite cities, due to its scenery and its mild climate. But the high cost of living in Seattle will likely keep me from moving there.
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  119. OKC would not be my first choice for a place to live, but this didn’t look bad at all.
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  120. So where did Arkansas rate in terms of opportunity? Just curious. 😎
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  121.  @kitsuneneko2567  - Some of the strongest tornadoes ever recorded have hit Moore and El Reno in the past few decades.
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  122. Ten least sunniest cities. I suspect #1 on that list would be Anchorage.
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  123. I would like to see the “ten countries people don’t regret moving to”, but I suspect some of those will be the same as the countries on this list. I will guess that Canada, Japan, France, and maybe the US will be on that one too.
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  124. Connecticut is one of the safer states as far as crime goes; it is usually one of the 10 safest states. It’s cold, but not the coldest by a long shot; there are probably 15 colder states than Connecticut. It may be a little boring, but in a non pandemic year, New York and Boston are close. My only complaint is the cost of living and the taxes. Where would I move to were I to leave Connecticut? I’m working on that list, but I doubt it would have ten states in it.
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  125. Alaska was a U.S. territory in 1867. Anchorage was settled in 1914. The first census since then was 1920.
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  126. Because lots of people are neither liberal nor conservative.
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  127. Or don’t have kids. Eight billion people on this planet is enough!
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  128.  @BeastModeFitness11  - I support women having the right to manage their own body as they see fit. And until guys get to carry a fetus inside them - for nine months! - they should mind their goddam business.
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  129. And hundreds of thousands moved to California. (A lot of them from New York.)
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  130. That is one person’s opinion. I like the Ioniq 6’s looks.
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  131. Portland may have its problems, but I think it’s a great place. I’ve only been there once but I’d go back. Thank you for the video, Briggs. 🙂
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  132. One of the safest countries (in terms of lack of crime) would be Japan.
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  133. Mali does not have 1.2 million square miles. The largest country in Africa is Algeria with about 900,000 square miles. Mali has 1.2 million square kilometers or 480,000 square miles. Burkina Faso has 20 million residents, not 20,000.
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  134. Meh. I am an American and I sometimes use “zed”. (I have Canadian relatives.) As far as I’m concerned, “zee” and “zed” are equally acceptable.
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  135.  @wewenang5167  - But so was Armenia, and for that matter, Romania. They were listed in Briggs’ video yesterday on the 10 most religious/least atheistic counties. He should have listed 25, and I think Poland would have been listed too. All are former communist countries.
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  136. Dayton was on his last list from a few days ago.
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  137. Ohio is definitely the state I both love and hate. But I can see myself moving back there, (and also cursing the state within six months. 😂) But the weather is usually okay, it’s inexpensive, and you’re a day’s drive from almost half of the country.
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  138. I have heard of all of these except the place on Easter Island. Places you could have added include Edinburgh of the Seven Seas on Tristan da Cunha; Stanley on the Falkland Islands; Puerto Williams, Chile; and Iquitos, Peru. (Also, probably any Greenlandic community that is not named Nuuk.)
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  139. Where do you live, Cuba? Vietnam? Or maybe China?
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  140. So, is the person in 0:35 leaving America for Russia?
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  141. Good video. There is something I like about all of these states too, although you do have to be part polar bear to live in some of them. 🥶
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  142. Climate change is a fact. If you question this, then you should “wake up!”
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  143.  @greatlakemommy545  - Barrow doesn’t have 100,000 people. It has more like 4,500. The most isolated place I have been to that would qualify would be St. John’s, N.L. An even more isolated place that would not qualify is Yellowknife, NWT, where I saw the aurora borealis for the only time of my life.
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  144. And we don’t want you either! 👎
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  145. Of the countries on this list I would probably choose Bulgaria or Bolivia. Of all the countries in the world, I would look into Chile, Uruguay, Czechia, Estonia, or Croatia. Good video. 🙂
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  146. Nitpick: the “h” in Amherst, MA is silent. \AM-erst\. The ”h” would likely be pronounced for towns in other states with that name. Good video; my home state was put in a good light. 💡 🙂
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  147. It’s only Flint that seems to get the bad rap for the water.
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  148. The picture at 9:21 is Watson Lake, Yukon, not Anchorage. I’ve been to the Sign Post Forest.
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  149. This is a good list. If I had a top 10, I would have left off TX and OK and replaced them with OR and IA.
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  150. Briggs, you listed 25 of the least religious/most atheistic countries in your prior video. Shouldn’t this video have listed 25 countries as well?
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  151. 7:50 - Not the right flag. But Briggs knew that, no doubt. 😏
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  152. A little surprised that no places in Ohio were on this list.
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  153. I think it is. What have you been drinking?
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  154. You said Louisiana was the only state without counties. What about Alaska? They have boroughs.
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  155. Also Michigan, Kentucky, Tennessee, Florida, Texas, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South and North Dakota, Idaho, Oregon, and Alaska. (I did not look at a map!)
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  156. A little disgusted with the comments here. I am surprised that four thousand Californians moved to my home state. I figured it would be less as we’re not exactly neighbors. They are welcomed to Connecticut as far as I’m concerned.
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  157. Those percentages sound about right for Boston drivers too.
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  158. This is a good list. I am a little curious where the other 38 states placed along with their scores. 🙂
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  159. Surprised that Mount Rainier NP was not on this list, given its proximity to Seattle.
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  160. Hardly. But I guess it’s not as bad as the states on this video.
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  161. I work about a block from there. I think it’s a beautiful building, although I’ve never been inside.
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  162. HI, FL, LA, AR, MS, AL, GA, TN, SC, and NC.
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  163. Canaan is pronounced as \CAY-nan\.
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  164. And “people don’t report it” in Baltimore, St. Louis, Memphis, Detroit, and countless other cities as well?
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  165. And Mississippi and Alabama aren’t crap holes? It’s not like they are voting Democrat in those states.
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  166. I am opposed to the death penalty mainly due to the number of people wrongly convicted of capitol crimes. I don’t know how many have been executed for crimes they did not commit, but in my opinion one wrongful execution is too many.
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  167. Hispaniola is the island containing Haiti and the Dominican Republic. 🙄
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  168. Mathew Fullerton - The Wikipedia article on Yucatán briefly showed the pronunciation with no comment about syllable stress. The sound clip showed what seem to be a slight stress on the last syllable. I have tended to stress the first syllable, although I guess it could be pronounced without stresses as \you-kuh-tan\. I think we can agree that it’s not pronounced \YUCK-a-tan\.
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  169.  @PremierCCGuyMMXVI  - Except in monsoon season.
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  170. A good video, once I got to actually see it! 👍 Of the countries featured, I would like to visit Liechtenstein, Bhutan, or Monaco; I would not visit Brunei or North Korea. I would also pass on Moldova until the war in neighboring Ukraine is over.
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  171. I liked Denver when I visited. I could totally live there, but I didn’t think the city had much personality; maybe that’s just me. To me it was a stepping stone to the Rockies.
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  172. Blucifer scared the pedestrians away! 😁
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  173. I figured that New England would be prominently on this list, but I also expected more Western states as well. I figure that Oregon can’t have missed this list by much! The last time I’ve been to church was 2006. 🙂
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  174. And Alaska is AK, not AL. Alabama is AL.
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  175. I agree with you. Maine is the least violent state and has barely a million people, one of the least populous states. No way is it 20th in total crimes.
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  176. Maybe for the students who are brain dead.
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  177. At about 7:00 you said Tallahassee is the only state capital the borders another state. No, Trenton, NJ borders PA and I just read where Carson City, NV borders CA. Tallahassee is close to the GA line but does not touch that line.
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  178.  @semicountryliving3095  - No, a “commie” is not someone whose political leanings just differs from yours. Maybe you should use a dictionary once in a while.
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  179. In these “Democratic” states you make more money too. I’m pretty sure these states are also near the top in terms of health care and life expectancy. Last I checked, HI had the longest life expectancy, CA was 2nd and CT was 5th. OH, inexpensive and Republican, was 43rd, and I’ll give you one guess where MS finished.
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  180. Arizona ranks in education spending behind itself? LOL!
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  181.  @timmmahhhh  - I watch Amelia and JP; I also like to watch Jon Gross who has interesting videos about Chile.
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  182.  @JohnPMiller  - The trunk is actually pretty small at 11 cubic feet. Should be large enough for groceries or a suitcase or two, but storage will not be the Ioniq 6’s strong suit.
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  183. Berlin is pronounced by stressing the first syllable. BUR-lin.
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  184. Reading is pronounced as if it were spelled, “Redding.”
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  185. My boss had COVID last winter but still got the vaccine based on her doctor’s advice. The immune defenses/antibodies are greater from getting vaccinated even if you have previously had COVID.
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  186. Better than 95. But I am still taking these with a pinch of salt.
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  187. I think I will trust Greta’s judgement of the matter over yours. 🙄
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  188. Have you been sniffing them powder milk biscuits again, Garrison? j/k 😆 Although actually it’s “where all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” My kind of place. 😎
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  189. The place I’d look at is Crestview Hills, as it’s near Cincinnati and not far from where I used to live. Winters would be cold but variable; summer would be humid. 🥵
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  190. That’s part of our evil plan! Shhhhh..... 😈
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  191. Little Rock?
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  192. This is America and you can vote for whomever you want to. That includes former New Yorkers and Californians.
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  193. I am surprised that New York was not on this list. It has always been really expensive and you needed a top salary to get by there. Also, given that the two most expensive states seem to be Hawaii and California, they really should have had the #1 and #2 incomes to match. Good stuff.
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  194. He also mentioned Ecuador and Taiwan.
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  195. Memphis declined following Martin Luther King’s assassination in 1968? Why didn’t Dallas suffer a similar fate after John F. Kennedy’s assassination?
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  196. 8:40 - La Paz, Bolivia is the highest national capital in the world at over 12,000’.
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  197. I partially agree with your remarks about Connecticut. I disagree with your comment about there being no middle class; I live in Connecticut and am in the middle class, as are most people that I know. Outside of the cities such as Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport, the crime in this state is pretty low; Connecticut usually ranks among the ten safest states in the country (and always one of New England’s six safest states! 😎) I agree that it is expensive, and the taxes are high, and there is too much wealth inequality.
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  198. I have been to every province and territory of Canada except for Nunavut, which would definitely be a summertime destination.
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  199. New Jersey is “full.” Georgia doesn’t know the meaning of the word.
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  200. 7:36 - The term “feminazi” is a derogatory term for feminists coined by the US political right. The first time I heard that term was by Rush Limbaugh. 🤢 As for Russia’s birth rate it was been very low since Soviet times. I suspect it is due to the cost of raising children, pretty much the same as in much of the rest of Europe and Asia. I think that is actually a good thing as it will cause less stress on Earth’s environment in the long run. I hope you do get to safely return to Russia someday; unfortunately I think that day is a long way off.
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  201. Based on your comment, the quality of education is down too, I see.
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  202. Israel made his list of most atheistic countries a couple of weeks ago.
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  203. I think Cuba just missed out; they very likely were 11th.
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  204.  @JamaicanTribe  - Do you have a source? Mine was the Wikipedia article on Cuba. From that, Cuba has 11M people, and 9% are black. That’s about 1M black people in Cuba; from Brigg’s video, Mexico had 1.4M.
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  205. I think Briggs could start this list with Hawaii. 😁 (Good luck with that!)
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  206. Tennesseans need to chill. California is 2000 miles from there. Just my opinion.
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  207. I’d be more stressed being with people who only discuss politics. 👎
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  208. Of the ten places you mentioned, I’d like to visit Coober Pedy. Being underground, the “dugouts” maintain a constant temperature of 23°C or 73°F, so no heating or air conditioning are needed, ever. Doesn’t seem like there would be much to do there, however.
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  209. Whenever I think of Montana, I think about dental floss.
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  210. 11:34 - “…Detroit to the south?” ???? Detroit is NE of Fort Wayne.
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  211. The part about paying to use the elevator seems weird, but I guess I’d get more exercise. Tbilisi sounds pretty nice.
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  212. Andaman Islands, which are part of India. That is where North Sentinel Island is; you can visit there if you want, but I hear the locals are not very friendly.
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  213. The population that is 65 and older is not going down; it is going up. It was 13.1% in 2010 and 16.5% in 2020. The Baby Boomers getting older is a factor, as it the longer life expectancy of Americans. The percentage that is 65 and up is projected to continue increasing.
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  214. The gas giants are also further from the Sun, allowing their gravity well to extend farther. (Neso orbits Neptune at a maximum distance of some 77M kms from that planet, more than half the distance between Earth and the Sun. That would not be possible for any planet within Earth’s orbit regardless of size.)
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  215. Sounds like the name of a death metal band.
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  216. Pete - Let’s see the actual census numbers to see what the numbers are really like. No offense to Briggs or to Nick Johnson, but when the US Census shows a decline in NYC’s population, I’ll believe it. NYC has endured a lot over the years and somehow still draws people; why in 2020 should things change? (Maybe due to the pandemic, but they had one in 1920 ...)
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  217. Fewer than 100,000 people.
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  218.  @papatrump8399  - The Chicxulub asteroid was the approximate size of Mount Everest, maybe about 10 km across. Not the size of the Himalayas.
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  219. Yes, Regina (the capital of Saskatchewan) rhymes with va****.
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  220. Sweden is not rising from plate tectonics. It is rising from post-glacial rebound, as are Finland and much of Canada.
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  221. Overall, I like this proposal. The only change I’d make is that if no candidate draws a majority of the popular vote, then the states in the bloc would award no electoral votes. This can be avoided if the presidential election used ranked choice voting to ensure that one candidate gets a majority of the popular vote.
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  222. mates0428 - If they don’t like you for where you’re from, the hell with them! They aren’t worth your time.
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  223. Why bother watching the video, then?
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  224. Somebody got triggered! 😝 I would read it but (1) the NIV is more readable anyway, and (2) I have one life to live and prefer not wasting it on reading religious gobbledygook.
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  225.  @SirManfly  - Canada’ has about 38 million people, and the Tokyo metropolitan area has about 37 million.
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  226. I think the title of this video should be changed. “Ten Best Midwestern Suburbs” should suffice. Good stuff. 👍🏻
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  227. San Francisco is very hilly so if a part of the city begins to submerge there are places to relocate to. The cities listed on this video are mostly very flat.
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  228. You misspelled “Pittsburgh” around 4:58.
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  229. Alaska used to have four time zones; now they have only two. (Unofficially, Hyderabad, AK is on Pacific Time, but the official time zone boundary is at the Canadian border.
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  230. His pronunciation of Appalachian is the same as mine. It isn’t a mistaken pronunciation. It is one of two standard pronunciations, and the one probably more popular among Northerners. (I live in Connecticut and have lived here most of my life. Trust me, I’m not changing my pronunciation because of you! 😊)
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  231. “The place where the caribou 💩”
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  232. We haven’t really had winters to speak of the past few years. I was also born in Springfield, but lived in Connecticut most of my life.
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  233. Canada has less violent crime, a higher life expectancy, a higher quality of life, and they have universal healthcare. These are all things that the US needs to work on to be a better country.
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  234. My first guess was Illinois, but then I thought Colorado or Arizona. All wrong.
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  235. I’m gonna get me a horse, just about this big…
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  236. Parts of the music reminded me more of Cosmos. 🌌 Michigan is one of my favorite states; your video does it justice. 👍
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  237.  @adellacroce  - 😆
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  238. He was under uressure to meet his deadlines. 😂
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  239. Bay City isn’t rural.
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  240. Trez on Switch - New York City and Long Island have a mild enough climate to affect the state average. I’m sure New York makes the top 20 but not the top 10.
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  241. Of the ten most populous states, all ten were in this video, and almost in the expected order. I suspect the 11th state in order of welfare recipients would be New Jersey, the 11th most populous state.
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  242. I guess Columbus retains their title! 😂
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  243. dominick fiorenza - It’s “etc.” for et cetera. Not “ect.” And I will decide for myself whether or not to fly a US flag on my property. When I lose that choice, we become a dictatorship.
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  244. Jack Thomas - “Waah, waah, waah!” 🍼
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  245. I figured before watching this that NYC would be #1; that would be my vote anyway. #2. LA?
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  246.  @lindabriggs5118  - He might do the top five religions in each state, or say the top two or three with a graphic showing the top five.
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  247. 4:47 - “Is there another Los Angeles?” In fact, there is a Los Angeles in Chile. 🇨🇱
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  248.  @ufcprophet40  - And how many Kiwis live in rural areas? (Maybe 20%.) The rest who “don’t care” or “don’t give a s..t” could be atheist or agnostic. (I regard agnostics as a subset of atheists.) It doesn’t mean that 80% of New Zealanders are atheists, but I suspect a number similar to Canada or Australia.
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  249. Most people who believe in this nonsense are equally condescending and childish from my experience.
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  250. Great scenery. I’ve been to Alaska only once and saw the Panhandle, from Ketchikan to Skagway. Would love to visit Alaska again, and the Kenai and Kodiak would be great places to visit. Would visit during the end of August for a chance at seeing the Northern Lights.
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  251. Autumn is my favorite season, followed by spring, winter, and summer. Enjoyed your video; Tbilisi looks very scenic. 🙂
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  252. I just checked the U.S. State Department’s site. None of the countries in this video are Level 4 - “Do not travel.” Only Jamaica is Level 3 - “Reconsider Travel.” So the rest are Level 1 or Level 2.
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  253. The most un American idea I’ve heard of.
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  254. I think that should be Maine’s official state motto! 😁
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  255. Nobody said anything about getting 20 jobs in one day. It is reasonable to ask if I can get a flu shot and a COVID booster, and I asked that question myself this past week when I last saw my doctor. (I did get both shots on the same day.)
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  256. Maybe they were 11th (or around there.)
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  257. Fewer people per square miles than NJ, RI, MA, CT, and likely MD. There are empty spaces in New York State, particularly near the Catskills and Adirondacks.
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  258. My favorite name on this list is definitely Bad Axe. I wonder how many people call it Bad A** unintentionally. Probably quite a few. It’s not Traveras City; it’s Traverse City. It’s pronounced just as it’s spelled.
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  259. Challenge accepted! 😈
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  260. Definitely too much for my bank account. Still a nice view of my home state. 🙂
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  261. octavio moncada - #1 on that list is Michigan. 😏
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  262. You mentioned Boston Pizza at 13:36. That is a Canadian pizza chain, mainly in Western Canada; I don’t know of any places in Boston with that name.
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  263.  @MrAsianPie  - I’d rather vote for Bosco!
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  264. 4:33 - No, Connecticut’s largest city is Bridgeport, which is not much larger than Hartford or New Haven.
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  265. Really? I live in the Northeast, and have no opinion of Californians either way.
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  266. And when Miami and New Orleans are both 50 feet (16 meters) beneath the ocean, we can blame you.
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  267. Monrovia is not a country; it is the capital of Liberia. Perhaps you meant Moldova.
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  268.  @jaycasado5029 - it isn’t “flyover country” for the 11 million people who happen to live in Ohio. AFAIC, flyover country is ND, SD, NE, and MT as few people live there.
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  269.  @snowench11  - I could have also asked when it was ever 108° in Seattle or 120° (49°C) in Canada. But I made my point. Yes, summers have always been hot. But never that hot! I think the reliability of Pendleton’s 1898 reading may be in doubt.
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  270. It is the correct pronunciation.
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  271. Looking forward to 10 Most Liberal States. My guess is MA, NY, HI, CA, NJ, MN, VT, WA, NH, and MD. My home state of CT should be very close. I completely agree with the first 90 seconds of this video.
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  272.  @victorlorenzoalvescunhalor8997  - I hope not.
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  273.  @humboldthammer  - I don’t know how that eclipse is particularly epochal, but I definitely plan on viewing it. I hope to view it in Ohio, as the place where I lived for 11 years will be in the path of totality. But I’ll view the eclipse elsewhere if the forecast for the Dayton area calls for overcast or rain. The epochal solar eclipse will be July 16, 2186. I don’t think anyone alive today will need to make plans on that one, but it will be the longest solar eclipse in about 8000 years.
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  274. Have New Year, Natasha. I’m sure you will make great videos in 2024 and I look forward to seeing them.
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  275. NJ is nearby and familiar. CA has nice weather, and if they can afford NY, they certainly can afford CA.
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  276.  @adamfranco1987  - Of the cities in Briggs’ video, El Paso had the highest percentage of its population being of Mexican origin.
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  277. fob1xxl - That is false. Alaska is definitely a Republican state; they are one of the reddest states in the country. New Hampshire and Virginia are at best a mixture of liberal and conservative. If NH didn’t go for Bush in 2000, Al Gore would have been President.
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  278.  @Rashnak66  - the official federal name. The official state of Alaska name has been Denali since 1975.
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  279. I would include Caribou, ME.
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  280. Rochester is east of Buffalo, not north.
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  281. A New Jersey.
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  282. His list was top 10 places in the West. Not West Coast. Wyoming qualifies.
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  283. I’m pretty sure the highest Chinese population would be on the west coast. I don’t know where you get your (mis)information from, but please enlighten us.
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  284. I think “Almost Heaven” would be #1, with the South being heavily on that list.
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  285. I figured NYC would be the runaway leader, with twice the votes of the runner up. Instead they barely made this list and “lost” out to Trenton. Considering the comments, I also would have thought San Francisco would have been on this list.
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  286. I had no problem hearing you through the rain. And the sound of rain is very relaxing to me, as long as there’s no thunder.
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  287. The capital of Ecuador is Quito and it is not a coastal city. It’s about 2800 meters (9000 feet) above sea level.
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  288. I would guess Vermont, followed by New Hampshire, Maine, and Rhode Island, as those states have small populations and are the farthest away.
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  289.  @evermore9291 - No, they are not. The Keys are north of the Tropic of Cancer and most of Hawaii is south.
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  290. You meant the “religion” of tolerance and minding one’s business regarding others? 🏳️‍🌈
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  291. We can also be confrontational when driving.
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  292.  @jamesbraun9842  I’m pretty sure Utah would make that list. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ohio, Indiana, or Missouri make the list as well.
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  293. West Virginia is a relatively unpopulated state. Even if literally everyone there were on food stamps, I doubt they’d make this list.
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  294. Dream on.
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  295. The part of Virginia near DC is very expensive.
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  296. One detail Briggs did not get right was about Chicago’s population trends over the decades. Chicago had more residents in 1950 than they do today. In 1950, the population was over 3.6M and in 2010 it was closer to 2.7M. So, while Illinois (demonym of Illinoisans) may have gained population every census up to 2010, Chicago has not.
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  297. I think Mappy should use his magical powers to make Donald Trump disappear.
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  298. The drop in faith is also a major sign that religion is a lie and more people are realizing it as such.
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  299. Liberal does not mean Democrat. The South has always been politically quite conservative, but was also staunchly Democrat until at least the 1960s.
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  300. The University of Regina; the city’s name rhymes with China.
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  301. People who have family there.
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  302. Only thing is, we’d still have to have freedom of religion, but a predominantly atheistic country would be a great future. I don’t think it will ever happen, though.
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  303. “New York Wannabes?” I think that could be a great new name for the Mets! 😄
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  304. High taxes and high cost of living are a given in NYC, but it actually has one of the lowest crime rates of any major US city.
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  305. In Boston, Yankees is a cuss word. 😏
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  306. Rain Bow - So did Connecticut, But if you want less expensive real estate in CT, don’t look in Fairfield County. (That the the southwestern part of the state nearest NYC.) You should be able to find decent houses for around $300K or so in the other seven counties.
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  307. Briggs, just out of curiosity, why would you not care for Ensenada? You mentioned that without saying why. Great video; there are several places that I would like to visit. 👍
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  308. Minneapolis has about 6% of Minnesota’s population.
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  309. “Scranton. Even better with 30,000 pounds of bananas!”
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  310. In January, Vladivostok is like San Francisco during the Ice Age. 🥶
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  311. I agree as well.
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  312. Right here: 🌏
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  313. Except for that one day last week that hit 110°. 🥵
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  314. The worst story of 2022 is the Ukraine invasion, and I see absolutely no point in it. Russia and their people will be paying for this for decades to come, as will Ukraine, Belarus, and frankly neighboring countries such as Moldova and Poland. At least I haven’t heard as much about the Middle East this year and no Middle Eastern countries were listed on this dubious list.
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  315. That is kind of an insult to Tesla’s engineers and designers who actually designed the Model Y. And clearly they did a great job. And these engineers and designers really have no control over the actions of their inane owner.
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  316. The anagram for Danville is “evil land.”
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  317. I think most of Briggs’ videos get them. 😠
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  318. Why don’t you ask them?
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  319.  @michaelcristiano7501  - The new National Motto of the USA should be “One nation, many armpits.” Not exactly a source of national pride if you ask me. Been to Michigan many times, as I have relatives there. There are worse places. My biggest concern would be their winters, but they are only a little colder than what I’m used to.
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  320.  @itsnathanhere2578  - I don’t live in New York.
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  321.  @Objective-Observer  - I am not currently relocating. If and when I do relocate, probably in a few years, I am not looking so much at a place’s political outlook as much as their cost of living, crime levels, and their climate. But when I do move, I’m not taking anyone’s crap about “moving back where I came from!”
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  322.  @Objective-Observer  - Your comment is proof that you can’t have an intelligent conversation with a conservative. I gave some reasons why I wouldn’t want to live in a red state (and therefore risk turning it a little bluer) and you still get triggered. I’m done with this nonsense, good day!
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  323.    - There is no evidence to support your claim. Without evidence, the polling numbers speak for themselves.
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  324.  @Objective-Observer  - If there is such evidence of voter fraud, then show it, and show your sources. Otherwise your assertions are a pile of bullshit and nothing more.
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  325. @Fitz the dragon - If conservatives moved to California, then it would not be that different from when Reagan was the governor of that state. Would I be happy? Not really, but as long as the politics were from democratic processes, and not through foul play (such as gerrymandering) then I am not going to complain. I am done with this discussion.
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  326. Vladivostok is not that far north. In fact it is almost the same latitude as Milwaukee.
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  327. It means “good-bye”.
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  328. Bosnian Gamer - I don’t know how the universe came to be, but it seems far too vast for it to have been created. If you insist on believing in deities, fine. I prefer more scientific explanations.
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  329.  @NYCHFAN - Midwest.
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  330. Compared to other places in this country, no it isn’t.
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  331.  @TwoCaptainsOneShip  - New York is crowded, noisy, and worst of all, expensive. But it is not a dump, even if it has a few bad neighborhoods. Briggs has done videos on places that are; you should watch some of them if you haven’t.
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  332.  @bruceforster3709  - Leave your politics out of it, okay? All I said is that my favorite parts of the US are New England and the Pacific Northwest. If you disagree, then don’t move there. More space for me.
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  333.  @bruceforster3709  - Nobody said you didn’t have that right. I just asked you not to discuss politics, and I actually asked you pretty nicely. And you still insulted me, which proves you are a complete lowlife. 👎
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  334.  @bruceforster3709  - Piss off, loser!
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  335. I saw a Facebook post about a year ago that claimed that Columbus, Ohio was the most profanity-laced city. But I was in Columbus a couple of years ago, and it didn’t seem all that bad. Time to watch the video and find out!
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  336. About four times rainier than Portland, ME. Definitely bring an umbrella. ☔️
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  337. A few years ago, I went up the CN tower. I was able to see parts of New York, but not Rochester. The day was sunny but a little humid; even on a dry day, I am not sure I’d see Rochester. Still a great view.
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  338. No, one inch is exactly 2.54 cm. So 1.5 cm is about 0.6 inches.
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  339. “Oh, crud! I’m in Nebraska. I must have taken a wrong turn again!”
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  340. While your graphics showed the percentages that were over 60, you kept saying the same percentages as over 65. Which is it?
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  341. I live in Connecticut, and like it here just fine. Thank you for leaving, though as it creates a little more space for those of us who remain here.
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  342. Curious which 10 cities have the highest life expectancy. I will guess Honolulu as being among them, as Hawaii is the state with the highest life expectancy.
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  343. Wimp. 😆
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  344. Pretty bad when a major city is called “boring,” but not when one of your suburbs is Boring? 😂
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  345. I concur that falls and early winters in Ohio are pretty bleak. I recall two-week stretches in November and December where the sun never came out once. It’s something to be aware of, but I think the worst aspects of Ohio’s weather are the summer humidity and the occasional tornadoes. As far as winters go, you get the occasional bouts of severe temperatures, where daytime highs can be below zero, but (compared to where I currently live) not all that much snow.
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  346. Dana Eiland - Just what part of the Midwest do you think Portland is in? And you do realize he meant Portland, Oregon, and not Portland, Indiana. And, I don’t consider Texas, Colorado, or Arkansas to be Midwestern states, either. Which leaves four cities in the Midwest. 🙄
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  347. A submoon could be a second-order moon, so that might be orbited by a third-order moon, etc.
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  348. He complains about the Bay State being cold but doesn’t mention it at all about Michigan or the Dakotas. As for Minnesota, he mentioned their cold almost as an afterthought.
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  349. I like the original 1970 song by Five Man Electrical Band. Great song!
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  350. KawaiiRudraChan OwO - Which county? There are probably about 100 counties or so in that state.
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  351.  @tonylove4800  - Not sure how your comment is “helpful”. There are about four or five million people in your country, Whether or not you are an atheist affects New Zealand’s percentage by about 0.00002%.
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  352. Missouri and Tennessee both border eight states. States that border only two states include Rhode Island and Florida.
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  353. I can’t stand people who use nonsensical acronyms.
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  354. I think it was 1974; that was the day of the Xenia tornado in Ohio.
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  355. SW Ohio has their share of overcast as well. I lived near Dayton and can remember two week stretches, particularly November through January, where the sun would not appear. I think it’s best not to dwell on it, though. It’s just clouds!
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  356. dknowles60 - Learn the meaning of “case closed!” I am fully aware that Chicago is overwhelmingly Democrat (and to their obvious benefit or they would have voted differently.) But the article is about Illinoisans, not particularly Chicagoans. And (in spite of Briggs’ comments) it appears to me that Illinois population decline is statewide with most of it outside of Chicago.
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  357. Blakelikesfood - Going back to your initial comment. None of the cities you have mentioned are “destroyed” cities, as people continue to live there whereas the cities Briggs’ has mentioned seem to have been destroyed to the point of being (at least temporarily) ghost towns (population zero.) Therefore your comment is irrelevant to Briggs’ video and is posted mainly to spout your personal agenda. Good day!
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  358. Sounds like a theme park. 😁
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  359. No, we’re probably not. When you die, your brain dies too, so you essentially cease to exist. Therefore it will be impossible to know.
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  360. I was there once, but it was in November, The temperature during the day was in the 80’s, and it was a dry heat, so it was a good time to go. I absolutely would not go there during the summer!
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  361. 15:30 - Pinnacles could not have been a National Monument in 1809 as California was part of Mexico then. The graphic at the start of that park showed the state as Arizona.
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  362. Sounds like a dare to me! 😈 Nothing like being a true BLUE Texan! 😁
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  363. Several cities sound nice to me: Fort Worth, Indiana 😆; Cedar Rapids and Des Moines Iowa. (Akron, Ohio - not so much.) I’ve never been to any of these places, but I should go out there to check them out. I wonder how Madison, Wisconsin compares to this list. (I’m guessing it would be pricier.)
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  364. “Hurricane Laura and the Wildfires.” Sounds like a name for a rock band! 🎸
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  365.  @believestthouthis7 - your biblical verses mean nothing to me. My scripture is the U.S. Constitution.
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  366. I thought it was Bridgeport.
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  367. China? 😆
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  368. My guess would be Ontario as many of them live in Toronto. I like Toronto, but it does have a lot of traffic there and it’s expensive, especially the housing. I don’t think the crime there is that bad, but I’m sure the people living there perceive it otherwise.
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  369. I’m glad one person got it.! Hell is northwest of Ann Arbor. I’ve been to Hell (and back.) It is definitely one of my favorite place names. And, I think it’s a pretty nice place, so all of the places in Nick Johnson’s video are arguably worse.
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  370. North Sentinal Island would definitely make that list.
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  371. The Avalon had a roomier interior. In 1997, I sat inside both cars, and was able to sit comfortably inside the Avalon; at that time the Camry felt a little tight. (I would not have that complaint about more recent Camrys, though.)
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  372. Gabriel Ortiz - Chicago comes close to making Briggs’ top 10 list, and Miami does have a lot of crime, including murders. Portland and New York City are nowhere near making this list!
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  373. Four billion years according to the video, although I have also heard seven billion. I’m definitely not losing sleep over it.
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  374.  @loditx7706  - Your anecdote proves nothing. And if your friend lived through the winter of 1977, he probably wasn’t exaggerating. But Rochester and Syracuse had a ton of snow that winter as well. The link I provided in my last comment shows the average annual snowfall for several cities, including Syracuse, Buffalo and Rochester. And the same averages can be found on the Wikipedia articles on those cities.
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  375. I can partially agree with you without conceding my point.
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  376. I don’t think having the Whalers back is going to improve things in Hartford, although I’d like to see it.
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  377. No it isn’t; I like Hawaiian style pizza. One of my favorites. Not a fan of anchovies though. 🤢
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  378. Seattle would not be on that list. Hilo, Hawaii and Ketchikan, Alaska both get over 100” of rain annually.
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  379. Well I’ve never been to Spain, but I kind of like the music... 😆
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  380. The state with the fewest tornadoes per unit area would be Alaska, then. 🙂
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  381. You have to read the newspapers more then.
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  382. Not surprised at New Haven, although I was guessing Bridgeport for Connecticut’s most dangerous city. Weird fact: Providence’s violent crime rate is the same as their area code. 😂 (The graphic for Providence at 3:39 showed the wrong city, BTW.)
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  383. So what? So do English speakers in every country that isn’t the U.S.
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  384. I’m sure it’s #1 in Ohio, although the million people in Columbus would drag the average down.
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  385. But I dream of Californication. 😁
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  386. Either are acceptable. The official nickname is the Constitution State. I’ve also heard the Land of Steady Habits.
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  387. I will guess the New England states, New Jersey, Delaware, and maybe Hawaii (in spite of their volcanoes.)
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  388. I agree with you, but I’m a little disappointed in the new name. I think a great name would have been the Crusaders. (It was the name of their WHA team in the 70s.)
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  389. No, two groups of people who tend to be Democrat and Christian would be Hispanics and African Americans.
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  390.  @tudormiller887  - I wouldn’t know as I don’t live in Pittsburgh. I liked the Penguins when Lemieux and Jagr played for them. Never cared for the Broad Street Bullies.
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  391. I also drive a Prius. It’s the best car I’ve ever driven, by far.
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  392. If I had to move to a southern state, it would be in parts of VA, NC, and a few areas of eastern TN and northern KY interest me.
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  393. Tommy Truth - no, #1 is definitely Michigan.
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  394. Bears won the World Series?!?! 🤣 And the Cubs won the Stanley Cup!
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  395. California is not losing population. If there are three states that lost population, they would be Illinois, New York, and Connecticut.
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  396. Without expansion, the next time an NHL team relocates, Phoenix would be an option, provided they have the facilities.
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  397. Syracuse gets more than either place; they average about 125” of snow annually.
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  398.  @primemover1416  - either phrase is acceptable.
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  399. “Secession” was mispronounced around 2:10.
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  400. The US has the potential to be the greatest country on earth, but only if we can make that a priority. For that to happen, the petty bickering between Republicans and Democrats needs to stop.
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  401. I lived in Ohio for 11 years, and lived in the Dayton area. For the most part I liked Ohio. It had its downsides, but so does everywhere else.
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  402. An EV should still cost a lot less to “fuel up” than a gasoline car. Plus it would generate fewer greenhouse gases (virtually no greenhouse gases once the car has been manufactured.)
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  403. Eight million people currently live there, and they weren’t dragged there against their will.
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  404. I think Connecticut’s state pastime is ignoring speed limits; it is obviously a time-honored tradition there. 😏
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  405. A state the size of Texas only has five worthwhile rural places? I’m guessing that no state will have ten. Except maybe New Jersey. 😎 Sorry to hear about you getting COVID. Get better soon.
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  406.  @anthonyplatt1678  - it is entirely within Alaskas borders too. What would Alaskans have called it?
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  407. Jeremiah Allyn - In 1977 and in 1994: temperatures in Ohio and Kentucky were in the minus 20s (Fahrenheit) at night and stayed below zero during the day. (I am not talking about wind chill factor either!)
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  408. Congratulations on getting your visa. I wish you the best in 2024 wherever your travels take you. Hang in there!
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  409. Incorrect. The mayor of Muskogee is a Republican.
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  410. Briggs is obsessed with nutmeg. 😆
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  411. Wimp. 😆
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  412. Ordy Horizon rivière du nord - Newfoundland (or Newfoundland and Labrador as it’s called today) became a province in 1949 after two referenda. Be aware that (1) I am not from that province and (2) 1949 was a bit before my time. But the process where Newfoundland’s fate was determined does seem reasonably democratic to me. Since you think the process was “against their will”, please elaborate.
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  413. Ordy Horizon rivière du nord - Who is “they?” 😄 Also, I am not sure of the veracity of such a movie, although it depends on who produced it.
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  414. Well, it’s a rain forest. Not a tropical rain forest. And he did mention that Ketchikan is the “Rain Capital of Alaska.” I think Ketchikan’s average is more like 150” annually. I was there for two days in 1995. The whole time I was there it poured! I bought an umbrella and a new pair of sneakers there. Briggs lucked out; he didn’t need an umbrella. ☔️
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  415. I have actually been to three of these places, and very close to a fourth place. Keels, NL, must be right next to Bonavista, as I recognized the lighthouse. I visited there in 1997 and saw my first iceberg. When I went down the Alaska Highway, I visited Watson Lake, YT and saw the Sign Forest, and several hours later visited Fort Nelson, BC, although I have no distinct memory of it there. The nearest town or city larger than Fort Nelson is Fort St. John, maybe 50 km or so from where the Alaska Highway starts at Dawson Creek. Newfoundland has so many rocky and treacherous coasts that any place with a beach there would be noteworthy. A “tickle” is a small strait. I enjoy your videos Briggs, and look forward to Part Two. 🇨🇦
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  416. No, just Yankee fans.
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  417.  @jaycasado5029  - I visit Ohio. I lived there 11 years and I have relatives there.
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  418.  @jaycasado5029  - I’d rather live in Ohio then. Orlando obviously gets way too many tourists. 👎
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  419. Mind your damned business and I’ll do likewise. Have a nice day!
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  420. RI, followed by CT, MA, and NJ. After that, I would say TX, NM, and CA due to their Hispanic populations along with four more Northeastern states.
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  421. Yes it is. It is on Europe’s continental shelf and in an ice age world (lower sea levels) would be on the mainland.
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  422. Fort Wayne is in Northeast Indiana.
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  423. Most Americans call it “fall”. I like to call it “autumn” and that seems more common in the Northeast where I live.
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  424. I figured it would be East St. Louis, although I understand their crime has diminished the past few years.
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  425. I love visiting NYC, but living there would not be my cup of tea, due to its crowds, noise, and cost of living. That said, I am turned off by the negative comments here. It’s very simple: if you don’t like NYC, then nobody is making you move there! The comments about the city’s crime just disgusts me. I won’t comment about 2020 crime levels until I’ve seen the numbers, but there is much less crime in NYC then there was in 1990, when the city had over 2,200 homicides; in 2019 that number was under 300. I think Briggs’ comments were spot on, Let’s Go, Mets!
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  426. Xenophobia is our country’s weakness.
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  427. Ozark Staes?
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  428. Dishonorable mentions to AK, LA and MS.
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  429.  @dnmurphy48  - Although most of Nepal is mountainous, not all of it is. SE Nepal is actually flat. I doubt anyone from there would be “veterans of mountains.”
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  430. With that name, it should be in Busch Stadium. 😎
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  431.  @andersonrodriguez8258  - My statement had nothing to do with politics. Take your hateful garbage elsewhere.
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  432. mw10259 - Nice try, but New York weather (#9) is not “just like California”.
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  433. Same continent.
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  434.  @stevensmith1881  - Dayton sounds like the type of place where Clevelanders get away from snow when they can’t afford a trip to Florida!
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  435. 🎵Domo arigato, Mr. Roboto.
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  436. Atheism is not a religion. It’s logical opposite is theism, and that’s not a religion either.
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  437. Nick did a similar video about a year ago and the US came in #1 on that one too, so I’m not exactly surprised.
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  438. Alex Holden - Too much snow. ❄️☃️❄️
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  439. I think the gesture goes back to ancient times; I’ve read that the Romans gave the finger.
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  440. echo sigma - There are 169 towns in Connecticut.
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  441.  @LoganCharlesII  - New Jersey has 1200 people per square mile. When Georgia has about 70 million people living there, we can talk.
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  442.  @LoganCharlesII  - Parts of New Jersey have been trash, just as parts of Georgia have been trash for the past 50 or so years. Much of New Jersey still seems really nice though, and based on Briggs’ video, parts of Georgia are nice, as well. The worst things about New Jersey are that it is the most crowded state, it is expensive, and the taxes are high. It is still frequently rated as one of the ten best states to live in though, and I agree with that assessment. If cities like Trenton, Camden, or Newark were better places to live, New Jersey would easily be top five. You described New Jersey as “my state”. I am not from New Jersey and I’ve never lived there, although I traveled frequently in that state, at least prior to the pandemic. Why did I bring up New Jersey? Because you claim that Georgia was “full” implying too crowded, and a counterexample would be the most densely populated/crowded state, which is New Jersey. Georgia has 10 million people; if it had New Jersey’s population density, it would be about 70 million.
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  443. Ten least expensive states. I am guessing MS, AR, WV, AL, KY, LA, OK, TN, OH, and IN.
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  444. And they don’t want you for a neighbor, either!
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  445. If you live in the Midwest, there will be a high risk of tornadoes. I think the safest state might be Ohio, but F5 and EF5 tornadoes have hit there as well as every other Midwestern state. But the vast majority of tornadoes will be weaker, EF0 or EF1. The worst state to live in would be Kansas, with Missouri and Nebraska not being much better. Best advice is to plan ahead just in case. If you are under a tornado warning, close all windows. Move to an interior room on the lowest level of your home. Move under heavy furniture if that is an option. But chances are you will be fine. I lived in Ohio for 11 years, and have never seen a tornado in person.
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  446. Three famous Russians? How about Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, Sergei Prokofiev, and Yuri Gagarin.
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  447. Yes, Russia is an authoritarian state. North Korea is far worse! At least Russians are able to leave their country in these times. North Koreans are not.
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  448. I think it’s more depressing to have it still dark at 8am. In Maine that is not a problem.
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  449.  @feliciasampson8032  - Ljubljana?
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  450. I-80 goes through Nevada without going anywhere near Las Vegas.
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  451. If you want to visit my state in January and walk on one of Connecticut’s lakes go ahead. Sometimes they freeze up, always in January or February. Not half the year. Even if they do freeze up, do you really want to walk on them? I don’t even think Lake Superior is frozen half the year.
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  452. Some place between Kilauea and Mauna Loa.
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  453. Sounds like he made the most of his life, which is what matters. RIP.
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  454. Joe G - I agree. But it’s his list and his opinion.
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  455. Ohio’s winters are not that bad.
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  456. Briggs, at about 12:20, you said Guayaquil has temperatures “in the low thirties at night.” That is highly doubtful, given that Guayaquil is near sea level and is very near the equator. I have also read that they have a significant dry season where for a few months they get almost no rain at all. (I’m sure it is low thirties - Celsius - or about 90 Fahrenheit on most days.) Also, Guayaquil is in southwest Ecuador and is not near the Colombia border, so I doubt they would have a national park that extends to that border. If they do, what is the park’s name?
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  457. Fairbanks, with about 40,000 people, is not a major city. Anchorage, at about 300,000 people, really isn’t, either. Edmonton has about 800,000 people.
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  458. Some boomers have no wish to move to Florida. And my strategy for a hopefully long life is being a skilled procrastinator. 😎
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  459. I was going to write a comment asking if he met the Pope. 😁 Congratulations to Drew on visiting every country! 🙂
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  460. The city I thought would be on this list was Dayton, OH. They probably were close to being here.
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  461. Sapporo 2042. 🇯🇵
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  462. You think Oregon is crowded? Try almost any state east of the Mississippi. Especially New Jersey. Also, most eastern states get more than 35” of rain annually, albeit with fewer cloudy days.
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  463. Yellowstone last exploded about 650,000 years ago, and I really don’t think it will happen again anytime soon. Maybe in a few thousand years, but not in any of our lifetimes.
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  464. San Francisco is 17th, with about 873K people, which is more than I thought it would have.
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  465. Madison, Wisconsin.
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  466. Oregon? I know it’s been in the news in some bad ways, but I think TX, NY, OH, AL, or WV would have been better choices.
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  467. marisol perez - Some of the same reasons as Massachusetts: Expensive, high taxes, crappy weather, Dunkin Donuts. Additionally, the Lyme Disease capitol of the world. The epicenter of the Red Sox / Yankees ad nauseam rivalry. 🙄 I think Connecticut has the country’s worst air quality.
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  468. justin daniels - I have heard that a couple of times but not exactly sure where. It stands to reason though. It is one of the most densely populated states, most people get around using cars, and we are downwind from New York City.
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  469. The geographical center of the 50 States is near Belle Fourche, South Dakota. If you travel from there to anywhere in Alaska, the shortest possible trip is by going west. The westernmost part of the US is near Attu Island, in spite of its 172°E longitude. Alaska is the westernmost state, and Maine is the easternmost.
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  470. “Houston, you’ve got a problem!”
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  471. Toledo has a team called the Mud Hens.
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  472. Coco Taveras - Connecticut has the Hartford Yard Goats; they also have the Connecticut Tigers who are based out of Norwich.
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  473. Ireland is a small country with only about five million people, maybe less. All of the countries on Briggs’ list are more populous than Ireland. I think its cloudy and chilly climate would also dissuade a lot of people, but it’s a place I’d like to visit.
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  474. He only insulted the people who keep making stupid political comments, although his videos are not all that political. Best/worst places to retire is a topic I should be able to look at without reading everyone’s f**ked-up political commentary.
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  475. If money were not a concern, the central California coast. Somewhere between San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara. Since money obviously is a concern, I’m looking into moving back to Ohio or somewhere in the Midwest. Or I might just stay in Connecticut where I won’t have to pay moving costs!
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  476. 666th. 😈
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  477. I think Atlanta has nicer weather than New York, although I don’t care for either place during the summer. But San Diego has the best weather in the US.
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  478.  @nv_spartan1771  - it looks like he overlooked it, along with Kansas and Ohio.
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  479. Are any states going to have ten rural places that are worthwhile? (I figure if there are, it will be Texas.)
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  480. I suspect Utah will rank high, but that remains to be seen.
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  481. Denali is a more respectful name to the Native Americans who named the mountain in the first place. McKinley, on the other hand, had never been to Alaska and never saw this mountain, so there is no basis in naming it after him.
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  482.  @V1DEOGAMES  - Thank you for your cryptic comment! I presume you think I made a math error in my initial comment; I did not. If a state has the highest cost of living out of the 50 states, then that same state has the 50th lowest cost of living. The state with the 2nd highest cost is therefore the state with the 49th lowest cost, etc. And the state that is 13 places from that would have the 15th highest and therefore the 36th lowest cost. (And we know that state to be Florida.)
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  483. Go to any state that is controlled by Republicans and you will find yourself surrounded by poverty.
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  484. Maybe you should learn the meaning of the word “communist” before you use it as an insult to whomever you don’t like. 🙄
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  485. Well he must be a hell of a lot smarter than you, then.
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  486. Tell me you’re a bigot without telling me you’re a bigot. 😑
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  487. It was actually 1900.
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  488.  @dgrGR61  - it is a unique area, and I say that in a good way. There are many Great Lakes states, but Michigan is the Great Lakes State. But look at the terrain, especially in the Lower Peninsula. It’s totally flat! So it’s definitely a Midwestern state too.
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  489. This video isn’t about Alaska. 😏 And make no mistake, the biggest magnitude earthquake in US history was the 1964 quake that hit Alaska and measured 9.2.
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  490. Rusty Shackleford - So do you. 🖕
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  491.  @YeeSoest  - I guess we will never know as we weren’t there. 🙂
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  492. I wasn’t expecting it, but I would not have been surprised to have seen Ohio on this list.
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  493. What does this have to do with Newark, New Jersey?
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  494. They got friendlier since his prior video. 😅
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  495.  @Centrist1985 - They could host the Games in the cooler half of the year, maybe November or December.
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  496. His video on Texas would take a week!
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  497. The US is getting less religious. Give it 20 years, and Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco will have a nonreligious majority. They will join Vancouver in that regard; currently their irreligious population is at 55.8%.
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  498. I go to a mall about once every couple of months. I used to go several times a week. Unfortunately, at least one of the malls near me (Meriden Mall in Connecticut) is dying, with their anchor stores gone and about three fourths of their stores closed. It’s sad to see.
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  499. I think it’s just to preserve the feel of the Klondike Days.
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  500. Perhaps Danville has the second-highest mill rate. I doubt that a city whose average home value is $65,000 is collecting very much on property taxes.
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  501. The ETA on Eta? 😆 About two days for the Central American coast, based on her report.
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  502. I would like to visit Batumi someday. Given that it gets about 2400 mm of rain per year, I’d bring an umbrella. ☂️
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  503. earlando salazar - A small part of Michigan’s UP along the Wisconsin border is on Central Time. And the westernmost counties of Nebraska are on Mountain Time. I still haven’t looked at a map, but I’m very sure I’m right on both counts.
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  504. earlando salazar - Just three or four counties in the UP, along the Wisconsin border. My original list does have one mistake though. Oklahoma is entirely on Central Time, (although a town in the panhandle unofficially uses Mountain Time.) Kansas has a few counties on Mountain Time.
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  505. After all of these stadiums have been rebuilt or demolished, the Red Sox will still play in Fenway Park and the Cubs will still be in Wrigley Field.
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  506. Maybe some don’t want to face repercussions.
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  507.  @CoolPapaJMagik  - Atheism is not a religion. And its opposite, theism, is not a religion either. Theism might be a core belief of most religions though.
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  508.  @CoolPapaJMagik  - And I think it’s silly that something so vast as Earth, or even more impossible, the entire universe, even could be created.
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  509. California or New Jersey?
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  510. I’ve been to Vermont many times. Maybe you’re a hoax!
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  511. I love Vermont, but their flag does not appeal to me. If Wyoming just removed the seal from their flag, it would be one of the best ones.
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  512. Was the scene at 5:00 taken in Michigan? The pedestrian sign does not look like one you’d see in North America.
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  513.  @jamesberenzy3553  - And he’s still more qualified for the Presidency than Donald Trump.
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  514.  @jamesberenzy3553  - A little too late to argue about it, anyways. The election was six months ago; that was the time to argue.
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  515.  @jamesberenzy3553  - Trump is the worst president in the history of this country. That is my opinion. Biden could only be an improvement. I will end this discussion now, before I forget that we are supposed to “be nice to each other.” Have a nice day.
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  516. In billions of years.
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  517. Specifically, Detroit. 😆
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  518. There are 15 countries that used to comprise the USSR, and only three (Estonia, Latvia, and Azerbaijan) were on this list, and they are all small countries.
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  519. Follow-up to my own comment. First, Illinois has gained population every census from the Civil War to 2010, although in either the 1970s or the 1980s, the increase was 0.0%, but the state population did increase very slightly. That probably won’t be the case for the 2020 census, as the state population dropped by 1.2% from 2010 to 2019, an absolute drop of around 159,000 people. Chicago’s population has dropped too, but by only 0.1%, an absolute drop of about 2,000 people. This seems to have debunked Briggs’ statement that 90% of the state’s population loss stemmed from Chicago alone.
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  520. Kindergarten? 😂
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  521. But tens of thousands of non-Californians are still moving there. (I would too, but it’s just too expensive now.) In spite of its problems, California is (slowly) gaining population.
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  522.  @Mii.2.0  - California did gain 6.1% population from 2010 to 2019. I have no doubt that many are leaving California, and for justifiable reasons, but even more are moving to California.
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  523. Future motto of the IRS.
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  524.  @joycegreer9391  - And how did this “creator” originate?
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  525.  @joycegreer9391  - No, it’s not scientific. Your statement is neither verifiable nor is it falsifiable, and therefore is not scientific, If your alleged “creator” is “uncreated”, then so is the entire Universe/Multiverse.
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  526. There cannot be a “first cause”. Otherwise that “first cause” emerged from nothingness, which is nonsense. Therefore, something must have always existed, and that would have the universe itself.
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  527. Greetings from Connecticut, where it’s currently -5°C. Earlier this morning it was -16°C, which I’m sure would not be considered cold in Khabarovsk. I enjoyed watching the ice sculptures.
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  528. TODarkschnider420 - prices, particularly real estate prices, in Ohio are not that bad, especially compared to California or much of the East Coast.
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  529. I remember that day very well as i lived in Ohio at the time. I lived about 10 miles from Xenia which was devastated by an F5 tornado. Not exactly a Halloween tale but the scariest day of my life. Over a decade later, that was still called “the April 3rd tornado” but I’m sure there were hundreds of tornadoes that day.
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  530. If it’s not a race question, then what kind of question is it?
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  531. I have seen 10” snowstorms in Connecticut as early as Halloween, but usually the first accumulating snow is late November or early December. In northern New England, it would be a few weeks earlier.
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  532. shane shane - Enjoy New England, but stay safe. 😷
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  533. Tokyo’s metro area has 37 million. (About the population of Canada.)
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  534. That joke is so old it’s becoming rancid. 👎
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  535. By definition, “majority” means more than 50%. Also by definition, an “atheist” does not believe in God, although I usually strengthen the definition to include any god. Now, in my home state of Connecticut, the fifth least religious state, 54% are “certain that God exists.” Your statement that “a high majority of northerners are atheists” is therefore demonstrably false.
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  536. Fishing for comments at 1:35, Briggs? 😁
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  537.  @michaela.754  - South Korea would not be so bad. I think the US would be more like Sweden, the Netherlands, or Japan.
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  538. No he wasn’t. Donald can go to Kenya and jump in Lake Victoria, but he was born in Queens.
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  539.  @annjames1837  - And Obama was born in Honolulu. Not Kenya.
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  540. Very few, except maybe Panama City, and to a lesser degree Quito and Buenos Aires. Kenya was once a British colony, so Nairobi may have some English speakers.
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  541. This former Buckeye moved to Connecticut, but I really don’t think that would be a top 10 destination. I would say the top 10 for Ohioans to move to would be (in no particular order) KY, IN, MI, PA, NY, IL, FL, TX, CA, and TN.
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  542. I would try it once; I doubt I’d be a regular though.
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  543. Love it or hate it, Jesus probably never existed. And even if he did, he was a human and nothing more.
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  544. Shenmue Person - He did early in his video. Listen to it again.
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  545. Sounds to me like Denali was the true deadliest park with only 300,000 visitors annually. If it had 11M visitors annually like the a Great Smoky Mountains, about 2000 people would have died there.
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  546.  @inconnu4961  - Who is “Louisianna”? Briggs’ cousin’s ex wife?
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  547. 🎵”I dig a French bikini on Hawaiian island dolls By a palm tree in the sand”
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  548. As would the United States, no doubt.
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  549.  @dannycbe949  - the war with Ukraine … Putin … the loss of human rights … sanctions … living standards of their people … environmental issues … internal strife. These are the reasons that come to the top of my head at any rate.
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  550. Luposlipaphobia? I saw that one in a Far Side cartoon once. 😂
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  551. If you can even read it!
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  552.  @0fficialdregs  - I’m not.
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  553. It looks more like Chicago.
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  554. Maryland’s flag grows on me. The first time I saw it, I didn’t like it; now I do. (I have never lived there.) Most US state flags are boring: a state seal on a blue background. Maryland avoided this bad design and hence has one of the best state flags. Top 10 at any rate.
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  555. Ireland and Sweden were neutral in WWII.
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  556.  @mattbeebe1288  - The Winter War was between Finland and the USSR. Sweden has not fought a foreign war since 1814.
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  557. And the South Pole gets about two inches of snow in a year.
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  558. That is their business. It has nothing to do with you.
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  559. *Colombia. 🇨🇴
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  560. I think you need to increase your medication.
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  561. Global warming.
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  562. California has about four times New Jersey’s population.
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  563. #1 in what, exactly. Besides number of prison inmates per capita?
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  564. Perth is isolated, but the most isolated major city is probably Honolulu.
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  565. He just did a video on violent crime by state plus DC. Although DC was the most violent, the highest that is an actual state is Alaska. The three least violent were the northern New England states. So your comment is what’s trash.
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  566. 13,487th
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  567. *Sicilian.
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  568. Maybe he wants to live in a KFC or a Chic fil-A.
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  569.  @TheSpaniard  - Thank you for being a sarcastic jerk! I accept your pronunciation of Appalachia. You should accept mine. If you don’t, that’s your problem. I have already mentioned there are two standard pronunciations of that word. End of discussion.
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  570.  @TheSpaniard  - it takes two people to have a discussion.
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  571. Buy a snowblower first.
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  572.  @205rlg6  - Right! St. Louis (the city) is not part of St. Louis County; I figured Briggs was referring to just the city.
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  573. A reason to reconsider moving there.
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  574. New England states, Colorado, and maybe Hawaii. They will still have more overweight people than they did 30 to 50 years ago.
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  575. I live in Connecticut, and there are tons of left-lane exits here. When I drive to work, I take a left exit off I-91 on my morning commute and a different left-lane exit off I-91 in my evening commute. But I can think of several other left exits in this state. I completely agree that left exits are horrible in terms of road design, and it triggers its share of road rage incidents. I have inadvertently irritated many drivers for driving near the speed limit while using the left lane, but I still have to make my exit. I’m sure that if left exits were eliminated that lane discipline would improve immensely.
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  576. Biggest: Phoenix, Austin, Columbus, Denver, Indianapolis, Boston, Atlanta, Nashville, Sacramento, and Oklahoma City. Smallest: Montpelier, Pierre, Juneau, Augusta, Dover, Annapolis, Carson City, Jefferson City, Concord, Salem. I did not look up the population of these cities beforehand, so it does qualify as a guess.
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  577. I really have little reason to visit Winsted, but it is in a scenic area. Connecticut is expensive, but if we dropped Fairfield County, it would probably be a little pricier than the national average. About a year or so ago, Briggs did a video on the 10 most expensive states, and Connecticut was not mentioned.
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  578. Briggs needs to keep his pet peeves to himself.
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  579. The Northeast is also politically to the left, and none of their states made this list. Thank you for your stupid comment!
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  580. Briggs spelled it as “povery”. Nice typo. 😁
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  581. There were 10 countries that had more visitors.
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  582. I am guessing that if Briggs does a video of highest-IQ states, that Massachusetts would be #1 and that Connecticut would be in the top 10.
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  583. Fairfield County is crazy expensive, like almost NYC or SF expensive. The rest of the state, not so much.
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  584. There actually is one happy city.
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  585. Pete Mavus - My comment was not a religious reference. I was just stating that there was one “happy city” mentioned in Briggs’ video that is east of the Mississippi.
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  586.  @michaela.754  - Most non religious people are not communists.
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  587.  @mrmaxcarter2306  - I have never lived in either, but have been to both. I live less than 100 miles from Vermont and have been there countless times. As I said, the two states are nothing alike. Why would Vermonters give a rat’s behind about California, anyways. They are 3000 miles apart. Most Californians would relocate to the western part of the US. Vermonters should be more concerned about New Yorkers or Bay Staters than about Californians.
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  588. From Wikipedia: “Hazardville takes its name from Colonel Augustus George Hazard.”
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  589. The arts center of the world, the sports center of the world, everything is within walking distance, best public transit in the country, a relatively low crime rate. Climate is okay compared to the rest of the Northeast, with relatively mild winters.
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  590.  @deanzachariades6365  - Lake Michigan is not an ocean or sea, so Illinois is landlocked.
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  591. His list was confined to the 50 largest U.S. cities (plus St. Louis.)
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  592. Sometimes a number is just a number. Get a grip.
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  593. Congratulations Red Sox! But there is still a reason why the World Series was played, as upsets have and will always be made. Fortunately for the Sox, it didn’t happen this year. 😎
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  594. Who the hell cares?
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  595.  @Crypt0fin  - I’m sorry, was my rhetorical question too complicated for you? I have nothing to do with the Obama’s real estate purchases. (I doubt that Briggs does either, although I should speak for myself.)
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  596.  @Crypt0fin  - Keep living in your dream world, doofus!
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  597. British spelling. 😆
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  598. Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Assam, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Jammu and Kashmir. 😎
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  599. Detroit and Flint are not the best places, but the rest of the state seems alright. I haven’t been there in a few years, but I’d consider moving there.
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  600. If you go twice as fast, it takes four times the distance to stop. If you go three times as fast, it takes nine times the distance, etc. Therefore it takes four times the distance to stop from 60 mph than from 30 mph.
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  601. Why would you hope for any state to be on this list? Actually it appears that Utah has one of the lowest cancer rates, maybe due to their young population.
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  602. @Richard Gilley - There are at least 99 comments on this thread and I’m not going to sift through them all. What the hell are you talking about?
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  603.  @mattbarrett441  - There are millions of people in my state, and it is blue enough that my vote alone did not flip the state over. It is also far from being “ruined”. If you have something else to say, tell it to someone who cares! ** off!
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  604.  morning glory  - You sound like a real loser. 👎
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  605.  @Objective-Observer  - The cost of living is a function of supply and demand. Which explains why (generally speaking) the nicer a place is, the more expensive it will be to live there. Since there seems to be a greater demand for people to relocate to Texas, home prices there will start to inflate, and it appears that in Austin it already has. As for crime, some of the states with the lowest levels of crime are blue states, particularly in New England, while the most dangerous states are generally in the South. Most of the states with the highest life expectancies are blue states, while the lowest expectancies are from red states. I’m pretty sure the highest is Hawaii and the lowest is Mississippi. And I suspect the difference in life expectancies will widen over the next few years due to COVID-19 as the blue states are taking the coronavirus much more seriously, while too many people in red states are in denial and refusing to wear masks and will likely refuse to be vaccinated. So, I don’t particularly want to relocate to a red state. But if I did, that is my decision and for my own reasons. Regardless of which state I will be living in, I am voting the same way.
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  606.  @WeisseEdelweiss  - 🖕
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  607.  @darryberrymemes5739  - I think the average third grader could write more clearly than you just did. Everything I have wanted to say about this subject has been said. If I move again, it won’t be due to my political beliefs, but those beliefs aren’t going to change just because I had a change of address. Can this thread just die already?
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  608.  @darryberrymemes5739  - Learn how to write, you dipshit!
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  609.  @darryberrymemes5739  - I guess that is just from the general tone of this entire thread. My apologies.
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  610.  @Objective-Observer  - Stuff it! As for my rare use of profanity, if I am being a jerk, it is only in direct response to something said to me. I am not even going to comment on the ridiculous amount of misinformation on your garbage post. Eighty million people voted for Biden, a popular vote majority, and he took the electoral vote. Case closed!
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  611.  @lastmistakeyoullmake  - And conservatives are the most idiotic.
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  612.  @raakoldschool1217  - And I couldn’t care less about your politics either.
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  613. Bill Schipper - Here, go suck on this: 🍼 New Hampshire and Vermont have both been states for about 230 years, and they aren’t going to unite from your petty whining.
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  614. Isn’t Tonopah in Nevada? I’ve been there; it’s on US 95 at about 6000 feet in altitude.
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  615. I’ve been to California, and I think it is a beautiful state. As for Michigan, there are pretty parts of that state; it’s not all Detroit.
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  616.  @indiegamerred553  - I have never seen Nebraska at ground level, but have seen the other four and like their scenery. The top five that I’ve been to (in my opinion) are AK, CA, WA, CO, and VT, although a lot of other states come close.
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  617. My favorite state for a vacation is Maine. (But not in winter.)
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  618. It is still too big a place for Briggs’ video.
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  619. Nonbelievers.
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  620. I would be interested in the ten countries with the highest percentage of women. I am pretty sure that two of those countries would be 🇷🇺 and🇺🇦.
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  621. Sounds like upstate New York got upgraded! The Adirondacks are just west of Lake Champlain, and just east of it is Vermont. They really aren’t all that different.
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  622. Nobody else spotted this. Yes, New York (the state) has 19.4 million people, but it’s not true that two-third of them live in New York City. That would be 13M people, and NYC’s population is closer to 8M. Its metropolitan population (within NYS) may be 13M, including Rockland, Westchester, Nassau, and western Suffolk counties.
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  623. It’s 7 of 10. Houston and Phoenix are in Republican states, and Washington is not in a state.
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  624. I think the wheels look good as they are.
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  625. There is no reference to god on the US flag, nor is there any need for one. 🇺🇸
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  626.  @joenotexotic4872  - Correct. As was Matthew Fullerton a year ago.
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  627. 23:00 - I’m glad I don’t live in your neighborhood! Enjoyed your story about Dennis. I am glad that life worked out for him. I am also glad that you are getting better!
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  628. No, Ohio has its share of rolling terrain, such as between Dayton and Cincinnati. It’s not entirely flat.
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  629. Given that Canadians voted on this survey and received votes, the U.S. should have received votes too. (And the U.S. probably did receive votes, but not enough to make the top 15.)
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  630. Two other states that seem to be relatively inexpensive and livable for the middle class would be Iowa and Nebraska.
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  631. Michael Anderson - And millions of people still do live there. Nobody is keeping them there.
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  632. Where does Warren Buffett live? He certainly would have the means to live where he wants to.
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  633. Michael Anderson - I am just curious, mainly because they don’t seem that different from Wisconsin, which made Briggs’ list. I wish Briggs gave a quick “honorable mention” to states that just missed the Top 10, and these two states sound like they would be among those.
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  634. The Continental Divide does straddle parts of the Idaho/Montana border. So I would call it a Rocky Mountain state.
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  635. Carson Vuk - 🖕
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  636. CanofArizona - I wouldn’t call a 1% drop in population over 10 years a “mass exodus.”
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  637. Usually I could find the poll, but not for this video. More editing issues? 😎
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  638. This morning, I was able to find the poll question (which is better, Chicago or New York?) Thank you for putting up the question.
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  639. They’re full, alright! 💩
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  640.  @gracegrace2107  - When scientific consensus start to say that humans are not the cause for global warming, I will reconsider my words. But as the amount of carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere has doubled since the start of the Industrial Revolution and Earth’s average global temperature has risen about 1.5°C or 2.7°F in that time, I think you are simply in denial. It’s not a cult.
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  641. Is Flin Flon all that secluded? I think Churchill would be a more isolated place.
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  642. I think the.USA is one of the best countries but it’s not the best country. We have the potential to become the best country on Earth if we resolved for that as a national goal rather than to get into stupid arguments about political affiliation.
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  643. Where haven’t I heard that comment?
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  644. …and I was wrong. Admittedly, not the most scientific of surveys. 😂
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  645. No, if you don’t like your country, you should try to make it better. That is part of living in a democracy.
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  646. Tashkent is about 3000 kilometers southeast of Moscow.
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  647. Bullcrap. You aren’t even full in Ohio.
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  648. Give it another decade or two. The percentage of non-religious in this country has been increasing steadily over the past 50 years.
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  649. Diane Albrecht - We don’t miss you. Please stay away!
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  650. Catholicism is a subset of Christianity.
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  651. He could list ten places with the best climate, with the caveat that only one place per state would be listed. Only problem is that it would be a subjective list.
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  652. No it is not. Neither is its opposite, which is theism.
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  653. Benjamin Willis - if I had an offer of Tampa Bay or the Twin Cities, I would take the Twin Cities. I have lived in colder climates my entire life, so Minnesota would be less of an adjustment than Florida. Plus, I can drive north from the city and have a chance at seeing the Northern Lights. You have your priorities, I have mine!
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  654. Nobody is forcing you to spend the money. If you need a place to concentrate on last minute work and are willing to spend the $10 per hour, it’s there.
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  655. Why the crap about California? The East Coast is politically very similar and a lot closer.
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  656.  @SA-hz1rs  - Parts of the Midwest are violent, but that has nothing to do with California.
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  657.  @brucefromaz7708  - From Wikipedia’s article on Denali: The Alaska Board of Geographic Names changed the state name of the mountain to Denali in 1975, which was how it was referred to locally. However, a request in 1975 from the Alaska state legislature to the United States Board on Geographic Names to do the same at the federal level was blocked by Ohio congressman Ralph Regula, whose district included McKinley's home town of Canton.
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  658. @ - It depends on how much native languages have evolved over time. I’m sure Denali existed 15,000 years ago. Whether the local natives were calling it “Denali” then, I don’t know and I’m not sure if there is a way to find out.
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  659. Congratulations, Natasha on your graduation. I wish the best for you and look forward to your next video.
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  660. Doesn’t sound like a very loving god to me.
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  661. And if I ever travel to Brazil I’m sure Santa Catarina will be my favorite city to visit. 😎
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  662. Surprised Connecticut didn’t make this list, although there will be some sales tax increases here starting on Oct 1st.
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  663. Yes, but are they the kind of place to raise your kids?
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  664. Tasty periods. 🩸 🩸 🩸 … 🤮
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  665. Easier said than done sometimes.
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  666. I’m surprised that Boston did not make this list. Boston has always seemed to be the quintessentially liberal city.
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  667. You lost me when you brought up tornadoes. 🌪️
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  668. KawaiiRudraChan OwO - To answer my own question, Alexander County (the southernmost of Illinois’ 102 counties) had a population drop of 26% from 2010 through 2018. It only had 8,238 people in 2010; that fell to 6,060 people in 2018.
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  669. Ashley Burton - Yes, I looked all that up, and posted my findings somewhere in this thread.
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  670. “Tropical paradise?” Let me put it this way: the “Freezer Bowl” (the 1982 AFC Championship Game) was played at Riverfront Stadium. That is still the second coldest game in NFL history.
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  671. Rudolph Manor - in February of 1976, there were several days where Cincinnati had temperatures well into the 70s and Leap Year Day was nearly 80°. I am a believer in global warming. Make no mistake about that! But you can’t take one event, such as the Freezer Bowl game, or a recent 75° day in February to confirm or deny that fact. My mention of the Freezer Bowl game was made to refute the original commenter’s claim of Cincinnati as a “tropical paradise.” Remember: in January of this year, it was -23° in Chicago. I don’t know what it was in Cincinnati, but in Dayton (the one in Ohio, not the one in Kentucky), it was -7°. It was probably below zero in Cincinnati. Therefore, Cincinnati is still not a tropical paradise, and I hope it never becomes one!
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  672. You lost credibility when you misspelled all.
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  673. Grant Rodriguez - You left out Rhode Island. Providence has a metro population of over one million.
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  674.  @Erminestreet  - Thank you for your vague comment. If you are going to tell me “I’m wrong”, at least offer an explanation. 👎 I really don’t think an atheist living in Saudi Arabia or in Iran would care to divulge that fact. Regardless, I’m sure there are far more atheists in the USA than in either of those two countries.
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  675.  @wjalfi4935  - No lo comprendo.
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  676. They migrated from Ohio.
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  677. (* yawn *)
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  678.  @mtngrl5859  - Tough.
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  679.  @mtngrl5859  - Bullsh*t. If I wanted your opinion, I would have asked you for it. Have a nice day.
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  680. Did you pay c$275 or us$275? Both are huge countries, and have places where you could have paid paid under $300 in some areas, while having to pay $1000 a month in others (Vancouver, NYC).
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  681.  @dvongrad  - I can withdraw Rhode Island, as there is a water border between RI and NY.
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  682. If it’s not named Denali, Logan, or Orizaba, it’s not a mountain - not on this continent, anyways. I have high standards. 😎
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  683. Maybe they are conservatives moving to find like-minded people.
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  684. Past presidential elections show Illinois casting electoral votes for such “Democrats” as Reagan, Ford, Nixon, Eisenhower, Hoover, Coolidge, and Harding. So it looks like it’s your comment that is not going too well!
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  685. dknowles60 - I actually looked up the list of Illinois governors, even though I normally couldn’t freaking care less as I live on the East Coast. But Illinois has had 10 Republican governors over the past 100 years, the last one whose term ended in 2018. And how many Democrats were there? The answer is the same as the name of Abbott and Costello’s shortstop! Now the case is closed!
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  686. When a player hits for the cycle, that only guarantees his team one run. I think as accomplishments go, hitting for the cycle is overrated. The best hitting accomplishment in one game, in my opinion, would be 10 (or more) RBIs. That has happened only 16 times in MLB history.
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  687. Looks like a few New Yorkers opted do drive on their vacations rather than to fly. Good for them. 👍
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  688. Frank Pitts - Trump must be quite the liberal then. Everything he says are lies and hypocrisy.
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  689. Blakelikesfood - You are entitled to your opinion, but I don’t share it. I think Trump is the worst president in US history, and certainly the most divisive.
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  690. Blakelikesfood - I think “Everything That’s Wrong With The Internet” would be a great new YouTube moniker, but it’s too long for my liking. BTW, the three most accomplished Presidents, IMO, are Washington, Lincoln, and (Franklin) Roosevelt. No way is Trump going to change that.
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  691. He has made videos in Chicago, and generally speaks fairly well of the Windy City.
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  692. It’s time New Yorkers punched back. 🥊
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  693. Just like Mexico paid for their wall? Get real!
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  694. I think your logic is a bit screwy. I see no reason why San Francisco cannot have 0 subfreezing days, two 90°+ days, and 260 clear days. That means there are 363 days that stayed between 32° and 90° all day, and there were 105 partly cloudy or cloudy days.
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  695. Only six? 🥶
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  696.  @AlexCab_49  - You can look at the night sky; the most incredible sky I’ve ever seen was there.
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  697. Hopefully they will vote their conscience, which probably will be the same regardless of where they are living. Also, California has 40 million people. Not all of them are liberals. This is the state that once elected Reagan as their governor.
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  698. Dayton’s biggest advantage over Cleveland seems to be that the Gem City doesn’t get much snow.
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  699. Obviously you aren’t French.
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  700. Based on these pics, Texas seems to be a place with either no water or lots of bugs. We already know this is a video about Texas. Did Briggs really think that by not redundantly saying the name of the state each time, we’d confuse their counties with South Dakota?
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  701.  @piglet7943  - both states are highly diverse. I give California the edge for diversity, and Alaska the edge for national beauty.
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  702. Good video, but you mispronounced Namibia and Kamchatka.
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  703. I don’t believe that.
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  704. A hurricane has “been happening” for hundreds of years? What, Hurricane Methuselah?
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  705. The entire country should be in lockdown and stay there until restrictions are gradually lifted. And, no, COVID-19 is not a cold or flu. If you really think that, you’re an idiot! The Spanish “Flu” was a pandemic that lasted about three years. I won’t be surprised if COVID-19 lasts at least three years, especially with the number of people who are in denial of the seriousness of this pandemic.
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  706.  @maximusaurelius610  - First of all, 🖕. I base my opinions on COVID-19 on medical personnel, and not on YouTube trolls. Have a nice day.
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  707. Really, the list should have been 56 entries, with DC being an entry and not an “honorable mention.” The people in DC are Americans too.
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  708. The biggest difference between God/Jesus and a black hole is that black holes exist.
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  709. Up yours, troll.
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  710. I’m glad that one major party understands “separation of church and state!”
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  711.  @texasaggie8449  - Which is infinitely more than Republicans know about the subject.
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  712. Okay. I’ll call some of my California friends and send them into your neighborhood. 😎 Actually, NYC s crime rate is not all that high. In a recent year, out of 211 US cities with over 100,000 people, NYC’s crime ranked 197th. It’s murder rate is about a third below the national average. I also don’t think New Yorkers are particularly rude, unless you are rude to them first.
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  713. I predict Utah would be #1 as it’s the youngest state in terms of average age.
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  714. The same party that controls relatively safe cities like New York, Seattle, and Boston. Also, which party controls Louisiana, the state the three of the most dangerous cities?
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  715. I think Washington is fine as the nation’s capital, but I think the District of Columbia should be made a state. If the capital had to be somewhere else, I think it would be Chicago due to its central location.
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  716. What have you been smoking?
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  717.  @gregorystinette8271  - Let us know how that works out for you. 😂
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  718.  @believestthouthis7  - And what is your point? As Congress can make no law establishing any religion, per the First Amendment, the U.S. can never be a Christian nation. I previously said that making it a Christian nation was un-American, not a word I typically use. Certainly it would be unconstitutional.
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  719.  @believestthouthis7  - Free Will : 🎵“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice.” This is not a discussion of free will or atheism. It’s a discussion of the United States and making it a Christian nation. And I think that would be a horrible idea. Have a nice day!
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  720.  @believestthouthis7  - or my idea of freedom differs from yours.
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  721.  @believestthouthis7  - What is your point? (And I’m glad I don’t live in that time.)
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  722.  @believestthouthis7  - the truth is that the Bible is a work of fiction, and not a very good one. You’d think that if a god worthy of that term would have inspired a better book, and one containing knowledge unavailable to people of that time. Are we done yet, or shall we chat some more?
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  723. New England states are mostly blue and have the three states (VT, NH, ME) with the lowest crime rates. Stop spreading misinformation.
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  724. My guess is that the 11th state was South Dakota.
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  725. Boston and Maine - No way is South Dakota only 25th; their winters are barely warmer than North Dakota’s. Colorado may be 11th due to the Rockies, but then South Dakota would have to be 12th. I think Ohio would rank about 15th to 20th.
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  726. Boston and Maine - Oh, okay.
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  727. So there are at least 10 places in Michigan worse than Hell. 😎
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  728. Alaska, Hawaii, New Jersey, Delaware, and any of the New England states.
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  729. I know this was previously mentioned in NFKRZ’s video, but they really should have named the place “Tsarbucks”. 😆 My opinion of Starbucks is also that they seemed very pricey for what they are offering. There are coffee shops that I like to go to, but Starbucks just isn’t one of them.
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  730. You can’t list 12 towns in a top 10 list. 😎
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  731. I can definitely deal with 25°C (which is 77°F) with low humidity in the middle of the afternoon. I hate it when it’s midnight, really humid, and 25°C.
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  732. Black page - I don’t believe that to be true. Can you back your statement up?
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  733. Except New Mexico.
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  734.  @annjames1837  - What would be the point? It would be like invading Detroit.
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  735. Candice Lewis - That was honestly the most idiotic tripe I have read today! I am registered with the party that best reflects my personal beliefs and my own views of the world. Those beliefs and views are not going to change in the event I change addresses! I will vote the same way I vote now regardless of the state I live in. End of discussion.
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  736. RF DXer - I never said I was from California. My comment still stands, however.
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  737. RF DXer - The initial post was directed to anyone who read it who had something to say. And I say, vote with your head, using your ideals and world view as a guide. You shouldn’t change your political leanings just because you changed address.
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  738. RF DXer - I actually could be of any political persuasion and have made the same comments. One reason for someone from California (or the Northeast) to move is to find a place with a lower cost of living. (This would especially be true of someone who is retiring from the workforce. It may make some sense to pay high mortgages if you are also making a high salary, but upon retirement, they might sell their expensive house and then move to where real estate is less. and live comfortably for a long time.)
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  739. Which state has the highest? My guess would be New Jersey. Good luck getting a house there for $195K!
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  740. One parsec is about 3.3 light years.
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  741. Briggs, it appears your video title has a typo: “Contries”.
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  742. Thank you for correcting the title. 🙂
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  743. Except for New Jersey and Rhode Island.
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  744. Hi, Natasha. This is my first comment on your videos; I live in the USA 🇺🇸. I am surprised that your latest video was removed. I wanted to post a like but wasn’t able to. Your experience with the Sputnik vaccine is somewhat like my experience with Pfizer, except I only received a reaction after my second dose. I had a headache, slight nausea, and a temperature of 37.2°C / 99.0°F. A very small price to pay for protection against a deadly virus. Looking forward to your next videos.
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  745. Only said about 199 times already! 🙄
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  746. The greater the angle between two lanes, the more time it takes for a flipper to move between them, and therefore the easier it is to shoot that flipper.
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  747. For a place with “no government” a certain locale in Connecticut has certainly collected a lot of taxes from me over the years! 😆 No I think the difference between a city and town in in their official letterhead.
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  748. Other than Hartford, Bridgeport, and New Haven, Connecticut is one of the US’ safest states. No Connecticut River has caught fire!
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  749. There have been enough of those comments already. It looks like Chicago, with 561 homicides, about 20 homicides per 100,000, came close to making this list and would have made top 15.
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  750. In 2022, Turkey had 50.5M visitors, based on Briggs’ video. I don’t know if there is a breakdown of how many visited the European pärt during part of their stay; that is the figure that should have been used. If that number was even 30% of the total number of visitors, then Turkey should have made this list anyway. And part of Istanbul is in Europe, so that may well be the case.
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  751. Yes.
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  752. It appears the poll question is “Best large city in Canada”. Click on the question for a drop-down menu. Good video, even though I disagreed with #10.
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  753. Wisconsin has more police per capita. Of course California has more cops.
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  754.  @jackinthebox995  - Mobile does get a lot of rain and would be on a list of 10 rainiest US cities. Hilo and Ketchikan get about twice as much rain as Mobile.
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  755. America is actually two continents.
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  756. Hamtramck is very much a city; 28,000 people live in those two square miles. The city Briggs mentioned was Emporia, Virginia. It is an “independent city” that is not part of any county. So the US Census Bureau regards it as a “county equivalent.” And of all counties or county equivalents in the US, Emporia, VA has the highest percentage of their population being Muslim at about 29%. (Emporia only has 5500 people.)
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  757. Nine of the ten places on his list have 100,000 people or more. Large enough that it should have a university there.
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  758. I’m sure Michigan makes top 20, but not quite top 10.
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  759. We will celebrate the Buffalo Bills winning the Super Bowl! 🏈
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  760. I am the only person who seems surprised that Hartford is not on this list. I’m sure it didn’t miss it by much. Anyways, good list. The only one I disagree with is Portland. I think Memphis or Baltimore would have been better (or worse) choices.
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  761. This liberal/conservative bickering is turning our entire country into a hellhole!
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  762. Great video Briggs. I am a little disgusted with the peanut gallery that has taken over the comments though.
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  763. I have visited 25 of these places, including all but one of the listed places in New York City. Favorite places visited include Las Vegas, Alaska, and the Great Smokies.
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  764. I thought it would be HI and CA.
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  765. Just a half a mile from the railroad track.
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  766. When I vacationed in California, I got a postcard that gave the four California seasons as landslides, wildfires, earthquakes, and riots.
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  767.  Big Dick Black  - The postcard was intended to be humorous rather than factual. I got it in 2001 and hung it up in my cubicle for several years. 🙂
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  768. If they are rude to you, it sounds like you deserve it!
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  769. Three South American countries, only one African country, one or two European countries and four or five Asian countries. None of them (surprisingly) in the Middle East.
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  770. I would have thought so. Also New York County (Manhattan).
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  771. So, Briggs, what was NYC’s crime rate and violent crime rate compared to the national average? Of course a city with eight million people is going to have crime. But my understanding is that the crime rate (per 100,000) is pretty low in New York.
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  772. Maybe they went to state universities back when it was affordable.
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  773. They are all in the United States! 🇺🇸
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  774. Except when playing hockey.
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  775. No one cares. Bye! 👋
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  776. Sahara is Arabic for “desert”.
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  777. I lived in Ohio for 11 years, in the Dayton area, and it was unusual to see more than about four inches of snow on the ground. There was one winter (1977-78) where we had two feet on the ground, but that was the exception, not the rule.
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  778. She can call it “football” as the sport she was referring to was clear by context. Stop being such a damned ❄️!
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  779. Jeremy Gonzalez - I couldn’t care less what she calls the sport as long as I know what she is talking about. 🙄
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  780. All terrible names IMO.
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  781. Sam Sceni - there is such a thing as a home run cycle, and it’s as zach gloss described it: a solo home run, a two-run homer, a three-run homer, and a grand slam, all in the same game. It has never been accomplished in MLB. It would be an awesome accomplishment, as that is a 10 RBI game right there!
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  782. The video showed the Pennsylvania flag.
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  783. I am pretty sure most of these states have crime that is below the US average. I’m sure current FBI data will bear this out. One state that would probably have above average crime would be Florida. But don’t let your hatred of others diminish your ability to misinform the rest of us!
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  784. Novosibirsk. Evidently meaning “New Siberia.” I thought it was the fourth largest Russian city, although I have also heard great Yekaterinburg is.
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  785. Give it a rest. 👎
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  786. Then what does that say about Nevadans?
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  787. I figure the two South Dakota counties are predominantly Native American and would likely vote Democrat. (Edit. Buffalo County has consistently voted Democrat, but Corson County voted Republican in the last two elections.)
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  788.  @ncgirl122  - I am originally from CT and I live there now. But I also lived in Ohio for 11 years, not far from Cincinnati. The whole time I lived there I felt like I was in the South and I’d feel even more that way in KY. Obviously your experience and perspective differs from mine. 🙂
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  789.  @ncgirl122  - Briggs’ question was if I were to move to a southern state, where would it be? I was not asked to cite my qualifications! 😆 I felt like I was in the South because of the accents I heard in SW Ohio, with a lot of people moving there from Kentucky.
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  790. I guess you can rule out Kentucky also.
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  791.  @Trtevoorryu  - Yes.
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  792. I have been to Michigan many times as my grandfather used to live in East Lansing. Michigan can be hot and humid, but I think Ohio and Connecticut (the two states I have primarily lived in) are worse.
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  793. I used to live near Dayton, and I didn’t dislike Cincinnati, and don’t recall anyone who did. I thought most of the animosity was directed at Michigan more than anything else, although in high school, a lot of us told “Briar” jokes about Kentuckians.
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  794. I would think most cities with 500K or more people would have crime that is higher than the national average.
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  795. El Paso did.
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  796.  @waltertodd4479  - Why don’t you go play in the Autobahn. Blindfolded!
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  797.  @waltertodd4479 - the people who upvoted my comment… 😎
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  798. I made three comments, but it looks like my first two were deleted.
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  799. Eight of the cities Briggs mentioned are on either the East or the West Coasts, where housing costs are just ridiculous. I’m sure Chicago is pricey too, but not compared to SF or NYC.
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  800. I think Venus may be a more viable object to terraform. For one thing, Venus has 90% of Earth’s gravity; Mars has just 38%. Secondly, if Venus can be rotated to induce a day of 24 to 48 hours, it may induce enough of a magnetosphere to protect its atmosphere, whereas long term protection of Mars relies on keeping an object permanently on Mar’s unstable L1 point.
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  801. I thought it was a reference to their politics. 😁
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  802. At least it’s not holiday music!
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  803. Because twelve states sucked even more.
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  804. North Pole also has about 2000 people, much smaller than the others.
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  805. Wellington is not that isolated.
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  806. A few decades ago, Cincinnati had about 500,000 people, so it has really declined. I’m guessing many of them just moved to the suburbs.
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  807. Is it really that offensive to you? Get over yourself! 🙄
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  808. One other state that might be on Briggs’ forthcoming list that I omitted above might be Utah. I still think Nevada tops this list though.
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  809. How many countries should be on this list? I agree with most of this list as it is.
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  810. It’s pronounced as “peer”, right?
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  811. A 15-second ad in order to watch a 46-second video? 👎
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  812. 3:35 - I’m not sure Beaufort was pronounced correctly. I would have pronounced it similar to Beaumont in Texas.
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  813.  @DENVEROUTDOORMAN  - Up yours.
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  814.  @Barbara-te7xz - I just did a Google search. The cost to renounce US citizenship is $2,350. Still too high, but not four grand! Where did you come up with this figure?
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  815. And that difference would be the Fictitious Word of God.
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  816. You should still get vaccinated.
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  817. “Or the Midwest?” Did you even watch the video?
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  818. The top two cities for most rainfall I would guess to be Hilo, Hawaii and Ketchikan, Alaska. Both cities get about 150” of precipitation a year. 🌧
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  819. I thought they redesigned the Space Needle. 🤣
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  820. I think it will be New Hampshire.
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  821. Tough.
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  822. South Park also said Canada has only one road. What do they know?
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  823. The #1 most liberal state? Without having seen the video, I think it’s Massachusetts. Because it usually is.
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  824. I’ll respond to my own comment. The four New England states that are among the most liberal? Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont for sure, with Maine very likely.
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  825. And the other state that splits their electoral votes is Nebraska. (This is the political equivalent of putting lipstick on a pig, in my opinion.) In my opinion, the popular vote should determine the Presidency, with a runoff vote if no candidate draws 50%.
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  826. I’ve never been there, but I kinda like the music. 😎
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  827. To qualify, a city must have 100,000 people.
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  828. At least the number of COVID-19 cases in Connecticut is on the decline, unlike some states that re-opened too soon and are now seeing a record number of cases.
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  829. Pauly P - 🖕
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  830. It’s pronounced \se-session\.
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  831. I suspect the only shit here is from the people telling this story. If human fecal matter was that prevalent there, why didn’t Briggs mention it in his video?
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  832. The fact that one Nutmegger isn’t aware of the Los Angeles Kings being an NHL franchise (and two-time Stanley Cup champion) is hardly relevant to Connecticut’s utility costs. Neither is the inability to differentiate Danbury, CT (which really is a nice place) with Darby, PA. It’s an interesting tale to some of us, but not relevant to the topic of this video.
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  833. Or the next Lake Erie.
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  834. Evolution is a scientific theory. Atheism is the absence of a belief in a deity. Neither of them are religions.
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  835. At about 10:20, your caption revealed an error. A difference of temperature of 15°C is a difference of only 27°F.
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  836. While it’s true that an ambient temperature of 15°C is 59°F, if that temperature fell by 15°C, you would be left with an ambient temperature of 0°C, or 32°F. Hence the temperature fell by 27°F.
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  837.  @greatlakemommy545  - Never been on the Dempster Highway, but would like to. Definitely a summer destination.
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  838. I predict that Utah will be the most conservative state.
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  839. And i guessed wrong, although I’m sure Utah is a very conservative state. Wasn’t fooled with Rhode Island, although I’m sure it’s the most conservative New England state, but that’s not saying much. The most conservative US state bordering the most liberal state? No.
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  840. A great improvement from Vermont’s invention. 😎
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  841. Kind of like Texas during an Ice Age. 😎
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  842. Eetoh [QUIT] - Scandinavia includes Sweden, Norway, Denmark, and Iceland. Finland is a Nordic country but not a Scandinavian country, probably due to the language spoken by most of their people.
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  843.  @JoeMaxFpv  - The math is in the US Census Bureau statistics. Your “math” pretty much sounds like stuff you made up.
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  844. Keels turns out to be a few kms west of Bonavista in NL (based on Google Maps.) So you probably wouldn’t see the lighthouse from Keels.
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  845. I think you meant Southeast Indiana. Southwest Indiana would include Evansville and is nowhere near the Queen City.
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  846. More bald eagles...
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  847. I used to live in Ohio and now live in Connecticut. I think the two states are about equal in that regard. I’ve been to New York, and from my experience, they are not that bad, although I can name a couple of exceptions involving drunk sports fans. 🙄
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  848. Planet Nine - I’m sure that your own shit smells just as bad!
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  849.  @donnaevans7  - Do you even know what facts are? Based on your comment, evidently not!
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  850.  @donnaevans7  - I will say the same thing that I said to “Nick D” five months ago. Mind your business regarding your politics (or religion) and I will do likewise. But don’t tell me how to vote! End of discussion.
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  851.  @donnaevans7  - Go back where you came from. Once I was born, that was no longer an option. I guess when I croak I will “go back where I came from” but I am not in any hurry to get there!
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  852. “Live Like Royalty’ might have been better as a title.
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  853. And the disease that will destroy this country is racism. You are clearly a big part of the problem.
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  854. Malé is much smaller than the other cities on this list, but it is the capital of the Maldives whose highest point is about three meters (eight feet) above sea level. That whole country may not exist in a few decades.
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  855. (Oregon - California) < |Oregon - California|
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  856.  @Sammykyt  - So were Louisiana and Mississippi.
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  857.  @kerrynight3271  - I wasn’t really sure when blue became associated with Democrats and red with Republicans, although it may have been around 2000. The era where the South was mostly (conservative) Democrat ended a few decades prior.
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  858. Shawna Ballou - WGAF?
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  859. 330 million.
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  860. Kurt Troyer - Let me know in two weeks if that is still the case.
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  861. Kurt Troyer - There are 2.6 million confirmed COVID cases in the US, and the numbers are quickly increasing in Texas, Florida, and California. We’ll see what the numbers are on July 12th. (As for the unconfined cases, I have no doubt the actual number is well over 1%, maybe more like 5% or so.)
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  862. Kurt Troyer - And the number of active coronavirus cases continues to increase while states reopen, which is about the stupidest thing those states could have done. Come back in two weeks. Until then, you’re wasting my time.
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  863. Sadly, the CFL is taking the 2020 season off; hopefully they resume play in 2021.
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  864. Well, Minnesota is one of two states…
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  865. How would the Internet know the difference?
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  866. Sounds like a possible new YouTube moniker. 😁
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  867. Nah. I’d rather see the USA resemble Sweden. You can have Venezuela.
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  868. I think the world will exist, even though humans can do a much better job taking care of it. I give Earth about five billion years and humans about a thousandth of that amount.
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  869. One inch is exactly 2.54 cm. So 1,000” is 2,540 cm or 25.4 m.
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  870. Regina.
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  871. Christina Otto - I think New Mexico’s was considered the best flag.
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  872. That could be Dayton on some winters. And I think the average is only around 20 inches annually. I suspect Terre Haute doesn’t get that much snow either, although I’ve never been there. And Pharr, TX probably gets 12 inches of snow per century.
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  873.  @alojzynowak8392  - The West Coast is considered to be CA, OR, WA, AK, and HI. (I assume that is what you are unsure about anyway, your comment was pretty vague.)
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  874.  @uzin0s256 - AK.
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  875.  @uzin0s256  - You just got an “F” in geography.
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  876. I think you are only the 1000th person to make that comment.
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  877. I usually do as well, just to save money. But my road trips have never been during a blizzard; if they were I would have stayed at a motel, if possible.
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  878. I had considered OR, IL, and MI. It just seemed that there were large, more conservative areas in each of those three states. I had to limit the list to 10. 🙂
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  879. Japan; there are lots of Toyota Priuses there.
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  880.  @johnm.4947  - Unless the beach is on Titicaca.
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  881. I used to live there, at least in one of the suburbs, which wasn’t that bad. What I didn’t like was the crime, the summer humidity, springtime tornadoes, the November and December gloom, and allergens such as ragweed. When I lived there, there were several winter days where the high temperature was below zero, and I’m not talking about the wind chill! Still, I did go to high school and college there and made a few friends, and I sometimes miss Ohio.
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  882. 🎵”If I can make it there, I’ll make it anywhere!”
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  883. Briggs should do a Part 2! 😎
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  884. At around 2:28, you said that New Hampshire averages 48.3°F; that is not 6.6°C but more like 9.1°C. If my math is right, 6.6°C is closer to 43.9°F.
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  885.  William Mulvaney  - Well, I don’t belong to a church, so I wouldn’t fit in. Nor would I care. 🙂
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  886.  William Mulvaney  - Oklahoma sounds like such a fun place! 🙄
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  887. FL, HI, LA, TX, GA, MS, AL, SC, AR, and AZ. (Warmest to coolest).
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  888. I’d like to visit Georgia 🇬🇪 someday, and it looks like a potential retirement destination. I doubt very many people would speak English; more likely they would know Russian.
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  889. Connecticut is actually a pretty nice state, except for some of the cities like Hartford, New Haven, and Bridgeport. It would be a better state if some of the whiners would pack up and move somewhere far, far away. Tatooine ought to be far enough! 😆
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  890. Mark C - I live and work in Connecticut and I happen to like it. If you don’t like it, feel free to move!
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  891. echo sigma - And probably at least two of your state inside Alaska. 😎
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  892. I don’t believe we are being visited by extraterrestrial aliens. I don’t know where the nearest world is (beyond Earth) with life capable of exploring space, but I figure 100 light years or more. I don’t think it would be feasible for them to visit us at that distance, although I guess they could technically send an unoccupied probe.
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  893. If that were true, god sounds like he is the ultimate prick. Not someone to be trusted to fix the problems on our planet.
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  894. Very well stated. It makes sense that in an authoritarian government that Russia’s people are not the ones calling the shots and that a poll conducted by that same authoritarian government would produce questionable results.
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  895. Napoleon Bonaparte? 😁 🇫🇷
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  896. S.C. and AK are run by Republicans. Try again.
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  897. And the mass stupidity continues in the form of ignorant denial.
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  898. @ - Cool. I think that was mentioned in the comments above. More than once.
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  899. It’s an improvement!
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  900. That land area, along with our current Southern states, would have brutal summers, even hotter than they already are.
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  901. Clive Jenkins - I think Briggs’ video from yesterday was an April Fools spoof.
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  902. ralph crosby - When I lived in Ohio, we used to make fun of Kentucky. It was definitely a thing when I went to high school there. Maybe things have changed since then.
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  903.  @garycallihan4206  - It was surprising how many houses in Ohio did not have basements. In any event, you want to be in the lowest level of your home, preferably a basement.
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  904. If you catch COVID and then croak, I will nominate you for a Darwin Award.
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  905. Jason Random - I suspect that will be in the “Top 10 Reasons Not to Move to Connecticut” video.
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  906. Good bye then. Don’t slam the door on your way out. Have a nice life.
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  907. That is not possible. The highest Jewish percentage of any county in the US is about 30%; that would be Rockland County in New York. Put another way, if there is a county where 75% of their residents are Jewish, which county is it?
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  908. About 76K Jewish people out of 800K (as of 2002) does not seem like a particularly large percentage. Higher than the US average but certainly not 75%.
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  909.  @adamfranco1987  - And I think you’re a troll. 👎
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  910.  @tincanlife  - I’ve noticed that all the cities in Briggs’ video have a total population of 500,000 or more. I don’t think Corpus Christi would have been large enough for this list.
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  911. Alabama, West Virginia, Kentucky? Are these the most hated states or the most pitied?
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  912. It’s Liechtenstein. 🙂
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  913. And by then people from the UK will comment on the equivalent $18.00 per US gallon petrol prices.
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  914. The Sapporo Winter games were 1972. The 1964 Summer games were in Tokyo.
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  915. Why?
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  916. 2005 on steroids.
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  917. Moncton is NE of St. John, which is also in New Brunswick. It is way west of St. John’s, the capital and largest city in Newfoundland and Labrador.
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  918. I would make sure to put furniture under the chandeliers so that I don’t bang my head on them. Otherwise, it looks like a cool place and I wouldn’t mind it, especially at $350 per month!
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  919. All but two. South Carolina and Alaska. Learn how to count!
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  920. Diane Morgan - in other words, McCain had the sense and decency to vote again your Orange Führer once in a while. I would hardly have labeled him a Democrat!
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  921. I Dumped In A French Horn - The op did not state any disclaimers. Therefore Alaska counts.
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  922. Although all of them are officially “towns”, they all have over 50,000 people and wouldn’t make this list.
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  923.  @andyjay729 - They are all cities, but are each among Connecticut’s 169 towns.
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  924. A few years? If you don’t like it, just go! We won’t miss you.
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  925. You mentioned Slaughter Beach, Delaware in a prior video. Now that’s a creepy name!
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  926. Probably the same as top 10 in overall population: CA, TX, FL, NY, PA, IL, and then four states out of OH, MI, GA, NC, or NJ.
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  927. Technically they are all towns, just not small towns.
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  928. His video on Iowa rural places wasn’t exactly a glowing review either.
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  929. In my opinion, none of these cities are dead. They are very ill and very sad places to be, but they are not dead. Detroit has 600,000 people, and East St. Louis has about 20,000 people. In my opinion, a dead city and a ghost town are the same thing, and these places are far from being ghost towns. A truly dead city would be Pripyat, in Ukraine. It used to have 49,000 people and today has zero. It died/was evacuated during the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. I don’t know what it would take to revive the cities on Briggs’ video, to make them healthy metropolises again.
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  930. On a more recent post, Briggs mentioned Parque Nacional Yasuní. I will read up on this, but it doesn’t sound like it’s near Guayaquil if it’s on the Colombia border. I looked up the city’s climate on Wikipedia. The temperature never drops below 60°F or 15°C, so a heater is optional. Around June through August, the city gets almost no rain, while in January and February they get about a foot of rain or 300 mm a month. A little bit different than what was described in this video. I’ll stop typing now. 😁
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  931. Parque Nacional Yasuní is on the Peruvian border, but is in the eastern part of the country. It is about as far as you get get from Guayaquil in mainland Ecuador.
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  932. I saw Niki Proshin’s video with you and Alina and about a month ago saw a video on Drew Binsky’s channel which mentioned you leaving for Georgia. So your video was anticlimactic. 😁 It’s too bad you didn’t get to do more in Azerbaijan but you will have time to go back to explore. Wishing you the best in Georgia and that you ultimately get the opportunity to visit other countries such as in North America or Western Europe. I also hope that Russia ends their pointless war and becomes more democratic, so that you would be able to go back there on your own terms. Пака.
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  933. I would regard someone as “very religious” if they say they are.
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  934. renee angele - I’ve been to Toronto in midsummer, and it is around 30°C / 86°F and humid enough to be sticky. May or September are better times to go unless you don’t mind the humidity.
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  935. If you don’t mind thirteen feet of rain every year!
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  936. I thought Alaska would be the most dangerous state (accidents far from medical facilities, poor roads due to snow and ice.)
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  937. Bullsh*t.
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  938. I also strongly oppose the death penalty. Currently the states w/o the death penalty include every Northeastern state except PA, and also DE, MD, WV, MI, WI, IA, MN, ND, CO, NM, WA, AK, HI, and while not states, also DC and PR.
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  939. sal collins - You realize that countries (and US states) that have no death penalty have fewer “horrific crimes” than do jurisdictions that retain the death penalty. My biggest reason for opposing it is that it is irreversible. Executing someone who turns out to have been innocent is the ultimate tragedy.
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  940. sal collins - Your comment demonstrates your inability to use reason. I have already stated that jurisdictions where there is no death penalty tend to have lower homicide rates than those that do. If the death penalty worked as a deterrent, the converse would have been true.
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  941. sal collins - Wouldn’t it have been better had they not committed that murder in the first place? You only get one shot at life (that we can be assured of), and spending that one life behind bars for one stupid mistake is a big waste. And even then, even with their proven guilt, they still should not be executed. That would be a cop out, a “get out of jail free” card they don’t deserve. What they deserve is to spend the rest of their years reflecting on how they wasted their shot at a real life in a moment of pure stupidity.
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  942. Denver is third highest, as Cheyenne is also over 6000 feet.
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  943.  @aigenerated6786  - By your definition, the “highest” states would no doubt be in Mexico. But I was referring to “high” in a geographical context.
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  944. World According To Briggs - Having just looked at a map, I see that Rochester is northeast of Buffalo, but definitely more east than north. Rochester gets a little more snow than Buffalo, but Syracuse gets more still.
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  945. So what?
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  946.  @jennpika6301  - You need to go back to school. Unless you are happy with your sixth grade education.
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  947. Almost all of them; Rhode Island didn’t make the cut.
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  948. 51:45 - I am not sure that “daily driver” and “140 grand” belong in the same sentence. 😆
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  949. Not a very meaningful metric. Laredo is a city, so it also has more people per square mile than the national average. Crime per 100,000 population is the generally accepted metric.
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  950. Are there any places in the Northwest that are all that affordable? Briggs listed several towns with average home prices near $200K. Whenever a place in Washington or Oregon or Idaho is mentioned, house prices seem to be at least twice that. Come to think about it, the states mentioned in Briggs’ video included AR, OK, IA, NE, WI, MI, OH, KY, MO, and PA. All of these are more affordable than the Northwest (or the rest of the Northeast for that matter.)
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  951. Global warming. 😁
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  952. Kjbkjb kjbkjb - no, independent is another way of saying “none of your f**king business.”
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  953. Considering that “do” is a synonym of “f**k”, you are probably right. And that is why New Yorkers generally vote Democrat.
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  954. Unless you live in the part of Alaska near Anchorage or Fairbanks, Denali is out of the way. I would love to visit, but it would definitely be a once in a lifetime trip for me. Of course, I live on the East Coast, but even if I lived in Seattle, Denali would be a long trip!
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  955. No, it’s NJ.
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  956. I don’t think that’s literally true. In fact, I think MA and NY have about the same number. The chain is definitely concentrated in the Northeast, that’s for sure.
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  957. There is also a Wilmington in Ohio.
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  958. Rebecca Anderson - Also Colorado, Alaska, and Hawaii.
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  959. I like the thumbnail. It’s a video of cities with a higher population on nonbelievers to whom that thumbnail would resonate. And the fact that the Religious Right are offended by it makes me like it even more.
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  960. So is Kentucky.
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  961. You sure get a lot of traffic at 4:00am! My condolences regarding your friend. 😢
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  962.  @navsparks3192  - No, California and Florida definitely make the news for reasons of ridicule far more often than Oregon does, so right there Oregon can’t be higher than #3. But I’m not sure Oregon even makes top 10.
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  963. I got the Big D the last time I ate at Denny’s.
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  964. Proof that everything is bigger in Texas. Especially the BS.
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  965. A one-way trip to Sachs Harbour on a cargo ship. 😎
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  966. Talk about the pot calling the kettle black…
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  967. I have former acquaintances/friends who have told me over the years that they’d leave if their (Republican) candidate did not win.
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  968. Sherry Wilemon - In 2017, New York had 2.8 homicides per 100,000 people, well below the national average. Kansas had 5.5 homicides per 100,000 people, slightly above the national average. This is from Wikipedia but based on FBI crime statistics. So, please check your facts before posting. 😐
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  969. I wish Briggs stated his criteria for this list. But all of these cities have 250,000 or more people, and no city in Montana or Wyoming is that populous.
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  970.  @Nathan_Jay  - About 600 miles of battery range added per year, max. (Based on one of Kirk Krefeld’s recent videos.) Less than two miles added range per day. If you live in a cloudy climate, or rarely park outside, you won’t get near those numbers. Probably not worth the cost for this option.
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  971. Connecticut is not a high crime state. Don’t listen to local news stories. There are 3.5 million people in Connecticut so there are always crimes to be reported on by the media. Check the FBI stats for more meaningful data. From what I’ve seen, Connecticut’s property crime rates are below the U.S. average.
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  972.  @freedomrings.0007  - every state has their good and less than good places. In Connecticut, those less than good places would be Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, etc. But the state as a whole has a lower crime rate (and lower property crime rate) than the U.S. average. It isn’t the safest state; that would be New Hampshire and maybe Vermont or Maine. But it’s one of the safer states even if it has its rough edges.
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  973. I am surprised about New Hampshire and Delaware, but otherwise my prediction (in the comments on Briggs’ last video) was pretty good. I guess the fact that NH and DE are small states would be a factor increasing the number of out-of-state residents.
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  974. Daniel L. Fletcher - I don’t think that it makes any difference. Some of the least religious states made the “Happy List” too, namely Washington and New Hampshire.
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  975. Ron W - Most of the other states have been ruined by Republicans and evangelicals. Pick your poison. ☠️
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  976. Where I live (CT), the left lane is sometimes the exit lane too.
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  977. My comment was not sarcasm. We have quite a few left lane exits in this state. (And I know that is poor highway design, but that’s still how it is.) Other than that, I agree that left lane should be the passing lane.
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  978. This list did not take into consideration the size of the states. Using the same criteria, I am sure the states with the fewest natural disasters would be Rhode Island and Delaware.
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  979. Wouldn’t they be Devils fans? 🏒
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  980. It’s one of 50 reasons why America hasn’t become great again!
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  981. Your comment seems to be in poor taste, given the Sandy Hook shooting that happened there.
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  982. No.
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  983. gaby alseen - a good argument for lowering the legal limit to .05%. 😎
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  984.  @rickydevorak8364 - the tallest mountain from base to peak is Mauna Kea in Hawaii, although the base is in the Pacific Ocean.
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  985. The evidence shows otherwise.
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  986. What evidence? The CO2 level increasing from 260ppm to 420 ppm since the start of the Industrial Revolution. The average temperature of Earth rising with the increase of CO2. Glaciers in retreat worldwide. Arctic sea ice diminishing. No, I have not been fooled. You are in denial.
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  987. Best town name is Moose Jaw.
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  988. I disagree; that area looked pretty nice to me, although I’m sure they get more than their share of gloomy days around late fall and winter.
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  989. Oscar Mendez - is this the story of a man named Jed? 😁
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  990. As long as your candidate wins the state, that candidate wins the electoral votes. That is how it works in our flawed democracy. I suspect that, as rural areas, they probably tend to vote Republican. If it’s that important, find out what counties these places are in and check the Wikipedia article on those counties for a better idea.
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  991. 8:16 - Two to three inches? 😂 I think two to three seconds is more like it.
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  992. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. I drive a 2013 Prius and I like the looks of my car. I think the Ioniq looks sharp as well.
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  993. I think it was Québec City, but I’m not positive.
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  994. By that time, Maryland, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska will be partially underwater.
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  995. Nah, there are enough dental floss tycoons as is! 😎
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  996. The people fleeing “communism” probably couldn’t explain what communism even is. 🙄
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  997. lol. Like Louisiana, Arkansas, South Carolina, and Alaska?
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  998. “People of Jawoosalem! … Wome is your fwiend!
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  999. Colombia. No “u” in the spelling.
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  1000. Olivia Emerson - if you think Oregon is overpopulated, you should visit New Jersey.
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  1001. 11:57 - The U.S. has unicorns? 🦄 😂
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  1002. I have always liked Seattle and have wanted to move there. Unfortunately, I can’t really afford it, given average home prices of $700K as of a couple of years ago. That really is the only reason I would not move there.
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  1003. 0:24 - is this one of those “gotchas” from Briggs where he later tells us to stop typing? (Vermont does not border Maine.) 16:48 - Evidently not.
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  1004. I was curious if Thistle, UT would make this list, as it was destroyed by landslide in the early 1980s. I read about it in National Geographic shortly after. Anyway, good video. A few comments about Centralia, PA in this section. I am guessing it isn’t on this list as its population still has not reached zero, although it is in the single digits.
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  1005. New York can be very oppressive in the summer and the humidity would probably be worse than Los Angeles. The crime rate in New York is probably less than in LA, though.
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  1006. I would prefer a place that was a little bit cooler. My #1 would be San Francisco if judging by climate alone.
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  1007. It does seem like the entire KKK came out to comment on this video.
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  1008. “Woke” is a word whose meaning was stolen by the political right to be a pejorative of anything liberal/progressive. The original meaning was from AAVE for someone aware of prejudice and discrimination.
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  1009. Briggs, your comment that “Connecticut sucks” was uncalled for; it was a rant for another video, one you’ve already done. I’ve lived in Connecticut four-fifths of my life. It’s not perfect but I happen to like it.
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  1010. I wish Toyota had come up with a fully electric Prius, to be quite honest.
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  1011. Why couldn’t the no-A/C test have been done at night?
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  1012. Florence, OR, if I’m not mistaken, was there they tried to remove a beached whale by using dynamite. 🧨 https://youtu.be/V6CLumsir34?si=RkpuorbOKlVWlp6s
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  1013. I did not find him any more annoying than the people who “bless me” when I sneeze.
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  1014. There were tobacco fields in Connecticut when I grew up. I am very glad that has changed!
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  1015. They tend to either have Eagles or Steelers fans?
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  1016. Well, they would tend to have Eagles or Steelers fans. Too bad it’s not the answer you’re looking for. If you are telling me they vote for a certain party or something, then let me introduce you to Abbott and Costello’s shortstop!
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  1017. And you have a fake mind!
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  1018. Since you are from Chelyabinsk and have been to Dubai, you have been to Asia many times. Maybe the first time in East Asia.
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  1019. We all know that. I initially thought Briggs did that on purpose, but evidently not. (It would have been pretty funny to have him zoom in on the Metroplex rather than South Texas.)
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  1020. The base Hyundai is $41,500 and unlike Tesla, they don’t charge a grand of more extra for a color that’s not white! The Hyundai will have better build quality and a better quality of paint. And the federal credit for Teslas is only $3750 as their batteries are made in China.
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  1021.  @ChicagoBob123  - It’s 240 miles, not 220. Not that much different than the Tesla’s 272. (In real world driving, probably 210 for the Ioniq 6 and 230 for the Model 3. At best.) At any rate, the Ioniq 6 that interests me is the second least expensive trim, the 77.4 kWh SE RWD. The one that gets 361 miles of EPA range and costs $46,615 (including destination.) Just four grand more than the barebones minimum, but 121 more miles of range.
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  1022.  @ChicagoBob123  - No, the Ioniq 6 starts at $41,500 plus the destination, so $42,615 or thereabouts, but that is for a 53kWh battery. And I mention the Ioniq 6 because that is what this video is about.
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  1023. Happy new year to you. Still another five hours of 2021 from the eastern US.
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  1024. Briggs, I think your comments about Connecticut are on the money. Some of our cities, especially Hartford and Bridgeport, are bad, but not as bad as Detroit or St. Louis. The rest of Connecticut is pretty nice, although it is expensive. The road infrastructure needs improvement. But I like it here, and would think twice before moving anywhere else.
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  1025. I actually like Michigan, but don’t care so much for Detroit. I liked East Lansing and MSU and might still like it today, but if I were to move to Michigan I’d check out Grand Rapids.
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  1026. Good video. All of these states are west of the Mississippi, and the only one of these that surprised me was Hawaii, Curious which ten states have the most women per 100 men.
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  1027. “So very hard to go…” 🎵
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  1028. The only thing that is shit are your research and math skills.
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  1029.  @thisnthat7760  - “Close enough for government work.” My point was that there would be more Christians in China and in Africa than in Spain or her neighboring countries (Portugal, France, Andorra, Gibraltar and possibly Morocco) as China and Africa have far more people. I did not look up the population numbers prior to my post as I had seen them before. If my numbers were off, they weren’t off by much. And, BTW, Fany Sweeny’s original post mentioned Africa, not India.
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  1030.  @J_a_s_o_n  - And that is incorrect. About 45% of Africans are Christian and about 40% are Muslim, based on Wikipedia, who cited Encyclopedia Brittanica.
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  1031. Remember that 68% of NYC registered voters are Democrats. Naturally they would vote for the party they registered for, dumbass!
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  1032. Nunavut is a territory, not a province.
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  1033. I gotta hand it to him. I didn’t catch that one, but I should have.
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  1034. Ohio definitely gets natural disasters, including their share of tornadoes. I don’t think they’ve had an EF5 tornado since 1974 when Xenia was pretty much demolished, but it can definitely happen. My uncle lost part of his house to a tornado in 1999.
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  1035. Hi, Briggs. Two years ago you mentioned Ensenada as one of the “ten places to move in Mexico,” although you did say you wouldn’t move there without saying why. But you did speak relatively well about Ensenada in that video but not in this one. ?
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  1036. There don’t seem to be that many. I live only 50 miles from RI.
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  1037. I enjoy your videos, Natasha. Keep it going, but take care of yourself too. Пака!
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  1038. I have found a list of states with average annual temperatures that corroborate with Brigg’s video. (He doesn’t have to have been to Maine to have made this list.) Maine is a cold state, but North Dakota is slightly colder. You can Google “list of states by average temperature” to find this list.
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  1039. If every person in the world lived in Texas, it would have the population density of New York City. Eight billion people divided by 260,000 sq. mi. “Don’t come to Texas; we’re full!”
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  1040. I think you have that one backwards.
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  1041. You mean Oldark. Must be in Old Jersey.
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  1042. And overt racism is a #1 disaster in the other states and cities.
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  1043. I think Connecticut is a nice state, although there is a bit of a divide between rich and poor and the taxes are ridiculous. I’d avoid some of the cities, like Hartford, New Haven, or Bridgeport. Otherwise it’s a nice state, in my opinion. As it is my home state it’s a biased opinion but I won’t be moving away anytime soon.
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  1044. I know Ohio is, and no doubt Indiana as well. Wisconsin may be the only respite.
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  1045. He was raised in Southern California.
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  1046. It’s odd that he mispronounced Yarmouth and correctly pronounced Dartmouth.
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  1047. You mispronounced “Greenwich”. It’s \gren-itch\.
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  1048. Maybe like Worcester. In 1953.
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  1049. 🎵“Do You Know the Way to St. Joseph of Guadalupe” 😂
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  1050. In Russian it just means “tasty and that’s it.”
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  1051. Pernection - Tornadoes are a thing in Massachusetts. In 1953, a tornado hit Worcester and killed 94 people. A few years ago, a tornado hit Springfield and did lots of damage.
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  1052. Top 10 on this list: HI, CA, NY, NJ, WA, OR, MA, CO, MD, CT. That, anyway, is my guess.
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  1053. Nine out of 10. Not bad on my part, although I’m surprised CT was only 21st. The other top 10 state turned out to be UT.
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  1054. I live in Connecticut. I still would not consider it one of the “most hated states.” There are people who don’t like the expenses or the taxes or the weather, but I’m not sure I’d call it “hatred.” But if that’s how they feel, they’re welcome to leave. From the comments I’ve seen in Briggs’ video, I’d say the most hated states are CA, IL, NY, NJ, MI, FL, and maybe TX or MA. I’d have put CT in the middle of the pack, appropriate given the population of this state.
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  1055. I’d like to see this as well.
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  1056. @codesquad9895 _ aw, did I hurt your feelings? 🖕🏻 My comment is about the chances of Trump winning New York and especially NYC.
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  1057. Probably better than the view from Uranus.
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  1058. The only lie I am seeing is from your own comment.
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  1059.  Keith Busch  - Hartford has a high Hispanic population but it’s not the 70% or so to make this list.
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  1060. Good. I’ll be able to afford living there and brush up on my Spanish. ¡Hasta luego!
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  1061. It was 1938. A little before my time although my grandparents told me about the devastation and flooding. But as for Fiona, I feel bad for the people in Canada, especially for those in Port aux Basques who lost their houses. 😟
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  1062. I think it may be worth increasing Venus’ rotational speed to produce a day of 24 to 48h to generate a magnetic field.
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  1063. There is; it’s in Minnesota.
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  1064.  Pike Lane  - What the hell have you been smoking? Nobody mentioned Minnesota before you did.
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  1065.  Pike Lane  - So are 11 other states, and yet nobody mentioned Minnesota until you did.
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  1066.  Pike Lane  - Then it’s safe to say that your idea of “funny” is different from mine. I had heard SD, NE, IA and possibly WI and IN mentioned as retirement states.
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  1067. And this is what Texans think of as “friendly”? Sounds like a rather phony friendliness if you ask me.
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  1068.  @DC-xt4wb  - In other words, you are “friendly” to those who resemble you; the hell with everyone else.
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  1069.  @DC-xt4wb  - So you don’t have feelings. Got it! Three things to bear in mind. (1) not every liberal or Democrat is from California, (2) Not every Californian is liberal or Democrat, and (3) people don’t normally change political affiliation or beliefs just because they changed their address. Have a nice day.
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  1070. Not intentionally, but with black ice it’s definitely a possibility.
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  1071. Yes, it’s part of Enfield, on the Mass. border. Massachusetts has Belchertown; now that name is funny!
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  1072.  @TheGreatCornholio.  - It’s “paid” actors! LOL. I see you have an altered sense of reality and are probably beyond hope.
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  1073.  @b.cdrisk2035 - Yes it is.
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  1074. I am guessing EV range of 35 to 38 miles. The fourth generation Prime had an EPA range of 25 miles, and the new generation is supposed to have increased the range by “up to” 50%.
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  1075. One of the cities listed is not one of the 50 largest in the country (St. Louis). Of the cities not on this list that are in the top 50, I would guess Baltimore, due to its violent crime. (Personally, I would not move to either place.)
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  1076. The Sun’s expansion will be a factor in a billion years and is something humans have little control over. Climate change is a factor now and and is something humans have complete control.
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  1077. DJT is unquestionably a #2! 💩
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  1078. 13:55 - I am guessing you are in Belgium. It’s not that far from Amsterdam. My #2 guess would be Germany.
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  1079. Briggs, does a drive-through count as visiting a state, or does that person need to have stopped somewhere within that state? I-95 crosses Delaware, with lots of traffic from Philadelphia to Baltimore or Washington, plus the New Jersey Turnpike (I-295) ends at the Delaware River. Millions of people pass through that state every year, no doubt.
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  1080. China’s life expectancy is higher than the U.S.
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  1081. You sound like a real fun person to be around! 👎
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  1082.  @BeastModeFitness11  - It’s only a baby after it’s been born. Prior to that, it’s a fetus. Whether or not a guy can get pregnant doesn’t really change things other then being a possible medical miracle. The person who is pregnant is burdened with that for nine months with all of its medical complications that come with it and that person should have the choice to terminate their pregnancy if that is their wish. When I was born, there were three billion people living on this planet. Now there are about eight billion, and with the planetary environment going to hell as a result, I’m not losing any sleep over people choosing to abort.
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  1083. Some “worst weather” cities I would include are Syracuse, NY; Marquette, MI; and Ketchikan, AK.
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  1084. Yes it is. Go look at a map.
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  1085. Nome.
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  1086. During tornado season. 🌪
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  1087. No, that would be on Route 666. 😈
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  1088. Gee thanks for the tip. I was going to move there to stock up on A’s tickets. /s
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  1089. No, Connecticut lays claim to that one.
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  1090. Nice picture of Hartford at 1:15. Yes, it is an atrocious city whose best days are behind them! At one time, Hartford was pretty nice.
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  1091. Denver has more like 700,000 people, and Briggs said 211,000 or something like that. He was way off.
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  1092. There are currently 15 entire countries that Department of State advises “Do Not Travel”, so on that fact alone, Afghanistan probably is in the top 15, along with North Korea, Libya, Somalia, and Central African Republic.
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  1093. The other 52% don’t think about Oklahoma at all. 😎
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  1094. Tsarbucks would seriously have been a terrific name for the new restaurant chain! Not a huge Starbucks fan; since that chain opened, 30 years ago?, I have been to a Starbucks twice. It has always seemed too pricey.
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  1095. New York City had a 23% increase in homicides this year (per Nick Johnson’s comment at 8:22), and might top 300 homicides for 2020. In 1990, NYC had over 2,200 homicides and had been on a decline almost every year since then. So it sounds like NYC is still far safer (pandemics notwithstanding) than in1990, or for that matter, any period from the late 1960s to about 2010. In fact, NYC’s 23% increase from 2019 was from the year with the fewest homicides since NYC started recording, where the homicide rate (per 100,000) was less in New York City than in the United States.
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  1096. Fort McMurray is not that small. Maybe about 50,000 live there. They were in the news a few years ago due to those wildfires; the entire city was evacuated. That was four years ago; I hope things have returned to normal there.
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  1097. Yakutsk to Osaka — the hard way! 😂
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  1098. I thought the Northeast comprised of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and the six New England states. If you follow US Census info, they would define the Northeast that way. I really don’t think it’s that big a deal.
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  1099. I would visit any state. There are only about 10 or 15 I would want to live in though.
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  1100. I live in Connecticut, where there are several left-lane exits. Kind of hard for the left lane to be a passing lane in that case. I can’t tell you how many times some idiot has flashed their lights at me when I was in the left lane to make an exit. 😠
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  1101.  @brianhummel8659  - 900 feet? Can you cite the actual statute or are you talking out of your ass? Highway signs will warm of an exit two miles ahead, and I try to get into my lane about a mile before the exit.
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  1102. Then conservatism would also be a religion. I’m not buying it.
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  1103. All the people in these cities are human beings. You, on the other hand, are subhuman. Cheers.
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  1104. I heard that the number was closer to 600 to 700. Obviously, Chicago’s murder rate is less than Washington DC at 22.8 per 100,000 and Chicago has 2.7 million people, so their actual murders must be less than 22.8 * 27 or about 615.
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  1105. Except for New England.
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  1106. Whichever coroner made that declaration should have been fired for incompetence.
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  1107.  @jamesroof6150  - I rest my case.
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  1108.  @jamesroof6150  - I wasn’t joking.
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  1109. Let me clarify my prior comments: I made another comment in this thread that a city cannot be totally dead unless it becomes a ghost town. A place with a population of zero, devoid of any human activity at all. Nobody else seems to agree with that assessment, but I am sticking to it. New York City has not had a population under seven million since the 1940s. It has not been anywhere near being dead in all that time. I’ve been to New York many times, including in the 1970s. I saw the Empire State Building, Central Park, Broadway, Times Square, and I rode the subway and the Long Island Railroad and later MetroNorth. I never saw the Statue of Liberty or the World Trade Center and always wanted to see the latter. And I’ve seen countless traffic jams in New York City. It was a city of many problems but it was never dead. Not even close!
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  1110. Canada’s murder rate is about a third of that of the USA.
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  1111. We should give aid to anyone who needs it in times of crisis.
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  1112.  @joycegreer9391  - There is no god.
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  1113.  @joycegreer9391  - God does not even exist and has never existed. And there certainly is no scientific proof to the contrary.
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  1114.  @joycegreer9391  - Scientists can only trace the known part of the universe to the Big Bang. They don’t know what caused it. (And just because they don’t know doesn’t mean that “God did it.”)
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  1115. I have read that Hawaii’s record high is exactly 100°F or 38°C. It was in Pahala, which Iis on the Big Island. The other state whose record high is exactly 100°F is Alaska.
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  1116. ChromeLeatherGel - g.f.y. 🖕
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  1117. Or an increase in common sense.
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  1118.  @janephillips3627  - New York City is run by Democrats and in the past few years their murder rate has been lower than the national average.
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  1119.  @janephillips3627  - I sound young? 😍😁😁😁
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  1120. What t.f. do you expect in a city where 68% of the registered voters are Democrats? (The percentage of Republicans is 10%.) It’s surprising they ever elected Republican mayors at all.
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  1121. I guess Briggs really likes rain!
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  1122. Did you really think she went there for the food?
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  1123. The team that surprised me were the Montréal Canadiens.
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  1124. How big is this “decent” apartment in square meters; also, what part of Italy?
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  1125. Matt - I won’t comment about the Mafia, except that I would not deal with them. One square meter is about 10 square feet. A 1500 square foot condo in the Northeastern US, where I live, would be hard to purchase for $200K, and impossible to purchase for that price in Boston or in New York City. In fact, it would be hard to purchase such a place for less than $1M in NYC. The towns that Briggs mentioned are in relatively inexpensive parts of the US, but can’t be expected in the country as a whole.
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  1126. Speak for yourself. I like Rhode Island, although I think they have more in common with eastern Massachusetts.
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  1127.  @jasonmarkwell8593  - I can vouch for the Dunkin Donuts and I’m okay with that. (We used to have a few Tim Horton’s and I’m still sad they all closed.) Don’t know of any nudist campgrounds though; but that isn’t my thing anyway. They’d be closed half the year with our climate. ❄️
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  1128. Possible video: Ten cities with the worst traffic. We already know who’s tenth. 🙂
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  1129. Morgan Blalock - I’ve never even been to Nebraska (flew over it once), but Carhenge is near Alliance, which is the other side of the state from Lincoln. I had thought about visiting Carhenge for the solar eclipse in 2017, but it was just too far.
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  1130. It is smelly, crowded, noisy, the weather often sucks, taxes are high, rents are through the roof, people can be very direct, there are lots of homeless, too many panhandlers, and too many Yankee fans. 😁
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  1131. I live in Connecticut and am an atheist. The predominant religion here is definitely Catholic.
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  1132. The video would be a month long! 😂
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  1133. This is a nice list. I’d be interested in seeing the remaining 40 places. I’d also like to see the best (inexpensive) place to retire in each state, or maybe a top 10 retirement place in each region.
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  1134. I used to live near Dayton. It was bad then as well, and I see that in the years since I left it hasn’t gotten any better. Dayton had some pretty nice suburbs, but the city itself was not the best.
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  1135. Indianaoplis? (Okay, it’s just a typo, of which we all are guilty.)
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  1136. Part of it is. About three percent of their land area, but a higher percentage of their population.
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  1137.  @ArmenLeonardo  - Incorrect; Albania and Bosnia & Herzegovina are counter examples.
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  1138. Texas is a bigger state, but Oklahoma is definitely top 3, and more likely #2.
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  1139. PrimeMechCo - Even if the USA went metric, I suspect football would remain a game of yards. After all, Canada is metric but the CFL still uses yards.
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  1140. I used to live in Ohio. It’s not the greatest place in the world, but I’d consider moving back there. Hilliard sounds really nice. Fort Thomas, KY is probably pretty nice too, but I’m not as familiar with Cincinnati suburbs.
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  1141. GeminieCricket - Obviously you are not familiar with the area. Thank you for your dumbass comment.
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  1142.  @fernandocuriel124 - it was a few months ago. IIRC, the least religious states were VT, NH, ME, MA, OR, WA, maybe AK, and a couple others.
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  1143. Since your initial comment was one whose veracity could be tested, it qualified as a statement.
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  1144.  @freedomseeker667  - Since you are the one who stated that “a high majority of northerners are atheists”, the burden of proof is on you.
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  1145. Seems like an autistic stim. He once mentioned having “Asperger’s” on SNL. Give it a rest, people.
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  1146. Arizona is retaining the rights on Coyotes, so that ain’t happening. I like Utah Raptors, Utah Hive, or Utah Arches. I guess Utah Yeti is okay.
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  1147.  @Guzzlebutt  - That name invokes the image of gangsters. 😎
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  1148. That would suck. I rarely use my cell phone, probably about 10 times a month to place a call, but I don’t need another stupid charge on my cell phone. Even if I am paying 20¢ a month, I am still being punished for the misdeeds of someone else. 🤬
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  1149. You seem to be the scumbag, deliberately spreading misinformation.
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  1150. What a stupid thing to say! Although probably not that surprising given the source.
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  1151. No, they have boroughs.
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  1152. Kewl! I’ll move to Boise and start a wrecking company! 😈
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  1153. Dennis Tyler - I am surprised that neither Massachusetts nor my home state of Connecticut made this dubious list. If Briggs had expanded this to a top 15, I’m sure both states would be there.
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  1154. Well, last time Briggs omitted Oklahoma on a video about tornadoes… Seriously, I don’t think we are that bad. Maybe top 15, but not top 10. Just my opinion, though.
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  1155. Why would your god mention aliens in the “bible” when he didn’t mention penguins or wombats either? They certainly are real!
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  1156. They have too many murderers. 😎
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  1157. Crime has been decreasing in NYC since the early 1990s, based on FBI statistics.
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  1158. Donna McQueen - A “baby” is someone who has already been born. Otherwise the correct term is “fetus”. Personally, I think the decision whether or not to abort should be with the woman who is carrying the fetus, and that everyone else should MTFB.
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  1159. Guy The GalaXII - I think there should be as many opinions as possible to avoid pregnancy, and that would reduce the number of abortions. But once a woman is pregnant, the decision to abort should be hers alone. I would hope she doesn’t choose to abort the day before she would have given birth, but that’s her call and for her own reasons.
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  1160. And you will almost certainly get COVID-19 then. The question isn’t really if you get it, but when.
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  1161.  @proprocrastinator5349  - He sounds like a pervert!
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  1162.  @proprocrastinator5349  - And I will hope you come to your senses, but otherwise won’t think of you at all.
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  1163. 8:34 - “Horses walking bikes”. 😆
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  1164. I thought it would be Connecticut. Our gas taxes have always been among the highest in the country.
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  1165. Massachusetts is not that cold. Cold enough for snow, especially in the Berkshires, but no match for places in Alaska or Minnesota or the Dakotas. One New England city that should have been on this list is Caribou, Maine.
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  1166. 5:45 - 🎵 “Knock three times, on the ceiling if you want me…” 😎
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  1167. 🎵 Any escape might help to smooth the unattractive truth, but the suburbs have no charms to smooth the restless dreams of youth.
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  1168. Been to Rhode Island many times. I don’t think women there are especially rude, any more than anyone else. I would vote for New Jersey in that regard. Glad to see my home state of Connecticut gets an honorable mention! 😂
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  1169. Robert Beightler - Most big cities are run by Democrats, but there are exceptions. NYC has had Republican mayors, notably Giuliani and Bloomberg, for instance.
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  1170. Tom Cook - Idiot.
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  1171. The cold certainly does not keep criminals out of Alaska, so why would it keep them out of New England or anyplace else?
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  1172. 12:52 - Burma Shave?
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  1173. God gave us Trump as a booby prize.
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  1174.  @olegborovkov2971  - Good. But Russia has other issues too, beyond just the sanctions.
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  1175.  @olegborovkov2971  - Is it? I just watched the latest video from NFKRZ where Roman stated that Russians have been getting poorer every year since 2014. Quite the contradiction from your latest comment. Considering Russia’s extreme inequality, maybe the economy is growing while their people (most of them anyway) are getting poorer. Meanwhile Russia’s 1% (or 1‰) are filthy rich at everyone else’s expense.
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  1176. Because lots of Americans have relocated there.
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  1177. Adam Buesser - I would avoid the cities, especially Hartford, and New Haven. Most of the suburbs are pretty nice and have low levels of crime.
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  1178. Vermont used to be a staunchly Republican state. In 1936 when FDR demolished Alf Landon in the presidential election, Landon had eight electoral votes, only carrying Vermont and Maine. And in the ‘70s and ‘80s Vermont was consistently electing Nixon or Reagan into office. Vermont is a beautiful state. What would keep me from moving there would be (1) the cost of living, (2) it is kind of boring if you’re not into skiing, and (3) the cold and snowy winters.
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  1179. I’m curious on what criteria Oregon ranks only 38th in weather. I think after California and Hawaii, the states I would consider to have the best weather would include Oregon. (I would look for a place with relatively cool summers, and few temperature extremes. I like having some rainy days.)
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  1180. Absolutely no surprise that Connecticut is #1; I figured they would be Top Five before watching the video. I keep my utility bills within reason by leaving lights off unless I need them, and by keeping the thermostat at 66° in the winter and 77° in the summer. But I have long known that CT’s utility rates are among the highest in the country. I will guess that one state with one of the lowest utility costs will be Washington, with my second guess being Oregon. I won’t venture a guess on the other eight states.
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  1181.  @jackielinde7568  - Montana.
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  1182. This was a video comparing states. 🙄
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  1183. No, @thomaswoodby32 , I don’t. I’ve been there many times though and like Pennsylvania. I have never lived there. For the record, Biden was a Senator from Delaware. Not Pennsylvania. (Biden was born in Pennsylvania.) As for the claim that there was cheating in the 2020 election, I don’t buy it. Out of millions of ballots cast, there may have been a few flaky ones, but not nearly enough to sway the election.
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  1184. 🎵”Indiana Wants Me…”
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  1185.  @DENVEROUTDOORMAN  - And has DenverOutdoorMan even been to any of these Midwestern suburbs? Or is he just blowing smoke out of his butt?
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  1186. 6:45 just does not look like it would be Indiana. (I would have guessed Colorado.)
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  1187. I am the same age as you. Last winter had no blizzards, barely any snow, and the temperature hardly dropped below freezing at all. It really wasn’t a winter to speak of. This is the same place where I lived as a kid and had three or four feet of snow on my driveway and where the temperatures had hit -20°.
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  1188. Yes.
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  1189. Depends on what part of BC. If you go inland there will certainly be snow and a lot of it. I do agree that it is a beautiful province.
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  1190.  @deborahlozano7134  - That was a stupid comment! Can you be a little more vague? 🙄
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  1191.  @deborahlozano7134  - so you’re not telling me to move, then. 🙂 You’re saying the homeless should move. Which is fine if they can afford that move which would disrupt their lives.
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  1192. Maybe it would help when surrounding states also have tough gun legislation. New York City, with a murder rate lower than the rest of the USA is surrounded by New Jersey and Connecticut, two states with the toughest gun laws. Chicago, which has more homicides than NYC and LA combined,is surrounded by Wisconsin and Indiana, whose gun laws are a joke.
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  1193. Disobedient One - And I would rather live in a place where the homicide rate is low, but that appears to be in places which have stricter gun control, and that are surrounded by places with strict gun control.
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  1194. Just like New Jersey. 🙄
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  1195. Happy 2021 everyone. Good riddance, 2020! 👎
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  1196. It’s “et cetera”. Not “excetera”. You can also abbreviate it to “etc.” to not appear to be a complete ignoramus next time.
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  1197. Nick Johnson - Eskimo?
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  1198.  @hdrjunkie  - Connecticut doesn’t even have any tolls that I’m aware of. If any place is “Toll Land”, it’s NYC. Last I checked the GW is $16 going eastbound (less if you have a EZ Pass) and most of the bridges and tunnels that don’t cross the Hudson were about $7. So please spare me the sob story about Lamont.
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  1199. 3:10 - Humans are causing the climate change. That is no longer debatable. From the Wikipedia article on Climate Change: “The current rise in global temperatures is driven by human activities, especially fossil fuel burning since the Industrial Revolution.”
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  1200. Really? None of these cities seem that bad. I’ll take any of these over Baltimore, Memphis, Detroit, Trenton, or St. Louis.
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  1201. California. 😎 (Also Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Jersey, Florida, and Texas.) I saw a video on this very subject; I’m not sure if it was from Briggs or from Nick Johnson.
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  1202. F = 1.8C + 32
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  1203. So Baltimore is an independent city, not part of a county. Probably why they didn’t make this list.
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  1204. This is due to the Gulf Stream. I actually think NYC has mild winters (compared to where I live, anyway), but not as mild as the UK, which is much further north.
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  1205. Jonathan Thomas - Pretty sure Cheyenne is larger than Montpelier or Pierre.
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  1206. Jonathan Thomas - Montpelier’s population is 7,855 (I just looked it up), and is the smallest state capital city.
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  1207. It is 7000’; most people can adjust to it in a few days.
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  1208. All of the 10 places Briggs mentioned are larger cities than Portland. More people means that more might be homeless. Also, five of the cities mentioned are in super-expensive California and three more are on the very expensive East Coast, where being able to pay for rent is a daunting prospect.
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  1209. Which one?
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  1210. Antarctica. 😁
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  1211. So they became a state 11 years after they were readmitted. 😁
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  1212. MP5 - That would not be possible! 😆
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  1213. MP5 - How many New England states are there? (Okay, from re-reading your comment, they can all be top 10.)
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  1214. Considering there was an NHL team in Hartford for 18 seasons, Salt Lake City should be large enough to support a team. I think the Utah Coyotes is a fine name for a team, although if it must be renamed, then the Utah Beehive would be an interesting choice. In my opinion, SLC is too small for a MLB team though. I think the next two cities to get an MLB team should be Charlotte or San Antonio.
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  1215. Corbin Forselius - I’m not saying the rest of Connecticut is dirt cheap, but it’s less expensive as a rule than Fairfield County.
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  1216. I liked this video, although Briggs seems to think Oklahoma should be New England’s honorary seventh state. 😆 What part of the country should he do next? I’m torn between the Great Lakes states (OH, IN, MI, IL, WI) and the Pacific Northwest (OR, WA, ID). I’ll vote Great Lakes.
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  1217. Colorado. I’m sure the average soup kitchen there is at least a mile above sea level. 😁
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  1218. Therefore, you are an idiot. She has the M.D. and you do not. Case closed.
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  1219. It looks like a third-grader wrote this.
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  1220. What about Palm Springs?
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  1221.  @terrysordal1693  - I hear there’s a town in Pennsylvania called Hornesdale that he speaks highly of. 😁
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  1222. Video’s title should mention that it’s specific to the Western US (but doesn’t.) [Edit: it looks like the title has been fixed; thank you, Briggs.]
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  1223. Frankfort.
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  1224.  @markpreston6930  - Sounds like my kind of place!
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  1225. How the hell is Vermont ever going to be anything like California? These two states are not even remotely similar!
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  1226.  @mrmaxcarter2306  - California has generally been a progressive/liberal state, but has still elected Republicans as governor on occasion (Reagan, Schwarzenegger). Vermont was a hard-core Republican state until the 1980s. Politically the two states seem pretty similar today. I don’t always compare states based on their political outlook. My first comparison is based on climate; on that basis the two states are nothing alike. I guess Vermont may be a little like the Lake Tahoe area, except that Tahoe is pretty dry in the summer, unlike Vermont. My second comparison of the states is scenery; again the two states are very dissimilar. About the only similarity in those two states would be political outlook. Surprised this anti-California nonsense is even a thing here in the Northeast; I don’t share it. I’ve seen Californians in my part of the country, but not all that many, as California is 3000 miles away from here. I see many more people from New York and Massachusetts, as those states are right next door. I think that the areas that will be less affected by global warming will be the Northeast (including Vermont) and the Great Lakes area of the Midwest, (although all places will be affected to some degree.) This may cause people to move back to this area, and may revitalize the economies, particularly in the “Rust Belt.”
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  1227.  @mrmaxcarter2306  “And liberal Californians do come here and seem to make it worse…” You mean to say if conservative Californians moved next door, that would be all right?
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  1228.  @mrmaxcarter2306  - No, most people seem to be going to warm weather states. And outside of California and Hawaii, the warm weather states are generally conservative. The only problem with California and Hawaii is that they are expensive, worse even than anything in the Northeast. If California had an average or slightly above average cost of living, people would still be flocking over there.
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  1229. I have oil delivery as well (I live in Connecticut.) Probably the most common means of heating homes in this state.
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  1230. The Road of Death should have had the Bridge of Death, where you would meet the old man from Scene 24.
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  1231. California is turning into Detroit? So you can go south from California and enter Canada! Awesome!! ❤️
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  1232. Briggs, I hope you recover completely. Follow your doctor’s advice particularly regarding diet and exercise. Maybe carry a medical bracelet for future trips…
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  1233. People with job offers to move there.
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  1234. I’ve been to Moncton. It is maybe an hour’s drive from Nova Scotia and several hours from Québec, just beyond Campbellton. You can tell this from glancing at any decent map of New Brunswick. Briggs has also mentioned his other errors on a post that he pinned days ago and you obviously did not bother to read.
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  1235. Landlocked means not on the shores of any sea or ocean. A dead giveaway is any such sea or ocean must be on sea level. Lake Michigan is about 600 feet above sea level. There are two doubly landlocked countries; these countries are Liechtenstein and Uzbekistan. Uzbekistan is on the Caspian Sea (which is a sea in name only; it’s really the world’s largest lake that is about 92 feet below sea level.)
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  1236. I think it is counterintuitive that another state that is landlocked is Michigan. But the state that comprises two peninsulas on the shores of four of the five Great Lakes is landlocked. Again, none of these Lakes are on sea level as Michigan lacks direct oceanic access.
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  1237.  @AlvinSeville1  - not that anything here had to do with you.
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  1238.  @AlvinSeville1  - and why are you hanging with us lowlifes, then?
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  1239. North Sentinel Island ...
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  1240. Too bad thumbs down are no longer displayed on YouTube comments, as you just earned one.
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  1241. I expected MA to be #1; I would have been surprised if they were anything else.
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  1242. It is.
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  1243. “25 or 6 to 4…”. 😁
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  1244. Ferromex fan 4081 - Not necessarily. New York City makes that list for sure. Boston and Washington are expensive too. On the west coast, Seattle probably makes that list, and Honolulu definitely does!
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  1245. There are some people who won’t like you whatever you do. They can go fuck themselves. Keep up the good work, Roman.
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  1246. “It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”
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  1247. James Bond - Not until the fat lady sings.
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  1248. Good suggestions; I still like Utah Raptors above anything else. Also good are the Utah Hive/Beehive or the Utah Arches.
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  1249. Pug Tickle sounds like it would be in Newfoundland, just a few kilometers away from Dildo.
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  1250. 1:24 : South Dakota has a cancer rate of 49.6 per 100,000 people, while neighboring Minnesota and Nebraska are at nearly ten times that? I question these numbers.
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  1251. Mister Clean - At least you don't shovel it. ❄️❄️☃️❄️❄️
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