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  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yeah, crazy people definitely predominately come from the north east. Folks in the rest of america are incredibly well adjusted and level headed.

  • Leningrab [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I maintain my theory that humans weren't meant to live above the 23rd parallel. In the cold, we need artificial heat to survive, our skin dries out, we get depressed, etc.

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Wisconsin was much the same way

    Turns out when your prospects are poor and liquor is abundant, you tend to become the liquor

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      4 years ago

      It blows my mind that the area stretching from Pennsylvania to Illinois used to be the manufacturing heart of the world economy not four decades ago. We have seen in less than half of a human lifetime a whole way of life and social ecosystem be violently uprooted and dislocated.

    • MarxGuns [comrade/them]
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      4 years ago

      Reminds me of the story about the Century III Mall that's abandoned in Pittsburgh (also my local malls).

  • KantNeverCould [any]
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    4 years ago

    The Northeast gets a lot of sun, it's just cold and full of aggressive people. Move to the Great Lakes if you want to experience 6+ months of straight clouds, cold weather, AND rampant alcoholism.

    • Woly [any]
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      4 years ago

      "Yeah, there's this cold wet place were the beaches are made out of jagged rocks and the fish have claws!"

    • Neckbeard_Prime [they/them,he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They'd get across the Mississippi, take one look at the man-eating mosquito clouds in Wisconsin, and nope the fuck back across the river.

    • Audeamus [any]
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      4 years ago

      Except for the proximity to Europe, which was the main center of industry and trade in the 19th century. Also Appalachia is coal country and the Midwest has the lakes and rivers necessary for pre-railroad transportation, so the industrial revolution had to take place there. All much better than the deserts and mountains that abut the West coast.

  • purr [undecided]
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    4 years ago

    i think new england is lowkey haunted. as it should be for all the mess colonizers did there. but still, kind of haunted. it doesnt help when certain new england states have no one living there (thinking of VT) and just have a shit ton of old ass cemeteries and grave stones for settler infants who died in 1621 of a otherwise preventable frontier illness---not the happiest place

  • BoxedFenders [any, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    It's actually the years of lead poisoning that made boomers the deranged sociopaths they are today. It was banned in the 70s, but rotting apartments in the inner-city were still tainted with lead paint leading to the dramatic rise in crime for another generation. Can't blame geography when the fault lies with industrial greed, bro.

  • Empress_of_Penguins [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I live near the coal region. The place is stuck in time and weird af. It’s a shame what the coal industry did to our beautiful land and the people here. These people are stuck. I know of a place where you can buy a decent old house for $25k, but the town is so poor and there’s no jobs. My one friend had to get her house foreclosed on because no one would buy it. Fucking crazy as hell.

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    4 years ago

    I like the northeast and the people there pretty well, but my main cultural point of reference is Florida so I'm really not in a place to say which populaces are well adjusted lol

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      I once went to the Midwest and people held the door at the gas station for me roughly 6x what I would consider an appropriate distance. Like I'd be getting out of my car and they'd be waiting for me. Just too nice. Give me my casually abrasive eastern seaboard, thanks.

      • crime [she/her, any]
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        4 years ago

        Yeah I do find frigid massholes minding their own business the easiest to get along with tbh

  • Communist_Vegetables [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I’d love to live up there, if only for a change of scenery. Currently going mad in the southeast. :agony:

  • post_trains [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    I tend to assume anyone from outside of a couple parts of the country are absolute psycopaths until proven otherwise.