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50 States Ranked…Florida not too shabby

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Orange_and_Bluke, Jun 20, 2025 at 12:24 PM.

  1. ETGator1

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    It's easy to see why over half of Oregon is desirous of leaving the state to join #3 Idaho. The folks living on the left coast have ruined Oregon just like California.

    I love Washington. I keep hoping the state is salvageable from a political standpoint. When I several times visited family in the Seattle area in the mid 80s, the people I met kept saying they didn't want transplanted Californians to "Californicate" Washington. It obviously happened anyway. People fled California to Washington but took their voting habits with them. There really is no finer state in the nation for varied scenic beauty, just have to live with a lot of cloud cover and rain during the fall and winter when storm after storm rolls in off the Pacific Ocean. Folks living in the Seattle area can boat in the San Juans or on Lake Washington in the morning and then snow ski in the afternoon.

    Alaska should be dead last. Strange to see Louisiana ranked 50th.
     
  2. ETGator1

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    If you do stay, register and vote republican.
     
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  3. TheGator

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    Utah is nice. Visited my brother last year and doing it again this year. People are so friendly there.
     
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  5. TheGator

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    Don’t let that fool you. I always say when I lived in Florida, I knew who my friends were. In Utah, I have no idea who my friends are. People are two faced here like no other.
     
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  6. NavyGator93

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    If it is as you say, why would someone visit?
     
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    Was in Bend last October. Great breweries, phenomenal mt biking.
     
  8. demosthenes

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    I love it out there. Considering making the move. It’s gotten quite expensive though.
     
  9. demosthenes

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    The part of Oregon that would make the move is a desolate wasteland so there would be loss there. It’s funny you extol the virtues of Washington when it’s basically a twin to Oregon and has been more progressive than Oregon in many respects.