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PYHProtectYourHoles t1_jb34b36 wrote

People are really gonna call all the red spots flyover counties but won’t even think about why someone might want to live there 😂

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Bull_City t1_jb39488 wrote

I’m from NC and I found this funny when I moved to California for a job. I got made fun of from being from the south, and everyone just hated the south because it was so racist and ignorant (don’t get me wrong, it’s got it’s problems).

But then I’d get asked some ignorant ass shit like if I’d ever been to the ocean. Bitch I live closer to the ocean than you do, open a fuckin map. Or I’d say, California is nice but I could buy a house on a starting salary back home. And they’d just respond “yeah but I’d have to live in NC..” and I’d ask if they’d ever been? To which they’d say no. Yeah ok, well informed opinion there my man.

So most places have lots of ignorance, just the west coast and northeast have ignorant people that have been given a superiority mindset because they have been told that every day the middle and south part of the country is backwards.

My thing is, a place has to have some redeeming quality of 100k+ people decide to live somewhere, wherever that is.

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resumethrowaway222 t1_jb3n0fd wrote

If you're in SF and get the south is racist crap just ask them why the train doesn't go to Marin county,

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p251 t1_jb442yi wrote

Because of a body of water? Or did you mean their subway… because that goes to Oakland. Read up on gentrification if you want to find out what will happen to Marin if it gets subway access (hint: you will find a new county to call out as proof of racism). San Francisco has many many problems but systemic racism is really far down the list… unlike places in NC as much as you don’t want to hear it

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UraniumSpoon t1_jb4bp94 wrote

buddy, Marin county opted out of BART because the people there didn't want "Undesirables" coming to live there. San Francisco has a TON of racism, it's just a different breed than southern racism.

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resumethrowaway222 t1_jb44qh6 wrote

>Read up on gentrification if you want to find out what will happen to Marin if it gets subway access

Tell me you don't know Marin without telling me you don't know Marin

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Robo_Ross t1_jb6ugab wrote

Have you ever stopped to wonder why we have SF and Oakland set up the way they are? Racism is just as alive in the bay area, folks are just good at NIMBYing the "undesirables" away and making empty gestures.

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TMWNN t1_jb3o461 wrote

> But then I’d get asked some ignorant ass shit like if I’d ever been to the ocean. Bitch I live closer to the ocean than you do, open a fuckin map. Or I’d say, California is nice but I could buy a house on a starting salary back home. And they’d just respond “yeah but I’d have to live in NC..” and I’d ask if they’d ever been? To which they’d say no. Yeah ok, well informed opinion there my man.

Now consider what happens on Reddit whenever anything positive about Texas is ever mentioned. The problems with the electrical grid from the bad winter two years ago is nowadays the first go-to, but even had that not happened something else would be.

The terminally online here are basically calling the state's tens of millions, and the many, many thousands that every year move to Texas from elsewhere, all idiots. As if they aren't human beings with agency and the freedom and intelligence to decide that, hey, living in Texas seems like a good idea to me.

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Dick_Cottonfan t1_jb3c12k wrote

Spent time in Mooresville and exploring Charlotte, Asheville, did the Smoky Mountain RR train ride, and basically went from Cherokee to Wilmington. Gorgeous goddamn state, and a lot more tolerable than some of the more ‘civilised’ places like NYC, Philly, DC, etc.; nowhere near as armpit-humid in the summer and quite mild in the winter. Ignorant idiots can STFU about NC.

…except for that ‘dooo wuuut?’ response 🤣🤣🤣

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Accountforstuffineed t1_jb3cpkl wrote

I've been to North Carolina, I definitely don't want a house in North Carolina lol

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Bull_City t1_jb3eewi wrote

Yeah that’s cool man. I don’t even think NC is that great a place (though it’s not bad). But it’s ignorant to entirely write a place off without ever having actually visited. You don’t get a get out of ignorance free card just cuz you grew up in “enlightened” Orange County or Bay Area California is all I’m saying.

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myputer t1_jb4nn73 wrote

They might not think they’re enlightened, they might be referring to state politics- some ugly anti-queer legislation outta NC.

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King_Arjen t1_jb428aj wrote

North Carolina is lovely, coming from a Wisconsinite who also things Wisconsin is lovely

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Jexp_t t1_jb4sl44 wrote

Seriously.

Stinking hot, humid and full of fundies.

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Educational-Ebb-2572 t1_jb3x0l6 wrote

You're one of the few. New Yorkers, Californians, everyone is coming here in herds. The problem is they get here and turn it into the shithole they were fleeing. It sucks.

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Accountforstuffineed t1_jb5er7d wrote

This is typically a political point, so assuming that's what you're talking about, most of the people moving from those states into red ones are conservatives.

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New_Expert7335 t1_jb5xs7w wrote

Oh, don't hate us all in the northeast. There's a massive stereotype of elitism, and there is that in scattered areas, but at least half of us are good folks. I know some wonderful people from NC, Raleigh area, who can vouch for me, if needed 😊

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Schrecht t1_jb34nll wrote

No, they're calling whole states "flyover".

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PYHProtectYourHoles t1_jb355lq wrote

“Any state that isn’t Northeast or California must suck ! I’ve also never been there before” them probably

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