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I was reading the North Dakota thread and thinking about how romanticized my ideas about North Dakota are--but now North Dakota is on my list of places I could never live. 7 months of winter? Couldn't do it (although of course I respect those who can!). So, just for fun: what three states do you have on your mental list of places you couldn't live, for whatever reason?
Feel free to share your reasoning.
(Oh! And I'd love for Mrs. Haraway to have lived long enough to see that her most despised 5th grade student not only remembers all of the 50 states, but knows them in alphabetical order and didn't make a single spelling error. She gave me an unhappy face on the quiz, you know.)
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« Reply #1 on: June 29, 2007, 07:23:21 PM » |
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(Oh! And I'd love for Mrs. Haraway to have lived long enough to see that her most despised 5th grade student not only remembers all of the 50 states, but knows them in alphabetical order and didn't make a single spelling error. She gave me an unhappy face on the quiz, you know.)
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« Reply #2 on: June 29, 2007, 07:28:12 PM » |
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Alaska and the Dakotas.... sorry, just too flipping cold with long winters.
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« Reply #3 on: June 29, 2007, 07:29:33 PM » |
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It looks like South Dakota is pretty popular--anyone want to share why? It's not as cold as North Dakota, but it's winning losing.
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« Reply #4 on: June 29, 2007, 07:29:58 PM » |
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I put the two Dakotas (that kind of winter and desolation are just not for me) and also Wyoming because it seems farther away than another planet.
I considered Alaska, but Wyoming won out.
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« Reply #5 on: June 29, 2007, 07:31:59 PM » |
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Wyoming because it seems farther away than another planet.
That's why I picked Utah. cbl |
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« Reply #6 on: June 29, 2007, 07:32:45 PM » |
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Mine were all southern states. Couldn't stand the humidity. I grew up in Wisconsin and did grad school in Minnesota, so I know and can cope with winter. Not muggy heat.
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« Reply #7 on: June 29, 2007, 07:37:16 PM » |
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I can't "do" enormous cities. NYC would kill me. I need space and the outdoors and the ability to walk outside and hear nature noises, not cars honking.
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« Reply #8 on: June 29, 2007, 07:39:16 PM » |
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I can't "do" enormous cities. NYC would kill me. I need space and the outdoors and the ability to walk outside and hear nature noises, not cars honking.
Lol. There's a whole place called New York state. |
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« Reply #9 on: June 29, 2007, 07:41:14 PM » |
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I can't "do" enormous cities. NYC would kill me. I need space and the outdoors and the ability to walk outside and hear nature noises, not cars honking.
Lol. There's a whole place called New York state. Yeah, but the cows in Upstate New York have horns, and those geese honking. |
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« Reply #10 on: June 29, 2007, 07:48:48 PM » |
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Well, y'all don't like my home state, but that's just fine... keeps it from gettin' too crowded down here.
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« Reply #11 on: June 29, 2007, 07:51:28 PM » |
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I have to admit that I'm surprised. The top choices right now are Alabama, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
What the heck do those places have in common? All I can think of is extreme weather--but then there's Utah. Wyoming doesn't even have As.
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« Reply #12 on: June 29, 2007, 08:05:33 PM » |
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I have to admit that I'm surprised. The top choices right now are Alabama, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming.
What the heck do those places have in common? All I can think of is extreme weather--but then there's Utah. Wyoming doesn't even have As.
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Alabama = George Wallace, segregation, Forrest Gump Utah = Happy Mormon theocratic Misogyny Wyoming = Dick Cheney, homophobia South Dakota is just cold, and seems to be getting abum rap here . . . |
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« Reply #13 on: June 29, 2007, 08:08:14 PM » |
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I can't "do" enormous cities. NYC would kill me. I need space and the outdoors and the ability to walk outside and hear nature noises, not cars honking.
Lol. There's a whole place called New York state. Yeah, but the cows in Upstate New York have horns, and those geese honking. I didn't say anything about New York state. I said NYC. Upstate New York is simply gorgeous. |
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« Reply #14 on: June 29, 2007, 08:23:40 PM » |
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(Oh! And I'd love for Mrs. Haraway to have lived long enough to see that her most despised 5th grade student not only remembers all of the 50 states, but knows them in alphabetical order and didn't make a single spelling error. She gave me an unhappy face on the quiz, you know.)
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The song "Fifty Nifty United States" has come in handy multiple times in my life. How many states begin with "A"? <humming toon in my head, alabama, alaska, arizona, arkansas, calif...> Four! Thank you, Ms. Baldwin, for teaching this to me in fifth grade. You have helped me answer many a Jeopardy! question. Alabama, Arkansas, and Utah are the three states I don't think I could live in, and South Carolina and Kentucky come in a very close 4th and 5th. I've lived in Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Delaware, Alaska, and D.C. I think I could live in all of them again, with the possible exception of Tennessee. I don't really like being landlocked. |
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