Have the Midwest states been mentioned? Bill Bryson describes them as interminably dull. Not sure how they'd stack up against the deep south, though.
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Well, Bill Bryson might be right. But have you seen the rest of the world? Boring can be good. Be careful what you ask for.
There's a lot of corn, but there's also a lot of good universities, and lots of beer. Not many mountains, but tons of forest and water.
I moved from Tennessee to Missouri. I like the weather in Missouri and legal weed. Other than that, they're about the same. Missouri is way flatter. I'd like to go somewhere else but I'm poor. Thankfully I live in a relatively tame political area.
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Listening to the Mothman episodes of Last Podcast on the Left made me pretty scared of West Virginia.
Idk why people are downvoting you, Aplalachia is one of the poorest regions in the United States, where there is little opportunity and a real lack of quality education. On top of that, drugs have ravaged the area, and the people are clinging desperately to a coal industry that is vanishing at a steady rate. Instead of looking for an alternative industry to boost their economy, the people there have doubled down, making some of the villages there literal ghost towns.
Its a shame too, because they have a beautiful country and a growing tourism industry that wants to take advantage of that. They need to lean real hard into the hospitality side so they can jumpstart their economy.
State of injury or mental illness.