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mine?

in your title xD

 

 

 

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I think you have some of that confused with Hawaii.

Nah, Cali's got plenty of everything.

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Uhhhhhhhhhhhh-UHH??? No. No way. A history of bankruptcy and broken car manufacturing corporations, plus some of the highest crime and death rates in the country? no thanks, I think I'll just... move to some tropical island somewhere.

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And by "some" tropical island you mean Riker's island?

Nope. Just some random-ass atoll in the middle of the pacific or some place like that.

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Nope. Just some random-ass atoll in the middle of the pacific or some place like that.

Go to the Channel Islands.

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been to Cleveland, can confirm. Made me feel better about Fort Wayne 

 

I spent a month in Cleveland one night.

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You're all fucking wrong. It's obviously Cali. Home of beaches, beach babes, surf and turf, the bay, and thrills. Oh yeah, home of silicon.

 

Don't you mean home of silicone?

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Don't you mean home of silicone?

How have you not heard of Silcon Valley

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Ohio is boring as all hell.

North-West Ohio, at least. It's all flatlands... fields. It sucks.

Down south toward Kentucky and a little to the east, where it gets all hilly and mountainous, that's a little better.

The Cincinnati area is great. It is very hilly, biggest metro area in Ohio (including the suburbs in Kentucky), Kings Island (Amusement park), tons of parks, one of the best zoos in the country, the Cincinnati Museum Center, MLB and NFL trams (though sometimes they may suck), Music Hall, University of Cincinnati (beautiful campus with great contemporary arcitecture), and many, many other things. It's a very pretty place during the spring, summer, and fall.
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Please note that the longish rant below me was, in retrospect, a bit harsh and I would definitely suggest a grain of salt while reading it. It's definitly my subjective opinion.

 

Please note that I lived in Michigan for over a year. I've been to all sections of the state. I've experienced the cities, the small towns, the lakes, the remote forests, etc.. Also note that most of this is my subjective opinions and I'm in a rather bad mood. I apologize if I offend you with this. I really haven't found a 'good' state. Quiet honestly I doubt there is. There are simply just good cities, towns, religions, etc.. Michigan has these, I really like the small-towns that still hold on to the 'Great Lakes' culture. Anyways, on with the rant. Also when I say 'mid-western' people, I definitely don't mean all Midwestern people as most Midwestern people I've met are rather pleasant, I simply am referring to the rather large unpleasant stereotypical Midwestern people.

 

 With the exceptions of 'Great Lake' areas and culture, the state itself is a depressed and decayed wasteland of American failure. The winters are f*cking cold, and it snows almost constantly if you live by the lakes (lake effect as it is called). I hate winter. The crime is horrible. The people (excluding those who still hold on to the classic Michigan culture, which isn't very many) tend to be no different than those in the mid-west except for the few northern yuppies that have begun to occupy the more touristy/resort/clean towns.

 

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Yes, incredible breweries, because you would be f*cking miserable if you had to be there sober.

Saying Detroit is making some head way is not impressive. When you hit the ground, there is no where else to go but up. I would rather live on a life raft in the middle of the pacific ocean for a week than live my life in Detroit. Flint is even worse though it's less famous.

More coastline, yes. The lakes are rather nice, but they smell.

More alcohol. Please, not everyone likes to be in a constant state of wasted.

The UP might as well be its own state, I agree. It's generally an interesting place. However, it does not make up for the state as a whole at all.

More beer, because, again, it's hard to find most of Michigan enjoyable if you are sober.

Oh, and sports. So much sports that it almost rivals Ohio in cultist-obsession with football and other sports. JK all hail our lord and savior Brutus the Buckeye

 

It surprises me that Florida is so low on the list, then again I really can't think of a good reason to go except for the theme parks.

 

I'd agree with Ohio being so low. This state is nothing but over-sized suburbs, depressed cities, stripmalls, and stereotypical unpleasant mid-western people. This state had so much going for it and so many opportunities to gain notability in art, culture, business, industry, technology, etc., and practically wasted it all. We don't even have a single f*cking passenger train going through the capital city of Columbus. That is a sign of how lacking our industry is and how little the state government actually wants to improve things. We should have had a high-speed rail line a long time ago as well, which would have brought some high-tech jobs and put a spot-light on Ohio as being rather progressive in its new technology adoption. But the suburbians didn't want to develop, the 'small towners' didn't want to pay for it, and the government was too incompetent to properly way the advantages and disadvantages.

 

/rant

 

tl;dr I don't really care for Michigan, I definitely don't think it should have got such a high rank, and I think Ohio deserves it's low rating. Both states have their charm, but, with the exceptions of the lakes, Michigan isn't really any different than any other depressed northern mid-west state.

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The Cincinnati area is great. It is very hilly, biggest metro area in Ohio (including the suburbs in Kentucky), Kings Island (Amusement park), tons of parks, one of the best zoos in the country, the Cincinnati Museum Center, MLB and NFL trams (though sometimes they may suck), Music Hall, University of Cincinnati (beautiful campus with great contemporary arcitecture), and many, many other things. It's a very pretty place during the spring, summer, and fall.

Cincinnati is the best city in Ohio, but it isn't great. Kings Island is a nice but rather generic amusement park. Cedar Point is significantly better, but that is also in Ohio. The parks tend to be just rather hilly forest that no one wanted to develop on. Regardless, they are really well kept up compared to many other parks I've been to around the nation. I completely forgot about the zoos. Cincinnati's zoo is a really nice zoo, and the Columbus Zoo has been repeatedly ranked the best in the country for very good reasons. It's a great zoo.

 

My point is, Cincinnati isn't anything special, it's just a semi-decent city. Ohio in general is incredibly boring with nothing but farms and strip malls.

 

I'm done with the hating now, the feelings of regret are starting to settle in as I remember how it could always be worse.

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Sources say we're going to get google fiber in detroit, Soon*.

 

 

*in 3 years

Woo!

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Sources say we're going to get google fiber in detroit, Soon*.

 

 

*in 3 years

WE were going to get it first

but then they got scared.

 

 

 

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WE were going to get it first

but then they got scared.

No we are. They should have started on home turf.

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How have you not heard of Silcon Valley

 

How have you not heard of Hollywood? :P

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I live Michigan-adjacent in Canada. Most of my experience with it is metro Detroit (total shit-hole) but I've never heard anything nice about the rest of the state either. Article seems to mostly care about them having a lot of beer. Yay?

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stroopwafels > pizza

 

Nonsense :P pizza > everything

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I bet you guys don't know anything about manitoba because most of us canadians sure as hell don't.

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Nationalism..... :rolleyes: :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

 

 

 

I bet you guys don't know anything about manitoba because most of us canadians sure as hell don't.

 

 

LOOOOOOL!:P I know that the manitoba moose are going to play there....That has to count as knowledge.

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