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Indeed. Also the best weed. You know, if that were your thing.CALIFORNIA!
It isn't even close. California is a nation unto itself.
CA has the best economy.
- Ranked 6th out of all NATIONS in the world
CA has the most amazing and diverse landscape in the nation
- Death Valley
- Yosemite
- The Sierra Nevadas
- The Mojave and Colorado Deserts
- The BEACHES!
- The Wine Regions (Napa and Sonoma)
- The Old Growth Redwood Forests
- Volcanoes
- The Best Microbreweries
- Surfing
- Mountains
- Mountain Bikiing / Skiing / Snowboarding
- San Francisco
- Organic and Amazing Food that created California Cuisine (Spago / John Ash / French Laundry / Etc )
- Hollywood
- Sequoia National Park
- Mt Whitney
- Kings Canyon
- Mt Shasta
- Mammoth
- Lake Tahoe
- Bodie Ghost Town
- Joshua Tree
- Monterrey Bay
- Big Sur
- I could go on and on...
Montana
beautiful landscapes, wildlife, cool people (not necessarily in that order)
I was thinking about this today, and it's a tough call for me.
- California has, far and away, the best year-round weather of any state in the country.
- Utah has the best economy.
- North Carolina has the friendliest people (in my experience)
- New York has the coolest city, with Texas/California/NC close behind
- DC has the most "urban" beauty, with New York and Illinois close behind
- Alaska has the most natural beauty, with Colorado a distant second
- Washington, Tennessee, and Louisiana have the best music scenes
- Texas and California have the most diversity among cities in close proximity to each other
- Alabama and South Carolina have the hottest chicks
- Massachusetts has the smartest people and best universities
- Ohio and Michigan have the lowest cost of living
- Wisconsin and Texas have the best bargains in housing (IMO)
- Louisiana has the most, err, creative system of government
- Florida has the best vacation spots
- Vermont and New Hampshire have the lowest crime rates
- Hawaii doesn't have to put up with any **** from neighboring states
- Colorado has the best selection of outdoor activities, with Washington and Oregon close behind
Overall...
I'd have to rank the coolest states as such: 1) California, 2) North Carolina, 3) Texas
I love Washington. It's beautiful here. Not too crowded. Many isolated spots to escape to. You can't hardly drive a mile without seeing a new lake. Lots of forest. I've only ever lived in PA and CA but WA has both beat by far.
Hawaii without a doubt. Beautiful weather, beautiful scenery. I can't find a flaw.
Belgium rules :mrgreen:
We also have Austin which is the coolest and weirdest city in these United States. Its the Live Music Capital of the World. 1069 lives in Austin need I say more. Ok, I will say more. Austin has one of the coolest music scenes on the planet. Stubs BBQ, Antone's is the place where Stevie Ray Vaughn was discovered, not to mention all the other great acts that have performed there and call Texas home.
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Austin Texas, Why Is Austin Weird?
keep austin weird
Overall...
I'd have to rank the coolest states as such: 1) California, 2) North Carolina, 3) Texas
I dunno, probably Washington or Oregon or something.
Maybe I'm just stuck in the '90s, but I always heard Seattle and Portland were really cool.
I always think of those as being cool states.
I've been to most of the continental US states. Best one I like is Idaho. No other state like it imo.
Ive met a lot of people from Austin all over the world, they are the nicest people, but also extraordinarily weird.. What is the phenomenon with people from Austin.?
The weirdness is mostly cultivated; the town motto is "Keep Austin Weird".
Beyond that, Austin was hippie mecca back in the 60s and 70s; a lot of people here are probably either burnt-out hippies or the offspring of burnt-out hippies, who were exposed to god-knows-what in utero.
Lately, though, I don't meet too many native Austinites. Simply by staying put, I've become a rarity: a mid-30s Austinite who was actually born here.
The metro-area population has more than doubled during my lifetime. There are a lot of people who have moved here from other places, and it's changed the tone quite a bit.
South Central Austin is still very "pure Austin"- and rather snobby about it; North Austin might be any large southern industrial tract. It's quite generic.
And a lot of people live in satellite or bedroom communities outside the city limits but commute in for work; there wasn't much of that going on 20 or 30 years ago.
I think Austin- like everyone and everything- is a legend in its own mind and glamorizes the bygone "glory days"- whether that be the 60s, the 70s, or even the 80s, when we had such a good punk scene here.
But nobody ever recognizes the "glory days" as such when they're actually living in them.
In the end, it's just like any other city; maybe a little pricey-er than most. You get a job, get an apartment, and maybe when you're around 30 you get married, buy a house, move out to the 'burbs and commute in.
A lot of the purported "weirdness" is just a ploy to sell overpriced teeshirts to tourists who come to see the bats.
Or maybe a ploy to get out-of-state students to come pay outrageously high tuition to attend UT.
This is, at the heart of it, in many ways still just an oversized university town.
I've been to most of the continental US states. Best one I like is Idaho. No other state like it imo.
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