I live in an affluent part of South Carolina. It’s become completely overrun with Trump assholes and degenerates. I don’t know how much longer I can take it. Where can we go?

I don’t want the bitter cold of the northeast or Chicago. I don’t want coastal California, it’s insufferable. What are my options? Why can’t we just be fucking normal?!

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    I guess you could go to Georgia. You could go to Savannah or St. Simons. Make the state slightly more purple.

    North Carolina is a crapshoot. Virginia?

    Those are your options. Feel free to move to Tennessee: you won’t like it, but I’d like my state to turn purple eventually so all libs are welcome.

    Edit: I used to live in Macon, and I hated it, but it’s apparently amazing to visit now, so maybe you can live there if you don’t need to work.

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    45 minutes outside of Portland, OR in any direction will get you somewhere just as rural as the place you left in SC, only with better weather and sane laws.

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      Accurate, but be careful because once you go 2+ hours outside of Portland, OR you will likely find yourself once again among cognitively challenged folks…

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    Come to Finland. I have absolutely zero clue about what party my neighbours vote. Hell, I don’t even know who my friends of parents vote.

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    If you wany a rural setting you’re probably fucked.

    If you’re looking for a SC kind of ‘city’ I would suggest perhaps Colorado, or something like Bend Oregon, or Spokane Washington. More isolated cities without large populations and also surrounded by that rural character.

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      Colorado is great, just don’t move anywhere near Colorado Springs unless you wanna help turn it purple. The city is a Republican enclave wrapped around the Air Force Academy.

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      It said I should live in San Francisco which is interesting because I already do live there.

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          I wish there were more cities in America with public transit and lots of bars. Or else I would move.

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            NYC public transit and nightlife is amazing. It’s pretty dirty once you leave the financial district though. Unfortunately I’ve heard that SF is pretty dirty these days too. Is that true? It used to be my most favorite city in the world, but I haven’t been back in 15+ years.

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    Stay and run for office. Even under a maga banner…if anything shown we can change this country it’s voting. Also both parties shown that you can change parties once in office. So run win then go full blown progressive while in office.

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    Because Putin & Murdoch hate democracy & know new age warfare: troll social media, market fake news.

    With a tiny troll army: Created a party of snowflakes that calls everybody else snowflakes.

    Streaming endless propaganda (Fake News: Fox, Alex Jones etc)

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    There are a number of blue cities in the Midwest. What’s the lowest temp you want? I live in Lincoln, Nebraska and it’s pretty great: nice weather most of the year, low cost of living, blue city, tons of parks. Only downside is dealing with red state bullshit from the state government.

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      Lincoln’s nice though I have found Omaha a little more affordable, same great purple people, same crappy state government

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    You just sound like a miserable cunt so move where ever you want and accept noone wants to be around you as much as you don’t wanna be around them.

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    Hello neighbor! NC will welcome you. It’s purple here. Rural areas are not so great but closer to the bigger cities (Charlotte, Raleigh, Asheville, Greensboro/Winston) are nice.

    Sorry about your sanity.

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    There hasn’t been “bitter cold” in the northeast for a decade. Climate change is a bitch. We barely get snow anymore - 2015 was a banger, but it’s been dustings since.

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      Ok so where in the northeast is not batshit? Rural PA is the same as here. Same with upstate NY or NH. NYC? No way. Maybe Delaware or something?

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        You really can’t get bluer than mass ri conn and vt

        Southern nh and southern me are basically Boston suburbs. As you go north it gets more red. But not like sc (I have family in sc and outside of the blue cities - ya they are pretty maga stupid). They are more “leave me alone red” as opposed to “my pastor said abortion is bad and I like to make fun of the gays”

        I mean there’s maga idiots everywhere-but honestly things might even tip a little too blue in southern New England.