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I think people underestimate the differences between living in a deep red state vs a deep blue state.
It's like night and day. I would never voluntarily step foot in a red state again for the rest of my life if I don't need to.
Fuckin hell growing up in ohio it was a swing state, and I remember watching it slowly get worse and worse before I left for the PNW. The busses come with reasonable frequency here, and they even go to suburbs beyond a single commuter bus. Portland and Seattle both even have light rail systems (Columbus adamantly rejects the premise of building a fucking train, despite being quite blue). When I was unemployed they didn't care that I had savings when I applied for medicaid, just that I wasn't earning too much in interest on them to qualify (ohio rejected me for having less money in savings). There are still problems and bigots and I don't love everything about here, but I feel safe and I feel like this place actually is attempting to improve while Ohio just kinda started giving up when manufacturing went away and is convinced that trying to improve things will only make them worse, which the state legislature has fostered.
I’m in a pretty purple state now, there isn’t a blue state that really interests me in moving too. Far too many of them have unreasonable taxes or bad weather or both. And they few outliers like Oregon and Washington are too expensive for me to attempt to move to.