Having been to all 48 contiguous states, I'd like to add the following comments:

Florida is a sandbar with trees, and about as useful. It's best for doing things that might cause a lot of damage if something went wrong. Like launching rockets or testing jet engines. If you do it there you don't have to worry about damaging something important.

New York might be a nice place, if you got rid of the city of the same name.

Massachusets should change it's name from "the Commonwealth of" to "the People's Republic of"

The best thing about working in Rhode Island is you can live out of state.

Louisiana is so humid, you go to Florida and say "but it's a dry heat"

Texas is a land of extremes, either it's so dry nobody can live there, or it's so humid nobody can live there. But the worst thing about Texas is the people who move away and then can't shut up about how great it is there. If it is so great, then why did they move in the first place?

The Interstate across Kansas is 420 miles long. 20 miles come from the curves they put in the road to keep you from falling asleep, in the daytime.

If I worked at it I could probably come up with snide remarks about any state, even the two I haven't been to, but then this post would be far too long. I've just hit my personal "low lights" here.

The interesting thing to me is that wherever you go, you can always find people who will tell you "This is God's country". It just goes to show that there's a place for every taste. Either that or some people are really weird.

RHODE ISLAND!!!!!!
 

I have lived in Rhode Island my whole life and it's the best! We have more corrupt politicians in RI than the rest of the country, and it's great leaving New England and telling people you're from RI some people thinks it's part of NY. The name Rhode Island is actually the name of the biggest Island in the state, the mainland w/ Providence is the Providence Plantations part of the name. and we do have more than one island, about 5 or 6. just to let everyone know who thinks RI isn't actually an island. Yeah and who has ever had coffee milk? it's our official state drink, coffee syrup and milk, good stuff!! i might bring some to the MD state fair. for people to try. some people in TX even use to measure the size of their ranches.

I have been to a limited amount of states, but I have to say that Arkansas is the worst I have been too. The caves and wildlife were cool, but you felt that you were transported back to the 1800's

Rhode Island is cool. I have lived here my whole life, and overall it is a great place to live. We might not have everything, but we are next to everything.

the way I see it NH is the worst state that I know of. other than Dean and First It has got to be the most boring state that I have ever been to.

I've lived in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Florida, Arizona, Maryland and Virginia. Probably the most boring place was Arizona, we lived in the middle of nowhere and it was completely flat with almost no vegetation. It was a squalid little place, with an open sewer gully running out front of the houses (which looked a bit like trailers, but they were actually houses). I remember there being a dead cow laying in the gully for weeks one time... But I don't think I'll judge Arizona as a horrible place just on that one location. I guess they're all horrible in some ways, and great in others.

I don't think I could ever live in West Virginia, there's too many jokes out about it...

MissInformation

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When asked which state I enjoyed living in the most, I usually say "confusion".

The four best states are... Hawaii, California, New York and Florida...

Ok now that we ran through the worst states thread. Where does everyone want to retire.

Since I'm asking I will start by saying Hawaii !!

I personally think that FL is the best. It's always hot and it's really nice, and I just down right love it there!

I think Arizona is really bad because there is NO grass. I went out there and we didn't see grass for a long time till we passed a football field that had pretty green grass and we were all makin a big deal out of it *actually I think some people might have taken a picture...* Then there's Penn. It's SO big. We drove from south to north and it took FOREVER. When we finally got in New York everybody *church youth group* was cheering. I'm thinkin we won't visit any states bigger than that. hehehe...We South Carolinians are weird...I know. At least we have a beautiful state though :)

~Jessica~

MiM ROCKS!

AIM: jessvbmh

It would have to be some place with mountains. I'm sure Hawaii is beautiful, but I need my mountains (I think I chose the college I went to because it was so close to the mountains), and I want those mountains to have trees with red, yellow, orange, and brown leaves in the Autumn, and snow in the winter... Yep, mountains.

MissInformation

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El hace montañas fuera de toperas y entonces procede a tratar de subirlos.

I will retire in my dream house on the shore of Maine away from the rest of civilization....

hopefully with someone joining me :-p

Ohm my... I knew you were going to say that...

:)

Deff gonna retire in CA because that's probably where I'll end up after college and you can go from nice cold mountain weather to beautiful beach weather in about 3 hours and there's no humidity like there is here in FL... Santa Cruz is a really cool town!!!

I'm going to Flordia when I retire. I thought it was a requirement to go there when you are old. No offence melissa ;) .

HEY!!!!!
 

Whoa... Watch what you say here buddy!! At least NH has Foliage, sheesh. Watch what you say!!! Why dont you come out here and see it for yourslef, the mountains and the scenery!! blah YOU!!!


badjokeguy

Actually, I have been to NH. I wasn't very impressed. We have foliage here in CA too, it's not like all of the state is desert. I was mainly saying that to frustrate MattK.

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about watching what I say... um. riiight.
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