UK is all gray, ItoreHis, bro, and, LOL, royalaim, it sounds like as you list the 'cons' for Cali, you are like, with every point saying to yourself, 'I'm leaving here,' and, 'I'm leaving here real soon.' 'I am LEAVING HERE ASAP ! '
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hellooooooo, you forgot the 'conch,' milady
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western colorado, mizcris, sounds a lot like all of New Mexico sans the adobe, and, oh wait, I drove thru the adobe aream of NM, that is only a small section of the state, tis was beauty to behold though, all that MAROON rock
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But, yeah, I'll go that vein , I am NOt in eastern Washington which is sagebrush and towns and NO BEACH and not nearly as much as dear bro, liamsON put it, 'urban sprawl.'
Pros:
It's all here when it comes to urban sprawl, plus, I fished two weeks ago to catch salmon in my friend's place river that almost runs through his property. The beautiful Mount Rainier is visible most anywhere on a clear day, 14,000+ feet high with snow-capped peaks summertime and snow-everywhere beauty all other seasons. We have the 'Puget Sound' which is with islands far off to see, or, close by, depending on where you live. We have big bridges, like the Narrows, that show how majestic is this land of the Lord's. Trees, trees, and, more trees. Everygreens. Can you say 'green' and 'nice' for nature's beauty of trees laced with ravines and trails and the only other place I can think of like here, in this way, mountains included, is northern California and parts of Oregon. Montana has its beauty, albeit more flat, and, different than here, and, badlands cool to see in South Dakota, and, Ohio has its cool falls of rolling small hills and leaves, 'Charlie Brown' country I call it, at least, where I was, in Wooster in 1996. And, Florida is Florida, pretty much a flat scenic state with sunshine and water AND ORANGES, LEMONS, GRAPEFRUIT fresh that taste sooo different than the stale pieces here stores call fruit, and, Alaska was Sitka for me, a small island, all I remember is the gray days, and, rain, which we have in Puget Sound but, yeah, which comes to Chicago, I've not been there, but think the 'windy city' not being as windy as liamsON's eastern Idaho lands odd thought, LOL, and, Virginia is Richmond for me, I think, I went to Smithsonian, it has historical museums and battle areas, which leads me to my state again, we have Wild Waves close by and summertimes i've spent $60 for a season pass (no kidding!) and just sit in the sun and praise God for the blessing of boogie boarding in a natural wave pool and going on big water slides of 'tourist' quality and rides that are not exactly Valencia Magic Mountain but are cool, like we have the world's largest wooden rollercoaster, or, at least did for awhile as someone's probably outbuilt us by now. Ahh such is capitalism !
Cons:
My state has stinky vegetables a lot of time and I already mentioned the fruit. At my great aunt's in San Bernadino, I eat lemons off the trees and they taste fresh, edible like an orange, which is NOT the case in Washington. Our lemons are tooo sour to eat here, without throwing them with water and sugar.
I would like to see the battle stuff of Virginia and I'll glom in Smithsonian, I loved looking at the history of World War 1 museum in the Kennedy Space Center museum in Cape Canaveral, too. Oh, I guess that wasn't the Smithsonian, was it, that was Florida. hellllllloooooo, greeeeen, is there anybody home
I would like a more laid back lifestyle, at times, just commune with the cacti variety, like Nopalea, and, Sagarus ? and, oh, Il like snakes, BIG copperheads, I hear, are there, I'd love to see one on a big rock, and, yeah, we have 'garter' snakes here and they are harmless and smell horrible, so, yeah, I hate our snake variety. The southwest flavors of New Mexico--and, sorry, mizcris, I would have to drive through western colarabi before making the decision to include you in NM to-do fare--appeal to me and I remember that you had an all you can eat KFC there and that was finger-lickin' good grub there, chickadees
