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?!
Come to Georgia. It’s close. We’re a swing state now. We could use your vote.
Georgia keeps impressing me with how much green tech (solar, batteries, etc) are being built out of there too!
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.
I genuinely want to move there if trump wins. Could someone who only speaks english function there?
Most Finns speak english pretty well, especially ones that are under 40 years old. However finding a job as someone not speaking Finnish can be a struggle. Fluent english skills alone aren’t something most companies would see as a big advantage as most people fresh out of school can pretty much do that as well. Finnish is a difficult language to learn but you don’t need to be perfect at it either. A foreigner willing to even try and learn the language is hugely appreciated. My russian neighbour knows like 30 words but that’s enough to get thru most conversations one needs to have with a neighbour.
I would love to move to Finland.
Atlanta, Denver, somewhere in Virginia, Maryland, or DC, or possibly Ohio or Pennsylvania. There’s places like Austin and some places in Florida that might have cool people, but the state government is trash.
I saw Greenville recommended, and this is anecdotal, but last time I was there visiting friends, we (visibly queer) got followed around by this crazy guy with a metal pipe making all kinds of death threats. I love my friends but that sealed the deal for me on not wanting to live there. There are some neat places there ngl, the sex themed desert restaurant was a fun place for a queerplatonic hangout, but in general it’s not exactly going to be a refuge from Trump supporters.
Speaking of Virginia, stay in the north half. Down here in the southern part is maga fucks as far as the eye can see.
One down the road just put up a huge Confederate flag and two large trump flags. Instead of fixing their collapsing roof. Priorities I guess…
I wouldn’t recommend any place that votes red, even if you live in a blue city, because the state’s laws still apply to blue cities and sometimes are even made specifically to make blue cities worse
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.
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…
Heck, 10 minutes past Portland city limits and it’s Dodge Rams and Trump flags.
Definitely don’t keep going into Idaho
That’s Greater Idaho
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.
Came here to say Asheville as well
Pacific Northwest
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.
Colorado is great, just don’t move anywhere near Colorado Springs unless you wanna help turn it purple. The city is a Republican enclave full of defense contractors and wrapped around the Air Force Academy and a Space Force base.
I’ve heard good things about Durham.NC.
I love South Carolina and used to visit Charleston annually but I’ll never go again because of the politics.
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.
What’s wrong with California?
Too awesome
I dont know why but this just summoned in my brain the ancient text, the knowledge…
Come to Kenya; we got lions
I live in a similar part of SC as well. I feel you.
When I had a FB acct, I wasnpart of my area’s group, and the racists there was insane, even one person litterally was complaining that she moved to this area because she was tired of the north and was looking for the “white parts” of the south.
If you figure out where to move, please post an update, looking for somewhere new as well.
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)
If options were no object, Pacific Northwest is beautiful and temperate
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.
Lincoln’s nice though I have found Omaha a little more affordable, same great purple people, same crappy state government
Omaha is a lot less left-leaning in my experience. It’s very purple. Lincoln is solidly blue.
I just recently purchased a house in Lincoln. Just quickly looking on Zillow for Omaha and home prices look to be very similar to what I was seeing here in Lincoln. Property taxes in Omaha are also a fair bit higher than Lincoln.
There’s other stuff too, like lower crime rate in Lincoln, better/more parks, LPS being generally a lot better than OPS, etc.
I guess it ultimately depends on what you’re after. If you want something more big city, then Omaha obviously has Lincoln beat. But for a more relaxed pace of life and for raising a family, Lincoln is where it’s at.
