New England.
Man, I miss New England; gonna add living a few years out there, again, to my bucket-list.
There’s some spots in the big nyc parks where you’re surrounded by trees and can pretend you’re not in a big city. That’s all I’ve got.
Outside the city it gets surprisingly conservative sometimes. I knew someone who had family north of Albany, and their neighbor flew a confederate flag. Probably a maga flag now.
Uhhhh… did you all not see that Mango just told the Space Force that they need to relocate from Colorado to Alabama? You wanna talk about a blue state that’s going to go dark blue, look no further.
The Maryland DC suburbs are some of the nicest parts of the country.
These places exist, but they are expensive as fuuuuuuuuck
I live near Asheville and fucking hell you are not kidding. The price creep has spread out in a 60 mile radius and just keeps getting worse. I can’t even afford to live in my hometown anymore.
I heard a rumor that a tree grows in Brooklyn.
Ann Arbor here. Can confirm.
The IS is huge so there’s not way you can’t find this location.
Atlanta. Just don’t go past the perimeter.
Asheville and Boone NC
After hurricane Helene? Good luck!
Those might be nice towns but at this point I’m staying away from any MAGA states, regardless of whether they have islands of sanity in them.
As someone who lived in a deep blue city in Texas for a decade, I can confirm you’re making the right decision.
Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are all dope to visit, but 100% not worth living there. And I will never willingly set foot in that state again.
Houseless (Van Life) deep in a forest works pretty well for me
How…do you have internet? Van life seems so appealing but also so scary.
Cellular or Starlink are your only options, unless you include none (meaning libraries or public wifi).
Mostly cell signal. I have a painter’s pole that I put an omni-directional antenna on and an amplifier if need be but, most of the places I find that meet my other criteria (open enough for good solar, not recently logged etc) have a 4 out of 5 bars of either LTE or 5G service which is good enough for my needs. Was thinking about Starlink but can’t easily get past the Elon connection…even now that the hardware cost just halved.
Also “it’s hard because it’s like how to get out of a place filled with only trees and Republicans?”
Send help.
Seattle, one hopes, is still green and bookish
I feel like if you think Seattle fits the description of around trees that you just haven’t ever been around trees before lol. It doesn’t mean a couple sadly embedded in the sidewalk it means like as far as you can see
Perhaps you think I meant south of Lake Union. Understandable mistake. In north Seattle you can’t sneeze without getting a tree wet. I spent most of my time in those parts.
I grew up just north of Seattle in Bothell only just recently moved out to the coast bit south of Aberdeen I have learned the meaning of tree lol. If I stand the top a large elevation I struggle to find buildings my vision is nothing but trees and Hills I feel like that’s more what the post is talking about.
I live surrounded by tree as far as the eye can see in all directions, it’s very much republican County though lol
What is this conversation? Seattle has trees. It has really good parks. Is this treemogging? It’s obnoxious.
Seattle has its own racism problem unfortunately
If you think Seattle’s race relations are on the same level or even close to any red state then I sincerely doubt you’ve ever left Seattle or been to a red state.
There are racist people literally everywhere but not everywhere makes a culture out of being racist.
I lived in Texas most of my life. I wouldn’t say race relations in seattle are as life threatening as they were capable of being in Texas but I would say racism is just as common.
Against any particular group?
From my observations, and from what I have been told from people of this group in seattle, mostly african americans. You’d have to hear from other marginalized groups for more info as I am not familiar with their experience. It’s less of the explicitly violent and threatening racism you see in the south and more of the “you’re so articulate” style of racism. Lots of pearl clutching and car door locking if you know what I mean.
Isn’t this just universal in America? This sounds like liberal racism, not republicans
Yes but it is particularly common in the PNW
That’s the kind I’m used to, having grown up in that area. It’s shitty, but has it changed in the last ten years? My area was north Seattle, where it’s always been an issue.
I’m a couple hours north of Seattle, and the PNW is crawling with the Proud Boy type. I was doing memory care for people with downs syndrome and dementia, and we had to get the cops involved because somebody was prowling around the facility with a rifle slung over his back during the first trump presidency.
It’s the same problems it’s always had, but trump has deffo turned the volume up.
Thanks for letting me know. Haven’t been there in a few years, sad to hear it.
I was going to move to Portland but I hear it’s a war zone lol
Yeah? Sounds like that’s where people on the right side are needed, then.
Portland is a great city. I’ve been living in the UK for almost 4 years now and I’ve never been to a bookshop as good as Powell’s, and the food there is at least twice as good as it ought to be, for what they charge.
Vermont.
And then you’re just bored
Vermont?
This is the way.
Has a general prejudice against city people.
Republican governor still, not as solid as you’d think.
State politics are different from national politics. A blue state republican governor can sometimes be more left than a red state democratic governor.
He may be a member of the Republican party but if you just look at his record as governor, you’d probably guess he’s a Democrat. Pro choice, trans rights, thoroughly anti Trump, and even a lot of his tax cuts seem to prioritize relief for the working poor rather than the
leechinvestor class.Also, this is anecdotal but I’ve spent some time in Vermont and the conservatives there who I met were by and large reasonable, open-minded, and anti-Trump (there were a couple of exceptions but nowhere is perfect).
Yeah Vermont is hippie hillbillies
Cascadia says “Hello” <friendly wave>
Outside of a college town.
I want to complain about the percentage of freshman and sophmore CS majors that are hardcore right-wingers because of Musk and Zukerberg and gamergate.
Not always true, Kent (home of Kent State University) is bright red. I live a little ways south of Kent and I drive thru there a few times a year to visit a friend, every time I go through there it’s maga merch everywhere.
