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Sam @samd.bsky.social

just for fun here’s my map of states I would live in

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aug 23, 2025, 8:21 pm • 63 0

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Michael Andersen @andersem.bsky.social

I’m here to stand up for Ohio, should be the same as WI/MI

aug 23, 2025, 8:49 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sam @samd.bsky.social

too Republican :(

aug 23, 2025, 9:30 pm • 4 0 • view
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Shawn Fleek @shawnfleek.bsky.social

You simply must live in Yellow Springs or Cleveland

aug 23, 2025, 9:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Fischer 🛠️🚇 @fischer.bsky.social

better transit but the politics seem much more hopeless

aug 23, 2025, 9:39 pm • 3 0 • view
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Mayor Vaughn’s Anchor Jacket @chasmanla.bsky.social

Like shitty weather? The City of Angels has like 300 days of sunshine a year. upgrade the maybe.

aug 24, 2025, 4:07 pm • 0 0 • view
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🏳️‍🌈🚲Cole🚄🐶 @regimepup.bsky.social

We need to work on the Illinois score but this is alright!

aug 23, 2025, 8:51 pm • 7 0 • view
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eaglesadvocate @eaglesadvocate.bsky.social

Your tolerance for winter far exceeds mine. I’ll take the Georgia summers over Mass winters.

aug 23, 2025, 11:21 pm • 0 0 • view
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Pedro McQ @mcquaidla.bsky.social

Where DO you live? Clearly not California, eh?!

aug 26, 2025, 4:28 am • 0 0 • view
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Franklin D. Roosefella @roosefella.bsky.social

You'd live in states with big, old cities

aug 23, 2025, 8:58 pm • 1 0 • view
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PokuPoku @pokupoku.shop

Why Texas but not other red states? Most red states have cities as blue as Austin, if that's the reason.

aug 23, 2025, 8:30 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sam @samd.bsky.social

Austin feels like a vibrant, growing, dynamic city in a way that few other red state cities do

aug 23, 2025, 8:31 pm • 2 0 • view
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Christo Silvia @christosilvia.bsky.social

Massachusetts is pretty nice

aug 23, 2025, 9:31 pm • 4 0 • view
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stndrdnickname.bsky.social @stndrdnickname.bsky.social

Justice for the Land of Enchantment

The Organ Mountains near Las Cruces, New Mexico
aug 23, 2025, 9:40 pm • 4 1 • view
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Kronos @progressiveknife.bsky.social

Metro East!?

aug 23, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Courtney Shannon @cshannonpdx.bsky.social

Pleasantly surprised to see someone who lives in New York to say publicly they would be willing to live in New Jersey.

aug 23, 2025, 9:44 pm • 0 0 • view
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David Pardo @davidpnut.bsky.social

Colorado is very nice. Georgia and Texas on the other hand are hot garbage

aug 23, 2025, 8:24 pm • 8 0 • view
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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social

denver rocks

aug 23, 2025, 8:28 pm • 1 0 • view
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Sam @samd.bsky.social

yeah Colorado should be a maybe I just don’t care for all the outdoors stuff

aug 23, 2025, 8:28 pm • 8 0 • view
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Alec @alecdmi.bsky.social

That’s really the only reason to live in CO. Also RTD will make your head explode

aug 23, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social

Nah. I lived off of east colfax for a summer. I could bike to great coffee shops, bars bookstores and urban parks. It's a great town.

aug 23, 2025, 8:52 pm • 4 0 • view
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splashsplashsplash.bsky.social @splashsplashsplash.bsky.social

what's the deal with the PNW

aug 23, 2025, 8:22 pm • 4 0 • view
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Sam @samd.bsky.social

it’s fine? I would live in Seattle if I had to but wouldn’t seek it out. And Portland is just kinda like a sleepier Seattle imo

aug 23, 2025, 8:28 pm • 4 0 • view
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Neomakhnovist 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @neomakhnovist.bsky.social

Massachusetts a definite yes but not Rhode Island? That just hurts

aug 23, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 0 • view
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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social

move to culver city it rocks. i bike everywhere and walk to the grocery store.

aug 23, 2025, 8:24 pm • 0 0 • view
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Sam @samd.bsky.social

I lived in LA for 6 years! the problem is I had friends/events all over the city so even if there are walkable pockets, visiting friends in like the SFV or SGV is a total pain

aug 23, 2025, 8:29 pm • 5 0 • view
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Jonathan Eby @jonathaneby.bsky.social

gotta make sepulveda a subway instead of a monorail.

aug 23, 2025, 8:31 pm • 1 0 • view
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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social

I love the high degree of variation within New England

aug 23, 2025, 8:30 pm • 6 0 • view
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Mike @mikech.bsky.social

States are too broad. My tiny part of Nevada is fine, and Tulsa OK or what I saw of it seemed acceptable. But I wouldn't want to live in the boonies of either.

aug 23, 2025, 8:33 pm • 1 0 • view
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Medieval Knievel @medievelknievel.bsky.social

I’m kinda colorblind is Oregon the same color as Texas?

aug 23, 2025, 8:23 pm • 1 0 • view
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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social

Yes, both are “reluctantly”

aug 23, 2025, 8:25 pm • 4 0 • view
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Medieval Knievel @medievelknievel.bsky.social

Was going to try and say something snarky (as an Oregonian), but yeah I can see that 😊

aug 23, 2025, 8:32 pm • 0 0 • view
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OnederfulWhirl @jaerostrikes.bsky.social

Not the sleep on Minnesota xD. Tbf I'm looking forward to MN because I live in MO and I know Minneapolis has like, the best biking infra in the country p much. That and they seem to be expanding transit projects like crazy. Helps that it's Midwestern culturally so my mannerisms translate well.

aug 23, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
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Monkee Bread @monkeebread.bsky.social

If you would live in NYC, how would not absolutely live in Jersey City?

aug 23, 2025, 9:21 pm • 1 0 • view
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tempolila.bsky.social @tempolila.bsky.social

Wow, so exclusive

aug 23, 2025, 8:29 pm • 0 0 • view
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incapotomus.bsky.social @incapotomus.bsky.social

I mean there’s some intrastate variation. I would live in Chicago in a heartbeat. I would never live downstate. I would live in the Bay Area happily, I wouldn’t live in Bakersfield.

aug 23, 2025, 8:39 pm • 4 0 • view
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Carol Fenton @cfpdx.bsky.social

Oregon & Texas are in "reluctantly"? I'm in OR and won't ever step foot in Texas.

aug 24, 2025, 1:18 pm • 0 0 • view
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sagevh.bsky.social @sagevh.bsky.social

Oregon in the same league as Texas? Wtfff

aug 24, 2025, 3:51 pm • 0 0 • view
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alifelongfiasco.bsky.social @alifelongfiasco.bsky.social

“A willing to split time in” version would be my follow on.

aug 23, 2025, 9:40 pm • 0 0 • view