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Californians and landleeches. Sometimes both, the dreaded Californian landleech.

Theres a sign on the road that says "Now entering ______ County." or something like that.

> But then I’d get asked some ignorant ass shit like if I’d ever been to the ocean. Bitch I live closer to the ocean than you do, open a fuckin map. Or I’d say, California is nice but I could buy a house on a starting salary back home. And they’d just respond “yeah but I’d have to live in NC..” and I’d ask if they’d ever been? To which they’d say no. Yeah ok, well informed opinion there my man.

Now consider what happens on Reddit whenever anything positive about Texas is ever mentioned. The problems with the electrical grid from the bad winter two years ago is nowadays the first go-to, but even had that not happened something else would be.

The terminally online here are basically calling the state's tens of millions, and the many, many thousands that every year move to Texas from elsewhere, all idiots. As if they aren't human beings with agency and the freedom and intelligence to decide that, hey, living in Texas seems like a good idea to me.

Damn those prices sound great- here in NJ cant find anything under 700K

If you're in SF and get the south is racist crap just ask them why the train doesn't go to Marin county,

What’s it like living in a place where the counties are just squares? How do you tell the difference between one and the next?

I live in central Illinois. For the most part the economy wasn’t effect to badly because of the pandemic. We also are not connected to the tech industry in any meaningful way, thus avoiding any effects from the recent economic downturn. Agriculture, healthcare and manufacturing have been doing very well.

Housing prices here have always lagged behind the national average but we are definitely seeing an uptick in values. Nobody is moving because of lack of inventory. Also building new is expensive so it’s not really an option.

Nice!
I used to be a county appraiser in one of those red counties. Glad I dodged that bullet.

I work with heaps of Nigerian folks in tech, they’re wonderful. I mean, everyone is, really.

I expect it would look very different if normalized for the number of people who emigrate from each country in total.

Ukrainians entering Canada were not PRs and therefore not immigrants.

Yeah that’s cool man. I don’t even think NC is that great a place (though it’s not bad). But it’s ignorant to entirely write a place off without ever having actually visited. You don’t get a get out of ignorance free card just cuz you grew up in “enlightened” Orange County or Bay Area California is all I’m saying.

Also to Winnipeg MB.

It's more expensive to build in general and new construction is getting ridiculously big and packed with amenities driving the price up.

That would be my guess, less organic and more like a bunch of expensive ass monsters are getting built and dropped on the market

I've been to North Carolina, I definitely don't want a house in North Carolina lol

Spent time in Mooresville and exploring Charlotte, Asheville, did the Smoky Mountain RR train ride, and basically went from Cherokee to Wilmington. Gorgeous goddamn state, and a lot more tolerable than some of the more ‘civilised’ places like NYC, Philly, DC, etc.; nowhere near as armpit-humid in the summer and quite mild in the winter. Ignorant idiots can STFU about NC.

…except for that ‘dooo wuuut?’ response 🤣🤣🤣

That ocean comment is wild . What clowns haha

No Worcester Massachusetts. North Central Massachusetts specifically. Median prices are in the $400k-$500k range. I need them to come down to $320k-$400k range.

I’m from NC and I found this funny when I moved to California for a job. I got made fun of from being from the south, and everyone just hated the south because it was so racist and ignorant (don’t get me wrong, it’s got it’s problems).

But then I’d get asked some ignorant ass shit like if I’d ever been to the ocean. Bitch I live closer to the ocean than you do, open a fuckin map. Or I’d say, California is nice but I could buy a house on a starting salary back home. And they’d just respond “yeah but I’d have to live in NC..” and I’d ask if they’d ever been? To which they’d say no. Yeah ok, well informed opinion there my man.

So most places have lots of ignorance, just the west coast and northeast have ignorant people that have been given a superiority mindset because they have been told that every day the middle and south part of the country is backwards.

My thing is, a place has to have some redeeming quality of 100k+ people decide to live somewhere, wherever that is.

You're welcome!

I guess Wikipedia classified it this way because ICBMs travel through space on the way to their destination, but I can understand the perspective that this is too much of a stretch to count as space.

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Good question!

These magazine rankings are super subjective and unscientific. Also, I think many students who get admitted to these schools also get admitted to other good schools and can find better financial aid there.

How “top” can you be when only 10% of the students you accept want to actually attend?

I suppose the perspective matters. For an educated person (in an in demand field), immigrating to Canada is pretty easy, as you say, but immigrating to the US is difficult. But for an uneducated person, immigrating to Canada is basically impossible, but immigrating to the US is possible through family sponsorship.