other states..I'm from Portland, OR and working in MN right now..God Fuck, this Midwest is fucked up...Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Georgia etc..These are 3rd world countries to me.
Don't get me wrong, but I enjoy living in open-minded, liberal places that are developed, educated and advanced.
you're obviously judging the cities vs. rural areas.
if you judge the nice ones, such as Austin, TX, Houston, TX, Atlanta, GA, most major cities in florida, including Orlando, Hunstville, AL, Louisville, KY
those are all very nice, great cities... raleigh/durham NC the triangle is nice, most of Virginia is nice.
Liberal politics of this decade has nothing to do with it, most of the financial backdrop of a city were sealed a century ago. San Francisco benefitted quite well from a huge rush of GOLD not its liberal politics... so you would think they would have learned the lesson about what inflation does as far as transferring wealth... Los Angeles is more or less a third world country inside of the city limits, save for Beverly Hills, I lived there for 3 years(LA not beverly hills). Ventura is nice, Beverly Hills is nice, but you could choke to death on the smog. Portland and Seattle are around the same size, level of development and sophistication as Nashville, Austin TX etc.
politics has little to do with a cities development unless you are talking about specifically civic planned development that didn't have private source of funding, which is basically nothing.
take nashville for example, nashville is suddenly booming because our location makes us a great shipping/receiving hub.
i can tell you for a fact tho that all ofthe New Deal policies in the tennessee valley authority nearly ruined our state. we have a ton of problematic stuff, including our own version of universal healthcare, tenncare, which collapsed under its own bureaucracy more or less.
