re: Most Boring State To Live In/Visit?

The Midwest is great for hunting and not much else.

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Idaho

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I didn't have the chance to travel all over the state...but Bridgeport, Connecticut was the biggest s-hole I can recall visiting.

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Oklahoma

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I used to spend a lot of time in Oklahoma. I loved going there. The people were awesome, and the number of Armenian Steak houses in Tulsa alone...just thinking about the steak and tabbouleh brings tears to my eyes.

I would go to Tulsa and hit the bars at Brookside or the Riverwalk. It was a blast.

I think you've got to flip a coin between Indiana or Kansas. Des Moines alone keeps Iowa out of the conversation. It's a really nice town for those who haven't been.

Now, regarding Kansas and Indiana, Lawrence, KS is actually a pretty cool town. It's surprisingly a little more eclectic than one would imagine. It's also pretty close to Kansas City which is a very underrated town.

The parts of Indiana that I've been to were boring and pretty miserable. Nothing going on and stretches of cornfields. That said, I haven't been to Bloomington or Indianapolis - which isn't too appealing in and of itself.

If you could remove Chicago from the state, Illinois would certainly belong in this list.

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North Alabama

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Huntsville? Muscle Shoals? Florence? Guntersville Lake? Plenty of other "boring state(s) to live in/visit."

This is a tough question because there are really good places to live in most states and really awful places to live in others.

Rural areas are mostly the same, with the only redeeming qualities of some being proximity to larger cities.

I would much rather live in Wichita kansas than middle of nowhere Alabama, but as a whole Alabama is probably considered a "less boring" state to live in.

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Alabama is pretty boring

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You need better hobbies then. There's a little something for everyone in Alabama, especially as an outdoorsman.

You've got the Pinhoti trail, a 330+ mile hiking trail that starts in the Talladega national forest and connects to the Benton Mckaye in Georgia before running into the Appalachian trail.

You can catch a rainbow trout on a fly rod in the Sipsey Fork, or catch a speckled trout on a fly rod in Mobile Bay. You can go to Dismal Canyon in Franklin county and see the glowing dismalites, one of the few places in the world that this happens. Alabama has the longest navigable scenic river trail in the nation. It boasts the second largest delta in the country that's home to several species that are found there and there only. Alabama ranks third among all U.S. states in the number of troglobite species, due to it's vast explorable cave systems. Alabama is truly one of the more geologically diverse states in the country

Not into the outdoors? There are dozens of excellent breweries across the state. Mobile Mardi Gras is a great time every year. The Peanut festival in Dothan. Sloss Fest in Birmingham. Visit Muscle Shoals if you're a music buff, or Huntsville if you're a space buff. Selma if you're a history buff. The SEC baseball tournament every year. I mean, if you can't find something fun to do in Alabama then odds are you're just a miserable person. From the appalachian mountains to the white sand beaches of the gulf, I just don't see how there isn't something for everyone.


I'll give you Mississippi, but as an outdoorsman there's plenty to do there as well. If I showed you pictures of red bluff outside of Tylertown you wouldn't believe it was in Mississippi. The flyover states take this question in landslide. Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Iowa...there is just no geological diversity in those states and no major cities with a ton to offer

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North Alabama

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I'd take North Mississippi over North Louisiana. North Alabama blows them both away. It's North Georgia with a mid sized city