The more I travel the more contempt I have for my home area

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I know this is primarily a logistics board.

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We can talk about anything here.


And you are exactly right. Traveling a lot in my 20s really hammered home how bad Louisiana is with those things you mentioned. I've been in Utah 2.5 years now, the grass is definitely greener.

To relate it back to travels, coming home from a vacation while living in La, getting hit with humidity when you land at the airport snaps you back into the sad reality of being home. I don't have that feeling anymore, in fact it's the opposite. Sometimes, I am happier to be back home.

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The litter, slovenly obesity, stream of self storage, Dollar General stores, and Horton Homes don’t even register

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all of this. add PI attorney billboards to that

where i live is ugly, no other word for it. the people and the places and the things of the human ecosystem are all unattractive

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What are Chicago problems

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Insane taxes, for starters. And a bunch of poli-appropriate content regarding rights and privileges, etc.

Is it nice to walk the Lake Michigan shoreline 90 days a year? Sure.

I travel that area frequently. Illinois in general, like most of the Midwest, is nice. Chicago, Madison, Minneapolis, Detroit have ridiculous progressive politics. Like New Orleans, they all have great features. Overall they are ruined by the politics. I just did 5000 miles completely off the interstate for two weeks in the Midwest out to South Dakota. Great people in those smaller towns that aren't corrupted....yet.

Me too. I love texas. But, visiting cousin in South Milwaukee, wi., I couldn't get over how nice all the neighbors kept their yards. It's hit and miss in houston.

My comment is more on how scenic daily commutes and communities are where one lives. Every place has trashy areas. I moved away from Baton Rouge a couple of years ago to Birmingham, about a year before I retired. I kept my house in Baton Rouge and worked there during the week and would drive back to Birmingham on the weekends. So on the weekends this was the type of view to my neighborhood -

When I got to Baton Rouge every week, my view looked like this as I was driving to my house -

People tend to visit touristy, historic, and expensive areas.

I had some clients in town from Germany and they marveled at how nice our suburbs are, everyone has a yard, restaurants and one stop massive stores everywhere, wide streets, etc.

As far as people being fat compared to Europe, that is a bonafide fact. We’re part of a much more industrialized food system and definitely less active.

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just did 5000 miles completely off the interstate for two weeks in the Midwest out to South Dakota. Great people in those smaller towns

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Those little small Midwest towns are kind of like stepping back in time 20-30 years. I always like stopping in them.