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Yeah, crazy people definitely predominately come from the north east. Folks in the rest of america are incredibly well adjusted and level headed.
i know i'm being a total woo person but i literally believe this land is haunted. how could it not be? it's seen so much death - the extinction of species, the genocide of peoples.
I maintain my theory that humans weren't meant to live above the 23rd parallel. In the cold, we need artificial heat to survive, our skin dries out, we get depressed, etc.
Wisconsin was much the same way
Turns out when your prospects are poor and liquor is abundant, you tend to become the liquor
Town I live in now has three liquor stores within walking distance which is oddly similar to growing up in Milwaukee, where I had three bars and two liquor stores in walking distance
Reminds me of the time I got lost driving around Vermont
What started off as a quaint drive through a mountainside town quickly turned into a night of terror when I got turned around and my GPS cut out
Luckily my partner is not as high-strung as I am and got us back onto the highway
I remember people making jokes about drunk Russians and how in the USSR a significant portion of their government revenue came from alcohol sales. I remember thinking man those commies must have been fucking stupid to let their people suffer like that! Looking around me now... man both propaganda and alcohol fuck you up. I guess all of this doesnt portend well for ye olde US of A.
Last time I checked, Milwaukee county (where I grew up) had more liquor stores and bars than churches, schools, and grocery stores combined
Wouldn't doubt that figure being similar to a large swathe of the Midwest
I can't speak to the northeast, but I can speak to the midwest. I grew up in a large midwestern city. All my life, I was used to seeing strip malls will half the storefronts vacant. The mall I used to work in got demolished but not really replaced by anything. Lots of stories of people moving away. Just this overall feeling of decline that seems to get exacerbated in the winter when things that are run-down look even worse. I remember driving around in the winter and just feeling bummed out by it all. I think the midwest and northeast are similar in this regard.
It blows my mind that the area stretching from Pennsylvania to Illinois used to be the manufacturing heart of the world economy not four decades ago. We have seen in less than half of a human lifetime a whole way of life and social ecosystem be violently uprooted and dislocated.
Reminds me of the story about the Century III Mall that's abandoned in Pittsburgh (also my local malls).
The Northeast gets a lot of sun, it's just cold and full of aggressive people. Move to the Great Lakes if you want to experience 6+ months of straight clouds, cold weather, AND rampant alcoholism.
me, a pale person that sunburns in 2seconds:
ah oh no whatever will i do
The other six months of the year are too hot
Plus Lake Michigan (don't know about the rest) reeks when it's warmer than 50 degrees out, on account of all the animal waste they just dump into it
"Yeah, there's this cold wet place were the beaches are made out of jagged rocks and the fish have claws!"
They'd get across the Mississippi, take one look at the man-eating mosquito clouds in Wisconsin, and nope the fuck back across the river.
Except for the proximity to Europe, which was the main center of industry and trade in the 19th century. Also Appalachia is coal country and the Midwest has the lakes and rivers necessary for pre-railroad transportation, so the industrial revolution had to take place there. All much better than the deserts and mountains that abut the West coast.
i think new england is lowkey haunted. as it should be for all the mess colonizers did there. but still, kind of haunted. it doesnt help when certain new england states have no one living there (thinking of VT) and just have a shit ton of old ass cemeteries and grave stones for settler infants who died in 1621 of a otherwise preventable frontier illness---not the happiest place
It's actually the years of lead poisoning that made boomers the deranged sociopaths they are today. It was banned in the 70s, but rotting apartments in the inner-city were still tainted with lead paint leading to the dramatic rise in crime for another generation. Can't blame geography when the fault lies with industrial greed, bro.
dang, did they wake you up with their black masses at midnight?
Why do you think all lovecraftian style stories take place there
I live near the coal region. The place is stuck in time and weird af. It’s a shame what the coal industry did to our beautiful land and the people here. These people are stuck. I know of a place where you can buy a decent old house for $25k, but the town is so poor and there’s no jobs. My one friend had to get her house foreclosed on because no one would buy it. Fucking crazy as hell.
I like the northeast and the people there pretty well, but my main cultural point of reference is Florida so I'm really not in a place to say which populaces are well adjusted lol
I once went to the Midwest and people held the door at the gas station for me roughly 6x what I would consider an appropriate distance. Like I'd be getting out of my car and they'd be waiting for me. Just too nice. Give me my casually abrasive eastern seaboard, thanks.
Yeah I do find frigid massholes minding their own business the easiest to get along with tbh
I’d love to live up there, if only for a change of scenery. Currently going mad in the southeast. :agony:
I tend to assume anyone from outside of a couple parts of the country are absolute psycopaths until proven otherwise.
Nah - cities too. You ever been to New York or LA? Fuckin' terrifying.
For the record, that's probably the number one worst thing to do if you go to New York.
