It used to be pretty, but most of the prairie and grasslands have been flattened and replaced with corn, highways, parking lots, and strip malls.

I mean you can have that and also be closer to an ocean and civilization.

Big open spaces need trees in them.

So it’s really big and empty except for the ruins?

I like that my house didn’t cost $800k.

needs a few rocks and cactus

Plus it won’t be a burning pit of fire once climate change really ramps up.

I think the most frustrating thing is the whole “oh, I drove through there once, it was a shithole?”

The whole state bitch? You drove through the entire state? A shithole? Those are corn fields, what seems to have been the problem?

Does your kind become anxious and high strung if they can’t see concrete? Were you expecting… I don’t know some sort of city that never ends from the infamous novel Don’t Invent The Torment Nexus?

You saw some empty land with a small amount of housing on it that wasn’t actually empty because something is growing there deliberately, and you thought “shithole”?

Fuck these bootmarching pigs. “Progressive” until the subject of the white rural poor gets brought up and then it’s time for a hate party.

Anyway. I did some looking hard at the map one day, and I realized that what’s been happening is Highway 30, which runs directly East to West across Ohio.

30 seems to deliberately avoid every population center, but it does manage to go through a couple of smaller towns, so that you have some place to stop for gas. That means that if you drive through Ohio on the way to somewhere else, you’re probably going to take 30, or maybe something else.

In fact, all the East/West routes across Ohio seem to avoid population centers, probably because that makes sense, the land was cheaper and nobody’s housing needed ripped down to build it.

Meanwhile, all the cities are connected on a North/South axis so that if you travel from the top of Ohio to the bottom or vice versa, it’s pretty tough to avoid a population center since that’s where the highway is going.

So if you’re traveling through the state to get through some place else, you will have an extremely biased experience where it looks like nobody seems to live in the state of Ohio, it’s empty.

But instead of giving that a think, you just turn to all your little friends and announce, with the confidence of a mediocre white woman, that “Ohio is a shithole, let me tell you, I was there once.”

The way the conversation goes among “leftists” online, it makes it pretty clear that if you live in this state, you’re on your own. Let them keep thinking nasty about it, I don’t know what else will keep that demon rent down.

I’ve lived here my whole life and still enjoy seeing the Chicago skyline, either up close or from a distance. I like pointing it out to my 4 year old daughter too.

I think any state has its beauty and charm.

the land is great, the problem is the people

“On a clear day you can see the back of your own head.”

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