I grew up in LA suburbs. I went to KU and came back here 9 years ago when my now wife and I got back together. I love it here (Overland Park). I randomly picked KU as my favorite basketball team back in 1994/95. It's the only reason I came to school here and the only reason I ended up living here.

I love it here. It was a pretty darn lucky random pick I made. Living in a major city with a major airport is important. I have family and friends visit and it doesn't cost them a lot of time or money to get here. I can get to LA or Vegas for under 250 round trip.

I'd choose Ohio and pick Cincinnati. They have major sports teams and a casino for poker. Southwest flies out of there (no nonstop flights to LA or Vegas though), but it'd be a lot easier for me to have visitors or get out of town than if I lived in ND, SD, Wyoming, Alaska, Hawaii, Maine, etc.

As for my actual situation, I'm sure glad I didn't randomly pick Iowa St. - no way would living there now would've worked out as great as Kansas has for me

Yeah, but I bet you wish you lived in Oregon instead.

I can't disagree with this. I miss CA a lot from July - August and the cold months

I was at that game , but I was also in Lawrence when we shipped in 2008

Now that you have your own Q39 there’s one less reason to go to KCMO.

Me too! I didn't really think about it but yeah, a weird mix of rich retirees and rednecks. I'd much rather be down at the beach than in Wilmington,DE. I think there are a lot worse options than DE. I'd say it's slightly above average because the weather is generally nice, there is a slower paced lifestyle and the beaches are clean and not as crowded as others.

Given that these factors don't really disappear in this hypothetical question, I don't understand how you snap call random.

I used to live In columbus and it is a pretty good city. I’ve lived in San Fran and now Chicago and prefer those, although Columbus is far better than median.

Iowa Nebraska dakotas Oklahoma Vermont Connecticut Maine Montana Missouri etc etc

Then you can toss in places like New York where the only better place than Columbus is nyc, which isn’t for everyone

Word. It's certainly not for everyone and I can see why people don't like it, but after living virtually all my adult life in NoVA, I am very much enjoying the slower lower.

Personally anything non-coastal now holds very little appeal for me. I can't see moving somewhere inland and having the beach be a one week summer vacation thing. Being able to go on a random Wednesday for lunch and sit on the beach is the nuts.

I lived in Nashville, TN for over a decade, and when it was clear I was moving (for my wife's job) the candidates were Cincy, St. Louis, Philly, Denver, and San Fran. During her search I told her jokingly - kind of jokingly! - I'm not moving to ****ing Cincinnati. Guess where I've lived the past few years?

Ohio people are certified nuts, and since Cincy is a state border city it gets all the Kentucky jokes too, but... I've been back to Nashville several times, and I'm pretty happy we're not there anymore. It's loads more expensive, crowded, pretentious, and everything that made it awesome in, say, 2008 is gone. I'd bet Denver is the same. So if you gave me a random choice between Denver/Nashville and Cincy... I'd think real hard and probably choose Denver. But I'd deliberate! And not snap choose not-Ohio.

I've also lived in South Dakota and Utah and grew up in St. Louis. People putting "major" metro areas in states like SD or WY or MT on par with metro areas in OH are probably not informed or not realistic.

lol, yeah, cuz ohio is known for the positivity its sports teams bring the residents.

Grunching from OP,

What a great question! Really gives me a mental boner.

I snap accept Ohio. Proximity to Chicago, assuming I can drive out of state, and rules out something I would hate like Alaska, Wyoming, Nebraska, and the Dakotas.

This is true of pretty much everywhere with urban cachet now. They're all the same. There's no meaningful difference between a Raleigh coffee shop, a Portland brew pub and an Austin food truck. It's all one great big commodified cluster**** of overpriced, generic hipster bull****.

I guess that means you're moving to Minot to get away from that crap.

How do people who live in small non-college towns or rural areas survive without seeing lots of attractive women?

If you live in a city or close to a university, when you go to the grocery store, restaurant, park or anywhere you see a bunch of attractive 18-22yo's - this massively adds to daily happiness.

Nothing wrong with hipsters https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2...concerned.html

I spun and got Utah.


On the one hand, I'm white. On the other hand, I'm Jewish.

I already volunteered for Cleveland.

Well that's because its big sky country!

How are people rating Missouri high? I spent a summer there when i was between 7th and 8th grade and thought it was the worst place ever. UNGODLY heat and humidity. Very uptight, nosy, conservative protestant culture where people are all judgmental of everyone else. I remember thinking the land and even red dirt was ugly (I was probably homesick).

Kansas City and St. Louis are both urban blight hellholes. What am i missing?

You never met a sports fan unless you been to Ohio. If there are two things Ohio people get really emotional about, it's sports and the weather. When the Indians go the World Series, the entire city shuts down. No one even goes to school. Sure, they burn jerseys, but the concept of a "fair weather" fan is totally missing in that state... well, the Browns aren't selling out these days.

St Louis has the arch, which reminds everyone of McDonald's. I doubt many have been there. Even one day is enough to make you reconsider your life travels.

It says a lot when you meet people who grew up in Hartford, Gary, and similar places, did prison time, and calls St Louis a scary ghetto.

Or maybe they mean the political climate. You couldn't pay me to live in Denver.

Well, you could, but it would have to be a lot.

I live in Cincinnati which I don't hate so I'd probably b/c guessing worse options.

That's East St Louis. (Illinois)
Went to college in StL. A solid Midwestern city. Plenty of good areas.