Tampa? I stayed a few days there and it seemed like just about the most generic city imaginable. Still, I thought there was enough appealing about Florida to rate it #15. If we're counting Virginia as a southern state, I had it as #12. But yes I had NC as my top-rated southern state.

LOL

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Virginia is more southern than Florida

The original premise of the game was to rank the states from most to least visitable. Not the best or worst state to live in. Or overall. Or whatever.

Florida is the #2 ranked state in tourism dollars. How is it laughable to have Florida ranked high on my list?

Agreed. Unless you mean the Florida panhandle, in which case Florida is right up there with Alabama and Mississippi as the most Southern state of all.

I wasn't the laugher and your ranking doesn't seem outlandish to me I guess, but ranking highly in tourism dollars seems like a negative. Your options are to travel there outside of peak visiting times or to hate your vacation.

"Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded."

-Yogi Berra

I haven't done my rankings, but I may as well, since I seem to have time. I'm not sure why I didn't do it years ago when it was first posted...

And I can say with confidence that when I get to hell, it will look a lot like Florida.

what was the scoring system gonna be anyway?

was he gonna SHEEP this mfer

I'm going to Florida in January! Never think about going to the northeast even though I ranked them all ok

Write about many angry people who responded to a survey about the 50 states and the results of the survey were hidden from them

The people were fuming with anger after they responded to a survey about the 50 states, only to find out that the results of the survey were hidden from them. They had spent almost an hour answering questions, only to be denied the satisfaction of finding out how they had done.

The survey had asked people to rank the states in order of how much they liked them, and the respondents had put a lot of effort into making sure their answers were accurate and truthful. However, when they asked to see their results, they were told that the information was confidential and would not be shared with them.

This made them even angrier, as they felt like their time and effort had been wasted. They felt that the survey had been a waste of their time, and they were not happy that they had been denied the satisfaction of finding out how they had done.

The angry people were left feeling frustrated, and some of them even threatened to take legal action against the survey company. They felt that the company had wasted their time and energy, and that they deserved to know the results of the survey.

In the end, the angry people never got to see the results of the survey, and their anger only grew.

I'm not mad. I'm just disappointed.

Reads like a high school essay I'd write that is struggling to meet the page requirement.

I'm thinking about a couple of road trips this summer to get myself into the 50 states club (having visited all 50 states.)

My question is, what qualifies a visit as being official? I've been to the Minneapolis airport on a layover, but never left the building. Surely I can't give myself credit for Minnesota.

I've driven through Indiana, New Jersey, Arkansas, and Delaware, but never stopped the car, other than to get gas in Arkansas. Do those count?

I stopped in Kentucky for McDonalds and went inside a liquor store for a bottle of bourbon. I stopped at a dog park in Kansas and had lunch later that day. I visited New Orleans for 4 hours with college buddies, collected a bunch of beads at a Mardi Gras parade, and drank 2 hurricanes before heading back to Florida. Do I count Louisiana?

I've never set foot in Iowa, Nebraska Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, or either of the Dakotas. Every other state I've spent the night at least once, so full credit there.

Back to the original question. What qualifies me to claim that I've visited a state?

for me, i qualify if im in a place and have an interaction with someone who lives there(like ordering mcdonalds in person)

but that's just me


for you, i suggest you just judge whether or not you feel like you've been there

My standard for myself is that you have to make a stop at something authentic to the state. Stop at some sort of landmark exclusive to the state, or at least stop and have a meal at a non-chain restaurant that you wouldn't be able to visit anywhere else.

IMO you've definitely checked Louisiana off the list, Kansas is a maybe, the rest are a no.

My last edge case was when I was going to drive through a corner of Mississippi in between Alabama and Memphis. I dialed up TripAdvisor on my phone and found a historic site of a Civil War battlefield to stop and spend an hour at.

Obviously all of this is really arbitrary and a person can go with whatever standard they want, but if people are including **** like "connected in an airport in that state" as their only qualification then that's odd to me.

one exception though that comes to mind, is barren parts of west texas. i don't think i ever interacted with anyone, but it took like 8 hours to drive through. we must have stopped for gas, but i dont think i talked to anyone.

but 8 hours driving through a place that geographically is the same, qualifies imo

oh i didn't think about interactions with airport employees, if you're just stopping in the airport. those don't count. imo

Can I change my submission to Delaware #50

I count layovers for countries I've been to. For example, layover in Taiwan, but never stepped outside airport. Chalk it up. I've had a layover in LAX but never been to LA. Maybe there's a difference between 'been to' and 'visited'.

I think this is my map, with different levels of "visited".

I could see it with other countries. But every airport in the US that I've seen, regardless of size, feels like it's part of the same monoculture. Maybe an exception for Nevada airports and the gaming machines in those; that does feel like it's putting an imprint of local culture inside the airport walls.

How'd you make that? I'd like to give it a go.

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