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Do you have to stay in Nashville? Moving for better opportunities is just about the most American thing a person can do

I could make the same amount of money anywhere with internet at this point, so there's no obvious place to move in particular. I loved the idea of hitting the West Coast until the smoke of the last few years caused me to reconsider.

As I consider if climate extremes are likely to keep getting worse, upstate New York or Vermont are seeming more and more viable to me.

Vermont is one of my favorite states in the union. The state motto is "freedom and unity" and you get the feeling that everyone is on the same team there.

New Hampshire's state motto is "live free or die." If you die in New Hampshire, it's probably because someone else was living free.

It always amazes me that so many "freedom" states heavily police individual behaviour more than I have experienced in the Bay Area, which doesn't have that rhetoric.

I can go buy magic mushrooms here, but in so-called Freedomland you can't even eat what you want. Whacky.

I moved to Texas for a short while and hoo boy, Austin is nice, but the peeps in Texas really love to tell the government to tread on them. You can't even get weed brownies here. Talk about big government.

You can buy drugs in any state in the union if you're cool enough

You can, but then one day, the jackboots will come.

I bet you $10 the jackboots are already buying and selling drugs

> Moving for better opportunities is just about the most American thing a person can do

Says who? The median American lives 18 miles away from their mom.

Americans used to move for opportunities much more in the past, today they have grown much more complacent and stay close to mom.

Manifest Destiny, Reconstruction, the gold rush, the dust bowl, ellis island, dreamers... there's a bunch. Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free!

https://depts.washington.edu/moving1/

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