We love to vacation in Maine, but I would still laugh pretty hard at any Southerner who would want to move there. Most folks who visit Maine from June-September have no earthly idea what the place is like for the other 8 months.
If we’re talking about truly overrated, then it’s a tie between Florida and California. All others are competing for a distant 3rd place.
You got that right…my San Diego (born there in '54) isn’t there anymore either. Neither is the San Jose I moved to in 1967. California has major problems with many different issues, but as messed up as things are, there’s no place in the world like it.
The weather. At least in the lower half.
-Malleus, who suffers terribly from winter depression
(We should have a “most underrated” companion thread. Unless someone’s made one already. I for one am sick and tired of Jersey jokes).
I was not generally impressed with San Diego weather. The June gloom, Santa Ana winds, 100+ summer days (in La Jolla, not desert!). Sure, some beautiful weather, but not the perfection everyone claims.
Speaking again as someone who spent his first 54 years there, I agree. Even back in the days when the Santa Anas occurred only a couple of times a year in Fall, San Diego’s climate/weather has always been overhyped.
I’ll grant you Florida over Colorado (or tied with it) I suppose, but there’s just no way any state, even Florida, is more overrated than or tied with California.
I mean, I think overall California is pretty okay, maybe a C+, B-, but gap between how it actually is and how its enthusiasts portray it is almost unimaginably wide.
That’s how I view it anyway; something can be pretty good, even great, and still be overrated. It’s all in the gap or ratio between reputation (or something like that) and reality. The Beatles were kind of overrated, after all.
What about New York? So many New Yorkers seem to feel that NYC is the center of the known universe.
Now, I’m all for letting people vent. If you live in a city or state you hate, or USED to, and just want to fume a bit, hey, don’t let me stop you. Maybe it’s therapeutic.
But do you really imagine the people who still live in the states you’re trashing were heartbroken when you left? Or that ANY of them are reading your rants and thinking, “By God, he’s right- we need to change and become more the way he wants us to be?”
Of course not!
So, by all means, trash Texas or Florida or wherever. Just so long as you know that the Texans and Floridians you mock are smirking, “Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.”
The states you hate miss you even less than you miss them.
Actually, we don’t even notice that they’ve gone.
They seem to have your attention.
Lighten up, Francis.
You forgot about the rolling blackouts. I’ve known several people who’ve moved back from California in recent years, so apparently whatever appeal CA is supposed to have is starting to wear thin.
Wow, lots of piling-on to Cali. I will say this: i lived in Oregon a decade ago, and back then I heard a statistic that something like 40 percent of that state’s population at the time had moved there from California.
Personally, my pick for this is Pennsylvania. The eastern half is economically depressed and corrupt. The western half is economically depressed and filled with some of the worst racism I can imagine exists north of Alabama. not much of a choice.
Yeah, those hordes of people clamoring to pack up and move to Pennsylvania sure are silly!
Let’s just go ahead an put PA in the same pile we put Ohio in, upthread.
That’s because it is. The rest of New York is what prevents the state from being overrated.
Texas. Lived there for several years and, given the option of moving back there or rolling naked in broken 40 ounce malt liquor bottles, my only question would be whether I can help drink the forties.
That was a long time ago. Since then the Mormons have been engaged in a breeding program that turns out these amazing chipper wholesome blond-haired blue-eyed very attractive men and women in droves. It’s a little uncanny, actually.
(Yes, there are many brown-haired and brown-eyed Mormons, and even Mormons of other ethnicities (of which I am one), but there is definitely a type – if you’ve been around a bunch of them, you can often recognize a person from Mormon stock just by that particular attractive/wholesome look. )
ETA: What I actually came in to say… Colorado has Rocky Mountain National Park. But Utah has, well, practically the entire southern part of Utah. So I guess they tie for beautiful places, though it’s a matter of style as to which you prefer. I’ll go with Florida for overrated. Humid, cockroaches… ugh.
Its tiny, its rundown, its old, and its unemployed (11.3%)!
Why this joke of a state is allowed to exist is beyong me-it should be absorbed by Connecticut.
Been my opinion for a decade. I really think we could take 'em.