# Nobody goes there anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 29, 2008, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396 "2008-01-29T01:38:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![PoorYorick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecccb3/32.png) [@PoorYorick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PoorYorick)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/81 "2008-01-29T22:52:52Z")
Kansas is the only state I know of that made Oklahoma seem exciting. ---
**Author:** ![kitemaker\_chuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/a88e4f/32.png) [@kitemaker\_chuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kitemaker_chuck)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/82 "2008-01-29T22:56:28Z")
[QUOTE=MissGypsy] Idaho. I’ve never met one person who’s been to Idaho. [/QUOTE] I was stationed in Idaho, at Mountain Home Air Force Base. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/83 "2008-01-29T23:15:27Z")
I was always fond of the expression, “[Something is] like making love or going to St. Louis, to use two opposite extremes.” ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/84 "2008-01-29T23:29:42Z")
[QUOTE=Muffin] You do realize that now every ski bum on the continent will be hounding you for a closet to crash in in Sun Valley. I envy your location. 🙂 [/QUOTE] I carefully didn’t say _which_ one, now did I? Though I don’t know if they’d care. And if I say we have no rooms, we have no rooms. Please believe me. And I’d envy my location, too, if I wasn’t here. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Tamex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Tamex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamex)\ **Post date:** [January 29, 2008, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/85 "2008-01-29T23:39:50Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] South Dakota has Mt. Rushmore. That’s about it. [/QUOTE] South Dakota has the entire Black Hills area going for it, Badlands National Park, and even the aforementioned Wall Drug and its billions of billboards. North Dakota, between Fargo and Roosevelt National Park, has pretty much nothing at all and a whole lot of it. At least Delaware is small. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/86 "2008-01-30T00:13:00Z")
Risha, don’t make me come over there. Thanks for the map but Delaware is not touching the Chesapeake Bay! But we do have [Punkin’ Chunkin’](http://www.punkinchunkin.com/main.htm) Where pumpkins are fired, catapulted, or thrown by other means, up to a mile. For no apparent reason. We also have the single most bad ass painting of a pirate to ever grace the earth and for which I cannot find an image on the internet. And a Scrapple Festival! ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/87 "2008-01-30T00:14:41Z")
I will get slammed by our resident Louisiana posters but damn, what an ugly state. Bogs, flat land, paper mills, old sharecropper shacks, towns that are dying. Man, I needed a drink but I couldn’t find one since half the state is dry. I live in Missouri, this is a garden state in comparison. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/88 "2008-01-30T00:45:16Z")
[QUOTE=Manatee] Rhode Island. [/QUOTE] Are you kidding me? Rhode Island is a HUGE tourist destination. The whole state is like a beachy New England wonderland. (Well, except for Cranston.) Block Island is one of my favorite places in the world. And even Providence has really upped its game in recent years. The refurbishment of downtown has been pretty remarkable, and [Waterfire](http://www.waterfire.org/) is just amazing. And to all you people dissing Idaho–Don’t knock it 'til you’ve tried it! Mountainous wilderness galore. See \*\*Muffin]/b]'s pictures! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/89 "2008-01-30T00:59:18Z")
[QUOTE=gravitycrash] I will get slammed by our resident Louisiana posters but damn, what an ugly state. Bogs, flat land, paper mills, old sharecropper shacks, towns that are dying. Man, I needed a drink but I couldn’t find one since half the state is dry. I live in Missouri, this is a garden state in comparison. [/QUOTE] :eek: Parts of Louisiana are rather generic piny woods but the bayous, swamps, lakes and rivers are beautiful in their own way. New Orleans, at least the core parts that didn’t get destroyed by Katrina are beautiful in lots of ways including architecture, history, design, flora, and atmosphere. Also, there is nothing boring about my home state even in the less attractive parts. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/90 "2008-01-30T01:18:15Z")
[QUOTE=kitemaker\_chuck] I was stationed in Idaho, at Mountain Home Air Force Base. [/QUOTE] So you didn’t quite GO to Idaho - the government PUT you there 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mangosteen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Mangosteen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangosteen)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/91 "2008-01-30T02:14:12Z")
Here in southern California we got a “Visit Nebraska” ad that has been coming on the TV a few times a week. It shows some people canoeing in a river and others riding horses. I really wonder how many people from southern California take vacations in Nebraska. Why do they bother running a ad here? Many people here vacation in Hawaii. Any one else get these “Visit (some state)” ads? ---
**Author:** ![whiterabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cab0a1/32.png) [@whiterabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whiterabbit)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/92 "2008-01-30T04:07:35Z")
I moved to Idaho. Voluntarily. It was my idea. It can happen! Seriously, if you’re outdoorsy, there’s alllllll kinds of outdoorsy stuff to do in Idaho. Having visited my brother in Nebraska, where he ended up because the Air Force put him there and now he’s staying to finish school because he’s got residency and all, I’d have to put it high on the list of yawner states. Note that I visited him in Omaha and also drove the rest of the way across the state. It was impressive in its boringness, but not much else. I only _hope_ that there are more interesting parts than I saw. Iowa should have as its slogan “IOWA – 300 MILES OF CORNFIELDS. ENJOY TRYING TO STAY AWAKE WHILE YOU DRIVE ACROSS IT!” North Louisiana is dull. South Louisiana, not dull at all. It’s like two different states in one, and I’ve lived in both. I’ll skip living in either again, mostly because of the climate, but I don’t think it has a place in this thread. ---
**Author:** ![vison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e47774/32.png) [@vison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vison)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/93 "2008-01-30T04:15:39Z")
I have never met anyone from Delaware, but I sat next to a guy from Rhode Island once. He was nice, so I have a very high opinion of Rhode Island. I think Delaware is real, though. My youngest sister’s mother-in-law has a cousin there. They are a weird family, but not so weird that they would live in a fictional state. But then again, they might. Just to prove a point. ---
**Author:** ![Orual](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/779978/32.png) [@Orual](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orual)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/94 "2008-01-30T04:25:55Z")
[QUOTE=Mangosteen] Any one else get these “Visit (some state)” ads? [/QUOTE] Oddly enough, I see ones with Governor Conan telling me to come to California rather frequently. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/95 "2008-01-30T05:00:36Z")
> [@](#): > > My youngest sister’s mother-in-law has a cousin there. I know them. So it has to be real. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/96 "2008-01-30T08:08:08Z")
[QUOTE=Justin\_Bailey] Ohio actually gets tons of tourists because of Cedar Point, the rollercoaster capital of the world. And not one of those fake capitals either, this place has almost 20 coasters. Oh yeah. 🆒 [/QUOTE] Beat me to it. Yeah, people come here from all over the world, just to go to Cedar Point. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 8:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/97 "2008-01-30T08:48:44Z")
Defending various maligned states: For South Dakota, you have Sturgis, and the annual gathering of a half million Harley riders. Idaho is home to BIFC, pronounced Biff-See, the Boise Interagency Fire Center, the point of coordination for wildland fires and other natural diasasters. Delaware is a tiny, yet diverse state. On one hand you have mega shopping, huge corporatations, and on the other, some lovely beaches and scenery. Those of you who claim it to be imaginary haven’t taken the Cape May-Lewes ferry. For boring, I’ve gotta vote Ohio. On a drive across OH on I-70, I came upon a sign: Welcome to Huber Heights, America’s largest community of all-brick homes. Man, if that’s your greatest claim to fame, you’re more to be pitied than mocked. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/98 "2008-01-30T09:27:57Z")
There have been some epic and heroic climbing expeditions in Kansas and Nebraska. [http://www.bettingers.org/air/index.htm](http://www.bettingers.org/air/index.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Fern\_Forest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/71c47a/32.png) [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/99 "2008-01-30T10:14:05Z")
I also have Grandparents and other relatives in Kansas. The reason pioneers founded Manhattan, KS is because they got stuck and couldn’t go any further. It’s so appropriate. Plus a huge swath of the left side of the state stinks from the pig farms. Or is it just the one? You can smell it for miles. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2008, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396/100 "2008-01-30T11:08:06Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] The UP of Michigan. It’s been part of Canada for 60 years, but nobody’s noticed. [/QUOTE] At least it’s connected to Wisconsin. There’s a little part of Minnesota that is completely unconnected to the U.S. To drive from there to the rest of Minnesota, you have to go through Canada. Why would anybody go there? > [@](#): > > Delaware Is the nation’s capitol for non profit organizations. There are some peculiarities to its laws that make it very attractive to establish corporations there. So it is a mecca for certain kinds of lawyers. I think it’s the low corporate state taxes. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nobody-goes-there-anymore/435396.md?page=6)