# Trump wins the election. Where ya gonna live? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 30, 2016, 10:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276 "2016-09-30T10:25:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Memnon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@Memnon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Memnon)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/101 "2016-11-10T04:45:09Z")
I already live in England, but I’m thinking I might move _to_ America. I don’t want to be nuked by mistake! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/102 "2016-11-10T04:49:25Z")
> [@Memnon](#): > > I already live in England, but I’m thinking I might move _to_ America. I don’t want to be nuked by mistake! 😃 I’m thinking it may be better here than abroad, where you’d have to face all the bitter questioning about the absurdity of the election. But then, I live on a strongly Democratic island six hours’ flying time from the mainland. ---
**Author:** ![Whatever4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f04885/32.png) [@Whatever4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whatever4)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/103 "2016-11-10T11:49:04Z")
I’ll stay where I am, unless or until the closed military base nearby shows signs of reopening and the local airport’s access road is blocked by Homeland Security. ---
**Author:** ![Pabitel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbce88/32.png) [@Pabitel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pabitel)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/104 "2016-11-10T13:15:04Z")
Ah, Vermont. Sure they can screw things up for us through national laws but we are pretty self sufficient up here and we still have Bernie working for us. And as Silent Cal used to say: > [@](#): > > I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the Union, and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/105 "2016-11-10T14:14:59Z")
Trump’s election has only further reminded me how much I hate living in a rural state. Not that Maine didn’t (mostly) go for Clinton, but it’s still Maine. I’ve bitched and moaned about living here ever since I moved here from California. I desperately want to move to a big city. I’m sick of the sticks. I think I’d feel more at home, and probably find more like minded people in a metropolis. I’ve been fantasizing about moving back to SF or possibly LA. If I sold my house I might even be able to pull it off. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [November 10, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/106 "2016-11-10T15:37:14Z")
I plan on staying put until the revolution starts … then I guess I’ll be assigned to the Columbia Gorge tearing up railroad tracks … ---
**Author:** ![Penfeather](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penfeather/32/384_2.png) [@Penfeather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Penfeather)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/107 "2016-11-11T01:23:12Z")
> [@octopus](#): > > So the rest of the world is “xenophobic” too? You shit the bed, you sleep with the stink. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/108 "2016-11-11T12:49:53Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > I desperately want to move to a big city. I’m sick of the sticks. I think I’d feel more at home, and probably find more like minded people in a metropolis. I’ve been fantasizing about moving back to SF or possibly LA. If I sold my house I might even be able to pull it off. You’re a transplant so you get something of a pass on it, but if we keep the pattern of the young and the educated in the rural states fleeing to “a metropolis”, it will only intensify the politico-cultural divide and the Popular/Electoral vote disjoin. ---
**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:** [November 11, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/109 "2016-11-11T19:58:03Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I’m thinking it may be better here than abroad, where you’d have to face all the bitter questioning about the absurdity of the election. But then, I live on a strongly Democratic island six hours’ flying time from the mainland. Yeah, but think of how much closer you are to N. Korea. Then read [this](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2165041/north-koreas-crackpot-leader-kim-jong-un-vows-to-send-donald-trump-a-message-amid-claims-he-will-launch-new-missiles-within-days/). ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/110 "2016-11-11T20:11:01Z")
Staying right where I am. I’m not running away to Canada or a blue state. I’m turning my own goddamn state blue next time. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/111 "2016-11-11T20:29:38Z")
Snowden. Damn, that made me realize that Trump has probably already cut a deal with Putin for Snowden’s head. Sorry Ed, we barely knew ye. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/112 "2016-11-12T06:23:37Z")
> [@panache45](#): > > Yeah, but think of how much closer you are to N. Korea. Then read [this](https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2165041/north-koreas-crackpot-leader-kim-jong-un-vows-to-send-donald-trump-a-message-amid-claims-he-will-launch-new-missiles-within-days/). Nah, that little pipsqueak couldn’t hit something this small. (Just to be clear, I _am_ talking about Kim and not Trump.) ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/113 "2016-11-13T23:44:43Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > You’re a transplant so you get something of a pass on it, but if we keep the pattern of the young and the educated in the rural states fleeing to “a metropolis”, it will only intensify the politico-cultural divide and the Popular/Electoral vote disjoin. The problem is that the rural areas offer very little for the young and educated. In reality, it’s not so clearly black and white (or red and blue). There are plenty of Republicans / Trump supporters in New York City and other big cities. And many aren’t even racist. I see people here making the same mistakes the Democrats and both the Liberal and Regular Media made. All Trump supporters aren’t toothless racist hicks. There are lots of middle Americans who are struggling with career stagnation, job loss, high cost of living and a general sense of doom and gloom about the future of America as the country they grew up with. For whatever reason, they have developed a distrust of “traditional politicians” (of which Clinton symbolizes) and Trumps message of “Making America Great” resonates with them (wrongly IMHO). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c57346/32.png) [@Little\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Pig)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2016, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276/114 "2016-12-17T05:17:35Z")
How about Orlando Florida? [“… You, the incredible American people, will be in charge.”](http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-florida-rally-20161216-story.html) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trump-wins-the-election-where-ya-gonna-live/767276.md?page=5)