# Which of these three western states would be the best to hide in? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 16, 2024, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931 "2024-03-16T22:21:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Imuseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbce88/32.png) [@Imuseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imuseless)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/21 "2024-03-17T22:58:27Z")
I would pick Oregon since it’s all forested and wooded and not many people live in Oregon. ---
**Author:** ![Cmyers1980](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyers1980/32/11814_2.png) [@Cmyers1980](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cmyers1980)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/22 "2024-03-17T23:36:54Z")
To clarify the small town rampage in the sequel I had in mind only takes place over the course of a few days in typical slasher fashion. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/23 "2024-03-17T23:42:16Z")
Hollywood during the summer. A million tourists, nobody knows anybody and the killer could wipe out a busload before the first body was found. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/24 "2024-03-17T23:42:40Z")
How you gonna eat? I hear the weather is pretty bad in the winter. How you gonna shelter? A gnawing stomach, a toothache, freezing your toes off are not pleasant. Eventually help will be needed or you’ll die. If you’re planning on living off the land a nice warm beach with good fishing might be better. Oops. Water might be a problem. Pray for rain and collect it, might work. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2024, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/25 "2024-03-17T23:54:10Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > Grammy got charged with obstructing justice. > [@Imuseless](#): > > I would pick Oregon since it’s all forested and wooded A couple of years ago some city people dumped a body in the woods in my county. I suppose they thought it was wooded and not many people live out here. It was found within considerably less than 24 hours; by a dog who alerted a human. The body was ID’d, the situation he’d disappeared from looked into. Family members of the murderer had helped the murderer dump the body. They all wound up in jail. Grammy had better be careful. And it’s not kind to her to ask her to help. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/26 "2024-03-18T00:00:16Z")
> [@Imuseless](#): > > I would pick Oregon since it’s all forested and wooded and not many people live in Oregon. Sure, if you have wilderness survival skills and the proper equipment needed to use those skills effectively. Otherwise, you’re dead meat in a month. ---
**Author:** ![Imuseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbce88/32.png) [@Imuseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imuseless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/27 "2024-03-18T00:14:13Z")
Damn didn’t know that. I guess people in different states or the suburbs in Oregon move to wooded areas since it looks peaceful with not too many people and chaos of the city life like Los Angeles California or New York City. ---
**Author:** ![Imuseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbce88/32.png) [@Imuseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imuseless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/28 "2024-03-18T00:15:36Z")
I agree but there is no shame in dying in wooded area by yourself if you feel suicidal through starvation to dehydration or animal attack. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/29 "2024-03-18T00:17:52Z")
Areas that may look empty to people from Manhattan are very rarely actually empty. ---
**Author:** ![SaSaLeLe2011](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@SaSaLeLe2011](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaSaLeLe2011)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/30 "2024-03-18T00:19:51Z")
Primm, Nevada for sure. Primm is like las vegas but nobody knows it, yet it has many resources such as hotels and food. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/31 "2024-03-18T00:21:22Z")
If you fly over me it looks quite out of the mainstream. Every bit of that empty land is owned, by persons, forestry companies or the state. No where to hide for very long. ---
**Author:** ![Imuseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbce88/32.png) [@Imuseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imuseless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/32 "2024-03-18T00:23:40Z")
Yes everything isn’t black and white in USA. I heard the government in some states in USA sends some sex offenders in the woods to build tent cities because the sex offenders can’t live in areas where children congregate like schools, parks, churches and playgrounds because of residency restrictions like 500 ft, 2500 ft and 5000 ft away from schools, parks, churches, playgrounds and areas where kids congregate depending on the state. In 2009 Miami Florida had an encampment of sex offenders in the Juliet Tunnel Causeway which was enacted by Lobbysit Ron Book. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/33 "2024-03-18T01:34:07Z")
> [@Dallas\_Jones](#): > > Let me guess, the OP **Cmyers1980** has lived in an urban environment for most of their life. A lot of folks see those "survive in the wilderness " reality shows, think back to fur trappers in the early 1800s US history, and assume that living primitively off the land is easy. So just go where there are no humans and happily live out your years in total safety from the law. Folks who live remotely know they’re fully, if tenuously, connected to 21st century commerce and civilization. Especially for a bad guy who grew up urban or suburban the wilderness is a terrifying and deadly place. Eons ago I had the privilege of teaching young Army dudes, mostly inner city black kids, the rudiments of living and fighting in a tropical jungle. They might’ve been pretty scary toughs in front of a 7-11 or liquor store in the 'hood but they did not like creepy crawlies and mud and poisonous trees and dangerous ants one little bit. Squealed like little girls mostly. It’s all about where your skills and habituations are. I’d’ve been screwed talkin’ to some streetcorner drug dealer in central Detroit where these kids had grown up hard. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/34 "2024-03-18T01:48:50Z")
> [@Imuseless](#): > > . . . was enacted by Lobbysit Ron Book. Love the typo. Is a lobbysit a lazy lobbyist? Does he just sit in the lobby, fanning himself with cash, and waiting for the senators to come to him? ---
**Author:** ![Imuseless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbce88/32.png) [@Imuseless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Imuseless)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/35 "2024-03-18T02:47:43Z")
Sorry my bad I type fast on my smartphone without reviewing. Lobbyist is the correct spelling your right. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/36 "2024-03-18T03:10:08Z")
Oh, do not apologize for a thing of beauty. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/37 "2024-03-18T04:06:25Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Any clown can get a job at the circus. Ringing Bros has gotten rid of clown makeup: > **[A New-Look Circus Sends in the Clowns, but Loses the Face Paint.](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/02/arts/ringling-bros-circus-tour.html?unlocked_article_code=1.dk0.GfZR.3zVx0hdaLoqh&smid=url-share)** > > As the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus hits the road for the first time in seven years, gone are the tigers, elephants and Pennywise-esque clowns. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 5:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/38 "2024-03-18T05:24:26Z")
Bummer. I do hate clowns. They creep me out. In person. (A bad Bozo experience as a child) On TV it ain’t so bad. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/39 "2024-03-18T05:36:53Z")
> [@thorny\_locust](#): > > A couple of years ago some city people dumped a body in the woods in my county. I suppose they thought it was wooded and not many people live out here. > > It was found within considerably less than 24 hours; by a dog who alerted a human. The But it’s not always the case that bodies are found that quickly. A common news story is someone finding a body (well, bones actually) that’s been there for years. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2024, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931/40 "2024-03-18T06:30:52Z")
Leaving aside small towns and completely remote wilderness, aren’t there a lot of national parks and the like in those 3 states, that have a lot of tourist traffic? Such that if the fugitive made change to their appearance and traveled from one to another, staying a few weeks at each, they wouldn’t necessarily stand out from anyone else? In either an RV or one of those influencer vans. Hide in plain site as a van-life Youtuber! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-of-these-three-western-states-would-be-the-best-to-hide-in/998931.md?page=3)