1 yr. ago • 96%

Stephen King wrote a whole ass book about this.

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Is the trap that Ohio sucks to live in or anything more specific?

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- Housing might be cheap but…
  
  Car centric design (sprawl)
  
  Shitty weather year round (hot and muggy or just snowy)
  
  Pollution
  
  Terrible local cops
  
  Low worker pay
  
  Gerrymandering
  
  Nothing to do
  
  C o r n
  
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  When I was an exchange student there, it was so painful. In my country I could walk places... Like, damn, going to the store to buy a snack or something. In Ohio I needed to ask someone for a 30m ride to the nearest location. It was just farm after farm after farm.... Damn... It sucked.
  
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  I love the dichotomy of different kinds of states that tell technical truths about moving there. Ohio: I'll tell you the truth because you actually don't want to move here, trust me. An unnamed western state: weather or animals will killl you. Twice (please don't move here, because it's awesome without you here).
  
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  Sadly accurate.
  
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  State politicians are getting worse and worse
  
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  This is all right and its sad and my bike is sad
  
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  Only thing I care is, gigabit internet
  
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  Sounds a lot like phoenix, except for the corn and snow... And it's not usually muggy here, just that oven blast as you step out of your air conditioned space...
  
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  It's worth actually doing the comparisons to see whether car-centric living is a net positive or negative in practice in particular situations. Urban density should be a pure benefit, with economies of scale making everything cheaper. Unfortunately, cities in practice have some downsides that reduce that benefit. One major one is that centralizing services means that it's more useful to try to get a cut of the cash flowing through the institution, and so some of the gains get siphoned off. As a trivial example, exactly zero percent of car commute expenses go to a bus driver's union.
  
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- Do Not Let Your Children Play In THe Corn.
  
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  That’s…that’s not what children of the corn is about.
  
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- The cost of living in Ohio is very good. The housing market is a bit of a mess in general but definitely in Ohio. It's a seller's market that still hasn't recovered from the pandemic.
  
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Unless they're talking about Children of the Corn (which is a short story, not a book) I don't know what King book they're referencing. And as a Grade A certified pedantic asshole SHORT STORIES DON'T COUNT.

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- Adding to that; doesn't "Children.." take place in like Iowa or something? I can't think of a King book that takes place specifically in Ohio, but I also haven't really read his stuff the past decade
  
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- I was thinking Desperation but that was Nevada
  
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I'm not a big fan of Stephen King but I love ass books. So conflicted.

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- The thiccer the better
  
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  Oh yeah, I love them thick and spread them... pages.
  
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I love how Ohio has become the go to meme state

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Meh, Ohio is for emo kids.

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- No, Ohio is for lovers. 🖤
  
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  No, Ohio is on fire
  
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  https://youtu.be/LptOM3ErpxM ;)
  
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I hear Cleveland is nice

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Ohio? Where the fuck is that, somewhere in Mexico?

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He wrote many of his books in Bolivia/Colombia... in his nose.

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ohayo gozaimasu bitches, I'm moving

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