A dilemma indeed

Also "it's hard because it's like how to get out of a place filled with only trees and Republicans?"

Send help.

Vermont?

This is the way.
Republican governor still, not as solid as you'd think.
- He may be a member of the Republican party but if you just look at his record as governor, you'd probably guess he's a Democrat. Pro choice, trans rights, thoroughly anti Trump, and even a lot of his tax cuts seem to prioritize relief for the working poor rather than the ~~leech~~ investor class.
  Also, this is anecdotal but I've spent some time in Vermont and the conservatives there who I met were by and large reasonable, open-minded, and anti-Trump (there were a couple of exceptions but nowhere is perfect).
- State politics are different from national politics. A blue state republican governor can sometimes be more left than a red state democratic governor.
Has a general prejudice against city people.

Rural places has a lot of conservatives, its not just the US.

These places exist, but they are expensive as fuuuuuuuuck

I live near Asheville and fucking hell you are not kidding. The price creep has spread out in a 60 mile radius and just keeps getting worse. I can't even afford to live in my hometown anymore.
Ann Arbor here. Can confirm.
I heard a rumor that a tree grows in Brooklyn.

Seattle, one hopes, is still green and bookish

Seattle has its own racism problem unfortunately
- If you think Seattle's race relations are on the same level or even close to any red state then I sincerely doubt you've ever left Seattle or been to a red state.
  There are racist people literally everywhere but not everywhere makes a culture out of being racist.
- Thanks for letting me know. Haven't been there in a few years, sad to hear it.
- Against any particular group?
I was going to move to Portland but I hear it's a war zone lol
- Yeah? Sounds like that's where people on the right side are needed, then.
  Portland is a great city. I've been living in the UK for almost 4 years now and I've never been to a bookshop as good as Powell's, and the food there is at least twice as good as it ought to be, for what they charge.
I feel like if you think Seattle fits the description of around trees that you just haven't ever been around trees before lol. It doesn't mean a couple sadly embedded in the sidewalk it means like as far as you can see
- Perhaps you think I meant south of Lake Union. Understandable mistake. In north Seattle you can't sneeze without getting a tree wet. I spent most of my time in those parts.

Vermont.

And then you're just bored

Cascadia says “Hello”

Outside of a college town.

Not always true, Kent (home of Kent State University) is bright red. I live a little ways south of Kent and I drive thru there a few times a year to visit a friend, every time I go through there it's maga merch everywhere.
I want to complain about the percentage of freshman and sophmore CS majors that are hardcore right-wingers because of Musk and Zukerberg and gamergate.

New England.

Man, I miss New England; gonna add living a few years out there, again, to my bucket-list.

From my experience in Slovenia, there are many Janezek fans and chauvinists everywhere but the capital (Ljubljana). In my whole life I met two people, who I consider actual leftists (excluding myself), one is my high school sociology professor (we call them professors instead of teachers, probably because most of our school's dildos will never seek decent higher education) and the other one lives in Ljubljana (hm).

But for some reason, we still have a government majority of mostly fanatics, who call themselves center left (they still did some competent things even if they are the democrats of Slovenia), the right wing party and their fans, with a minority of the actual left, who are still loosing popularity.

Edit: This is my shitty unnecessary rant I started, because I wanted to mention, that no country is actually different. Most people are sadly very right wing and the leftists and minorities can't really do anything about our rights being taken away, because the 200 year old laws still aren't updated to accommodate us.

Uhhhh... did you all not see that Mango just told the Space Force that they need to relocate from Colorado to Alabama? You wanna talk about a blue state that's going to go dark blue, look no further.

The I-5 corridor of the Pacific Northwest.

Idk about the Washington part but the Oregon part would be Jefferson, so not exactly progressive, until you hit the Willamette valley which I've never been to but assume it's like the central valley here in CA and full of the most annoying conservatives constantly complaining about the big cities.
- Eugene is in the Wallamette Valley and is a historically progressive city (despite it's origins), especially for LGBTQ+ people and communities. It's home to the University of Oregon which has a fairly diverse student body and faculty. Lots of "everybody is welcome" signs in shop windows, "hate has no home here" signs in people's yards.
  Hop across the river and you're in Springfield, which is another story. Kind of a Tale of Two Cities thing. Much less wealth along with all the problems that tend to follow.

middle of nowhere

Thats the problem, on average rurally living folks tend to be more conservative.
- I think they mean really middle of nowhere, as in there's nobody around

Live next to some bears, they'll keep the conservatives away.

Atlanta. Just don't go past the perimeter.

Asheville and Boone NC

Those might be nice towns but at this point I'm staying away from any MAGA states, regardless of whether they have islands of sanity in them.
- As someone who lived in a deep blue city in Texas for a decade, I can confirm you're making the right decision.
  Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are all dope to visit, but 100% not worth living there. And I will never willingly set foot in that state again.
After hurricane Helene? Good luck!

There's some spots in the big nyc parks where you're surrounded by trees and can pretend you're not in a big city. That's all I've got.

Outside the city it gets surprisingly conservative sometimes. I knew someone who had family north of Albany, and their neighbor flew a confederate flag. Probably a maga flag now.

The Maryland DC suburbs are some of the nicest parts of the country.

I am legit having this dilemma now.

Houseless (Van Life) deep in a forest works pretty well for me

How....do you have internet? Van life seems so appealing but also so scary.
- Mostly cell signal. I have a painter's pole that I put an omni-directional antenna on and an amplifier if need be but, most of the places I find that meet my other criteria (open enough for good solar, not recently logged etc) have a 4 out of 5 bars of either LTE or 5G service which is good enough for my needs. Was thinking about Starlink but can't easily get past the Elon connection...even now that the hardware cost just halved.
- Cellular or Starlink are your only options, unless you include none (meaning libraries or public wifi).

The IS is huge so there’s not way you can’t find this location.