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Albany, NY. Nothing more needs said.

Suffolk county here, born, raised, and quite tired of the constant increases without return on investment...7 more years till my wife retires, then we're out! Can't wait to go south a bit to a cheaper, warmer state to enjoy our freedom

Western NY (south towns).“Will the last worker out of Western New York please turn out the light?” .

Billboard pretty much covers it.
http://blog.buffalostories.com...-turn-out-the-light/

Vegas (Henderson), 2003-05. Shitty first apartment (got my then-two-year-old truck stolen from it, snafu with rent check got me threatened with eviction), worse jobs, gun registration.

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Durham NC
The worst mistake I ever made was agreeing to relocate here from the Richmond, VA area

This place is the most leftist place I have lived in. About 20 construction jobs within 18mins of the house but if you do not check certain boxes, you are a no go.


I finally got back into LE in VA and she took a transfer with the govt.

Besides working at the Medical Examiner in Charlotte, NC, it has been a downward spiral of no work, no interviews, getting passed over for jobs and a horrific Army Reserve unit.

We are trying to get out of here but finances are tight.

Calexico, CA. The anus of California.

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Hampton, Virginia.

The perineum of Virginia, next to the asshole of Virginia, Newport News.

That made me chuckle and reminded me of a funny Alaska show on TV I saw in the hotel when I was first moving there. Instead of being the typical touristy pro-Alaska ra-ra TV show, it was the opposite.

It got to Whittier, AK, and it said "if the devil wanted to give the world an enema, this is where he'd plug-in the hose."

It was so outlandish to hear on TV that I remember it 17 years later.

Tulsa OK, back in the 90's the oil industry was down so nothing was happening, plenty of nice people, politically we're the same, just couldn't warm up to it.

NW Indiana. The weather and the negative impact it had on most of the population.
Lots of folks just hating life.

Left Southern California for small town Kansas and could not be happier.

Southern Illinois where I grew up. When in high school I could not wait to move to Texas after I graduated. There is some great hunting and fishing where I grew up, but I was too young to know much about their politics. There were no decent local jobs except the railroad and those are gone now. I grew up very poor and the poverty was depressing. I left in 1987 and have never been back.

California twice.
Mather AFB and Travis AFB.

I've never actually lived anywhere that I wanted to leave. Rural Indiana and Ohio, some seasonal stints in Western PA with my grandparents, and Prague Czech Republic. None of them perfect, but all had enough redeeming qualities that I enjoyed being there and was sad to leave when the time came.

Probably the closest I've come to hating a place where I lived was the 4 months I spent at the academy in Plainfield, Indiana. The academy actually wasn't that bad when you consider what it was, but Plainfield is suburban/pseudo-urban collection of congested strip malls and industrial parks. I was so glad to be out of there once we graduated.

Living with the ex-wife. After the last of the last straws we were legally separated in the same house for couple of months until I bought a townhome.

I lived two months the summer of 1972 in Scottsdale Arizona. Was walking down the street one day and the temp is 110, after a low of 100. I look up and in somebody's sand yard, they've got a desert scene complete with a steer skull. It was time to go back to trees and green grass.

Florida, population of 3 million when I grew up there to the 23 million today. 20 million people I didn't invite.

Kenner, LA

Georgia is hot and humid enough for me, Louisiana is next level.

Portland Oregon. I went there after college and wound up staying 44 years and change. It was a really nice place for a while, but became increasingly leftie over the years and controlled entirely by the Democrats. Not just Portland, the whole state. And, there were some changes at my employer that I wasn't happy with either. So finally I decided I had to GTFO and retired a few years early. A month after my last day of work, I moved.

My last official act as an Oregonian was to vote against Tina Kotek. A week later I was gone.

DFW, Texas.

I love Texas in general, but the big Texas metros like DFW are just ever-expanding concrete jungles and bland cookie-cutter suburban hellscapes where everything is overpriced and traffic is ridiculous.

Pittsburgh, PA. Two year fellowship at Pitt and I could not wait to get the hell out.

Shit winters, cold gray, snowy, and sunless. One night one of my division chiefs looked at me and said "Did you know that Pittsburgh averages only 56 sunny days a year?"

No shit sherlock! I do now.

Moved to sunny (and cold) Nebraska. Beautiful!!

RMD

Two years remaining to serve, but Jackson, MS.

I've had the good fortune to live in two of the outlying areas that are nicer (aka have running water, some pavement and a few less shootings) but you can't escape being somewhere in the metro area from time to time, or in my case every day for work. Not having caught a stray in broad daylight counts as a win.

Some really nice people here, quite a few I knew before coming 9 years ago, many more I've met or worked with. I'll miss them, but Lord this city is an imploding shithole of epic proportions. And the state capitol, to boot! Most of the rest of the state is worse, more destitute and facing endless and seemingly insurmountable challenges.