@Jabberwok:
Australia is definitely weirdly conservative in many respects. What about Ireland? They've been making strides.
Ireland has been making strides, but they are also highly Catholic. And I am VERY not Christian. I did like Scotland when I visited there, but as it's sadly still part of "Great Britain" it has most of the England problems too.
@wolfwood:
I would imagine that any move that's based on the notion of running away to the promised land is going to end up falling short and disapointing. Me i propose more of a warts and all approach to your nation shopping. Start looking at the warts and work yourself backwards lol.
Right? No country is perfect, so it's not good to think that you can go anywhere without problems.
@Monkey:
Canada is the best bet, but uh maybe not Ontario since they're about to elect Canadian Trump as their governor equivalent.
Oh, I would have chosen Vancouver. It seemed like the best place.
@Monkey:
lol going from Oklahoma to New England, the cultural whiplash could outright snap your neck.
New Hampshire is maybe the most conservative New England state (I say maybe because Maine exists), but someone from Oklahoma is just going to straight laugh in my fucking face for even suggesting it's equivocal. Honestly Vermont is so insanely rural that even coming from like Tulsa you might feel out in the sticks or something.
NH's populated areas aren't very far from Boston, so that would be cool.
Cultural whiplash indeed, lol. If you want the most liberal NE states then Vermont, Mass., and Rhode Island are probably the best bets. But no state is completely blue.
@Envy:
I've spent my life in a medium-sized town on the outskirts of a larger city, and that's actually something I really like. I don't know how I would adjust to big city living, and I really don't think I could adjust to being in a small town, or being rural. The close proximity of Boston to the areas we are looking at is certainly a big plus.
You'd probably like the Greater/Metro Boston Area, then. However, like many NE places, it's not cheap. Cheaper than living IN Boston, but not Oklahoma cheap.
The colonial towns of Concord, Lexington, Bedford, Lincoln, etc. are lovely small towns that are on train lines so you can get into Boston without having to face traffic. EXPENSIVE, however. Really, the cheapest parts of Mass. are in the middle.
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