Would you rather live in Mississippi or Florida?

[💥💥 brandon bro (he/him/his)]

Stepping in for a second as a NoVA kid: northern Virginia is "soulless" but an outstanding place to raise a family. I tell people that Virginia is a beautiful state with a lot of cultural and geographic diversity, but if I had to move back there as a late-20s professional I'd avoid NoVA as much as possible. Other people our age are disproportionately likely to be assholes, traffic is awful, housing is very expensive, and culture/regional identity and character are non-existant. Richmond (-proper) is great, Hampton Roads has multiple gems, and C-ville and areas of the Shenandoah would also be great probably as a young professional and also for raising a family. Virginia is great in part due to NoVA but it's one of the areas I'm least interested in living in right now.

[Ferguson97]

I think I'd rather live in Florida than Mississippi, North Carolina, Virginia, or Alabama. Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, and South Carolina are all better. With Georgia it would depend upon which area of the states we're talking about.

NC and Virginia are boss!

Virginia is one of the most soulless places on the planet. Its only remotely interesting areas are in Appalachia.

Yeah but it’s got places like NoVA which are definitely tolerable.

Northern Virginia is the reason that Virginia is America's worst state.

Isn't NoVA the blue part of Georgia? Am I confusing it with something else?

What does that have to do with anything?

We’re talking about whether or not some place would be desirable to live in.