I'll give you a hint on that one. The administrator here is kind of a dummy so as long as you include a sentence of a paragraph about the topic at the end of the post, he probably won't notice that you're off-topic.
Titusville! Know it well It hasn't changed any, believe me...haha. I lived and worked in Oil City for years because I worked at Quaker State at the main office until they moved the whole company to TX. It killed the town.
I suspect that some of you are afraid of offending someone who might live in and love the state you'd least like to live in.
The ability to be able to move and live in different places is a benefit of our system. Folks who live in New York City would find it difficult to live in places like where you and I live, with stores at a significant distance and no entertainment venues or fancy restaurants nearby, while we might have a hard time fitting into city life. Fortunately, we still have the ability to live where we want to, at least for now, especially as those of us who are retired can live anywhere without regard to job placement. Working remotely as you do has also been one of the few advantages of Covid lockdowns. It opened remote jobs that were not possible before that.
I do not have that problem; I just have never really looked at a whole state as being not a good place to live. I have always preferred small towns to large cities, so I know that a place like New York City, would be a place I would never want to live; however, I have seen pictures of some really beautiful areas of New York State, and would not want to write off the whole state just because i didn’t want to live in NYC. Same with most other places. The closest that I could come when I was thinking about this thread was the flat desert states, but even those states have some really beautiful areas, and the dry climate is supposed to be healthy for seniors. So, after due consideration, I am going to choose Delaware as the place where I would least want to live, and some of you might have a good guess as to why Delaware might make the top of the list .
The western part of Jersey is not all that bad, as far as rural geography goes. My sister has lived near the Delaware Water Gap for quite a while. I have no idea what the politics might be like, except that a 2016 county-level presidential election map of NJ shows some blue, some red, and some mixed areas. That being said, that same sister also lived in [the armpit of] Edison...you could not pay me to live there.
I have only lived in three states: Georgia, Texas and Louisiana. I feel like I could live most anywhere; I subscribe to the old saying "bloom where you are planted." I always wanted to move to a mountain state and we came close to moving to Montana when the kids were small, but my husband is a dyed-in-the-wool Texan. We have traveled to many of the lower 48 states and are often surprised that places aren't as we imagined they'd be. I remember how shabby the eastern part of New Mexico seemed... small towns that looked sad and a lot of poverty.
I remember the first time I took my wife to my "home" in Pennsylvania. She had been told all these stories about the East being so crowded that the corpses are buried standing up as there isn't enough room to lay them down. She was greatly surprised to find that my area of PA was less-densely populated that her area of Iowa. I am mostly a mountain person, but have lived in lots of "flat" states too. I felt the most at home in Western North Carolina, but I understand that has been ruined by an influx of "yankees" and hippies.
I have the same impression of NM from my vacation there. But didn't you live in Virginia, near Fairview park? Or did you travel to that job?
Arizona. As beautiful as Sedona was, it is all built up now. There are plenty of gorgeous places there, now built up. I don't care if it IS a dry heat, it is way too hot. Florida has a nice wet heat that I don't like either, also getting to populous. And palmetto bugs as big as cigars.
Hands down I should have remained in Pahrump Nevada NYE County. I left my real home Houston in 82 and was getting old after living in Nevada for 11 of those later years. Got to thinking about all my old friends who I had lost contact with so I finally got all my stuff and moved back to Houston and it wasn't the same. I had a few relatives left there and Galveston and saw most of them in the 3 years I was back before they started all dying. No luck with friends there because they all migrated North due to the huge takeover of Houston by illegals, I didn't find out until years later when I did find a few on facebook. La is still a terrible place to live and it was only tolerable when I still had family living here, now they are all gone or moved and ironically my youngest sister is living in Las Vegas after I left which would have only 65 miles to visit her and her two daughters both living there. Now things have changed and my younger sister's husband passed away unexpectedly so she and the two daughters are all moving to the area around Killeen Tx Fort Hood because her only grandchild is Army and bought a home there in the area. I think they all want to be near one another in old age. I have a huge cat following now so I still have friends here in La. At least until the cat food gets so expensive I won't be able to afford it. I think the little ones outside used the warm house I made for them because they all seem to be right there near it under the house. I slept until 9 this morning not feeling well yesterday so they usually get fed no later than 7 each morning. Poor things were all sitting here under my bedroom window singing out to me soon as I raised my blind, they were asking me why haven't they been fed yet. Took care of that and since it was near freezing overnight I fed them extra this morning and it is a warming thing to see the very young all circling a large piece of cardboard eating a good breakfast. Warm weather is coming again for the next week and some rain. This cold was a wake up call