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funeralxempire
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Today, 11:02 am
I'm sure I'd have a more nuanced view of it if I lived there, but that's true of a lot of places that outsiders might label a s**thole too.
Conservative policies seem to lead to places being much worse to live in, as though they're innately destructive to the building and maintaining of societies.
I have a friend who moved to Texas. She tells me that she hates it, so she doesn't see much nuance. However, she's stuck because she met a partner who has a child from a previous marriage with shared custody.
And as someone who lived in Oklahoma for the first three decades of my life, I can hardly find nuance with living in Oklahoma. I miss some of the food and friends/family. It stops there.
My new state isn't perfect... but at least those imperfections don't have to do with religious interference in my life taking away my freedoms and reproductive healthcare, and at least it doesn't have to do with low quality of living, healthcare, not being safe, etc.
The biggest pro for most southern states I can think of is BBQ.
So I'm not going to claim I see much nuance either.
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Today, 11:23 am
We also have nature. Lots and lots of nature. So that's a plus. 
Also even though I don't like knowing that our antebellum houses and plantations were connected to slavery, the ones that are restored like in my hometown have an undoubtably beautiful charm to them.
Also the south has its share of ghost stories and places said to he haunted. So that's definetly a plus for people into that sort of thing like i am. 
Today, 11:43 am
So not that Misery is so much better , but one time attending an event at the Huge convention center, We got a
reasonable hotel room . Just off what was the first floor alley side of a otherwise nice motel/ hotel . Never have I "witnessed a person actually driving a car up to us "and panhandling from inside their car after driving up to us while unloading the bags from the car . Left a VERY poor impression of Tulsa that year. And their car WAS Not a ugly or bad looking car . So much for Oklahoma . 
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