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USA Lemmies: Where do you live? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I comment a lot on stories having to do with state governments and legislation or regions of the country. It got me wondering how many people I'm accidentally disparaging when I don't mean everyone in said state or region is terrible. So… Please be as specific or obtuse as your privacy filter requires. I'll start:

I'm in the Bay Area, specifically Oakland. Despite Bay Area hate from some posters, I think it's great. How about you?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Call it Champaign-Urbana.

I am juuuust outside the MSA, without doxxing myself too badly.

Chicago is accessible, if I plan around a few hrs drive or an Amtrak that’s not crazy far.

We are collectively mostly left-leaning though the UIUC students prob skew that to some degree. We landed here because it was a reasonably affordable place, close enough to something else to be feasible for holidays, and also close enough to a major ish city that not WFH would be on the table, maybe.

Got here via south central PA, New England, and marrying a girl from Kettlecorn, KS who missed the flatlands.

I miss the mountains, but I’m also sane and honest with myself - the local bouldering place is as close as I’m getting to a mountain, at my age.

That makes me sad, having hiked up plenty of mountains back before I fell off the “fitness cliff”…