Disregard politics or people what’s the worst state to live in?

[grfox92]

I see nobody has been to Ohio or West Virginia

I genuinely like Ohio.

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[grfox92]

Florida, hot, sticky, flat. I tried some fishing and sailing but it’s just not my thing.

I would live in 49 other states before Florida. It's just not for me. Hot, humid, snakes everywhere.

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[Team4LongGun]

From a highway only perspective, Georgia, Kansas and Nebraska are brutal. Hell Dakotas ain’t better until you hit western portions.

I’m still crying over the “show me on the doll” comment

 

[grfox92]

Wyoming. Blizzards September thru may. Roads closed every where. Hot and windy the rest of the time. Bad restaurants that specialize in serving Meth. No good jobs and real estate is sky high for cactus and greasewood.

Not sure where you live in Wyoming, but it sounds nothing like the Wyoming I live in.

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[grfox92]

For me it's Florida for reasons I mentioned earlier, hot humid, snakes, swamps. No thanks.

Nebraska has always been pretty brutal to drive through. Not much going on, barren landscape, sounds like how folks are describing Kansas, I've never been there though.

I have to say that most of the Midwest, including Ohio I liked alot. Specifically around the great lakes.

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[nodakian]

North Dakota. God lost his imagination in that state

I completely agree. The movie Fargo was a documentary. Nothing to see here. Table top flat, colder than a witch's mammary gland, calm winds at 25 mph...Nebraska and South Dakota are way better.

 

[4090Sharps]

The south. All of it. Below the Mason-Dixon and east of Dallas? No thanks. I did my time.

Restrictions on Sunday hunting. Humid climate. You need a stick to clear spiders and their webs for most of the year while walking through the woods. Highways and interstates are mostly straight and lined with trees that limit any sightseeing while on the road. Where there aren’t trees lining the roads, there generally isn’t much to look at anyway.

 

[stanginthe11s]

NJ is so nice that everyone from there keeps coming here on the weekends and for hunting.

 

[ReaptheHeat]

Probably because we were told to leave out politics and people. I don’t know about you but I could deal with the earthquakes and fires in exchange for the rest of the landscape.

Gotta be a smart ass here but, its an oxymoron to talk about states but disregard the politics.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I hate to say it but my home state of WI is uninhabitable. We go there in the winter and it's cold as hell, snowing and just miserable. We go there in the summer and it's hotter than hell, humid, bugs are horrible and it's miserable. My wife's from MI, same thing. I lived in MO for 12 years, same thing. The whole Midwest to me now is like this.

 

[CMF]

On the flip side, i think each state probably has some type of natural beauty in its own way or different cool things to do.

I've noticed this. We've traveled to at least 40 states in the past 4 years and many of them exceeded my expectations. No matter the state, there is some hunting and fishing to be had.

See I think you need to look to the Southeast for this. Hot, humid, and buggy can be a terrible mixture unless you have some redeeming qualities. Florida makes up for it with beautiful beaches, springs, fishing, and the keys. Alabama you start to get into the lower end of the Appalachian’s. Louisiana has some stellar hunting and fishing, but Mississippi?

It’s Mississippi for me… even hard to spell.

The heat humidity certainly sucks, but being up north snowed in sounds equally as bad or worse to me.
If you live on the MS coast, you essentially have the same fishing opportunity as Louisiana. We often travel across by boat to fish the LA marsh, and offshore, you're fishing the same waters.
The heat and humidity are the worst part from July-Sep. but outside of that, it's hard to beat the opportunities we have to hunt and fish. I can be catching Yellowfin Tuna one day, Inshore saltwater the next, and deer hunting from Oct. 1 to Feb.15 I wouldn't want to live anywhere other than the coast though cause I like saltwater fishing. It's possible to manage the heat by night fishing, flounder gigging, overnight tuna fishing, etc.
Ideally, I'd like to live in MT,CO,Wy, ID, or AK from ~Jun/July to Oct/Nov., and MS thru the winter.
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As for Kansas, we spent last October there and although I wouldn't live there, there is certainly no lack of hunting and fishing opportunities if you know where to look. I wish I could have hunted for a week when I finished working, but we had to leave early unexpectedly. Still got a doe, saw some nice bucks and my son got a shot at a deer.

After seeing 40 states, I would add there isn't a state specifically that sticks out in my mind as worse, but there are certain areas that I wouldn't consider living in full time, either too densely populated, or desert.

 

[Gutshot007]

How about Illinois north of the DMZ in "chiraq". I feel for the folks in the southern hills of that state .

 

[PurpleDriver]

Jersey. Never heard anyone defend that state.

 

[Farmingdale's Finest]

Jersey. Never heard anyone defend that state.

Have you ever been here? I live in NJ and other than the Politics and the Taxes it is a great state. I live on the NJ shore. I have caught at the end of my street Summer Flounder up to 11 pounds. We have some of the best striped bass fishing in the world. My shore town is nothing like you see on the Soprano's with the Turnpike, POS Jersey Shore which shows the animals from Staten Island NY and not actually the people from NJ. You have Tuna fishing off shore. I have in my town deer hunting which I can shoot unlimited does and 3 bucks starting in September and ending in February, duck & goose hunting and one of the best Mountain Biking destinations in the state. We have rolling hills and farms in the next town. I have good trout fishing within an hour. We have the Delaware Water Gap National recreation area as well as Gateway National recreation area-Sandy Hook in my town with great beaches and surf fishing. Where I live from a business standpoint I can be in NYC in 30 minutes via a great ferry ride. I can drive to Boston in 4 hours. Philadelphia is a little over an hour and Baltimore and DC are within 4 hours or less. We also have some of the best schools in the country.

 

[5MilesBack]

Without regard to people or the idiocy they bring with them, every state offers some positives. But I would have to say that North Dakota would be my least favorite.

 

[FranklinBluth]

Kind of surprised nobody has mentioned Iowa. Yes, there's deer hunting. But outside of that, there's literally nothing else above average outdoors-wise. You get the cold climate, big winds, and boring stretches of interstate the rest of the midwest has. The best thing you can say about it is it's proximity to other states where there's better fishing/hunting.

Once upon a time I was working on a medium-term contract in Des Moines. I had been commuting from the Twin Cities and had rented a small studio apartment where I could sleep during the work week. Once the clock hit 5pm on Fridays, I was on the road back to Minnesota/Wisconsin. When the managing partner at the firm asked me (out of the blue) if I wanted to stay in Des Moines long term, I had to stifle a laugh (similar to the Ron Swanson "I don't suppose you'd want to move to Canada?"). I had tried fishing various creeks and lakes around Des Moines and it was, um, terrible to say the least. For comparison, I lived in Sioux Falls for a time and Des Moines wasn't even close to that in terms of fishing and hunting.

There's also no professional sports teams there, so everyone takes college sports super seriously which can get very obnoxious if you didn't go to Iowa or Iowa State.

 

[PurpleDriver]

Have you ever been here? I live in NJ and other than the Politics and the Taxes it is a great state. I live on the NJ shore. I have caught at the end of my street Summer Flounder up to 11 pounds. We have some of the best striped bass fishing in the world. My shore town is nothing like you see on the Soprano's with the Turnpike, POS Jersey Shore which shows the animals from Staten Island NY and not actually the people from NJ. You have Tuna fishing off shore. I have in my town deer hunting which I can shoot unlimited does and 3 bucks starting in September and ending in February, duck & goose hunting and one of the best Mountain Biking destinations in the state. We have rolling hills and farms in the next town. I have good trout fishing within an hour. We have the Delaware Water Gap National recreation area as well as Gateway National recreation area-Sandy Hook in my town with great beaches and surf fishing. Where I live from a business standpoint I can be in NYC in 30 minutes via a great ferry ride. I can drive to Boston in 4 hours. Philadelphia is a little over an hour and Baltimore and DC are within 4 hours or less. We also have some of the best schools in the country.

No offense intended. Yes, I have been there on business many times. Mostly Newark area.

 

[SWOHTR]

Massachusetts and all the mass-holes.

 

[traildust]

Texas.

You can hunt and fish 365 days a year in Texas, if you can survive our weather! 56 years here, looking to retire up north with cooler weather!

 

[Loo.wii]

You can hunt and fish 365 days a year in Texas, if you can survive our weather! 56 years here, looking to retire up north with cooler weather!

Theres a Haitian proverb that in essence translates to old peoples bones don't do well in the cold. good luck