So say you were going to pick everything up and go live somewhere else (in the states), where? Why?

[RainDog]

40. Colorado

I'd like to live where history is being made in regard to drug policy, where a Democratic governor and Democratic representatives are willing to enact laws that represent the will of the voter. Hickenlooper isn't and wasn't all that "pro" legalization, but he has signed off on the laws the citizens there voted for, as he should.

Colorado has a booming economy now because of this smart action, and will take in revenue that would've been lost if they had stuck with outmoded thinking of drug warriors.

Colorado, the first state to tax legalized recreational marijuana sales, expects to bring in an estimated $98 million in revenue this year, exceeding the state's original expectations by 40 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/11/us-colorado-marijuana-idUSBREA3A1X720140411

Any state that's too stupid to see the benefit from this is a state I'd like to leave - like the one I'm in. I keep debating this very idea, in fact, because I may have to move out of my current (and long-time) living space anyway. I wonder if I should make it a big move. I'd really, really, really miss the people I know where I live now, however. But maybe they'd come to visit!

Colorado also has more sunshine than the PNW - which would be another relocation destination for me. And it doesn't have as many people who are seemingly from the cast of "Portlandia" - LOL - that sort of "nanny state" stuff is just as annoying to me from the left as it is from the right.

Plus the mountains. I grew up in a deciduous climate. It's hard for me to be in places without seasons and lots of deciduous trees, for some reason. I also don't like flat places. I had a job interview at UI Champaign-Urbana. I would've taken the job in a second - but the U. decided to close down the position b/c of budget cuts - which happened to lots of jobs in my field right after I got my master's degree.. oh lucky me. But the flatness of the place was weird to me - like all the houses were unmoored, air balloons waiting to take off in the middle of a field... but within Champaign-Urbana there are established neighborhoods with big trees so those cities didn't feel that way. But the suburbs and the drive to the place... on the other hand, it would be easy to ride a bike everywhere...