Most Scenic Western State in The contiguous United States?
Most Scenic Western State in The contiguous United States? 21 votes
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Washington
Almost wanted to vote for Cali or Nevada (for Lake Tahoe).
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California
Nevada has a few scenic spots here and there (e.g., Tahoe) but mostly it's a barren wasteland only fit for gambling, whore houses, and testing nuclear devices.
I started this pole including Hawaii and Alaska, but then realized I'd have to not give a bid to our Idaho peeps and that made me sad.
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Washington
I’m being a homer with my vote but goddamn this is a tough choice.
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California
Having been a legal resident of 4 of these states and having spent significant time in all I feel helps keep me objective AF.
Top 3 for me are CA, WA and UT.
WA and UT are big swinging dicks in the National Park department no doubt. But the geological diversity of CA is unmatched by ANY state in the 50 United States and it's not close.
- Highest mountain in lower 48
- Lowest point in the US
- Biggest tree my volume in the world
- Tallest tree in the world
- Biggest granite monoliths on Earth
The list goes on and on. California Uber Alles @coronabruin !
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Washington
If you are focusing on the combination of mountains, rivers, national forests and proximity then you have to say Washington,
otherwise its California for its diversity and volume of differing environs as the Yella has described…
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California
I was tempted to vote for Montana, but alas, Cali has beaches, deserts, mountains and everything in between. Plus, they seem to be leading the way.
P.S. stayed the night in Bakersfield on my recent cross country road trip. Cool fucking city!
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Washington
Are supposed to consider the scantily clad humans on the beaches of Cali as scenery?
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California
People forget Bakersfield is the greatest cuntry music town of all time.
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Washington
I wavered for a few minutes, and picked WA…In my advancing age, for about the last 15 years or so I have placed a premium on appreciating my surroundings, wherever I go. I have plans to revisit some places that, in retrospect, paid only passing (or no) attention to as a young buck…like Lake Pend Oreille, Glacier NP, various points in Ute, Colorado, Wyoming, Yosemite, and several spots in No Cal. The wife and I have been discussing driving all the way down the coast and staying off I-5…well. after they get the Bixby Creek Bridge fixed, anyway…
For me, the deciding factor was Rainier…after all these years, I can't not look at it, every time I see it.
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California
Literal shithole. It takes a lot to make a guy from Tacoma uncomfortable. Walked into the hotel lobby and some drunk vagrant was harassing them for a free night. It was his birthday! Had to avoid the feces walking to the corner store the next morning.
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California
Well I turned 21 in prison doing life without parole. No one could steer me right but mama tried.
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California
I think the east side of the Cascades and Sierra Mts from Washington to California is some of the finest scenery in the country
The 97, 95, 395 et all
Throw in the coast highway and its all California. From the Redwood Forest to whatever the line is
Bakersfield is a symptom of the times. Bad government doesn't last good people do
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California
I voted for the beaches. If it weren't filled with communists (TITTT) I would move to California in a heartbeat.
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California
That's cause you're a pour like the rest of us!!! The REAL money can afford the communism (TITTT) and not sweat it. I'm still waiting for @UW_Doog_Bot to upgrade to Huntington Harbor!!
If we had REAL money @MrsSnow would have moved us to Laguna or Newport Beach long, long ago.
We got married on the beach right the gazebo in this pic. Reception in the restaurant with the red tile roof.
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California
They make a mean McGriddle in Bakersfield, though.
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California
The cost is a bit of a chicken or egg thing. If it weren't filled with commies running the government it wouldn't be so expensive to live there. I wouldn't move there for political reasons, even if I had Bezos money. Will be leaving WA in a couple years for the same reasons.
If Hawaii was on the list I would've voted for that state and I would love to live there amongst the hippie commies and locals who hate whitey.
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California
Not entirely true through. Yes, the commies drive up the cost of housing by restricting too much land from development, but the most desirable real estate close to the coast was always going to be expensive AF. It's too nice climate wise and there's too much money chasing the same dirt.
There still are affordable pockets. Axe @RaceBannon . Temecula has a nice climate w/o La Jolla or Del Mar prices.
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California
Imagine Seattle real estate prices @BleachedAnusDawg with nice weather year round.
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California
I'm 2.5 miles west of 97, boss. 395 is pretty epic though.
Mt Rainier isn't necessarily more iconic than the 395 stuff according to Hollywood.
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Washington
And Mrs. Fish and I got married IN the gazebo…Yeah, we look periodically at RE in Laguna and weep…gotta settle for the bro-in-law's guest room
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California
Yes, I seem to recall this thing in common.
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California
The national figure is that 25% of SF home costs are due to regulation. I would assume in CA it's probably pushing closer to 40% at this point. That's gotta be a few hundred grand, at least, for a median home in the state. I will grant you that their costs will always be higher than Kansas because of demand, though. Probably will do a lot more traveling to CA once the kids are at an age where we can tolerate the flight with them since it's the shortest trip to a sunny state.*
*Although we should be door. ass. out. to a sunnier state by then.
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California
I'd have to read into the subject more. I think the reg driven % of cost is also gonna vary dramatically (even in CA) based on Zip Code in price point. I mean I doubt 40% of a $12,000,000 SF in Newport Beach is due to restrictive zoning laws or regs that affect building cost per sq ft (some of it is, but not 40%). With the primo dirt it's a supply and demand thing. There's a reason why DFW and Houston are so much cheaper than coastal CA and it ain't all related to communism.
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California
Where it hurts is in places like Temecula
The trade was a big house priced reasonable and good schools for the longer commute
House prices are out of control there because it's safer and cleaner. New homes still have the added costs and tiny lots.
It's hard
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Washington
All those other states will be dust bowls but Washington will still be great because Insley and Ferguson saved it by banning gas vehicles.
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I've crawled up and down every nook and cranny from Rockies west and I refuse to pick a favorite. It's not possible. I'm just pissed Nevada didn't even make the poll, the state with the most mountains and valleys in the country sans Alaska. Playas, deserts, mountains, sunshine, canyons, snow, palm trees, cactus, moose, rattlesnakes,.and Lake Tahoe. Barren wasteland my ass. You fucked this one up @YellowSnow
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Also, New Mexico? Bueller?
Shut this dumbshit poll down until it includes all Western states.
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If I had a gun to my head I'm gonna go with Utah. I have a strong Edward Abbey streak.
But also maybe California. California has everything.
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Gonna fall asleep to my boy. 🙏 Go team American Southwest. Hayduke lives!
