Where in America can you live with mostly normal people and have a decent choice of jobs?

[Anonymous]

Based on their obsession with transgender people and their view that all people are political and going to protests, OP sounds like an extremist who makes every conversation political and who wants to be around people who share their political views.

[Anonymous]

You're describing tiny pockets of extremes which exist almost everywhere. Just avoid insular pockets of homes in neighborhoods where people feel compelled to advertise their political positions on signs in their yards or flags on their porches and you'll be among people who are not trying deliberately to virtue signal or otherwise be blatantly self-righteous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Looking for a mid tier city where people are mostly apolitical and for fun like to do sports or have family picnics and not go to the gun range or to protests. Where most people are happy with the sex they were born with respect the other sex. Where the religious and political extremism is toned down closer to zero and people are just trying to be productive and enjoy life. Does this exist in the US? How about outside of it?

Where do I go to find more than 50% of people that are trans? That sounds like fun.

My kid went through HS in Montgomery county and the number of her friends who were trans or some flavor of that was absolutely mind-blowing. Obviously not 50% but easily approaching 20%. I’ve often wondered where this obvious social-contagion came from. Was it the schools? Parents? No idea, but it’s insane.

[Anonymous]

Most of Maryland. I live in MoCo and that pretty much describes my neighborhood, but I live in a diverse area you may not like.

[Anonymous]

The Mid-west. Avoid both coasts and obviously this area, DC/NOVA/MD, and most of New England.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I visited Denver for the first time recently and during an entire week there, doing a ton of walking, I never smelled weed. That's remarkable considering that Colorado was where marijuana legalization started. And the same has been true everywhere else I've traveled. The widespread smoking of weed in public is a distinctly DC phenomenon.

Yeah ok PP! That did not happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of Maryland. I live in MoCo and that pretty much describes my neighborhood, but I live in a diverse area you may not like.

+1. My community in MoCo has social get-togethers and we run into each other often, and we don't discuss politics, and I have no clue if they spend their free time going to protests and gun ranges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking for a mid tier city where people are mostly apolitical and for fun like to do sports or have family picnics and not go to the gun range or to protests. Where most people are happy with the sex they were born with respect the other sex. Where the religious and political extremism is toned down closer to zero and people are just trying to be productive and enjoy life. Does this exist in the US? How about outside of it?

Where do I go to find more than 50% of people that are trans? That sounds like fun.

My kid went through HS in Montgomery county and the number of her friends who were trans or some flavor of that was absolutely mind-blowing. Obviously not 50% but easily approaching 20%. I’ve often wondered where this obvious social-contagion came from. Was it the schools? Parents? No idea, but it’s insane.

If you think it's a teen fad, then treat it like all other teen fads and ignore it (or even lean into it, which immediately makes it uncool). Every generation of teens has done something to alarm adults and they always lose interest when the adults decline to be alarmed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking for a mid tier city where people are mostly apolitical and for fun like to do sports or have family picnics and not go to the gun range or to protests. Where most people are happy with the sex they were born with respect the other sex. Where the religious and political extremism is toned down closer to zero and people are just trying to be productive and enjoy life. Does this exist in the US? How about outside of it?

Where do I go to find more than 50% of people that are trans? That sounds like fun.

My kid went through HS in Montgomery county and the number of her friends who were trans or some flavor of that was absolutely mind-blowing. Obviously not 50% but easily approaching 20%. I’ve often wondered where this obvious social-contagion came from. Was it the schools? Parents? No idea, but it’s insane.

My kid goes to HS in Montgomery County and I have not encountered a trans teen personally. Heard of them? Yes. Have a handful of acquaintences with trans kids? Yes. 20% is an exaggeration. Are you sure you don't mean something like girls who claim they are bi? That I might believe.

[Anonymous]

More exurban areas (not close-in suburbs, but further out exurbs) are like this. Western Price William County, Western Loudoun and Clarke County, Frederick, that kind of place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean I feel like I have this right here in suburban Maryland, but people do go to protests I guess and gun ranges? It doesn’t bother me or affect day to day neighbor interactions.

Same here in suburban Virginia. It's hard to imagine where OP is that this is a real concern that affects her interactions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More exurban areas (not close-in suburbs, but further out exurbs) are like this. Western Price William County, Western Loudoun and Clarke County, Frederick, that kind of place.

Ok, but the close-in suburbs are like this too. I mean, just imagine if everybody actually was at protests and gun ranges all the time - Costco would be a lot easier to get through on a weekend, and my local park picnic area wouldn't be so crowded every weekend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I visited Denver for the first time recently and during an entire week there, doing a ton of walking, I never smelled weed. That's remarkable considering that Colorado was where marijuana legalization started. And the same has been true everywhere else I've traveled. The widespread smoking of weed in public is a distinctly DC phenomenon.

And the vast numbers of white middle class women so overwhelmed by the copious "stench of weed everywhere" seems wildly overrated. How do these women walk down the street without retching and fainting? It's very dramatic.

I mean, I can't explain how when I cross the bridge to Maryland and get on 210 going 50+ mph and the smell of weed immediately gets into my car. It's impressive.

This. I hate driving in Maryland now

? Where do you experience this? I live in Rockville and don't smell it all around me.

[Anonymous]

Indianapolis would meet your requirements.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looking for a mid tier city where people are mostly apolitical and for fun like to do sports or have family picnics and not go to the gun range or to protests. Where most people are happy with the sex they were born with respect the other sex. Where the religious and political extremism is toned down closer to zero and people are just trying to be productive and enjoy life. Does this exist in the US? How about outside of it?

Every city in America has like 98%+ people happy to be the sex in which they are born.

More like 99.9%.

Seriously. It's like 99 percent in my neighborhood and I live in Dupont Circle lol