Maps!

[Staggerwing]

Unless you like living in a beehive that pic makes Connecticut look pretty good. I think I'll stay put.  O0

[LongBlade]

Unless you like living in a beehive that pic makes Connecticut look pretty good. I think I'll stay put.  O0

Heh. Dallas and Houston are pretty bright, but look at how much space lies beyond.

[bayonetbrant]

and there ain't fuck-all out there, either. 
it's a full-day's drive from El Paso to San Antonio, and there's about 9 people the entire way.

[BanzaiCat]

It's only 12 hours from Houston to El Paso. From SA to El Paso it's about 9 hours. And that's with an 85 MPH speed limit between Kerrville and El Paso for most of the way.

I guess I wouldn't call it a full day's drive because we've done it so many times, driving from Houston to Phoenix, which is about 20-22 hours or so, depending, and we've always just driven straight through. What's sad is more than half that trip is just in Texas.

You are right...there's fuck-all out there but truck stops, Texas Highway Patrol, and slow eighteen-wheelers.

[Staggerwing]

Again, making Connecticut "just right" (with a lower-case R).

[LongBlade]

With the cost of land, the proximity to NYC, and *********************** (censored for RPFW) there?

No thank you!

[Staggerwing]

From my little bit of small-town coastal Connecticut, New York is either 2 hours or 2000 light-years away, depending on how you look at it.

My biggest gripe is the restrictive gun laws, making me hesitate to buy anything right now and worry about the future. The only gun I personally own is a bolt action 22lr and has been kept at my parents' place for 30 years but I eventually stand to inherit two full size antique hammer shotguns, a third of unusual length, a flintlock blunderbus, an eight and 3/4 inch 44 Magnum revolver (yes 'that' kind) and a semiautomatic shotgun that was built by my grandfather in his machine shop in the Netherlands roughly 70 years ago from plans he obtained of a Browning design.

[LongBlade]

Wow. That's a nice collection. The blunderbus is especially cool!

[bayonetbrant]

bwahahahaha

[besilarius]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/map-of-stereotypes?utm_term=.kaEgEk3pkD#.bq09x2Xz2q

[bayonetbrant]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/map-of-stereotypes?utm_term=.kaEgEk3pkD#.bq09x2Xz2q

Well, in NC...  KKK and Tobacco need to trade places
NASCAR, Christmas Trees, Krispy Kreme, and Moonshine all need to move west toward the mountains.  (Seriously, moonshine on the coast?)
Weed is in the right place.
Need a "Jimmy Buffett fans" spot along the southeast coast somewhere near where "moonshine" is now
And need "Nerds" and/or "Yankee immigrants/interlopers" about where "Christmas Trees" is right now
Finally, need to add "craft beers" underneath the "C" in "Country" - about where Asheville is right now (tho honestly, you could put "weed" there, too)

[bayonetbrant]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/map-of-stereotypes?utm_term=.kaEgEk3pkD#.bq09x2Xz2q

Out in California, "Starbucks" and "Wineyard" are both right in the middle of the Salinas River Valley, which is where most of the US's broccoli, tomatoes, garlic, onions, and lettuce come from.
"Vegan Pub" is right on top of Travis AFB.

[LongBlade]

<pssst! Brant!>

[bayonetbrant]

I have one. i just want it to be an accurate one ;)

[Centurion40]

I have one. i just want it to be an accurate one ;)

Look, for a 17 year-old, that map is pretty effing good.  Sheisseporno!  LOL!!