Is it normal to be obsessed with a place?

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I live in Nevada and for some reason i got really obsessed with Massachusetts about a year and a half ago. like i constantly read about it on the internet and i read their law book for fun. i went to Boston in February for my birthday (it was my first time in MA), and i thought that would just be the end of it, but i still think about it all the time. i feel like most people would think that's weird and maybe even unhealthy.

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  • Boojum
    3 years ago

    Anyone who reads law books for fun is a very weird individual.

    As far as I'm concerned, the whole eastern seaboard of the USA - with the possible exception of Maine - is a place best avoided. The climate is crap, with hot, humid summers and frigid winters, not to mention the hurricanes and the storms that bash the northern coastal states as they burn out, and the arctic air masses that regularly creep down from Canada and produce ice-storms. The coastline itself and the inland geography is generally pretty boring as well, and the high population density helps to make it hellish.

    But, as obsessions go, yours seems to me to be pretty harmless, so have fun in your fantasy Massachusetts.

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    • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
      3 years ago

      funny i feel the same way about the left coast

      toxic politics rampant natural disasters outrageous costa livin vapid populace high taxes and dystopian nanny state bullshit are drivin people away by the millions

      but yeah the weathers nice

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      • Boojum
        3 years ago

        Ten states had declining populations in 2019: West Virginia, Alaska, Illinois, New York, Hawaii, Louisiana, Connecticut, Mississippi, Vermont and New Jersey.

        I suppose some people would consider Alaska and Hawaii to be West Coast states, and everybody knows Alaskans are all nanny-state libruls, so you must be right.

        https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/popest-nation.html

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        • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
          3 years ago

          beatin me over the head with some irrelevant statistics and makin me out as some yeehaw lookit my pickup truck guy?

          i thought morea you

          also dont you live in england?

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          • Boojum
            3 years ago

            I live in Wales. Saying that's the same as England to any Welsh person (which I'm not) would get the same reaction as a Brit confusing Texas with New York when talking to a Texan.

            And am I not allowed to pay any attention to what's going on across the water? I mean, I can understand how a lot of you guys are very embarrassed about the continual shit-storm you've managed to create for yourselves, but foreigners paying attention to you comes along with your self-proclaimed Greatest Country In The World™ title. Getting your panties in a knot about that would be kinda like Kim whining about people laughing at Kanye's latest insanity.

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    • Meowypowers
      3 years ago

      People that read law books are sexy af old man boojum.it is weird for someone to want to go to the east coast and pay more taxes.

      Boojum you hate the usa alotz you are in France right? I idealy would move to Austin Texas or Nashville Tennessee personally, if I had the freedom to move anywhere.

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      • Boojum
        3 years ago

        I live in the UK.

        I've never wanted to live in France. Too many French people live there.

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  • W3nl47
    3 years ago

    Yes, it's normal, I love United Kingdom and I am obsessed with that country

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    3 years ago

    cant get thayah from heyah

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  • bbrown95
    3 years ago

    I think so. Mine isn't a state, but I used to have a dead mall in my area that I absolutely loved (and of course, nobody else could see why and thought it was a boring dump). It was sort of my "escape" when things weren't going well and I felt the need to go somewhere but not be bothered, and the place just amazed me. It was massive and I really wanted to explore it inside and out, but of course there was a lot of vacancy in that building (so most of it was shuttered), and much that was off limits from the public. It was also like going back in time to step in there, because nothing had been changed in years.

    It was just another mall for years until I started really appreciating it in my late teens. I'm not sure what it was that eventually drew me, but I loved it.

    I remember feeling gutted when they announced on the local news that they were closing and tearing it down. I still miss that place sometimes and am saddened by the fact that I'll never be there again. Now, it's just a huge grass lot and only one tiny section of the building where an anchor store is still open and is left, and that was, of course, the least interesting part of the place.

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  • libertybell
    3 years ago

    That's interesting. I live in Massachusetts, and I don't think it's anything great. I fantasize about living in different places in the U.S. I'd like to live almost anywhere but New England. Preferably the south or the Midwest.

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  • Wryladradofft
    3 years ago

    I like to imagine that, somewhere in the world, there's a poor Indian child with no possessions save for a map of the USA who has an extreme and inexplicable obsession with Nebraska.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk
    3 years ago

    thats wicked retahded

    howdya like them apples?

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  • Cuntsiclestick
    3 years ago

    Normal. I'm kind of obsessed with moving to Ohio. Some of the places there are much cheaper and not ghetto, unlike the area in NY I live in now. XD

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    • SkullsNRoses
      3 years ago

      Inspired by the song Ohio Is For Lovers?

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      • Cuntsiclestick
        3 years ago

        I remember that song! I used to listen to Hawthorne Heights a lot when I was a teen. They didn't inspire me to go Ohio though. Everything being way too expensive in NY did. XD

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        • SkullsNRoses
          3 years ago

          Same with me and London, when I’m stable enough to leave my parents house I’m going to be fleeing this overpriced dump. Paying £1000 a month for a tiny noisy squalid flat with weird roommates? I don’t think so.

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          • Cuntsiclestick
            3 years ago

            I used an online currency converter to see what £1000 is in US dollars. It said it was $1,310. That's almost the same amount my mortgage is every month. Btw, never buy a house in NY. Biggest mistake of my life. Lol

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            • SkullsNRoses
              3 years ago

              London is an absolute joke at this point, it’s good for a day out or short holiday and nothing more.

              I hope you get to move to Ohio soon and play that song on the way over.

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