southerners pretend theyre nice but rly arent. Just fat extroverts who love gossip and being fat
Too many commiefornians fricking those charming towns up
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Yankees are garbage people. Their shithole towns are derelict for a reason.
We are rude buttholes but we literally have a million seaside homosexual art towns full of wharfs and colonial sea captain houses than u can count on ur stubby southern fat fried greasy fingers. We have great mountain towns in Vermont too. Our big cities yeah trash ur right not our small towns tho we have the best in the country up here in New England and no Black folk either, well at least northern NE doesnt.
+1 for Colorado. Ouray, Telluride, Durango, Silverton, Salida, Crested Butte, Manitou Springs, any ski town really. It's amazing for a road trip. The hiking is unreal. Snowboarding has gotten ridiculously expensive in Colorado though. It's better for a summer trip
Colorado is good in that the history is very well preserved. Almost every town in Colorado has saloons from the 1800s that haven't changed much since then. They're neat to walk into. It also doesn't have too many small towns that turned into depressing fentanyl shitholes like the south does.
Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine for the New England variety of small town.
Virginia and North Carolina for the southern variety.
Wisconsin for the Midwest.
Idaho and Washington for the West Coast.
Overall my favorite: Maine
Historic Clear Lake Iowa has the last place famous singers Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, and Sammy Davis Jr played at before dying in a horrific plane crash due to winter conditions.
Clear Lake has it all!
A steam boat!
A big lake!
Fishing!
Small Town bars!
Camping Site!
I absolutely love boating on Clear Lake, Iowas Lake! It's so... well clear! probably the most clear a lake can get in a farming community without a fresh spring from mountains can get. Great walleye, bass, and bluegill fish can be caught too. I'm scheduling my trip to Clear Lake for this summer (or winter!) today!
The short answer is all of them, but generally speaking the Eastern states are more "content dense". Virginia and Pennsylvania is the most safe bet for whatever you're looking for
>What’s the best state to explore small town USA?
There's inevitably going to be flak for this, but I honestly think that small-town California is great for visitors more often than not, particularly but not only in the northern half of the state. Lots of well-stocked little towns in unusually good-looking natural settings available up there. I have a personal affection for Willits in Mendocino County, self-styled Gateway to the Redwoods; it offers a funny mix of California rednecks and hippies, but it's more down-to-earth and outdoorsy than some of its weirdly posh equivalents in adjacent Sonoma County (which I also really like, but there's a lot of wine and money people there, so it's not to everyone's taste). And my sister lives in Fort Bragg, on the Mendo coast, which is both cute and has some distinctive, beautiful beaches.
But even if you like California, like I do, small-town California is pretty distinct from other states' small towns. I actually grew up in Western Massachusetts, so I can say with confidence that small-town New England is fantastic at and above a certain level of wealth, but descends quickly into opioid epidemic damage and general deprivation in many corners. The same is true of small-town New York State in my experience. It's either beautiful or horrifically depressing. Out West (and ciuriously, in many pockets of the highland Southeast) it may be more of a meth devastation problem, but the results are similarly sad.
West Virginia
Western mountain towns, so Colorado would be good.
Too many commiefornians fricking those charming towns up
Yankees are garbage people. Their shithole towns are derelict for a reason.
moronic buthurt southern homosexual shitting up threads again. Don't listen to him, north is real nice for some old small towns.
southerners pretend theyre nice but rly arent. Just fat extroverts who love gossip and being fat
We are rude buttholes but we literally have a million seaside homosexual art towns full of wharfs and colonial sea captain houses than u can count on ur stubby southern fat fried greasy fingers. We have great mountain towns in Vermont too. Our big cities yeah trash ur right not our small towns tho we have the best in the country up here in New England and no Black folk either, well at least northern NE doesnt.
Name 3 towns in NE that are good
Nantucket
Camden, ME
Woodstock, VT
+1 for Colorado. Ouray, Telluride, Durango, Silverton, Salida, Crested Butte, Manitou Springs, any ski town really. It's amazing for a road trip. The hiking is unreal. Snowboarding has gotten ridiculously expensive in Colorado though. It's better for a summer trip
Colorado is good in that the history is very well preserved. Almost every town in Colorado has saloons from the 1800s that haven't changed much since then. They're neat to walk into. It also doesn't have too many small towns that turned into depressing fentanyl shitholes like the south does.
>any state in New England
>Michigan
>Wisconsin
>Minnesota
>Pennsylvania
>upstate New York
texas
objectively the best in order
1. New Hampshire
2. Massachusetts
3. Virginia
4. Wisconsin
5. Maine
honorable mention: West Virginia
OP wants you to say Maine. There will be no Halloween parties for Maine this year lol.
Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, nebraska, kansas
Pennsylvania for northeast and Colorado for west
Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine for the New England variety of small town.
Virginia and North Carolina for the southern variety.
Wisconsin for the Midwest.
Idaho and Washington for the West Coast.
Overall my favorite: Maine
Franklin TN is the last living Southern small town
You're absolutely moronic if you think this.
A state of disappointment.
Texas hill country, the german diaspora is a hidden gem.
Iowa
michigan outside of the cities while you can
the government's economic plan is literally "attract more immigrants" and they're appearing everywhere
Virginia. See central Virginia for a lot of great scenery, history and small town charm.
same question + will they shoot me for being mexican? I just want to visit, not stay.
maybe not "the best" but IL is my personal favorite. Galesburg, Galena, Woodstock, Fox Lake, we have the best of lakeside and prairie small towns.
Clear Lake, Iowa
Historic Clear Lake Iowa has the last place famous singers Buddy Holly, Big Bopper, and Sammy Davis Jr played at before dying in a horrific plane crash due to winter conditions.
Clear Lake has it all!
A steam boat!
A big lake!
Fishing!
Small Town bars!
Camping Site!
I love Clear Lake!
California, oddly
Pretty sure we have more cities than any state
I absolutely love boating on Clear Lake, Iowas Lake! It's so... well clear! probably the most clear a lake can get in a farming community without a fresh spring from mountains can get. Great walleye, bass, and bluegill fish can be caught too. I'm scheduling my trip to Clear Lake for this summer (or winter!) today!
The short answer is all of them, but generally speaking the Eastern states are more "content dense". Virginia and Pennsylvania is the most safe bet for whatever you're looking for
>What’s the best state to explore small town USA?
There's inevitably going to be flak for this, but I honestly think that small-town California is great for visitors more often than not, particularly but not only in the northern half of the state. Lots of well-stocked little towns in unusually good-looking natural settings available up there. I have a personal affection for Willits in Mendocino County, self-styled Gateway to the Redwoods; it offers a funny mix of California rednecks and hippies, but it's more down-to-earth and outdoorsy than some of its weirdly posh equivalents in adjacent Sonoma County (which I also really like, but there's a lot of wine and money people there, so it's not to everyone's taste). And my sister lives in Fort Bragg, on the Mendo coast, which is both cute and has some distinctive, beautiful beaches.
But even if you like California, like I do, small-town California is pretty distinct from other states' small towns. I actually grew up in Western Massachusetts, so I can say with confidence that small-town New England is fantastic at and above a certain level of wealth, but descends quickly into opioid epidemic damage and general deprivation in many corners. The same is true of small-town New York State in my experience. It's either beautiful or horrifically depressing. Out West (and ciuriously, in many pockets of the highland Southeast) it may be more of a meth devastation problem, but the results are similarly sad.