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mostassuredlyafish t1_isgi6t5 wrote

My ancestors warned me against visiting New Hampshire, or, as the natives call it: the Land of Wind and Ghosts. It is the place where the dishonored dead wander, cursed to forever live out the horrors they themselves inflicted in life.

Also, their plates are a weird color.

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Amdy_vill t1_isgtkbi wrote

The only people who don't complain about massholes are massholes. I've meet people from California who have never been here who know this. Massholes are just subhuman.

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DaytonaDemon t1_isgu4jb wrote

This idiotic tribalism will be the death of us.

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beerbatteredarmchair t1_isgvimb wrote

The Massachusetts hate is just to distract from the fact that so many Mainers are actually from Florida

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Bywater t1_ish1x8m wrote

We were Massachusetts... Just saying.

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Sonofabeechikeelu t1_ish2xnf wrote

Irony is a lot of Mainers are descendents of Massachusetts. IE those who fled King Philip’s war, refugees of the French Indian war, victims of the Acadian expulsion, etc. etc.

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Odeeum t1_ish3cib wrote

I always found this to be the mentality of people that have never been out of Maine...and of those that have, never out of New England. It's just silly to think entire groups of people act a certain way because of imaginary lines on the ground.

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Stonesword75 t1_ish5338 wrote

Not even Massachusetts.

There is so much tension between Northern and Southern Maine.

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TheMrNeffels t1_ish5ywd wrote

My wife and I are from Iowa and just did a road trip up through new york, Vermont, new Hampshire, and Maine then came through mass on way back

I whole heartedly agree fuck Massachusetts. Will never return.

Although I have to add y'all are lying about moose in Maine they don't exist. Never saw one and spent multiple days looking

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TheMrNeffels t1_ish6yqv wrote

Replying to SeawolfGaming (#113,217)

Northern. I'm just joking though unfortunately the day we got there was opening bear hunting day so bunch of hunters in trucks and with dogs ripping around. Probably scared all the wildlife off

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monsterscallinghome t1_ish7c57 wrote

Replying to dutchshepherdbite (#113,010)

Which, having myself been born in the shadows of Tahoma and Mt St Helens, never fails to crack me the fuck up when it's aimed in my direction.

Sorry bub, unless it's got snow on top in August it's just a hill. Mighty big hill, sure, but not a mountain.

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crookdmouth t1_ish8da5 wrote

Maine used to belong to Massachusetts. Problem is they still think it does. Old joke. :)

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HolyHand_Grenade t1_ish9t39 wrote

Mass is not almost identical, I've lived in both. Mass is horrible.

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JBolduc2769 t1_ishhwbo wrote

I still know people who think that above Boston is just Canada.

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furrylandseal t1_ishkqwi wrote

Replying to Amdy_vill (#112,714)

Subhuman? Wow. That’s straight up Third Reich Trumperspeak. Massachusetts, New York, California, etc., are our most reliable defenders of democracy, and I think it’s in our best interest to not dehumanize them.

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furrylandseal t1_ishl0r0 wrote

Massachusetts is one of our most reliable democracy defenders, and they are saving us from straight up nazi bullshit from the far right. They are an ally. Let’s not do this.

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ISlothyCat t1_ishlfne wrote

Just so! My street turns into MA at the bottom and those red plated massholes are always speeding on our narrow country road with lots of walking people.

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IanWellinghurst t1_ishmo0s wrote

Replying to auraphauna (#113,573)

Agreed. Having lived in South Florida for seven years I have a new found respect for other New Englanders and an irrational dislike of NYC and New Jersey. Sibling rivalry is the best word for it.

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AppropriatePhysics69 t1_ishn3c8 wrote

Replying to bluestargreentree (#113,677)

Yah I think in Maine it's legal but they are embarking on an 18 month "rule making" process... Because Maine.

I can place my sports bets on DraftKings in New Hampshire when I'm working but as soon as I get to Maine it tells me no.

Crosswise I can buy a fat bag of delicious weed in Maine but as soon as I get to New Hampshire they tell me no.

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GoodDecision t1_ishpg5p wrote

MA doesn't even bother me at this point. The amount of NJ, NY, and CT plates in my town in October is too damn high. Do these people have lives to get back to at any point?

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LockedOutOfElfland t1_ishs6m9 wrote

Replying to feigndeaf (#113,587)

Lived in North Florida for a decade and then some. You mostly forget about South Florida entirely unless you're watching one of those movies or TV shows about cops shooting drug dealers (because there's a 95% chance those are in Miami), or unless you meet a student who tells you they moved for college from "around Miami".

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jamoss14 t1_ishsiha wrote

Why do all of the trees in New York lean to the East? Because Massachusetts sucks

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Nimbis207 t1_isi5kvs wrote

It's pronounced massive huge tits.

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TheGrandLemonTech t1_isi8n5h wrote

Fuck PCM even harder. That subreddit is chock full of neo-nazis.

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800grandave t1_isig1rb wrote

spell it right. youre making maine look bad

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MathematicianGlum880 t1_isiw7qo wrote

I was born and raised in Maine, after graduating in 1979, I moved to Mass for ten years, came back to Maine and will never ever live in Mass again. They’ve always acted like their shit don’t stink.

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Starbuksman t1_isj3i5q wrote

Sad thing is- they own more than half the coastal homes.

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misterflappypants t1_isj5u9x wrote

As a Bostonian,

This is exactly how I picture Maine residents dressing

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ggtffhhhjhg t1_isj6glz wrote

Replying to mlo9109 (#113,713)

Welcome to the party. You could say the same for dozens of states. People that have been priced out of everywhere south are just migrating. Maybe this migration while help repopulate the dying towns to the north and west.

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josh_was_there t1_isj7rf8 wrote

Nice a fellow PCMer. I too am a man of culture.

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Famous_Quality_5931 t1_isje0go wrote

Hey now we need to all stick together against Connecticut. Don’t lose focus.

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GoArmyNG t1_isjj7l5 wrote

If they would learn how to drive properly I would tolerate them more.

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TheMrNeffels t1_isjpcdg wrote

Replying to bwma (#115,506)

Lol no we did other stuff too. Stopped on coast, went to Salem(don't recommend), and some other small stops.

We were mainly on a wildlife sight seeing trip so that's main issue. Although yeah the mass pike was super annoying because people do not know how to drive and we were almost in like 3 accidents in 30 minutes because morons were texting and not paying attention.

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william1Bastard t1_isjsim3 wrote

How come my two friends that moved up there, keep MA as their permanent residence? Hmm...

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BlueJay_NE t1_isk2yqi wrote

Maine, a lovely place to visit if you can manage to avoid the inbred deep-woods folk clutching their guns and surrounded by packs of their hunting hounds.

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ThePurgatorianAgent t1_isk6wu0 wrote

My nephew found out my older brother wasn't born in Maine, and quote, unquote "joked" about him being a monster. He's 6. That's when kids are Brutally honest from their perspective. That's why I just get Disgusted by the hate towards other states.

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goPACK17 t1_isk8zoo wrote

You're welcome for all the economic simulation I guess...

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aftermarrow t1_iskfaaz wrote

nh only has a tiny strip of beach and literally every parking space will have a car with a MA plate in it.

we call them massholes.

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CLNA11 t1_iskikfl wrote

Replying to DaytonaDemon (#112,738)

Can someone explain why it is so intense here? I've lived in (or have strong sentimental "home" attachments) to PA, NJ, central NY, Indiana, Massachusetts, and now I live in Maine. Every other state I've lived in, people are just like "Oh, you're from x? Cool. [Insert remark about visiting there, having relatives there, a thoughtful question about it, etc.]." Here, people are so rude about not being born here, and it's so off-putting. I feel like living in other states has only made me more empathic and open-minded towards others. I understand how some of resentment comes from of being priced out of your own neighborhood, but that is happening nationwide and for far more complicated reasons than a bunch of "Massholes" moving to Maine.

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GoodDecision t1_isknbju wrote

Replying to CLNA11 (#117,938)

I can tell you besides the wealthy takeover of many areas, for me it's the way they drive around here.

There are 2 groups of drivers from MA. The first group will drive slowly, sometimes down the middle line, stop in the middle of the road with no indication of what they are doing, use the wrong lanes to turn, and just generally make it nerve-wracking to be around. I call these the unintentionally oblivious.

The second group drives as fast as they can with total disregard for signalling, doing whatever the hell they want as if they are the only person on the road. Tailgate you, pass you aggressively. I call these the intentionally obnoxious.

I can only speak for myself but when I'm in an unfamiliar area you better believe I'm white-knuckling it, making sure to be in the right lane, looking for turn-only lanes, and generally trying to stay out of way of people who are local. I try my hardest to not be a pain to my fellow drivers and I guess I foolishly expect the same when they come to my town

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blounge87 t1_iskqk44 wrote

We can all agree Connecticut is the traitor here

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pr1ap15m t1_iskqkmi wrote

let the hatred flow through you

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GoodDecision t1_isluoqj wrote

Replying to DaytonaDemon (#119,588)

So... "It's me who is right, and everyone else who is wrong".

You hear Mainers talking about this all the time for a good reason. It doesn't come out of thin air, its observed behavior and pattern recognition (so atavistic, how low-brow of us). I know what confirmation bias and selective perception are, but thanks for the links.

I drive for a living, I'm out there all day everyday and I see it all. Not every MA driver is careless and/or rude, but after 40 years of observation some patterns do emerge. I understand they drive the way they do for a reason, I lived in Boston for 10 years. It's just how you need to drive down there, but it doesn't translate up here and its glaringly obvious to witness.

I literally just got home from work, and about an hour ago I was up at the small rotary heading from Dover to Durham NH. This rotary is tiny, I usually go about 15 miles an hour approaching and around. Its so small you really cant be going any faster than that. The car in front of me approached going about 35 mph, veered into the outside lane (two lane rotary) in front of me at the last second, no signal, no yield. They crashed into the car already going around the rotary. Everyone was ok. Guess where they were from?

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GoodDecision t1_islzu0q wrote

Replying to TheGrandLemonTech (#119,859)

and THAT subreddit is chock full o' full of terminally-online losers that get their dopamine hit by pearl-clutching and handwringing over every tiny perceived injustice against the all-knowing guardians of virtue, brigading and reporting anything on reddit they deem wrong-think.

It's a humor subreddit. They're jokes. Lighten up. And before you link me to some other horrible thing someone said on the internet (yes that particular image/joke was not cool) , I don't care. You cant control what people do, terrible people can post words online wherever they want, that's fine by me.

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DaytonaDemon t1_ism73jb wrote

Replying to GoodDecision (#119,694)

It'd be interesting to see statistics. Mainers driving in Massachusetts, "Massholes" driving in Maine. How many accidents, how many dead and wounded, per one million miles driven? Find me those numbers, and I'll concede your point if there is a large difference in favor of Maine drivers. My money's on "no meaningful difference."

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AppropriatePhysics69 t1_isnobhz wrote

Replying to AppropriatePhysics69 (#113,662)

Not sure the down votes, the internet is weird... Open the DraftKings or any gambling app on your phone right now and try to bet on a sports game. It will tell you that based on your location you can't place a bet.

Tonight when I'm in NH working, it will let me do it no problem.

Hell the PPH had an article a few weeks/month back where they interviewed a guy from Berwick who was literally driving across the border to place bets - it was the focus of the article that Maine hasn't allowed it yet despite being "legal".

I'm aware we have two casinos - would HARDLY describe either as "full size" in the casino world. They exist though, I agree.

Source: was at the Oxford Casino two weekends ago,and live here too. And frequently work in NH where I can legally sportsbet from my phone.

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monsterscallinghome t1_isomunw wrote

Replying to LifeSucksAnyway (#114,109)

I dunno, I've climbed Aconcagua in summer and there was definitely snow at the top (we didn't summit, but spent two weeks hiking & camping around the foothills & lower slopes on horseback.) I'll give you points for Guatemala, though - Volcan Fuego is definitely a mountain. Seeing the lava glowing against the stars while riding the night bus from Guatemala City to San Salvador was wild, something I'll never forget.

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LifeSucksAnyway t1_isotbmy wrote

Replying to monsterscallinghome (#124,522)

Aconcagua is kind of cheating because it’s the highest mountain outside of Asia haha

Being serious though, I just think it’s very close minded to define a “mountain” by the residual snowpack on its summit, after all there are plenty of mountains with high elevation which A: don’t have snowpack year round and B: start at high elevation already. Topographic relief is generally the biggest factor in what makes a mountain physically large, which is why Tahoma feels so much larger than Mt. Elbert, for example, despite being slightly lower in elevation. It’s just hard for me to look at something like Katahdin and be like “ah yes, that is a hill now since the snowpack generally melts around late July, woe is me and my silly east coast rock piles”

All that being said though I’d love to travel to the PNW, I have friends who say the high elevation meadows are quite nice

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monsterscallinghome t1_isoyp2p wrote

Replying to LifeSucksAnyway (#124,971)

You're very pedantic, but also correct. I was poking fun at the phrase "flatlander," after all, which is itself superfuckingsilly for each and all of the points you've just made. Katahdin is beautiful, and while I was born in the NW, I'll die in Maine where my child was born.

Do go check out the alpine meadows in the PNW, though. Just steer clear of Seattle/the popular parts of the Cascades and go straight from Sea-Tac up to the Olympic Peninsula and the Hoh National Rainforest, then hit the Okanagan Wilderness in north-central WA state by way of the ferry at Anacortes and the roads through the Cascades up near Bellingham. Way less populated and even more beautiful.

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LifeSucksAnyway t1_isp3uu2 wrote

Replying to monsterscallinghome (#125,275)

> You're very pedantic, but also correct. I was poking fun at the phrase "flatlander," after all, which is itself superfuckingsilly for each and all of the points you've just made. Katahdin is beautiful, and while I was born in the NW, I'll die in Maine where my child was born.

Flatlander is a silly and outdated term anyway so full agree

Thanks for the recs btw, I’ll be sure to save those if I ever make it over there. Douglas Fir is an S tier tree

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Frirish11 t1_isq887x wrote

Replying to mostassuredlyafish (#112,306)

Last winter I got lost about 50 times in New Hampshire. I kept ending up in Concord for some reason. I did get a free iced coffee from a Dunkin in the countryside outside of Franconia Notch area, along with some directions. I still got lost. My phone battery died so I was able to charge it via a plug it the yarn section at a Walmart. Which takes forever, by the way. But now I have the yarn selection at the Concord Walmart memorized.

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K8nK9s t1_issc0pj wrote

People want world peace and can't even get along with their neighbors. Life long mainer here. I have no problem with MA.

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