Moving to a blue state is less and less a possibility for escaping Republican influence...
The Pacific West is under siege by climate change (extreme drought which may be long lasting and devastating), and much of the Midwest blue states are under siege by Republicans. Both the northeast and the pacific west are super expensive. Minnesota is super cold.
I think the idea that you can escape the effects of the Republican Party is foolish, unless you happen to make a lot of money and have the privilege of mobility, or work in a big corporation where you can be transferred.
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if you have a down coat that's good to -40 F and C.
Mostly you don't even need great thermal boots because parking is typically within a 1/4 mile walk, regardless of how much snow might be on the ground.
And that's true even if you are walking out to your ice fishing shanty.
The thing that's really strange is that after you assimilate and your superficial circulation dives a cm under your epidermis, is that even men have a tremendous need to sun bathe topless in bikini bottoms at the first sign of 45 F.
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