I am fed up with NC! [View All]

[Jackie97]

Hi, I live in NC. It's obviously a red state. Not only is it a red state, but it's a state where people treat one like crap for being different. I am looking at some exceptional cities to move to in NC, but I'd like some other ideas.

I'm already considering NYC, DC, and perhaps somewhere in California. I've actually considered Canada, but I don't think I need to go that far to keep my sanity.

What are some other good places? I've heard Fairfax, VA can be good even though it's in a red state. What cities in Northern California are good? I've heard Washington state is good, but I don't know squat about that state. What cool cities are there? What about Colorado? I keep thinking I should avoid them because they seem to be the home of too many places like Focus on the Family (which will get on my nerves badly). Florida? How is Orlando like? Is Houston and Dallas different from the rest of Texas? I'm completly forgetting about the middle of the country. What about there?

I don't mean to sound so mean. I take a like into most people around me, and that includes most conservatives. However, many of them act too preachy and judgmental toward me. It's not even most of them. It's just a very vocal group of people that seem to have the silent support of the majority. I don't know how this works actually. I just know that living in a mostly conservative area is driving me up the wall right now. I'm not even open about being a liberal many of times except for around people who already know the "real me". In the town that I originally come from, I'm 99.9% in the liberal closet. Since I still come here a lot, I sometimes go out of my mind having to hide myself. I'm more out of the closet where I'm at now, but it still can be really hard at times. I want to be more about people like me, for my own sanity. I know that sounds awful. It's just that my liberal side really blossemed out a few years ago. It was a thing I fought against my whole life until I finally stopped fighting. It was wonderful for the real me to finally come out after a lifetime of denying it to myself. Now that it's out, I'm tired of feeling like I have to hide.