What state do you think is the most free with the least restrictions?

[The Wielding Truth]

[HR_Pufnstuf]

1. State of Mind

:)

[Career Prole]

2. The state of denial. n/t

[leftofthedial]

3. not one of the United States

not anymore.

[candy]

5. Can you elaborate on that? Where would you rather live?

I don't get your comment at all----I like it here in the US.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

8. probably cos you live in MA

[leftofthedial]

11. I love America

it is hibernating now under the mantle of Murka.

Most of Europe is far freer right now.

Rising fundamentalism makes much of the world virtually uninhabitable.

Picking a particular state (in the US) as more or less free than others is a bit pointless since it is the centralized neocon proto-fascist government that imposes the restrictions on our freedom.

[The Wielding Truth]

23. In the US if you wanted to go and live in the most open and least

restrictive State. Which one would you choose and why? That's what I mean. What place is left that let's you breath the freest?

[napi21]

4. Probably Nevada and Alaska.

Alaska because it has quite a low population, that they don't really need the regulations that big cities do like NYC, LA, Chicago, etc.

Nevada because they do have the most relaxed personal restriction laws, and the rest of the state is all desert and not very populated either.

[WVhill]

6. West by damn Virginia!

I'd say West Virginia which probably has one of the smaller government bureaucracies. If you're not in an incorporated area, and that's most of West Virginia you don't need permits to do something on your property.

I can pretty much do anything and no one's going to show up on my door with a complaint. That includes firing a twelve gauge off the back porch because the dogs are barking which I just did a few minutes ago. If I want to build a house, put in my own gas line, or pull the engine out of a truck out front no one in this state will say anything. Folks here keep their noses out of others' business.

[Anakin Skywalker]

7. Yeah but can you enjoy sex?

Or will your neighbor turn you in to Asscrofty Sex Police?

[La Lioness Priyanka]

9. how about gay people? how free are they?

[hollowdweller]

14. All the gay people I know seem to like it here.

There's a gay campground not too far north of here, there's a nudist colony up north and the Hare Krishna's have a huge beautiful temple in Moundsville. I know a lot of Pagans too.

[hollowdweller]

13. WV for sure! When I go to Virginia or Maryland I feel like I am in Nazi

Germany. Cops and rules everywhere. Ohio isn't too bad, Kentucky is a little worse. In WV as long as you don't bother anybody else you can pretty much live your life how you want.

[Lone Pawn]

10. Government or Societal?

Big difference.

[sakabatou]

12. CA, or Massachusettes (sp.)

By CA I mean the Bay Area.

[EDT]

16. MA and CA ONLY for gay issues- in every other way they're the worst.

I frequently refer to Mass as 2nd only to California in how much they labor to be involved in your daily activities.

For gay rights they are a great example for the rest of the country, for everything else I rank Ma. and Ca. as 49th and 50th in freedom.

[sakabatou]

18. IOOO* of course

*in our own opinions.

[allalone]

15. Iowa

love it

[LincolnMcGrath]

22. You live in Iowa?

[allalone]

25. I did

but now in Washington state. My kids all lived here. You know how that goes.

[Cuban_Liberal]

17. Illinois would definitely be in the top 3.

:)

[KamaAina]

19. New Hampshire

but remember where those license plates that read "Live Free or Die" are made... :evilgrin:

[Taxloss]

20. Somalia.

Truly a bare-knuckle free-marketeer's paradise.

That's my new argument to the small-government types. "Why don't you just move to Somalia?"

[sweetheart]

21. Alaska, US virgin islands

I can't say for sure, and obviously as i vote first with my feet, i
clearly believe the scottish highlands are that state.

[bhikkhu]

24. Oregon is good

It is hard to think of drawbacks, other than the fundie/conservative bent of the eastern portion. But even that is not hard to abide, once you understand the people. The Oregon Health Plan is excellent, at least for children and pregnant women who typically qualify. My family would be in massive debt otherwise. In the Portland area, including Salem, Eugene, etc, tolerance is the rule, and the people are genuinely nice.