I am thinking of moving out of the United States...

[driver8]

maybe to Montana or Wyoming.

What do you guys think??

Seriously...I told my wife that I am absolutely sick of stupid people. I want to move someplace where there are not many people and lots of wide open spaces.

Any ideas??

[rug]

1. Don't forget your passport.

[Blue-Jay]

17. !

:rofl:

[Herman Munster]

2. you'll find that the wide open spaces

are where the most narrow-minded repukes live.

But then again, since there is lots of space, any interaction with them can be very minimal and with all the shopping that can be done online, it's very easy to live a people-less existence nowadays.

[Deja Q]

3. Wide open spaces

You'll be more dependent on the automobile. Go hybrid, if not electric.

You'll also find people will be just the same.

[greatauntoftriplets]

4. Ummmm, last time I checked....

Montana and Wyoming were still in the United States. And still full of hard-core Republicans. They :loveya: Dick Cheney in his home state of Wyoming.

[driver8]

5. Well, then...Wyoming is definitely out. One of my very liberal friends

thinks we should move to the Azores and open a restaurant.

I've always wanted to learn Portugese!

[IChing]

8. The Azores are Spanish

Madeira is Portuguese

Check out Maderia

[driver8]

11. When my friends visited the Azores, they said they spoke Portugese...

The Portuguese-Speaking World

Portuguese is the language of Portugal (inluding the autonomous regions of the Azores ( Açores in Portuguese spelling),Madeira and Brazil, as well as the official language of the Cape Verde Islands ( Cabo Verde, where a Portuguese variant, crioulo , is also spoken). Guinea-Bissau (Guiné-Bissau)São Tomé e Príncipe. Angola and Mozambique(Moçambique). It is also still spoken in Goa, Macau and East Timor. Some four million Portuguese who have emigrated to various countries retain their first language. Galician, spoken in northwestern Spain, is very similar to Portuguese. Altogether, Portuguese is the language of approximately 183,000,000 people. It is the eighth most spoken language and it ranks third, behind English and Spanish,among European languages used around the world.

[IChing]

13. You are right.....only on my second cup of coffee..me bad

The Azores islands are not really that nice fairly barren, I was thinking of the Canaries.
I went to Madeira and liked the island a lot

Madeira – Conservation at its Best

http://www.gsm-ev.de/texte/madeiraeng.htm

[Gatchaman]

6. Idaho is surprising scenic

and most people have forgotten it's even there. Might be a consideration for you.

[Arugula Latte]

7. However,

Idaho and Utah are amongst the top most hard-core "R" states in the land.

Idaho has a lot of white people who moved there specifically to be with other white people. Yikes. (Before I get flamed let me say I know that there are many perfectly nice, non-white-supremacists in Idaho!)

[driver8]

12. I have heard that about Idaho. Isn't there a somewhat isolated, liberal

state in our country??

[huskerlaw]

14. Nope!

As someone who just moved out of the barren wilderness that is the midwest, I can assure you that the more remote the location, the more rabid the Freeper. You may only live in a town of 100, but at least 90 of them will be froth-at-the-mouth Republicans. The other 10 include you, your family, and a few people who are secretly Dems, but fear being shot by the gun-weilding lunatics that live next door, so they pretend to be Republicans.

That said, there sometimes exists a liberal oasis of sanity in some of these red-state hell holes. However, it's going to be either the state's largest city, its capital, or the city in which the state's main university is located. And even then, the blueness is relative and really means that the city is purple amidst the glaring rednes of the rest of the state.

Sorry 'bout that.

[Arugula Latte]

16. How about New Mexico?

There are some cool, liberal areas like Taos, yet the state does not have a large population. I think it would have gone blue in 2004 if it weren't for strange voting anomalies. New Mexico is gorgeous, too. (Well, the Northern part is; my grandparents used to live in the Southeastern corner of N.M. and that was flat, rightwing, sage-brushy oil fields and close to Midland, Texas :scared: ).

[skygazer]

9. What do you do for a living?

Much of the problem with the "wide open spaces" is finding work that pays you enough to live there.

[CatholicEdHead]

10. Want wide open and out of the US? Try Canada

Of course Alberta is considered "Texas North" with the oil sand prospectors up there. Look at a place within a day's drive or so of Calgary.

[Crazy Dave]

15. Oregon seems like it has remote areas and seems pretty liberal

At least what I've seen and heard about it.

[trof]

18. Read this and you'll want to move to Europe:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2339835&mesg_id=2339835