Well, I'm originally from Ohio by way of western Pennsylvania. And I'll never go back. I took my wife out to the Outer Banks one year, in North Carolina, to spend time with my family, during their annual pilgrimage to OBX, and we were riding bikes (to get fresh boiled shrimp) and a large truck tried to run us off the road while shouting some racist shit in our general direction. I'm white, she's not.

I lived in the south, primarily in Texas and Georgia, but I spent a lot of time in Tennessee and Alabama and Louisiana, too, and I'll pass, pass, pass, pass, and pass on all of those places, too.

So, out of the 9 states in this country that I've personally spent significant time in, in many cases living in these states for years of my life: California is the only one I'm willing to put down roots in because I have a minority wife.

Baltimore is a low standard but you could trip over the fucking bar in this country.