• Vespair@lemmy.zip
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    Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It’s the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don’t know to drive.

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          Drove through VA once, and we were amazed at how good the drivers were. Normal speeds, being predictable instead of trying to be “polite”, not sitting in the passing lane for miles, it was crazy.

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            The only big problem with drivers in VA, imo, is that while they’re good they’re competitive within the bounds of good. And moreso within/near city or big town limits. Really this just means that if you turn on your indicator to show that you’re trying to change lanes, many VA drivers will speed up to pass you to allow you to merge behind them rather than in front of them. Comparatively not a big deal, but I didn’t even realize this was a thing until I lived in NC and regularly experienced people happily making way for me to merge when I indicated.

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          I knew it , I’m in the state that causes all the havoc!

          Every day I start the car I gotta slap my face and look in the mirror and pump myself up

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            If it makes you feel better, I think you guys are a better state in almost every other way but driving 😂

            edit: Genuinely y’all might have the best state flag in the nation, and that’s coming from a Virginian and our flag is pretty fucking great

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    “If you don’t like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes”

    I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it’s a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it’s unique to where they live

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    Living at altitude, this is actually true. Very low atmospheric buffering. Temperature swings of 40 degrees within a few hours.

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      In monsoon season it’s absolutely ‘the forecast cannot help you. It might rain here, it might rain 50 yards away’

      But they would be correct about having the worst drivers

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    Arkansas doesn’t require driver’s ed so I think we do have the market cornered on bad drivers. I see folks slam on their brakes on the interstate, reverse back to their exit, the interstates themselves were obviously designed by folks who don’t understand how it works, etc. I’ve lived in several states and never seen anything quite like it.

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      I think what people don’t realize is that roads are mostly designed by politicians and transit engineers just check to make sure the whole thing doesn’t collapse or sink when a car drives over it.

      There are standards but 9/10 times the standards are written by the local council member whose background is in like real estate law or is the son of the local auto dealership owner.

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      They do that shit in Florida often enough as well. Mostly the same reason. People who don’t, or legally should not, have a license.

      A good driver NEVER misses their exit.

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      Week? Yesterday my daughter and I rode bikes to her school in 30° and rode home in 73°. Choosing her outfits is very difficult this week.

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        I’m pretty close to Bowling Green, KY. Did you see the guy that got caught having sex with the dead deer on the side of the road? One county over :/

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    I’ve lived in quite a few places and I still think of Maryland drivers as the worst I’ve encountered. Istanbul drivers are the most ballsy/skilled/terrifying/helpful.

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      I was coming here to say this exact thing… I’ve never seen such an aggressively clueless population of drivers as those in Maryland. They will savagely cut you off in the left lane to go the speed limit or less.

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    Just looked it up and apparently my state actually has a remarkably low rate of traffic deaths, so apparently we’re actually pretty good drivers

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    I thought my state was the worst, but turns out Miami takes the cake. Grand Theft Auto was basically accurate.

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    Florida literally has a monsoon season where it goes from sunny to pouring to sunny around the same time every day for like 4 months.

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        You got at least a month before irregular rains, and 2 months before the wet season actually starts.

        What are the estuaryies looking like?

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    The real issue is being temperate enough to freeze, but not cold enough regularly to have good road maintenance or drivers experienced with ice/snow.

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    Nah, when I say this I’m referring to when my temperature goes from (in fahrenheit) -5, to almost 50, to 10 degrees in only 4 days. Got rain one day and snow the next.