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.
I thought my state was the worst, but turns out Miami takes the cake. Grand Theft Auto was basically accurate.
SoCal here. Nope, weather is consistently great. Also, Arizona's drivers are much worse.
I was going to say everywhere but San Diego. I would describe the weather there as room temperature.
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Nobody in California ever said that shit.
Having rain 3 days a year isn't bipolar weather
Yeah but weather over there fluctuates a lot between on fire and not on fire
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Seriously Colorado though:
Rest of the world panicking for Colorado for a second
Yea Colorado is peak "four seasons in one day" territory sometimes
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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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.
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.
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.
'don't like the weather, wait an hour.', every state i've been to.
You've never been to so cal, we always just say isn't the weather perfect here.
"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
It's not, though. People from LA will say the exact opposite.
That saying pops up anywhere where there's a large range of weather. Which is most places, but not everywhere.
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Well, guess it's nice to know I'm not giving away my location when I complain.
I worked for a dollar branded store they would monitor the companies Reddit for employees that were being saying something bad.
They’d look thru the account for pictures of the store layout or anything identifiable. Like the weather on certain days were specifically helpful yes.
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No Californian would say that. The weather is stable and nice 9 months of the year and cloudy and nice the sun the other 3.
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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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Per my experience, Oklahoma has the dumbest drivers, Texas and California are tied for the most aggressive drivers (but simultaneously skilled just enough to not cause mass genocide), and Virginia has the worst road layout.
There's a lot of different flavors of shit.
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In central Indiana it was 70 with tornados and then 20 and snowing two day later.
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In my state, it was 70° last week; now it is 28°.
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.
Thermal underwear under jeggings, no-show socks, Uggs, and a wool tube top. Problem solved!
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The fucking Russian drivers are the worst. I saw plenty of them in Masuren and Ermland (Warmia) before Poland closed the border with the shitbag Muscovites from the illegally occupied Kaliningrad.
Any northern country is disqualified as they know how to drive in snow. The worst drivers have to be a place that doesn't get regular snow.
I've had people say Vietnam is the worst, but everyone rides slow, are riding from a very young age, and are prepared for literally anything to happen on the road at any minute. The issue isn't skill, it's that they're on hardmode, riding overloaded crap bikes with crap rubber while simultaneously texting, smoking, and drinking. They perform much better than I could in the same situation.
Nope, it's always cloudy. Or like some valleys are cloudy and some are sunny. But they are predictable.
In my state not all the drivers are the worst. Just those from 22, 8, 14counties. That's Crete, hastings, grand island
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