Whenever I make the unfortunate decision to visit home, I have to drive through West Virginia. I always fill up before the state line, because I refuse to contribute to their economy. I also take back roads around the tolls, as they would have me pay upwards of $15 each trip through. The back roads inevitably lead me past wide swaths of entrenched poverty. Burnt down trailers, smoldering in the trailer parks, with their drumpf flags and “friends of coal” signs. It’s pathetic.
And if you’re in the US, don’t vacation or otherwise financially contribute to any red state.
(I say that living in a red state that gets a lot of its funding from tourism).
Ah… so Florida, huh?
Could be Louisiana too
Ahhhhh, that’s right. Sin City of the South would be in a red state.
Whenever I make the unfortunate decision to visit home, I have to drive through West Virginia. I always fill up before the state line, because I refuse to contribute to their economy. I also take back roads around the tolls, as they would have me pay upwards of $15 each trip through. The back roads inevitably lead me past wide swaths of entrenched poverty. Burnt down trailers, smoldering in the trailer parks, with their drumpf flags and “friends of coal” signs. It’s pathetic.
I am glad my red state of Misery has only one toll road that I’ve never had to use.
Move.