Americans who live near state borders,how do you notice you've crossed the border?
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
I cross a bridge over a river
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I'm up in Canada and we have provinces here ... I live in Ontario and in the year 2000 me and a friend took a motorcycle ride across Canada to the west coast. Great trip.
But for motorcycle riders in Ontario, especially northern Ontario, its famous for rain during the summer, especially when you want to go riding. Sure enough in the first week of July that we started our trip, trying to make sure to catch the best weather for riding, we rode through rain for about three days as we drove through northern Ontario.
The funniest thing was ... as soon as we crossed the Ontario/Manitoba border, the skies parted and I could literally see dark clouds over Ontario and bright clear summer skies to the west .... right at the border of the two provinces.
We had great weather the rest of the trip! ... and sure enough when we did the return trip, we were rained on again in northern Ontario!
I had that driving into a new county by the coastline. Right at the county line it was like a sheet of rain pulled across the road.
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
I knew a family who's house was in New York and the backyard was in New Jersey. No, you couldn't tell.
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
There's a big ass river, so on this side of it you're in IL and the other side is IA.
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Where I come from the asphalt change was how I knew I was in the next County
oh yeah, that happens here too, just not as much because our counties usually have the same funding and contractors
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I don’t live near there anymore, but when I did you could legitimately tell when you crossed to NJ because there was trash absolutely everywhere along the sides of highway.
A lot of states in the south will also have a precipitous road quality drop at the state line.
What part of Jersey? Just curious. I will say, I’ve been happy with the NJ plastic bag ban because it’s helped some. Still wayyy too many people around here that don’t give a shit and litter.
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Ah yes, the Garden State. What do they garden? Apparently strip malls and trash.
We have great corn, tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, and cranberries. It’s not all sprawl
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Delaware makes you pay to leave New Jersey
You gotta pay to leave NJ regardless of which way you go which I think is funny. Makes me think of a Bronx tale; “now youse can’t leave”
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
I live close to the Louisiana border, so I know I'm in LA when the roads turn to shit.
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Delaware makes you pay to leave New Jersey
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Street signs in Wisconsin and Illinois differ
The other big thing for knowing I'm in Illinois is seeing gasoline and diesel prices significantly higher than in my state. It's not just fossil fuels either, charging my EV in Illinois makes it cost more than fueling my wife's SUV in my state and driving the same trip. The roads aren't much better either for the higher taxes either.
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We have great corn, tomatoes, blueberries, strawberries, and cranberries. It’s not all sprawl
Totally agree. It's just sad to see the extent of the sprawl with seemingly no regard for anything except "development."
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
wrote last edited by [email protected]The roads get better, the drivers get worse, there's jughandles everywhere, they won't let me pump my own gas, and there's liquor stores that aren't owned by the state.
Also I have to cross a river, and pretty much everything gets flatter.
For the other borders, mostly the same. One direction you start seeing more places serving crab, another has no sales tax, one is just boring and depressing, and the other unless you cross at some very specific places is mostly just woods and farms and shit that kind of blend into our own but with better roads.
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
When you cross from Nevada into California, the roads turn to shit.
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My state disallows billboard advertising, which I forget until I cross into another state and have to suffer through Jesus and injury lawyer ads.
I couldn't believe driving through Missouri. What a shit hole.
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
When you pass into Indiana, you're immediately overcome with this opressive sense of forboding and dispair. Also the roads immediately turn to shit.
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What part of Jersey? Just curious. I will say, I’ve been happy with the NJ plastic bag ban because it’s helped some. Still wayyy too many people around here that don’t give a shit and litter.
Trenton area mostly. The bag ban wasn’t in effect last time I visited, so if it’s improved the situation that’s great.
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Besides the obvious "welcome to [state name]" sign. Is there a significant change in architecture, infrastructure, agriculture, store brands, maybe even culture?
Like others have said, the roads here tell you.
Specifically, when you cross State Line Road, you've crossed the state line.
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I live close to the Louisiana border, so I know I'm in LA when the roads turn to shit.
Crossing from LA to Mississippi, you notice there's a lot more cops.
