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?
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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 pay money to cross a large river.
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Yeah I would hardly call Ned Lamont a governor.
He legalized weed at least
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QT: Free air, Roller grills.
And much more. Not good prices though, they know how to separate customers from their cash pretty well.
Air is free at every gas station in CT
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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?
field on one side, field on the other. if I am on the interstate, the surface gets really shitty on our side because brownback and the republicans in topeka drained the highway fund to give the koch bros and fat corpo-farmers a tax break.
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I'll never forget driving home from college with some friends for the holidays one year. I was from PA, he was from Ohio and had never been more east. We were headed to NY with another friend and our route took us briefly through Jersey.
"How will we know we're there?" he asked as the car suddenly lurched and felt like we hit a gravel road despite ostensibly being a paved highway ...
That's strange, I grew up in NJ and our roads tend to be well maintained. It was kinda shocking when I moved to PA and the roads had way more potholes and skinny useless shoulders!
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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?
Heading west out of Connecticut into New York the most obvious difference is they don't trim tree branches over the road/power lines. It suddenly feels like you're driving through a tunnel of green. Its actually quite nice but those parts of nys must have a lot of outages after storms.
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North Carolina paves its roads. South Carolina air drops its roads.
You know you have crossed into South Carolina when the suspension of your vehicle is torn out from under you.
I don’t live in a state that borders SC, but I can think of no better answer to the question at hand.
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What's the point of putting the governor name on the road sign? How is that information useful to drivers?
Ya know. I don't know. Every state does this as far as I can tell and so I've never questioned it.
If I had to guess, its how the DOT or Highway department shills to Tue new governor
"Hey look boss, we put ya name on da side of Interstate 69 from Illinois!,"
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Ya know. I don't know. Every state does this as far as I can tell and so I've never questioned it.
If I had to guess, its how the DOT or Highway department shills to Tue new governor
"Hey look boss, we put ya name on da side of Interstate 69 from Illinois!,"
It’s totally legit highway info. Completely not grifting public money for the governors election campaign. /s
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Never been, but I've heard it's lovely.
Not the easiest place to get to, but it sure is beautiful
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Well, I live on the Minnesota side of the Minnesota / Wisconsin border and normally I can tell I crossed the border because I have to cross the 4th largest river in the world, the Mississippi river.
Joking aside a big tell used to be frac sand mines. Minnesota cracked down on them much harder much more quickly than Wisconsin so you would see them all over the place in Wisconsin but not in MN. I haven't seen as many of those lately though. Also If I drive too far south I wind up driving out of the Kwik Trip gas station zone and into the vastly inferior Caseys gas station zone in Iowa.
I was going to say the firework signs are a sure sign you moved from Minnesota to Wisconsin.
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Delaware makes you pay to leave New Jersey
But it's a solid investment.
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I knew a family who's house was in New York and the backyard was in New Jersey. No, you couldn't tell.
A lot of territories end at a river, but when the boundaries were set for New York they asked for a buffer zone (10 miles I think?) away from the Hudson River. So it really is an arbitrary boundary.
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That's strange, I grew up in NJ and our roads tend to be well maintained. It was kinda shocking when I moved to PA and the roads had way more potholes and skinny useless shoulders!
I do concede, I am ... old. Things may well have changed and it depends on the part of Jersey. States around Jersey just like ripping on them to feel better about themselves, but PA is no treat either which is why I got the hell out of there =P
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Sounds like Upstate New Jersey, hill country. That's pretty neat, though.
Actually, Pearl River. Regular suburban.
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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 on a border and my jogging path cuts through one state and then rounds back home to the other. The only way you can tell a difference is the states have different paving and road work schedules, so usually one state has more shitty roads then the other.
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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 are 50 states and a lot of different border arrangements. If a border is something dramatic like a river and you know that's the state border you can tell.
Often the only way to tell is a change in road surface or signage, or the "Welcome to state" sign. Google navigation will tell you too.
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Trenton area mostly. The bag ban wasn’t in effect last time I visited, so if it’s improved the situation that’s great.
The butthurt that I witnessed in Wawas and Grocery stores in the wake of the ban was glorious
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There are 50 states and a lot of different border arrangements. If a border is something dramatic like a river and you know that's the state border you can tell.
Often the only way to tell is a change in road surface or signage, or the "Welcome to state" sign. Google navigation will tell you too.
Yeah most often the road gets worse /better, either because one state does a better job with road maintenance, or they're just on different schedules.
Also sometimes the signage for state routes changes slightly.
