The person asked "what's it like living in east idaho" - and I answered based on some very detailed descriptions provided to me by people who've spent a lot of time there. I consider it an unavoidable fact that unless you are an ideological match with the majority of the persons who already live there, it's going to be a very miserable experience. Some of the social attributes that I described are statistically documented for that region in poll data.

Considering that probably 40% of your hn comments seem to be some variety of partisan axe grinding on American-specific political issues, maybe you might want to take a look in the mirror first.