You said it. Not 300 years, but my own Massachusetts roots go back 150 and I've never wished to live anywhere else until I witnessed developments of the past few years. The state government is a sinkhole of Marxist blather and outright, bare-faced corruption. And yet a substantial number of Volvo driving, soccer watching, ecoloonie watermelon, UN one-world, Utopian socialist, secular humanist residents love their "governing elite" and vote them into office repeatedly. As you said, "It just plain sucks to live here."
And everone of them still has their Kerry Edwards bumper sticker on their car. Don't forget the angry lesbians in a Subaru Forester.
Well put:) I recently departed Cambrdge for the midwest. Though I did enjoy a variety of positive aspects of life in Cambridge, after a number of years I had come to the conclusion that some of my neighbors didn't share my views and values. I did run into a few other conservatives while living there - seems we had a type of conservdar - a sense of who each other were.
I like living here. I like some individuals who I know are moonbats. I don't like the fruit of their progressive activities, including especially the ridiculous state government. I wish more people would read Howie Carr's columns and there was a better opposition newspaper.
I would love to visit MA, especially Boston and Salem/Danvers for the history, perhaps even do 2-3 weeks of it in the summer since I am planning on being a history teacher after graduation and I would have lots of time in the summer (though not as much as many think...teachers, at least the good ones, don't really have the summer off. Crappy teachers do, however, and that is why they don't go up in the payscale).
But, I am rambling. My point is, I would love to visit, and the countryside has to be beautiful. But, I could not stand to live there.
My hats off to Freepers from MA.
The good news is that this exodus will increase the red state political power, without really impacting the conservative nature of the states much.