Where would you rather live?

[they don't love you like i love you]

Also Des Moines doesn't have a parade honoring a genocidal, mass murdering rapist piece of sh!t every October.

Only in BRTD's world is this important for people when deciding whether they should live in Des Moines or in NYC

The point is that Des Moines is one of those Midwestern "all liberal, all the time" cities, while in NYC that's only true in certain neighborhoods, and this poll is not about those neighborhoods.

[Rockefeller GOP]

Also Des Moines doesn't have a parade honoring a genocidal, mass murdering rapist piece of sh!t every October.

Only in BRTD's world is this important for people when deciding whether they should live in Des Moines or in NYC

The point is that Des Moines is one of those Midwestern "all liberal, all the time" cities, while in NYC that's only true in certain neighborhoods, and this poll is not about those neighborhoods.

You realize that a hefty chunk of people who are sitting in a beer garden or outside of a coffee shop on any given day are probably affluent Republicans who just, ya know, drive to those places?

[they don't love you like i love you]

Also Des Moines doesn't have a parade honoring a genocidal, mass murdering rapist piece of sh!t every October.

Only in BRTD's world is this important for people when deciding whether they should live in Des Moines or in NYC

The point is that Des Moines is one of those Midwestern "all liberal, all the time" cities, while in NYC that's only true in certain neighborhoods, and this poll is not about those neighborhoods.

You realize that a hefty chunk of people who are sitting in a beer garden or outside of a coffee shop on any given day are probably affluent Republicans who just, ya know, drive to those places?

I live in a neighborhood that has tons of those type of places, and if it wasn't January and thus they actually had people outside now I'd go take some pictures and say "You think THESE people are Republicans?" Because they mostly look like they could be characters on Girls.

[RINO Tom]

Also Des Moines doesn't have a parade honoring a genocidal, mass murdering rapist piece of sh!t every October.

Only in BRTD's world is this important for people when deciding whether they should live in Des Moines or in NYC

The point is that Des Moines is one of those Midwestern "all liberal, all the time" cities, while in NYC that's only true in certain neighborhoods, and this poll is not about those neighborhoods.

You realize that a hefty chunk of people who are sitting in a beer garden or outside of a coffee shop on any given day are probably affluent Republicans who just, ya know, drive to those places?

I live in a neighborhood that has tons of those type of places, and if it wasn't January and thus they actually had people outside now I'd go take some pictures and say "You think THESE people are Republicans?" Because they mostly look like they could be characters on Girls.

My friends and I are mostly Republicans.  Because the GOP benefits us more than the Democrats do.  I promise you we look like normal, cool guys in the bars we hang out in and don't act like characters on Girls (whatever the hell that is).  We also love hanging out in places like downtown Des Moines, downtown Chicago, downtown Iowa City, downtown Champaign, etc., all places that voted for Obama twice.  How on EARTH do we cope with being in such a place?!

[Goldwater]

Tom, you're wasting your time. BRTD has already decided how he thinks the world is, and no amount of logic and facts will change that.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Also Des Moines doesn't have a parade honoring a genocidal, mass murdering rapist piece of sh!t every October.

Only in BRTD's world is this important for people when deciding whether they should live in Des Moines or in NYC

The point is that Des Moines is one of those Midwestern "all liberal, all the time" cities, while in NYC that's only true in certain neighborhoods, and this poll is not about those neighborhoods.

You realize that a hefty chunk of people who are sitting in a beer garden or outside of a coffee shop on any given day are probably affluent Republicans who just, ya know, drive to those places?

I live in a neighborhood that has tons of those type of places, and if it wasn't January and thus they actually had people outside now I'd go take some pictures and say "You think THESE people are Republicans?" Because they mostly look like they could be characters on Girls.

My friends and I are mostly Republicans.  Because the GOP benefits us more than the Democrats do.  I promise you we look like normal, cool guys in the bars we hang out in and don't act like characters on Girls (whatever the hell that is).  We also love hanging out in places like downtown Des Moines, downtown Chicago, downtown Iowa City, downtown Champaign, etc., all places that voted for Obama twice.  How on EARTH do we cope with being in such a place?!

I'm willing to bet you guys look more like bros than hipsters or stoners. You just said yourself you don't look like characters on Girls. What I'm saying is that most people at such places around here look like the people in this video who are very obviously not Republicans and obviously wouldn't be even if they weren't moshing to a very SJW band.

But anyway, this is how where I live voted in 2012:

Republican      MITT ROMNEY AND PAUL RYAN   162   8.15%   
Democratic-Farmer-Labor      BARACK OBAMA AND JOE BIDEN   1711   86.07%   

...so I don't think it's too much of a stretch to assume I don't run into too many Republicans.

[Хahar 🤔]

I don't think it's unreasonable to not want to live in a neighborhood where almost everyone is a member of a very conservative religious group if you are not a member of that group. Living in a community where you are a small minority can be uncomfortable.

[RFayette]

I don't think it's unreasonable to not want to live in a neighborhood where almost everyone is a member of a very conservative religious group if you are not a member of that group. Living in a community where you are a small minority can be uncomfortable.

Agreed.  While I'd love to live in Northwest Iowa or an Evangelical enclave in the rural South or Southwest, I'd absolutely loathe to live in an equally-conservative Hasidic or Mormon area (especially the former, in which there's all the stresses/high cost of city life along with being around a bunch of people with very different, though quite strong, religious beliefs).  I'd prefer a more secular area to one where the viewpoint is religious but in a very different direction.

[Sprouts Farmers Market ✘]

Tom is right of course. I too tend to hang out in the most liberal pockets of Philadelphia (despite not residing there yet.) But unlike you, I also dress the part of course!

[Figueira]

I still haven't gotten over my slight obsession with Iowa, so I'll go with Des Moines. I wouldn't mind living in a Romney part of NYC if it's in Brooklyn though.

Huh, I didn't expect that to get emptyquoted.

You guys realize there are far more cool things in Des Moines than in the Romney voting parts of NYC?

Basically you have Staten Island (if anything cool does happen there it'd be on the D-voting North Shore), a bunch of Hasidic and Russian neighborhoods in southern Brooklyn and some neighborhoods in Queens that are a bunch of Italian olds. You aren't going to have any scene or shows or cool bars or coffee shops in such places. Far more in Des Moines.

Also Des Moines doesn't have a parade honoring a genocidal, mass murdering rapist piece of sh!t every October.

I've been to a Russian neighborhood in Brooklyn. It's kind of cool if you're into Russian things. It was a long time ago though.