I thought my state was the worst, but turns out Miami takes the cake. Grand Theft Auto was basically accurate.
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I've lived in quite a few places and I still think of Maryland drivers as the worst I've encountered. Istanbul drivers are the most ballsy/skilled/terrifying/helpful.
I was coming here to say this exact thing... I've never seen such an aggressively clueless population of drivers as those in Maryland. They will savagely cut you off in the left lane to go the speed limit or less.
The fucking Russian drivers are the worst. I saw plenty of them in Masuren and Ermland (Warmia) before Poland closed the border with the shitbag Muscovites from the illegally occupied Kaliningrad.
Any northern country is disqualified as they know how to drive in snow. The worst drivers have to be a place that doesn't get regular snow.
I've had people say Vietnam is the worst, but everyone rides slow, are riding from a very young age, and are prepared for literally anything to happen on the road at any minute. The issue isn't skill, it's that they're on hardmode, riding overloaded crap bikes with crap rubber while simultaneously texting, smoking, and drinking. They perform much better than I could in the same situation.
Nope, it's always cloudy. Or like some valleys are cloudy and some are sunny. But they are predictable.
In my state not all the drivers are the worst. Just those from 22, 8, 14counties. That's Crete, hastings, grand island
Arkansas doesn't require driver's ed so I think we do have the market cornered on bad drivers. I see folks slam on their brakes on the interstate, reverse back to their exit, the interstates themselves were obviously designed by folks who don't understand how it works, etc. I've lived in several states and never seen anything quite like it.
I think what people don't realize is that roads are mostly designed by politicians and transit engineers just check to make sure the whole thing doesn't collapse or sink when a car drives over it.
There are standards but 9/10 times the standards are written by the local council member whose background is in like real estate law or is the son of the local auto dealership owner.
They do that shit in Florida often enough as well. Mostly the same reason. People who don't, or legally should not, have a license.
A good driver never misses their exit.
'don't like the weather, wait an hour.', every state i've been to.
You've never been to so cal, we always just say isn't the weather perfect here.
Hey, the drivers in my state are fine. It's the drivers in the neighboring state that are all reckless idiots who don't know to drive.
Do you live in PA DE VA or WVA by chance
VA 😉
Drove through VA once, and we were amazed at how good the drivers were. Normal speeds, being predictable instead of trying to be "polite", not sitting in the passing lane for miles, it was crazy.
The only big problem with drivers in VA, imo, is that while they're good they're competitive within the bounds of good. And moreso within/near city or big town limits. Really this just means that if you turn on your indicator to show that you're trying to change lanes, many VA drivers will speed up to pass you to allow you to merge behind them rather than in front of them. Comparatively not a big deal, but I didn't even realize this was a thing until I lived in NC and regularly experienced people happily making way for me to merge when I indicated.
SoCal here. Nope, weather is consistently great. Also, Arizona's drivers are much worse.
Seriously Colorado though:

Rest of the world panicking for Colorado for a second
Yea Colorado is peak "four seasons in one day" territory sometimes
Nobody in California ever said that shit.
Having rain 3 days a year isn't bipolar weather
You must be Southern California. Northern it rains all the time.
In my state, it was 70° last week; now it is 28°.
Week? Yesterday my daughter and I rode bikes to her school in 30° and ride home in 73°. Choosing her outfits is very difficult this week.
Thermal underwear under jeggings, no-show socks, Uggs, and a wool tube top. Problem solved!
Florida literally has a monsoon season where it goes from sunny to pouring to sunny around the same time every day for like 4 months.
If desperately needs to enter the monsoon season as well
There is an exceptional drought occurring
"If you don't like the weather in [insert location] wait five minutes"
I used to naively believe this was actually unique to Newfoundland. Recently learned that it's a saying everywhere and everyone acts like it's unique to where they live
A day? In New England we say if you don't like the weather, wait 15 minutes, it'll change. And Boston drivers aren't bad, just aggressive. New Jersey drivers are bad.
Boston drivers aren’t bad, just aggressive
Worcester on the other hand, has shit drivers. Every time I've been through there I've seen people do dumb shit on the road.
NJ won't even let them pump gas.
In New England we say if you don’t like the weather, wait 15 minutes, it’ll change.
Which New England are you in? When it's rainy/snowy, that weather sticks around for days. Generally speaking, most places with high humidity generally have more consistent weather. It's areas with low humidity (and high elevation) where you get really big weather and temperature swings.
Pennsylvania drivers take the cake. NJ is a mishmash.
Living at altitude, this is actually true. Very low atmospheric buffering. Temperature swings of 40 degrees within a few hours.
No Californian would say that. The weather is stable and nice 9 months of the year and cloudy and nice the sun the other 3.
Just looked it up and apparently my state actually has a remarkably low rate of traffic deaths, so apparently we're actually pretty good drivers
Well, guess it's nice to know I'm not giving away my location when I complain.