[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 [@shagbark_hick](/creator/twitter/shagbark_hick) on x 43.3K followers Created: 2025-07-22 15:37:21 UTC The absolute best parts of the United States are the places that are so harrowingly desolate, abandoned, and isolated that no one cares what you do. Want to camp under the water tower in the middle of town? Go ahead, no one minds. Building a cabin? "If you're crazy enough to stay here," they might tell you, "then we figure you know what you're doing." Places where you can pass months without hardly seeing anyone unless you want to. Where everyone's a "character." No jobs, no visitors, no traffic, no crime, mostly just wind and silence and rusty trailers and weeds -- a blank open canvas for a few weird, rugged souls to enjoy. All the feverish clipboard-waving, nail-biting niggling bureaucrats, abstruse rules and regs, fretting over appearances and so on that exists "elsewhere" -- there's not much room for that sort of thing in places like these. This is the only genre of American place that has blown my mind ten times out of ten. My memories of time in these places have tattooed my heart; I can't shake my love for them. If such places didn't still exist, I'd certainly declare this country to be completely hopeless. Thank God they're still out there, weird as ever.  XXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [united states](/topic/united-states) [Post Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1947682385220280714)
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𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick on x 43.3K followers
Created: 2025-07-22 15:37:21 UTC
The absolute best parts of the United States are the places that are so harrowingly desolate, abandoned, and isolated that no one cares what you do.
Want to camp under the water tower in the middle of town? Go ahead, no one minds. Building a cabin? "If you're crazy enough to stay here," they might tell you, "then we figure you know what you're doing."
Places where you can pass months without hardly seeing anyone unless you want to. Where everyone's a "character." No jobs, no visitors, no traffic, no crime, mostly just wind and silence and rusty trailers and weeds -- a blank open canvas for a few weird, rugged souls to enjoy.
All the feverish clipboard-waving, nail-biting niggling bureaucrats, abstruse rules and regs, fretting over appearances and so on that exists "elsewhere" -- there's not much room for that sort of thing in places like these.
This is the only genre of American place that has blown my mind ten times out of ten. My memories of time in these places have tattooed my heart; I can't shake my love for them.
If such places didn't still exist, I'd certainly declare this country to be completely hopeless. Thank God they're still out there, weird as ever.
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