Have you ever gotten tired of your state? Wanted to move? Wanted a new experience, perhaps a better life? Who do you call to figure out what state to move to? You don't call shit, because everyone only knows about THEIR state, or a state they lived in years ago. All stale or biased data.
So everyone lives out their life in a state that increasingly becomes more totalitarian, with higher property taxes, more arrogant judges, fatter uglier chicks, more tyrannical police, worse and worse roads, lower pay and opportunities, lawyers and accountants with higher and higher fees, fewer and fewer movie theaters and gasoline stations, meaner and more hostile people, more and more traffic, worse and worse bridges and infrastructure, less and less justice in DJ courts, higher and higher office and apartment rents, worse and worse restaurants, more and more draconian DUI laws, and the list goes on ad nausium. Does your state suck like this? Would you like to start dating a new state?
I propose a website that provides a popular comparison of all 50 states. Not just dry stats (like the crap the census bureau puts out) like per capita income or average rainfall, but endless fun facts like, what do the chicks look like, what's the drinking age, how much is the average 1-bed room apartment, what does a speeding ticket cost, how many night clubs or Trader Joes per square mile . . .
. . . A site to make all 50 states totally transparent and put all of them into serious competition with each other. Such a site would be user-supplied and user-qualified, like book reviews on Amazon, entries in Wikipedia, Angies List or buyer notes on Ebay. People in every state could provide input as to what SUCKS about their state and what's GREAT.
If the site became a hub, advertising related to relocation might be sold. Advertisements for moving vans and movers, boxes and dollies could be run. Even ads for furniture and accoutrements for setting up a new apartment or house would probably be successful.
Imagine if such a site became as popular as a Facebook, it might even attract the attention of government officials. These would be curious to find out why the fuck everyone was moving OUT of their crappy, over-taxed, nazi-lawyered, ugly-chicked state. States in competition with each other = federalism: the laboratories of democracy the Founders spoke of. This can finally be done for real with modern technology.
As people dated various states with informed judgment, domicile-marriages made-in-heaven would become more and more prevalent. Imagine a population of people living in places they are most happy. No longer will that John looking for a hooker have to be invalidated by Mr. Church-goer who wants to burn down the local whore house even though it's legal. No longer will Mr. Church-goer have to expose his family and children to filthy sex-workers hanging out on the street corners next to the local Synagogue even though it's tolerated. Everyone will find their ideal space.
And if everyone has found their ideal LOCAL place to live, the need for top-down government will be superfluous. What is the role of a one-size-fits all set of laws emanating from Washington DC, when WE THE PEOPLE are all living in our personal paradises? Nada.
A mature, federated nation could evolve the obsolescence of a "general government."
A federated nation starts with knowledgeable residents who have placed all states into competition with each other, and allowed Darwinian evolution to drive sick, psychopathic states and the thugs that run them into oblivion. Yes, there is nothing the government of a state likes less than a population of zero, where not even a nut-job remains to vote for them. And people can only move OUT (and this includes Washington DC) when they KNOW where to move IN. Often the grass IS greener on the other side of the fence - but one has to know what pastures are available.
James Jaeger
