Is the state of Delaware a nice place to live?

We own it.

I have a work associate by the name of du Pont and he thinks it's nice. And, Yes.

No - weirdly ugly for the most part. Strip malls, middle class post-WW2 suburban tracts, flat, developed. There is one nice area north of Wilmington (where Biden lives and the Duponts) but that’s almost suburban Philly. It is really small - but no reason to go there and not a particularly nice place to live (though not horrible either)

Most I know about is it's shit on by everyone and yet too small to make it into regular conversation. It's probably an okay place to live but those I know that have passed thru it... feel like there's slim pickings for finding a guy that doesn't seem like a serial killer.

Depending and where you live, it can be nice. But in the more developed areas there are a lot of homeless people. Or people just down on their luck asking for handouts. Lived there for a short time, and I'm of the opinion that you don't pass by anybody who's asking for help without giving them some, but it became a lot to deal with on a daily basis. And before you throw shade at me, I am of the opinion that I would rather give to 20 scammers then missed the one person who really needs the help. I can't give much, but a couple of bucks won't kill me. It just got to the point where if I went to the grocery store I'd pass at least two or three people begging. Emotionally it was very hard. But there are some gorgeous sections of Delaware.

There is beautiful horsey country north of Wilmington. Winterhur Gardens and Museum is up there. Rehoboth and the coastal area around there is nice. Other than that it’s pretty unremarkable.

[quote] but that’s almost suburban Philly.

I had to look at a map after I read that. I didn't realize how close Wilmington was to Philly.

Is that a good state Delaware? You get to travel around and stuff? I mean better places than this?

Delaware was the first state, which I find quite odd.

Chunk the Groundhog lives there, so it can't be all bad.

The Simpsons are going to Delaware!

[quote] Chunk the Groundhog lives there, so it can't be all bad.

Fuck him.

R5 interesting

don't most big cities have a homeless issue though?

Ah, the Delaware Wedge, where (at least since the dispute was finally settled by Congress in 1921 and it officially became a part of Delaware) all seems to beeathe peace and freedom and makes one forget the rest of Delaware and all its sad turmoils.

The area of Rehoboth Beach and Lewes are nice. Very gay area as well, as a summer hotspot for DC/Baltimore/Philly gays. There is no income or sales tax, which makes it popular with the tax-avoidance crowd.

R15 DC gays are insufferable assholes.

My ex husband used to watch this show, something like Flying Over America. It was all just aerial footage set to pleasant music and each episode was a different state.

We both agreed Delaware was the ugliest state by far.

It seems like a good place to retire; very low property taxes and sales taxes; plenty of beaches, decent weather most of the year...

[quote] There is no income or sales tax, which makes it popular with the tax-avoidance crowd.

Delaware does indeed have a state income tax. A high one, in fact.

No one cares .

R15 Delaware has income tax but no state or sales tax on consumer goods. The state is a tax haven: companies are not required to divulge their beneficial owners, partnerships and LLCs only pay an annual flat tax of a few hundred bucks. There is a meager corporate income tax but most are exempt from it as long as their activities in Delaware are limited to managing intangible investments. Two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies are HQ'd in Delaware. It's like the Luxembourg of the US, but with du Ponts instead of Grand Dukes.

Delaware was better when it was part of New Sweden.

Fuck no! I travel regularly to Delaware for work, and it’s where mediocrity goes to…watch TV and talk about the weather.

There are no good restaurants, the people are cool if you get to know them, but irritating during brief encounters. The northern part of the state has high crime and a drug epidemic, and the southern part is white trash central.

It’s ONLY positive attribute is not having state tax.

They have plenty of row homes in Wilmington. It looks like the city has prosperity issues, though. Like Baltimore.

Go figure -- another DL thread filled with outdated information and misinformation.

Yes, the area around Wilmington is pretty unremarkable and in many ways Wilmington is a satellite to Philadelphia.

But Sussex County in the southern part of the state where the beaches are (Rehoboth, Bethany, Dewey, Fenwick Island) is very pretty and has not been overdeveloped--it still has the feel of a bunch of old school beach towns.

There are good restaurants, particularly in Rehoboth, which also has a lot of gays. Rehoboth and Bethany are pretty upscale without seeming like the Hamptons--Bethany in particular is very family-oriented with more ice cream shops than bars. Dewey is where all the hetero college kids go and it has a lot of bars.

Go a few miles inland, and it is very rural, lots of farms and cornfields and all that, so very pretty.

Everything does revolve around the summer tourist trade though, and even though it is primarily homeowners--not much in the way of hotels there--I do wonder what it is like in the winter.

Lots of hot blonde lifeguards too.

R25, your assessment is based solely on a curated experience in touristy areas. The rest of Delaware is a fucking dump.

A little piece of trivia:

A 2-mile chunk of SW New Jersey actually belongs to Delaware.

LOL R26 hissed before reading

US hub of white collar crime.

The myth that DE is a personal tax haven needs to die. Just like CT, DE has an income tax. The only reason to live there disappeared. I never understood Rehoboth. Nicer then the Jersey Shore perhaps but still straight, ugly and uninteresting. And that’s the little strip of land that is Rehoboth Beach - cross the bay and it’s trailer park trashy. Why don’t DC gays have a real beach or weekend community? I never understood where all the DC gays go on weekends. The gay population of Rehoboth is minuscule and outnumbered by straight families. Do DC gays just not leave for the weekend like NYC, Boston, Philly?

[quote] where all the DC gays go on weekends

Chesapeake Beach.

Or south Jersey Shore

But there's all the SCRAPPLE you can eat in Delaware, OP!!!

I grew up in Rehoboth during the summers. I love it. Very old fashioned. Delaware itself is a dump. The west part is really the overgrowth of Maryland’s Eastern Shore. The north has a lacrosse thing but that is the classiest thing about it. The south- trash living near the water. Now my mother loved the beach, but she was very upset that I had an accent from Delaware.

I went to the beach once and had trouble getting within 100 feet of it, because of the people. And ugly.

R26 - Sounds like a description of California.

A lot of DC area gays do go to Rehoboth Beach in the summer. But that doesn't really pertain to living in Delaware.

Outside of summer tourism there is no real nightlife and culture in Delaware, Wilmington is not so great. I know a guy who lived around Philly and reverse commuted to his job Delware rather than living in Delaware.

It has the very nice Brandywine River Museum of Art. At the very least, there is that.

Fun Fact - easy to grow hardy palms along the coast in Delaware.

Delaware is a sneaky fucker.

Wilmington is home to Aubrey Plaza Plaza, a plaza named for Aubrey Plaza

No it isn’t. Next question.

Knew an insufferable classicist gay FBI agent who lived in DC and he couldn't stand the insufferable people in DC so he left. If he couldn't stomach them...

R42, did you mean to type DE instead of DC?

[quote]Fun Fact - easy to grow hardy palms along the coast in Delaware.

Funny fact - it's even easier to buy plastic palm trees like they do along the coast in Wildwood, NJ.

Della, who?

Reese, Rose.

The Brandywine River Museum is in Pennsylvania, R37.

People who say D.C. gays are insufferable assholes ... are usually insufferable assholes from other cities or guys just mad because they couldn't get laid.

DC has its share of douchebags, but it was the best place to be gay. I miss it.

R42, most people who declare how much they hate DC or NoVA residents seem to possess the exact traits they’re criticizing. They apparently don’t like looking in the mirror.

Lewes Lewes the magical ferry to Cape May

What does that mean R51?

This, R52

As a Mary (MARY!)-land gayling my parents would drag me to honkey tonk hell (also known as Ocean City, MD) every summer. Once I turned 16 and got my own wheels, I escaped to Rehoboth Beach as much as possible. It was no Provincetown, but had a pretty good gay culture for the Delmarva Peninsula.