Reasons Why Massachusetts Sucks

1) Worst. Drivers. Ever.

2) Everything is too expensive.

3) People generally lack any sort of courtesy.

4) Most of the employees at any given store treat you the same way that the burnt-out-on-life cashiers at Walmart treat you.

5) Everybody is in a hurry everywhere, all of the time, and throws a child-like fit if they are slowed down for more than 2 seconds.

6) 90% of the people in Mass. are inconsiderate assholes with bad attitudes, and it is highly contagious.

     - Please let it be noted that there are still some very nice people who live in Mass. In fact, some of the nicest people I have ever met live in Mass., and have decided to stay there for one God-forsaken reason or another.  By the end of my 4 years there, I had definitely started turning into a miserable, impatient, inconsiderate person due to the constant stress and negativity around me all the time. While living there, transforming yourself into a Masshole is necessary to complete day-to-day activities, such as going to the grocery store or really any task that requires leaving the house. If you don't, and dare to show human decency, you will never get anywhere and it will take forever to accomplish anything. It is like a "survival of the douchiest" situation.

7) It has pointless laws and regulations that make paperwork way more difficult, burdensome, and expensive than it needs to be.

        - Case in point: To register your car and convert your out-of state license, you need to present a MA-based insurance card, a dated, signed and stamped letter from your insurance company, your old registration, your old license, the title of your car, a special RMV-1 Form, an insurance waiver form, three separate documents that show a proof of residency, a proof of signature, and a proof of date of birth, and it can only be done at select DMV locations that are surely at least 15 inconvenient and traffic-heavy miles from your home.

8) Taxes are way too high and you don't seem to ever see the reasons why.

      - I am not sure where the money is going, but there certainly was not enough focus on things that matter like schools, infrastructure, and the environment. After teaching a 6th grade science class as part of my curriculum for grad school, I can confidently say that the money is definitely not going to public schools as much as it should.

9) You have to pay money to recycle, which doesn't seem very progressive for a progressive state.

10) The roads are under construction all of the time with absolutely no progress to be seen for years at a time.

     - Case in point: A short stretch of road in Worcester was under construction when I started pharmacy school in 2009 and was still going on and in even worse condition when I left the state in 2012

11) The road system seems like it was set up by drunk people with no foresight.

      - Case in point: You have to drive 8 miles to get to a place that is right across the street because of the over-abundance of concrete separations and one-way roads (Sorry, just can't get over how bad the roads are and it probably warrants more ranting, but I'll stop...)

12) I felt like I aged 5 years after being there for 1 due to the increased stress level

13) After living there for 4 years in 3 different regions, I cannot imagine why anybody would want to live there for their entire life (or at all) if they didn't have to.

14) The motto on the Massachusetts license plate is "The Spirit Of America" so it does a great job of representing the entire country with all of the fantastic qualities above...