Where are the places in your state which you gave heard of that are completely off the beaten track e.g. very few people choose to live there, poor or non existent phone reception, people only take cash and you’re miles from civilization…

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  2. The part where I live.

    No, I’m not telling where. You’ll all want to come here.

  6. There’s this area between Traverse City and Ludington (edit: It’s Luther in Lake County) that is known as being the poorest rural community in Michigan

    People live in homemade shacks on large plots of land and there isn’t anything that resembles a “town”. The only billboards in the area are ones put up by the state trying to convince residents that SNAP/Medicaid/Medicare aren’t bad and that they should sign up. The first time I drove through the area it really shocked me. I grew up in a city that had pretty high levels of poverty, but this was on another level.

    There’s a program that a university has for medical students that says if they work in the area for like 4-5 years, they will get their student loans payed off. My family knows a women who went to dental school and she went to work there for the student loan forgiveness. She didn’t last a year.

  8. Honestly anything away from the coast with maybe the exception of Sacramento and the Riverside area.

    So, as others have said, Fresno, Bakersfield, Manteca, Redding, Tracy, Modesto, etc

  10. The town that I live in doesn’t even have a stoplight. Next town over has a post office and they School at the school has two grades per classroom until high school and then they bussed out of town.

    Pretty much anywhere in the middle of Missouri

  11. pretty much the entire northwestern quarter of my state. North of Eau Claire & west of Wausau. has anyone ever been there? does it even exist? (sorry in advance to Superior)

  12. Northeastern Connecticut is known as the Quiet Corner. It’s rural, woodsy, and just generally less urbanized than the rest of the state. It’s also largely disconnected from the major cities and highways.

    Depending on how the area is defined, the largest city is either Windham (25k population) or Killingly (18k).

    Storrs, where UCONN’s main campus is located, is also in the area.

  13. South of Orlando in the center of the state (so everywhere but the coasts), there’s virtually nothing until you hit the Miami metro area

  15. Anywhere upstate.

    Where is upstate? Nobody knows. In my mind, upstate begins somewhere in the Hudson Valley. People on Long Island probably think I live upstate though (I live in Westchester).

  17. For New Hampshire it’s Coös County which is our northernmost county bordering Quebec. It’s larger than the state of Rhode Island but only has around 30,000 people and shrinking every year. It’s basically entirely covered by the White Mountains and only has one community of any substantial size.

    Another interesting thing about Coös is that around 10% of the population speaks French at home.

    In all fairness Coös County isn’t quite as remote as remote places in the Western and Central parts of the US.

  18. Well, here there aren’t big areas or whole towns, but there are places with no reception scattered about, and there are several dirt roads and forest-y areas where no one lives. There are some stretches of road with nothing but miles of trees. My dad (crack addict) lived in a dense wooded area with only one area in the front yard where reception was available. It made it very hard to contact our mom if he started having a meltdown or wasn’t acting right.
    So while there aren’t any middle of no where towns I can think of, there are definitely places where the most you should do is roll through and nothing else. Most people I know consider these places immediate death sentences if you decide to live there.
    Parts of Little Rock
    Pine Bluff
    Sugar Grove
    Parts of Fort Smith
    The ‘Arkansas’ part of Texarkana
    There’s probably some places I can’t think of, but Arkansas isn’t a bad place. Some good towns include:
    Conway
    Russellville
    Monticello
    90% of northwest Arkansas
    Magnolia
    Jonesboro if you’re close to the college part of the town.
    Magazine
    Paris
    Greenwood is often considered the “rich town” by most smaller places like where I live (Booneville) a very good place to live.

  20. There are some smaller or deliberately uninhabited/low-inhabited sea islands kind of like that. There’s also a lot of Horry, Georgetown, Berkeley, Colleton and Beaufort counties west of 17 that are very rural— and most of the Midlands and Piedmont outside Florence and Columbia, or the upstate outside like Greenville and Spartanburg. There’s a surprising amount of nowhere here for it to be such a small state.

  21. Screven County, which is between Augusta and Savannah. The only reason I stopped there was so a deputy could hand me a speeding ticket.

  22. I live in the Sierras and we have 2 of 3. Our cell phone reception is shit and not many people live here full time although that changed a bit during the pandemic when WFH became a thing. The cash thing is kind of weird I think the business would be more than happy to get rid of cash and you can use any payment known to man in 99% of the businesses.

  23. Bone, Idaho. Population of 2.

    Also, the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. I backpacked 70 miles through there. It really is the middle of nowhere (tons of beautiful mountains and scenery though)

  24. Anything to the north of the 70 in Missouri is pretty rural, as is the Lead Belt region in the southeastern part of the state.

  26. I hear there are supposedly places outside of Lexington and Louisville but I think they’re just a myth.

  27. Legit nowhere in my state is like that

    The Pine Barrens are the closest thing to what you’re thinking of but even those small towns take credit cards and have Internet service/cell service

    But it’s a big, protected pine forest, you could get lost in it.

  28. Republic, WA is what first came to mind. It’s way up there in the mountains, with a reputation for isolation and courtesy of Loren Culp (former police chief, failed Trump-endorsed gubernatorial candidate, future failed Trump-endorsed congressional candidate) wacky politics.

  30. Pretty much the entire state outside of Indy, Northwest Indiana and a few cities like Fort Wayne, Evansville, Bloomington, etc.

  31. South/southeast Missouri is just spread out tiny towns with populations of 1000 or less. Super pretty area. Very few people. If you go to the top of a hill and look around you’ll just see an ocean of trees and no civilization.

    Probably not a good area to get lost because there is no cell service and no one to ask for help.

  39. NYC is really dumb about this- “the middle of nowhere” starts at about Yonkers

  40. Taswell, IN is in the middle of Hoosier Nat. Forest, and the HNF is kind of in the middle of nowhere to begin with.

  41. Out in the piney’s. The NJ pine barrens are some of the least populated locations in the Mid-Atlantic.

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