If you were sent back in time, which of the 13 colonies would you want to live in?
>>18285117I’d pick one of the middle colonies, probably Pennsylvania.The northern Puritanism is probably too much for me. I’m religious, but I don’t like petty, annoying killjoys. Also, they’re a bit further north and the winters will probably be harsher. I don’t want to be in the south because of the heat and swampass. I also don’t want anything to do with the plantations and crop speculation. I don’t want my life revolving around blacks. In Pennsylvania, I could go off and get my own farm, and the Quakers running the government there will just leave me alone.
>>18285117i would settle in a small town in massachussets and become a serial killer they would never fucking catch me. they don't have the technology. i would just kill farmers for fun and they couldn't do shit.
>>18285117Vermont
>>18285145so you'd basically larp as an injun?
>>18285117Massachusetts, I guess. As a black man without any paperwork I don't want to risk getting 12 Years a Slave'd, or worse. New England gives me the best shot at living a meaningful, productive life. And maybe my 21st century knowledge of math and engineering could get me a spot in academia.
>>18285145You mean the people who are most likely to own guns and swords?
>>18285170>I don't want to risk getting 12 Years a Slave'dWasn't that guy from Massachussets?
>>18285170>And maybe my 21st century knowledge of math and engineering could get me a spot in academia.lol lmaoHave fun in Liberia
Vermont seems ultra comfy.
>>18285145Anon, serial killers only survive in densely populated regions where a person can exist anonymously. Yes, they had no technology or means of really investigating a crime, but they wouldn't need them, because their community would be small enough that everybody would know everybody else and strangers would be immediately suspicious just by being strangers, and people living as part of the community are under constant scrutiny of one another. You would be caught almost immediately after the first murder because the mayor would form a committee and they'd very quickly run through everybody's alibis just by reviewing the latest gossip on where everybody was yesterday. You would only have a hope of operating in one of the larger cities. Of course, once people caught wind of unsolved murders they'd be on high alert and you'd have to move town.
>>18285117South Carolina because it's where my ancestors have lived since those times. Also this map may be a little generous towards what qualifies as the South since Washington actually considered Virginia one of the Middle Colonies/States. It was only later, as the country became polarized between two distinct ways of life, that it was fully absorbed into the South.
Maryland, cozy life fishing for crabs on the chesapeake
>>18285117>If you were sent back in time, which of the 13 colonies would you want to live in?New York City was the most civilized place in the Colonies, so I'd go there.
>>18285117Whichever one had the least rights for women
>>18285906Lol hardly. There was bar brawls everyday and homeless people even back then in New York's streets.
>>18285117New England, probably Rhode Island like my ancestors.
>>18285117I'd choose Virginia and become a farmer in the Shenandoah Valley like my ancestors.
>>18285117none nigga I'm going back to England
>>18285845but Virginia nowadays is considered a Northeast rather than a Southern state
My ancestors came from the Palatinate before the Revolutionary War and farmed in Pennsylvania.
>>18285139>Also, they’re a bit further north and the winters will probably be harsher.MA, CT, and RI have no worse winters than Pennsylvania. Vermont and New Hampshire are more like Canada climate-wise.
>>18285906New York was for a long time a very aristocratic colony with limited rights for the plebs while Pennsylvania and New England were more democratic.
>>18285117Connecticut, because that's where my direct male ancestor lived and my family even knows the exact plot so I could go to him and tell him hello
>>18285117New Hampshire seems like the most laid-back colony. No slavery, hardly any Indians lived there even before the English colonized the region. Puritans weren't very influential there. Never had any battles during any of the Indian wars, French wars, or the revolutionary war. Just a peaceful agrarian backwater with beautiful scenery.
South Carolina so I could join my Scots Irish planter ancestors.
>>18285139>>18286127Do keep in mind that North America as a whole was a bit colder back then.
>>18286125No it isn't. Northern Virginia is an extension of the Northeast, but it's not even really Virginia anymore, with how many immigrants and transplants live there now. The rest of Virginia is still part of the South.
>>18285906Based>>18285983WRONG>>18286129NY had greater religious freedom than any other colony you retarded halfwit, and even the "aristocrats" up around Albany like the Van Renselaar's only required a bit of your crops as a rent payment. New England was a theocratic nightmare and everything south of Pennsylvania meant fighting for good wages against free nigger labor.
>>18285981>>>/pol/tranny
>>18285117Virginia or Massachusetts
I'm brown, so Maine it is
>>18286224New Hampshire had Shaker colonies mostly
>>18285117Coastal NC ofc
The Delaware colony. Small in population and would rather be peaceful minus the small PA and MD fucker trying to get a bigger share of the peninsula
>>18285810He was a New YorkerPersonally I'd pick Rhode Island. I'm too culturally a New Englander for the middle colonies, let alone the south, but I'm not a Christian so I need the freedom of religion
>>18287926Based Synagogue builder.
>>18285117Georgia, of course
>>18285117Delaware would be pretty comfy. Seems like a way easier place to farm than New England and slaveowning landowners wouldn’t be as prevalent there as in Virginia and the other southern colonies.
>>18289189>Delaware would be pretty comfysaid nobody ever
>>18285117NJ just so I could see what it was like before the guido invasion.
>>18285906Enjoy the sewer water
Maryland
New York, because I was born in NYC and I studied at a College near Albany/Saratoga so I actually know and like the region.
>>18285117I do not acknowledge these American colonialist entities. I fight to re-established Nya Sverige like GOD ment it to be.
>>18285117Georgia
Virginia and the Carolinas are the comfiest. No european continentals, no papists, only people around are anglican and presbyerian british stock, anti authority culture, you can become rich by fighting indians or dealing in slaves rather than working a hard job
>>18289496Yeah the early colonial period here was pretty rough but as time passed it got pretty nice.
>>18290015>No papists Maryland is literally right across the river, mate
>Everyone ITT saying New England was a puritan theocracy Puritanism literally died out by the late 1600s and by the 1700s New England was hardly a tyrannical theocracy
>>18286225Based fellow Carolinian planter descendant (I'm from the plebeian Northern one thoughie)
>>18290474Papists were always a minority in maryland after its initial founding, with t he protestant majority lower classes in maryland rebelling against the catholic upper classes in the 1680s and establishing a protestant state
>>18290475And even then they forget >RI (religious freedom built into its charter)>NH (no one really cared about religion much, even today they're one of the least religious states)>VT (no man's land between NY and NH, both calm with religion)>ME (technically a district of Massachusetts but their grip on this was about as tight as the US's grip on the Wild West around the Civil War outside Kittery, Portland, and York)That leaves Mass and Connecticut, the latter of which was rapidly diminishing its theocratic principals by the end of the 17th century
