Stephen King's Maine, HHN's Carey Ohio, or Stranger Things' Hawkins Indiana: Where Would You Rather Live?

[Z-Beat]

Stephen King's Maine:
Home of evil clowns, saint bernards, and some kind of big eldritch war

Carey Ohio:

Halloween Horror Nights' location of choice. Features evil schoolchildren, a cannibal meat factory, sewer monsters, and an insane asylum with a 0% containment record

Hawkins Indiana:

One side of an eldritch coin with a fucked up parallel dimension filled with monsters and 80s bullies. Tentacles. Tentacles everywhere

Where you moving to?

 

[Alric]

I'd rather be near the ocean, so Maine. Also, don't want to be in a state that bans women's rights.

 

[Ryuelli]

Clearly Maine, Pennywise is the only monster in those gifs to invite me.

 

[Briareos]

We were hoping for some rain earlier today, maybe even thunderstorms, but instead it just turned into another beautiful sunny and mild Maine summer day.

 

[Nameless]

King's Maine. Gotta find a way to The Tower.

 

[Zeliard]

I know it isn't Maine and can't believe anyone would choose it. It's basically a universal nexus for evil and casual eldritch horrors.

And then you have Stephen King's stories.

 

[Tfritz]

i would simply choose to not live within the borders of the united states, thanks

 

[Shroki]

I know it isn't Maine and can't believe anyone would choose it. It's basically a universal nexus for evil and casual eldritch horrors.

And then you have Stephen King's stories.

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Yeah but all the shit happens to kids and alcoholic writers. I feel like if I stay home, I'm safe.

 

[Volimar]

I mean, normal Ohio has meth heads, MAGAts, and inbred pig farmers, so Carey's not as scary as you might think.

 

[FlowersisBritish]

Tbf its less Stephen Kings maine and more just Maine. There's weird shit in the woods. My favorite hiking trail went by a dilapitated shack that was one of the scariest things Ive ever seen.

 

[Dalek]

In Hawkins most people are safe and the Hellfire Club+Government take care of shit.

In Stephen King's Maine shit is dangerous everywhere and anyone is in danger.

 

[Deleted member 25606]

Maine. If you leave the weird things alone and don't poke your nose in you'll probably be alright.

 

[Ashes of Dreams]

I'm not familiar with the middle one but between King's Maine and Hawkings, I'd go with Maine.
Hawkings has had too much shit happen in a small town during a comparatively short period of time and it's only getting worse.

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

OP, I see you with that HHN reference but I dont think there's that many people familiar with the lore of a Halloween event at Universal Studios....even though there's a crazy amount of lore lol.

Anyway, I choose Maine. Just mind your business and you got a good chance to be ok.

 

[lunarworks]

Aside from the obvious problems, Hawkins seems like any unassuming Rust Belt town that by the 21st century would probably have really high unemployment and all the other problems that come along with that.

 

[Randdalf]

Vince Gilligan's New Mexico

 

[SwampBastard]

I grew up in rural Indiana in the 80s and 90s, so I basically lived in Hawkins as a background character.

 

[PlanetSmasher]

Even though many of King's stories are set in Maine, the problems that happen in those stories are usually fairly localized and people TEND TO run into the monsters by choice. I think I could probably survive in Derry. I don't tend to go hanging around construction sites or sewers or shit.

 

[Biske]

I know it isn't Maine and can't believe anyone would choose it. It's basically a universal nexus for evil and casual eldritch horrors.

And then you have Stephen King's stories.

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Hahaha seriously. Even if we are just going by monster stories... basically nothing good happens in Maine/New England. Nothing.

 

[Disco Infernal]

Maine because there's an ocean. The others are flyover states for a reason.

 

[Jarrod38]

I pick Eerie Indiana instead.

 

[Legacy]

Yeah Maine for sure. Hawkins would be my last choice, fuck that noise.

 

[Crazy_about_media]

Well I live "80 miles away from Hawkins".*
So I'm picking Hawkins.
*I know it a fake city I'm just happy after 7 year. I finally know where in Indiana it is.

 

[Z-Beat]

i would simply choose to not live within the borders of the united states, thanks

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If you choose this you have to live in the town from Uzumaki

 

[CupOfDoom]

Y'all need to read more stephen king because even in the novel, the scariest thing about Derry isn't the killer clown, its the people who live there. There is also a town full of literal vampires , kids with Telekinesis running around, and a sentient car with a taste for human blood.

I'd still choose it over Hawking's, but its close. I don't know anything about HHN so, I'll take a pass on that one.

Also also, for the record, The Shinning takes place in Colorado so your safe from getting corrupted by a haunted hotel, as long as you stay in maine.

 

[poptire]

Maine, because haunted Maine rules

 

[Jedi2016]

King's stuff is typically pretty localized, the average person in those towns is usually fine, except for 'Salem's Lot and maybe Derry.

 

[WedgeX]

Maine. At least there's the off chance I'd be a gunslinger or friends with someone with telekinesis.

 

[lexony]

Not King's Maine. The clown is one thing, but a lot of other scary stuff happens there.

 

[LycanXIII]

Leaning towards Maine, but The Mist did envelope all of it, so...

 

[Lobster Roll]

King's Maine. I'm pretty sure I could just move to Portland and avoid a majority of the weird shit.

 

[Zeliard]

I like how literally nobody so far has voted for the final option. For good reason, since there you just die. The only hope is that you go quickly, and both of those assholes love to make it torturous.

 

[Jarmel]

Hawkins easily. Pennywise literally feeds on your soul. I'll take a simple death over that any day of the week.

King's stuff is typically pretty localized, the average person in those towns is usually fine, except for 'Salem's Lot and maybe Derry.

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There's quite a few stories where the entire town is fucked. Needful Things for starters and you got Carrie where she goes berserk and just massacres bunches of people. Hell, in the Stand pretty much everybody in the country besides those in Colorado and Vegas are dead.

People saying King's Maine so quickly don't really understand how fucking awful a lot of these towns are in his stories.

 

[OSHAN]

There's quite a few stories where the entire town is fucked. Needless Things for starters...

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The demon from Ohio.

 

[NihonTiger]

Well, two of those are fictional and I've been to the Ohio one. So I'll go with the devil I know.

 

[mbpm]

What is Halloween Horror Nights?

 

[Thorn]

Isn't Hawkins normal for like, everyone but the cast?

Though I guess there was that moment with the Mind Flayer.

 

[Jive Turkey]

King's Maine has a fairly high body count and can see some large scale horrors.

Hawkins (I have yet to watch S4) is relatively safe and quiet unless you're one of a handful of teens.

Carey, from what I can tell, is based on theme park haunted houses. I haven't been to one of those in 20 years so...

Out of those three choices, I pick Hawkins.

 

[Spork4000]

Isn't Hawkins normal for like, everyone but the cast?

Though I guess there was that moment with the Mind Flayer.

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Season 4 spoilers:

Spoiler

Hell no, besides plenty of innocent bystanders getting murdered every season, a portal to the upside down caused a massive earthquake that killed dozens of people. Now the two realities are merging.

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

What is Halloween Horror Nights?

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Its a yearly Halloween event held in Universal Studios Orlando. It's been running for over 30 years and considered one of the best halloween events in America because of its elaborate decorations, themes and mazes.

They've built up a lot of lore with it too surrounding their original mascot characters and mazes, but they also do mazes based on franchises, like Silent Hill, Stranger Things, and Resident Evil.

They do it in Universal Studios Hollywood too, but not nearly as well.

 

[Thorn]

Season 4 spoilers:

Spoiler

Hell no, besides plenty of innocent bystanders getting murdered every season, a portal to the upside down caused a massive earthquake that killed dozens of people. Now the two realities are merging.

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Ah, thats bad.

 

[OhSatan]

After what Revival added to King's canon no, not there ever, no.

 

[Coyote Starrk]

 

[AlgusUnderdunk]

Stephen King's Maine. Simply because at this point there's SO MUCH insane shit slithering through there it'd just be like living in Gravity Falls and you learn to work with it all.

 

[Tavernade]

I'd say King's Maine. The monsters generally don't effect the whole town and you sometimes get a chance to run from them. Plus on occasion they're weak to the power of friendship. In Hawkins the monsters are going to kill indiscriminately unless you're friends with a specific little girl and there's very little you can do about it. Carey is like Maine up to 11, all monsters and none of the benefits.

If you choose this you have to live in the town from Uzumaki

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Honestly any Junji Ito town is probably the worst place to be. Anytime the monster effects more than one person, everyone is basically doomed.

 

[Musubi]

I'm going to Hawkins so I can hang out with Steve and Robin.

 

[JaseMath]

Hawkins isn't even the best place in Indiana…

 

[Zeliard]

Maine is like Gotham if you didn't have Batman constantly patrolling it. Just an inherently evil place because it's like a nexus of shit built on cursed ground, where ancient and modern evils congregate.

And then there are Stephen King's stories.

Doesn't get old.

 

[Deleted member 41651]

I'm good. I live a few minutes away from a small town dubbed Village of the Damned in upstate NY that was plagued by violence and murder for a decade.

 

[amphteamints]

hawkins.

let the kids take care of the crazy shit, i'll be at the arcade.