In Oregon, the out of state plates I see the most of are primarily Utah and British Columbia.
In Massachusetts, it's Maine, New Jersey, and Florida. I also see a lot of Pennsylvania plates.
Virginia given I'm near a Navy base.
In Northern California I seen lots of Colorado, Texas, Hawaii, Utah and Washington State license plates here.
Occasionally some Georgia and Florida license plates are seen here. Some of this is that some of the out of state people are assigned to Travis Air Force Base here and some of this is that they go to work or take college classes in Sacramento or Bay Area.
Hmm...
Probably Kentucky and North Carolina, if I had to guess.
Texas, easily. Since all the states that border Colorado are so large, there's nothing else that's close and/or has a large population (Dakotas, Montana, etc.). I'd say there's at least 10 times as many Texas plates as any other non-bordering state, which second place would probably be California.
We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
Texas, easily.
Also Arkansas.
And Maine and Indiana are also common on trucks.
Quote from: kphoger on March 06, 2024, 05:04:48 PM
Texas, easily.
Also Arkansas.
And Maine and Indiana are also common on trucks.
I don't really notice the plates on trucks. For me, it's definitely Wisconsin, with Missouri and Tennessee after that.
If I drove on the Toll Road more, I'd see a lot of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York.
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 06, 2024, 05:00:45 PM
We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
The thing I wonder in this area with tags from states like Florida and maybe Texas and Georgia is how many of those are rental cars. It wouldn't surprise me that the results of this inquiry are tainted by that.
An example that I just googled:
https://www.denver7.com/traffic/driving-you-crazy/driving-you-crazy-why-do-so-many-colorado-rental-cars-have-out-of-state-license-plates
In Idaho, it's California, and it's not even close. I see more of them than some touching states like Wyoming and Montana (of course, not really surprising considering the population difference).
Colorado is probably 2nd most common for non touching states, and maybe Arizona.
I live in San Diego, so not surprisingly the most common are either Arizona or some Mexican state (I never notice which). Beyond that, the other bordering states, Nevada and Oregon are fairly common, but Washington seems a little more common than Oregon.
When I was an avid street skater, I used to occupy my mind by looking at license plates. I always noticed that Massachusetts plates were at least twice as common as New York plates around here, which seems odd given their relative populations, and the fact that they're both very far away. I wonder if NY is skewed because so many residents live in NYC and simply don't have cars. Or maybe it's their provincial views, as famously satirized by Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cover half a century ago.
Las Vegas is a plate-watcher's paradise because of all of the traffic coming in and out, as well as people relocating here from elsewhere.
Snarky answer: Oklahoma, because it doesn't border Nevada and that's still what's on my car.
Actual answer: It seems like I see Texas and Washington about equally often, but that may be confirmation bias because I'm used to seeing Texas plates all over Oklahoma, so I may just notice them more readily.
Quote from: pderocco on March 06, 2024, 05:28:09 PM
I live in San Diego, so not surprisingly the most common are either Arizona or some Mexican state (I never notice which). Beyond that, the other bordering states, Nevada and Oregon are fairly common, but Washington seems a little more common than Oregon.
When I was an avid street skater, I used to occupy my mind by looking at license plates. I always noticed that Massachusetts plates were at least twice as common as New York plates around here, which seems odd given their relative populations, and the fact that they're both very far away. I wonder if NY is skewed because so many residents live in NYC and simply don't have cars. Or maybe it's their provincial views, as famously satirized by Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cover half a century ago.
Wow never knew some parts of San Diego have lots of Massachusetts residents or tourists.
Maine all day for me, but there's only a 15 mile gap (and I'm only 45 miles from Maine as it is) and so many people escape Mass reg. fees by quasi-illegally registering vehicles there. All the trailers routinely registered there as well.
If on an interstate I feel Indiana becomes a distant second of non-bordering states. Behind that Florida it seems.
C'mon people:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=27139.0
Probably Florida for me.
This should be merged, and my response in the previous thread still holds, but I am surprised Florida hasn't been mentioned more. Between snowbirds and rental cars, no other non-bordering state comes close.
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Quote from: pderocco on March 06, 2024, 05:28:09 PM
I live in San Diego, so not surprisingly the most common are either Arizona or some Mexican state (I never notice which). Beyond that, the other bordering states, Nevada and Oregon are fairly common, but Washington seems a little more common than Oregon.
When I was an avid street skater, I used to occupy my mind by looking at license plates. I always noticed that Massachusetts plates were at least twice as common as New York plates around here, which seems odd given their relative populations, and the fact that they're both very far away. I wonder if NY is skewed because so many residents live in NYC and simply don't have cars. Or maybe it's their provincial views, as famously satirized by Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cover half a century ago.
Wow never knew some parts of San Diego have lots of Massachusetts residents or tourists.
Not lots. Certainly far fewer than western states. But there's a noticeable disparity.
In Arizona, most of the snowbirds are from the upper Midwest and northern Mountain States these days: Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. There are also some from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, but not to the extent of the others. If you include Canada, we get quite a few from BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan as well.
Quote from: Rothman on March 06, 2024, 07:12:30 PM
C'mon people:
https://www.aaroads.com/forum/index.php?topic=27139.0
Sorry all! I didn't see this one. The search functionality on here leaves something to be desired, but please, feel free to merge these two threads. :-)
Quote from: KeithE4Phx on March 07, 2024, 12:29:10 AM
In Arizona, most of the snowbirds are from the upper Midwest and northern Mountain States these days: Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa, Wisconsin, and Illinois. There are also some from Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, but not to the extent of the others. If you include Canada, we get quite a few from BC, Alberta, and Saskatchewan as well.
Oh yeah! I remember going out to AZ for spring training on multiple occasions, and one could easily see all 50 state plates in a single day that time of year.
You're right, upper Midwest states did dominate.
Quote from: BrianP on March 06, 2024, 05:11:43 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 06, 2024, 05:00:45 PM
We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
The thing I wonder in this area with tags from states like Florida and maybe Texas and Georgia is how many of those are rental cars. It wouldn't surprise me that the results of this inquiry are tainted by that.
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Hard to know. Good chance it's a combination of both. I note that there are several Florida and Texas plates in my neighborhood, including two Texas plates belonging to people living on my street (one a renter we assume is in the Armed Forces because he's renting from a military owner, the other a homeowner we know to be in the Armed Forces).
The most unusual plate I see on a regular basis is that in a nearby condo development, there's a Suburban parked with "EDOMEX" plates—i.e., the State of Mexico (the area around Mexico City). It's one of only two Mexican plates I've ever seen in the DC area and it's been there for several months. I have no idea whether it's someone living here long-term, which would be mildly odd because I'd normally expect a "Diplomat" plate in that situation, or whether it's someone who drove up here for a long-term visit. Either way, I'm not inclined to report the person as a tax evader the way I might if someone who was clearly not in the military and not a college student maintained out-of-state plates for a long time. (I'm sure I have mentioned at some point how a guy who used to live across the street pissed me off one day, so to get back at him I reported a non-mobile car in his driveway with expired New Jersey plates as a potential tax evader. The county not only added the car to the tax rolls, they dunned him $100 more for not getting a Virginia plate within 30 days of moving in.)
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We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
The thing I wonder in this area with tags from states like Florida and maybe Texas and Georgia is how many of those are rental cars. It wouldn't surprise me that the results of this inquiry are tainted by that.
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Hard to know. Good chance it's a combination of both. I note that there are several Florida and Texas plates in my neighborhood, including two Texas plates belonging to people living on my street (one a renter we assume is in the Armed Forces because he's renting from a military owner, the other a homeowner we know to be in the Armed Forces).
The most unusual plate I see on a regular basis is that in a nearby condo development, there's a Suburban parked with "EDOMEX" plates—i.e., the State of Mexico (the area around Mexico City). It's one of only two Mexican plates I've ever seen in the DC area and it's been there for several months. I have no idea whether it's someone living here long-term, which would be mildly odd because I'd normally expect a "Diplomat" plate in that situation, or whether it's someone who drove up here for a long-term visit. Either way, I'm not inclined to report the person as a tax evader the way I might if someone who was clearly not in the military and not a college student maintained out-of-state plates for a long time. (I'm sure I have mentioned at some point how a guy who used to live across the street pissed me off one day, so to get back at him I reported a non-mobile car in his driveway with expired New Jersey plates as a potential tax evader. The county not only added the car to the tax rolls, they dunned him $100 more for not getting a Virginia plate within 30 days of moving in.)
Being in that metro DC area, do you see a lot of Consulate plates?
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 07, 2024, 09:02:25 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 07, 2024, 08:33:09 AM
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Quote from: 1995hoo on March 06, 2024, 05:00:45 PM
We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
The thing I wonder in this area with tags from states like Florida and maybe Texas and Georgia is how many of those are rental cars. It wouldn't surprise me that the results of this inquiry are tainted by that.
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Hard to know. Good chance it's a combination of both. I note that there are several Florida and Texas plates in my neighborhood, including two Texas plates belonging to people living on my street (one a renter we assume is in the Armed Forces because he's renting from a military owner, the other a homeowner we know to be in the Armed Forces).
The most unusual plate I see on a regular basis is that in a nearby condo development, there's a Suburban parked with "EDOMEX" plates—i.e., the State of Mexico (the area around Mexico City). It's one of only two Mexican plates I've ever seen in the DC area and it's been there for several months. I have no idea whether it's someone living here long-term, which would be mildly odd because I'd normally expect a "Diplomat" plate in that situation, or whether it's someone who drove up here for a long-term visit. Either way, I'm not inclined to report the person as a tax evader the way I might if someone who was clearly not in the military and not a college student maintained out-of-state plates for a long time. (I'm sure I have mentioned at some point how a guy who used to live across the street pissed me off one day, so to get back at him I reported a non-mobile car in his driveway with expired New Jersey plates as a potential tax evader. The county not only added the car to the tax rolls, they dunned him $100 more for not getting a Virginia plate within 30 days of moving in.)
Being in that metro DC area, do you see a lot of Consulate plates?
I certainly did when I lived in the DC area. Those "D" plates caused a lot of grumbling because they were perceived to be worse drivers, partially due to an assumption of diplomatic immunity.
I would say Maine (not just trucks), New Jersey, and Florida.
Interestingly, over 90% of Georgia plates are from Atlanta or its inner suburbs (mainly Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb, Gwinnett), while Florida's counties are spread all over the place.
Vehicles without a front plate fall into one of four categories:
1. From Florida, Pennsylvania, or much more rarely another state that doesn't require front plates.
2. A green (pre-1990) MA plate. My mom still has one.
3. Standard plate in violation of the law.
4. Dealer plate. Both MA and NH don't require front plates for dealers.
On my walks (so this applies to surface roads, not freeways), the first three are all about equally common. The frequency of the fourth varies wildly depending on which road I'm on.
Here (NE Texas) it is Florida , followed by Illinois.
I always notice Illinois plates popping up more frequently around here. Really every state on the east coast has a lot of representation except Delaware. Delaware is surprisingly uncommon for only being about 300 miles from my location as the crow flies. Though I saw a Delaware plate yesterday.
Quote from: Rothman on March 07, 2024, 09:06:43 AM
Quote from: OCGuy81 on March 07, 2024, 09:02:25 AM
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 07, 2024, 08:33:09 AM
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Quote from: 1995hoo on March 06, 2024, 05:00:45 PM
We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
The thing I wonder in this area with tags from states like Florida and maybe Texas and Georgia is how many of those are rental cars. It wouldn't surprise me that the results of this inquiry are tainted by that.
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Hard to know. Good chance it's a combination of both. I note that there are several Florida and Texas plates in my neighborhood, including two Texas plates belonging to people living on my street (one a renter we assume is in the Armed Forces because he's renting from a military owner, the other a homeowner we know to be in the Armed Forces).
The most unusual plate I see on a regular basis is that in a nearby condo development, there's a Suburban parked with "EDOMEX" plates—i.e., the State of Mexico (the area around Mexico City). It's one of only two Mexican plates I've ever seen in the DC area and it's been there for several months. I have no idea whether it's someone living here long-term, which would be mildly odd because I'd normally expect a "Diplomat" plate in that situation, or whether it's someone who drove up here for a long-term visit. Either way, I'm not inclined to report the person as a tax evader the way I might if someone who was clearly not in the military and not a college student maintained out-of-state plates for a long time. (I'm sure I have mentioned at some point how a guy who used to live across the street pissed me off one day, so to get back at him I reported a non-mobile car in his driveway with expired New Jersey plates as a potential tax evader. The county not only added the car to the tax rolls, they dunned him $100 more for not getting a Virginia plate within 30 days of moving in.)
Being in that metro DC area, do you see a lot of Consulate plates?
I certainly did when I lived in the DC area. Those "D" plates caused a lot of grumbling because they were perceived to be worse drivers, partially due to an assumption of diplomatic immunity.
I frequently see them, though perhaps not as frequently as in past years (no doubt part of that is that I don't drive as much as I used to because I telecommute).
I've posted a couple of times about the jerk with "Diplomat" plates who used to live up the block. See below. This still annoys me when I think of it. The one day when
everyone in our neighborhood had to parallel park around the corner and this jerk pulled this stunt. The picture below is of a VDOT-maintained street around the corner from my street, which is owned and maintained by our HOA. The HOA's contractor was sealcoating the street and if you wanted to be able to drive your car, you had to park around the corner. As noted below, two cars were parked there when I left (mine was one of them) and when I came back, I found the guy with the "Diplomat" plates had parked like this to take up two spaces. So I knew it wasn't a situation where he was parked and then the cars around him left. I really wanted to get a couple of neighbors and roll his minivan over onto the passenger side so that the space could be used properly, but of course I didn't. I also didn't leave a note on his windshield because I didn't want to leave fingerprints on the piece of paper.
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Quote from: NJRoadfan on February 20, 2015, 04:08:13 PM
2. If they have to resurface the roads every 3 years (mill and pave) they are doing something very wrong. A proper pave of a light traffic street should last at least 10-15 years, even in the snowbelt.
They don't do a full milling and paving. I think they call it "sealcoating," though I'm not sure–the contractor comes out and does something and when they're done the street is a nice fresh black color with any cracks and other such stuff filled in. Either way, they tell us in advance and for two days we have to park around the corner.
Actually, that led to its own issue last time when the guy in front of me left at the same time I did, then we came back to find the guy up the street with "Diplomat" plates had parked squarely in the middle of the vacated space, i.e., there was space for two vehicles and he parked so half his vehicle took up each of the two "spaces." That one burned me up because it seemed like a situation where it should be obvious you shouldn't leave excess space because everyone had to park down there (and I did my part by putting the car we weren't going to drive in the garage so as to free up on-street space). I don't know whether he was intentionally being an asshole, whether he was being a dick because he knows his Diplomat plates let him get away with stuff, or whether he doesn't know how to parallel park and he took up too much space because he was afraid he wouldn't be able to get back out. (Doesn't matter anymore, the guy moved away last year.)
See below. I remember this all too clearly. I was parked in front of the Honda to the right and a neighbor was parked between my car and the Toyota to the left. We both left at the same time and I came back 15 minutes later to find the minivan parked like this on a day when all the on-street parking was taken due to the roadwork being done. If we lived in New York or Boston, I doubt it would have gone well for him....
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Quote from: kphoger on March 06, 2024, 05:04:48 PM
Texas, easily.
Also Arkansas.
And Maine and Indiana are also common on trucks.
I don't really notice the plates on trucks.
My kids sure do! On a road trip a few years ago, for which I had made up license plate spotting sheets, and grouped us into two competing teams, my eldest son was super excited to have spotted a license plate that, according to my game, had a very large point value. It was this one:
(https://moini.net/app/il2014apptlr.jpg)
He saw a long word that began with 'A', looked down at his sheet, and figured it must have been Aguascalientes.
- Alberta: lots of people have moved there for cheaper housing and good wages (when oil is booming)
- Florida: snowbirds and rental cars?
- Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio*, Pennsylvania*: relatively close and populous states
* Water border with Ontario.
I have seen a lot of Flordia plates and Tennessee plates near my home
I see a number of Texas plates around MN. One would think it would be Illinois, but I rarely see them.
Even from the states that do border, I almost never see IA or SD. A lot of WI (which makes sense) and a handful of ND.
NE Wisconsin, I see a lot of Texas plates here.
Mike
Also agree that most out-of-state plates near me are either bordering states or places like Maine, New Jersey, and Florida.
I see a surprisingly high number of Alaska plates here in Wichita. My guess is that it has to do with the presence of an Air Force base.
I wonder if there are many places where you see more plates from a non-bordering state than you do the closest bordering state. I see way more Texas plates than I do Wyoming (obviously partially due to the fact that Wyoming has 15-20% less people than the City and County of Denver itself.)
Quote from: JayhawkCO on March 07, 2024, 02:24:29 PM
I wonder if there are many places where you see more plates from a non-bordering state than you do the closest bordering state. I see way more Texas plates than I do Wyoming (obviously partially due to the fact that Wyoming has 15-20% less people than the City and County of Denver itself.)
New York City, maybe, given how many people from New Jersey take some form of public transportation to get there? I tend not to pay much attention to license plates when I'm in the city, though.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on March 07, 2024, 02:24:29 PM
I wonder if there are many places where you see more plates from a non-bordering state than you do the closest bordering state. I see way more Texas plates than I do Wyoming (obviously partially due to the fact that Wyoming has 15-20% less people than the City and County of Denver itself.)
Around here, it seems I see approximately the same number of Texas plates as Oklahoma. I suspect you don't have to go too much farther north before Texas outnumbers Oklahoma. That's the more interesting phenomenon to me, in that Oklahoma is directly between here and Texas.
Quote from: JayhawkCO on March 07, 2024, 02:24:29 PM
I wonder if there are many places where you see more plates from a non-bordering state than you do the closest bordering state. I see way more Texas plates than I do Wyoming (obviously partially due to the fact that Wyoming has 15-20% less people than the City and County of Denver itself.)
In these parts, I see more Wyoming plates than anything else besides Colorado's (though this is probably because I'm closer to Cheyenne than Denver). I might have seen California plates more often than Texas plates, but that statement is from my observations and not the full set of plates in my area. The metrics are probably different in urban areas.
New Jersey and New York.
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Quote from: JayhawkCO on March 07, 2024, 02:24:29 PM
I wonder if there are many places where you see more plates from a non-bordering state than you do the closest bordering state. I see way more Texas plates than I do Wyoming (obviously partially due to the fact that Wyoming has 15-20% less people than the City and County of Denver itself.)
In these parts, I see more Wyoming plates than anything else besides Colorado's (though this is probably because I'm closer to Cheyenne than Denver). I might have seen California plates more often than Texas plates, but that statement is from my observations and not the full set of plates in my area. The metrics are probably different in urban areas.
I figure you'd still have more Texas than California just because of the oil and gas activity up there.
Quote from: BrianP on March 06, 2024, 05:11:43 PM
Quote from: 1995hoo on March 06, 2024, 05:00:45 PM
We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
The thing I wonder in this area with tags from states like Florida and maybe Texas and Georgia is how many of those are rental cars. It wouldn't surprise me that the results of this inquiry are tainted by that.
An example that I just googled:
https://www.denver7.com/traffic/driving-you-crazy/driving-you-crazy-why-do-so-many-colorado-rental-cars-have-out-of-state-license-plates
Yeah I was going to say Texas. A ton of rental cars are tagged from there.
Quote from: SEWIGuy on March 07, 2024, 05:08:14 PM
Yeah I was going to say Texas. A ton of rental cars are tagged from there.
This is true, but TX/FL are also popular retirement/wintering states for Midwesterners, so that probably also explains some of it in MN/WI.
Texas, Kansas, Florida, and Colorado, in that order.
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Quote from: 1995hoo on March 06, 2024, 05:00:45 PM
We see a lot of out-of-state plates here given our proximity both to DC and to various military installations. I think Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York seem to be the most common, although lately I've been seeing a lot more Texas plates than usual.
I see a surprising number of Alaska and Hawaii plates. In terms of East Coast states, I see very few from Maine or Rhode Island and surprisingly few from Connecticut.
The thing I wonder in this area with tags from states like Florida and maybe Texas and Georgia is how many of those are rental cars. It wouldn't surprise me that the results of this inquiry are tainted by that.
An example that I just googled:
https://www.denver7.com/traffic/driving-you-crazy/driving-you-crazy-why-do-so-many-colorado-rental-cars-have-out-of-state-license-plates
Yeah I was going to say Texas. A ton of rental cars are tagged from there.
Especially now that WisDOT offers 'fleet' plates for them.
Mike
My kid and I had a bet once about 4 years ago. We were in Mt. Rainier National Park and the kid bet that the California plates would outnumber the Oregon plates, and I bet there would be more Oregon plates. We counted for several hours and it was pretty close - the leader went back and forth a few times. In the end, California plates were leading by about 3 plates out of 150.
Plenty of metro Nashville plates up here (IN). Close second to NJ particularly on the northeast side of the state.
I see Texas the most, at least for states that don't border Iowa. I am inclined to believe some of that is the fact the company that deals with the various wind turbines around here is from Texas. I see some Florida as well.
In Rhode ISland, most of the out-of state plates besides MA and CT are New York, New Jersey, and Florida. The former two have discovered RI as an ideal place for second homes...cheaper than the Hamptons and 2 hours closer to home than the Cape.
Quote from: Ted$8roadFan on March 08, 2024, 06:18:00 AM
In Rhode ISland, most of the out-of state plates besides MA and CT are New York, New Jersey, and Florida. The former two have discovered RI as an ideal place for second homes...cheaper than the Hamptons and 2 hours closer to home than the Cape.
FYI, Rhode Island and New York have a water border.
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Quote from: Ted$8roadFan on March 08, 2024, 06:18:00 AM
In Rhode ISland, most of the out-of state plates besides MA and CT are New York, New Jersey, and Florida. The former two have discovered RI as an ideal place for second homes...cheaper than the Hamptons and 2 hours closer to home than the Cape.
FYI, Rhode Island and New York have a water border.
It still fits the spirit of the thread, because you cannot drive directly between New York and Rhode Island (notwithstanding the Montauk–Block Island ferry).
Definitely the Northern New England states and NJ in CT.
Colorado and Texas, hands-down.
We see lots of Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas (of course), Illinoi, Oklahoma, and Tennessee. Not so many Arkansas or Kentucky, at least on in the Northwest corner of the state.
Tennessee may not be as common as I think. I have several family members that live there so maybe I just pick up on it.
In Michigan, I see a lot of Florida, Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, California, Arizona.
Michigan, easily.
Up in New York I tend to see plates from Maryland, Ohio, Maine and oddly enough California.
I tend to see quite a few British Columbia plates.
Here in Texas I notice plates from California, Florida, Michigan, & Minnesota.
In the Greater Toronto Area, probably Alberta. In Kingston, ON, during school months, it would be BC (due to the number BC students coming here for studies)
Here in SE Pennsylvania, I would probably say Virginia
Where I am in Oregon:
- British Columbia
- Iowa (surprisingly)
- Montana
Quote from: TheHighwayMan3561 on March 07, 2024, 06:06:45 PMQuote from: SEWIGuy on March 07, 2024, 05:08:14 PMYeah I was going to say Texas. A ton of rental cars are tagged from there.
This is true, but TX/FL are also popular retirement/wintering states for Midwesterners, so that probably also explains some of it in MN/WI.
Another possible explanation is, especially in southern Minnesota west of Mankato, there are a lot of migrant farm workers. Most of the Texas plates I see here are for that reason.
Since I never responded in the original 2020 thread, I'll respond here. The bulk of non-adjacent out-of-state plates in Vermont hail from predictable locations: Maine, Connecticut, and New Jersey. During the summer, we also see a lot of Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia up here.
I think for the category of "states you least likely see", this plate I saw yesterday takes the cake.
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Quote from: JayhawkCO on April 16, 2024, 11:36:22 AMI think for the category of "states you least likely see", this plate I saw yesterday takes the cake.
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Most likely Air Force officer who just transferred. They will pay to ship your car.
Yep. I see a fair amount of Hawai'i plates. I had only ever seen a Guam plate a) in Guam or b) on the wall in my garage in my license plate collection.
In WV:
E-W roads: Indiana, Illinois, Missouri.
N-S roads: Ontario, New York, North Carolina.
Quote from: pderocco on March 06, 2024, 11:26:01 PMQuote from: bing101 on March 06, 2024, 06:02:32 PMQuote from: pderocco on March 06, 2024, 05:28:09 PMI live in San Diego, so not surprisingly the most common are either Arizona or some Mexican state (I never notice which). Beyond that, the other bordering states, Nevada and Oregon are fairly common, but Washington seems a little more common than Oregon.
When I was an avid street skater, I used to occupy my mind by looking at license plates. I always noticed that Massachusetts plates were at least twice as common as New York plates around here, which seems odd given their relative populations, and the fact that they're both very far away. I wonder if NY is skewed because so many residents live in NYC and simply don't have cars. Or maybe it's their provincial views, as famously satirized by Saul Steinberg's New Yorker cover half a century ago.
Wow never knew some parts of San Diego have lots of Massachusetts residents or tourists.
Not lots. Certainly far fewer than western states. But there's a noticeable disparity.
True too but then again I see more Texas License plates here in NorCal given the recent hype in my area for people in NorCal to move to places like Austin, Dallas and Houston areas.
We see quite a few Alaska plates, considering how small its population is. Another case of having their car shipped if they're moving or just come down south for the winter. Turn the car over to the shipping company, get on a plane to Seattle, get the car a week later in Tacoma. Expect to need a new battery.
In South Carolina, it's Ohio. Definitely Ohio. Waaaaay too much Ohio. Virginia and Florida are also up there.
When I lived in Tennessee, it was usually Illinois and Texas.
I think it's Maryland here in southern NJ, although I'm not 100% sure.