If it sucks where you live, you should have moved. If it simply sucked where you live, due to unforeseen circumstance, you should have considered moving after it was over, instead of whining so much about the last time in really sucked, while continuing to pay your taxes to support the same values in government, and live there. If you continue to do the same things in the same place with the same type local/state government, you set yourself up for the same results. If you like the results, fine. If not, then doing the same, but expecting different results, in not insanity, most of the time, simply stupidity. But, I am sure, being able to whine about your situation, makes it all worthwhile for you.