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miki123211 ◴[] No.45045491[source]
Is there even such a thing as a "Mississippi IP?"

I.E. Are US ISPs, particularly big ones like Comcast, required to geolocate ISPs to the state where the person is actually in? What about mobile ones?

Where I live (not US), it is extremely common to get an IP that Maxmind geolocates to a region far from where you actually live.

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cwbriscoe ◴[] No.45046293[source]
I live in Vancouver, WA and my IP comes back to Portland, OR.
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brewdad ◴[] No.45047139[source]
Vancouver residents may as well be Oregonians anyway. Most of them are paying OR income tax. They do most of their shopping and entertainment in Oregon too.
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cwbriscoe ◴[] No.45047170[source]
I work for a Portland company at home in Vancouver so I get to skip their income tax. It's a 10-15 minute drive to the PDX area where there is a Best Buy, Ikea and other stores where I can easily skip sales if I want to.
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1. hellojesus ◴[] No.45048429[source]
You live the best life; basically only federal income taxes.

The 20 min further south than you I live costs me over $30k/year.

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2. cwbriscoe ◴[] No.45048577[source]
Yeah, I was working from home anyway so it just made sense to move. The money I saved paid my rent fully and then some.