Roasted 1w ago27 views27 pts
We're sorry. Actually, no we're not.
Dover's crown jewel is a concrete oval where fans watch cars turn left for 400 miles. It's the most honest metaphor in America for a town where everyone ends up back where they started. The Cup Series now comes once a year, so the rest of the calendar is just a very expensive monument to waiting.
Dover was picked as capital in 1777 for being central, which is the nicest way anyone has ever said 'nobody else wanted it.' The state's big corporate glamour all lives in Wilmington, so the capital runs on a legislature that mostly shows up to vote and leave. Your biggest historical flex is a tavern vote in 1787, which is the last time anything here happened first.
Dover Air Force Base houses the largest military mortuary in the United States, and it still has to share the town's attraction list with Bally's Casino, the former Dover Downs. So the itinerary is gambling away your savings, then touring the aircraft museum next to the place where America receives its fallen. Delaware's own stereotype list jokes that your last vacation was the Dover Downs parking lot, and honestly, that tracks.
Dover's whole pitch on Niche is that it's 40 minutes from the beach and 40 minutes from real shopping and entertainment. That's not a location, that's a waiting room with a Dover Mall. Locals call it 'central,' but it's central the way a hallway is central to a house: you only pass through it on the way to somewhere better.
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