Arkansas is 48th. Yeah, that tracks.
We are going to build a new prison though, and that will fix it you’ll see…
A very expensive prison in the middle of bum fuck Egypt. It will bring lots of kickbacks to the Sarah Sander’s cronies …err… I mean jobs
Mississippi and Alabama are even worse. Which also tracks.
Mississippi and Louisiana*
Alabama is 45
Yep, gotta make room for all those personal liberties
Huh… Who’d have thought New Hampshire would take the top spot? God knows I wouldn’t…(and I’m a native born resident)
Just shows the map creators biases, more than anything.
I’d not be happy in NH (no offense, beautiful to visit, skiied there a LOT, just not where I want to live).
The weights the map creator puts on things makes this a map of their values.
Maryland being 11? Yea, fuck that. Being trapped between 2 shit holes of DC and Baltimore, the insane traffic, etc (I know of what I speak, spent a LOT of time there). Lots of folks love that kind of business/chaos, I do not.
ND at 14? I don’t think the map creator has ever been to the Dakotas - it takes a special person to live where winters are that rough. ND has the lowest temps of the lower 48. Long stretches of zero and below. Only Alaska gets colder.
Jersey at 13…hahahahahahahahahaha
It’s not a map of favorite vacation spots. It’s overall wellness.
Sure, you might not be a fan of cold winters, but laying on the beach is no fun when you have no money and you’re slowing dying of a disease you can’t get treatment for.
Every story I’ve heard about the Dakotas has been dark AF.
The answer is Massachusetts, the hillbillies from New Hampshire just cross the border for medical care and some of their kids go to schools in Boston.
I moved from #40 to #5 over the summer. The difference is staggering. You can just tell how much happier everyone here is and it really makes a positive impact on the community as a whole.
Uh.
Uhoh. If Minnesota is number 4… Then this truly a map of the race to the bottom.
Overall not that surprising. Some interesting differences between states, but regionally it’s what I expected.
It’s no secret, we ALL knew the conservative South is suffering.
I knew things were bad but holy hell.
Yall zone? More like no zone
Thing is this is by the metrics of the map creator.
Go to Appalachia and get to know those people - their metrics will be different than the map’s creator.
Paradigm has a lot of influence, and being open to understanding someone else’s will tell us a lot more than cobbled together maps like this.
Having lived and worked all over, I would be very, very unhappy to live in or near Chicago (or NY or Philly). That’s part of my metrics.
