New Jersey?
6. CA
5. NJ
4. AK
3. NY
2. DC
1. HI
Notice any trends?
The other locations are places where a very high portion of the population lives in urban areas where the cost of real estate is high.
California is just like the rest of the country. It’s not one size fits all. There is a lot of difference between living in San Francisco and some rural area inland.
Hawaii and Alaska have obvious reasons for a high cost of living.
“Notice any trends?”
Hawaii would be expensive anyway as everything has to be imported and should be viewed as an outlier. The others all have some definite commonality
Except for Alaska they are a all liberal strongholds.
I didn’t know D.C. had become a state.
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Wolf will probably be elected in PA Nov 04; he wants $15.00 an hour minimum wage; PA will make the list very quickly as will its un-employment rate and how much more PA will be taking from the working base (on top of Corbett’s idiot move to raise state gas tax’s that are set to go up AGAIN in 2015).
If you have any investments in PA muni-bonds, GET. OUT. NOW. This state is going to collapse and un-employment is going to surge (only the “numbers” will be played with so as not to reflect that; bank on it).
some states are more equal than othersbecomes entrenched it'll probably be impossible to have a real republic.)
Again, state-based comparisons are meaningless
Interesting statistic about NJ. It has the highest population per square mile in the US, yet over %60 of it is rural.
In Connecticut, about 11.2% of households have an income of more than $200K. This group sets the tone for the state, and does not have any trouble paying whatever it costs to live there.
As far as the more expensive places, it's driven by real estate and economic opportunity. The reason the prices are so high in certain states is because they are very desirable places to live. I recently paid about $700,000 for a home in Connecticut and yes, the same house would have cost probably $300,000 or less in places like Arkansas or Mississippi. But I would have much difficulty making the income there that I make here. And even if I did, well, I'd still be in Arkansas or Mississippi.
If that sounds elitist, I'm sorry about that. But I've spent considerable time in the South and the overall quality of life is just not there for me. Though the people there are much nicer, I'll grant you that.
Reason these states tend to vote liberal is because of the big cities. Many people on welfare, a large Jewish population who will vote liberal no matter what, and a lot of unions and government workers. Once you get to the outer suburbs and beyond, we are much more conservative but we just don't have the numbers to overcome the big cities. Here in Connecticut, most of the towns in my county (Fairfield) votes conservative but we are outnumbered by the city folk in Danbury, Stamford and Bridgeport.
As for those in Texas who love to crow about your conservative government, you better keep an eye on what's coming over the border and also the demographic shifts that are quickly taking place in large cities like Houston and Dallas.
Anyway, my point here is that it will be expensive to live in places like NY, CT, CA and NJ no matter what government is in charge. These are the most desirable places in the country to live and work and you are going to have to pay for the privilege to live here (unless you don't mind living in a run-down urban ghetto).
libtard-controlled bastions. aka democratic-machine bastions.
MD not on the list? BS! Although they are blue states. They provide a much higher income. I would not make 10 percent of what I make in Maryland down in Mississippi for example. Sure you can say it is more expensive in Maryland, but not enough to justify the extremely low incomes in MS. The red states need to pay better. For some reason they have not done this. And they need to stop taking money from the federal government. I hate when states do this and red states do this most which I find very sad.