Most Livable States, 2005

Morgan Quitno ^ | 3/8/05 | Morgan Quitno

[bourbon]

"Mississippi will never be last again!"
-- former (F.O.B. "New Democrat") Governor of Mississippi Ray Mabus in 1987.

[jwalburg]

Hey! Nebraska is 10! South Dakota is 9! So glad I'm in a liveable area. I didn't even know it.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Then why did we climb 8 spots? ; )

[jwalburg]

Oh. Weather isn't factored in I guess.

[Taft in '52]

How could New Hampshire be number one? I've been from Portsmouth to Dixville Notch and have yet to find a decent burrito.

[Doohickey]

Good thing reading comprehension wasn't ranked - you're looking at the alpha list. You're #35.

[altoidboy]

I could think up my own list of 44 criteria and come up with a ranking that is the opposite of this list.

I've lived in four states, three of which are in the last 10. I would completely disagree that those three were any less livable than the one state I lived in that's not in the last 10 (actually, it's in the top 10).

[Moose4]

33 Expenditures for Education as a Percent of All State and Local Government Expenditures (Table 139)
36 Per Capita State Art Agencies’ Legislative Appropriations (Table 156)

While I'm happy that my beloved Commonwealth of Virginia is #5, any survey that uses the above as positives is very suspect.

South Carolina was #44 and having lived there for 7 1/2 years, only recently leaving, I can tell you it is a MUCH better place to live than most other states ranked higher on the list.

}:-)4

[L98Fiero]

What a bunk list. Apparently, "livable" means "higher concentrations of rich white people".

I am happy to live in the least livable state. My 10 year old, 2-story brick house with a pool cost $104,000. The last time I bought gas, I paid $1.76 a gallon. It's probably 70 degrees outside right now.

Man, I hate it here. ;)

[Tijeras_Slim]

I dunno, but we still have cockfighting here... that's a plus.

[MineralMan]

Well, since I moved from CA to MN last summer, I guess I moved up. I'll let you know after this weekend's snows.

[television is just wrong]

quick tell all to move to N.H. maybe we can have some elbow room here in Los Angeles.

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Some people just don't know what part of the world is really worth living in...

[Mr. Jeeves]

Already self-corrected in post #23. What was that about reading comprehension, again? ;)

[Doohickey]

I hadn't gotten that far yet :P

[FormerACLUmember]

The states with the most lawyers and/or the most corrupt legal systems tend to be at the bottom.

As they say in NH: Live Free or Die!

[Centurion2000]

This is a JOKE survey.

How can a place be rated to be livivable when cost of living is not even a factor in the equations ??

[AsYouAre]

Hmmm....Michigan moved up 6 spots from #34 to #28. How did that happen? I live in Michigan and am optimistic, but last I checked we have an unemployment rate of 7.1 percent.

[NautiNurse]

Who is Morgan Quitno anyway?

[crv16]

High ranked states typically have low crime, low unemployment, good health care, highly educated populace and a high standard of living.

While you may disagree with the *politics* of some of these states, the standards by which these ratings were calculated were applied uniformly.