Posted on 08/04/2010 9:26:25 PM PDT by ATOMIC_PUNK
Most Livable State in the U.S.A. Is...
...New Hampshire. This is the fifth consecutive year the Granite State has topped this list published by CQ Press.
New Hampshire ranks No. 1 because it excels in numerous important quality-of-life measures, including low crime, low poverty, high income levels and a well-educated population. Coming in right behind New Hampshire are Utah, Wyoming, Minnesota and Iowa.
The least livable state is Mississippi, a position it has held on this CQ Press list for nine of the last 10 years. Close behind Mississippi are South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas.
The most livable states: How does your state rank? 1. New Hampshire 2. Utah 3. Wyoming 4. Minnesota 5. Iowa 6. Nebraska 7. New Jersey 8. Vermont 9. Idaho 10. North Dakota
11. Connecticut 12. Virginia 13. Massachusetts 14. Colorado 15. South Dakota 16. Maryland 17. Kansas 18. Washington 19. Montana 20. Maine
21. Hawaii 22. Oregon 23. Wisconsin 24. New York 25. Rhode Island 26. Illinois 27. Delaware 28. Florida 29. Alaska 30. California and Indiana (tie)
32. Oklahoma 33. New Mexico 34. Pennsylvania 35. Nevada 36. Arizona 37. Texas 38. Michigan 39. Missouri 40. Georgia and Ohio (tie)
42. North Carolina 43. West Virginia 44. Alabama 45. Louisiana 46. Arkansas 47. Tennessee 48. Kentucky 49. South Carolina 50. Mississippi
Hmmm... The demographics for the four runner-ups; Utah, Wyoming, Minnesota and Iowa aren't much different. Do I really want to look at the demographics for the five worst states?
Yeah, don’t forget those chiggers in the summer, too.
I wouldn’t. The wrong conclusions could get you a one-way ticket out of Freeperville.
Just keepin’ it real, G.
Liberals have ruined it for families. They have made it so expensive that mothers can no longer stay home and raise their children (if they can afford to have any). But that’s their plan.....get little children away from mom and dad....make mom and dad obsolete. Destroy the family because by separating them, they become less bonded, easily led astray—not connected. They easily succumb to state dictates.
It has always been a moral abyss, but you could belong to a good church and control the molding of the kid’s thinking through homeschool or private schools and strict tv monitoring. Never allowed stuff like MTV in the house at all. No video games except Mavis Beacon’s typing. HA HA
That said, the bay area is like living in Italy with the rolling hills and grape vines and agricultural land and all the lemon trees, plum trees, orange trees. Theater, musicals, activities for kids, parks, lakes, A TON to do with kids or just Adult activities....but now things are so expensive I don’t know what parents do anymore unless they are wealthy.
NJ is number 7! My homestate of NY is right in the middle at 24.
Yup, you are right.
In a couple years you WILL have no more heat. Heat to heat your homes that is. No heating oil because the Obamao regime is confiscating and shutting down the refineries that make it, electricity costs sky high (thanks to the Obamao regimes "green energy" dreams while they shut down all the coal fired plants) complete with rolling blackouts because NYC and Boston will get priority over you (gotta keep the regime and it's friends warm-they are your betters).
You think you will be able to heat with wood? Think again. It will be a federal crime to harvest firewood (gotta save Gaia, you know). Of course that won't stop people so within a few years the hillsides will look like Haiti-totally denuded of trees.
Great hiking, camping, downtown life is fun at Whiskey Row. Good jobs hard to come by now, though.
I would venture to say that the top 10 livable states in the US are the states that have the least illegal aliens per capita.
New Jersey (#7) has its share of illegals, as does Nebraska. An even better indicator is that the 10 states at the bottom of the list have (with the exception of West Virginia) the largest population of “Amish” in the United States, rather than illegal aliens.
The key is to find a nice small/medium sized city with a university in one of the lower ranked states (for instance Knoxville TN). Then you get the best of both worlds — higher income and education plus low taxes etc.
One thing that stands out for me is that highest rated states are noted for having serious winter weather. In Utah, SLC gets more than enough snow (and has no shortage of lunatic drivers), but when you get into northern UT or up in the mountains, they can be positively buried.
Wyoming’s winters are justly famous. We like to say that it’s a nice day when the snow is falling straight down. Usually it fits the Wyoming joke that “we’ve had only one snowstorm since the earth was born - it just keeps gettin’ blown around the state....”
Winters tend to drive the grifters and riff-raff out to somewhere where they don’t have to work quite so hard. This can be seen in Europe’s nations as well. The spendthrift nations are the ones on the Med, and the northern tier nations are prosperous and pretty peaceful.
California is number 30, how about dead freaking last. California is the nuthouse with a terrible climate of fires, droughts, and deserts.
I’ve stayed in Austin awhile and that is really a neat area. My daughter lives there and loves it because it is a college town. The weather is not that bad, but summers can be humid and bugs are bigger.
I almost bought a house in Austin...but moved to the west coast ....where I have lived all my life. Both Oregon and California. In between the move, I was in AZ for several years.
Oregon has prettier summers than Austin and their winters are not as cold if you live in the Willamette Valley. It is not that humid either. Shopping is better in Austin and the food is really great. Very affordable place to live.
The Willamette Valley has so much rain and is so much darker during most of the year and they don’t have so many in door activities for children when 8 mo. of the year is rainy and cold and dreary. So many people look overweight. Much more boring esp. for children, than Austin. Summers can be great for kids though.
Plus, if you’re in Hoboken, you can drop by Carlo’s. It looks good on Cake Boss, at any rate!
Other ten! Barry said, “I’ve been to 57 states. One more to go. They won’t let me go to Alaska or Hawaii.” So, he thought there were a total of 60 states. But, he was *tired*.
LOL...It’s true you do need oven mitts to drive and watch out when getting into the car while wearing shorts.
:)
I was in the Fargo airport just this morning. It’s the first airport I can recall in which the lounge TV monitors were Fox and not CNN.
We’re #49!
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