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    [OC] US states ranked by overall well-being


    [OC] US states ranked by overall well-being

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    2. bitchstolemywaffles on

      utah is disgusting. the air in the salt lake valley is toxic as hell. literally the worlds worst. the water is tainted. the refineries are everywhere. the mormons run everything. no way is that top 5

    3. Seastep on

      IMO, Texas is buoyed by its large cities (Houston, Dallas, Austin/San Antonio) and if it weren’t for them, they’d be much closer to bottom 5.

    7. Pearson94 on

      I didn’t expect Louisiana to be in the top half but dead last? Any Louisianans care to chime in?

    8. logicbus on

      This is potentially misleading.

      I would prefer that each state get a score and that the color correlate to that score. The middle 25 states might have nearly identical scores. But based on this coloring, 13-38 appear to be very different.

      Or #50 might be a lot worse than #49. But here their colors are almost identical.

      Edit: math

    10. dispassioned on

      Minnesota being number 6 for wellness that has physical environment at number two? K. Have they ever experienced a Minnesota winter or driving in Minneapolis?! Because that ain’t it.

    12. turb0_encapsulator on

      honestly, if you grow up in New England and the suburbs of the NY tri-state area, the rest of the country feels pretty poor and under-developed in comparison.

    13. grengrad on

      Metro level data is far more meaningful than state level data.
      People spend most of their time in their metro area, not an average of their state.

    14. dskauf on

      The difference between Minnesota and Wisconsin is interesting. As someone who lived mostly in MN, but a few years in WI, they are generally very similar, though definitely more beer, brats and cheese in WI. WI politics veered more right last decade or so. Not sure if that accounts for the difference.

    15. UsedandAbused87 on

      Living in the south i get into debates with my coworkers when they talk about how California is and i bring up that we live in the least educated, most violent, most obese, and poorest part of the country. But “California taxes you so much”

    20. jamarticus on

      I remember growing up in Louisiana and always hearing the reason we had the 49th worst public education system in the country (my mother was/is an educator) was because Mississippi existed. Mississippi is sitting pretty on this map.

    21. ThatGuyLuis on

      Live in 22 and have visited 5 and 12 and it’s for sure noticeable. The people alone seem to act different.

    25. TheNewOneIsWorse on

      New Hampshire is pretty great, yes. No, we don’t want you to move here, there’s already no housing built after 1897. 

      That’s only a slight exaggeration. All of NH’s landmass except the national parks is incorporated into 221 towns, and half of those towns have fewer than 1000 people, with populations that have remained almost exactly the same since the 19th century. 

      Oh and 85% of the land surface is forested. 

    31. CarexGrayi on

      Having lived in NH, ME, CT, IL, LA, GA, SC, NC, KY, CA, and TX, I will say this fits my experiences.

      For example, going from New England to Louisiana is WILD. I hate to say it but comparatively, most people seem to be overweight and uneducated in Louisiana. Prisons everywhere you look. I encountered so much just blatant aggressive racism (I’m white), it was alarming.

    32. Glycoside on

      As a Michigander, I always look at us then Ohio to make sure we’re better. Happy to be ahead this time

    33. ShipwrightPNW on

      I grew up in Vermont and yeah, it’s great if you come from an affluent family and live up in Burlington. The rest of the state is plagued by underpaying jobs and drug problems.

    34. AntonyBenedictCamus on

      Maryland being 8th doesn’t seem correct.

      Stale job market, high crime, high cost of living, expensive housing, etc

      The school system was great, hospital system is good but expensive, and it is naturally beautiful for sure but that’s half the story

    36. madlabdog on

      IMO this doesn’t make sense when the states have such a large disparity in regards to their sizes and populations.

    42. FossaFurry on

      No WAY is Florida better than most of the south-east. The amount of drugs, homelessness, and crime thats been happening all over here as of late is staggering. And it’s getting much worse.

    43. Nitch_4250 on

      It’s a little misleading. #1 is not actually NH, but the group of counties comprising eastern MA, southern NH and Southern Maine.