Where does your State Rank?

NH is #2 -

Really gotta question the state that beat us out though - couldn't pay me enough to live there. When I worked in MA, and was looking for a house to buy in 2013, I thought briefly about it. Very briefly as in the ONLY advantage would be that it was closer to work. Decided I couldn't even stand the thought of being even just across the boarder from MA, so bought a house 55 miles from work.

The health care ranking for MA is interesting since I personally know people who have family members who live in MA, have MA health (insurance) and finally had to come to NH for addiction care because they weren't "eligible" in MA. Okay, that is only one area of health care, and I hear they have some top-notch hospitals down there - just irritates me.

 

#3 College Football ranking! (Not much to brag about from the posted link though somehow, we are #1 in affordable housing?)

 

I was shocked to see NJ #14. I agree with some of it but not most of it! I know alot are jumping ship and staying away from NJ because of the utterly ridiculous property taxes.

 

Kind of weird that Nevada is #40, yet people have been moving there in droves the last couple of years.

 

First I looked at the rankings and I thought it was a joke...Then I looked again and thought it's a joke!

 

I lived in South Dakota for 8 mostly glorious years, and I loved it. Underranked, for sure.

Corn-fed, Iowa bred.

 

A lot of my co-workers are on the east coast and get physically angry when I tell them how much I pay in property taxes for IN.

 

Living in flyover country has a lot of advantages, doesn't it?

 

Yep, $900 a year for our house on an acre.

 

#30! Below average, again, as usual. As an "average" dude, I always feel like a "big fish in a small pond" here in PA. It does wonders for stroking my ego.

 

Honestly, those are designer statistics. I have read the best this or that place to live, education, crime etc. Just look at where the statistic were posted. Enough said about that.

 

Well of course they are designer statistics. They can't possibly know what is most important to me (which, in my case, isn't schools for one), nor do they care. They are looking for what is most important to them. Also, as we all know, statistics can lie, and be manipulated to pretty much agree with whatever agenda you have. And, we all have agendas of some sort.

So I just take these as goofy things that I can say "Yay for me/us" if they show what I want them to, and ignore if they don't have my group in the top tier .

 

Zactly, my state is #1 with me and that's all that really matters when you get right down to it.

 

DUI statistics by state:
Which States have the worst DUI Problems?

 

It doesn't look like MJ legalization has hurt WA too much, and CO is lower-middle of the pack, rather than fallen off the cliff. Not saying that everything is perfect, but it doesn't seem to swing THIS statistic, lie, or whatever it is.

 

I'm shocked that NH is not on the top 10 list. Happy about that, but shocked.

 

If Mass is #1 then we should all move to Canada.

 

Just something I came across.