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These Are The "Worst Possible States To Live In" As Ranked By Their Residents
It should come as no surprise that when Gallup recently conducted a poll asking residents to rank if their state is the "worst possible to live in" a whopping 25% of its residents, by far the most of any states, responded Illinois. Which were the other "worst possible" states? The table below ranks them all.
How about the opposite: the best US states to live in? Here is the full list in descending order.
And some commentary from Gallup:
Residents of Western and Midwestern states are generally more positive about their states as places to live. With the exception of the New England states of New Hampshire and Vermont, all of the top 10 rated states are west of the Mississippi River. In addition to Montana and Alaska, Utah (70%), Wyoming (69%), and Colorado (65%) are among the 10 states that residents are most likely to say their state is among the best places to reside. Most of these states have relatively low populations, including Wyoming, Vermont, North Dakota, and Alaska -- the four states with the smallest populations in the nation. Texas, the second most populated state, is the major exception to this population relationship. Although it is difficult to discern what the causal relationship is between terrain and climate and positive attitudes, many of the top 10 states are mountainous with cold winters. In fact, the two states most highly rated by their residents -- Montana and Alaska -- are among not only the nation's coldest states but also both border Canada.
With the exception of New Mexico, all of the bottom 10 states are either east of the Mississippi River or border it (Louisiana and Missouri). New Jersey (28%), Maryland (29%), and Connecticut (31%) join Rhode Island among the bottom 10.
The results are based on a special 50-state Gallup poll conducted June-December 2013, including interviews with at least 600 residents in every state. For the first time, Gallup measured whether residents view their states as "the best possible state to live in," "one of the best possible states to live in," "as good a state as any to live in," or "the worst possible state to live in."
Few Americans say their states are the single best or worst places to live. Rather, the large majority of respondents say their states were either "one of the best" or "as good a state as any" place to live.
One in Four Illinois Residents Say Their State Is the Worst Place to Live
Illinois has the unfortunate distinction of being the state with the highest percentage of residents who say it is the worst possible place to live. One in four Illinois residents (25%) say the state is the worst place to live, followed by 17% each in Rhode Island and Connecticut.
Throughout its history, Illinois has been rocked by high-profile scandals, investigations, and resignations from Chicago to Springfield and elsewhere throughout the state. Such scandals may explain why Illinois residents have the least trust in their state government across all 50 states. Additionally, they are among the most resentful about the amount they pay in state taxes. These factors may contribute to an overall low morale for the state's residents.
Texans Most Likely to View the Lone Star State as the Very Best
Although Texas trails Montana and Alaska in terms of its residents rating it as the best or one of the best places to live, it edges out Alaska (27%) and Hawaii (25%) in the percentage of residents who rate it as the single best place to live.
Texans' pride for their state as the single best place to live is not surprising when viewed in the context of other measures. According to Gallup Daily tracking for 2013, Texans rank high on standard of living and trust in their state government, and they are less negative than others are about the state taxes they pay. The same is true for Alaska and, to a lesser extent, Hawaii, which had relatively average scores for trust in state government and state taxes, but ranked high for standard of living. The three also have distinct histories, geographies, natural resources, and environmental features that may contribute to residents' personal enjoyment and pride in their locale.
Bottom Line
Residents with the most pride in their state as a place to live generally boast a greater standard of living, higher trust in state government, and less resentment toward the amount they pay in state taxes. However, the factors that residents use to determine whether their state is a great place to live are not always obvious. West Virginia, for example, falls far behind all other states on a variety of metrics, including economic confidence, well-being, standard of living, and stress levels. Still, over a third of West Virginians feel their state is among the best places to live, giving it a ranking near the middle of the pack.
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It wasn't the conservatives that legalized pot!
That's just one point. I'm glad they decriminalized it, but they will become more liberal and the answer to everything is more taxes. Just like gambling, more states will legalize. Drop In the bucket for the welfare state.
America will fall apart from within! I give it less then a decade.
Texas will be the first state to secede.
My money is on Alaska first.
Amerika is falling apart faster that that.
America will fall apart from within! I give it less then a decade.
Texas will be the first state to secede.
Yeah....right. And when they do they'll be called the Democratic Socialist Republic of La Raza
Then we start Alamo 2 unless Texans keep getting distracted by stupid shit like football.
They are idiots for football like Canadians are for hockey or AH's in Taxachusetts for the Red Sox and Bruins. The border is being invaded and Perry does nothing and Texans have no clue. Ditto Brewer in AZ and Martinez in NM. Having republicans governors really helped save us. F**king joke.
Good state, bad state. Has nothing to do with the natural environment. It has everything to do with the people. There's an old saying that applies:
There is some truth here, but not much. It's all about social perception. The same thing works for America as a whole...the vast majority of Americans think it's the greatest country on the planet, despite the fact that it's bankrupt and headed for civil war.
I'm from Texas and can't wait to leave this half redneck, half mexican desert. Even my parents, who have long lived here and think it's paradise, get jealous every time they visit family in California.
But I do recognize that it's alot better than many shitholes on this planet.
Weburke: "connecticut is great, really, except where it isnt."
CT prisoner here...this place is really going downhill fast. JUst went through my hometown on the shore here, have not been down there in almost 6 years. Fukkin' blown away...the human swarf is wafting over from both sides now, New Haven and Bilgeport, truly sad state of affairs there.
I'll be outta here in the near future. Not soon enough.
Mostly folks using their houses as ATM cards or so it seems.
I had Lyme in 1992.....big bag of suck there, took me over a year to get back to "normal" whatevathefuck "normal" is.
LEAVE DUDE! GTFO NOW!!! Malloy will taxfuck you to being broke! I call it Debtnecticut.
I prefer Craptasticut.
Lucky you that they found it early.
It took them over Twenty Years, after I caught it, to diagnose it. Of course I lived in the Southwestern USA (Arizona, California...).
You are correct. It is a nightmare.
Lyme Disease = Plum Island - Operation Paperclip.
Set up for ex-nazis to continue research off Long Island.
http://www.rense.com/general67/plumislandlyme.htm\\
One of the Nazi scientists who appears to have been involved with Plum Island was Dr. Erich Traub, who was in charge of the Third Reich's virological and bacteriological warfare program in World War II. Was Traub involved with experiments that led to the spread of Lyme Disease?
Connecticut was ok long ago...split for some Miami mayhem during the early 80's
came back in one piece ten years later. Hate Connecticut but can't see myself back
in Florida...elderly parents to keep an eye on here as well. As for Lyme, twice! Stole 15
years of my life (and counting)...what the heck, I'll be dead soon enough.
I've been to 56 of the 57 states and they all suck. I'm still crossing my fingers on 57.
The definition of Optimism is....... or is that insanity?
They keep coming to Florida. Pass the word around, it is a terrible state.
Happy Independence Day Weekend to all my bitchez.
Come with me, OT....
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It is unfortunate however that all of this effort was circumvented and Rothschild still printed the money for two hundred years with a few few exceptions.
http://www.apfn.org/apfN/bcolony.htm
http://www.atlanteanconspiracy.com/2008/06/presidential-bloodlines.html
Did you know all 44 U.S. presidents have carried European royal bloodlines into office? 34 have been genetic descendants from just one person, Charlemagne, the brutal eighth century King of the Franks. 19 of them directly descended from King Edward III of England. In fact, the presidential candidate with the most royal genes has won every single American election.
There is no hope for Americans when after 200 years they still believe they won the revolutionary war.
Baloney.
+ 1
badassofthe week is a great & fun site.
Superb read...and none other than the Swamp Fox! Thx
The police state of Arizonistan is ranked far too low.
Illinois has Chicongo.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-chicago-shootings-...
I've lived all around the country. In a purely climate/geography/cultural sense, the place I like the most is actually upstate NYS. Unfortunately upstate is essentially a colony of NYC at this point.
Wife's family lives in Shenango County. Good folks you'd think were Midwestern or southern, but caught in the taxation Hell of Cuomo the Homoland. State should be split into three pieces so this good folks would be left alone.
Climate? Really? Sunless winters buried in snow?
Worst weather in USA. Im from outside of Albany, moved to Las Vegas. Everytime I vist the relatives still living in the state worker hell hole I get sick. I mean really fever sick with lung infection.
Fuck YOU Connecticut! Left your fuckin' ass last year and I will NEVER go back. Every few months we get another "You owe the state $XXX.XX" for numerous shitty and bullshit welfare state taxes like our car. We still owe like 400 bucks for our cars. FUCK YOU YOU FUCKIN POS STATE.
Rhode Island's rank -- third worst -- is deserved. Beautiful geography but liberal democrats dominate government with the predictable results. If liberalism is a mental illness, then there is an epidemic here. Fortunately, there is broad range of independents and conservatives who barely keep the lid on the crazies, but it's getting worse each year.
Cuz people are leaving. Rhode Island like Connecticut is gorgeous, but the legislature has had the putrescence of liberalism wreck those states. Something like 250,000 people have left CT in the last decade. Doesn't sound like much the population is small so it adds up. Their answer to people leaving the intolerable taxation? More fuckin taxes!!! Shitheads.
"liberal democrats dominate government with the predictable results" I think you mean the mob.
Colorado isn't that great, coming from a "Native" (God, that meme is so pathetic, like being from Colorado means anything). People come here from other states seeking the outdoors culture (whatever that is). It's a bunch of fake people living fake outdoors-based lives, or thinking they do. "I love the nountains" when the majority only go to the ski towns. And if you think Boulder means granola and hippies, you are mistaken. It's a bunch of trusifarians and old liberal money. The granola culture is fake. Well, at least the weed is reality.
No truer words have ever been written here on ZH!
in colorado it is illegal to steal the rainwater that runs off your roof, that water belongs to someone else
It belongs to Denver Water, and don't you forget it!
Accidental double post. I do what my Kindle tells me to do.
Observing the tension between the multiple use community (hook, bullet, paddle & goldpan), the outdoor recreation industry entrepreneurs, the mining community, tree hugger/duck squeezer communities, the publick land manager burrocrats and the Front Range water Nazis is a regular hoot! Whenever it becomes public land it becomes a political football. It's as bad as public schools. What a maroon!
I have a good friend who lives in the mountains above Boulder with his wife. Went to a mountain 4th of July party up there and most people I met were freaks. Freaks with the Obama poster on there house. And there kids were all extreme dirt bikers go figure. Rich and cloistered all of them and liberals everyone. No blacks though although they love them!
Alaska in the summer, Arizona in the winter.
Yeah, I'm in AA.
What do you think of AZ? In what part do you live?
I lived in AZ for 8 years. I liked everything except the inbred mafiosa bureacracy that permitted this, who also ran (or turned 3 blind eyes to) running AIDS whores from Mejico into the US and the most massive genocidal drug superhighway ever. Mejico -> Phoenix -> Everywhere.
Of course, the police, FBI, CIA, NSA, and Interpol keeping quiet about Jerry Brown taking orders from Joaquin Guzman Loera in Antelope Valley, California every day for 30 years makes this a moot point. Dontcha think? Senator MKULTRA? Pink undies don't cut it, sheriff. Step Up.
I moved to AZ last year from TN. Love both places but needed to try something new. Arizona is phenominal provided you don't mind the sun and heat. I lived in Phoenix for 8 months and enjoyed. Currently live in Havasu and work in Parker. Rural Arizona is fabulous. Open carry, clear viewing of the stars, water recreation on the Colorado River, SoCal floozies partying on the weekends. Life could be worse.
Illinois. Home of the pouty faggot. Makes sense.
I can verify the Illinois stuff. Terrible corruption and nothing really going for it. Massive unfunded liabilities, run for years by democrats and RINO's, outrageous taxes, old and dirty, etc. California at least has the natural beauty, ports, good weather, etc. Illinois has politicians that are as corrupt as fuck (our current prez was a Senator from Illinois), flat as a tabletop for the most part, smells like manure most of the year and the weather sucks big-time.
I often wonder how Chicago ever got to be the 2nd largest city (until LA surpassed it).
hog butcher to the world, it was a different age.
Illinois also probably has the largest number of Communists living in it, judging by certain people who moved to DC.
Illinois is overrun with communists and union trash.
Chicago was an important shipping town in the 1800s, especially after it was connected by railroad. Goods produced on the East Coast would be shipped by train and pass through Chicago on their way westward.
Worst state hands down is NJ due to cost of living. Property taxes are brutal, it has among the highest rates of auto insurance in the US, income taxes are high, and every major city in the state is an hole. PA is no paradise either but my taxes are about half of what they would be in NJ and sales tax free DE is 30 minutes away.
IL doesn't surprise me either and I guess MS residents should be happy they aren't dead last. MS is a 3rd world country kept afloat by massive federal transfers and the only worthwhile places along the Gulf along Biloxi is a bit trashy. You can say the same about WV but MS doesn't have the mountains or natural beauty of WV.
I was stationed at Monmouth when I was in the Army. Jerzee definietly sucks ass.
I had a friend who left the service in Jerzee; he actually literally stopped at the border on his way out to shit on Jerzee before he left for good.
I wish I'd have thought of that.
You can say the same about WV but MS doesn't have the mountains or natural beauty of WV.
HAHAHA !! LOL! I was born and raised in Mississippi, lived there from 1964-1992. Moved to WV and lived there a couple of years. People from home asked me what it was like living up there. I told them it's MS but with mountains.
Yeah even with all that Atlantic shoreline it still blows. Lived in Cherry Hill for 2 years right next to Camden in the late 90's. went back 7 years later it looked like Camden. No one mows there lawn even.
so what do people base their perceptions on, the economy, what is it about their state they like or don't like? i think california has a representational government that works, (compared to some others) and i can base my opinion on facts, but if the next ten people think there are too many mexicans, the walmarts are trashy, and the beaches around the city feels like a concentration camp, they have a right to their opinion, even if it based on different reasons.
"so what do people base their perceptions on, the economy, what is it about their state they like or don't like? i think california has a representational government that works."
Yes, California has a representional government in that the Marxist progressive Democrats who control the state only represent the illegals, the public employee unions, and the free shit army.
well see thats where you're wrong. we have an independent governor, who abolished the dc socialist redevelopment agency fiasco for muni government, we have voter initiative (too bad washington doesnt have that, would america have voted to spend 1T dollars in Iraq, probably not, and our legislature has a 2/3 or quorom requirement to pass any new laws, the problem in DC is that they pass to many bad laws) yes and we try to protect our teachers and firefighters (perhaps you are a member of Arnies army, he tried to break the public employees during his tenure) yes CA is progressive compared to what? if you want to make your own moonshine and you feel free to shoot your neighbor, by all means find something else.
Filler for a slow news day.
I do love my Alaska.
Wasilla ain't great, but it beats Anchorage!
Survey was taken from June thru December, and the two top states were Montana and Alaska.
Average temp in Helena, MT is 50F in survey months, 35F in non-survey months.
Average temp in Fairbanks, AK is 35F in survey months, 15F in non-survey months.
Don't you realize the cold weather keeps the riff raff out? Sub-zero tempratures are a blessing!
We still have them. But the cold tends to send them packing. Annually, a few homeless die in Alaska by setting their shanties on fire to stay warm. Darwin at work.
And what happens when there's a transportation or power disruption with those temps? For the majority, death.
I live in Illinois about 50 miles west of the cess pool known as Chicago.
Corruption and unfunded pensions are the main problem in Cook county.
Where is that fellow Charles Bronson when we need him? Could use a few of
those guys just in Englewood, a neighborhood in Chicago that has more
murders per square mile than any place in the world.
We have enough going on around here, so Obama please stay away and retire
where you can play more golf. The last thing we need is Obama and his entourage snarling up the
traffic on the expressways.
Careful what you wish for.
This should be obvious...
BE YOUR OWN BRONSON!
Clean out the rats yourself. No one will do it for you.
Florida is a collection of States. It is whatever you want it to be. Moved there in 72. If you want Deliverance just head North of Gainesville up the middle. If English is a challenge, try Dade County, Cuba. You've got your redneck Riviera in the
Panhandle. East Coast is low income retirees and a few remaining natives. West Coast has changed so much in the last 40+ years, you wouldn't recognize the place. But the most beautiful uncrowded beaches on Earth are on those little bitty
barrier islands off Bradenton. Yes, it's God's Waiting Room, but wait 5 minutes and your annoying neighbors magically disappear. There's no state income tax, investment tax or inheritance tax.
Currently living in one of the top 5 shittiest states for professional reasons but I keep a place on the beach and looking forward to going back permanently and driving for shit with failing eyesight and incipient senility. Yeehaw.
a story of lost freedom: live by a national sea shore in md, could fish the surf at will, then park rangers started checking catches a few years ago, a lot longer ago they started requireing tags to drive the beach at a nice $$, now you need a fishing license $$ to fish the surf of the atlantic, and we also tax rain fall here in md..a slow slide into the police state. park rangers here now wear b p vests and look like swat team wanna be's.
Hey, what the Fuck, they have not listed the 'US Police State' there anywhere.
I always thought the worst states were:-
Poverty
Starvation
Disease
I got tangled up again by my Russian wife. I can take on the world but I can't beat her sometimes. It all started with a former classmate who has just married a Russian gal. It is pretty amazing how those women stick together and she wanted to show me some post on Facebook. I deleted my FaceFuck account months ago.
I don't really care if she uses FaceFuck though because she can do whatever she wants. We scrolled through her page and I saw what I thought was a hot chick and said, "Who the fuck was that?" Some friend from Russia. So we went on to discuss about livng in northwestern Wisconsin and how hard that is on Russian women when they first come here. Ths place is ruthless in so many ways and it is, to a degree, a matter of isolation. It is really hard to explain about Wisconsin and Minnesota. There are plenty of fucked up .gov things here but at least in Minnesota there can no state level budget deficit. I.E., there are no state level municiple bonds. By the constitution of the state of Minnesota the budget MUST be balanced for each fiscal year. We hold those fucktards to the letter of the law and it seems to work to some degree.
Then you have Minneapolis, they can issue bonds. There is no state law that prevents this. Cities can issue bonds but who buys them? Someone is buying these turds. How does that work? I am pretty fucking sure I know how it works and it goes right back to the federal govt. We could go balls deep into that but there is plenty of info out there about how corrupt it all is.
Now back to the "hot chick". Males always notice hot chicks and what females do to make sure that they are noticed. It is just part of life as it is. Women will always do the same thing in that they always try to make themselves look better than they really are. Men do not do this but we are too stupid sometmes ourselves. I am lucky to have the woman I do but that does not mean that I will not mess with her head. We scrolled back to the hot chick and I told my wife I wanted to sleep with her friend. Not because I really wanted to but just to fuck with her. The response was quite amazing. Mrs. M really got me good here.
"You won't like her because she works for your second least favorite organization." I was amazed that she was ranking how much I hate certain cabals. Who evens says shit like, "Your second least favorite"? That ruled out the Federal Reserve because that is number one for me. For what that is worth, I had a cashier today checking my $20 bills with the famous pen. The guy even said to me tha the was checking for counterfiet bills. I had to ask, "Well did you find any yet?". Laughter erupted in the store.
Well, so what is my second most favorite organizantion has to be the UN. Bingo! That hot gal works for the UN in New York and all of a sudden she wasn't that hot anymore. Then Mrs.M said the following which is a statement in itself: "She is Greek and she has a hairy ass. You wouldn't like it."
That statement stopped me cold. I would never cheat on my wife anyway but that one is very good. I think she won.
And I thought I wasn't going to get a good laugh this weekend. Thanks Manip!
Russians usually win because they are smart. And how do you know they are smart - they remind you usually every hour.
I would take Putin over all the evil politicians we have now in Amerika.
"Were all living in Amerika Amerika it's wunderbar.
"Were all living in Amerika" "Coca Cola - sometimes war"
"Were all living in amerika" "Coca Cola- Wonderbra."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxroiTRg7Tg
I've lived in Michigan, Indiana, Florida, New Jersey, Maryland, Louisiana, and Texas.
My experience is that it depends on what stage of life you're in. If you're a kid, the Midwest is not a terrible place to grow up. And that might have changed somewhat over time, but I would never raise my kids in Maryland or New Jersey. Texas schools are dominated by football. Louisiana is a segregated society (the public schools are 80-90% black in Baton Rouge and New Orleans despite it being a 50/50 population split). Florida is ok, but the state has changed a lot since the 90s.
Louisiana was an awesome place to go to college though. Same for Florida.
Texas and New Jersey are good places to start careers. Louisiana was the worst.
I would never own a home in NJ, MD or LA. You're being farmed for taxes. Texas is not as bad because of the ISD system.
This is an interesting survey. It's more of "how aware are people that there's something better out there?"
Maybe "best US state to live in" is proportionate to "distance from Washington". The farther the bertter.
It's fair to say that Europeans usually prefer to avoid the entire country.
Whyi isn't our 51st state, Israel, listed among them?
You God says there are 57 states.....
"Why isn't our 51st state, Israel, listed among them?"
Why weren't our other states of Afganistan and Iraq listed?
10 most unhappy states in the U.S. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/10-most-unhappy-states-in-the-us-2013-0...
10 States with the most credit card debt http://www.marketwatch.com/story/states-with-the-most-credit-card-debt-2...
5 states with the highest foreclosure rates http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-states-with-the-highest-foreclosure-r...
5 states where homeowners lost the most money http://www.marketwatch.com/story/5-states-where-homeowners-lost-the-most...
States with the most ‘zombie homes’ http://www.marketwatch.com/story/states-with-the-most-zombie-homes-2013-...
More: http://forum.prisonplanet.com/index.php?topic=240923.0
Governor Quinn and congressman Luis Gutierrez in Illinois is encouraging illegals to flood the state. Chicago and Illinois is going down fast.
Just got back from a couple days in North Florida (Panama City/Port St Joe Area)...
Florida still sucks...balls, big time.
Can't stand that area or the in-laws. [Jebus Fuckin' Christ, the snake handling religious zealouts that wouldn't even bury their own useless-assed father!]
$8k for some ass-taint I couldn't stand, and I didn't have an extra 8k.
I imagine one in four Illinois residents are wondering what is there to celebrate this inDEPENDENCE day.
MARYLAND SUCKS !
1) One party (Commiecrat) state.
2) High Taxes
3) Gun Control - homies are exempt
Maryland is for homosexual sex deviants, and racist black trash.
I need to move...
Home of the gun runners.
That's Virginia and it has been happening for a long, long time. My uncle (retired homicide cop in Philly) dealt with that all the way back in the 80s during the height of the crack epidemic in Philly.
All you have to do today is drive along 95 in Virginia once you get South of DC area and see of the gun stores off 95.
Most of the top ten are socialist Democrat strongholds....no surprise there.....yep,"Both party's hour the same".......
Los Alamos National Lab and Sandia National Labs...we got nukes!
Texas, Florida, Montana? East coast? Pollution, mosquitos and deep snow? Lots of in breeding in Montana too due to cold winters....See Cheney family.
Wyoming too.
Los Alamos National Lab and Sandia National Labs...we got nukes!
http://www.doeal.gov/
Been there. Done that.
While the FBI is more focused on terrorism these days.
Organized crime is returning.
Instead of Italians, its Mexican, Columbian, ect ....
God help Texas, Arizona, Nevada, and S. Cali.
They can have New Mexico. (hehehe).
To be a South of the Border gang-banger is trendy.
The Queens of Washington welcome you.
They came to America for free underwear?
hahahaha - FOOLS!
I think the Democrat party wants to turn Texas blue.
And they're willing to change the demographics to do it.
Wake up down there. I know it's hot, but wake up!
You know something is wrong when a state that boasts a summer temperature of 65°F tops, and swarms of starved mosquitoes, ranks first.
There are mosquitoes in Montana?? 65 degrees tops???
You sure????
five "Officer involved" shootings by cops in Chicago just overnight last night. One teen pulled a gun on a handfull of Chiraq cops and was shot over 20 times. Mom on the news claiming little Johnnie was a good boy and didnt have a gun blah blah blah. Body still lying in the street.
If little Johnnie was such a good boy mom why was he out in the streets at 2 AM? Happiness will be Illinois in my rear view mirror. I was transferred here in 1998 from Cincinnatti with my work. My home is now worth what I paid for it in 1998 which really means nothing unless you have a buyer.
So in reality I have been doing nothing but paying my 7K a year property taxes for 15 years to feed the full body armor cops and the politicians and city, county, and state employees pension funds. Tolls doubled a few years back. State income tax boosted from 3 to 5 %. City of Chicago just bumped the phone tax per number from 2.50 a month to 3.90 a month because they could.
I run sales calls in south Chicago neighborhoods. I am of a minority color from the natives. Ruger SR38 on ankle legally now. War zone does not begin to describe the streets when the jungle weather hits. Winter time its a ghost town. Nothing but snow plow drivers and cabs. Night and day.
I have given 15 years of my life to generating income, taxes and profits for my employer and the government beast. I have no problem profiting my employer it is why he pays me. To pay the beast that has become our local, state and federal government irks the hell out of me. The police state is full blow retard. We now have speeding ticket cameras on 5 intersections that issue speeding ticket fines starting at 100 for ten over. OUT OF CONTROL
rant off,
Solution is to move.
Chicago has a bankrupt economic model that is taking the rest of the state down.
Unfortunately Obama is using the Chicago plan for the rest of the country.
The rankings say less about the states than about the residents of states and how much they like to complain.
Lucky they didn't put in the reginal landfill back in the 90's. Would have needed a plane warning light on top. We lead the opposition with signs and all at the meeting in Trenton. I gave up 27 acres off the Sabte Fe cause I couldn't fnd enough space in FL to get away from the ex that got the house above Trenton. Property taxes wre only for the home builders, not trialers back then. And you learned what " it's low in the back" meant.
I'm a life long Illinois resident...over four decades now. I've lived in practcally every part of the state that isn't Chicago and the cultures vary widely. The top and bottom are beautiful. I've lived an hour from the bottom tip now for 16 yrs...it's gorgeous country here. And the people are nice for the most part. Visit the parks down here if you get a chance.
Chicago drowns this state...and Springfield. Things will either change significantly soon or it will officially be the first state in bankruptcy. I will say...the poll reflects a whole lot of pissed off people. It's hard to tell how that'll pan out cuz the government is so corrupt...but it is at a tipping point.
But when I do finally move...and I will when my kids are beyond the regs of my divorce noose...I'm as likely to move to south america as any other state. Illinois is bad...but aren't we just arguing over who is the prettiest turd in the poop bowl that is the US at this point really?
"I'm as likely to move to south america as any other state."
Obama is bringing South America to you.
More like Mexico and central america...but funny still. ;-)
After 50 years of living in Illinois I finally escaped a few years back. Looked at places south of the border, but decided against that option. Those governments are just as bad as Illinois', so I picked Wyoming. It's got its own problems (overspending big time), but nothing like South America, Central America or Illinois.
What is missing is the 3rd chart that would reveal to everyone how misinformed everyone is: the chart showing which of all states everyone believes to be the worst to live in. California would win hands down.
Provincialism and parochialism is alive and well in America. For too many people, the majority, "truth" just doesn't matter.
What is missing is the 3rd chart that would reveal to everyone how misinformed everyone is: the chart showing which of all states everyone believes to be the worst to live in. California would win hands down.
Provincialism and parochialism is alive and well in America. For too many people, the majority, "truth" just doesn't matter.
What skews California is the northern section is typically more conservative and more rural residents.
The lower half is a desert run by leftists demanding everyone else make do with less water so they can continue to live in a desert and suck up more natural resources than a third of the rest of the country -but hey, their liberals so it is justified.
San Francisco, San Jose, and LA are liberal. San Diego, Orange County are Birchers and are home to the mega-churches. NoCals just like their space to grow weed and hunt/fish. And then there's no-account surfers.
It's amazing to me that they jam 10-15 million people into a desert, let them build houses with lush lawns, swimmimg pools, golf courses and then scratch their heads trying to figure out why they're running out of water.
now see its amazing how little you actually know, the closer to mexico border you get the MORE conservative the politics become. remember Bush played his guitar here while NOLA flooded. i can name the names some are in jail now
I cannot beleive anyone from the NE or MW would think CA is worse than living in Mississippi.
With cold winters and ever-increasing taxes who in their right mind want to stay in the Chicago are?
Taxes are set to continue to increase to pay for outragious public pensions.
The Chicago/Illinois government pensioneers move out of IL when they retire. It tells you something. What a whacko liberal state.
Mistake on the lake.
The "best" states list correclates with something I can't quite place my finger on. Most religious? Least educated? Most guns, pickup trucks, and/or hunting dogs per capita? Can we got some overlays, please? What top lists put states in the most similar order. What are the msot correlated lists, please. Thks.
It's the residents. "Hey Mr person from - insert state here - do you like it there?" Guns and religion play no part but the correlation seems to be the more liberal, the less happy.
The correlation is freedom.
Socialist modern liberal office holders are unapologetic psychopaths. Eventually they take the mags, ammo and guns from ordinary citizens while they militarize their agents and the cops.
http://thefederalist-gary.blogspot.com/2013/03/ted-cruz-rips-into-gun-gr...
The best states have fewer whiney liberals attempting to take your paycheck because they 'deserve' your slavery to support their lazy fat asses.
I found his comments about population density revealing, didn't you? With the exception of Texas -- big population, but not sure about density -- all the best states were places where people live without elbowing their neighbors (or even knowing them).
I'm commenting on my own comment (narcissist here.)
So, this list corresponds neatly with pop density. Here's the wki article on pop density with a ranking of all state, not total state population, but population density.
The outliers are ND/SD and NM/NV.
Population density ranked from least dense with best state to live in ranking following in paranthesis:
1 Alaska (2)
2. Wyoming (4)
3. Montana (1)
4. ND and SD (8) and (14)
6. New Mexico and Nevada (45) and (39)
7. Idaho (17)
8. Nebraska and Kansas (18)and (37)
10. Utah (3)
11. Oregon (11)
12. Maine (15)
13. Colorado (9)
14. Iowa (16)
Let me go another way:
Least-worst States:
40 Utah Rank in % of black population 43 (1.27%)
41 Texas 18 <- the outlier (11.9%)
42 North Dakota 46 1.08%
43 Minnesota 31 4.5%
44 Maine 47 1.03%
45 Wisconsin 30 6.0%
46 Wyoming 42 1.29%
47 New Hampshire 44 1.22%
48 Colorado 33 4.28%
49 Iowa 40 2.68%
50 Montana 50 0.67%
I'm going to suggest Texas - and haven't Texans always had some outlandish ideas about their state, merely because of its size? - is an outlier, because it's the only state with more than 6% blacks that makes it into the top 11 "least worst" states.
Otherwise, it's pretty clear that if you want peace and prosperity, go pale.
NY double suck of qhomo ± deblobio..........libtard septic tank
God Bless Texas
bird dog,,, pickup, shotgun, and a place to hunt birds, priceless for everything else there is Mastercard. LOL
Raised my family in Florida. Florida is an uninhabited swamp were it not for air conditioning. Moved to Colorado to ski and get away from the hoards and heat. Now I live close to home in Ohio, watching the young white women breed mullatos.
Hordes and hoards are two different things.
people believe in and trust gallup polls?
Woohoo! I finally landed in the top 25% of something, if not salary or attractive women put to the bed. One thing IL is much better for than UT, a proper liquor store on every corner that wont break the bank when you want to get your drink on.
That's because people in Illinois need to stay drunk to tolerate living there.
Alaska is number two?! I am surprised, but then we do like our state. I thank God I get to live here before it's turned into Kommiefornia style hell.
Anyone here in Duke City?
Up here in Fanta Se...
yeah, you said that before ... and closed my chat request.
Alaska is #2? Must have been the state subsidies. How does a poll 'discover' the rating of a state by polling 600 people that live in the state? Have they lived in other states? I've lived in 8 states... I've found the best state to live in is one where you're making the most money over and above the cost of living with a standard of living that someone enjoys.
Anybody planing to mopve to New Jersey .......Please do pronto ! ....we need more taxpayers ( high earners preferably) as people are fleeing by the boatload every year ....
entire west coast is Fukushimaville...Texas to Florida coast abuts the Corexit Sea...east coast is continuous megalopolis...there is a state that has no earthquakes, hurricanes, volcanos, droughts, or tsunamis. it has lots of fresh water, woods, four glorious seasons and could be made into a limited access state quickly in case of anarchy.
That sounds like the state I moved to.
We are 43rd. I believe we could be 50th easily if not for the fact that the Federal Government strip mines out state for taxes to fund their allies and leave us getting only a fraction of our money back. We are like East Ukraine paying all our taxes to nazi Kiev and getting nothing back. We are at or near the top of the list of highest % paid to Washington and least % returned by those crooks.
State of soberity is the worst state I've ever experienced.
As far as California real estate goes, the good areas near the coast are too expensive for the average cracker and the bad areas near the coast are too damn dangerous. Next time you drive through suburbia and see the garages so full of crap that a car won't fit anymore, just remember that's what helped the asians price you out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m3jk-3xdeI
IridiumRebel: LEAVE DUDE! GTFO NOW!!! Malloy will taxfuck you to being broke! I call it Debtnecticut.
Absolutely....the taxes are insane. I have a 1999 Dodge PU with 250K on it. My MV property taxes for it in my town of 5500 people are $330.00 a year.
Funny thing is, I work 1/4 mile from where I live, so I guess it's a tax to park my truck in my driveway or something...
I know your pain! We still have to pay those stupid car taxes and we've lived in Ohio for a year. Those are ridiculous. All I can say is that we are much happier here. CT is beautiful. It's charming, there are mountains and beaches, but that fuckin legislature needs to go. I wish you luck.
How did 1% of people in Colorado say COLORADO is the worst state to live?
Move out of Colorado, idiots.
Commerce City residents....
People live in Commerce City? Nah. Its just a big depot near I 70 and I 25.
I live in CO and love the weather/scenery/outdoorishness. The intellectual and cultural atmosphere here, though, is deadly. Bottom line: Coloradoans would rather hike than read.
Move along folkes.....Nothing to see here in Montana....keep moving....Just a bunch of hicks and armed kooks here........Hey, look....Washington, Idaho, Oregon...Aren't they great! Look over there.....Nothing to see here in Montana....it's SO cold in Montana....just keep away...Nothing here....stay away.....
PS: If any of you California assholes think of driving up to Montana, I will throw rocks at your car.
Yeah it's really horrible here in Texas also, we lie to pollsters all the time. The almanac list the climate as semi-tropical but that is an average. Houston:tropical, Lubbock: has a tree. Periodically we get droughts followed by hurricanes followed by Artic storm fronts from Canada jumping the fence. Why can't they send those things to Quebec.
It is a constant fight to keep Californicators off of the controls who want to spend and tax. Everyonce in a while we have to entrap one with our arcane laws (you just can't write a law, the state constitution has to be ammended. If you want to read it, be warned it takes up a couple of shelves in the library) or throw a dead horse into one's swimming pool. Forget that friendly Texan bull shit. If you are broke down on the side of the rode out in the boonies, we ain't stopping.
It looks like we are not only going to have to secure our Southern border on our own, but also our Western border while we are at it. Just drive around and head to New York or some other blue paradise.
#12 - Minesota.....super-tough winters, high taxes, aways votes Democratic. How do the ZH neo-cons explain that?
I'm not a neo-con, but that's why it's called "dope"
admit that you don't know what a neocon is.
aaaadddmit it!!!
More happy Swedish Sheeple!
Because women their are strong, their men good looking, and their children are all above average.
Isn't that the state where they elected a professional wrestler as governor and held a raucous memorial service for a dead senator? They ain't too bright.
jesus, Rhode Island is not that bad at all... better than probably most of the midwest, and certainly Texas.