Worst States To Live & Work In. All 10 Are Republican States
Worst States To Live & Work In. All 10 Are Republican States
Quality of life is a major factor in where Americans choose to work, live and make major purchases including homes. These states are the nation's worst.
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I gotta say while I'm not happy with Texas decisions and there's a lot of bs there it doesn't seem even as bad as Florida much less Alabama and Mississippi.
Texans are some of the most delusional people on the planet.
The fact they think their state even holds a candle to Florida is laughable.
People live in Texas for one reason: tax breaks.
The only other state worse than Texas is Louisiana. Everyone in the nation agrees except Texans.
Oklahoma is worse. They're basically K-mart Texas.
must have offended a Floridian?
look I'm by no means saying Texas doesn't deserve a spot on this list, but saying that Texas banning gender affirming care is somehow not as bad as government sanctioned kidnapping of trans kids in Florida is what's delusional.
Here here! You are 100% right! I hope people stop moving here in droves, it really does suck.
English is not my first language, but I think it is "hear, hear". This would akin to "listen, this is true!" rather than stating where you currently are 😀
English is not my first language
And you're still better at wielding it than a Texan!
This list seems just a little bit skewed. I'm left of center but I feel like it should've been called 10 worst states if youre, and followed it up with any number of marginalized persons. And that's fine, just want to know the metric we are talking about.
You may be forgetting the fact that 50ish percent of the population has a uterus. Even some of those without one have partners with one and value their partner having access to the Healthcare they need or may need at some point.
What metrics do you think skew it this way?
The "inclusivitiy"/"Woke mind virus!!!!" metric is less than 14% of the overall weighting. And Texas in particular wasn't even top 25 in ANY of the metrics. It was sub median in EVERYTHING. Even if you still believe in American Exceptionalism: it was still worse than half the country in EVERY metric.
And even if we pretend that it all is a root cause of those evil liberals sort of caring about trans rights: It is a cascading effect. Conservatives love the "broken windows" theory of law enforcement. But that applies all around. If your government are slobbering hatemongers then you are empowering the hatemongers among the populace. So that means more people who reach for the assault rifle in their pickup truck when they feel disrespected. More people screaming anti-science rhetoric at healthcare workers which results in more doctors and nurses and EMTs and the like getting the fuck out of dodge... which results in drastically reduced medical care for the people left. And so forth.
yeah I mean I would consider myself left of most of the Democratic party but you can take a look at their weightings on the metrics they used and you can see why they got the answer they did even if we'd quibble about specific state placement.
cost of doing business and business friendliness collectively makeup 20% of their weighting and cost of living and education only make up 7% total.
seems like on a list that focuses on inclusivity that they would also focus on basic needs for families but for some reason they valued basic needs for businesses at 3x families.
overall, I think in order to trust this list, I would need to lower focus on businesses and increase focus on things such as education and immigration. Texas would do poorly in both of those things but so would a lot of other states. I definitely believe it deserves a place on this list, but I don't think it would end up #1.
they're methodology summary:
- Workforce (400 points – 16%)
- Infrastructure (390 points – 15.6%)
- Economy (360 points – 14.4%)
- Life, Health & Inclusion (350 points – 14%)
- Cost of Doing Business (290 points – 11.6%)
- Technology & Innovation (270 points – 10.8%)
- Business Friendliness (215 points – 8.6%)
- Education (125 points – 5%)
- Access to Capital (50 points – 2%)
- Cost of Living (50 points – 2%)
Paraphrasing the waiter rule: a state that abuses any of it's residents is not a nice state. Yes, quality of life is a relative scale, but I think it's fair to put the states actively making worse the lives of it's citizens (marginalized or not) at the bottom of the list.