Palmetto State named one of country's worst (Charleston: quality of life, living)
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You have to consider the poverty rate. South Carolina’s is high. The higher the percentage of people in poverty, the more people there are to drag the stats down. Poor people tend to live in food deserts and have easier access to fast food and convenience store food than to grocery stores, thus higher obesity rates and the problems that come with that. Also, poor people are less likely to have the information necessary to make healthy food choices without intervention. While there’s a lot of poverty in SC, those in the state who aren’t poor aren’t being stopped from having a high quality of life here. Now let’s consider the poverty rate in say Washington State or Massachusetts. With such a lower poverty rate, there aren’t nearly as many poor people per capita to pull the stats down as much.
Does that survey or study factor in the extremely low cost of living here that in part fuels the growth SC is seeing right now? I'm very skeptical of these studies that always have most every state in the South at or near the bottom of their list.
Does that survey or study factor in the extremely low cost of living here that in part fuels the growth SC is seeing right now? I'm very skeptical of these studies that always have most every state in the South at or near the bottom of their list.
Like a guarantee or something. Denial of per capita stats soon to follow.
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