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Old 06-21-2013, 02:27 PM
 
Location: Live in NY, work in CT
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Best state: Connecticut? Measure of America suggests state is best place to live.
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Old 06-21-2013, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Somewhere on the Moon.
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Despite our crappy cities, we're still number one!

Go us, go us, go us!!!! lol
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Old 06-21-2013, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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For all the beatings we've taken recently...nice to know that someone recognizes there's more to quality of life than low taxes on businesses!
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Old 06-21-2013, 05:35 PM
 
Location: Northwest Hills, CT
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Yikes. I moved from the #1 state to the state ranked dead last.
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Old 06-21-2013, 08:56 PM
 
Location: Live in NY, work in CT
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It's also a regional thing; Massachusetts was #2, NJ was somewhere in the top 5, and NY was #7.
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Old 06-21-2013, 09:26 PM
 
Location: WA
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Good for you, Connecticut.

But I have one little problem with this: a study that ranks the 50 states according to "long and healthy" lives where "everyone can make the most of their talents and interests" would seem to be one that, on the basis of casual observation, simply decides which of the U.S. states is the most Swedish (or in other words, a best-to-worst ranking of states measured by how desirable they are for the political Left).

Seriously, if the fact that California, New York and New Jersey rank so high is any indicator...ah, nevermind.

Party on, Connecticut.
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Old 06-22-2013, 07:15 AM
 
Location: Live in NY, work in CT
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Good for you, Connecticut.

But I have one little problem with this: a study that ranks the 50 states according to "long and healthy" lives where "everyone can make the most of their talents and interests" would seem to be one that, on the basis of casual observation, simply decides which of the U.S. states is the most Swedish (or in other words, a best-to-worst ranking of states measured by how desirable they are for the political Left).

Seriously, if the fact that California, New York and New Jersey rank so high is any indicator...ah, nevermind.

Party on, Connecticut.
I was waiting for a comment like that as I can see how the criteria would look "left slanted". But (and I know this will come out a bit "political" too), being "free" or more accurately "free to work" doesn't necessarily make you "free" or for that matter "long and healthy".

A place where there's less or no restrictions at all on business will have more jobs, but does it mean much if most of the jobs mean you have to work 80-100 hours/week to maintain a family or do more than just sit in your house with the little non-sleep non-work time you have or cause you to eat ramen noodles, etc. all the time? Yes, like it or not, that's the core of the left-right debate right now (do you have a "right" to a basic "quality of life" or do you have to "earn" it and if you have unfortunate circumstances out of your control/not your fault, too bad), but truth be told, most other countries, even ones that "lean right" (Australia and Israel come to mind) do NOT have this kind of debate about basic "quality of life" and in that sense I do not think these criteria are simply "leftist propogranda" (even though too much of America does, often to their own detriment).
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:12 AM
 
Location: Woburn, MA / W. Hartford, CT
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I was waiting for a comment like that as I can see how the criteria would look "left slanted". But (and I know this will come out a bit "political" too), being "free" or more accurately "free to work" doesn't necessarily make you "free" or for that matter "long and healthy".

A place where there's less or no restrictions at all on business will have more jobs, but does it mean much if most of the jobs mean you have to work 80-100 hours/week to maintain a family or do more than just sit in your house with the little non-sleep non-work time you have or cause you to eat ramen noodles, etc. all the time? Yes, like it or not, that's the core of the left-right debate right now (do you have a "right" to a basic "quality of life" or do you have to "earn" it and if you have unfortunate circumstances out of your control/not your fault, too bad), but truth be told, most other countries, even ones that "lean right" (Australia and Israel come to mind) do NOT have this kind of debate about basic "quality of life" and in that sense I do not think these criteria are simply "leftist propogranda" (even though too much of America does, often to their own detriment).
Agree 100%. "Free" for a big portion of our political spectrum is an acronym for "on your own, buddy". It's ironic that most of the countries who score the highest on quality of life and economic indices (e.g. northern Europe) have governments that would be unacceptably socialist by American standards.
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:40 AM
 
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We have the highest debt per capita of any state

Our economic growth was negative and dead last of any state

Malloy raised taxes by the highest amount in state history

Malloy is planning on increasing spending by 10% despite negative economic growth and no tax dollars, he borrows and creates loopholes to make this pass our mandatory spending cap

Companies are leaving the state in droves, our unemployment rate is abysmal

But we got #1 in a made up survey, I feel so much better!
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Old 06-22-2013, 08:42 AM
 
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I was waiting for a comment like that as I can see how the criteria would look "left slanted". But (and I know this will come out a bit "political" too), being "free" or more accurately "free to work" doesn't necessarily make you "free" or for that matter "long and healthy".

A place where there's less or no restrictions at all on business will have more jobs, but does it mean much if most of the jobs mean you have to work 80-100 hours/week to maintain a family or do more than just sit in your house with the little non-sleep non-work time you have or cause you to eat ramen noodles, etc. all the time? Yes, like it or not, that's the core of the left-right debate right now (do you have a "right" to a basic "quality of life" or do you have to "earn" it and if you have unfortunate circumstances out of your control/not your fault, too bad), but truth be told, most other countries, even ones that "lean right" (Australia and Israel come to mind) do NOT have this kind of debate about basic "quality of life" and in that sense I do not think these criteria are simply "leftist propogranda" (even though too much of America does, often to their own detriment).
That's the basis of the left/right debate? Are you saying that by embracing lower taxes and lower government spending we will have to work 80/100 hour weeks?

I think if I get to keep more of my own money then I will work less. Instead all my sky high taxes go to people who don't work on welfare and to Malloy who gets to choose where to sprinkle my tax dollars.

The New Britain Hartford bus line is a great example of some of the waste
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