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I bet 99% of the respondents have never been in Mississippi, except maybe to the self-service pump. Even more, never in North Dakota.
I have. Countless times. Have family in Hollandale, spent time in Vicksburg, Jackson, Biloxi, and Natchez. It can be better than people make it seem, but it's not a great place to live for majority of people. Been to South Dakota, overall, I found it far nicer than Mississippi.
Unanawered question --- Do you want the state to raise your children, or do want to raise them yourself? Nutrition, for example. By the time a kid hits the school lunch program, it is nany, many years too late to have any effect on eating habits.
Illinois being ranked so much higher than Indiana is somewhat baffling to me. I can only assume that's due to Chicago being in Illinois. The COL and tax burden is significantly higher in Chicago though.
People don’t raise families in a state, they raise them in a city.
So much this. Our schools in Boise are far better than those in our previous affluent CA city. Amazing arts and music, well funded STEM program, quality of the teachers and staff, and modern clean facilities. It's not even a close comparison. Yet our experience here is very different from the rest of Idaho which is very spread out and rural.
Compare the following map (median household income by state, Wikipedia commons, 2015) to the map for this Wallethub ranking:
Very very similar. So I'm skeptical that rankings like this are in anyway meaningful. Then looking at their methodology I find things like:
Quote:
Percentage of Residents Aged 12+ Who Are Fully Vaccinated Against COVID-19: Double Weight (~2.42 Points)
Now, we're not anti-vaxx and we've been jabbed multiple times... but it should be clear to anyone "following the science" that, at this point, COVID is a moving target and the vast majority of people have either had it (and natural immunity is effective) or have been vaccinated. So why is this relevant at all to anyone deciding where to raise a family?
Based on the states that I'm familiar with, and how they are ranked here, this is BOGUS.
I sure hope people aren't putting too much religion and faith into this "data".
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