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Old 03-05-2015, 05:13 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Interesting link, shows many statistics for states including obesity rate, incarceration rate, to high school completion rate (among many others). A pattern I noticed is that the rest of the country lags behind Massachusetts (and this area of the country in general) in almost all of the categories. While obviously we are far from perfect it seems that we are doing things right for ourselves. Thoughts?
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Old 03-05-2015, 10:57 AM
 
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I enjoyed this a lot! Thanks. Mass. is an awesome place to live.
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Old 03-05-2015, 11:37 AM
 
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Nice to live here, but I'm sure we all have our gripes about it as well.
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Old 03-06-2015, 08:12 AM
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Location: MA/NH
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Interesting collection of data. My instinct to avoid living in the Bible Belt was completely spot on! And apparently, all that hardcore christian living doesn't guarantee a good quality of life.
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Old 03-06-2015, 09:23 AM
 
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Well I tend to take a look at things going beyond just state and more with urban metro areas.
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Old 03-06-2015, 12:20 PM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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This is a silly comparison. Massachusetts is a tiny state, essentially just the Greater Boston metro. It is also the whitest metro area in the country with the exception of Portland OR, a much smaller metro. Much of that incarceration rate, teen pregnancy rate and high school graduation rate is race-specific, not Massachusetts specific. MA also doesn't have much of the rural problems that come with the geographic spread of larger Southern states.

You have a bunch of private colleges here that soak up federal student loans from across the country; money that gets used in the Greater Boston area employing people and boosting real estate values. This is money that is never taken into account whenever people do a study on how much federal taxes states contribute versus receive. Similarly, a lot of federal Medicare and NIH money come to Boston area hospitals. Just look at the number of medical residents and grad students training here for peanuts relative to our population (each hospital gets $150k a year for each medical resident from Medicare, while the resident works for barely minimum wage, this is money that gets used to employ other local staff).

To use these maps to suggest that living elsewhere (like the Bible Belt) is much worse is so incredibly conceited.

Believe me, you can live pretty well in the Bible Belt and pretty much anywhere in the United States. If you can afford a $500k single family house in MA, you can likely prosper anywhere in this country and have comparable if not better standard of living. And if you can't afford a single family house here, you likely can afford it elsewhere.


Which drug is your state most likely abusing?



Are you really that perfect?

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Old 03-06-2015, 12:24 PM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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To use these maps to suggest that living elsewhere (like the Bible Belt) is much worse is so incredibly conceited.

Believe me, you can live pretty well in the Bible Belt and pretty much anywhere in the United States.

You can, perhaps. I lived there. No thank you.

Sure, there are a couple of liveable bubbles (Nashville, Athens, etc) but in general? Nope.
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Old 03-06-2015, 12:30 PM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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You can, perhaps. I lived there. No thank you.

Sure, there are a couple of liveable bubbles (Nashville, Athens, etc) but in general? Nope.
This. And what about obesity? Does that have anything to do with race? I don't think so. Poorer, less educated people = higher rates of obesity and diabetes. It's a known fact. Sorry but it's not conceited to point out facts...MA has a higher standard of living than those states.
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Old 03-06-2015, 12:33 PM
 
Location: RI, MA, VT, WI, IL, CA, IN (that one sucked), KY
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This. And what about obesity? Does that have anything to do with race? I don't think so. Poorer, less educated people = higher rates of obesity and diabetes. It's a known fact. Sorry but it's not conceited to point out facts...MA has a higher standard of living than those states.

Lots of the things some people wish to point to race on are really socioeconomic issues.
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Old 03-06-2015, 12:45 PM
 
Location: Boston, MA
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A Collection of Maps | She Dreams In Digital

Interesting link, shows many statistics for states including obesity rate, incarceration rate, to high school completion rate (among many others). A pattern I noticed is that the rest of the country lags behind Massachusetts (and this area of the country in general) in almost all of the categories. While obviously we are far from perfect it seems that we are doing things right for ourselves. Thoughts?
What do the election maps have to do with doing things right? And what changed between the time we elected Romney as governor and the State's rejection of him as president?
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