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.
Because I don’t consider democracy to be worthwhile in and of itself. It’s just a system. Sometimes it’s good at achieving goals, sometimes it isn’t. When it isn’t, other options should be pursued.
And even then, the biggest factors are Percentage of qualified workers
According to their own methodology, it just looks like cherry picked data to favor economic hubs. Why does an influx of skilled workers mean somewhere is better to live? All I see is an excuse to heavily disadvantage rural communities that, reasonably, aren’t seeing a massive influx of people looking for desk jobs. So elaborate, why does more skilled workers mean somewhere is better to live?
Infrastructure
This one is also just favoring major commerce hubs, and they basically say it outright. “We measure the vitality of each state’s transportation system by the value and volume of goods shipped by air, waterways, roads and rail” … “We consider access to markets by measuring the population within 500 miles of each state”.
In addition, they include availability of air travel, which also just favors major commerce hubs.
Stability of the Economy
Once again, just a bunch of metrics heavily slanted towards major urban area, as shown by metrics such as major corporations headquartered in state and gdp/job growth.
All these things are extremely loaded metrics to favor specific lifestyles and types of development that tend to be more popular among democrats. Which is fine, everyone has different tastes, I just hate how this shit pretends like it’s anything except a subjective list of preferred things.
Because I don’t consider democracy to be worthwhile in and of itself. It’s just a system. Sometimes it’s good at achieving goals, sometimes it isn’t. When it isn’t, other options should be pursued.
According to their own methodology, it just looks like cherry picked data to favor economic hubs. Why does an influx of skilled workers mean somewhere is better to live? All I see is an excuse to heavily disadvantage rural communities that, reasonably, aren’t seeing a massive influx of people looking for desk jobs. So elaborate, why does more skilled workers mean somewhere is better to live?
This one is also just favoring major commerce hubs, and they basically say it outright. “We measure the vitality of each state’s transportation system by the value and volume of goods shipped by air, waterways, roads and rail” … “We consider access to markets by measuring the population within 500 miles of each state”.
In addition, they include availability of air travel, which also just favors major commerce hubs.
Once again, just a bunch of metrics heavily slanted towards major urban area, as shown by metrics such as major corporations headquartered in state and gdp/job growth.
All these things are extremely loaded metrics to favor specific lifestyles and types of development that tend to be more popular among democrats. Which is fine, everyone has different tastes, I just hate how this shit pretends like it’s anything except a subjective list of preferred things.