Best Places to Live in the USA

US News and World Report just released their annual list: "100 Best Places to Live in the USA".

Here's the top 20 best cities to live in the U.S.
1. Austin, Texas
2. Denver, Colorado
3. San Jose, California
4. Washington, D.C.
5. Fayetteville, Arkansas
6. Seattle, Washington
7. Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina
8. Boston, Massachusetts
9. Des Moines, Iowa
10. Salt Lake City, Utah
11. Colorado Springs, Colorado
12. Boise, Idaho
13. Nashville, Tennessee
14. Charlotte, North Carolina
15. Dallas, Texas
16. San Francisco, California
17. Minneapolis, Minnesota
18. Madison, Wisconsin
19. Grand Rapids, Michigan
20. Houston, Texas

Poor old DonDiego is pleased to note that no location in Appalachia made the Top 20 list. This should help keep the undesirables out.
DonDiego has compassion for those who reside in the Ozark Mountains, because Fayetteville made the list.

How timely, is there a location with sanity. I'll take sanity for $1000, Alex. I was actually researching a cheap country to go to as an American for a few months. I need to blow this joint.

Lake District of Mexico, all of Ecuador, and Panama City should be at the head of any short list.

That's a better idea than leaving the country.

DonDiego has been unable to find a sanity index for countries.

However, based upon analysis by the
Institute for Economics and Peace, the website mysteriousworld presents the Ten Most Peaceful Countries in the World:
1. Iceland
2. Denmark
3. Austria
4. New Zealand
5. Switzerland
6. Finland
7. Canada
8. Japan
9 .Australia
10. Czech Republic

DonDiego would personally recommend Ireland.

DonDiego would caution against Japan. Apparently radiation at the Fukishima Nuclear Plant is not as "contained" as originally reported. Photos indicate the fuel has melted through a grate below the fuel-core. DonDiego doesn't know how long the containment vessel is likely to maintain confinement.
If daiseybasket insists on visiting Japan, DonDiego suggests she remain west of Fukishima, . . . just in case.

Ireland is scary, DonDiego. The government takeover of the healthcare system is much more advanced than the one you object to here.

We have a winner!

I'm not sure the study or criteria, but on the radio this morning's host referred to a report that had West Virginia as the worst state to live. Obviously mileage may vary.

pjstroh is misinformed as to poor old DonDiego's objection.

DonDiego has little objection to the "healthcare system" in the United States. He has received excellent care addressing most of his afflictions, and he has benefitted from modern medicines and procedures developed by medical professionals.

The only significant objection DonDiego has registered was to an ill-thought out "insurance scheme" which was sold to the public as an efficient, cost-saving benefit. Unfortunately, it resulted in many citizens losing access to the doctor they "liked" and losing the health insurance plans they "liked", . . . exactly opposite to what the President backing the scheme promised, . . . but pretty much in line with what those who had developed the scheme knew would happen, f'rinstance, Jonathan Gruber.

Oh and it has now become unaffordable to many of those who enrolled in the scheme.

DonDiego would like to blame the Legislators who passed the Federal Law instituting the scheme, . . . but as one of them readily admitted they had to "pass the Bill just to see what was in it". So they were just ignorant followers.

So sad.

***EDITED TO ADD***
DonDiego did not avail himself of official Irish medical facilities when he spent a fortnight there in 1998.

The Spring there had been very wet and very cold, . . . and DonDiego came down with cold symptoms at his cozy family hotel in Dublin. The landlady suggested he try a hot toddy with Irish Whiskey; he felt better immediately upon imbibing.

DonDiego opines EllenMonster is referring to the Gallup-Healthways 2016 State Well-Being Rankings, released on 1 February.

The top/bottom rankings for "health and happiness follow:
1. Hawaii
2. Alaska
3. South Dakota
4. Maine
5. Colorado
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46. Arkansas
47. Indiana
48. Oklahoma
49. Kentucky
50. West Virginia

Ref: today.com