Best Places to Live in the USA

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Originally posted by: lvfritz
I'm appalled. No Chicago on this list???

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Originally posted by: billryan
Lake District of Mexico, all of Ecuador, and Panama City should be at the head of any short list.

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Originally posted by: O2bnVegas
Yes, please stay away from Arkansas.

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Originally posted by: EllenMonster
Yes, this is the study that they talked about on the radio.

Regarding the follow-up comments, this is about health.

Here is what they said about West Virginia, for example. Obviously one's mileage will vary.

"At the bottom of the list, West Virginia returns to last place for the eighth year in a row. The state’s obesity and smoking rates are “off the charts,” Witters said. The number of residents reporting they’ve had high blood pressure or diabetes in their lifetime is the highest in the nation.

West Virginia is also last when it comes to financial wellbeing, as well as purpose wellbeing — the category that asks: Do you get to do things that you like every day? Do you learn and grow?

“It’s a place that consistently, year after year, is on the low end of the wellbeing spectrum. We’d really like to see that get better for the sake of the residents who live there,” Witters said."

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Originally posted by: IndyBoilerman
Someone from NYC or California decides what someone needs to be considered healthy, and what someone needs to be of strong well being, and that makes it so. I suspect that if someone from the Midwest administered the questions, the results might be quite different.

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Originally posted by: EllenMonster
Yes, this is the study that they talked about on the radio.

Regarding the follow-up comments, this is about health.

Here is what they said about West Virginia, for example. Obviously one's mileage will vary.

"At the bottom of the list, West Virginia returns to last place for the eighth year in a row. The state’s obesity and smoking rates are “off the charts,” Witters said. The number of residents reporting they’ve had high blood pressure or diabetes in their lifetime is the highest in the nation.

West Virginia is also last when it comes to financial wellbeing, as well as purpose wellbeing — the category that asks: Do you get to do things that you like every day? Do you learn and grow?

“It’s a place that consistently, year after year, is on the low end of the wellbeing spectrum. We’d really like to see that get better for the sake of the residents who live there,” Witters said."

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Originally posted by: DonDiego

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Originally posted by: daisybasket
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.

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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.

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