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Here's how Iowa ranked in each category: - Infrastructure: 1st - Health care: 3rd - Opportunity: 4th - Education: 5th - Quality of life: 9th - Crime: 15th
by Dangeranger 9y ago
Here's how Iowa ranked in each category:
- Infrastructure: 1st
- Health care: 3rd
- Opportunity: 4th
- Education: 5th
- Quality of life: 9th
- Crime: 15th
- Economy: 17th
- Fiscal stability: 21st
My gut feeling is that this report seriously undervalues Economy and Fiscal Stability categories.
After all “It’s the economy stupid”.
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoI'm not sure. I'd rather be poor in a trailer in New Hampshire than rich in California.
- EpicEng 9y agoWell I think you're about the only one with that opinion
- dsfyu404ed 9y agoYeah, my comment was an exaggeration but certainly grounded in truth. Economics aren't everything. I know a couple families who chose near poverty in rural Maine and rural Vermont after similiar near poverty in the Boston area but they're likely outliers. One of the things that really struck me about VT, NH and ME was that the poorer people never complained much about the state. That wasn't what they saw to be the source of their problems. That's a huge flip from MA. With all I've heard about CA if I had to choose between CA or that I can't say I wouldn't choose that. I'd probably regret either choice. Good thing I don't have to make that choice. I'll put in my years in the Boston area so I can take a pay cut out in the boondocks and still live comfortably.
- phalangion 9y agoHere's how the ranking works: https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings