Connecticut ranked best state to live

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CT is an expensive place to live.

I just LOL when people call places with housing less than half as expensive as here expensive.

[Free Bird]

Using California as a benchmark isn't exactly proportional

[pbrower2a]

I rated Minnesota #1 for having the highest average statewide credit score. Minnesota residents are less likely to get into credit trouble -- and people are more likely to get into credit trouble by under-earning or having some catastrophic event  than by going on a binge at the mall.

Credit scores do not adjust for income. Thus having a low cost of living but lower pay (living in a low-cost state) does not get penalized in contrast  to living in a high-cost and high-wage state. Earning $40K a year in New York City does not mean the same as earning $40K a year in Mississippi.

[pbrower2a]

Here we go again:

http://ssrc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Geographies-of-Opportunity-4.22.2015.pdf

[The Free North]

Here we go again:

http://ssrc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Geographies-of-Opportunity-4.22.2015.pdf

CT 4th is 20...not bad

[The Free North]

NY 12th blows everyone away for median income...not surprising

[The Other Castro]

Here we go again:

http://ssrc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Geographies-of-Opportunity-4.22.2015.pdf

CT 4th is 20...not bad

Are you CT 4th as well?

[The Free North]

Here we go again:

http://ssrc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Geographies-of-Opportunity-4.22.2015.pdf

CT 4th is 20...not bad

Are you CT 4th as well?

Yes, its always interesting to see where the district falls on these type of studies given the tremendous inequality in SW CT. 

[The Other Castro]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBDBaMGvJtw

[publicunofficial]

Here we go again:

http://ssrc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Geographies-of-Opportunity-4.22.2015.pdf

Wooo! 204th place. Suck it, people who live in Pennsylvania's 16th.

[pbrower2a]

#257 of 436.

Michigan District 7
HDI 4.72
Life expectancy at birth 78.7 (below average for a rural district)
Less than high-school  9.1 (actually better than the US average)
High-school or more  90.9 (better)
At least a bachelor's degree 23.2 (way below average)
Graduate or professional degree 8.3 (way below average)
School enrollment 76.3 (about average)
Per-capita income  28,093 (below average -- OK for a rural area)
Health index 5.29 (below average)
Education index 4.76 (below average)
Income index 4.12 (below average)

The local culture reminds me of Fahrenheit 451. Great place to live if you like to vegetate in front of a TV with snacks and mass-market beer. Wal*Mart culture prevails.

There are two sorts of people living in a hick town: those who could never live anywhere else, not even some other hick town... and those who live to get away from it. For the first, life is a complex web of empty relationships.

[Oldiesfreak1854]

Malloy is violating the people of Connecticut.

This.  Connecticut is crumbling, and the voters approved in November.

[RINO Tom]

I'm sure it's great if you can afford it. CT is an expensive place to live. And averaging states is problematic because  they are not homogenous. Nice neighborhoods in every state are going to outcompete rough parts of New Haven by any metric.

Exactly.  For example, this has Illinois ranking above Indiana, yet we have tons of companies moving there, their economy is doing a lot better than ours and I bet you'll find next to zero people living in Indianapolis or Bloomington wishing they lived in the Land of Lincoln.  They have about the same REAL (adjusted) standard of living and lower taxes/costs...

[The Free North]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBDBaMGvJtw

Oh man this is.....this is too much

[memphis]

Exactly.  For example, this has Illinois ranking above Indiana, yet we have tons of companies moving there, their economy is doing a lot better than ours and I bet you'll find next to zero people living in Indianapolis or Bloomington wishing they lived in the Land of Lincoln.  They have about the same REAL (adjusted) standard of living and lower taxes/costs...

Just about every kids who is growing up within a few hours drive of Chicago wants to move there. Lots of people want the big city life that is simply not available in Indiana. Cost is a consideration but it's not the only consideration.

[Gass3268]

I'm sure it's great if you can afford it. CT is an expensive place to live. And averaging states is problematic because  they are not homogenous. Nice neighborhoods in every state are going to outcompete rough parts of New Haven by any metric.

Exactly.  For example, this has Illinois ranking above Indiana, yet we have tons of companies moving there, their economy is doing a lot better than ours and I bet you'll find next to zero people living in Indianapolis or Bloomington wishing they lived in the Land of Lincoln.  They have about the same REAL (adjusted) standard of living and lower taxes/costs...

Growing up in Wisconsin, I would never want to live in Indiana but would live in Chicago in a heartbeat.

[pbrower2a]

Exactly.  For example, this has Illinois ranking above Indiana, yet we have tons of companies moving there, their economy is doing a lot better than ours and I bet you'll find next to zero people living in Indianapolis or Bloomington wishing they lived in the Land of Lincoln.  They have about the same REAL (adjusted) standard of living and lower taxes/costs...

Just about every kids who is growing up within a few hours drive of Chicago wants to move there. Lots of people want the big city life that is simply not available in Indiana. Cost is a consideration but it's not the only consideration.

Culture. Live in the cultural desert of rural southwestern Michigan, and you will live to go to Chicago.

[pbrower2a]

Any correlations?

[ilikeverin]

Here we go again:

http://ssrc-static.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Geographies-of-Opportunity-4.22.2015.pdf

Aww yiss, I grew up in the second highest HDI district in the Midwest