I don't live in one.
Since this board is filled with threads bashing blue states and any place that isn't conservative, especially California, I thought I would bring some balance with some truth.
All of the studies I've seen for many years are pretty much like this one. Although I would say that Utah usually ends up in the top ten.
As far back as the 70s my state and my hometown have always been rated in the top ten places to live. My hometown has been in the number one spot many times for the best city to live in.
What's the problem with trying to bring some balance, truth and other opinions to this board? Does it have to be all the far right conservative opinion?
Nope...but if you lower yourself to posting slanted BS..than you validate their posting of the same.
I try to be balanced and fair. I don't always succeed...being human and all. But I know that site is BS....and I know that bashing the rural ..some-what poor states....plays right into the hands of the people you claim to despise. FYI..I live in a somewhat poor..very red state myself...and my neighbors and friends are great, caring people...many who have to be restrained from helping too much!
They're also Trump voters down to the last one of them. We have spirited discussion...but nothing like what you see here. This place is a hotbox for opinion--most wouldn't dream of speaking so...in public or to their friends and coworkers. Some might...LOL! But idiots are eternal..of either side of the aisle.
There is truth to the thought...that a lot of reasons people turn against the Left..is that the left communicates an amiable contempt..to rural citizens. That causes a lot of anger--I, for one, get somewhat annoyed when I'm condescended to..don't you?
I despise Trump..and his more toxic ilk...but I totally understand why he won..and it wasn't the Russians..it really wasn't even Clinton--it was anger--at people who act as though they always know better..and think that rural folks..are ignorant hicks--there are still a few of those around....but the wired world means that all of us swim in the same ocean now...we will either learn to get along...a new modus oprendi..or we will not last...