Posted on 08/19/2015 12:32:31 PM PDT by EveningStar
... I've mapped all the counties above according to where they rank on the natural amenities index -- mouse over to check out how desirable (or not) your own county is. You'll see that Sun Belt counties fare pretty well -- especially ones in California and Colorado. In fact, every single one of the 10 highest-ranked counties is located in California. After Ventura County, Humboldt, Santa Barbara, Mendocino and Del Norte counties round out the top five ...
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
I detect a certain bias to the methodology and to the results.
Any where there is good farm land from ny to sd is considered crap
It explains why housing prices are so high along coastal California. Everyone wants to live there.
I call BS.
You mean like the richest and most productive Farmland in the world...California?
My (Texas) county only has “average” amenities.
Good... maybe it won’t be attractive to Californians when they’re forced to desert their sinking ship.
Meanwhile, I’m pretty happy with my mediocre “average” county. It works for me.
S Fla, high?? Heat, humidity, bugs, lack of scenery. I think not!
And I was born and raised there.
SD is mostly desert. It is where the desert meets the sea. I marvel at images or movies with bright green landscape and often comment that they must get a lot of rain. I do so because it is such a rare thing for it to rain around here. Factor in cost of living and the high number of ILLEGAL aliens and I believe SD County is highly overrated.
No kidding.Ashland county Ohio ranked 2875th out of 3111.I’m happy here,I must have low expectations.
Still kind of strange that parts of the SW that are mostly desert are rated higher than green lush areas in the North Central that are full of water.
They stated the qualities are “mild, sunny winters, temperate summers, low humidity, topographic variation, and access to a body of water.” However, the map looks more like “topographic variation and access to a body of water” were largely ignored.
Can you rank it by the attractiveness of women and the ratio of single women?
bfl
All of Utah should be bottom ranked. Utah is an ugly horrible place. Never come here for any reason. Go to Kalifornia instead.
I was surprised at that as well. If mild summers is a criteria, I wouldn’t think Florida would make it high on the list. Beaches are nice and the winters are mild, but those summers are rough.
Dude hates Ohio.
Yeah ... West Virginia is a horrible place ... stay the heck out of WV. It’s ugly, and we’re all toothless hillbillies ...
Richest and most productive farmland in California? How many tons of water do they have to import again?
all very subjective
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