The Worst Places to Live in the US : Why Money Magazine Considers them to be the Best Places

American Thinker ^ | 10/16/2022 | Noel S. Williams

[SeekAndFind]

Money Magazine recently released its list of the best places to live in the U.S. It is riddled with pompous virtue-signaling and plagued by diversity-induced myopia that skews rankings to fit a progressive, multicultural agenda. Indeed, the magazine admits that it "gave preference toward places with populations that were less than 80% white." Many places probably are, but why propagate such bias instead of applying the criteria (education, jobs, housing, quality of life, etc.) objectively?

Instead, in the descriptive justifications for each ranking, Money Magazine touts diversity and multiculturalism. That emphasis results in high "best place" rankings for places with high crime rates, which are a big concern for most Americans. For example, a recent Morning Consult-Politico poll shows that 77% of voters believe that crime in the U.S. is a major problem. If one doesn't feel safe, quality of life will be elusive.

Constrained by its contrived diversity data, Money Magazine proclaims crime-infested Atlanta, Georgia as the best place to live in the U.S. in 2022. The reason: its booming jobs market and "eye on equality." Unfortunately, the politicians in Atlanta, and other liberal enclaves, often conflate equality with equity, going beyond equal opportunity to ensure equal outcomes.

Pollsters may include crime and safety as one metric to measure voter concerns, but the perverted ranking methods used by Money Magazine use "health and safety" as a criterion, perhaps in an effort to dilute the weighting of crime. And yet, the magazine speciously claims that "we look at the things that matter most to people."

It makes more sense that health — including access to clinics and hospitals — be considered separately from safety, which is more related to crime stats. And according to those numbers, Atlanta is a very unsafe place.

[SeekAndFind]

With a crime rate of 45 per one thousand residents, Atlanta has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes."

If you can stomach their racialist approach, scroll through their list and notice the number of times diversity is mentioned.

[NicoDon]

Someone needs to coin a new term or phrase to differentiate real education and woke uneducation.

[fwdude]

I always find these “best of” lists pretty dubious on the actual facts. I’m betting the polling company is getting a kickback from the cities which make the top.

[fwdude]

Any cities from California making these lists need to be discounted outright. Cali has the lowest academic numbers in the nation.

[Osage Orange]

Never go for advice to Money Magazine.......

Kinda like going to Jim Cramer for advice.

Old joke with some trader friends.....Do the opposite of Jim Cramer...and you make money.

[ConservativeInPA]

#10 - Jersey City. 😂😂😂😂 I’m packing my bags right now. /s

[SeekAndFind]

Go to this website to see Money Magazine’s Best Places to Live for 2022:

https://money.com/best-places-to-live/

[blueunicorn6]

More liberals should move there to make it better.

[alexander_busek]

Indeed, the magazine admits that it "gave preference toward places with populations that were less than 80% white."

"And sodomists! At least 5% practitioners of sodomy! And eunuchs! Places with lots of eunuchs will be given preference!"

Regards,

[z3n]

Woke “great places to live” scoring factors

Places where you can poop in the streets. +2 points
Free drug zones that keep police out. +3 points (3.3 points if syringes are free)
Free release for larceny under $1000. +4 points
No cash bail for violent crimes. +5 points

[EEGator]

So:

North Philly
East St. Louis
Memphis
Little Rock
Flint
Camden
Baltimore
Houston
New Orleans
San Francisco
LA
Portland
Seattle
Stockton
D.C.
etc.

[EEGator]

I forgot Hotlanta.

[Leep]

Not into cities.
Might consider a suburb of a medium sized city.

[kosciusko51]

I’m glad where I live is not on the list; we need fewer liberals than we already have.

[Mr. Jeeves]

They simply can’t make an honest Ten Best list - because every single one of the cities would be more than 90% white.

[hardspunned]

I agree with money mag. If you’re some woke reader of this magazine, please follow their advice and stay the heck out of Kentucky.

[I want the USA back]

Safety is more important than the other things. If you’re dead, you can’t enjoy the other things.

Safety correlates negatively with certain kinds of diversity.

[metmom]

Good.

A list of places for sane folks to avoid.

[EEGator]

Per FR protocol, I neither went to the link, nor read the article.

Those are my suggestions to avoid. :)

[EEGator]

Like a suburb of SLC or Boise?