Posted on 10/17/2022 11:43:37 AM PDT by 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.
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The purpose of articles like this is to give Democrat governors and mayors a talking point during their campaigns.
"Money Magazine says we have the best places to live, so vote for me."
-PJ
I can’t disagree.
However, the list is likely too short.
Pretty simple for anyone who understands capitalism. The most expensive places are the most desirable. For ever person who rants and rails about San Francisco or New York, there are hundreds who want to live there and are driving up the prices.
Any dingbat fulminating about how terrible a place is which has rising property values and rents is an idiot, the market doesn’t lie.
Way too short. I threw an etc at the end of post 11.
I would have carpal tunnel if I listed them all...
I’m way up in NE TN and would never go to Atlanta. It’s almost 5 hours away and I’m nervous about being that close to it.
Google built a big facility in Clarksville, Tennessee and very shortly after they said it was the best place to live in America. I have been there a few times I was not impressed at least where I went and was going for a few weekends to work and I thank it was in the north of the city.
“The city is notably more diverse than North Carolina as a whole and celebrates the fact.””
Remember when we were kids and use to be excited over going to a birthday celebration?
Now we are supposed to be excited daily, yes celebrate, over the knowledge that every depraved culture in the world probably lives next door.
Who wants safe, wealthy neighbors when you can have Diversity, Inequality, and Extremism?
BUY BEAR STERNS NOW...
I guess I really don’t know how good it is here with less than 2% diversity.
Someone needs to coin a new term or phrase to differentiate real education and woke uneducation.
Our 50 year old son with two engineering degrees coined a great 3 letter description of the so called degrees from worthless colleges, decades ago.
He labeled those degrees:
IUD's or Instantant Unemployment Degrees
You forgot Chicongo too.
“I always find these “best of” lists pretty dubious on the actual facts.”
OTOH, the best states for firearms rights seem just fine.
I doubt that figured into the list this thread it about.
All “best of” lists are useless.
Not much better in "Red" South Carolina. Spartanburg County with a population of 328,000 has a crime rate of 39 per thousand. Drugs and its associated evils is the driver.
And they’re number one year after year.
I worked out hard and the blood is in my legs instead of my brain.
That’s my excuse and I’m sticking to it...
LOL. Then just keep on truckin’.
Yes. Nearly all of them pan Kansas as flat and boring, but I'm more about the types of people who live there. The more traditional and down-to-earth, the better.
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