I (and many other FReepers who have FReemailed me) would very much like a website that has information about states (maybe tabular), that allows easy comparison of the states, such as:
* Whether excellent legislation such as this passes
* gun laws
* right-to-work
* tax burden
For those many, many FReepers who are at some stage of considering a move, this would be very helpful.
“I... would very much like a website that has information about states (maybe tabular), that allows easy comparison of the states, such as:...”
Yes! I would very much like to see a state-by-state comparison. Add to your list:
* Homeschooling regulations as well as homeschooling support groups
* Business environment
* Educational levels
* Political makeup
* Levels of state debt
* Types of industry that are located there
* Census trends data — growth or decline
* Access to shipping, freight and other transportation for business
* Access to raw materials for manufacturing
* Earthquake risk levels
* Gardening calendar, primary crops grown
* High crime areas identified
* Universities worth attending
...And a bunch of others.
I would be willing to lend a hand if there’s enough interest in getting such a list going.
something like heritage.org index of economic freedom rankings by country:
“We measure ten components of economic freedom, assigning a grade in each using a scale from 0 to 100, where 100 represents the maximum freedom. The ten component scores are then averaged to give an overall economic freedom score for each country”
except someone needs to substitute the country data for state data.