Posted on 03/01/2018 5:37:22 AM PST by blam
Awards season is in full swing in California, and the Golden State just took home a booby prize of its own.
California ranks dead last among U.S. states in quality of life, according to a study by U.S. News, ranking behind New Jersey (49th) and Indiana (48th).
The ignominious honor reflects California's low marks in the sub-categories of environmental quality and social engagement. The latter category measures voting participation and community bonds.
Californians scored poorly in part because they're simply insufferable, U.S. News suggested.
"In addition to a healthy environment, a person's quality of life is largely a result of their interactions with those around them," the magazine wrote in a blurb accompanying the results.
One way to measure quality life is whether residents can even afford to have a roof over their heads, and by that standard, California is failing.
Karen Souza, 55, poses for a portrait with her dog Handsome by the tent in which she lives, under a freeway on a street in Los Angeles. (Reuters)
A 2017 Harvard University report said that one-third of renters in the Los Angeles area are "severely rent burdened," meaning they spend at least half their income on housing. The median rent for a one-bedroom apartment in Los Angeles County has increased 67%, according to Zillow's Rent Index, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Homelessness has surged a stunning 75 percent in the last six years, the Los Angeles Times reports, and there are now at least 55,000 homeless people in the county.
U.S. News ranked each state in seven other areas, which were weighted based on a survey that determined their importance to the public: health care, education, economy, opportunity, infrastructure, crime and corrections, and fiscal stability.
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(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Why California Should Be More Like Alabama — Seriously
"Alabama beats California — and no, I’m not talking about college football. "
Neo-nomads.
Temperate climate.
Basic needs met via redistribution.
100 sq ft of otherwise unused ground, a tent, and an EBT card.
Sounds like successful socialism!
Some highlights of Jerry Brown’s sanctuary welfare state and the demographic disaster it supports. ANYTHING for a Democrat vote....
Gov. Moonbeam and the CA Democrat Party that is in charge must be so proud.
Poor social engagement and community bonds, eh?
Guess that’s what happens when you abandon assimilation and set up a balkanized spread of ethnic group and pit them against each other for political gain.
And fails everywhere its tried.
The socialist model.
Middle class destroyed.
High regulation.
High taxes.
Bloated government control.
Inhabited by the very rich and the poor that service them.
Bum central
Pretty well defines Kalifornica now, doesn’t?
An official “third world country”.... er.... state.
Rent control Governor! Rent control! That will fix the problem.
Yay! New Mexico is finally not in last place for something!
Nome beats Newport Beach hands down, and Minot beats Malibu, especially during the winter.
Actually CA is New Mexico.
I guess they don't need to work for welfare, that's socialism.
WWZD?
(what would Zorro do?)
self-ping.
California....THE SEPTIC TANK OF THE US.
but libtardism = utopia, if only it is done correctly. Right?
I’d pick Texas over most of those that ranked higher... even though it’s like living in a pizza oven.
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