Posted on 01/11/2021 4:25:38 PM PST by bgill
AUSTIN, Texas — Sorry to break it to you, but Texas is one of the worst states to raise a family, according to a study conducted by WalletHub.
WalletHub compared all 50 states across 52 metrics of family-friendliness. The metrics ranged from the median annual family income to housing affordability to the unemployment rate.
Overall, Texas ranked in the bottom half, at number 28.
Here's how the Lone Star State fared in the 5 categories:
Family Fun: 5 Health and Safety: 37 Education and Child Care: 33 Affordability: 41 Socio-economics: 38
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsaustin.com ...
Texas kids learn to shoot a gun by age 5 which triggers the child endangerment nuts.
I was reared in Texas, went to school in Tennessee, lived the past 35 years in Mississippi, and moved back to Tennessee for three years and now live in Arkansas. Arkansas is the worst. Don’t go there....
Oh yeah. Them things will drop right out the trees into your boat and in the scrambling to get away from it you capsize and soon find yourself paddling up to a gator hole. Likely to lose a pole too.
Then of course there is the story of the girl that got bit by a rattler while on the steeplechase ride in Pirates’ World. Poor dear, daid.
| Expert | Credentials |
|---|---|
| Dave Riley, Ph.D. | Rothermel-Bascom Professor Emeritus, Human Development & Family Studies, School of Human Ecology - University of Wisconsin-Madison |
| Debora B. Wisneski, Ph.D. | John T. Langan Community Chair of Early Childhood Education, College of Education Health and Human Sciences - University of Nebraska at Omaha |
| Lisa Ranfos | Clinical Assistant Professor, Human Development & Family Studies, Child Study and Development Center, College of Health and Human Services - University of New Hampshire |
| Kate MacTavish | Associate Professor - Director of Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity Initiatives, College of Public Health and Human Sciences - Oregon State University |
| Patricia A. Crawford | Ph.D. - Associate Professor, Early Childhood Education; Language, Literacy & Culture; Coordinator, Early Childhood Education Program; Editor in Chief, Early Childhood Education Journal - University of Pittsburgh, Dept. of Teaching, Learning, and Leading |
| Jen Gilken | Ph.D. - Associate Professor, TED, Early Childhood Education Program Coordinator - Borough of Manhattan Community College |
I've enjoyed clam chowder at a variety of places, including Pismo Beach, Fisherman's Wharf, and Florence, OR. I can't imagine that clam chowder in Mass and NY are better than the venues I described.
LOL, the trails I walk on get flooded in spots during rainy periods. On one of those occasions, I walked through calf high water on a flooded stretch of about 100 yards. About halfway through, I remembered "oh crap, water moccasins live here."
I headed for higher ground, and a different route. I've also seen cottonmouths on the trails, and the biggest rat snakes I've ever seen.
I was born and raised in Minnesota, and now live in Texas. There is no question that Texas is a far better place to raise a family than Minnesota. Minnesota's liberal public education alone makes it far worse. The analysis is obviously very wrong.
Besides that, the headline writer got it all wrong, too. Even in this obviously biased analysis, sitting at the top of the bottom 22 states is hardly "One of the Worst".
Everything in Texas stinks, sticks or stings.
The schools are mostly brown. English is a second language.
And don’t forget cheap electricity, the only state with it’s grid not connected to other LOSER states. Who would want to have the horrendous problem of choosing from 100 different companies, all competing for your business?
The worst thing things is the politicians only getting together every two years for only few months, leaving the people defenseless, no one in session passing endless rules to regulate our lives and doing mischief. Very scary!
Unless I’m very,very much mistaken Massachusetts and North Dakota have so little in common that they might as well be on different planets. And I’ll bet the people of North Dakota thank God every day that that’s true.
Lol!!
Yeah, we hates it here. Ya’ll go to Austin effin ya just gots to come. They’s city slickers like ya’ll. Then go home... and take a coupla them with you...
Ya’ll go to Austin effin ya just gots to come. They’s city slickers like ya’ll. Then go home... and take a coupla them with you...
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Them city folks don’t get it. Great, truthful article! Ya’ll carpetbaggers and wanna-leave-yer-craphole folks just go to New York City. It’s great and now they have more room for like-minded folks of your kind. Cujo wants to teach you more about taxes and virus handling too.
See, in Texas it’s real bad. 4H teaches youngsters about livestock, crafts, firearms, archery, and life skills. I mean we’re talking 8 to 15 year old kids firing live 22 ammo at ranges! And coyotes, rattlesnakes, scorpions, stinging grass, mosquitoes ALL just waiting to bite on you if you go outdoors. Move to New York City, plenty of family fun awaits you and your offspring!
[[Massachusetts came in at number one, followed by Minnesota, North Dakota, New York and Vermont in the top five.]]
Wow- Yep- that’s some real believable crap right there- Can’t hardly tell there’s any bias at all in this study lol
Yep, freezing your ass off in the winter is the way to live!
LOL Apparently- Massachusetts is a crap-hole- especially out around boston- not some place I’d wanna raise a child- The country-side in Mass is nice, but still, you have the terrible policies of the left there- VT is a socialist hell hole- NY Same crap- different state- upstate is nice- but the whole state is still under the thumb of the serial nursing home slayer
With experts like that, you can guess the outcome, right??
28th is mid-range, not the worst.
“Sources” probably said this.
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