[ghostrider]

Keep telling folks how much better it is to live up North. Maybe you will convence them to stay up there. Hehe!

[Vigilantcitizen]

I live 32 miles west of Atlanta on 10 acres with a 6 year old manufactured home.I have a well with fresh,clean,water. I grow delicious,pesticide-free vegetables.I by fresh meat from people who raise their own pigs,cows, and chickens. Most of the time, I forget to lock my front door at night. Yet, I can drive 30 minutes and be in the city if I so choose.Another plus is I live in Bob Barr's district,with very liberal gun carry laws.(As long as it is not concealed and you notify any police that pull you over.)

[Gil4]

I've spent 20 years in CT, 7 in NM. If I had to chose between the two, I'd take NM in a heartbeat. No 3-hr traffic jams (I HATE I-95!) and no snow to shovel (I was in southern NM). I guess the things the list thought were important didn't weight too heavily on MY list.

[cynicom]

Trailer parks???? This gentleman should take a spin around the far reaches of NY and PA. Those states are loaded with zillions of trailer parks, zillions more trailers on single plots. Drive from the far reaches of New York south to the Mason Dixon line if you want to see trailers and poverty.

Gentlemen such as this see not with their eyes that which is within their own backyard, rather they view the world from the narrow confines of their mind.

[wwjdn]

Who listens to the United Way anyway?

[glc1173@aol.com]

Gasoline is now $1.049 a gallon a half-mile from me here in Burlington, North Carolina.

Yankee, eat your heart out.

[Vigilantcitizen]

Oh yeah,I forgot sum other things about life in good ole'Gawga. $.75 a gal gas, cheapest power rates in the nation,Hope grant(lottery money that pays for college and adult education,paid my way through electronics school).

[Centurion2000]

Perhaps United Way is weighting their data with fascist state governments ranking near the top ?

[Fraulein]

The North's bracing and wildly variable climate energizes people and encourages planning and careful citizenship.

Methinks that translates into the fact that there are more liberals in the Northeast.

[FITZ]

Meanwhile, the bottom 10 are all in the Sunbelt, the worst New Mexico

I want to help get the word out about New Mexico being the worst state. No one should move to New Mexico so it can stay the way it is, very uncrowded, beautiful mountains and deserts and forests. Lots of camping and wide open spaces and near perfect weather, excellent food, and friendly people. Don't anyone go there.

[aimhigh]

..planning and careful citizenship..

Another term for controlling government..

[LizM]

I grew up and lived in NJ most of my life. Had to sell my property because the area became a toxic superfund site. Most of my neighbors who remained have died of leukemia and other disease. Housing is expensive and property taxes high. Same lousy roads and pollution problems. We now live in Florida. The air is cleaner. The taxes lower. Cost of living lower. The sun shines almost every day. And they can keep New Jersey.

[Landru]

Well.
Seems to me anyone living south of the Mason-Dixon Line could send the United Way a message about their, "rating system" quite easily, eh?
Then again; this statement of their's might reflect the United Way's feelings concerning people who've already rejected their scam by telling 'em to, "Take a hike"?
~Sour grapes, if you will?

The people running that organization have to be among a very elite group comprised of the absolute biggest ignoramus' this world will ever know.

[Paul Atreides]

I live in Alabama and I only have one lock and one chain on my front door; I can walk around at night without fear of a drive-by shooting or mugging; my college campus is not filled with professors who advocate killing post-partum children and having sex with animals; the other day my campus dedicated a memorial to the ROTC, without protests from the lefty loonies; people are friendly and helpful here.

Yep, my quality of life is terrible.

[x]

The United Way has become very dominated by the left in the way that "Establishment" institutions do. Their allocation of funds for the September 11 Fund attracted some notice. While there were sizeable payouts to groups representing the actual victims, there were also grants to advocacy organizations that had little to do with the actual victims. List of September 11 Fund Grant Recipients. I gather this is related to the whole Bill O'Reilly-Red Cross wrangle.

Also of note here is the recent survey indicating that Southerners did give more money to charity, but did so through churches, rather than through secular, non-denominational organizations like the United Way. The same survey showed the Northeast giving particularly little to charities.

As we've seen at FR, these state ratings tend to generate ill-will and wild charges back and forth. People feel that the honor of their state and their own personal reputation are at stake. One wonders why the United Way sticks their foot into such muddy or turbulent waters.

[bmwcyle]

The United Way neeeds to go away.

[Romulus]

The United Way now reports that Minnesota ...is the best state, in economic well-being, education, health, civic engagement, safety and the environment.

Gosh, what swell folks. Why don't you send them a check? ;-)

(I had a great Thanksgiving, and hope you did too.)

[IowaHawk]

These little "quality of life studies" are hilarious. The researcher gives 100 points for 'education,' 80 points for 'affordable healthcare,' 75 points for 'The Arts', etc. Voila! The researcher designates Duluth as paradise, Daytona Beach as Hell On Earth.

Funny, if the North is such a utopia why are I-95, I-75, I-55 and I-35 clogged with southbound U-Hauls?

[Twodees]

Yep, the South is just horrible. Y'all stay where you are, except for those who moved down here expecting heaven. For those folks, a move back home is definitely in order. Y'all go home, now. Y'hear?

[MissAmericanPie]

Yeah, it's horrible down here in Texas, just horrible. All Liberals would just hate it here.