Notice to all Yankees ( Mississippi ranked least livable state 6 years running)

Google ^ | 04-29-04

[WKB]

Mississippi ranked 50th for the sixth year in a row. Other states in the bottom five were Tennessee, Louisiana and South Carolina.

For the 14th year running, Alabama has ranked near the bottom in a national survey of "livability" that measures each state's quality of life based on factors such as hazardous waste sites and the rates of crime, bankruptcy and unemployment.

Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press ranked Alabama as the 47th most livable state.

The group found New Hampshire the "most livable state." Others in the top ten were Minnesota, Vermont, Iowa, New Jersey, Wyoming, Virginia, Nebraska, Connecticut and South Dakota.

[Chapita]

Biloxi is sure changing fast! Construction is exploding. The whole area is cleaning up [no more Dixie Mafia].

[driftless]

Ha ha, nice try, but I've traveled through S. Dakota a number of times in the past few years, and it compares very favorably to my own state of Wisconsin. Love the Black Hills, but the drive up north to N. Dakota is excellent too. Incidentally I recently asked a co-worker (who's motorcycled throughout the west and was in the Navy where he would live if he could live anywhere in the world. He replied, "Rapid City".

[onyx]

You have two beautiful places.
I love CA's desolate beaches,
(from my childhood).

[Fire137]

If they found New Jersey as one of the most livable states they have no credibility and are smoking weed. I have lived in New Jersey all my life I can't wait to retire and move out.

[fatrat]

drove the freeway from 1 end of connecticut to the other back in the md seventies and never found a reststop. as a matter of fact, i don't think it was even a freeway, this i had to pay toll.

[stboz]

...too green, too nice, too beuatiful...

Hah! Wait 'till there's all that leafless kudzu drapped over everything in late December. (It s not dead, it's just planning what it will smother next year.)

[onyx]

I am so thrilled with MS
and particularly Vb, that
I am still walking 9 ft. in the air.

[Finny]

Is that HB I see in that pic? I live in Surf City, too. Proud to be in Orange County, one of the four coastal counties in California that went for Bush in 2000. Was born and raised one of those other counties, SLO, and went to college in yet another, San Diego.

I get a kick out of all these folks who seem to think that California is either solid-ugly L.A. or hippy-dippy San Francisco, and that's it. The VAST majority, and I mean VAST majority, of California (a huge state, I believe the third largest in the Union after Alaska and Texas) is very rural and very, very scenic. I've lived in the South (Florida), and been to many different states, and while each is beautiful in its own way, overall California is the most beautiful hands-down simply because it has much more variety. It has almost everything -- from tropical beaches to redwood forests to deep, clear lakes, to deserts, to stunning mountain foothills, to high mountains (the Sierras) with full-on winters and colorful falls, to an incomparable Central Coast that rivals the Mediterranean and the French Riviera.

But the popular thing is to bash California, so oh well!! And for what it's worth, us native Californians know what real barbecue is. It isn't boiling or broiling the sad bejeezus out of a hunk of meat for four days and then slathering it in sickeningly-sweet tomato-based sauce. Barbecuing is sprinkling a bit of garlic salt on a nice top-lock or tri-tip and cooking it outdoors over an open fire, preferably one fired by oak wood or mesquite. That's barbecue. No gimmicks, no sauce (unless it's a bit of salsa on the side) no tricks. Sweet. Simple. Real Californian -- and REAL barbecue. (But I would never tell that to a Texan for two reasons: a) I'd hurt his/her feelings and b) probably get my nose busted! ;^)

[Letitring]

LOL. Still over on the Threat Matrix.

DUCK big boy, tornado heading your way, under a warning, even for Yazoo County.

[Letitring]

LOL. or Daschel!

[LowOiL]

LoL, pretty, but I'll take my view over yours anyday of the year. Alabama Little River area on Lookout Mountain is home forever.

[socal_parrot]

There are pretty spots in all states. I'm happy you can enjoy one in yours.

[The KG9 Kid]

"... Kansas-based Morgan Quitno Press ranked..."

Stop right there. They're from Kansas.

What the heck would *they* know about the best state for living?

[sandmanbr]

Those Yankees can stay their asses in New Hampshire. I like it just fine here without them.

[onyx]

Still over on the Threat Matrix.




What the heck are you doing on that thing so much?
Do we need another murder mystery to bring you back?

[lormand]

Arkansas is the only state that Louisiana could possibly make fun of, but I even doubt that.

I lived on the worst west bank of New Orleans for a year when I worked for the railroad in Avondale. I would go home to Lafayette twice a week and on weekends just to get away from that hell hole. New Orleans makes Lafayette look like Utopia.

[billhilly]

Y'all go on blev'in at' sweet tea ain't sweet, at Nawleans ain't neat, at Mississippi don have no cotton. Y'all can believe anythin you want's to, but the South ain't goin to be sendin nobody to retire up no'th.

[lormand]

"Easy. Louisiana still votes for 'RATS statewide. They have never elected a Republican senator since Reconstruction, and they voted twice for Bubba."

So then you agree, Louisiana, which has not voted for a Republican Senator since Reconstruction, who voted in a known criminal, Edwin Edwards (RAT), not once, not twice, not three times, but FOUR terms (he is currently serving time in a Fort Worth Federal Prison finally), and would vote him back in now, if given the chance, is a worse off state than Mississippi, right?

[commish]

Houses average around 300-350K and about 10K in property taxes per year

Absolutely beautiful scenery, I will give you that.

BUT - I will take my 2400 Sq ft, 4 bedroom, 3 bath house for $160K with $570 yearly taxes here in Alabama. Not to mention 8 golf courses within 15 miles, all of which I can play year round. :-)