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Mississippi ranked least livable state 6 years running)
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| 04-29-04
Posted on 04/29/2004 2:15:31 PM PDT by 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.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alabama; US: Louisiana; US: Mississippi; US: South Carolina; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: alabama; conditions; living; missippy; mississippi; south; top50; topten
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:15:31 PM PDT
by
WKB
To: somniferum; Keltik; John Vaught; Sybeck1; fatrat; RKB-AFG; southern bale; dixiechick2000; ...
Missippy ping
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:16:10 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ Term Limits: Because politicians are like diapers., need to be changed for the same reason.)
To: WKB
AnnArbor Mi. was pretty unlivable for a couple of hours today. John Kerry was in town.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:17:26 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: WKB
new jersey and snow so cold you can't breath states, this must be a very interesting set of rules. The states of Wash, Colorado and Oregon are at least pretty compared to Iowa and New Jersey. This survey is like love it is in the eyes of the beholder.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:19:20 PM PDT
by
q_an_a
To: WKB
Hey, I'll take that and proud of it. :)
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:20:07 PM PDT
by
Letitring
To: WKB; onyx
My son was stationed for a time at Biloxi in the Air Force. His photos of the area looked terrific. I'd be willing to live there rather than just about any place in California.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:20:45 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: cripplecreek
Was anyone injured by flying medals?
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:21:10 PM PDT
by
My2Cents
("Well...there you go again.")
To: WKB
The People's Republic of Mexifornia didn't top the list??
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:22:00 PM PDT
by
MegaSilver
(Training a child in red diapers is the cruelest and most unusual form of abuse.)
To: cripplecreek
wonder where they get this. $414 property taxes on 1100 square foot home here, light bill never over $70. $1.63 gas, well below national average. Conceal carry doesn't even require a trip to the shooting range.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:22:16 PM PDT
by
Sybeck1
(Kerry: how can we trust him with our money, if Teresa won't trust him with hers!)
To: Letitring
Hey, I'll take that and proud of it. :)
Me too LIR!!
Where you been hiding?
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:22:35 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ Term Limits: Because politicians are like diapers., need to be changed for the same reason.)
To: WKB
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. Try going outside wearing a bathing suit and go swimming in any of those states in January.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:23:32 PM PDT
by
Paleo Conservative
(Do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
To: Letitring
Dakota made the top 10? The reviewers must not have factored "Flat, cold, windswept, and flat" into the equation.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:23:41 PM PDT
by
sociotard
(I am the one true Sociotard)
To: WKB
Although one of my grandfathers was born in Mississippi during the Civil War, it has never struck me as one of the more livable states. When I consider Mississippi, I think of H.L. Mencken's viscious, but very funny, mid-1920's essay about the South, The Sahara of the Bozart.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:23:54 PM PDT
by
CatoRenasci
(Ceterum Censeo Arabiam Esse Delendam -- Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit)
To: Sybeck1
wonder where they get this. $414 property taxes on 1100 square foot home here, light bill never over $70. $1.63 gas, well below national average. Conceal carry doesn't even require a trip to the shooting range.
Don't question it if it keeps the riff raff out. :>)
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:24:07 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ Term Limits: Because politicians are like diapers., need to be changed for the same reason.)
To: WKB
I have lived most of my life in Lousyana, and have been to Mississippi on many occasions.
I cannot for the life of me figure out how Mississippi is worse than Lousyana.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:24:40 PM PDT
by
lormand
(Dead people vote DemocRAT)
To: My2Cents
"Was anyone injured by flying medals?"
Nah no medals just ribbons.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:25:51 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(you tell em i'm commin.... and hells commin with me.)
To: WKB; All
What defines "livability"?
A high tax structure and meddling, paternalistic local and state govt?
Freezing your butt off in the winter?
A state where increases in education spending are all done supposedly in the "best interest" of the children?
Yes, I guess Minnesota would fit into those standards of livability!
To: WKB
Good. Maybe this will keep the liberals away.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:27:04 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn't be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: My2Cents; WKB
You'll notice I have changed my flag...
I want CA folks to know that MS is too green,
too nice, too beuatiful and too friendly for
them --- so stay in CA. Please.
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:27:14 PM PDT
by
onyx
(Kerry' s a Veteran, but so were Lee Harvey Oswald, Timothy McVeigh and Benedict Arnold)
To: lormand
I cannot for the life of me figure out how Mississippi is worse than Lousyana.
Me either friend
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posted on
04/29/2004 2:29:34 PM PDT
by
WKB
(3!~ Term Limits: Because politicians are like diapers., need to be changed for the same reason.)
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