13 Saturday Mar 2021
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There are many to chose from in Wallethub’s 2021 Happiest Cities list.
They also for Best and Worst Places to Families and more.
Yeah, note the metrics they use, be cognizant that these are only larger towns, and then see if you can spot some trends. The grass is sometimes greener and some places – I’ll not name them – are just plain terrible.
20 Thursday Feb 2020
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It would look a lot like this BS.
I honed in on this one because of the headline that the USA ranked 39th in the world for raising children. We’ve slipped. But, I prefer honest metrics, which these globalists don’t even pretend to offer. Rather, half of their metrics is “climate change,” the other half is … (Surprise!) communism.
23 Tuesday Jan 2018
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Another survey finds the USA slipping a little. Have a gander:
US News.
I find it interesting they only surveyed 80 countries. Honestly, they left off more than a few decent places and almost all of the sh@#holes… And I question their methodology – not merely for ranking the US so highly – but overall. For instance, for the US, they seem to think things would be better if only the $4 Trillion a year federal budget were a little bigger, if the government were a little bigger. They seem bothered by the electoral loss of someone who would have made it all bigger, someone who might have risked colluding in a coup to get elected. Odd.
May have more on this one tomorrow or this week. Some of my short list nations were absent (Haiti, et al…).
See what you think. And, Americans (and embedded aliens too), take pride: the US is still number one at slinging bombs and printing fiat!
22 Thursday Jun 2017
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This one measures social progress – health, wellbeing, and opportunity.
The U.S. came in 18th place, in the High (but missing Very High) category.
As with most of these things, I’m a little dubious of some of the metrics. Others though are spot on. And the findings are pretty consistent with other surveys and rankings we’ve looked at recently.
Not in the U.S.? Many of you are not. In the U.S.? Most of you are. Regardless, check the charts and see how you and yours did. Hats off to the “very highs.” The full study may be accessed:
20 Monday Mar 2017
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One blogger to another, I have to give it to Carlos Slim. His blog did a great job compiling three study reports.
A UN (eh, shoe fits) outfit surveyed the happiest countries on Earth. Norway was number one. The U.S. is the 14th happiest country – not bad out of 155. The Central African Republic came in dead last. Original survey info. HERE.
The Times created a cool interactive map of most U.S. counties and a rating system based on good to bad conditions. Those conditions: income, education, employment, disability, life expectancy, and obesity. Even in the better counties one will notice the obesity factor is a little high. And that’s “obesity” which is beyond merely overweight and out of shape.
Finally, they have another actionable map based on possibility of upward mobility within the assorted counties (where data was available). And I love how they initially center it on the center of the known universe, NYC.
Anyway, one can measure the disparity of earning power over most of the country, by percentile groups. “50th” should approximate the middle class; “75th” the upper-middle, and; “99th” the very wealthy or well off. Location seems to mean something.
Fascinating stuff, all of it. I do wish someone would interpret the cigar shop/gun shop/pretty girls/fitness center/lack of government metrics a little better. Utopia is out there somewhere, even if somewhere is in a novel or something.
Food for thought if you’re thinking of moving, raising a family, retiring, etc. Or, think of this as an intellectual break from the squeaking shoe ball (which, I suppose, does combat obesity to a degree).
Zazzle.
PERRIN LOVETT 
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