Gallup ranks Utah best state to live in future
Gallup says the Beehive State -- otherwise known as Utah
-- may be the best U.S. place to live five years from now.
Next best: Minnesota, Colorado, Nebraska and North
Dakota.
The worst five, from the bottom: West Virginia,
Mississippi, Kentucky, Arkansas and Nevada.
The rankings are based on 13 metrics measuring five
areas: economics, workplace, community and personal choices.
Why Utah?
Utah does best in part because it is among the top two
best-performing states for low smoking habits, ease of finding clean and safe
water, having supervisors who treat workers like a partner rather than a boss,
learning something new or interesting on any given day, and perceptions that
your city or area are "getting better" rather than "getting
worse.", according to Gallup.
The other eight factors: economic confidence, job
creation, standard of living momentum, obesity, ease of finding a safe place to
exercise, visits to the dentist and the percentage of workers employed full
time for an employer.
Gallup's "future livability" rankings emerged
from more than 530,000 interviews with U.S. adults conducted Jan. 2 through
June 30.
Rounding out the top 10, Virginia comes in at No. 6,
trailed by Iowa, Hawaii, South Carolina and Maryland.
Rounding out the bottom, in ascending order, Florida is
sixth worst, trailing Alabama, Louisiana, Ohio and Delaware.
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