Ah…Delaware, the 41st “most livable” state, according to Gallup.
Our median income is a rocking 10th-highest in the United States, and we have the 11th-lowest percentage of families living below the poverty line.
But dragging down our stats; a third of us are obese, we have scant access to clean water, smoke at a higher rate than most states and visit the dentist rarely.
C’mon people.
I would rank this survey the 36th dumbest way to rank the American states.
Lowest business taxes being the 50th dumbest way.
I am looking at the anchor known as lower slower.
Any stats on alcohol consumption?
Speaking as someone who grew up within the Quabbin Reservoir System in Massachusetts (which is noted nationally for extremely clean public drinking water), the drinking water _is_ pretty terrible here in Delaware, even upstate. I mean, I’ve definitely had worse, but it’s certainly not good.
Yes because the beaches in slower lower really bring down our ranking. and the murder capital of the world, known as Wilmington, shoot us right to the top. Pun intended.
The obesity is no surprise. Most of the state is is ringed by arterial highways and/or not walkable and bikable, so building that kind of routine into our daily lives is difficult at best. Gov Jack and a dedicated core of advocates are trying to change that, but the damage is done from decades of horrible land use policy. Even with the Trails and Pathways initiative, these projects take forever. So, while the healthiest and fittest cities and towns provide these options, I give it 20+ years until we see the difference here, if it’s even possible.
Tom Gordon will make us great again, just like the late 90’s when our cup runneth over with excess.
Tom Gordon didn’t make us great. Like many local officials all over America, he rode a wave of national prosperity. But unfortunately even in the middle of this election, neither party is seriously proposing to go back to the prosperity policies. Instead they are just debating different remixes of the contraction policies that shrank the middle class.
Agreed Puck. I find little in either party’s platform to be enthusiastic about turning around our collective situation in the near term, especially when it comes to supporting the middle class.
I don’t smoke and I’m not fat. But I have no dental insurance so I must plead guilty to not seeing the dentist often, high rates for dentistry also contribute.