CNBC : America’s 10 worst states to live in

Survey: Washington DC, Detroit, New York Among The Worst-Run Cities In U.S.

Here are the 10 worst-run cities according to WalletHub’s July 9 release:

  • Washington D.C.
  • Detroit, Mich.
  • New York City, N.Y.
  • San Francisco, Calif.
  • Gulfport, Miss.
  • Oakland, Calif.
  • Chattanooga, Tenn.
  • Flint, Mich.
  • Cleveland, Ohio
  • Hartford, Conn.
 
America’s 10 worst states to live in


Except for NM, it's basically the red states:

10. New Mexico
9. (tie) Mississippi
9. (tie) South Carolina
7. Oklahoma
6. Missouri
5. Indiana
4. Tennessee
3. Alabama
2. Louisiana
1. Arkansas


From CNBC:

Our Quality of Life category in America's Top States for Business, worth 300 out 2,500 total points, looks at factors such as violent crime rates, area attractions, health care, and environmental quality, based on our Top States methodology and sources. These are the 10 worst states to live in this year.

  • Each year CNBC scores all 50 states on their business competitiveness.
  • The Top States methodology weights 10 major categories based on analysis of state's economic development plans.
  • The top three categories for 2018 are Workforce, Infrastructure and Cost of Doing Business.
I can certainly see how, if you're looking for business competitiveness, these states would be some of the worst. Of course, CNBC and it's management aren't concerned about things like taxation or cost of living, traffic and congestion, housing prices and other things that many folks care about.

In short, if you make your criteria specific enough, you can get any state in the worst or best list.
 
Consider the source.

Nashville boasts that it's skyline has more downtown construction cranes than any other city in the country. The economy has been booming with high tech and health care startups.

Tennessee ranks second behind Michigan in automotive manufacturing.

It is on the North side of a major manufacturing zone in Tennessee - especially automotive. Nissan, GM, and Volkswagen have major assembly plants there. Some of the industry suppliers that manufacture there include Hankook Tire, Bridgestone Americas, Calsonic Kansei, Magnetti Marelli, SL Tennessee, Denso Manufacturing, Yorozu Automotive, JTEKT, Mahle, and M-Tek. In fact, there are 1,000 automotive suppliers located in Tennessee.

Tennessee’s automobile industry, which rolls out a new auto every 20 seconds and generates about $12 billion in annual tax revenue for the state

Tennessee has no state income tax and no state capital gains tax.

Nashville is becoming an investment banking magnet. Alliance Bernstein is moving over 1,000 jobs from NYC to Nashville. UBS has a major IB center in Nashville. GS just bought a building permit for the Nashville waterfront downtown.
 
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From CNBC:

Our Quality of Life category in America's Top States for Business, worth 300 out 2,500 total points, looks at factors such as violent crime rates, area attractions, health care, and environmental quality, based on our Top States methodology and sources. These are the 10 worst states to live in this year.

  • Each year CNBC scores all 50 states on their business competitiveness.
  • The Top States methodology weights 10 major categories based on analysis of state's economic development plans.
  • The top three categories for 2018 are Workforce, Infrastructure and Cost of Doing Business.
I can certainly see how, if you're looking for business competitiveness, these states would be some of the worst. Of course, CNBC and it's management aren't concerned about things like taxation or cost of living, traffic and congestion, housing prices and other things that many folks care about.

In short, if you make your criteria specific enough, you can get any state in the worst or best list.
Interesting. So they use different criteria every year? What were the top 3 categories in the past?
 
Really, no one really wants to live in a red state.
Really Einstein?

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