Texas ranked worst state to live and work in

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1872walker
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3:42p, 7/17/23
Good. I-10 runs both ways. Pick a direction and move on.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/these-are-americas-10-worst-states-to-live-and-work-in.html

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The Lone Star State keeps hacking away at inclusiveness, with laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, voting rights, and the nation's strictest abortion ban. Yes, there are enormous economic opportunities in Texas, and it is attracting people from far and wide. But this state also has some Texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. And it is one of the reasons that the state fell out of the overall top five for the first time in the 16-year history of CNBC's rankings.

2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 53 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)

Strengths: No metrics in the top 25

Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness
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3:43p, 7/17/23
Maybe people will stop moving here
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Esteban du Plantier
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3:44p, 7/17/23
Good. Especially College Station. It totally sucks here, no need to visit.
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harge57
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3:44p, 7/17/23
"Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness"

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MD1993
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3:45p, 7/17/23
I guess they are upset we will not allow them to sterilize children and kill babies.
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In reply to 1872walker • 3:45p, 7/17/23
Almost no one really cares about these "negatives". Even libs don't give a crap, that's why they still move here. They actually love being able to virtue signal while letting conservatives take the bullets for not enacting the dumbass ideas they pontificate.
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In reply to 1872walker • 3:46p, 7/17/23
This is great news, we're Underdogs!
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TheEternalPessimist
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In reply to MD1993 • 3:46p, 7/17/23
MD1993 said:
I guess they are upset we will not allow them to sterilize children and kill babies.
The used DEI and other Left Wing policy positions that Texas opposes as means by which to give Texas a poor rating.

It's truly hilarious.

It's impact on the red inflow and blue outflow? Negligible at best.
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3:46p, 7/17/23

108 today. Hard to disagree
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In reply to 1872walker • 3:48p, 7/17/23
1872walker said:
Good. I-10 runs both ways. Pick a direction and move on.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/14/these-are-americas-10-worst-states-to-live-and-work-in.html

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The Lone Star State keeps hacking away at inclusiveness, with laws targeting the LGBTQ+ population, voting rights, and the nation's strictest abortion ban. Yes, there are enormous economic opportunities in Texas, and it is attracting people from far and wide. But this state also has some Texas-sized issues when it comes to life, health and inclusion. And it is one of the reasons that the state fell out of the overall top five for the first time in the 16-year history of CNBC's rankings.

2023 Life, Health & Inclusion Score: 53 out of 350 points (Top States Grade: F)

Strengths: No metrics in the top 25

Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness
CNBC - I already live here, you don't have to hit me with the hard sell on staying.

Every one of those "issues" are things that I would suspect 90% of Texans view as why they are here.
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3:49p, 7/17/23
This is an excellent point.

All non-Texans that have come here should definitely leave because it is not going to get any better because of us mean conservatives.
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3:49p, 7/17/23
let's start ranking the rankings and use actual immigration, business development, costs of living, and economic prosperity numbers to see how wildly off-base some of these rankings turn out.
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3:50p, 7/17/23
And funny, every single state in their list of 10 is Republican.

I'm "shocked".
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In reply to Predmid • 3:50p, 7/17/23
Predmid said:
let's start ranking the rankings and use actual immigration, business development, costs of living, and economic prosperity numbers to see how wildly off-base some of these rankings turn out.


Ssshhhh, leftists are buying it and planning to leave!
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3:53p, 7/17/23
Idgaf about what other people say about the great state. Hopefully it's too hot this summer and they move
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In reply to Showertime at the Bidens • 3:53p, 7/17/23
Zarathustra said:

108 today. Hard to disagree


The heat is pretty brutal. If it was about 15 degrees cooler in the summer, Texas would be perfect.
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3:54p, 7/17/23
Health? are you ****ing kidding me? I love living about 60 miles from some of the most advanced medical care in the world with choices of orthapedics and other specialists galore within 2 hours.
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3:56p, 7/17/23
Florida at number 10 is hilarious too.

Funny how "no state income tax" didn't get filtered into the results
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3:57p, 7/17/23
Good. Gtfo and don't come here. It sucks badly.
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In reply to GeorgiAg • 3:58p, 7/17/23
GeorgiAg said:
Florida at number 10 is hilarious too.

Funny how "no state income tax" didn't get filtered into the results


How bout open carry and no ccw?
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4:00p, 7/17/23
Uh, what laws are targeting the LGTBQRSTUVS?
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4:00p, 7/17/23
Let's compare this idiotic made up subjective list of nonsense to real world data:





Hmmmmmmm.
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In reply to ChemEAg08 • 4:03p, 7/17/23
ChemEAg08 said:
Predmid said:
let's start ranking the rankings and use actual immigration, business development, costs of living, and economic prosperity numbers to see how wildly off-base some of these rankings turn out.


Ssshhhh, leftists are buying it and planning to leave!
This. Don't fight these rankings, embrace them. The more we make our state "disgusting and intolerable" for libs the better. And the great thing is, we really don't have to do anything different or extra. Just push the Texas values we grew up with and drive the interlopers out.
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4:03p, 7/17/23
I agree wholeheartedly
No inclusivity, full of racists, can't get abortions, LGBTQ get put in prison, not everyone one wears masks
mass shootings and gun violence everywhere
Why would anyone ever consider moving to Texas???

Stay away.
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4:03p, 7/17/23
Funny…:how exactly do the fastest growing states get on the "worst places to live" list? It's almost like it's a political hit job and not an objective article.
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In reply to BadMoonRisin • 4:04p, 7/17/23
BadMoonRisin said:
Let's compare this idiotic made up subjective list of nonsense to real world data:





Hmmmmmmm.
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4:04p, 7/17/23
CNBC ratings. May as well be "Marxist friendly" ratings.
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Moral High Horse
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4:06p, 7/17/23
Oh please stay out of texas the rest of america. It's awful here. Go to awesome places like california and ruin...I mean live there.
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In reply to aggiegolfer03 • 4:08p, 7/17/23
aggiegolfer03 said:
Health? are you ****ing kidding me? I love living about 60 miles from some of the most advanced medical care in the world with choices of orthapedics and other specialists galore within 2 hours.
Large numbers of people without health insurance, most of whom are illegals.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
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4:10p, 7/17/23
Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for, and politicians find out what people will fall for.
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In reply to MaxPower • 4:10p, 7/17/23
MaxPower said:
Almost no one really cares about these "negatives". Even libs don't give a crap, that's why they still move here. They actually love being able to virtue signal while letting conservatives take the bullets for not enacting the dumbass ideas they pontificate.


Yep they'll still run away from their self made hellholes to be here, and stuff like this is even more upside because they get to feel like they're downtrodden and oppressed
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No Spin Ag
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4:11p, 7/17/23
It's so horrible to live here that liberals from California and other blue states can't stop moving here driving prices up on anything closely related with housing.

If this is what happens when it sucks to live here, heaven help us when it's a great place to live.
There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance. Hippocrates
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4:12p, 7/17/23
Houston in August?

They may have a point there.
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4:14p, 7/17/23
This should keep them from moving here...

Elections are when people find out what politicians stand for, and politicians find out what people will fall for.
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In reply to harge57 • 4:15p, 7/17/23
harge57 said:
"Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Health, Voting Rights, Worker Protections, Inclusiveness"




****ing woke morons.
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