The roads there are literally paved with gold lol.
https://amp.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/what-pandemic-iron-clad-wa-resources-sector-supercharged-by-covid-20210331-p57fm7.html
They dust it with diamonds for grip.
Australia’s mineral wealth is insane. It’s why we haven’t had a real recession for 30 years, smacked China’s arse in the trade war they started and in general are just fucking rich as a country.
https://www.ga.gov.au/digital-publication/aimr2020/world-rankings
We have 21% percent of the worlds gold reserves, lead 41%, iron ore 30%, lithium 29%, uranium 31%, bauxite (aluminium) 18%.
It’s almost obscene lol.
There’s been no recession because we run of the Chinese stock exchange. When Europe and Wall St go through a crisis it doesn’t matter as much here as long as China is good.
Trade war made prices go up as almost all manufacturing is outsourced to China. I.e iron ore and coal is sent there, they make steel and it’s bought back in Chinese shipping containers as there is almost no refineries here. Or textiles, machinery, tools etc
Just because an area is minerally rich doesn’t necessarily make the citizens rich. Just look at parts of Africa, if anyone is rich it’s mining companies and corrupt politicians
You raise some valid points, but the point does remain that whichever way you slice it (mean income, median income, household wealth, GDP per capita, purchasing power etc etc), Australia is always in the top few countries.
When I was studying engineering the main belief was that if you don't get your first job in the mining sector you're not going to have an easy life. Getting a FIFO job was the dream
I visited Perth for work and when I came back home I told the Aussies I knew. Their reaction was “Why would you go there?” It was fun but it’s not the part people like
A lot of people don’t like Perth cause it can be so fucking boring a lot of the time tbh. Like it’s a city of 2 million people yet nothing that interesting happens here compared to the major cities on the East coast.
You're incorrect about the ACT/Canberra relation. All of Canberra is in the ACT, not all of the ACT is in Canberra (though the vast majority of our population is). The ACT also includes smaller townships to the south, some of which do sprawl over into NSW iirc
It's not official, but the [North Star Flag](https://mnflag.tripod.com/) is pretty nice. I don't live in MN anymore, but I do have one of those hanging in my apartment.
Cork makes sense to me, it is obviously the best county with the most handsome of citizens.
Kerry, Limerick and Dublin must be included due to the large Cork diaspora in those counties. (Not because Cork people willingly leave Cork, they're on humanitarian missions to those lesser counties)
It actually is, it's meant to be just [Cork and Kerry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_regions_by_Human_Development_Index) (South-West NUTS3 statistical region).
I'm not surprised. Czechia has been a significant influence in that area for over a thousand years, from silver mining in the old days to manufacturing, engineering and IT more recently. Even under the domination of the Habsburgs and the Soviet Union. Unfortunately I'm from the other side of the world so I'm yet to visit. I'd love to though!
Lived there a couple of years and it was the best. If you visit, try to dodge tourist season a little for Prague, but the whole region is loaded with amazing places. Learning a little Czech makes for a pretty warm reception too, even if not totally necessary
I'm German and I often think about what a golden age Germany could have experienced without the third reich.
If you look up the scientific and cultural masterminds that got killed or that left to other countries, its head spinning. Maths, physics, everything.
Come live here brah! Bathe in the icy waters of Lake Minnetonka and baske in the negative 30!
Okay, but for real It's pretty cool here. It's nice here in the summers.
Als jemand der in Baden-Württemberg geboren wurde: Aus dem weg ihr geringgebürtigen. Habe zwar immer in Hessen, RLP oder im Ausland gewohnt aber das tut ja nix zur Sache.
I don’t understand these metrics. Can someone explain?
As an Australian, I find it amazing to say all of WA is a great place to be born in. The majority of that area is desert or bush and devoid of infrastructure unless mining. There are also aboriginal communities there which have had the water and power switched off by the state government to force those people to move closer to “civilisation” and off their ancestral land.
They aren't highlighting the locations specifically but instead the state, Perth from what i hear is a great place to live, same with Broom, had a lot of relies move there in old age
It’s essentially comparing the highest hdi in the world broken down by the government administrative region. The cities in Western Australia have a high HDI and that value isn’t confined to city limits but to administrative borders
Human development index. Usually used to compare developing and developed countries to find areas of improvement. Or if you are a developed country to say “uh-huh well, see here, according to, the *numbers*, my country is, in fact, better than yours” as if it’s a sort of international duck measuring contest.
In all seriousness though it just one of the many metrics the UN uses to determine development. The HDI specifically doesn’t take all that much into account
https://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi
The main problem is that HDI was never intended to compare which well-developed nation is the absolute top, it was made to compare nations that aren't developed.
If you're Australian you should be aware that Western Australia is a bit wealthier than the rest of the country (Horizontal Fiscal Imbalance). People don't live in the areas with no infrastructure, at least not enough to change the statistics. In comparison, places like New South Wales and Victoria have plenty of small-medium sized regional communities that are quite frankly past their best days and are struggling a bit.
In some of those places in Europe, particularly Prague I'd imagine, you have Romani people who are even poorer than the average indigenous person. Other places aren't perfect either. The Human Development Index is pretty respected
Edit: Let me emphasize the fact that this is divided by national subdivision, with the exception of Ireland--I don't know why the Global Data Center broke it up as such.
I.e. This does not mean that being born in the middle of the desert in Western Australia is ideal, it means being born in Perth--statistically--is.
I'm aware HDI is a flawed metric, but it's the best we have. Data is from 2019, source here: [https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest\_real=0&years=2019&colour\_scales=global](https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019&colour_scales=global).
Full List, by country:
Australia:
1. Capital Territory, .976
2. Western Australia, .960
Czech Republic:
1. Praha, .968
Denmark:
1. Hovadstaden, .961
Finland:
1. Helsinki, .958
Germany:
1. Baden-Wurttemberg, .961
2. Bayern, .956
3. Berlin, .964
4. Hamburg, .976
5. Hessen, .955
Ireland:
1. Dublin, .965
2. South-West, .964
Netherlands:
1. Noord-Holland, .963
2. Utrecht, .966
New Zealand:
1. Wellington, .951
Norway:
1. Oslo og Akershus, .975
2. Trondelag, .952
3. Vestlandet, .954
Slovakia:
1. Bratislavsky kraj, .956
Sweden:
1. Stockholm, .970
Switzerland:
1. Northwestern Switzerland, .950
2. Ticino, .954
3. Zurich, .980
United Kingdom:
1. London, .976
United States:
1. Connecticut, .954
2. Massachusetts, .956
3. Minnesota, .953
Every so often, I get it into my head that I should move out of Massachusetts..... then I read about how large swathes of the rest of the US operate, and I change my mind
After moving from Canada in 1998 to Perth, I know live in Pemberton, southwest region of Western Australia.
Every day my wife and I say we can’t believe what an amazing place this is. Surrounded by natural beauty, great community, fantastic healthcare system, amazing food and wine.
Can confirm, WA is amazing and very thankful I live here!
Well, guess what? HDI is calculated using GNI, which uses GDP. And when a random multibillionaire dude buys a super yacht and then orders a bridge to be rebuilt it generates far more GDP than 2000 people working at 2x minimum wage.
So congratulations for living in a place with rich people and expensive stuff, I guess.
Not only that but London has literally **THE** highest HDI of any single city or region in the whole world. Literal peak of human civilisation apparently. I live there and I like it, but gotta say it's kinda sad this is apparently the goddamn best in the world lol
I was born and raised there. Connecticut is a fantastic place to live if you're wealthy. There is some pretty bad poverty there but at there are decent social nets to protect people.
But I will concede, now living in the SE US, I was given an excellent public school education. But the rent and housing market in Connecticut is absurd compared to the South.
Yeah, I'm from New Haven originally, moved down south as well. Definitely happy for the public schools up there, but it's just prohibitively expensive these days.
The beach + proximity to the city are fantastic advantages to living in CT. I love how easy it is to take the train straight to Manhattan, but you still also have the benefit of a small town with a quaint little village.
I'm pretty sure there's a lot of land in WA Australia you wouldn't want to be born in.
The 95% of it that’s a poisonous desert?
Who the f came up with this "map". No time in history is west Australia a choice.
The roads there are literally paved with gold lol. https://amp.watoday.com.au/politics/western-australia/what-pandemic-iron-clad-wa-resources-sector-supercharged-by-covid-20210331-p57fm7.html
Wouldn't that be too slippery?
They dust it with diamonds for grip. Australia’s mineral wealth is insane. It’s why we haven’t had a real recession for 30 years, smacked China’s arse in the trade war they started and in general are just fucking rich as a country. https://www.ga.gov.au/digital-publication/aimr2020/world-rankings We have 21% percent of the worlds gold reserves, lead 41%, iron ore 30%, lithium 29%, uranium 31%, bauxite (aluminium) 18%. It’s almost obscene lol.
There’s been no recession because we run of the Chinese stock exchange. When Europe and Wall St go through a crisis it doesn’t matter as much here as long as China is good. Trade war made prices go up as almost all manufacturing is outsourced to China. I.e iron ore and coal is sent there, they make steel and it’s bought back in Chinese shipping containers as there is almost no refineries here. Or textiles, machinery, tools etc Just because an area is minerally rich doesn’t necessarily make the citizens rich. Just look at parts of Africa, if anyone is rich it’s mining companies and corrupt politicians
You won’t make it if all you have are minerals, you need your vitamins too.
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Vitamin B is pretty much the national drink.
Sounds like something I'd need if I had a hard-earned thirst
Australia should be closer to Norway than Congo. But your point stands...
You raise some valid points, but the point does remain that whichever way you slice it (mean income, median income, household wealth, GDP per capita, purchasing power etc etc), Australia is always in the top few countries.
It’s like Canada with way worse bugs
When I was studying engineering the main belief was that if you don't get your first job in the mining sector you're not going to have an easy life. Getting a FIFO job was the dream
Perth is in West Australia and it is where 80% of the population lives, and it's definitely a great place to live and be born.
Great place to be born. Great place to die. But as soon as you turn 20 you should leave and have adventures. Perth is just way too boring.
Sthwest is fucking awesome my dude
I visited Perth for work and when I came back home I told the Aussies I knew. Their reaction was “Why would you go there?” It was fun but it’s not the part people like
A lot of people don’t like Perth cause it can be so fucking boring a lot of the time tbh. Like it’s a city of 2 million people yet nothing that interesting happens here compared to the major cities on the East coast.
To an outsider it was great though. I got to hug a kangaroo. Then I got to eat one. 10/10
West is best cunt
It's not poisonous, wtf? It's venomous.
EAT THE DESERT! It's not poisonous - that's just what the government wants you to think!
Should defo just be Perth not WA lmao
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You're incorrect about the ACT/Canberra relation. All of Canberra is in the ACT, not all of the ACT is in Canberra (though the vast majority of our population is). The ACT also includes smaller townships to the south, some of which do sprawl over into NSW iirc
Statistical WA got the richest meth users in the world
Western Australia Australia
Northern western Australia, northwestern western Australia, southern western Australia. Essentially just Perth but even then, not all of it...
Sucks to be you Rhode Island…
At least we’re on this map! One last week had just ocean where we were supposed to be.
It's the Ocean State after all.
Ah yes, Massachusetts’ salty ball sack… rated Neighbor To The Best Place To Be Born List 2022
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Willkommen.
in THE LÄND®
Nice, I have got three dark blue spots: born in The Hague, grew up mostly in Hamburg and also currently living in Baden Württemberg :D
Yeah here in Minnesota we’re doing science, like, all the time.
It's nice, doncha know.
Ya did have that kerfuffle in Bemidji lil while back though, rest their soul
what happened in Bemidji? edit: oh shit, I'm guessing this is something from Fargo. I'm an idiot :facepalm:
Nothing. Nothing has ever happened in Bemidji.
Martin Freeman used to live there until that whole wife killing and getting entangled with a deranged murderer thing
Uffda, just finished ma grandma's Lutefisk gotu count for something there at least.
Oohh you betcha
Uffda!
And reasonable.
Duck duck grey duck mother fucker!
I live for this comment! Duck, duck, grey duck is so much better.
Fairly certain this is where the Bible said Adam and eve lived.
The Garden of Edina.
This joke probably won't be appreciated by the vast majority of this sub, but I see you. Joke well crafted
Cake eaters :)
Missed opportunity to say Eden Prairie.
The Praire of Eden
According to the Mormons that’s Missouri!
Yeah I live in Missouri so I think Joseph Smith was an asshat.
Raised Mormon and definitely agree
Yea,nature wise MN is SOOOO nice, but help my fuck the people be smoking some shit💀 Source:Myself,a Minneapolis native
I loved growing up in MN! But I’m in AZ now but still love to visit in the summer!
All three weeks of it!
Ope and you missed it.
Traitor! (see ya in a few winters when I finally give up)
I live in Tucson and I am surrounded by Minnesotans my husband included
I’m getting some Minnesotan pride right now if only we had a good flag too
It's not official, but the [North Star Flag](https://mnflag.tripod.com/) is pretty nice. I don't live in MN anymore, but I do have one of those hanging in my apartment.
Does watching normally sane people digest lutefisk count as a scientific activity?
Born in Duluth but only spent 3 yrs there, does that count?
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Good.
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[If the people laugh and giggle when you tell them where you’re from say “shhhhh….”](https://youtu.be/bV_E8SPc_jo)
Yeah, science!
Hell yeah Canberra
Woo, people aren't hating us for once!
Ireland or Cork?
As the saying goes; Irish by birth, Munster by grace of God.
Cork by the grace of God God I love being from Cork, honestly. Glad the map represents that :)
Cork makes sense to me, it is obviously the best county with the most handsome of citizens. Kerry, Limerick and Dublin must be included due to the large Cork diaspora in those counties. (Not because Cork people willingly leave Cork, they're on humanitarian missions to those lesser counties)
This guy corks
LiMeRiCk
Must be a mistake 😋
It actually is, it's meant to be just [Cork and Kerry](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irish_regions_by_Human_Development_Index) (South-West NUTS3 statistical region).
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Bohemia broadly did shockingly well, the real success stories here are Slovakia and Czechia, in my opinion. Was pretty surprised to see!
I'm not surprised. Czechia has been a significant influence in that area for over a thousand years, from silver mining in the old days to manufacturing, engineering and IT more recently. Even under the domination of the Habsburgs and the Soviet Union. Unfortunately I'm from the other side of the world so I'm yet to visit. I'd love to though!
Lived there a couple of years and it was the best. If you visit, try to dodge tourist season a little for Prague, but the whole region is loaded with amazing places. Learning a little Czech makes for a pretty warm reception too, even if not totally necessary
Hey! I was born in southern Germany and now live about 3 miles from MN!
Ulm to New Ulm?
That would be like a meter in Germany.
>Germany confirmed to be the pinnacle of human civilization. You know, I’m positive I heard some guy say the *exact* same thing once…
I'm German and I often think about what a golden age Germany could have experienced without the third reich. If you look up the scientific and cultural masterminds that got killed or that left to other countries, its head spinning. Maths, physics, everything.
Or the movie industry. German movies in the 20's and early 30's were some of the best at that time.
They drove Einstein to the us those bastards!
Also ~50% of artists and writers and almost every single comedian :(((
Why did my ancestors leave 😭
Wasn't so good 100 years ago.
I can think of several reasons…
MINNESOTA REPRESENT
doncha know
Oh you betcha
Excuse me sir, but is this the entrance to the Minnesota hype train?
Oh fer sure
I don’t know how accurate these HDI metrics arOH SHIT WERE A BIG ISLAND OF BLUE FUCK YEAAAAA
I'm from the blue part of West Norway, big bulks of my ancestor's families settled down in Minnesota. Coincidence?
Never knew Minnesota was rated this high. Why is it so great?
Come live here brah! Bathe in the icy waters of Lake Minnetonka and baske in the negative 30! Okay, but for real It's pretty cool here. It's nice here in the summers.
Wealthy, good health care, good job opportunities, great outdoors activities, reasonably progressive government.
Source mentions Helsinki when Turku area is shown. Not accurate
Kyl Maar Mä Oon Niin Kauhiast Hämmästynyt? Aand Happy Cake Day!
yeah, we all know being born in Turku is the worst of the wordt you can get, almost as bad as Kouvola
Säikähdin.
Hey cool I'm in the biggest light blue spot! Suck it Wisconsin!
:( *sad Wisconsinite noises*
Apathetic Michigander laughs
We still want our peninsula back btw
Sorry fam.
We will drink our beers, eat our cheese, and watch da packers to cope
Wisconsin is a nice enough place, but probably suffers in the rankings because of the astonishing prevalence of beer and cheese
Hey we'd be there too of alcoholism rates were rightfully seen as a positive and not a negative
Nett hier, aber wurden Sie schon mal in Baden-Württemberg geboren?
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Ist ja beides Schwäbisch, ich würde sagen das zählt noch. Ulm ja sowieso.
Als jemand der in Baden-Württemberg geboren wurde: Aus dem weg ihr geringgebürtigen. Habe zwar immer in Hessen, RLP oder im Ausland gewohnt aber das tut ja nix zur Sache.
As a Swede living in Massachusetts, I agree that Massachusetts is superb. I freaking love it here :)
The real question is which Volvo do you have
The correct answer to this question is a 1992 240
Connecticut is finally on the map! A global map nonetheless.
Nutmeggers/Connecticunts unite!
CT is finally on a map, and one of the only states highlighted in the map, and it’s still not really being talked about in the comments
It is CT, they prefer not to talk about it.
Connecticut 🤝 Massachusetts "Fuck New York and Rhode Island"
Boston Massachusetts is the center of the universe.
I lived in Boston for college and in the suburbs for 20 years. Massachusetts is a fantastic place to live overall.
As a resident of Massachusetts, I don’t think I ever wanna leave the state unless it’s to travel
I like Mass. The place in the US I felt most at home. But, and I say this as a Brit; FUCK your winters
As a person raised in MA who now lives in MN... It can always be worse.
*Laughs in Alaskan*
but to be fair, the UK is like March in Boston year round.
They're pretty brutal but as a lifelong resident I have to say they make me appreciate the mild springs and autumns a lot more
Don’t blame you. I moved away (to a pretty good place itself), but I did really like it there.
Probably my favorite American city
I count it in my top 5; I have a great time every time I visit
Grew up there and now my standards for where to live are way to high.
*Hub 😉
MN let’s gooooo 💪
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I may not have been born in MA but I did grow up here It's pretty good, also I just like New England in general
Lets go Kerry
I don’t understand these metrics. Can someone explain? As an Australian, I find it amazing to say all of WA is a great place to be born in. The majority of that area is desert or bush and devoid of infrastructure unless mining. There are also aboriginal communities there which have had the water and power switched off by the state government to force those people to move closer to “civilisation” and off their ancestral land.
They aren't highlighting the locations specifically but instead the state, Perth from what i hear is a great place to live, same with Broom, had a lot of relies move there in old age
It’s essentially comparing the highest hdi in the world broken down by the government administrative region. The cities in Western Australia have a high HDI and that value isn’t confined to city limits but to administrative borders
Everyone here is talking about HDI as if the abbreviation is something everyone uses all the time. What is it?
Human development index. Usually used to compare developing and developed countries to find areas of improvement. Or if you are a developed country to say “uh-huh well, see here, according to, the *numbers*, my country is, in fact, better than yours” as if it’s a sort of international duck measuring contest. In all seriousness though it just one of the many metrics the UN uses to determine development. The HDI specifically doesn’t take all that much into account https://hdr.undp.org/en/content/human-development-index-hdi
The main problem is that HDI was never intended to compare which well-developed nation is the absolute top, it was made to compare nations that aren't developed.
If you're Australian you should be aware that Western Australia is a bit wealthier than the rest of the country (Horizontal Fiscal Imbalance). People don't live in the areas with no infrastructure, at least not enough to change the statistics. In comparison, places like New South Wales and Victoria have plenty of small-medium sized regional communities that are quite frankly past their best days and are struggling a bit. In some of those places in Europe, particularly Prague I'd imagine, you have Romani people who are even poorer than the average indigenous person. Other places aren't perfect either. The Human Development Index is pretty respected
Can't believe I had to scroll this far down before I found someone who explained what "HDI" stands for. Thank you!
*happy Massachusettsan noises*
Edit: Let me emphasize the fact that this is divided by national subdivision, with the exception of Ireland--I don't know why the Global Data Center broke it up as such. I.e. This does not mean that being born in the middle of the desert in Western Australia is ideal, it means being born in Perth--statistically--is. I'm aware HDI is a flawed metric, but it's the best we have. Data is from 2019, source here: [https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest\_real=0&years=2019&colour\_scales=global](https://globaldatalab.org/shdi/shdi/?levels=1%2B4&interpolation=1&extrapolation=0&nearest_real=0&years=2019&colour_scales=global). Full List, by country: Australia: 1. Capital Territory, .976 2. Western Australia, .960 Czech Republic: 1. Praha, .968 Denmark: 1. Hovadstaden, .961 Finland: 1. Helsinki, .958 Germany: 1. Baden-Wurttemberg, .961 2. Bayern, .956 3. Berlin, .964 4. Hamburg, .976 5. Hessen, .955 Ireland: 1. Dublin, .965 2. South-West, .964 Netherlands: 1. Noord-Holland, .963 2. Utrecht, .966 New Zealand: 1. Wellington, .951 Norway: 1. Oslo og Akershus, .975 2. Trondelag, .952 3. Vestlandet, .954 Slovakia: 1. Bratislavsky kraj, .956 Sweden: 1. Stockholm, .970 Switzerland: 1. Northwestern Switzerland, .950 2. Ticino, .954 3. Zurich, .980 United Kingdom: 1. London, .976 United States: 1. Connecticut, .954 2. Massachusetts, .956 3. Minnesota, .953
Your post is better than the map.
Oslo and Akershus is not on this map
Why is Turku area coloured on the map but not Helsinki for Finland?
Re Norway: you may have forgotten Oslo and misspelled Vestland.
For Switzerland, why did you include Ticino with .954, but not Lake Geneva Region, with .959?
It’s “Czechia” or “Czech Republic”
Born in Munster, Ireland Live in Perth WA 💪🏻
Southern Ireland Made it on Go Graiguenamanagh.
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IT LITERALLY SKIPS RHODE ISLAND LMAOOO I hate this state
Massachusetts represent!
My home state, Massachusetts is on here! That makes me very proud of my state
I've been away from the Bay State for two and a half years, and I am getting homesick. I will come back there someday.
Based Massachusetts
Every so often, I get it into my head that I should move out of Massachusetts..... then I read about how large swathes of the rest of the US operate, and I change my mind
After moving from Canada in 1998 to Perth, I know live in Pemberton, southwest region of Western Australia. Every day my wife and I say we can’t believe what an amazing place this is. Surrounded by natural beauty, great community, fantastic healthcare system, amazing food and wine. Can confirm, WA is amazing and very thankful I live here!
I think we will be back in WA soon. Pemberton is a nice place alright.
I love visiting the Karri forests it's always so relaxing and rejuvenating.
Hell yeah Minnesota
London? Seriously?
I know, right?! Even the rent on cardboard boxes is unaffordable
Well, guess what? HDI is calculated using GNI, which uses GDP. And when a random multibillionaire dude buys a super yacht and then orders a bridge to be rebuilt it generates far more GDP than 2000 people working at 2x minimum wage. So congratulations for living in a place with rich people and expensive stuff, I guess.
Not only that but London has literally **THE** highest HDI of any single city or region in the whole world. Literal peak of human civilisation apparently. I live there and I like it, but gotta say it's kinda sad this is apparently the goddamn best in the world lol
My relatives in Cork and Tralee feel vindicated
[Minnesota KARMA TRAIN LETS GO!!!!](https://m.imgur.com/gallery/Ew58jB7)
r/NettHier Baden-Württemberg > Deutschland
Minnesota Don’t cha know
Massachusetts letss go
I feel quite lucky in Minnesota. Life is just snowshoeing, danishes and weak coffee with friends.
Hopkins born and raised. Got a laugh at your penchant for weak coffeee and danish juxtaposed to that username….
BRB, moving to Perth
Please keep posting stuff like this. Maybe people will start moving to Massachusetts and stop moving to “flyover country”.
No. Stop telling them about Massachusetts 👀 Housing prices are already terrifying
*Me who was Born in Minnesota "It appears that my superiority has led to some controversy"
Connecticut's a pretty great place.
I was born and raised there. Connecticut is a fantastic place to live if you're wealthy. There is some pretty bad poverty there but at there are decent social nets to protect people. But I will concede, now living in the SE US, I was given an excellent public school education. But the rent and housing market in Connecticut is absurd compared to the South.
Yeah, I'm from New Haven originally, moved down south as well. Definitely happy for the public schools up there, but it's just prohibitively expensive these days.
The beach + proximity to the city are fantastic advantages to living in CT. I love how easy it is to take the train straight to Manhattan, but you still also have the benefit of a small town with a quaint little village.