Wait a second, you mean the states that continuously divert money away from education, healthcare, public works, infrastructure and everything that would possibly make the people who live there's lives better aren't very nice to live in?!

(Live in TN btw, and yea that list tracks)

I moved from the second worst, Texas, to on of the top 5, Connecticut, last year. It has been the best decision of my entire life. It's so nice to have a Governor who advocates for more spending on education and public works. Versus wasting everyone's time fighting to put the 10 commandments in classrooms.

My kids went from learning about angels and Moses parting the Red Sea history class. Yes regular 3rd grade history, not some high school level theology elective. To this year being taught critical thinking skills and identifying and dealing with their emotions.

And don't even get me started on the differences in special education for my son with serve ASD and communication issues. In Texas he was just shoved in the back to prevent him from being a "burden". Now he loves going to school. I cried at his 8th grade graduation because before he could have never been in at a ceremony like that. Hearing the other kids cheer for him warmed my heart so much. He starts highschool in the fall, and is in a summer program run by the highschool to teach him life skills, like cooking, cleaning, working, all things we never thought possible for him.

Edit: I also went from having my representative in Congress being a carpetbagger nepo-baby, to a woman who grew up in public housing, became a teen mom, worked her way from community college all the way to a masters in education and was name Teacher of the Year 2016 for the entire United States

Sucks to suck.

"If Tennessee was really the worst state to live in, people wouldn’t be moving there in large numbers, which they are," Desantis wrote. 

MAGAs are so stupid, they ALWAYS miss the point. Tennessee, like Florida, is one of the most beautiful places in America. The problem is that it is filled with MAGAs. Having more of them move there is not making those beautiful places better. The reason they are bad states, and getting worse, is precisely because so many MAGAs are moving there.

And it's making the places they are leaving even better.

Why are they so mad? Who read it to them?

As a non-American I’m not fully versed on the qualities of all the states - but I am still surprised that Mississippi is somehow not listed here; how can it possibly be outperforming some of these other states?!

Someone plot every states score on a graph, color it red/blue, and then sort by highest to lowest so we can watch red states fall off a cliff.

on the other side, nebraska and north dakota are in the top 10 best states to live in...

nebraska: Strengths: Health, Air Quality Weaknesses: Reproductive Rights, Inclusiveness

north dakota: Strengths: Childcare, Health, Air Quality, Crime Weaknesses: Worker Protections, Reproductive Rights

i don't think they're taking enough off for those 'weaknesses'.

massachusetts, virginia, new hampshire, hawaii, connecticut, minnesota, new jersey, and maine are the other states in that list. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/11/best-states-to-live-in-america-2026.html

Odd that Mississippi isn't on that last despite being a cesspool. I used to live in GA and even people from Alabama knew the only reason they weren't the worst state in the US was because Mississippi exists

expect those loudmouth fascists to bitch and moan about every truth thrown at them. its just how the are

On one hand I dont like these list, because even if everyone was doing their best, someone will always be at the bottom.

On the other hand, I mean, what did you expect. These list have always been a thing, and these places are always at the bottom by a far margin, why bitch now?

What is so wild is that there are movements like the one in Illinois to secede from Chicago, basically because, well, reasons.

And turn it into a new shithole state? What do these jagoffs think the real outcome is going to be once a city like Chicago is not there to subsidize them?

Chron:

CNBC gave each state a "Quality of Life" rating based on several key factors, including issues that have become political flashpoints, such as reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ protections and healthcare.

CNBC:

CNBC is placing increasing emphasis on Quality of Life, one of the 10 categories of competitiveness in our annual America’s Top States for Business study. It is our annual ranking of every state’s business climate, now in its 20th year. Under this year’s methodology, the category makes up 11.6% of a state’s overall score, up from about ten percent last year.

11.6%. Thanks Chron, for underplaying the fact that this wasn't even a study about the poor QOL in these states, they just happen to have poor QOL. Not to mention in the QOL section there were some pretty important topics, like, you know, ability to put food on the table and violent crime.

Truth hurts. They feel the pain.

Because it is still cheaper do deny facts than fixing actual problems.

Having come from Arkansas moving to Missouri.

Yup.

How the fuck is Mississippi not on that list?? Or is it S tier of bd states that they're so far beyond the list that the writers didn't bother.

No Florida?

So if its 10 to 1 Tennessee is the worst? I might be biased being from Nashville but its not worse then Alabama right, right?

If it walks like a duck, and talks like a duck...

LOL, what did they expect?

Why do people think that California Derangement Syndrome is so prevalent among the redcaps?

The list was made to positively rank things that people in red states don't want.

It’s interesting CNBC posts this.

Americans starting to develop class consciousness and starting to hate capitalism? Quick! Get them squabbling about red vs blue again!

“Guys, the last thing we want is your approval.”

It's telling that right wingers responded with invective and sarcasm rather than statistics. No one cited their literacy rates as a defense, for example.

How is Mississippi not on that list