Quiz: Do You Live In One of the Shittiest U.S. States?
Courtesy of the Gallup-Healthways State Health Index, here are all of the 50 states, ranked from the absolute worst for your emotional and physical well-being to the most livable.
The Gallup-Healthways survey, first reported by 24/7 Wall Street, took 2013 health info from 176,000 Americans on "physical and emotional health, healthy behaviors, work environment, social and community factors, financial security, and access to necessities such as food, shelter and healthcare" and came up with this list. The "most miserable" state is West Virginia, which has problems on problems these days. The least miserable state, according to the data, was North Dakota.
This is not a quiz in the classical viral clickbait "Oh ha they said I should live in Delaware" sense, but rather in the "How are eccentricities in geographical, political, and economic culture in the place where I reside literally killing me and my loved ones?" sense. So: How fast is your state crippling your life functions and your will to nurse them?
- West Virginia
- Kentucky
- Mississippi
- Alabama
- Ohio
- Arkansas
- Tennessee
- Missouri
- Oklahoma
- Louisiana
- Indiana
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Michigan
- Pennsylvania
- New York
- Wyoming
- New Mexico
- North Carolina
- Connecticut
- Florida
- Idaho
- Delaware
- Georgia
- Nevada
- Oregon
- Virginia
- New Jersey
- Illinois
- Texas
- Kansas
- Arizona
- Maryland
- California
- Alaska
- Maine
- Wisconsin
- Massachusetts
- Utah
- New Hampshire
- Iowa
- Washington
- Hawaii
- Colorado
- Vermont
- Montana
- Minnesota
- Nebraska
- South Dakota
- North Dakota
