Worst is relative. 1. Worst state to start your career https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/17/the-10-worst-states-to-start-a-career-in-post-graduation-according-to-a-new-report.html 2. TN is the 9th worst state to live, 6th best for business https://www.wbir.com/article/news/local/watercooler/cnbc-study-tennessee-business/51-e13e8e55-5a1b-4f1b-a07f-264e2ffc83a2
Hm. I'd have thought New Mexico would top the list. Certainly the fact that my state ALONE in the Desert Southwest showed close to zero population growth since 2010 and has the 45th highest per capita income in the States and Territories suggests that this isn't the very best possible place to start adult life. That's undoubtedly why so few kids do. Neighboring Arizona meanwhile tops a number of lists for growth. Her population has grown FIVE TIMES as much as ours. Her per capita income is 28th but her cost of living has been comparable until recently. The Tucson area is still comparable but Maricopa County has finally and thoroughly recovered from the 2008 Housing Crash. The two states are similar as to climate and historically not dissimilar as to culture. Frankly, I am at a loss to understand what THEY are doing that WE aren't. What I DO know is that if I were a recent law grad looking to start my career in the howling desert, AZ would be the target not NM.
Willa Cather, in her masterpiece "Death Comes for the Archbishop" has her main character speak the truth when he says that nothing ever changes in New Mexico and nothing ever will. "Land of Enchantment"? Well, Sleeping Beauty was under an enchantment too.
I wouldn't want to go to AZ right now. Lake Mead is shrinking, which means the Hoover Dam may not be able to generate power soon. That could result in power cuts for the western US. The Hoover Dam supplies a lot of power. (4 billion kilowatt hours, or enough for a bit over a million people, per Google.) California/Nevada/Arizona, which receive power from Hoover Dam, has a population of about 50 million. Some places already struggle to produce enough power in the summer without the power plants on the Colorado River going offline.
Not untrue. But Phoenix has the sense to host the nation's largest power plant (not just largest nuclear but largest of any sort) at Palo Verde. Most of the electrical and water shortage issues will be bigger problems for SoCal (due in part to California's self-centered and short-sighted progressive policies) than for AZ. In AZ as elsewhere in the West, 80% of water goes to agriculture which is a small fraction of the state's modern economy. Farmers will be priced out but cities won't be. My crystal ball, anyway.
Maybe it's time to shuffle off to Buffalo? https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/buffalo-oasis-scientists-say-warmer-earth-could-make-colder-cities-n1113711
Makes sense. I do remember Buffalo, at winter time the roads are blocked with snow storms etc. In the 90s I used to spend a lot of work related time in Rochester NY, and Buffalo. But Nature may have a different plan, make a summer warmer and winter colder .
