These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026

THE_DEVIL

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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.

These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026

 

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Hawkedup

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Hmmmmmmmm….. there seems to be something very similar with all of these states. Can anyone tell me what it is?

 

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PabloNole

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Outside of the mountains in Utah, north Georgia mountains and maybe Uptown NOLA, I can’t name a place in those states I’d want to live in.

 

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NorthernHawkeye

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Leftwing generated lists...

The suspense...

 

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dpic73

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THE_DEVIL said:

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.

These are America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026

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I'm starting to connect the dots.

 

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Torbee

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Troll bait article.

 

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lucas80

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Torbee said:

Troll bait article.

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You wouldn’t be saying that if you had a for real Bison Bridge putting Iowa on a list.

 

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NJPSU

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Surprised trashy Florida isn’t on the list. Must be the beaches.

 

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m.knox

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NJPSU said:

Surprised trashy Florida isn’t on the list. Must be the beaches.

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It's a great state. Hey, need some coupons for Popeye's? Some came in with a flyer.

 

Yellowsnow51

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To score the states for quality of life, we use hard data on factors like crime rates, air quality and healthcare. We also consider the cost and availability of childcare, inclusiveness of state laws, and reproductive rights.

So they consider cheap childcare, cheap healthcare and access to abortions in their “quality of life”metric. But don’t use low taxes, and low overall cost of living? Gee…that seems totally reasonable and not at all in search of a desired outcome.