For the second year in a row, U.S. News ranks Louisiana as the nation’s worst state

State Rankings



While LA only ranks dead last in one category (crime), they are in the bottom 10 of all categories and bottom 5 of all but 2.

I moved to TX in 2015, but spent the first 24 years of my life living in Baton Rouge and New Orleans. In those days, I would have believed LA to be superior to at least MS and Arkansas.

I know it’s popular to shite on the state on this board, but for those still living there, do you feel like this is accurate? And if so, do you think you need to leave or that things can change for the better?