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The Hardest Places To Live In The US
Posted on 10/2/14 at 10:25 pm
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education (percentage of residents with at least a bachelor’s degree), median household income, unemployment rate, disability rate, life expectancy and obesity.
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The 10 lowest counties in the country, by this ranking, include a cluster of six in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky (Breathitt, Clay, Jackson, Lee, Leslie and Magoffin), along with four others in various parts of the rural South: Humphreys County, Miss.; East Carroll Parish, La.; Jefferson County, Ga.; and Lee County, Ark.
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Six of the top 10 counties in the United States are in the suburbs of Washington (especially on the Virginia side of the Potomac River), but the top ranking of all goes to Los Alamos County, N.M., home of Los Alamos National Laboratory, which does much of the scientific work underpinning the U.S. nuclear arsenal.
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Posted on 10/2/14 at 10:28 pm to CatFan81
The hardest place to live is in my pants.
Posted on 10/2/14 at 11:02 pm to CatFan81
So this is just further proof that the biggest thieves work in the federal govt?
Posted on 10/2/14 at 11:05 pm to CatFan81
There is a really nice community on the lake in East Carroll Parish, but they are right - nobody is making shite or doing shite that lives there. Not that there is anyone there that has any jobs available
Posted on 10/2/14 at 11:18 pm to CatFan81
Alright! I live in one of the few blue counties in Alabama. 
Posted on 10/2/14 at 11:30 pm to HamzooReb
And that fricking avi cracks me up
Posted on 10/3/14 at 6:02 am to CatFan81
Jefferson county AL is of course, average. Thanks Larry Langford
Posted on 10/3/14 at 6:48 am to LittleJerrySeinfield
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Alright! I live in one of the few blue counties in Alabama.
Same here.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:14 am to CatFan81
quote:this place is so fricking terrible
East Carroll Parish, La
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:16 am to CheeseburgerEddie
The lake has a good shore and a bad shore. I was pretty sure the residents of East Carrol wanted to kill me as i drove through it.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:24 am to heartbreakTiger
Ya, the north part is nice and was pretty much vacation homes from what I could tell. The south part, which held the "town" was real shitty, hard to compare if you haven't been through an area with absolutely no business of any kind. There is some great farm land up there, but that doesn't create good jobs. I think Time or some other magazine did a story about Lake Providence and the situation there a few years ago. If i remember correctly the place had an average household income less than half of the national average.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:28 am to heartbreakTiger
No mention of Indian Rez counties in Nebraska, South Dakota and New Mexico? Wow.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:30 am to CheeseburgerEddie
Yea, I remember reading the story. The north shore of Lake providence has all the money. The south side is extremely poor.
East Carrol was way worse than St. Bernard, St. Bernard was always a deceiving poor to me because they deal a lot in cash. They are certainly trashy but its different than the poorness of East Carrol.
East Carrol was way worse than St. Bernard, St. Bernard was always a deceiving poor to me because they deal a lot in cash. They are certainly trashy but its different than the poorness of East Carrol.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 8:55 am to heartbreakTiger
I had to go to a biodiesel facility outside of LP for work one time and we drove through the area and what really got me wasn't the poverty, but the fact that there is literally nothing to do about it. Business in the area is pretty much nonexistant and people just seem to sort of float along.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:36 am to CatFan81
My Dad rode trains through Appalachia for over a decade. He could probably tell you some good stories. I'm surprised Hazard wasn't one of the Top 10.
Posted on 10/3/14 at 9:36 am to CatFan81
Humphreys County, catfish farming capital of the world.
Interesting story behind that area...in the late 90s it was the richest county in the state due to the catfish farming boom. Everyone was making bank, they produced more fish in that county than the rest of the catfish producing counties combined. I remember the high school kids getting corvettes and shite for graduation and all of the families had private planes. It was a bunch of rednecks hitting the lottery though they couldn't handle it.
They all would fly to Vegas and blow a million bucks in a weekend. They had wife swap parties at the silver city country club. Would just do lots of cocaine and frick each other's wives. They had cookouts and live bands at their shops every weekend, they drove Lincoln town cars on their farms. Got away with murder...I know many farmers who would catch an employee stealing fuel or something and just shoot them and throw the body in "democrat lake".
They're all broke now... It's a graveyard of old processing plants, fish farms and equipment manufacturers all boarded up and grown up on weeds cause the banks foreclosed on everything. They had a great thing going but corruptness, greed, decadence absolutely destroyed it once the economy went south and they had burned through all the money thinking it'd last forever. It's another world in that county
Interesting story behind that area...in the late 90s it was the richest county in the state due to the catfish farming boom. Everyone was making bank, they produced more fish in that county than the rest of the catfish producing counties combined. I remember the high school kids getting corvettes and shite for graduation and all of the families had private planes. It was a bunch of rednecks hitting the lottery though they couldn't handle it.
They all would fly to Vegas and blow a million bucks in a weekend. They had wife swap parties at the silver city country club. Would just do lots of cocaine and frick each other's wives. They had cookouts and live bands at their shops every weekend, they drove Lincoln town cars on their farms. Got away with murder...I know many farmers who would catch an employee stealing fuel or something and just shoot them and throw the body in "democrat lake".
They're all broke now... It's a graveyard of old processing plants, fish farms and equipment manufacturers all boarded up and grown up on weeds cause the banks foreclosed on everything. They had a great thing going but corruptness, greed, decadence absolutely destroyed it once the economy went south and they had burned through all the money thinking it'd last forever. It's another world in that county
Posted on 10/3/14 at 10:33 am to CatFan81
King Coal has been deposed in Eastern Kentucky by the federal government. Thousands of miners have lost their jobs in the past three years as the demand for Kentucky coal has plummeted.
Impoverished areas such as the six-county cluster have sprung up. Much federal welfare is being funneled to the region.
The coal demand for use in industry has not declined, however. In a classic cutting-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face move, the government is allowing coal to be imported from Columbia.
Impoverished areas such as the six-county cluster have sprung up. Much federal welfare is being funneled to the region.
The coal demand for use in industry has not declined, however. In a classic cutting-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face move, the government is allowing coal to be imported from Columbia.
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