The Best & Worst Places To Live In 20 Years And Why

Research from the Gallup Organization shows the best and worst places to live in 20 years.

They used metrics that included the combination, or lack, of strong economic outlook, good health, and vibrant communities to determine where the best regions to live in the United States are.

The best places to live were associated with the healthiest lifestyle an individual could have.

You would thrive the most in places where residents have been shown to be healthy, optimisitic, employed in good jobs they love, and enthusiastic about their communities.

These are the very factors that optimize health in the long term for you and your loved ones.

Regions that had less access to gyms and were the most diseased where correlated to the worst locations to live in 20 years!

This comes as no surprise. On an organizational level if the employees and executives are unhealthy the business suffers more. Harvard research has shown that medical expenses are the #1 cause bankruptcy in this nation.

The Best Regions In The US To Live In 20 Years

Gallup examined 13 forward-looking metrics encompassing factors that predict future livability. 1

#1 West North Central Region

This includes Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas, and is the region poised for the brightest future. Workers in this area are most likely to be employed full time for an employer in the type of good jobs associated with high GDP. Residents have the highest economic confidence in the nation, setting the region up for a strong economic future. They are also the most likely to report easy access to clean, safe water, meaning that this region is best positioned to address one of the critical resource challenges of the future. 2

This area was also shown to have some of the highest health metrics out of any other region.

#2 The Mountain Region

This includes Montana, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, and New Mexico, and comes in second, buoyed by the lowest obesity rate in the nation and the most widespread access to safe places to exercise. 2

From all the research that Gallup has done, they know that the healthier the people are, the more impact it has on their bottom line. One of my Health Participants runs a $25 million dollar company. The amount of money he has lost is into the 7 figures because of abenteeism. That figure is not even including presenteeism! If poor health can take that much away from a business, how much could it take away from an entire region. We’re talking billions.

#3 The Pacific Region

This is comprised of California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska, comes in a close third, with the lowest smoking rate in the nation, quality workplace relationships, and the highest percentage of residents who say they learn new and interesting things daily. 2

One of the keys to health and longevity is your committment to growth and learn more about how to be healthier, more financially stable, and emotionally and relationally balanced.

#4 The West South Central

This includes Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma.

… it has the highest score in the nation on the Job Creation Index. Residents are also the most optimistic about their standard of living, with 54% saying that their standard of living is getting better, compared with 30% who said it is getting worse. This region also does best in future life evaluation and city optimism, which suggests that there is positive momentum for the future.

Combining good health, strong economics and vibrant communities together gives the West North Centra, Mountain, Pacific and West South Central regions the brightest futures.

The Worst Places To Live In 20 Years

For the other areas in the U.S., the future is not looking so hot.

#9 East South Central

This includes Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi, trails on several critical metrics and performed worst overall of the nine regions. People in this region are the least likely to be employed in good jobs or to learn new and interesting things daily, and they have the lowest economic confidence. They are also the most likely nationwide to be obese, to smoke, and to lack a safe place to exercise. That’s a killer combination, and it won’t help this area build the productive, healthy society of the future.

Again, we see the intimate relationship that poor health can have on economics and over all quality of life in a given region.

Dr. Jones’s Personalized Action Steps For You

I would recommend everyone move to the West North Central region. ;) Just Joking! lol.

Practically speaking, these macroscopic factors that give these areas the brightest future can also be applied on an individual level.

The future fate of any region isn’t written in stone, however, you play an essential roll in creating a better place for your children to live in 20 years.

Here are the top questions to ask yourself to maximize your future economy and life:

How is your wellbeing index?
Are you living a healthy lifestyle that will help to prevent disease in the future?
Are you learning something new each day?
Would you ever consider becoming an entrepreneur, to innovate and act on your creative ideas to start and manage a business?
Are you motivated by ethical conduct?
Are you energetic, healthy and productive?
Do you have a positive and uplifting community to surround yourself with?

These are the very factors that will help to maximize your enjoyment in life. On a personal level, no matter where you live, you can create a stable economy for yourself. You can maximize your health and social wellbeing.

The first step to doing this, is to take one realistic step forward.

If you want to learn how over 5000 people created long term sustainable health transformation in their lives watch this presentation. In the presentation you will see how over 5000 people lost between 15-100 lbs each, that they were able to keep off.

One key component to their successful lifestyle change was to create “momentum goals”. These are very small goals that you can easily accomplish that will create positive momentum in your life.

The number one mistake people make when they are trying to change their lifestyle, is they try to do too much at once.

I believe in you! You can change your health and your future one baby step at a time!

To True Health and Real Results,