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Don’t confuse New York City with New York State. The economics, landscape, education, etc., changes significantly starting around 50 miles outside of the City. The western part of the state is full of farmland.
Upstate NY state is beautiful!
I feel like all these British reacts need to do a video on New York State. Like they're all way too focused on California and Texas and even then, they still have misconceptions about those states. Plus, they ignore the rest of the Northeast who consistently perform the best on all best quality of life stats.
I live in the more western part of NY state, in a small town on the edge of the Finger Lakes Region and Western New York. There are literally more cows than people in our county.
Yeah, that's where all the most intelligent people live in New York State. Unfortunately there's not enough of them to out vote all the communist morons in NYC and the surrounding counties.
can attest to that as I lived in upstate New York for a bit.
For the literacy map, remember that he specified English literacy. California, Texas, and Florida have a massive Spanish speaking population where English isn't spoken often.
Yes, that doesn't mean they're illiterate! They dudn't make that clear enough.
I live in California, Los Angeles to be exact and English is most definitely the predominate language spoken here publicly. The majority of our Spanish speaking people either already speak both Spanish and English or are learning. In fact the languages are merging to give a unique version of both of them. I could be wrong but this is probably true for Texas and Florida as well as we live together we share cultures and traditions.
Here in San Diego we call it Spanglish.@@TheTonyahawk
@@ChefStone101 Funny we do here to
@@ChefStone101 That's not a San Diego term. It's used throughout the US. Most ethnicities have a slang term including konglish for Korea-English mix.
While obesity rates in the US have probably increased since 1990, in the late 1990's and early 2000 various organizations redefined the criteria for obesity, instantly making some people who were previously just considered overweight as suddenly obese.
They also don't take into account people's body type
Here I thought it was just an aging population.
We eat too many carbohydrates in the US and carbs screw up your insulin.
Obesities? Let’s not compare other people. Post a picture of yourself. You are for sure fit AF.
Yes! I’m 20 lbs “overweight”. Back in 1990, it was just a bit above average. In today’s scale…I’m obese!!!!
Literacy rate is reading and writing. Keep in mind the states with the lowest literacy rates are also states with the most immigrants.
Literacy rate referenced in this video was specifically "English" literacy. MANY of those immigrants are more literate than US born citizens but in their birth language as they are at least bi-lingual where many people born in the US are not even literate in the only language they know.
@@paulmartin2348 No? where in God's name did you somehow hear that literal MIGRANTS are somehow more literate than Native-borns. As someone from New York, I can tell you firmly that the vast majority of migrants I've had to communicate with know little more than "yes" and "no".
Interestingly, the fattest states also have some of the poorest citizens. The food they can afford to purchase is not healthy. For example, you can buy canned fruit, floating in sugary juice, or worse syrup, for a fraction of the cost of fresh fruit. Also carb rich foods like white rice and potatoes are cheap and filling. Whole grain bread can cost quadruple what nutritionally lacking white bread costs. Income inequity has just as much to do with obesity as overeating and poor food choices (for those who can afford to make a choice). That explains why rich people in the US are on par with ultra healthy Norway.
im glad to see someone bring this up! another big factor (at least in my personal experience) is how much time people have to shop/cook. i grew up (still am growing up, lol) in a household with one parent that works multiple jobs and who is almost always exhausted. after working long, tiring hours for a low wage, you're more worried about getting something in you and your families stomach than ensuring its nutritious. its easier and cheaper to buy a frozen meal or pop a digiorno in the oven than it is to shop for, prep, and cook a meal unfortunately :( food deserts and income inequality really need to be addressed here, our people deserve better
There's also what's called "sitting disease", which means when you spend more than 20 minutes sitting down it starts to have an effect on your body and metabolism, and doing so for lengthy periods of time on a regular basis can significantly effect your weight. Just getting up and doing a small stretch every 20 minutes and then sitting back down can disrupt this process. Food is absolutely the biggest factor, but doing the stretch can help a lot.
Also poverty creates depression, and enjoying food is often a way to cover that sadness. Also many of the poorer states have the highest crime.
Also, that jump in "obesity" after 1990? They define obesity by BMI and they changed the categories in 1998. Suddenly 25 million "healthy" people were "overweight". You can imagine how much that increased the number of people defined as "obese".
I have German ancestry. Never really thought much of it though. Just American. Some people really feel close to their ancestral countries. Irish and Italy for example. Seems like a lot of people are really proud of those :)
The rapid uptick in obesity coincidentally happened after the height and weight standards tables used for 40 years were replaced with bmi charts, which charged the standard. Effectively, prior to 1995, obesity was considered extreme. They changed both the measurement system and the standards to push the narrative they wanted. Just like when the fed gov changed the definition of homeless to include people living in a dwelling that was not their own. It makes the stats look extreme in order to justify spending. So many stats have been manipulated in similar ways, it's ridiculous.
I was thinking the same about a lot of these maps as I watched. People can make the numbers say whatever they want; especially when they rely on honest reporting.
@@RAndrewNealJust like gun death statistics include suicides.
34 of the US States have a town named Springfield. That's how "The Simpsons" keep you guessing just where they are!
I think we can at least rule out Springfield, MO.
The author of "The Simpsons" named it after Springfield, Oregon. (where his is from)
@@paulmartin2348 Matt Groening is from Portland, OR. Flanders, Lovejoy, Kearney, Quimby, Terwilliger, and Burnside(Mr. Burns) are all streets in Portland that inspired the names of characters from The Simpsons, btw!
The show has never said what state they are in. They even joke about it...an exec picks up the phone and says "Get me two tickets to the state Springfield is in".
@@LeeDanielCrockergroening has said it's Oregon.
I was considered obese after weighing 6 pounds more than the standard BMI charts (for my weight, height, age). It literally said obese in my medical chart 🤦🏽♀️
Don’t get me wrong, a lot of people are very overweight. Low income communities tend have more fast food restaurants and less groceries stores in their area. But go to a fancy area like Beverly Hills, not a single fast food for a few miles…
I don’t know if someone else already mentioned this, but Washington DC is not on the West Coast. You were pointing to Washington state. Washington DC (district of Columbia) is not a state, but a territory, Separate from all states, and the seat of power for the US located in Between Maryland and Virginia.
I giggled at that, too. However, I will give him a lot of credit for knowing where any Washington is located. Better than many US citizens.
@@kaseylewis2859 better than many citizens off his generation. I’ll easily give him that. Prior generations when they were his current age? That’s a different story (in general, but there is always a percentage at the extremes)
He corrected himself within seconds.
Washington state was part of the Hudson Bay Company's "Columbia District" (or Department) before it was a US territory. (Thus "British Columbia" was formed in Canada after the 49th parallel treaty split the region)
The territory was originally going to be named Columbia but they didn't want confusion with the district of columbia, so it became washington territory. But later the jackasses on the east coast renamed D.C. to Washington. (There were a couple of smaller towns within the D.C. one of which was named washington, but they made all of DC "washington" after the 1870s.)
@@TheDuckofDoom. thanks for that previously unbeknownst to me info. Cool. Not cool that they weren’t original with conventions.
I’m from Mississippi and honestly if you avoid a few areas like Jackson it’s a nice place to be. I’m from the Gulf Coast area and we are mostly laid back and friendly.
Shhhhh. Let's keep it a secret. I love tourists, but I don't want anyone moving down here.
Honestly this is true with every state
It's only the coastal area from my experiences.
There's alot of backwoods folks who are, how shall I say....
Eccentric
Hey don't let everyone know about us lol
I'm from West Virginia (and, thankfully, not overweight). There are entire regions of the state where the only groceries within an hour drive are at dollar stores that carry the absolute cheapest, unhealthiest foods on the market. Chain stores like Dollar General are heavily complicit in this - growing up, I watched Dollar Generals open up all over the area and brazenly outcompete local businesses. Other commenters have already said it better, but the obesity rates are not caused by plentiful food but rather by only eating extremely unhealthy food.
I feel you so hard right now xD I grew up in Northern VA very close to the WV line, wasn't too bad and had a decent amount to choose from. Then I move to PA and the nearest grocery store is 45mins away but there are like 20+ dollar stores, not to mention a Mcdonalds every 10 minuets. I also got to bare witness to the smallest walmart I have ever seen in my life, it didn't even have a produce section and only one freezer isle.
@@savian_is_spooked Yep! That's the rural experience in today's centralized, optimized marketplace. The corporations have worse margins and less return from serving us, so we only get the most bargain-barrel commerce.
The other thing about Dollar General that I didn't mention is that part of their business strategy is employing as few people as possible. They will literally take over a whole region's grocery economy and only produce a handful of jobs for it.
@@Shako_Lamb I believe it, I think I have only ever seen like three people working at the Dollar General near me. Of course their grocery selection is...well about as good as one might think. It's easier to grab hot pockets at DG then to drive an hour and spend $300 on real food.
Yeah it's bad. There's a couple of grocery stores local to me here in Western MA but the dollar general's are popping up. One right at the bottom of my road. 😕
The issue with the "safest states" is that it's usually one or two cities that are responsible for making the entire state seem unsafe.
German was actually the most common spoken language, besides English, from the founding of the country up to WW2. It's actually still the most common ancestry for Americans. Since the largest numbers came from 1776 to 1920, the second, third, fourth generations of family eventually mixed with other ethnicities, so the country is nowhere near as "German" as it was 100 years ago. In fact, the UK and France were very concerned at the start of WWI that the US might enter into the war eventually - on the side of Germany....such was the result of such a huge German influence in the country. As we know, that didn't happen given the historical relationship we had with France, the improving relationship we had with the UK in the 60 years leading up to WW1 and of course, Germany's aggression and their eventual targeting of American ships despite our stated neutrality.
Still a lot of German last names in America. Funnily enough I get along with those people much better than with the Americans with English last names. Theres definitely a noticable difference.
Also the fact that most US schools have a German language class
My aunt is from (West) Germany.
My father's family has German ancestry. During WWI & WWII they kept very quiet about it, afraid of anti-German feelings in the community. I know they were afraid that the government might also do something like the camps they had for Japanese Americans.
There was a children's game or poem that my mother taught us, "Where was Johnny when the lights went out? Down on the cellar eating sauerkraut." It sounds like Johnny was hiding and didn't want anyone to know what he was doing. Does the phrase "when the lights went out" refer to when we had to either turn the lights off or cover the windows and doors so that no light would show during the two world wars? My mother would talk about having to do that in case Germany sent bombers over the USA.
Insular German-speaking communities (known variously as Mennonites, Amish, Pennsylvania Dutch, among others) account for modern-day German speakers in the US, but historically, the US midwest was settled by a lot of homesteading settlers who got free land in exchange for farming it. I think the timing of the settling in the midwest coincided with some turmoil in german-speaking Europe, making it an appealing destination for German-speaking peasants such as some of my ancestors. The US's entry into WWI was, I gather, a spur to Anglicize and lose the German mother-tongue (at least for my ancestors.)
I live in WV. I paid $20k cash for my house, and it only needed moderate renovations to bring it up to date. It's a small bungalow built around 1940. I'm perfectly happy here. :)
When I was trying to get into the Marines in 2003 I was considered obese. Because my height compared to muscle mass. Best shape of my life and I was considered obese. I was 5’7” and 175 sub 10% body fat. Our stats are skewed lol
One reason the South is poor is due to reconstruction after the Civil War. Lincoln didn’t want to punish the South. But Johnson who took over after Lincoln’s assassination, dismantled much of the South. Couple that with moving factories to China over the past couple decades has made it worse.
My husband was career Coast Guard from 1986 to 2013. 6'4" with a large, dense bone structure. He was a runner, never overweight, never even had the slightest pot belly, but was always having to loose weight before his physicals to come in at his weight limit. If I remember correctly his limit was like 180, but this average weight ranged between 190 to 200. There was one point where he put on weight and got to 210, but even then he wasn't overweight looking because he had so much height. It's justs nuts how few factors they take into consideration.
I'd also like to mention the complete destruction of the Rust Belt a bit further North.
@@frederickdietz3148 also exported like so much else. Sad to see
6'4" 180?! That's crazy! I was miffed when they told me my 5'10" ass was supposed to be 160. I guess they want a bunch of bean poles. @@misslora3896
Another reason the South is poor is the fetishization of militant ignorance and medieval ideology couched in a silky mint-julep accent.
San Jose is the "capitol" of Silicon Valley: Google, HP, Facebook, and many other companies are located in and/or around it. Unfortunately, San Jose keeps getting overshadowed by San Francisco. Fun food fact for you: Eggo waffles were "invented" in San Jose.
I love that fact that I've been inside UA-cam and Apple headquarters, posed for a picture in front of Facebook offices, drive best Netflix constantly, deal with Google traffic on a daily basis. I live on the coast, and had to go to San Jose, where I grew up, during quarantine. My zoom class was like lightspeed fast, I looked up from where I was in downtown San Jose to laugh hysterically. Zoom headquarters was directly in front of me.
@@harvestmoon_autumnsky While I would make sure it never happened but even if it had I would rather die than even admit I was inside or even in front of Facebook or Apple. There are not enough showers available in a human lifetime to clean that from my soul.
San Francisco has a smaller population than San Jose, but it has always been a historically important port city and cultural center. When people in the bay area -- even those in San Jose and Oakland -- say "the city", they mean San Francisco.
New Mexico is so dangerous because of the darn chupacabras.
and those illegal Choonchamas.
thank you for that laugh!
True... While up here in Washington the Sasquatches mostly keep to themselves.
And the troll of MLG.
@@josh0g A surprisingly docile animal those Sasquatches or, as some would say _Samsquanch_
Born and raised in Illinois. My biggest ancestry is German, which caused me to take German my second year in high school. German class was full my first year of high school, so I settled for Spanish. My younger brother took French.
Things like high fructose corn syrup being put in everything and the removal of nutrients from processed foods have played a key role in big people.
That's 100% a choice made by the person choosing to eat it.
The number of times I've heard "oh yeah you're lucky you got that high metabolism!" as they lay on the couch motionless cracking into their third soda of the evening with numerous better options already in the house. ...And I showed up on foot or by bicycle, when they drive to the mailbox.
@@TheDuckofDoom. This is now multiple comments that I have seen from you which come across very judgmental. You may consider being careful of that. Often times the most judgmental eventually find themselves on the outside with a first hand lesson in why you shouldn’t judge. It is easy to judge when you have not dealt with what someone else has. You never really know what all contributes to the result of something you were not a part of. Maybe truly considering these other points people are making, especially if you have not been through them yourself, rather than just talking about how you do all the right things and others are lazy and ignorant, would help your points to have more credibility. Because right now you just sound like you have an obese ego. Which in my opinion is worse.
@@C2itUA-cam Exercising good judgment based on limited information is part of life. "Hey, maybe this crazed looking hobo doesn't really have free candy and I shouldn't follow him into that dark ally."
However in this case you are the one passing judgment on unfounded assumptions. You don't know my experiences or how well I know the people I was talking about. (Hint you assumed wrong on all counts.)
Observable patterns of action and consequence are a very real thing. Physics and biology are real things with consistant mountains of data. Not everything in the world is a randomly occuring unfathomable mystery out of a person's grasp.
Only a fool wouldn't try to avoid repeating the mistakes of others or their past self.
@@TheDuckofDoom. I would add, that a part of the problem with a poor diet is that unhealthy foods are cheap and easily accessible. It's not always a judgment or a discipline issue. Healthy food is expensive and providers of healthier food aren't as numerous as your local fast food joint. And while I'll be the first to admit that convenience is a helluva drug, many people simply don't have access to those healthier alternatives.
@@TheDuckofDoom. Do you know how hard it is to find food that doesn't have fattening things in it, especially when you are poor? Eating healthy food is a luxury not everyone can afford. Good for you if you can, but you are not everyone and some are living in difficult circumstances. Even bread of all things can have corn syrup in it anymore. And of course I wouldn't trust them to put everything dangerous in a food on the label as they will find loopholes around doing so. You keep judging the way you are and sooner or later the universe will respond in kind.
Maryland is the only state with the highest incomes in the country where the cost of living is still affordable. I hope to keep it that way, which is why I think it is a good thing we are a state that goes under the radar in popularity. Thoose high salaries in the popular states don't mean anything if it costs you $1 million dollars to buy an average home.
4:35, German immigrants actually came in a number of waves. The last wave was post WWII, when a lot of German POW’s actually settled here after the war, rather than return to their war torn homeland.
Yeah a majority of those Germans when founding the country were in the Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. Now post WWII they went to the same areas and all along the east coast even going down as far as Florida. I know this cause I am obsessed with German history and because the majority of my bloodline is German.
@@vaskylark Likewise. My great-grandparents came over from Germany in the late 1800’s, and settled in northwest Iowa.
@@vaskylark I don't know a lot about the times of when my great grandparents on my dad's side came from, but they are definitely German. My last name in English is Obenshain and in German it translates to Abendschon and I think the literal translation is beautiful evening. So I know that I am either 100% German or have other nationalities in me.
Then there was always “Project Paperclip”
@@ThePositive0ne1then you are aware that the US almost had German as the official language
@L3WGReacts generally speaking, wealth being concentrated on the coasts has to do with having port cities as well as states that have cities that serve as hubs for certain industries. There are also a lot of REALLY good colleges and universities along the coasts. In addition to that, most of the wealthier east coast states were the original colonies, so they had the benefit of being the first heavily populated areas to begin with. The southern states suffered some setbacks thanks to our Civil War, which left them playing catch-up.
It's the war they wanted, and it's the war they got.
I’m a size 8 (5’7”/160 lbs) and I’m considered overweight now. 10 years ago I was the same, and in the normal range. They changed the criteria. 🤷🏼♀️
Springfield is a common name for cities/towns. I even know one in Pennsylvania.
Part of the reason housing in Hawaii is so expensive is that almost everything needs to be imported, from construction materials to furniture/appliances, food... You have the shipping costs added to everything.
Your reactions are so wholesome. It was such a joy starting my day with this. 🥰
There are a lot of cities around the country that are named "Springfield". The most well-known is Springfield, IL. The Simpsons are from Springfield, Oregon. There was a time when I knew all of not just the states, but also the countries of the world and where each one was located. Without using that information on a daily (or even weekly) basis, I have since forgotten exact locations but, I can still get most of the states and I can also point out the general location of most of the countries. I know one way to remember two of the tiny states, Vermont and New Hampshire, is that Vermont points down and New Hampshire points up. As soon as you see them outlined on a map, you'll understand what I mean. One thing I noticed was that Kansas was never directly mentioned by the narrator. I guess we are not just the middle of the country, geographically speaking and only counting the "lower 48" but, apparently, we're also the middle of just about everything else.lol
I find it truly amazing how ignorant a lot of Americans really are when it comes to geography and, especially, the borders and regions of the USA. There are people who believe you need a passport to go to Puerto Rico! Even Jeff Foxworthy, a somewhat famous comedian from Georgia, said that, when he took his family to Hawai'i for vacation, some of his relatives complained they didn't have a passport and didn't want to get one. To top it off, when they did finally get to Hawai'i, one of the first things asked was by his brother who wanted to know when they were going to convert their money over to Hawai'ian!🤣 Of course, he may have said that just to get a laugh but, unfortunately, there ARE people who would at least wonder this, if they didn't ask the question out loud.lmao
I hear ya!😂 The sheer volume of dumbassery is frightening! I mean, who over the age of 8 doesn't know how to use a can opener?! FFS it can get depressing when you think about it 🙄😂
I heard that Springfield from The Simpsons does not have an official state it's located in. The name "Springfield" was chosen specifically BECAUSE there were so many cities named that in the US. The idea is that Springfield is wherever it needs to be for whatever story the show is telling. It can be near farmland, close to the mountains, or adjacent to a desert, if that's what is needed for whatever story a given episode is telling.
The Simpson's are from Springfield, MO. When Homer is a tow truck driver his business phone area code is 636. Also it's neighboring town is Shelbyville, MO. I have family that live in MO & I even lived there 2 years.
@@Stephanie-likes-StarTrek Springfield is a running joke on The Simpsons, the state is and has never officially been confirmed. There are multiple episodes what can back the claim of every Springfield in America. Matt Groening was inspired by his home state of Oregon, but the official state for the storyline of The Simpsons is elusive which has kept it fun for over 35 years. One of my favorite things about the show.
@@brianherold1835 In an interview with Matt Groening, the show's creator, he stated that he modeled the city the Simpsons live in after his hometown of Springfield, OR. However, as you stated, the episodes requirements will often dictate the location...and they usually almost always get it wrong. Look at Smallville, the TV show. Obviously, DC Comics has their own universe they base everything in so, feasibly, there COULD be mountains in KANSAS...in an alternate reality. lol
I live in Mississippi and have most of my life and it is rough most of the time in most ways. I make $13 per hour and have at least 10 hours of overtime (that's anything more than 40 hours per week) and I still live in abject poverty. The 2 redeeming qualities Mississippi has are 1. Her people- you will be hard pressed to find better and sweeter people. We are known as the hospitality state. 2. Her FOOD!!!! I'm not obese myself, but most of the people I know are and having eaten here, I totally understand. Our food is addictive. I love your content buddy. ❤😂
The literacy rate is highly impacted by both the poverty rate as well as immigrant populations. All of those in the worst literacy rates have a lot of people - so a lot of poverty, and a large immigrant population.
The biggest portion of that is definitely immigration. I was hoping the video would highlight that.
Yup. That's literacy *in English*. Many of the states with low English literacy rates have a lot of Spanish speakers.
Also what are the basing literacy data on? Testing in school? What age? We know that kids learning a second language need up to 7 years to be fluent in reading/writing/listening/speaking.
A More appropriate number would be literacy rate in any language. This one is only focused on English literacy but lots of the states have a higher immigrant population who are mostly literate in their mother tongues vs. English
A lot of us here have German ancestry, but at least in my family, my great-grandparents never taught their children to speak German because of the negative connotations of being German after the world wars. It was important to them not to be seen as in any way sympathetic to n*ziism or to be mentally connected to it by others in any way, so it died out entirely in our family. My great grandparents were born in the US and had zero ties to it, but it was such a fear to be seen that way in society that it was English-only and they only used German to talk amongst themselves when they didn’t want the kids to understand them. My grandma was born in 1946 and ended up eventually teaching herself a little German as an adult, but it has still never been revived in our family and I’d assume many other families with German ancestry went through the same thing in an attempt to show their American patriotism and revulsion toward n*zi ideas.
During WWI the family of one of my aunts-through-marriage changed their name from the German Krup to the Polish Krupinska to avoid discrimination.
You could be talking about my family. My grandparents were the first generation born in this country. That was 1908 & 1910. My great grandmother never learned to read and write in english very well, but she only spoke english to the younger generations. German was only spoken among the older adults, almost in hushed whispers, and like you when they didn't want the kids to know what they were saying. Eventually came to know my family were Prussian Germans and spoke high-german.
@@remlecat8511
They left Europe in the late 1870s after the Civil War. Things got crazy in Europe during WW 1, lots of people felt it coming and just got out.
I live in Alabama and we have a saying "thank God for Mississippi or we'd be the ones in last place" 😂
I prefer the saying....American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God. I love Alabama. I hope we stay unpopular. I am living the dream, here.
@@auburnkim1989 I feel the same about it here in West Virginia.
@@RAndrewNeal well you do live in one of the most beautiful states.
@@auburnkim1989 Agreed!
24:20 - “Springfields” actually refers to the number of towns named Springfield in each state. Springfield is the most common city name in the US, which is why The Simpsons live in Springfield…. They’re meant to depict an “average” American family living in an “average” American town.
And this does link back to Jamestown from earlier in the video; Multiple cities can have the same name, usually they’re in different states.
One thing they may have missed is the literacy rate as it relates to immigration. The more immigrants in a state, that aren’t assimilating cause that rate to drop drastically.
I live just outside San Antonio Texas but I worked for the Fire Department there until I retired. Home of the Alamo...also San Antonio covers more square miles than almost every major city in the US except Houston (665 sq miles), Los Angeles (502), Phoenix (517), Dallas (385), Chicago (231), New York (302) and SAN ANTONIO (505).
LONDON (607)
An important thing to remember for these stats is that it doesn’t take into account the city vs the country. For example, almost all of the homicides in the US happen in cities, so if you live outside of the city, it’s much safer.
When you look at crime rates per capita, small cities have high crime rates.
@@Lynn7015hb More often than not, smaller places don't have higher rates and somewhere that does like Albuquerque with 562,000 people (63/1000) and Santa Rosa, just down the road, with 2,800 people (83/1000), you'd pick to park your car on the street overnight in a place like Santa Rosa if you had any sense because crime density matters. Albuquerque has 970 crimes a day versus Santa Rosa's 6 crimes a day. I'd take my chances with 6 potential criminals coming into contact with me over the 970 potential criminals.
By the way, I was going to use Detroit/Ann Arbor or Memphis/Somerville or even Chicago/Joliet as an example but like I said, those places wouldn't fit your stance as Detroit, Memphis and Chicago are big cities with massive crime rates and I'm not going to bother running down the list of other cities infamous for crime and wasting my time looking for one that matches with what you claim. There's a reason they're infamous. If you think parking your car on a Chicago (37/1000) street is safer than parking it down the road from Joe Bob in the middle of nowhere, I don't know what to tell you. lol
You cannot look at totals. You have to look at the per capita.
Almost all the people in the US live in cities. Per capita is a better figure.
Bro random shootings of people who got lost and wandered onto the wrong property happen only in areas outside the cities. Also per capita there are more homicides and home break ins outside the cities. The suburb I live in hasn’t had a home invasion in years and we would be considered a city in the Midwest.
They also changed the definition of obesity… they use the BMI which only takes into account mass and height. They used to use body fat as well.
They also changed the percentage over “ideal” weight (which itself was lowered).
In the 1950s if you were 5” 8” tall and weighed 180 lbs, with a low percentage of body fat, you were considered healthy.
Now every professional athlete meets the definition of obesity.
The map that shows the minimum wages in the states doesn't necessarily mean that the folks in the states with higher minimum wages are wealthier. It just means that those states generally have a higher cost of living usually, so the state legislatures have increased the minimum wages for those states to try to make it so that everyone can afford to get by. But it often tends to be a spiral effect where they keep having to raise minimum wages to keep up with the cost of living and the cost of living keeps going up because everyone is making more money, rinse & repeat.
There are also many examples of the opposite, where states that have the lowest minimum wages also have higher costs of living, leading to larger populations of people in poverty. Just comparing the map of minimum wages and the map of average cost to buy a home, you see a huge discrepancy. In states like Mississippi, most people don't make enough money to afford basic food and shelter, leading to an over-reliance on federal funding to support a larger impoverish population. While a state like California, which has a very high cost of living, as well as a higher minimum wage, also contribute more in tax revenue to the federal government to fund programs that help impoverish states. Sure it might be a lot cheaper to buy a home in a state like Mississippi or Louisiana, but is a lot harder to be able to afford to buy a home while working in those states.
Yep. As a Washingtonian, I know this all too well. And it kills a lot of small businesses as they can't afford their employees. I've been hearing about mass layoffs in CA with their latest hike.
Unfortunately, due to interstate commerce, this effect starts to bleed into other states, such as the ones that don't want to raise the minimum wage. While minimum wage isn't the only factor in inflation, it has a huge effect on it.
I was going to point this out. While Texas still uses the federal minimum, most of the businesses that use it are your high school student jobs (what the minimum wage is designed for). The average income and cost of living in Texas make it a prime place for relocation, but people coming from those higher minimum states with outrageous cost of living are causing things (like house cost) to go crazy for us too...
Also, most companies don't even pay minimum wage. They pay well above it and it's still not enough (because cost of living inflation is neverending). All the fast food places are paying $15+ now even in states with their minimum still at $7.25 I live in Utah which is a $7.25 state but I don't know anyone that is actually only making $7.25 lol Everyone makes way more because you don't actually need to force a minimum wage. People won't work for peanuts so ultimately if a company wants workers they have to pay more. Utah has always had a very stable economy and job market and tends to stay at or above/below the national average in regards to job opportunities and unemployment, even during recessions.
10:45, sorry, but this is the funniest part. The confidence with which you said certain states incorrectly had me laughing. Especially thinking where Ohio is.
I live in Indiana, and most of the things people barely remember us for are The Indy 500, Notre Dame, and Hoosiers.
Also the Brickyard 400 for those who follow stock cars instead of formula-1. (East central Indiana girl here.)
I'm curious about his sources. Some of these maps seem off. Statistics can often be interpreted to fit specific agendas rather than actual conditions. I wouldn't put too much faith in some of these. That said, I enjoy your reactions.
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics."
(I just *dated* a stats major. 😄)
The sheer number of towns named that is why the Simpsons is named as such, that way you couldn't place a location and have bias for or against based on location.
Wrong, the creator of "The Simpsons" was from Springfield, Oregon. Do a 1 minute Google search before you spout non-sense please.
German was the most common 2nd language in the US until WW1.
Yeah, a good number of US cities even had major German language newspapers and there were grade schools taught in German up until the world wars made German connections unpopular.
When it comes to GDP, there's a joke that we say:
"California can literally be it's own Country."
Well I mean it was for a little while in the 1840's.
@@Lemonjellow "a little while' = 25 days and without quick communication channels to those they claimed not be part of anymore or the rest of the state it's not much different than me declaring my county as independent but nobody actually knowing. It's still a fun part of the history though.
I vote we make it so in these times. It would save us all a lot of headache.
I'd be interested to see how quickly it would collapse or fall under rule of invaders. But I wouldn't wish either on those living there, though they sure do seem to wish it upon themselves, the way they've been going.
@@moralityisnotsubjective5 I concur.
thats an old map illinois is not safe
Not all of Illinois is Chicago
Chicago is not unsafe …. As someone who lives here it’s not unsafe …. Read stats not scare mongering news stories
The map outlining the most forgotten and most remembered states is interesting. I don't think its necessarily that people forget that the orange states exist, but rather that people often have a hard time placing them on the map. I could easily make a list of every state without missing a single one, but if I had to place them on a map, the orange ones would be the ones I struggled the most with.
yeah...federal minimum wage is a trap in this case. Europeans have a strong central government and think that's an actual baseline when states can vary WILDLY in practice.
I live in a $7.25 /hour state and the fast food jobs struggle to get people at less than $15/hour . You can get a $12/hour job without trying.
My state has a minimum wage of $15 on hr. Fast food jobs pay around $17. I was able to leave my job at my hospital's urgent care and take a job at a liquor store for $20 an hr. Essentially, the same pay has urgent care less the amazing benefits. Some local employers have really gone back to understanding that if you want good people, you have to pay good wages.
The problem is that when you increase minimum wage, a lot of people get hours cut or just laid off. Especially in the southern states, they’ll fire US citizens and hire illegal immigrants for dirt cheap.
Fun Fact: if you take the entire metropolitan area (and not just the main city) of each of New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles you account for about 12% of the total US population; more than 1 in 3 Americans live in or within a commute of just three cities. The country is really big, but the population is really concentrated in just a handful of urban centers.
Massachusetts has a 5% tax on income. This money is used for social safety programs. State college is free in MA which may reflect in the low prison population. If the kid down the street has some hope of a future, he's not breaking into your house.
The reason you don't see New York in the higher income bracket is because NYC and upstate New York have very different income levels making the median income lower.
Referring to the high crime in the South, it’s a combination of poor educational opportunities, economic challenges and really oppressive politics.
Particularly the oppressive politics. If you look into the statistics of incarcerated individuals they're significantly higher for people from marginalized communities. They also typically receive harsher punishments which just so happens to mean less of them are able to vote.
100% but.... they keep electing those people. I grew up in Tennessee. Home of expelling the only 2 black senators and passing "don't say gay" laws. Birthplace of the KKK. A politician there could ruin your economy, pollute your land, and drive up crime as long as they hate gay people and minorities and boast about how christian they are, people there vote for them.
Dude! Find that map/puzzle I sent you! Georgia is right above Florida. I will say, the tiny New England states are hard to remember if you don't recognize the shape. Once you've figured one out, put it on the puzzle.
This is anecdotal, but the way each state takes care of its interstates is about as organized as you can imagine "50 countries" having the same department of transportation. One Christmas, we drove from Atlanta to Memphis Tennessee (about 400 miles, or 5-6 hours with a lunch stop). The entire South had been hit by a rare snowstorm. Slowly, carefully, we worked our way across Georgia, and Alabama. No major problems. Then we crossed into Mississippi. And what. the. heck? Ice completely covering the interstates, big rigs (lorries) were pulled to the side of the road with flashers on. We made it - barely - with 4 wheel drive, in about 10 hours, but most of that was Mississippi. Crazy.
There are actually a number of town names that are duplicated across several states: there are multiple variations on "Salem" in Illinois alone (to say nothing of other states, including Massachusetts, the most well-known/infamous), while three different towns named "Jeffersonville" were once strung along a single rail line. This is why, in almost every case, state is included when labeling towns on a national level in the U.S.
Obesity stats are trash. I'm 200 pounds with a 32 inch waist. Not an olympian but pretty good shape and am considered obese
I can tell you what's going on Mississippi, having lived there for about 15 years - Mississippi is king of YOLO. They make their own fun and do dangerous things for fun all the time! They're poor, there's not a lot of economic opportunity overall, but it's VERY cheap to live there and people in Mississippi live cheap and spend the majority of their expendable income on things like very nice vehicles, small ATVs and Motorcycles. Things like "Mudriding" are favorite passtimes, which for those who aren't aware, involves taking their vehicle out into muddy and swampy areas to play in the mud essentially. But they frequently do things like ford rivers in their trucks that are lifted up and put on mud-tires (think smaller versions of monster-truck tires).
Mississippi's a strange state, and suffers from a lot of it's problems due to poverty and prioritization. The general populace in Mississippi frankly just don't see the vast majority of life like most people in most places. They are generally very laid back and extremely hospitable and welcoming, but a lot of the crime statistics are due to Mississippi being very traditionally harsh on criminality, which is partially in response to the heightened crime caused by poverty. Mississippi (and Louisiana) just lock up their criminals still, while most other states are comparitively very lenient. I haven't lived there in many years now, but my experience was that many of the poor in Mississipi are what most places would call Destitute and live in delapidated/collapsing trailers or really just shacks and live by eating tasty food, but are often so poor that subsistence on decent/tasty food is all they can manage the werewithall to achieve because of long-term depression. There's a LOT of it in Mississippi, and Louisiana is similar in that way where you have a large proportion of poor in the state that just cannot seem to maintain civility any more because the difficulty of life becomes too much to bear after countless years of struggle to any of a number of factors.
A good number of the states with high German speakers would be in part due to the Amish and Mennonite communities which came from Germany back in the 1700s and remain culturally isolated by choice with little to no modern technology, so you aren’t going to see all that much from them on the internet.
But there are also just a lot of German and Scandinavian ancestry populations that have retained enough interest in the German language to choose to learn it. I took a couple of semesters of German in college as I wanted to be able to read letters and documents my family has from/to my great great grandparents who had immigrated from Germany.
The Dallas fort-worth airport is larger than the island of manhattan and is the 3rd busiest airport in the world for aircraft movements
I’ve never been so happy to live in Minnesota! 😂
Minnesota may be the best net money maker but you literally have colleges connected by tunnels to keep people from dying in the cold outside. Lot’s of nope there guy. Still love the state and all you betcha.
Minnesota is usually found to be the most liveable state. If you can take the short summers and bitterly cold winters, it's a great state.
I regret moving away. Planning on going back.
Hmm. Minnesota is an outlier in many of those maps. Punches well above it's weight but is in the bottom 20% for recognizability. Recognizance may be a better word but I'm gonna go with mine. Anyhoo, the weird people make the difference. They say the cold winters keep the riffraff out, and it's true: I'd like to leave. That said, the summers are awesome and the North Shore is the equal to many other natural wonders.
@@erloke the few universities that have tunnels are because of all the people from the south wanting to attend the excellent schools here. Lol. J/K. I went to a small college and there were no tunnels. We walked outside across the 6-7 block long campus in -20F. That’s why they make coats, hats, scarves, gloves and boots. Somehow I survived. Nobody has died walking to classes to my knowledge. It’s a fabulous state. Feel free to live elsewhere, less traffic for us! 😂❤️
Minnesota resident and while we hit top tiers in many of the better qualities, the one that stands out is the language most spoken other than English and it is Hmong. Minneapolis has by far the largest Hmong population of any city in the US. Most people will only know of the Hmong people because that was the ethnicity of the neighbor family in the movie "Gran Torino".
I lived in New Mexico from 12-18 years-old. Can confirm, it's dangerous. The meth use is rampant, like we were learning the "DARE to Say No to Drugs" in elementary school. Schools have metal detectors on every entrance/exit, assigned police officers to walk the halls and check bathrooms, we weren't allowed to wear certain colors due to the prevalence of gangs. Human trafficking and kidnapping is wild, a friend and I were caught, and that's a nightmare wished on no one. The poverty rate drives a lot of people to crime, along with neglect and abuse. I was stabbed once just for walking to the mailbox when I was 15. Glad I moved from the state when I joined the military. I've lived in Kansas for 11 years, with the last 3 years being in Wichita, KS.
One thing to point out- Iowa was low on cost of living, high on average income, low on violence, high on credit scores, high on literacy- despite being one of the least well known its consistently one of the best places to live. For now, anyways.
I made it to the "most dangerous" map and I see Illinois (Chicago) and Michigan (Detroit) marked as the most safe places in the country and I just tapped out. IDK where you found this but if the AI can't even pronounce the state of Vermont, I'm gone.
Or its proof that you don't know anything but Faux News.
West coast has shipping, technology and Hollywood
and farms, wine, tourism, finance
The issue is also obesity is often based on weight not actual doctor files so many "obese" people are actually just muscular and also north is safer because crime drops alot in the winter because it's so cold
Oklahoma resident here. It's the biscuits and gravy.
7:15 That's why people call certain states and cities "traps", Oklahoma being one of them. Because the minimum wage and yearly costs of everything locks you into only being able to afford living in the States that have lower living costs. Once you settle in, it's hard to get out.
3:48 I was born in the Midwest, and raised upon the mid-westerner principals. There is a neighborly way that people treat each other up there and a lot of people are generally nice. It is said that they are some of the nicest people in the US. I've always chalked up the safety of the midwest to the friendliness of midwesterners and the lack of major populated cities, a bunch of small towns where most people know each other or at least recognize each other because the towns are so small.
Lewis, we had really good food before the obesity rates began to skyrocket. What that shows is the impact of High Fructose Corn Syrup.
High Fructose Corn Syrup is a very stable sugar, but it has an insane amount of calories, effectively doubling, even tripling the calories in our food.
Plus the paramaters for obesity changed, bizarrely, to not really account for actual body fat but mainly focus only on height and weight. My mom and I could always wear the same size clothes. She weighed probably 25 pounds less than me. She was small framed. I've always been naturally muscular. One day I was in the totally normal range, and next dr appointment I was suddenly overweight without gaining any weight. lol. Weird.
HFCS, from what I have read/ seen, has properties very similar to addictive substances. If you like syrup on your pancakes, and don’t use real maple syrup, it is almost 100% HFCS. Most sugary drinks have it as an ingredient and you don’t realize you crave it instead off have a taste for it.
Between 1990 and 2009, video games and computers became extremely popular.
that minimum wage map mis very misleading. yes the wage is higher in those states, but so is the cost of living so it actually balances out quite a bit. its really just a map of inflation. Edit: i posted that before watching the next map lol.
Cost of living is dramatically different across the USA
Lewis, I live on the beautiful Mississippi Gulf Coast in Ocean Springs. It was rated in the top 10 best coastal city to live in by USA Today this past year. We are, unfortunately, aware of the negative statistics regarding our state, but can assure you that if they were to separate our state into a North MS and a South MS, it would be a completely different story. If you find a minute, check it out & you’d see what I mean.
Agreed, I live in the next county north. There is also a skew when considering crime stats. Take Jackson out and the crime goes way down. Jackson accounts for 6% of the population and over half of all homicides in the state. The obesity thing is certainly true though. I don't think we have massive food deserts the way some people seem to though. All the places I have lived in the state have grocery stores within a 10 to 15 minute drive. I think the issue isn't lack of options, it's abundance of convenience.
One of my favorite facts about Texas is that, behind hispanics and african-americans, vietnamese is our largest minority group. It's the last one anyone would expect.
The obesity criteria aren't realistic. At 6' 2" my body mass index is 28.9. BMI of 30 and above is considered obese.
The fact that you linked to the original video earned a like from me!
What's classified as obese in the US is really difficult due to the fact that muscle mass. Or fat can contribute just as much weight, which makes it a lot more difficult to determine. Also yeah just really good food in general😅
Dude, as a guy who grew up here setting tile in the mountains, we don't get big off celery and kale... we're eating good by world standards... admittedly we get too much of a good thing.
I agree. Also they lowered the weight they call 'obese'. When I was in high school I technically was overweight. But I had muscle mass and the doctor said not to worry about it.
@@bluflaam777 I was having the same problem.
I don't know, maybe we're just a bit too strict on what we call obese. Maybe maybe there should be a system where you go for fat VS muscle mass? I don't know how that would work but.
Maybe🤔
Exactly! There's a huge difference between slightly overweight, moderately overweight, very overweight and grossly overweight. Too many people are obese, but I sure don't see the percentages he's listing!
@@RogCBrand Yeah, I'm only like 228 pounds. And yet i'm considered obese
Springfield is a common city name in the US. The Simpsons make a lot of jokes about what state they are in but Matt Groenig was schooled in Oregon and the Simpsons' Springfield shares a lot in common with Springfield Oregon.
If you look at the population of just Dallas, yes it's lower,but Dallas and Fort Worth are merged into one large metropolitan area. Usually, it is referred to as the DFW area. DFW is much higher on the population chart and is certainly larger than San Antonio. There seems to be a lot of context missing from some of these maps. BTW, I'm from Oklahoma and I certainly am not seeing obesity in 40%-45% of the population. It does exist, but not at that scale. I would like for these videos to give dependable sources for their info, and make sure that info is in context.
I was pretty shocked by some of the numbers. However, keep in mind that the obesity rates are defined by BMI. Any male athlete, and a lot of female, would be considered overweight.
There's of course a difference in comparing city populations and metro areas. DFW is 4th in the US, but then you get into arguments about how metro areas are defined. For example, the Bay Area is broken up into several metro areas ranking them 13th, 36th, and lower. If you actually combined just the SF and SJ breakdowns, which most would say is more than logical, they'd be 6th in the US. Add in the metros areas *some* people would include in that and you're right up there in the top 3.
Holy crap. I am so excited to see my state win a fee major things in a video. Minnesota is typically forgotten. Great video.
Don't get confused between Washington State and Washington D.C. (DC short for District of Columbia,) where the capital is located. Partly in Maryland and partly in Virginia.
Springfield would be the name of the city or town.
Top left corner is Washington State. Washington D.C. is on the east coast, surrounded by Maryland. Look at a map with the names of each state.
Also, the Philippines is a very close ally of the US and even used to be a territory that we got after the Spanish-American war. If you remember that so it makes sense that a lot of people after we set. Yeah, you can be your own country. So long as we get to keep military bases, there came to just live in the us 🇺🇲🤔
So a little bit of clarification on the "wealthy" states the states that have the highest minimum wage are also the states that have the highest cost of living. In contrast the states that have the lowest minimum wage have the lowest cost of living. In most of the states where they pay $7.25 per hour a person who manages their money can actually live off that income. But the states that pay $15+ per hour most of there residents can't afford to live alone let alone buy a house in their states. There was a news story about a person who works for the post office that lives in Washington state who makes over $20 an hour but they can't afford to even rent an apartment and pay all the bills without a 2nd and almost 3rd income where that same job in a place like Kansas you will be able to afford to actually buy a house pay all your bills and have money left over to spend on stupid things to gorge yourself with on just the one income.
There are multiple cities named Springfield in the US
Isn't Springfield just past Boonville on your way to Lincoln, or is that the turn off to Washington?
In regards to Maine being richer than 90 more countries, the one stat that always blows me away, is if you’re American, you’re richer than 60% of the world.
I'm from Ohio and here's a hint it is considered the heart of the country. It is the most heart like shaped State out of every state that we have.
That's cool. My state looks like a hand flipping the bird. WV.
I’m live in Ohio too. And our slogan is “The heart of it all”
My husband is from Ohio. I have never heard this. I’ll have to ask him if it was mentioned a lot, growing up.
@@kaseylewis2859 Oh yeah, the heart theme in Ohio is super common. I've often seen the shape of the state to be used instead of a heart when it comes to patriotic stuff. It's often referred to as the "heartland."
Nah. Ohio is the trailer park meth lab of the states
I am an American who speaks German, and so does my American husband. There are actually German colonies in the US where German is more commonly spoken than English. For example, Pennsylvania Dutch that the Amish speak is actually German and not Dutch. Their ancestors were Swiss and spoke Swiss German, not Dutch. There are also German colonies in Texas
The states with the lowest English literacy were the same states with the most amount of immigrants. Despite what people say, the US does not have an official language - it’s not English. Those people are obviously literate, albeit in (likely) Spanish.
Bro I'm shocked about the German coverage here in the states too. I'm born and raised here, I have been learning a lot from your videos. Keep it up.
Germans came in great numbers!. Including New York. Our very first year of our public education starts with Kindergarten. Then comes 1st grade through 12th grade. (Age 18). Kindergarten is because if the German influence early on. Every state has Kindergarten.
As a citizen of the US I wanted to point out a few things.... for one, the income levels surrounding the DMV area (DC, northern VA, and parts of MD) tend to be higher for those citizens because a majority tend to work for the federal govt in DC. I grew up in the NoVA area and nearly everyone that lived around us worked in DC or at one of the military installations in the vicinity. We make a lot of money but it takes a lot of money to live in these areas.
The states with the highest obesity and death rates are also some of the poorest states . Unfortunately, we make it nearly impossible for poor Americans to eat healthy, truly healthy. These poorer Americans also have more difficulties accessing proper dental and medical care which can significantly impact their longevity.
I also think that many that are not US citizens confuse the city of New York for the entire state. New York has some rural areas and is an entire state that contains NYC but is not only NYC.
Superimpose the life expectancy map over the ancestry map. There's a correlation between the two. (e.g., the life expectancy in japan is 84 years. In Hawaii, with it's majority Japanese ancestry? 81 years, the highest in the U.S.)
(Edit: Also, life expectancy has a connection to urban inner city homicides, which are predominantly young males 18-25. That high level of death affects the overall life expectancy.
Many of these maps suggest cause/effect.)
When it kept talking about Mississippi I kept thinking of the movie Annapolis when he explains why James Franko is his Mississippi 😂😂
The key term when comparing literacy is "English." People are literate but in languages other than English, like Spanish. Also, New York City is in the state of New York, so there is more than just NYC when it comes to configuring the state's statistics.
Poverty and strong gun culture contribute to the crime statistics about Mississippi. It’s at the bottom in education, life span, health, etc. The south in general scores poorly in many areas. The history of slavery and segregation as well as the Civil War have contributed to this situation. This area has the highest concentration of poverty and much follows from that.
I moved to the south from the west and gained 100 pounds in a year. I don't know why, but food there is just cooked different
My aunt went back to Tennessee with my great-grandmother, to see our distant cousins, and she told me they fried everything, with the food all dripping with grease! Fried food can taste great, but it's not something you want to eat too often!
It’s true, I moved from Louisiana to Colorado and lost 110 pounds.
As any southern mama will tell you it's because they add a special ingredient they cook with love
Plus you can’t move to walk it off unless you want to melt from all the humidity.
@@linmonPIE I've only been down there once, when I changed planes in Atlanta and I'd never, in my whole life, experienced that kind of heat/humidity!
The literacy map is basically just a map of where there are high levels of immigrants, who unsurprisingly may not have the strongest english skills because most of them came from places where english was not the official language.
To be fair if you saw me you'd say ya he's a little overweight but he's not obese but the BMI index says I'm obese. Heck I was considered overweight and was deadlifting 400 pounds and benching 250 as a 200 pound guy.
Last year I moved across the country and my roommate was raving about how our new home is "so much cheaper" than my last one and I've been telling him that it's about the same and now I have some graphs to support my arguments lol
I live in Colorado. Let's gooo
24:30 Most US states have a city named Springfield after Springfield, Massachusetts as the city has played such a large pivotal role in US History.
Indiana is actually a great state. The reason it's not very memorable is because the bulk of it is fields. Low cost of living, low crime, medium wages, mostly rural folk who tend to be towards niceness. Probably a little chubbier than a lot of places, but the primary problem plaguing Indiana is the drug epidemic. It's hard to find someone that at least doesn't smoke pot.
That and demogorgans
🎉Indiana represent!🎉
I’m in east central Indiana myself.
@@minskacatral7904 *fist bump* Southwest here.
I studied German for twelve years and lived in Germany as an Exchange Student after high school and before starting college. You are right that’s not common everywhere, except possibly among the Amish/Mennonite communities in the area I live (Midwest). However, there are states/regions that have more likelihood of German still being spoken at home after English.
Bruh I am 6ft and weigh 215. I am considered obese. Btw man you did great on naming states. There are high school students who live here and could not be able to name as many. I personally would struggle to point out 10 European countries. Ich spreche Deutche lol. It was never brought up in chat so I never mentioned lol.
6' and 215, unless you're working out and all muscle, is certainly heavy. I'm 6'3" and have never been over 190. I'm far from my ideal weight at that.
sold on Minnesota. Frenchtastic was there. it's really dope. Weather, income,crime and literacy