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These Are The 10 Worst Places To Live In Vermont For 2018 We used science and data to determine which cities in the Green Mountain State are the worst. Nick James, RoadSnacks December 11, 2017 - 135,460 views Join RoadSnacks ▼ Share on Facebook This article is an opinion based on facts and is meant as infotainment. Don’t freak out that we updated it for 2017. Swipe left for slideshow. Article continues below. Advertisement. Article Continues Below. If you’re reading this, you’re most likely from Vermont. Or a nosy New Hampshire neighbor. You’re probably thinking, “Worst place to live in Vermont? Is there such as thing?” While Vermont might be one of the most charming and beautiful states, and ranking the worst places to live might there sound like pure nonsense, the fact remains that there are simply `better’ and `worse’ places to live anywhere in the country. Including Vermont. Is it all a bed of roses in the Green Mountain State? Of course not. Just like every other state, Vermont has its least desirable spots. The purpose of this post is to use science and data to determine which cities are the worst you could possibly live in if you make Vermont your home . After analyzing 21 of the state’s most populous cities (over 1,100 people), we came up with this list as the 10 worst places to live in Vermont: Johnson Morrisville Newport Enosburg Falls Bellows Falls St. Albans (Photos) Barre (Photos) North Bennington Winooski (Photos) Swanton What? Where are these places you wonder? And before you get all riled up and say we’re picking on small town America, that’s not the case. We understand there’s a lot of good in every place. However, according to data (which doesn’t measure things like beauty and ‘friendly people’), there are far better options in the state for making a place home. Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and see how your city fared in 2018. If you’re looking for something more national, check out the worst cities in America or the worst states in America. Advertisement. Article Continues Below. How we determined the worst places to live in Vermont for 2018 To figure out how bad a place is to live in, we only needed to know what kinds of things people like and then decide what cities have the least amount of those things. We don’t think it’s a stretch to assume that people like the following things: Good education Lots of jobs Low crime Low poverty Nice homes High incomes High population density (Lots of things to do) Short work commutes Health insurance The data comes from the Census’s most recent American Community Survey and from the FBI Uniform Crime Report. We broke crime down into violent crime and property crime to give violent crime a larger weight — if you did a simple calculation of all crimes per capita, property crimes are normally 7x more common and really bias that ranking. Furthermore, only cities with at least 1,100 people were considered — leaving 21 cities. We then ranked each city from 1 to 21 for all the criteria with a #1 ranking being the worst for the particular criteria. Next, we averaged the rankings into one “Worst Place To Live Score”. These Are The 10 Gayest Places In Vermont Finally, we ranked every city on the “Worst Place To Live Score” with the lowest score being the worst city in Vermont — Johnson. Read on for a detailed look at the 10 worst cities in Vermont. This list is a scientific analysis based on real data and is completely unbiased.
So there you go, quit complaining about Springfield. It is a wonderful place to live. You have the prison which brings along quite a bit of entertainment. For instance you would have to go out west to find a horse wrangler. The town is cleaning up the river front. You have great historical buildings like the Bryant factory on Clinton (bless her heart) street. The list goes on
ReplyDeleteSo, Springfield ISN'T the worst place in Vermont to live! (Not that you'ld know it by listening to SOME on this blog!) I looked at most of the towns that are ON those lists, and then decided to move here. I guess I made the best choice.
ReplyDeleteThe worse the place you live, the easier it is for you to make a positive difference. Look at Mother Teresa, who achieved sainthood by establishing a complex for people to die in! How much easier can it get? A town like Springfield is a lot harder to improve, because it already has good stuff going for it, but still has a lot more that the tenderfoot arriving in town can pitch in to make better. Better to be a player in sandlot baseball that a passive spectator in a skybox in Wrigley Field.
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DeleteChuck cant be that sorry today, he is strong willed enough to put his name on his posts.
ReplyDeleteIs that the best defense you can come up with, fellow anonymous poster? I offered some positive comments on this town, and got insulted for my trouble. Anonymity has its benefits, and takes nothing away from what I said. Practice what you preach.
DeleteAd hominem attacks always indicate the presence of a defective argument. It's just sad that so many of them appear on this newsblog; either Springfield has a lot of hurting people or one very prolific hurting commenter!
ReplyDeleteChuck, you attacked me. All I did was make a positive comment on this town. You responded with a zenophobic rant about people from Chicago, of all places. (Still trying to understand why.) Your bashing Mother Theresa displays an anti-Catholic sentiment usually found in people like Roy Moore, which is pretty disgusting. My question to you is: Who put the hate in your coffee this morning?
DeleteNo, I was attacking the OTHER Anonymous! You should consider having a tag of your own, like Alpen Jack, The Machinist, Boss Hogg, Philip Caron, and so on. It doesn't have to be your real name (except Boss Hogg uses his real name).
ReplyDeleteActually, it wasn't an attack; it was simply poorly phrased. I should have written, "The worse the place one lives, the easier it is for one to make a difference." I do, however, stand by my condemnation of passivity-- in the postulated example, in the luxury of a skybox at a well-known baseball stadium. However, for those offended by my selection of Wrigley Field, I'll use Ebbets Field instead. There, now we're all happy!
Except for Anonymous...
Ha! My name is not a tag.
DeleteChuck, some days I think I can understand what you post, but today doesn't seem to be one of them. Cheers!
And season's greetings to you, too, Philip! For some time there was some Anonymous posting under my name-- it might have been my evil twin, the brother I never knew I had. The blog administrator couldn't block or filter him, so I was constantly pointing out to all that there was somebody posting here that was stupider than I am. As a result, I assume that nobody posts under their real name here except me.
DeleteGood to know you're brave enough to join the minority who do!
Chuck, you must be a lexicographer too.
DeleteIf you sign up for a free Google+ account like Chuck Shannon below, then we will know its the real you because you can then chose to have all your posts display with the official Blogspot/Blogger logo next your name or you can even change it to display a small photo of yourself on all your postings automatically.
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See Springfield is a eutopia of paradise. Great food, shops, culture. And probably some of the finest heroin to be found. I was thinking about moving to Hawaii but now I am forced to reconsider and add Springfield to the mix.
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