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Thing is this is by the metrics of the map creator.
Go to Appalachia and get to know those people - their metrics will be different than the map's creator.
Paradigm has a lot of influence, and being open to understanding someone else's will tell us a lot more than cobbled together maps like this.
Having lived and worked all over, I would be very, very unhappy to live in or near Chicago (or NY or Philly). That's part of my metrics.
It’s not about cities, tho, it’s about the whole state (trust, there’s way more to Illinois than Chicago). Also, this isn’t just about the metrics of the map creator, it’s about studies of wellbeing in these states. It says at the bottom of the map what metrics it’s measured on.