Re: OT: Vancouver BC - who can afford to move THERE?

On 1/16/25 10:02 AM, Tom Elam wrote:

On 1/8/2025 3:37 PM, -hh wrote:

On 1/8/25 2:59 AM, Chud McCobson wrote:

On Dec 21, 2024, Tom Elam wrote
(in article <vk79nm$6qc3$1@dont-email.me>):
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A few years back Alan Baker claimed

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How long have you guys been going back and forth calling each other liars.
Years? Decades? This beef is massive. Do you know what’s also massive? The
low-taper fade meme. Get a life. Watch Pretty Cure.
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The usual pattern is that Tommy trolls with some "dig" at someone. Naturally, the options are to simply ignore, or to fire back.
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This "housing" based troll from Tommy is an old retread.  He's a longtime resident in an inexpensive suburbia area, so its not hard to have a decently sized place due to its low $/sqft, so it becomes his basis to claim he's living in a Disneyland paradise and no one else can come close.
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Of course there's many other metrics besides cost per square foot of housing, case in point:
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"A new study by WalletHub has found that New Jersey is the 3rd happiest state in the country.
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The study compared the 50 states using factors such as mental health, divorce rates, and finances.
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Hawaii ranked first in the study, followed by Maryland. Utah came in fourth, while Delaware rounded out the top 5. Louisiana ranked last."
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<https://newjersey.news12.com/new-jersey-ranked-3rd-happiest-state- in- the-country>
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Of course, to find where Indiana ranked, go find the original:
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<https://wallethub.com/edu/happiest-states/6959>
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And we see that Indiana is way down in 36th place, with a score of 45.92.  That's a ~15 point deficit vs a Top 5 for happiness, which also serves to help explain Tommy's trolls' underlying jealousy of others.
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-hh

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So, if NJ is so great and Indiana so unhappy people should be flocking to NJ and leaving Indiana, right? Population growth should be in general highest where people are the happiest, right?

 Happiness could be a motivation for migration, but it can't be the sole factor for making a move.  Other factors include things like economics (job availability), finances (get a job), social network (desire to be suitably proximate to family), climate and/or geographical preferences, personal interests, pastimes, etc: its a long list.
 

Fact check next...

 No need, since you've chosen invalid initializing conditions by not being multivariate: that failure makes conclusions reached invalid too.
 -hh