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we're deadass gonna pretend like living in mississippi is preferable to europe now?
Reminder that the poorest US state (Mississippi) has a higher GDP/capita than any European country except for Germany and only by $1000
-17 upvote, 7 comments. Sidechat image post by Anonymous in US Politics. "Reminder that the poorest US state (Mississippi) has a higher GDP/capita than any European country except for Germany and only by $1000"
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Anonymous 11w

Does Mississippi even have any cities like at all

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Anonymous 11w

I’d rather be in Amsterdam than Mississippi

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Anonymous 11w

I think a lot of you think Europe is just Paris, London, or Madrid but there’s genuinely a lot of places in Europe where people are totally miserable.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

I guess Jackson is their capitol šŸ¤” Still that’s not a real city, that’s the size of like … any Texas suburb

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

Who wouldn’t ?

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Not everything related to quality of life revolves around how big your cities are

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 11w

I think genuinely 99% of people , if they could afford it (which is obviously the issue, cities are expensive) would choose to live in the suburbs of Amsterdam (Zaanse Schans, Haarlem, outer Noord) instead of Missouri Like sure, maybe not IN THE RED LIGHT DISTRICT but just in a quiet neighborhood? Few cars, lots of bikes? Who tf would pick Mississippi

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Mississippi has nice places as well

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

It does, but it doesn’t have anything thays a 15-20 minute train ride to like one of the most culturally diverse cities, and a quick 2-3 hr train ride away from like all of the Netherlands, Belgium, half of Germany, and Paris

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

This is true. but you forgot to mention that basically all of Mississippi is totally miserable since they have no high paying jobs there since there’s no cities Hence why they always rank near the bottom for life expectancy, education, poverty

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Absolute brainlet comment lmao. No cities= no high paying jobs???

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Uh… largely yeah. There’s a few exceptions of course, like remote tech jobs, doctors (they’re everywhere),and heavy industry like mining and oil people But cities are where the money is spent and where the culture is

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Anonymous replying to -> #4 11w

Don’t you know that the only high paying jobs come from cities? There’s no contractors or business owners! Unless you work some sort of office job in NYC or another big city you’re just flat broke!

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 11w

Have you ever considered that not everyone wants to live in a city for the ā€œcultureā€? And you dismiss ā€œheavy industry and oilā€ like it’s a footnote but in states like Mississippi there’s tons of people who do really well because of it?

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 11w

Correct, there are tons of people who do well because of it, but as the poverty level shows there’s even more who don’t

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