• taiyang
    28·
    3 个月前

    Some of this is just social class. Irvine is a corporate run suburb that has huge parks, bike paths, and they kidnap and move unhoused folk to nearby Santa Ana.

    • RubberElectrons
      16·
      3 个月前

      Yep, fuck Irvine. You know you’re in their corporate reach if where you park has dark green striping in the parking lot vs the usual white lines.

      Supposedly the current CEO of the Irvine corp doesn’t like seeing white lines when in his helicopter.

      Ridiculous.

      • taiyang
        3·
        3 个月前

        Wow, TIL. I’ll hold onto that fun fact. I was there against my preferences to go to grad school, which ironically has a fairly good critical class consciousness.

        • RubberElectrons
          2·
          3 个月前

          It’s orange county, previously the core of particularly cruel conservativism. Nixon’s from a town over, after all.

          • taiyang
            1·
            3 个月前

            Yup. In recent years the wealthy immigrant families turned it blue, though. My comment is more that UCI houses a surprising number of marxists (which I guess anything more than one is surprising, lol).

            • RubberElectrons
              2·
              3 个月前

              I was really glad to hear about them getting rent control in Santa Ana, wish I’d gotten in on that lol.

              My landlord at the time was talking about it in a panic when it passed, as if barbarians were at the gates 😂

              • taiyang
                1·
                3 个月前

                Santa Ana is kind of interesting, they’re one of the few places trying to let undocumented people vote in local elections, too. Unfortunatly I don’t know if they were able to, especially now.

    • Drusas@fedia.io
      6·
      3 个月前

      Yeah, I would ignore Arlington and DC. They’ll be the healthiest because that’s where the owner class lives.

      So…Seattle number one, baby! We’re the best.

      • taiyang
        3·
        3 个月前

        I was gonna say, I imagine the air quality is phenomenal and likely contributes. The amount of green I saw when I visited was more than my So. Cal brain could process.

    • freshcow
      15·
      3 个月前

      Take a look at Henderson, it’s right next door to Vegas too.

    • waigl
      6·
      3 个月前

      The only context in which I’ve ever heard of that place is that big military cemetery.

      • TheFlopsterEnglish
        78·
        3 个月前

        I’m afraid Arlington cemetery is in Virginia. This is the Arlington in Texas (near Dallas/Fort Worth).

        Edit: Lol, I didn’t even look at the healthy cities. I went straight to the naughty list.

        • ccunning
          14·
          3 个月前

          I assumed we were talking about #1 Arlington, VA; not #83 Arlington, TX

    • blarghlyEnglish
      3·
      3 个月前

      Gotta say, thats pretty weird. Especially considering Arlington, Va, according to the wikipedia article I read… isnt even a city. I think most people would just lump it in with DC.

      Which is the real bias in this list - what the left hand list is saying in many cases is “here are the cities where we have most effectively excluded poor people from census data”. SF is full of rich tech bros. But the greater Bay Area has a lot more poorer people who will be in poor health.

      • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        I mean I know chicago is not that case. My first thought is I can’t believe it knowing the food love in these places.

      • Bob Robertson IX @discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1·
        3 个月前

        I think a big factor for both columns is public transit.

        Effective public transit will have people doing more walking and will result in cleaner air.

  • shalafiEnglish
    13·
    3 个月前

    Not a single Mississippi town on the unhealthy list? I don’t believe. No Arkansas or Louisiana or West Virginia? Those states are the Four Horsemen of Obesity.

    • SergioEnglish
      17·
      3 个月前

      Hmm, good point. Looks like the list is: Of the 100 most populated cities, which are least/most healthy. The states you mention only have one city (New Orleans) on the list.

    • MehBlahEnglish
      1·
      3 个月前

      Yeah, I can’t believe that either but we also are not seeing whats in the middle.

  • LaLuzDelSol
    11·
    3 个月前

    I went to Bakersfield, CA for work several times. I was told by locals it has the worst air quality in the US and I’d believe it; it gets all rhe smog from the big cities nearby. You can’t see to the horizon its just haze in every direction.

  • pigup
    10·
    3 个月前

    North las Vegas

    Las Vegas

    Henderson NV (south las Vegas)

    It’s because what happens in Las Vegas stays there. That’s why they’re all so fat! 🤯

    • Dozzi92
      2·
      3 个月前

      America has exactly 100 cities, got a get creative.

    • Zahille7
      21·
      3 个月前

      Or any other major Midwest city tbh

  • Somewhiteguy@reddthat.com
    6·
    3 个月前

    My city isn’t in the left-hand list: Not surprised

    My city isn’t in the right-hand list: Huh… good on us I guess.

  • IIIEnglish
    51·
    3 个月前

    Is Lincoln, NE on the healthiest list because their football team accounts for 47% of the total population?

  • shalafiEnglish
    4·
    3 个月前

    Tulsa?! I’m from there and it’s a surprisingly nice town, nothing like the rest of the state. Weird. As to OKC, we call that the toilet at the end of the turnpike.