[jonfw]

What if we looked at things like tax rate and cost of living?

People make more money in California, but they also spend more on housing, taxes, food, gas, etc.

[dumbfoundded]

If you look at quality of life indicators instead of economic strength, California certainly falls more than a bit but the red/blue divide grows even larger (1). From purely a quality of life standpoint, 8 of the best 10 are blue and 8 out of the worst 10 are red.

(1) https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/rankings

[jonfw]

Trying to build rankings of something like 'quality of life' seems pretty dense