Quality of life is a major factor in where Americans choose to work, live and make major purchases including homes. These states are the nation's worst.
Tangential, but a couple years back I got trapped in Dallas on a connection. Basically as I get off the plane at DFW the entire airport is going insane, people are screaming at every single ticket counter and courtesy booth, people are bracing bathroom doors because they want to sleep in there, etc. I do some googling and figure out that the expectation is to ground flights because of bad weather and maybe one in every ten planes was taking off. Except… DFW is like 60 degrees on a December afternoon and, destination wise, only one or two states are getting hammered (albeit, one of them is mine…).
So they basically shut down EVERY flight that night on the mere threat of snow. I decided to not fight people for spots on planes the next morning and just take a 36 hour layover and was literally in short sleeves in December on my way to the rental car area. While DFW was afraid of a winter weather advisory… Was chatting with the family I shuttled to their hotel that my plane was never going to take off but basically every other one should have.
I will always mock how unprepared ORD is for being Chicago. But at least they actually need snow to shut down for snow.
Tangential, but a couple years back I got trapped in Dallas on a connection. Basically as I get off the plane at DFW the entire airport is going insane, people are screaming at every single ticket counter and courtesy booth, people are bracing bathroom doors because they want to sleep in there, etc. I do some googling and figure out that the expectation is to ground flights because of bad weather and maybe one in every ten planes was taking off. Except… DFW is like 60 degrees on a December afternoon and, destination wise, only one or two states are getting hammered (albeit, one of them is mine…).
So they basically shut down EVERY flight that night on the mere threat of snow. I decided to not fight people for spots on planes the next morning and just take a 36 hour layover and was literally in short sleeves in December on my way to the rental car area. While DFW was afraid of a winter weather advisory… Was chatting with the family I shuttled to their hotel that my plane was never going to take off but basically every other one should have.
I will always mock how unprepared ORD is for being Chicago. But at least they actually need snow to shut down for snow.