Recently a friend of mine from years ago contacted me saying that he was thinking of moving to Mississippi with his family….he asked what I would recommend and where…the following is the note I sent him….

Education…..

Mississippi’s graduation rate for the Class of 2009 dipped to 71.4 percent from 72 percent, according to numbers released from the state Department of Education on Thursday.

Obesity…..

The percentage of adults classified as obese went up in 23 states, but Mississippi, with 32.5 percent, stayed atop the latest annual rankings by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Trust for America’s Health. The same survey put the state’s adult obesity rate at 31.7 percent in 2008.

In addition, 44.4 percent of Mississippi children ages 10 to 17 are classified as overweight or obese, the study found.

Mississippi ranks #50 as best places to live…….it ranks 50th in savings…..49th in best educated children…..49th in health care…..ranks last in Gross State Product……or per capita dollars…….state infrastructure is falling apart…….just to mention a few of the “bennies” of living in the state…….

Poverty and ignorance rule the state and its governmental apparatus…..low income jobs are the best you can do…….would I suggest living in the state?  Not if you want to make a good living…I live here because of a 92 yr old father and a daughter and granddaughter……and a lady friend that has an excellent job (one of us needs to work)….if not for the things mentioned…I would be outta here like shit through a goose!

I can say that the Coastal counties would be the place to go, if one HAD to move to the state…..but since the oil spill….not so much.  All in all a cultural wasteland.