AllIsOneIsNone
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I went to FSU....Tallahassee basically is FSU. Even then I'm still surprised.
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America's most and least educated cities
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I went to FSU....Tallahassee basically is FSU. Even then I'm still surprised.
If you go an hour outside of Tallahasse, it's definitely a different picture education-wise.
peteykirch
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Jersey City makes perfect sense...
Lots of recent grads who want to work in the city, but can't afford NYC prices.
Tal Shiar Agent
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126) Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA
Expected.
Expected.
46. Isn't horrible. Don't get their state listings because Worcester is listed as MA/CT, is there an actual reason for that without having to read through the study.
Edit: okay I guess it's for metro area but still kind of doesnt make sense, other areas on that criteria list other cities/towns, Worcester is not a sprawl.
Edit: okay I guess it's for metro area but still kind of doesnt make sense, other areas on that criteria list other cities/towns, Worcester is not a sprawl.
CrocMother
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Will be interesting to cross-reference this list with the General Election results come November.
Vulcano's assistant
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Yeah. I grew up in Jefferson County (the county east of Leon). Thankfully, I did not go to school in Jefferson County.
therealist
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This list is stupid because it obviously favors urban areas or places with elite universities. There may be a lot of intelligent people born in Bakersfield but none of them stay there, they go to cities where the jobs are.
Machine
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Lansing-East Lansing is more than a college town too. You may not have heard but Lansing is also the state capital.
Weird methodology to use the top 150 MSAs for this. There are a half-dozen cities in the #2 MSA that are each individually more populous than the #1 MSA on this list. It's a similar situation for #3.
Of course, by considering individual cities the top of the list would be stacked with Northern California and Northern Virginia cities.
Of course, by considering individual cities the top of the list would be stacked with Northern California and Northern Virginia cities.
SoldierIce64
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Bakersfield citizen here, can confirm this place is very uneducated. Growing up I didn't think it was too bad, but when I came back from four years of military service and traveling the world I noticed how bad it really was.
ViewtifulJC
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BMT-PA TX should be lower, shit. The dumbest mothafuckas in America are all located in that city. Glad I moved.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Holy shit, Trenton is on there? Was not expecting that.
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wants to fuck an Asian grill.
Brownsville is similarly really Mexican.
It's a big populous area, hard to compete with a college town.
Epsilon-delta
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Not surprised at Tallahassee to be honest, it's basically FSU.
Otakumegane
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I'm applying for grad school at UofM.
Seems like a cool place.
Seems like a cool place.
xVaalbarAx
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Tulsa is 97? I was expecting lower
lol, of course they had to lump in gastonia with charlotte
yup
Dangansona
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When it's all combined in one list it's hard to know when your city starts to shift into not so impressive territory. 62 is alright... Right?
LucidMomentum
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You have no idea. The oil prices / drought have just destroyed many of those towns on the list.
Yeah, Bakersfield is not somewhere I'd recommend people moving too unless they have a great job lined up or need cheap housing close to the better parts of California.
As to everyone wondering why those Central California states are so uneducated, it's because most if not all of them have two major industries - agriculture and oil.
For the longest time, simply having two hands and an able body meant you could find high paying jobs, either as a welder or a technician or as manual labor, etc. We also have huge problems with Meth and our police force is unbelievably high on the list of unnecessary shootings.
Hell I still find people out of a job who go to a trade school only to find themselves out of the next job they trained for when the economy dips.
It's very cyclical and very bleak. Not to mention the heavy GOP influence on those cities. Read Mean Justice to see a snapshot of how these places came to be.
njean777
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As the quote goes "never confuse education with intelligence". I know many people with degrees that do not have a lick of common sense, or are intelligent in anything other than the field they studied.
Fixed2BeBroken
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757 (va beach, norfolk, newport news) is 39....that's a shocker..I'll take it!
Mobile Suit Gooch
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Yes.
hey_monkey
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Errrr, I'm surprised to see LR/NLR/C on here at all. I've been gone from Arkansas for a while, but if that's a heavily degreed metropolitan area, I'm not sure what the hell it is they all studied. And the school system is really up and down.
Goro Majima
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Yeah I would say there's a strong correlation between the least educated places in Texas with the largest Hispanic populations. The Valley, El Paso, San Antonio, and Corpus Christi are all massive Hispanic population centers. If anything I'm reading this list thinking that there's a major problem with education in the Hispanic population that needs to be addressed. Although I also wonder if the mostly white cities of the panhandle and West Texas like Odessa/Midland, Lubbock, and Amarillo would rank just as low.
The entire golden triangle (Port Arthur-Beaumont-Orange) is probably one of the poorest, if not the poorest, part of the state despite the oil and gas jobs so I'm not surprised by the ranking. I used to dread traveling there for work because it felt like that whole area missed out on whatever prosperity Texas enjoyed. The Valley, by contrast and although the least educated, is really nice.
Killeen-Temple is that huge army base and all the fun parts you would have when you build a community based on catering to the needs of a rank and file soldier. Kinda reminds me of Lawton, OK.
That was kind of my point. That's definitely RI.
Damerman
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Yeah, that took me by surprise. Jersey city making it to the top 40 is awesome though.
STEM/Engineering/Staten Island bums flocking to UAlb/Siena for their fluff business/accounting degrees before they go back to the City and make bank.
partyphone
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it's no mystery that central california is at the bottom of the list. this part of the state is red and even larger cities like fresno and modesto are run by republicans. so you can guess how good our education policy as been over the decades.
we do have one really good school district here in fresno but only because it has been confined to the rich part of town. we have the same racial and economic segregation problems that almost every large city has.
we do have one really good school district here in fresno but only because it has been confined to the rich part of town. we have the same racial and economic segregation problems that almost every large city has.
Damerman
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Austin is like on big college campus from what i hear.
I had the exact same thought. I was happy enough to see the six Ohio metro areas at least all in the top 100. I'm not surprised about Ann Arbor, though. UM is a great school and Ann Arbor is a gorgeous town.
m_shortpants
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The south Bay where I grew up is #3.
Cool.
Cool.
This sounds like a fantastic idea.
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