Source: American Fitness Index
https://acsm.org/about/community-impact-programs/american-fitness-index/rankings/
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.
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.
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.
It's orange county, previously the core of particularly cruel conservativism. Nixon's from a town over, after all.
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).
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 😂
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.
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.
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.
Vegas is so bad they listed it twice
Take a look at Henderson, it's right next door to Vegas too.
I once ate deep fried butter in OKC so I’m not surprised.
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.
The cities produce some smog but in the valley most of it comes from burn piles on farms.
TX is always #1 for being shitty in everything.
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.
Anyone know what metrics they used,?
They use imperial units
It's discussed here:
https://acsm.org/about/community-impact-programs/american-fitness-index/rankings/
OKlahoma more like BADlahoma
Is Lincoln, NE on the healthiest list because their football team accounts for 47% of the total population?
Texas is literally killing it
Chicago and Madison in the top 20? I call bullshit.
Can't speak on Chicago but Madison has a lot of very active residents. There are a lot of popular bike paths, parks, and walking trails throughout it. They also have UW and Epic and are small enough for that they have a meaningful influence in making the population skew younger. So it makes sense that its population would generally be healthier than other cities'. There is a lot more alcoholism though.
Puts it into perspective how nasty these other cities are
Oakland is healthy to live in??
I live in Arlington VA and I am sure I am bringing down that average. Sorry everyone in NOVA.
Yeah big fucking surprise here.
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