Big Global Travel ranked the states in America from worst to best, and why Americans don’t want to live in them. The second worse place to live in the United States was:

Kentucky

Kentucky is the bluegrass state and it’s full of sweeping fields and, well, the home of bluegrass! Yet, it’s a lack of jobs that sends a lot of people from the state.

United Van Lines once stated, “More than half the people who move out of Kentucky are leaving to take a better job somewhere else.” With the cost of living rising and the minimum wage at $7.25, some of the wages that people in Kentucky can get aren’t enough to support them.

This is the fault of the MAGA-minded GOP super majority that puts corporate interest over citizen survival. And most of the Republican legislators in the congressional delegation fully back the Big Beautiful Batch of Bullshit Bill that’s going to take even more money from poor people in the state so the GOP can appease their billionaire overlords.

Meanwhile, the state also is among the nation’s leaders in discrimination. According to the CJ:

Advocacy group Out Leadership this month released its seventh annual Business Climate Index Report, which ranks all 50 U.S. states based on the government policies and local attitudes impacting LGBTQ+ communities.

The report serves as a bellwether, Out Leadership says, alerting corporations on which U.S. states are making it harder for queer people to work and live, which it argues can impact the company’s bottom line.

In the report, Kentucky came in 37th place, positioning it among the least welcoming states for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer Americans. …

Data from the ACLU shows more than 500 anti-LGBTQ+ bills were filed in 2025 alone — 12 of which were in Kentucky. …

As many as 168,600 estimated Kentuckians, or roughly 5.9% of the Blue Grass State’s population, identify as LGBTQ+, according to a 2023 study performed by the Williams Institute.

Not to mention, we have an idiot congressman running for U.S. Senate who’s decided attacking trans athletes is part of a winning platform. That’s only going to drive more people out of the state because of its blatant intolerance.

Things aren’t going to change until the GOP is tossed on the ash heap of history. But that probably won’t happen in my lifetime, because MAGAt-infested voters here are going to remain poor and ignorant, tuned into hate radio and Fox News, and blaming their plight on everyone except themselves.