North Carolina and Virginia top the charts as places where American most want to live, while California and Florida received the top votes of foreign respondents in a recent study, the Anholt State Brands Index http://www.statebrandsindex.com/ The Index analyzes the brand strengths and weaknesses of all U.S. states.
The survey polled more than 9,000 U. S. citizens and 12,000 people in 15 other countries on their attitudes and perceptions of all 50 states. Questions regarding physical aspects of each state, economic and educational opportunities, lifestyle appeal, people, and basic qualities and infrastructure were designed to give state administrators and economic development offices insights into how their state is perceived within and outside of the United States.
The top five most desirable states to make a home, according to U.S. citizens are:
- North Carolina
- Virginia
- Florida
- Colorado
- Oregon
North Carolina and Virginia also ranked highly as lifestyle destinations, and they consistently placed in the top 10 for climate, physical attractiveness, amenities, ease of finding employment, commercial opportunity, and education.
Perceptions of U.S. states by the domestic respondents are generally “more detailed and more likely to be based on fact rather than fiction” than those of international audiences, observes Simon Anholt, who authored the study with Global Market Insite Inc., a provider of global market intelligence. http://www.gmi-mr.com/
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