Oklahoma Bottom 10 for business.

[HangryHippo]

Top 10 (worst) state.

[Bunty]

Top 10 (worst) state.

As one of my favorite sayings goes, "Life is how you make it". For some reason, it seems too many Oklahomans in making it strive for a mediocre or less lifestyle. It results in bringing down the quality-of-life rankings at the expense of ambitious people who don't want to live like that. Maybe it helps explain the lack of support for education. Healthwise, not all of us strive to overeat unhealthily and make our bellies stick out big and huge.

Kansas is rated a whopping no. 5 for education, compared to no. 48 Oklahoma. It results in Kansas having a higher per capita income than Oklahoma. Oklahoma leaders need to consult with Kansas with what it is doing right to support education. As a result, Kansas ranks no. 23 for best state for business. It likely explains why Kansas got the new Panasonic battery plant. But not everything is going well with Kansas, since it has been growing slower in population than Oklahoma.

I could advance the theory that Oklahomans are quite happy with striving for less in life. So that is why they do it. But it wouldn't work. Because according to WalletHub, Oklahoma is ranked 44th for happiness as of 2022.