Last year, Christopher Ingraham of the Washington...  ...t wrote a story with an interactive map about the USDA ’s “natural amenities index,” a...  ...ties index,” a data set that ranked all the counties of the United States in various livability parame...  ...’ decision. -via Digg...

The USDA Economic Research Service crunched a lot of numbe...  ...the “natural amenities” are in 3,111 counties in the U.S. The results are available in an inter...  ...ounty, Minnesota, came in last place of the 3,111 counties ranked (Alaska and Hawaii are not inclu...