New York

This heat map tracks a variety of living-the-good-life hallmarks, filterable by factors like % of residents with bachelor's degrees (30-70% along the Northeast corridor, 4-10% in many parts of the dirty South), # of museums (only LA and Manhattan have over 200), and amount of venture capital invested, though the Dakotas' poor showing makes sense considering that meth labs are usually financed by angel rounds.

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