Best Places to Live in 2032

Here are the 13 actions used as the base for the rankings:

• Full-time employment
• Economic confidence
• Job creation
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships
• Standard of living
• Optimism about a place's future
• Optimism about their future
• Perceived learning opportunities
• Clean water
• Safe places to exercise
• Obesity
• Smoking
• Dental visits

Gallup-Healthways found that Horace Greeley's 19th century frontier recommendation still holds--Go West, young man. States in the West and upper Midwest clearly lead the nation as best places to live in the year 2032.

Here are the top 10 states, counting their national ranking on each of the 13 indicators:

1. Utah

• Full-time employment: 21
• Economic confidence: 10
• Job creation: 5
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 1
• Standard of living: 6
• Optimism about a place's future: 2
• Optimism about their future: 30
• Perceived learning opportunities: 2
• Clean water: 1
• Safe places to exercise: 4
• Obesity: 5
• Smoking: 1
• Dental visits: 9

2. Minnesota

• Full-time employment: 8
• Economic confidence: 1
• Job creation: 10
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 12
• Standard of living: 19
• Optimism about a place's future: 6
• Optimism about their future: 48
• Perceived learning opportunities: 6
• Clean water: 2
• Safe places to exercise: 1
• Obesity: 12
• Smoking: 7
• Dental visits: 5

3. Colorado

• Full-time employment: 10
•  Economic confidence: 12
• Job creation: 33
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 3
• Standard of living: 20
• Optimism about a place's future: 13
• Optimism about their future: 33
• Perceived learning opportunities: 7
• Clean water: 7
• Safe places to exercise: 3
• Obesity: 1
• Smoking: 13
• Dental visits: 12

4. Nebraska

• Full-time employment: 2
• Economic confidence: 6
• Job creation: 4
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 5
• Standard of living: 5
• Optimism about a place's future: 5
• Optimism about their future: 42
• Perceived learning opportunities: 12
• Clean water: 8
• Safe places to exercise: 14
• Obesity: 31
• Smoking: 24
• Dental visits: 20

5. North Dakota

• Full-time employment: 1
• Economic confidence: 4
• Job creation: 1
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 2
• Standard of living: 2
• Optimism about a place's future: 14
• Optimism about their future: 37
• Perceived learning opportunities: 11
• Clean water: 25
• Safe places to exercise: 20
• Obesity: 38
• Smoking: 16
• Dental visits: 18

6. Virginia

• Full-time employment: 9
• Economic confidence: 9
• Job creation: 16
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 20
• Standard of living: 15
• Optimism about a place's future: 15
• Optimism about their future: 20
• Perceived learning opportunities: 17
• Clean water: 14
• Safe places to exercise: 22
• Obesity: 26
• Smoking: 22
• Dental visits: 14

7. Iowa

• Full-time employment: 6
• Economic confidence: 5
• Job creation: 3
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 4
• Standard of living: 17
• Optimism about a place's future: 7
• Optimism about their future: 46
• Perceived learning opportunities: 26
• Clean water: 4
• Safe places to exercise: 16
• Obesity: 40
• Smoking: 34
• Dental visits: 19

8. Hawaii

• Full-time employment: 47
• Economic confidence: 8
• Job creation: 31
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 46
• Standard of living: 1
• Optimism about a place's future: 19
• Optimism about their future: 7
• Perceived learning opportunities: 3
• Clean water: 33
• Safe places to exercise: 8
• Obesity: 10
• Smoking: 8
• Dental visits: 7

9. South Dakota

• Full-time employment: 13
• Economic confidence: 3
• Job creation: 6
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 44
• Standard of living: 7
• Optimism about a place's future: 1
• Optimism about their future: 41
• Perceived learning opportunities: 23
• Clean water: 13
• Safe places to exercise: 9
• Obesity: 22
• Smoking: 32
• Dental visits: 21

10. Maryland

• Full-time employment: 3
• Economic confidence: 2
• Job creation: 24
• Healthy employee-supervisor relationships: 24
• Standard of living: 9
• Optimism about a place's future: 40
• Optimism about their future: 16
• Perceived learning opportunities: 19
• Clean water: 23
• Safe places to exercise: 27
• Obesity: 24
• Smoking: 17
• Dental visits: 13