According to Zippia, which is a company that does something, Kansas is the fifth most boring state in the country. Which, to me, is amazing. There are really four states more boring than Kansas?
But I don’t mind boring. According to this “research,” how boring a state is, is based on percent of population over 60, percent of married population, percent of households with kids, and population density.
Zippia says the older the population, the higher percentage of married people and kids makes life more boring.
But in my way of thinking, marriage and kids are the exact opposite of boring. That is why I like living in boring Kansas; to offset all the un-boringness of being married and having raised a family with my wonderful soulmate.
The descriptions of the states by Zippia are pretty snarky. Kansas gets dinged for its shape — “a rectangle with four points of boring.” I mean, that’s just kind of like body shaming. Kansas is a rectangle, deal with it.
Also, the jury is out on whether older people are more boring. I believed that when I was younger, but the older I get, the less boring older people are. It’s a mystery. And population density being a determinant in boredom? I can say 100 percent that I’ve been bored at parties in which there are a lot of people and ones that were lightly attended.
Zippia crunched the numbers and found that Idaho, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Wyoming are more boring than Kansas. After Kansas, the most boring states are Iowa, Utah, Montana, Minnesota and Maine to round out the Top 10. I guess I have my vacation itinerary mapped out.