Billboards in Other States

• The entire states of Hawaii, Alaska, Maine and Vermont have banned and removed all billboards

• Florida is the state with the most billboards (11,000).18 Despite all of those billboards “boosting” the state’s economy, on a list of state per capita GDP, Florida ranks only 40th.19 On a list of U.S. Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA) by per capita GDP, Miami is 103, Orlando 132, Jacksonville 154, and Tampa St., Petersburg,

• Georgia, second to Florida with 10,000 billboards, is 29th in per capita GDP by state.  Atlanta, which scores higher in per capita GDP than any MSA in Florida, none the less  is only at 48.21.

• Where’s the San Jose MSA on that list? Number 2 in the nation! San Jose, without the benefit of new billboards for 35 years, has somehow managed to  rank 2nd in the nation on per capita GDP. It did so without the need for new billboards. 

  
  

  
  
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