This is Motley Fool Answers. I'm Alison Southwick and I'm joined as always by Robert Brokamp,

personal finance expert here at the Motley Fool. How you doing bro?

Just groovy Allison, how are you?

I'm doing good. I'm excited. I really love America.

So do I.

Like I get, like I actually tear up every time I go to a baseball game and they

play the national anthem like I just get choked up. And so this is a great episode for me. Because

America. America is a diverse country and I'm not just talking about the people, but also the

topography, the

climates, the little microeconomies. This country has something for everyone. Mountains,

beaches, plains, deserts, you name it. Cities, suburbs, weird little artist communes where people

do macromay in the nude. We got that. I assume. I don't know for sure. I was going to say,

where is this place?

But what spot in America is truly the best for living a wealthy, healthy, foolish life?

And we're going to tackle that question.

We'll also answer your question about how to judge your investment returns.

All that and more on this week's episode of Motley Fool Answers.

It's time for answers answers, and today's question comes from Jordan. Jordan writes, Brokett mentioned a couple months ago that most individual investors actually lose money in the stock market,

because when markets drop, many people sell everything at a loss and call it quits. My question is simple.

How should I judge my investment

returns? Jordan continues, when I started investing, my goal was to make a profit and

then I shifted to a more loftier goal of beating the SP500. I figured if I couldn't beat

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