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Old Nov 17th 2014, 6:13 pm
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Mostly in Ohio by the looks of it.
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Old Nov 17th 2014, 6:31 pm
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Yup..they admit that.
None in California...
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and 13 of them are in OHIO???
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'Our list was dominated by the Midwest, or more specifically by Ohio suburbs. This is likely due to several factors, most notably a reasonable cost of living.'
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The only place listed in Texas is "West University Place" in Houston. There are a lot of suburbs in the sprawling Houston area, but West U is not one of them, it's 5 miles from downtown, or "a 17.7-minute trip from the Houston-Woodlands-Sugar Land metropolitan area", as their description states.

I think their research might be a bit lacking.
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Two in TN, two in AL, but none in NC, SC, or GA, and only one in TX. Something is seriously screwy with their methodology.
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Originally Posted by Hotscot
'Our list was dominated by the Midwest, or more specifically by Ohio suburbs. This is likely due to several factors, most notably a reasonable cost of living.'
The nicest suburbs I've seen are places like:
Tiburon, CA
Wellesley Hills, MA
Mercer Island, WA
Belle Meade, TN
Winnetka, IL
Darien, CT
Alpine, NJ

These towns are all extremely nice places to live but they are far, far from affordable. The list in the link is less a list of "best money-no-object places to live" and more about "nice places that normal people can actually afford".

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They sound hideous.
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Originally Posted by Hiro11
The nicest suburbs I've seen are places like:
Tiburon, CA
Wellesley Hills, MA
Mercer Island, WA
Belle Meade, TN
Winneka, IL
Darien, CT
Alpine, NJ

These towns are all extremely nice places to live but they are far, far from affordable. This list is less a list of "best money-no-object places to live" and more about "nice places that normal people can actually afford".
For most people "best" would necessarily be contained in a subset of ones they could actually afford to live in. The "best" original painting to decorate my living room would not be Monet's "Water Lilies" no matter how much I like the picture.
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
They sound hideous.
I know the two Kansas ones that are listed quite highly. It would be politic of me to describe them as "pleasant". Read into that what you will.
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Mmmm. Flyover states with either bad weather or high membership of the God Squad. Not my cup of tea. The only one I know well is Ballwin Mo as my ex brother in law lived there. I was not fond of Missouri
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
They sound hideous.
Says she who lives in (near?) Solihull.
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Originally Posted by sir_eccles
I know the two Kansas ones that are listed quite highly. It would be politic of me to describe them as "pleasant". Read into that what you will.
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Mmmm. Flyover states with either bad weather or high membership of the God Squad. Not my cup of tea. The only one I know well is Ballwin Mo as my ex brother in law lived there. I was not fond of Missouri
I would imagine them to be like that.

I don't live in Solihull now, although it's actually fairly cool there and I wouldn't mind. You can be in a London on the train in about 1 1/2 hrs. It has a population of over 200,000 for a start. I took my location off my profile because the weirdo-type people seem to comment on it, like the tinfoil UKIP bloke.

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Having lived in Ohio for over 5 years, I am familiar some of those, but the only one I really liked, and still do, was Dublin. Signal Mountain, TN is nice, but some of the property tends to be expensive.
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