Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

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Jul 18th 2006, 5:43 am

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Re: Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

Oddly enough Austin gets the nod as the #2 best "big city" behind Colorado Springs, Colorado.... NYC in at #10.

This list is very odd; for example, it lists HOUSTON as being #3 in skinniest people; yet Houston makes the top of the fattest cities list every year.

Jul 18th 2006, 12:19 pm

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Re: Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

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$329,000 median house price!!!

You dont' get shit for under $600K in Naperville, agree with the rest of the facts though, Naperville is a great place to live, it is where people who are frightened of living in downtown Chiacgo live.

Though there are other quaint towns to live in the Chiacgoland area, but I guess most of them slipped under the radar because they have fewer than 50K people live there.

I live in Wheaton, close to the Naperville border. Naperville is fairly nice, but full of giant McMansion developments with all the character of a strip mall. Downtown Naperville is terrific, though. $600K is about right if you're talking a fairly new 4 bed house.

I'm not sure how they picked this list. Towns like Northampton, MA; Putney, Vermont; Durango, Colorado or Bend Oregon are what appeals to me personally: fairly rural, lots of open space, ex-hippies, intellectuals, artists and clean air galore. They seem to have picked fairly unexceptional white-bread suburban bedroom communities (with the exception of Fairfield CT which is very nice but very expensive). Also, if you wanted to be really truthful, the more expensive towns (Guilford, CT; Half Moon Bay, CA) are really where it's at.

Edit: just noticed Bend at #86, it's one of my favorite places in the US I've ever been.

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Jul 18th 2006, 12:30 pm

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Re: Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

omg sugarland, tx #3 doesn't say much for the remaining cities

Jul 18th 2006, 12:31 pm

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lol houston down to #3 for the fattest cities this year

Jul 18th 2006, 1:15 pm

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Re: Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

[QUOTE=snowbunny]Oddly enough Austin gets the nod as the #2 best "big city" behind Colorado Springs, Colorado.... NYC in at #10.
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Not sure why thats odd - Austin is lovely!

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This list is very odd; for example, it lists HOUSTON as being #3 in skinniest people; QUOTE]

Now that is definitely odd!!!!

Jul 18th 2006, 1:15 pm

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lol houston down to #3 for the fattest cities this year

They obviously heard I dropped a few pounds when I was back in the UK last year

Jul 18th 2006, 1:17 pm

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They obviously heard I dropped a few pounds when I was back in the UK last year

think i found them when i was there this time

Jul 18th 2006, 1:19 pm

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Houston is known as the 'armpit of hell'.....

We didn't even make it...YEAH!

Jul 18th 2006, 1:20 pm

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Houston is known as the 'armpit of hell'.....

thanks for reminding me

Jul 18th 2006, 1:24 pm

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Re: Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

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I've noticed that this particular list often times neglects lovely areas with fantastic culture. It seems to me that they base the criteria mainly on schools, cost of living, employment rates, housing, taxes, per capita income and crime rate. Those things are important but certainly not the be-all and end-all to everyone living in America. We have to consider the source though - a different publication would probably come up with completely different results.

Indeed - I would have thought that the areas with the highest housing costs and higher cost of living are often that way because many people want to live there in a supply & demand kind of way. There are many, many places with low housing costs - the reason they are low is because they are pretty crappy to live in.

Housing, crime, schools etc are relatively easily measured, it is the international cuisine, theater, great hiking areas etc that are a little more difficult to ascertain in this sort of survey.

Virginia Beach over San Francisco? - yeah right.

Jul 18th 2006, 1:31 pm

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[QUOTE=TouristTrap]Houston is known as the 'armpit of hell'.....

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Got your CV handy? The local tourist board are recruiting marketers

Jul 18th 2006, 1:36 pm

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I work in number 37.

Jul 18th 2006, 1:39 pm

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Re: Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

Haha. Edison, NJ at #28. Used to live there and hated it.

Jul 18th 2006, 2:08 pm

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Re: Top 10 Places To Live In The US - 2006

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Although I've lived here 3 years, I've hardly been to Fort Worth except to visit the art museums and go to the rodeo.

What do you recommend I visit in Fort Worth, given that it's right on my doorstep? My little bro' will be here for a visit any day now, and I'll need some sights to show him, other than corn-fed teenage farmhands getting gored to death by huge angry hunks of pot-roast (as happened when I took my sister to the rodeo!).

I'd head downtown on the weekend. Since the Bass brothers renovated the downtown area ..... it's got great pedestrian traffic. It's a lot of fun and gorgeous to look at. Just pay to park somewhere and walk around. Plenty of great places to eat - depends on what you fancy. You can barhop as there are bars and clubs sprinkled around or just go to Billy Miners for a couple of beers and then on to Caravan of Dreams for some live music.