BEST CITY TO LIVE IN THE US..

no, an expensive city doesn't mean it is great... but there is a high correlation... revealed preference, supply and demand, prices go up in places where there is a high demand to live therei'm sorry it is not affordable for cops and teachers anymore... but i just moved from sf, and yes i believe it was worth every penny even stillsure it is not perfect, there are some diamonds in the rough... but for the most part, markets are efficientwhy do you think home prices are so cheap in mississippi or alabama, or kansas... the demand to live there is not nearly as highand so you long for lower prices... well obviously if you could keep everything else the same, lower prices would be better... it means you would have more money...but if you are so disgruntled why are you still there...

gavin sleeps w/married chicks wrote:

anEconomist wrote:

i love it - people brining up that some places in california are so expensive...

ask yourself, why are they so expensive?

so an expensive city means a city is great?

sf was once a blue collar city and affordable--you could be a cop or a teacher and afford a home. was SF not a great city then b/c it was not expensive?

tusker wrote:

Where did you move to from Asheville?

Dallas, Georgia in Paulding County north of Atlanta.

Shitcan, Mississippi....can't beat it. 100 degrees in the summer with 90 % humidity. Lots of low paying jobs, bad schools and practically nobody runs. (this makes about as much sense as alot of your posts).

Money Magazine rated Fort Collins, CO that # 1 city to live in the US.

Now Slower wrote:

Money Magazine rated Fort Collins, CO that # 1 city to live in the US.

that's why nobody from Money Magazine actually LIVES in Fort Collins, Co.....and hardly anybody, anybody knows on this board lives there. (unless they are a student at Colorado State U).

Does Fort Collins have a "vibe," like Austin?

I lived in Austin for 3 years and if you are a distance runner it is LOUSY for running in the summer. between late may and mid sept. very hot, very humid.

I lived in Madison, Wisconsin, for three years. And the running is lousy from beginning in December through the middle of March.

Sounds awesome!

Dallas, GEORGIA - where the redneck lifestyle is alive and well!

Dallas, Georgia is, by proximity, an outer western suburb of Atlanta. Located in Paulding county, it instead is home to the worst of the area’s hokey, podunk personalities. In fact, just before moving to the northern part of the county, we passed the Paulding County courthouse one Saturday morning to find a KKK rally about to take place. If you can imagine anything MORE horrifying, there was a Klan member in the parking lot being helped on with his sheet by a UNIFORMED COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFF. Had we not already purchased the house, we would have fled, never to return.

Ten years later, we’ve never seen any KKK activity again, but still, we don’t go down to Dallas very often – we usually go to the friendlier, more user-friendly town of Cartersville – which is, in my humble opinion, a fantastic little city complete with a world-class art museum, decent name-brand grocery stores and shopping, and nice restaurants of all sizes and flavors.

Dallas, by contrast, is small (a slowly-dying business district that barely covers an entire block), dark, and full of hostile locals.

I was recently hospitalized (quite by accident) at the former Dallas Community Hospital (now known as “Paulding Memorial”) where medical care seems to be stuck in a 1950’s vortex. The 20-bed facility reeked of urine and worse. The same three charge nurses handled both day and night shifts. I suspect my stay was lengthened by the fact that I had good insurance, as it seemed most of the patients on my end of the hallway were in the last stages of senility. I finally had to demand to be released, as some idiot of a nursing technician (who admitted she had graduated a 12-week educational program the week prior) had decided I needed a urinary catheter.

Trust me, the inhabitants of this town barely speak English! Let me add here that I am Southern as well – from a similar very small town in western Tennessee. So I know that of which I speak. There is nothing to do here at night except go into one of the closer suburbs where there is entertainment – bowling alleys, restaurants, bars, nightclubs, shopping, etc. At 6:00 pm, Dallas shuts down and rolls up the sidewalks.

The local county government cable channel is quite entertaining. Officials who can’t complete an entire sentence without using the word “ain’t” get up at various meetings and events and display sad attempts to make public speeches. Even the county solicitor (who is a local attorney) can’t seem to eliminate use of the phrase “ain’t gonna”. As these gems of Paulding county (of course, they have never elected an “outsider” – only native-born Pauding countians) are purported to be the product of its own schools, I am thankful to have no children!

So "Kenny Knisley" talks about why he left Asheville. "Tusker" asks where "Kenny" moved to. "Kenny" posts with the name of town in Georgia and lo and behold it just happens to be the same town "Tusker" is in. Interesting.

Curious question:

How long have many of you lived in the same location since turning 30 years old? How many moves and for what reasons?

NY runner wrote:

The city where you find the best job

that kind of attitude will lead you to alot of regrets, later in life when you realize life was more than 'your job'. Trust me, I've been there.

I know that find your spot website is f uc ked. It told me Brownsville, TX was the number one place for me. What kind of crap is that?!

Ironical wrote:

So "Kenny Knisley" talks about why he left Asheville. "Tusker" asks where "Kenny" moved to. "Kenny" posts with the name of town in Georgia and lo and behold it just happens to be the same town "Tusker" is in. Interesting.

yep, I'd say you just busted somebody... good work.

anEconomist wrote:

and so you long for lower prices... well obviously if you could keep everything else the same, lower prices would be better... it means you would have more money...

but if you are so disgruntled why are you still there...

who said it was just about lower prices? so many people in SF today are the shallowest bunch of people ive ever met.

i continue living here because of a little thing called hope. hope that these idiots who infested SF will eventually move back to where they came from.

Have lived in only one town since reaching the age of thirty--Austin.

duluth is a great mid-size town, IF YOU CAN HANDLE WINTER.

Beautiful. lots of parks, trails. cost if living is totally reasonable, good schools,no traffic, grandmas marathon, healthy running scene, close proximity to Boundary waters for canoe jaunts and mpls/st paul for cultural forays--it beats mpls, hands down in my opinion, if you can find work there.

Living in the Past wrote:

Have lived in only one town since reaching the age of thirty--Austin.

so you're the guy who rides his bike around on 6th street, in drag? A local tourist attraction, now, just like all the bats that live under that stinkin bridge?

Folsom was named The cronicle newspaper, Best city to live in the USA. The newspaper is from SanFrancisco, WOW!! What anachivement.