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 Post subject: NMR: Best Places to live poll
PostPosted: Wed Jul 19, 2006 9:54 am 
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http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag ... 06/top100/

My town is number #60, which is fairly respectable for the midwest..

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Is it DMB that lives in Naperville, IL?
...The #2 city in the country.
It is nice, but a bit too far from the Big City for me, and the downtown can get a bit congested. Still... I like going there every now and then and taking a stroll on the Riverwalk.

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I'm not one of the automatic List-haters, but with Columbia, Maryland at #4, I'm throwing this one out the window. That place should be fumigated based on street names alone:

Broken Land Parkway
Autumn Rust Road
Hemlock Cone Road
Wild Filly Court
Red Bandana Way
Chariots Flight Way

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way to be americacentric


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way to be americacentric


You can go out and find one of the polls where they rate all the major international cities and the United States usually does fairly poor.

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So, 106,000 people live on/in marianfudge?


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So, 106,000 people live on/in marianfudge?

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Ft. Collins?! Plano? Richardson??????? Have any of you been to Richardson lately? Ugh....


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Sugar Land is number 3?!!?

wtf? How can anyone suggest with a straight face that living in or adjacent to Houston is a good thing.

Maybe they just read the name of the town and had like a homer simpson moment.

mmmm....sugar......

also, more Houston hating, did anyone notice that Houston got #3 skinniest town? Is that a joke?


my town got #74 overall
#14 in most educated
#5 most singles (hey ladies...)

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how far away is Plano from Austin??


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how far away is Plano from Austin??


It's around three hours, Plano is by Dallas.

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how far away is Plano from Austin??


very far

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for southern california, simi valley and rancho cucamonga?!?! OH HELL NO!

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Dalen Wrote:
how far away is Plano from Austin??


It's around three hours, Plano is by Dallas.


Distance by car: 3 hours.

Culturally?


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Ft. Collins?!

The Fort ain't so bad kev. it was actually #1 on the list of what city in colorado i wanted to move to...but there were absolutely no jobs to be had there in '96 other than at budweiser....

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already talked about this in chat but Cary, NC is a piece of shit plastic suburban paraside. Same with Scottsdale, AZ.

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Ft. Collins?!

The Fort ain't so bad kev. it was actually #1 on the list of what city in colorado i wanted to move to...but there were absolutely no jobs to be had there in '96 other than at budweiser....


fort collins is ok, but #1 in the nation? not sure about that.

i live close to westminster (about a mile or 2) which is on that list too (for some reason).

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and somehow colorado springs, co leads the list of big cities.

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Example No. 56 why this poll is wack...Number one city in Tennessee was Murfreesboro. That town is nothing but strip malls, THREE Super Wal-Marts for a town of 86,000 and chain restaurants with a half-assed university (discostu = MTSU Alumnus) and one cool music venue/print-shop/record store called Grand Palace. It's a no-culture stain of a town.


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Wow. Virginia Beach is #6 of the top ten best big cities. I work in Virginia Beach. I don't think it's that great.

I am sorry, but this list is kinda lame because there are like 15 cities in MI. No one moves TO Michigan. They either were born there or move away. I mean, come ON! :)


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well, i would easily rather live in denver than colorado springs. i'd rather live in boulder than fort collins too, but that's because i'm a pot-smokin, once-a-month-bathin hippie liberal at heart. and westminster doesn't really have its own scene/culture.

bung.

can anyone speak for parsippany NJ? we're thinking of moving to NJ (mostly northern NJ like monclair) and i just thought i'd ask.

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MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THEY INCLUDED THAT ONE CITY?!?!~!!!1

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we're thinking of moving to NJ (mostly northern NJ like monclair)

i was gonna say reading that colorado springs was the #1 big city was the most ridiculous thing yet on the thread...until i read this.

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MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE THAT THEY INCLUDED THAT ONE CITY?!?!~!!!1


It's those kind of posts that Internet message boards are all about!
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