my wife & i are both dem/lib -minded and kind of sick of the texan-influenced, backwood cowboy christian wrong mentality that you find everywhere in colorado except for a few civilized cities. i'd rather move to the raleigh/durham area for cool IT jobs, but there should be some good ones in northern NJ / NYC too and she wants to move close to NYC because she's one of those crazy actresses and has 2 best friends there. plus my brother's moving to NJ, so that'd be cool.

i just won't care for the cost-of-living increase & the colder temps. but i'm used to greenbay/oshkosh, wi -type of cold, so it shouldn't be too bad.

oh yeah...forgot that your wife is an actress...makes sense then.

check out Hoboken. the only city in NJ that i like -- because it's more just an extension of NYC.

...and New York just lost out to Wichita, KS for the 9th spot on the 10 best big cities list. As if this list needed any further discrediting.

I whole-heartedly agree...

are these the top 100 cities where, if you were dead, you would still mind being there?

If you're family-oriented, want a nice home in a nice neighbourhood (we're talking very PTA), Rancho Cucamonga has grown tremendously in the past ten years. Good schools too. Problem is that for a single-socially active person like me, it's much too far to continue my current lifestyle.

Maybe it is the White Stripes effect, since Jack White did sing about going to Wichita, or maybe there are a bunch of BTK followers in the research group.


Edit:
I forgot to add that Omaha was something like #7 on the list of big cities. How 400,000 qualifies as a big city is beyond me, but it is nice to see O-town getting its props. Most restaurants per capita baby.

Did they get the names from a Crayola box?

my hometown in overland park, ks i #6. sister city, olathe, is on there too. holler. no wonder i turned out a princess.

Lists like that are always lame.

They rank by things like clean air, low crime stats, good school test scores, good health indicators and boring crap like that. Its geared toward middle-americans looking to raise children in white-pickett fance land.

It would be funny to do a comparison to the places they pick and race breakdown since I can pretty much guarentee how it would look...not saying they meant it that way, just that all the boring indicators they pick, never show up good in communities with high numbers of anything but white folks.

Hmm...gotta go and disagree with you there. I spent a lot of time in the Fort from '96-'00 and aside from a few drunken nights at the Starlight, I mostly remember it feeling like a depressed suburb in Texas, where everyone I knew (mostly CSU grads) wanted to get the hell out. I'd take Boulder or Denver over it any day. Hell, I'd prefer the Springs, and I did live there!

I dunno, maybe things have taken a turn for the better since the late 90s...

What I learned from this poll:
Suburbs are awesome
Everyone here hates everywhere else
Texas is somehow sucky
paladisiac lives near a gasleak/krylon factory

And that's a bad thing?

Gee, sorry the dumb rednecks just can't live up to your liberal mindedness. Make sure you pace yourself in Jersey—it would be a shame if you soak up too much culture at once.

The fella at left appears to be an unbearded Elvis Fu, that said.

Too tall; too swarthy. But you can still rub one out with a stack of pineapple rings and pretend it's me if you really want.

Don't tell your Vito though, or he will get jealous.

Cupertino #2 on highest incomes. My cousin used to live there. Somehow I don't think she was making much of a positive contribution to that stat

i wonder when they included nyc in the 10 best big cities, if they meant only manhattan or the other burroughs. personally, i like brooklyn more. and i hear astoria, queens is pretty decent.

Houston is the fatest city in America, NOT the third skiniest. Don't believe ANYTHING this site tells you.

That said, Arlington's reading scores being in the negatives, our astronomical personal crime rate, and being the largest city in America without public transportation all equal to one fine city!

C'mon we got The Texas Rangers, soon to have the Dallas Cowboys, Six Flags, Hurricane Harbor, and an overwhelmingly bad air quality, what more do you want?

apology accepted.

Most of the Texas locations listed are the worst kind of concrete-wasteland commuter suburban hells that are only suitable for SUV driving white folks who want their mega-malls, and, more importantly, to be far away from THEM.

In Texas, Austin and Denton are the only urban areas that I'd live in. There are a ton of little tiny towns in the Hill Country that I would love to move to if I could find a way to afford it.

GOD BLESS TEXAS!

These lists are always off-the-wall.

World's Best Places to Live

The London-based Economist Intelligence Unit's (EIU) Liveability Ranking, conducted a worldwide search for the best places to live and visit. Looking at 40 different indicators arranged in five separate categories, including stability, healthcare, culture and environment, education and infrastructure, EIU published some interesting findings. With three cities in the top ten, Canada came out on top due to its low crime, little threat from terrorism and a highly developed infrastructure.

Vancouver, Canada
Melbourne, Australia
Vienna, Austria
Toronto, Canada
Calgary, Canada
The best ranked US cities were Cleveland and Pittsburgh, both ranking 26th in the World.

looks like it's the browns vs the steelers for possible WORLD DOMINATION!

Cleveland?? HAHAHA.

That was the smelliest city I have ever been to. Smelled worse than Gary, Indiana looks.

well, pittsburgh is totally underrated, but 26th in the world? haha.