Here is a link where you determine where you should be living based on the importance of numerous factors. I must have done something wrong. #1 on my list is Long Island. No offense to my friend Christian or anyone else reading this who is from or lives in Long Island, but please shoot me if I am decide to move to Long Island. Rounding out the top 10 are:
Boston, San Francisco, Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ, Washington DC, Monmouth-Ocean, NJ, Danbury, CT, Bergen-Passaic, NJ, LA/Long Beach and Nashua, NH
Other notables: Pittsburgh was #13, San Diego #19 (behind Newark at #18?), Atlanta #64, Jacksonville #120, Las Vegas #156 and Columbus #220.
The last three...Enid, OK (#326), Gadsden, AL (327) and Pine Bluff, AR (328)
My list was:
ReplyDelete1 Boston
2 San Francisco
3 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
4 Long Island, NY
5 New York, NY
6 Pittsburgh, PA
7 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
8 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
9 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
10 Chicago, IL
And, hey, I've already lived in three of those places! Of the cities remaining, I could only see myself in one or two of them. Anything but NY, actually.
I have a nearly identical list as Nick's (Middlesex, NJ instead of Chicago, which is my #11). I think Pittsburgh is awfully highly ranked, no? Turns out I've lived in seven of these places, but some were only for a few months, so I'm not sure if that counts. I, too, would like to avoid the Long Island and Metro New Jersey areas.
ReplyDeleteI was thinking about why Pittsburgh was so high on our lists. I'm sure we all had sports and education high. Well, Pittsburgh has three professional sports teams, a bunch of colleges and universites and a good public school system. We probably also did not rate climate as super-important since we didn't grow up (or live) in tropical locations. Just a thought.
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