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Other Topics => Completely Off-Topic => Topic started by: Daniel on November 29, 2004, 01:05:13 am
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I don't know if any of you have ever run across Sperling's Best Places website: http://www.bestplaces.net
It's a great website where you can obtain neighborhood profiles by zipcode and compare cities as well (they only feature American cities and metropolitan areas).
There's a nifty little city chooser which tells you what would be your top 30 cities to live in within the United States, based on your importance of certain criteria (such as school, arts, traffic, crime, affordable housing, climate, jobs, etc.).
Try it yourself and share your results... and also say if the results you get agree with how you actually feel:
http://www.bestplaces.net/fybp
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Here are my top 10 metropolitan areas according to the website based on selection criteria I entered:
1 San Francisco, CA
2 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
3 Long Island, NY
4 Boston, MA-NH-ME
5 San Diego, CA
6 Orange County, CA
7 San Jose, CA
8 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
9 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
10 Monmouth-Ocean, NJ
Not surprisingly, 5 of the 10 areas are in CA! :D I'd personally have put Orange County first, Los Angeles second and San Diego third.
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my top 10:
1. san fran
2. boston
3. seattle
4. dc area
5. jacksonville, fl
6. boulder, co
7. syracuse, ny
8. state college, pa
9. san antonio
10. tampa, fl
hmm... me likes 1 and 3... the others, dunno where they came from.
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this.thread.is.lame
everyone has their own opinions, next time, why don't you just ignore the thread or stay out of it if you don't have something substantial to contribute.-Let
why couldnt he just say "world".-Scott[/size]
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Scott. That was low of YOU. :?
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Scott. That was low of YOU. :?
well excuse me for feeling left out. sheesh :roll:
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Don't feel left out. Have you ever been to the USA? Why don't you start your own topic about cities overseas? :)
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Don't feel left out. Have you ever been to America? Why don't you start your own topic about cities overseas? :)
I have been, many times :D
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I have the same feeling as Scott, his wording was inappropriate "Your Most Desirable City to Relocate To" should have been the topic and he should have then gave his website with the heading Here are some in America
jamie.
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1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
4 Long Island, NY
5 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
6 San Diego, CA
7 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
8 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
9 New York, NY
10 Pittsburgh, PA
:D I like the idea of San Fran, Boston or SD
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haha...you should all move yo Brick, New Jersey...it's the safest town in the U.S
I'd prolly like to relocate around L.A...not in L.A though cause I've heard it's pretty nasty...but some place close because L.A. is where the film industry is hot...
top ten came out to be
1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
4 Long Island, NY
5 Pittsburgh, PA
6 New York, NY
7 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
8 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
9 Rochester, MN
10 Chicago, IL
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lol everyone has san fran at number one, haha.
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lol everyone has san fran at number one, haha.
*imagines Nessaholic pilgrimage to San Francisco*
we'd all be singing
we're back, we're back in San Francisco... we're back and you tell me I am home
We could even have our own little Nessaholic ghetto lol
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san fran
*edit* that was my own personal choice. here's what the calculator said:
1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Long Island, NY
4 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
5 Pittsburgh, PA
6 Danbury, CT
7 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
8 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
9 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
10 Denver, CO
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I have the same feeling as Scott, his wording was inappropriate "Your Most Desirable City to Relocate To" should have been the topic and he should have then gave his website with the heading Here are some in America
jamie.
Exaaaactly.
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why does someone always have to make a big deal about something around here...
"In America" was put in the title, because the website given is for U.S cities...no need to feel left out....no need to say this is lame thread...if anything you should blame Sperling for not including European, Asian, etc. cities :wink:
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why does someone always have to make a big deal about something around here...
"In America" was put in the title, because the website given is for U.S cities...no need to feel left out....no need to say this is lame thread...if anything you should blame Sperling for not including European, Asian, etc. cities :wink:
Because we're fed up of being left out!? Don't even get us 'foreigners' started on this! I might like to list where i want to live too, but because of the thread title is 'In America' it would be 'off topic'. We're not making a big deal, we're just making a point that leaving 2 words out would've made this thread have a much broader appeal!
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In America was reffering to the website though...no need to leave it out...
I don't think Daniel meant to leave anyone out on purpose...y'all need to calm down a tad
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But the title of the topic is not about the website. it's about where you would like to live -In America-
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I don't think Daniel meant to leave anyone out on purpose...y'all need to calm down a tad
Thats what they said about women gettin the vote minus the Daniel part.
and a woman threw herself in front of a horse 8O
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Wow, like I said don't feel left out, make your own thread about Euro cities or what not.
Daniel isn't even from the USA either.
interesting...
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But the title of the topic is not about the website. it's about where you would like to live -In America-
of course it's about the website.....Daniel even wrote it in his post...
I don't know if any of you have ever run across Sperling's Best Places website: http://www.bestplaces.net
It's a great website where you can obtain neighborhood profiles by zipcode and compare cities as well (they only feature American cities and metropolitan areas).
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Wow, like I said don't feel left out, make your own thread about Euro cities or what not.
Daniel isn't even from the USA either.
interesting...
good point :D
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i think the profiles it can give you about the US cities based on just the zip code is rather neat. I don't believe that Ukiah has a population of 30k tho... when i was there a few months go, i'm pretty sure the sign into town was still around 15 or 16k
Ukiah (http://www.bestplaces.net/nhood/nprof1.asp?qryZip=95482&cname=Ukiah,%20CA)
lol... and where i currently live in Bristow (http://www.bestplaces.net/nhood/nprof1.asp?qryZip=20136&cname=Bristow,%20VA)
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i think the profiles it can give you about the US cities based on just the zip code is rather neat. I don't believe that Ukiah has a population of 30k tho... when i was there a few months go, i'm pretty sure the sign into town was still around 15 or 16k
I think stuff is wrong in it... maybe? My hometown is technically South Britain, zipcode 06487, which if you search has a population of 18,000 something, identical to Southbury, zipcode 06488. There is no way that South Britain has that many people. From a postal service point of view though South Britian no longer exists, since our post office burned down a few years ago, and they made us change our zip code to 06488 so it goes to the Southbury post office. Does that even make sense? I think I confused myself...
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1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
4 Long Island, NY
5 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
6 San Diego, CA
7 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
8 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
9 New York, NY
10 Pittsburgh, PA
:D I like the idea of San Fran, Boston or SD
Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Long Island, NY
4 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
5 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
6 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
7 San Jose, CA
8 San Diego, CA 26%
9 Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ C!
10 New York, NY
o_O
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but lol, look up zipcode 06269 (http://www.bestplaces.net/nhood/nprof1.asp?qryZip=06269&cname=Storrs%20Mansfield,%20CT), haha. Population 7,515, median age 21.1, 97.9% never married. w00t for UConn town.
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Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
You mean you and Nerea.
I compared my two cities from GA to here it was like population of 13k to here in CA 90k
The best part was Starbucks GA 0, my city 4. Haha. That is reason enough to move.
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i think the profiles it can give you about the US cities based on just the zip code is rather neat. I don't believe that Ukiah has a population of 30k tho... when i was there a few months go, i'm pretty sure the sign into town was still around 15 or 16k
My hometown is technically South Britain, zipcode 06487, which if you search has a population of 18,000 something, identical to Southbury, zipcode 06488. There is no way that South Britain has that many people. From a postal service point of view though South Britian no longer exists, since our post office burned down a few years ago, and they made us change our zip code to 06488 so it goes to the Southbury post office. Does that even make sense? I think I confused myself...
LOL... No?
Are you saying that your town is South Britain but now you're just part of Southbury so there is no true population for your hometown since you don't have a post office? ;)
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Are you saying that your town is South Britain but now you're just part of Southbury so there is no true population for your hometown since you don't have a post office? ;)
I have no idea what my point was... in fact I don't know what the hell is going on, I am so damn confuzzled.
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Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
you mean you and Nerea.
Nerea and I! Nerea and I!
-katia (grammar nazi)
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Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
you mean you and Nerea.
Nerea and I! Nerea and I!
-katia (grammar nazi)
I was just going with his me and Let. :wink:
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Are you saying that your town is South Britain but now you're just part of Southbury so there is no true population for your hometown since you don't have a post office? ;)
I have no idea what my point was... in fact I don't know what the hell is going on, I am so damn confuzzled.
Either way, it's good information to have about your post office having burned down. ;)
This still doesn't explain Ukiah's population tho...
from ukiah.com (http://www.ukiah.com/general/demographics.shtml) compared to Sperling (http://www.bestplaces.net/nhood/nprof1.asp?qryZip=95482&cname=Ukiah,%20CA)???
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Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
you mean you and Nerea.
Nerea and I! Nerea and I!
-katia (grammar nazi)
I was just going with his me and Let. :wink:
i figured you were, i just didn't want my saying Nerea and I to him alone to confuse him... or something. lol
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Are you saying that your town is South Britain but now you're just part of Southbury so there is no true population for your hometown since you don't have a post office? ;)
I have no idea what my point was... in fact I don't know what the hell is going on, I am so damn confuzzled.
Either way, it's good information to have about your post office having burned down. ;)
Yeah, like that is relevant to anyones life if my post office burned down. It was a nice place *tear*
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Generated list from teh site:
1 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
2 Johnstown, PA
3 San Francisco, CA
4 Duluth-Superior, MN-WI
5 Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
6 Pittsburgh, PA
7 Oakland, CA
8 State College, PA
9 Sheboygan, WI
10 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
DC eh... I think that would work for me 8)
I've actually been to Oshkosh. Nice town, kinda small and boring, though.
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1 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
2 Johnstown, PA
3 San Francisco, CA
4 Duluth-Superior, MN-WI
5 Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
6 Pittsburgh, PA
7 Oakland, CA
8 State College, PA
9 Sheboygan, WI
10 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
DC eh... I think that would work for me 8)
I've actually been to Oshkosh. Nice town, kinda small and boring, though.
osh kosh b gosh!
Holla @ DC! Would be feelin having teh bling close by in DC!!!!
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Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
You mean you and Nerea.
Whoops. Blonde moment.
I know who you two are, I just didn't think before I posted.
EDIT : I would love to move to DC, kaysha.... I don't like the high crime rate, however.
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1 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
2 Johnstown, PA
3 San Francisco, CA
4 Duluth-Superior, MN-WI
5 Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
6 Pittsburgh, PA
7 Oakland, CA
8 State College, PA
9 Sheboygan, WI
10 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
DC eh... I think that would work for me 8)
I've actually been to Oshkosh. Nice town, kinda small and boring, though.
osh kosh b gosh!
Holla @ DC! Would be feelin having teh bling close by in DC!!!!
That's what I was thinking "Hmm I could bug teh kat a lot more then" :wink: <3.
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Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
You mean you and Nerea.
Whoops. Blonde moment.
I know who you two are, I just didn't think before I posted.
EDIT : I would love to move to DC, kaysha.... I don't like the high crime rate, however.
Nerea and I!
high crime rate? are you high?
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Holy crap, me and Let have almost the same list.
You mean you and Nerea.
Whoops. Blonde moment.
I know who you two are, I just didn't think before I posted.
EDIT : I would love to move to DC, kaysha.... I don't like the high crime rate, however.
Nerea and I!
high crime rate? are you high?
Compared to Cincy it's high.
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Whaaaaaaat NYC #10?! this test is a freaking joke! lol
I don't like Boston!
That's what the website says:
1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA
3 Washington, DC
4 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
5 Long Island, NY
6 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
7 Pittsburgh, PA
8 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
9 Oakland, CA
10 New York, NY
And this is my version:
1 New York, NY
1 San Francisco, CA
3 Oakland, CA
4 Long Island, NY
5 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
I admit that I love both CA and NY state! :P
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Whaaaaaaat NYC #10?! this test is a freaking joke! lol
I don't like Boston!
Hehe, I got Boston as number 2 as well, and I absolutely hate boston. I'd never live there.
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1 Boston, MA-NH-ME 8)
2 San Francisco, CA
3 Pittsburgh, PA
4 Syracuse, NY
5 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
6 Nashua, NH
7 Danbury, CT
8 Long Island, NY
9 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
10 Jacksonville, FL
And my own city, right at the number it deserves ¬¬
309 Macon, GA
Of course, I'd like to like in Akihabara, Japan and buy lots and lots of stuff~ *_*
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hahahaha @ danbury connecticut. right near where I live. and bleh, I wouldn't wanna live there.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
St. Louis, MO
and to break the in America rule:
Montreal Canada
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My top ten
1 Boston, MA
2 Long Island, NY
3 Washington, DC-MD
4 Danbury, CT
5 San Francisco, CA
6 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
7 Pittsburgh, PA
8 New York, NY
9 Bergen-Passaic, NJ
10 Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ
:?
-Manda
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1 San Francisco, CA - YAY I DO LIVE HERE!!!!!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Long Island, NY
4 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
5 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
6 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
7 San Diego, CA
8 New York, NY
9 Pittsburgh, PA
10 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
I've been to all those places and they're all neat. I think I'll stick with my number 1 though. It's worked all these years...it'll keep on keeping on for me.
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Kentucky is besterest. I like it a lot.
I also like Altanta, St Louis and Minneapolis quite a bit.
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1 San Francisco, CA
2 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
3 Boston, MA
4 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
5 Long Island, NY
6 New York, NY
7 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
8 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA
9 Chicago, IL
10 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
My list is almost right but I would put Seattle in top 4 with NY. That dang cold weather knocks them both down. I have never been to Boston. Good thing I am already in Nor Cal 50 miles from SF.
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this thing is so rigged! Pee Land can't be so popular! ;)
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this thing is so rigged! Pee Land can't be so popular! ;)
Hey! People gots to pee! ;)
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this thing is so rigged! Pee Land can't be so popular! ;)
Hey! People gots to pee! ;)
not on the damn street, sistah!
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LOL...well...you know what, Fishnets? You freaky as fuck. <3
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1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Long Island, NY
4 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
5 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
6 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
7 San Jose, CA
8 San Diego, CA 26%
9 Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ C!
10 New York, NY
o_O
Well, who wouldn't? :wink:
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but lol, look up zipcode 06269 (http://www.bestplaces.net/nhood/nprof1.asp?qryZip=06269&cname=Storrs%20Mansfield,%20CT), haha. Population 7,515, median age 21.1, 97.9% never married. w00t for UConn town.
hahhahaha yes. it makes sense
and nobody move to stamford-norwalk ct or danbury. they are stupid. :-)
kelley
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lol everyone has san fran at number one, haha.
*imagines Nessaholic pilgrimage to San Francisco*
we'd all be singing
we're back, we're back in San Francisco... we're back and you tell me I am home
We could even have our own little Nessaholic ghetto lol
LOL that's funny Nerea... I was thinking of that song when I posted the results! :D
To address the few of you that this thread seemingly offended... as Colin correctly pointed out, I only put it there because the website only reports on American cities/metropolitan areas. If I had other sites to report on that covered other countries I wouldn't have put "in America." But since Sperling's Best Places covers American cities, and this thread is about Sperling's website and the results it gives you, I put that in the heading for the sake of providing an accurate description of the thread. Sheesh!! :? But no worries... it's all good. :)
And thank you Colin, Let and everyone else who took the time to share their results! And it's true... I'm not from the USA either! :D
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Raleigh, North Carolina
St. Louis, MO
and to break the in America rule:
Montreal Canada
Montreal's a cool city! I visited that city twice in October! :)
haha...you should all move yo Brick, New Jersey...it's the safest town in the U.S
LOL... even safer than Watts or Compton in the LA metropolitan area? j/k! Actually I've been to NYC a couple of times this year and stayed in northern NJ both times. While there are some pretty nasty slums (like in and around Newark, East Orange and Irvington) most of it isn't nearly as bad as what people stereotype it to be. Both Carlstadt (where I stayed)... plus neighboring East Rutherford (both are cities near the Meadowlands Sports Complex) seem like perfectly alright areas (only a 15 minute bus ride to NYC too)... and unlike in Manhattan you can park your car at the hotel for free and hotel rooms are about 1/3 of the cost too.
I've noticed so many people have San Francisco in their top 10! But as nice a city as it is... there's something about the southern Cali climate, as well as the way of life that I love. :D
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This so-called "calculator" seems to have an obvious slant toward San Francisco, Boston, and Long Island. Apparently, the South is a very undesirable place to live, at least according to them. I like San Francisco and all, but it's just so expensive!
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Middlesex-Somerset-Hunterdon, NJ
:roflmao:
But the South isn't really that desirable, except for places like Miami and Atlanta and like Dallas and Houston >_>
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1 San Francisco, CA
2 Boston, MA-NH-ME
3 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
4 Long Island, NY
5 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV
6 New York, NY
7 Stamford-Norwalk, CT
8 San Diego, CA
9 San Jose, CA
10 Pittsburgh, PA
After I graduate, I plan on living in NYC, LA, or SF. Just cause those are all cities I love and they're big in the music industry.
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and nobody move to stamford-norwalk ct or danbury. they are stupid. :-)
Oh yeah, cuz Willimantic is much better :wink: :wink:
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haha...you should all move to Brick, New Jersey...it's the safest town in the U.S
LOL... even safer than Watts or Compton in the LA metropolitan area? j/k! Actually I've been to NYC a couple of times this year and stayed in northern NJ both times. While there are some pretty nasty slums (like in and around Newark, East Orange and Irvington) most of it isn't nearly as bad as what people stereotype it to be. Both Carlstadt (where I stayed)... plus neighboring East Rutherford (both are cities near the Meadowlands Sports Complex) seem like perfectly alright areas (only a 15 minute bus ride to NYC too)... and unlike in Manhattan you can park your car at the hotel for free and hotel rooms are about 1/3 of the cost too.
eh...Jersey ain't half as bad as most poeple make it out to be...it's definately better (and by better I mean cheaper :razz: ) to stay here even if visiting NYC...
in a recent study, Brick, NJ came up to be the safest place to live in the US...however NJ also now has the worst place, Camden, NJ whcih bumped Detroit from its number 1 worst place to live spot
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and nobody move to stamford-norwalk ct or danbury. they are stupid. :-)
Oh yeah, cuz Willimantic is much better :wink: :wink:
haha i'm not from willi! i just work there.. and live next to it... haha willimantic is forever the heroin/prostitute town in my mind
kelley
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and nobody move to stamford-norwalk ct or danbury. they are stupid. :-)
Oh yeah, cuz Willimantic is much better :wink: :wink:
haha i'm not from willi! i just work there.. and live next to it... haha willimantic is forever the heroin/prostitute town in my mind
Oh good, I thought you actually lived there. Hahaha. I drove past Shaws there one day and thought of you.
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:? The South is not undesirable at all. Warm climate, lower population density, polite atmosphere... :D What's undesirable about that? The only undesirable part is the Yankees that move down here. :x Oh, maybe that's the problem. :o :wink:
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I can see why Boston is on the best place to sleep, there is like no noise hardly, at least for me there wasn't. I was suprise going there for the first time there wasn't has much noise, i mean yes lots of cars means lots of honking but not at noisy as i thought it would be. I love boston, going there in two weeks!!!!
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I'm just waiting to go back to my small town in Oklahoma, we have horribly cold winters, extremely hot summers and about a billion tornados during the spring and fall, but who can beat those plains? yeehaw! (yeehaw thrown in for effect, it felt needed)