Posted on 07/12/2010 7:18:13 AM PDT by WOBBLY BOB
If you focus only on the averages, life in the typical American town frankly doesn't seem so hot right now. The median home continues to lose value. Cash-strapped state and local governments are cutting services. And unemployment, at 9.3%, is still high.
But those bummer statistics obscure one important-and encouraging-fact: There are plenty of outliers. MONEY found them through its annual search for the best places in America, which this year focused on the nation's small cities (those with populations of 50,000 to 300,000). Reporters crunched reams of data to find the optimal combo of job opportunities, fiscal strength, top-notch schools, low crime, good health care, lots to do, and many other factors that help make a town great for raising a family.
(Excerpt) Read more at realestate.yahoo.com ...
Didn't the last report say that u-3 is 9.5%? Interesting how the tiny fibs get in there.
Money = CNN = Time Warner = stooges for you know who.
Fox/Saudia is only marginally better.
Well, Wobbly Bob—I’m laughing at this! There is no way I would want to live in a blue state, let alone one where you freeze your butt off in the winter. I’ve heard it’s nice in the summer, though.
Of course, being a 6th generation Texan, I’m right here where I belong: Deep in the Heart of Texas.
I never could get the list of 100 “best” places to live to load, though. I would like to look that over.
“top-notch schools”
Sure - Newton or Lexington, MA, for example. Sodomite central. Great schools! Well, at least they aren’t Detroit or LAUSD. Whoopee!
Many, but not all, of the places on the list are attractive compared to what much of America has become, but the criteria include some tripe (including the ever-popular “diversity”).
Hmmm... what one factor do these “top 20” communities have in common? You be the judge.
PS - McKinney and Allen, Texas are both horrible freeway deserts.
I already live in the best place in America-Austin,Texas.
Great weather, good economy,plenty to do and tons of lefties to laugh at.
Yes—McKinney and Allen are laughable. They were nice at one time—used to love to go out to “old town” McKinney in years gone by. I wonder if they have kept that.......
It’s now hard to tell where Dallas leaves off and the rest of the towns begin. It’s getting to be that way in Austin, too. Where ARE all these people coming from? LOL!
I already live in the best place in America, Virrginia Beach, VA. I don’t need CNN’s list of the runners-up. LOL.
I already live in the best place in America, Virginia Beach, VA. I don’t need CNN’s list of the runners-up. LOL.
I’ve lived in Connecticut, New York City, Chicago, Albany, Woburn MA outside of Boston, South Jersey in the pine barrens, NJ near Philadelphia, and Hillsborough NH.
With the possible exception of Hillsborough, I’ve never been happier than where I am now - just south of Charlotte, NC in Fort Mill. This place is the BEST. Nothing compares. I have no idea how this area keeps getting a pass on “best places to live” lists.
You have to click on the cities one at a time.
same goes for Eden Prairie...also known here as “home of the mystery”.(’mystery’ being the all-encompasing term for everything leftist dream about and yearn for)
They talked about low cost housing in the town in Indiana where you could get a 3 bedroom home for under $150,000. In middle Tennessee, you can get a nice 3/2 ranch for $60,000. $150,00 will buy you a lot of house here.
My two sons graduated from Newton public, and all I have to say is that, if the Newton Public Schools are really in the top 100, the nation is finished.
Judging by all the towns they chose from the frozen north, I don’t think weather was high on their list.
Smallish town (about 40,000) Kentucky is not bad at all. Reasonable housing prices, taxes of course, but not out of line 1 murder in the past 2 or three years, small population of Mexicans and fewer than 1% black. Needless to say, there will probably be no Black Panthers providing “security” at polling places throughout the city.
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I admit I just skimmed this list, and it sure looks to me that (as usual) Money/CNN has left a LOT of great places off their list...
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