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New study ranks best places to live in America
The Hill ^ | 02/06/2023 | Gianna Melillo

Posted on 02/06/2023 9:32:32 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27

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To: ChicagoConservative27
Ann Arbor, Mich., was ranked the best place to live in the United States, according to a new review of cities most frequently cited on national lists.

Unless this survey was written by a bunch of U-M grads, there's no way that the Berkley of the Midwest is the best place in the country to live.

81 posted on 02/06/2023 12:01:48 PM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary? Pray for President Biden: Psalm 109:8)
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To: posterchild

Yes, I have heard of these programs. Kind of like a homesteading agreement. I am not sure if it is the form of real estate tax credits or how it works.
I think they really want USA and Brits to move there and put some money in the economy.


82 posted on 02/06/2023 12:10:54 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: Angelino97

You’d love the interior of Alaska then!


83 posted on 02/06/2023 12:31:02 PM PST by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: DesertRhino

I left the Triangle Park area in ‘88....thank goodness. Now I’m in the mtns where good caring people are my neighbors and I’m free! Garden, animals, God’s spirit!!
I give thanks every day


84 posted on 02/06/2023 12:31:10 PM PST by Karoo
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To: qwerty1234

My retirement is going to be selling the 8 1/3 acres land, the 2500 sq ft 4 bed 2 1/2 bath house and buying a 40-50’ boat and only coming into port to get gas, food, booze and women.


85 posted on 02/06/2023 12:32:35 PM PST by ro_dreaming (Who knew "Idiocracy", "1984", "Enemy of the State", and "Person of Interest" would be non-fiction?)
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To: Rdct29

Look into Sicily


86 posted on 02/06/2023 12:33:05 PM PST by combat_boots ( )
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To: Irenic

My friend in Dallas, TX asked why I live in Iowa. I asked him if he had Orkin on speed dial, which he did. I told him I have never called Orkin.

He then showed me a picture of a scorpion on his living room carpet. I’ll take a little snow and some cold weather.


87 posted on 02/06/2023 12:37:37 PM PST by IAGeezer912 (One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
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To: qwerty1234

Parts of Florida are nice..


88 posted on 02/06/2023 12:37:50 PM PST by GOPJ ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muw22wTePqQ Gumballs: Immigrants by the numbers.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Business Insider, commie rag, picks leftist sumphole as best city in America.


89 posted on 02/06/2023 12:55:48 PM PST by Tom in SFCA
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To: woodbutcher1963

Fingerle Lumber. Right behind the Fleetwood Diner. Did you know Mark Russell?


90 posted on 02/06/2023 12:59:47 PM PST by Tom in SFCA
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To: Tom in SFCA

I dealt with Mark Fingerle and his dad prior to him.


91 posted on 02/06/2023 1:49:12 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: IAGeezer912

ahahaha! You can put a saddle on the palmetto bugs/tree roach/waterbug/Bombay canary/American cockroach.

I hate raking leaves because those critters fly and they love damp piles of leaves.

Snakes and spiders don’t bother me but the huge flying roaches do. *shrug*

Painful potential with scorpions but they don’t bother me like huge flying roaches gads!

I would rather deal with the heat than the cold, I only like snow for a day or two and shorter growing seasons would send me ‘round the bend, winter depresses me.

Having fewer bugs would be nice and Iowa seems to be more conservative than my Texas, plus it’s not on the Southern border. T

They could resolve the border problem but they won’t.


92 posted on 02/06/2023 2:45:48 PM PST by Irenic
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To: woodbutcher1963

Mark Russell was a friend of mine who worked at Fingerle in the early 1980s.


93 posted on 02/06/2023 3:22:10 PM PST by Tom in SFCA
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To: entropy12

I understand that Texas may be lower than where they are but that doesn’t make Texas taxes low, that’s my point.

Our property taxes keep skyrocketing.

I’m of the camp that believes we can’t continue to cheerlead and brag about our state, without facing the major issues we are developing that bears discussion.

It’s going to take more than a can of paint to pretty it up.

Ostrich method kills.


94 posted on 02/06/2023 3:43:45 PM PST by Irenic
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To: entropy12

We took a hard look at retiring to Texas (West Texas actually).

The property taxes were a big issue for us—particularly the way they were calculated and how they might be impacted by future illegal immigration.

It is always hard to have a crystal ball—but the risk of skyrocketing property taxes in the medium term scared us off...


95 posted on 02/06/2023 3:57:00 PM PST by cgbg (Claiming that laws and regs that limit “hate speech” stop freedom of speech is “hate speech”.)
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To: Starboard

Cuba—absolutely...except for language and culture, would beat Hawaii! Mountains and seashore. Stretches as far apart as Chicago to NYC. Only an hour-and-a-half drive, if there was a bridge to get there.

Maybe someday...


96 posted on 02/06/2023 4:57:52 PM PST by Does so (What distinguishes today's Russian aggression from that of the USSR?)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

How could it be that Buffalo,NY isn’t the best place live...with Oakland as #2???


97 posted on 02/06/2023 6:08:54 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (No Doubt Now: Stolen Election)
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To: Rdct29
I think you could live quite well in Italy in one of the small towns if you brought your money with you.

Property can be nearly free, food is super cheap (fresh and healthy) and great weather. A great quality of life, IMO.

98 posted on 02/07/2023 6:28:53 AM PST by riri (There can be no unity with the wicked, their servants, or their slaves.-Vox Day)
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To: Brian Griffin
Was in Florida last year, went to school there in my early 20s--never a fan but it's one redeeming quality (other than some beautiful beaches) was that it was largely empty.

Holy crap-has that changed! It was insanely crowded and without the infrastructure to accommodate.

99 posted on 02/07/2023 6:31:42 AM PST by riri (There can be no unity with the wicked, their servants, or their slaves.-Vox Day)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek
I have been in Arizona for, ahem, 25 years. I hit the sweet spot. When I got here it was just large enough to have a lot of opportunity but you could drive from one end of the valley to the other in under an hour at any time of the day, cost of living was cheap-a great quality of life and great place to raise my kids.

I wouldn't come here now. It's becoming a hellscape.

100 posted on 02/07/2023 6:34:53 AM PST by riri (There can be no unity with the wicked, their servants, or their slaves.-Vox Day)
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