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Top 100 Best Places to Live in the U.S.
Livability ^ | 2024 | Livability

Posted on 05/05/2024 4:36:13 AM PDT by vespa300

At Livability, we’re experts on what makes cities of all sizes great places to live. For more than a decade, we’ve been curating our annual list of the Best Places To Live in America, helping you discover the most livable cities in the U.S.

If you’re looking to relocate, what’s on your wishlist? Want a shot at owning a home? To spend less time sitting in traffic? Or perhaps you dream of starting your own business in a tight-knit, supportive community?

Maybe a better quality of life is waiting for you in a place you haven’t considered — a place where you’re not just a number. Our Best Places list is chock-full of helpful information about living in each of our Top 100 cities to help you find your perfect place to live.

(Excerpt) Read more at livability.com ...


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To: vespa300

Top 100 places...

According to whom?


41 posted on 05/05/2024 8:18:55 AM PDT by Signalman (I am not a snob. Ask anyone who matters.)
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To: vespa300

San Francisco?

Or anywhere in California.

The list is nonsense, unless stepping over fecal matter and driving by homeless encampments is exciting.


42 posted on 05/05/2024 8:29:51 AM PDT by odawg
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To: vespa300

West coast - Completely out of the running.

East Coast - Maryland on north no way, except maybe Vermont.

I can pick and choose the rest but that covers the major areas.


43 posted on 05/05/2024 8:30:03 AM PDT by dagunk
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

Probably from all the million+ homes out south. I’m in PV and all the McMansions being built to replace the post war homes are doing the same thing. My property taxes are through the roof and I’m in an old house.


44 posted on 05/05/2024 8:34:21 AM PDT by peggybac (My will is what I wanted. God's will is what I got.)
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To: vespa300

Pretty much all smaller cities except for 3 of them.


45 posted on 05/05/2024 8:35:08 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: odawg

All these sorts of listen rankings depend on the criteria people are using to make their judgments.

If the criteria included fecal matter and homeless encampments, these sorts of rankings would be very very different


46 posted on 05/05/2024 8:36:49 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: Dilbert San Diego

“All these sorts of listen rankings depend on the criteria people are using to make their judgments.”

You don’t say. How did you figure that out, Captain Obvious?


47 posted on 05/05/2024 8:39:01 AM PDT by odawg
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To: libertylover

The town I lived in previously was 1,000 people. It was in a county with one stop light - that was located in the county seat 12 miles away - a town with a population of around 4,000.

The county also had a presidential birthplace and library and was on a major East-West interstate highway.

I regret moving, but not much. This place is closer to more of life’s necessities and a few more variety in dining and shopping. That said, it’s 15 minutes from the 3rd largest city in the state and 15 minutes from the smaller city of 20,000 where I graduated High School 50 years ago. I’m on a circle drive street where nobody comes through here except if they have a reason to. Quiet and peaceful.


48 posted on 05/05/2024 8:41:02 AM PDT by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
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To: vespa300

Brevard ‘County, Florida!


49 posted on 05/05/2024 8:41:32 AM PDT by ABStrauss (I miss Rush! )
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To: Sirius Lee

>> It’s an awful place. Please do not come here.

Plus it has a silly name, right? I’d cringe every time I wrote Damariscotta in the return address of my Christmas card.
Just trying to help. 😉


50 posted on 05/05/2024 8:43:37 AM PDT by Nervous Tick ("First the Saturday people, then the Sunday people...": ISLAM is the problem!)
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To: Signalman

Wherever these places are, with the turd-world being deliberately flooded into the western world...it’ll all be a turd-world in short order.


51 posted on 05/05/2024 8:50:08 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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To: libertylover

Just checked mine.. 16 miles.


52 posted on 05/05/2024 8:52:34 AM PDT by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: vespa300

The top hundred places Californians will destroy in the coming years.


53 posted on 05/05/2024 10:24:30 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (Kafka was an optimist.)
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To: vespa300

Thank goodness none of them is near me.


54 posted on 05/05/2024 10:42:27 AM PDT by Sequoyah101 (Procrastination is just a form of defiance)
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To: vespa300

If Jersey City (NJ) and Clifton (NJ) are on this list, then their criteria are idiotic. I wouldn’t let my dog spend a night in either place.


55 posted on 05/05/2024 11:02:49 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: vespa300

You mean East St. Louis wasn’t on the list?


56 posted on 05/05/2024 11:03:26 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
The top hundred places Californians will destroy in the coming years.

Like termites.

57 posted on 05/05/2024 11:04:00 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
Here's a good rule of thumb:

Don't live within 100 miles of a city with a major league professional sports franchise (MLB, NFL, NBA or NHL).

58 posted on 05/05/2024 11:19:49 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: vespa300
One of the (if not the) worst aspects of the 2024 version of the Internet is the deluge of "Best" lists. They're everywhere. You name a topic and someone has a "Best" list of it, including lists of the best "Best of" lists. It's absurd!

Even the best of them are little better than click-bait with precious little actionable "fact," but the simple fact of their proliferation is a clear indication of how many undiscerning Netizens are getting sucked in to them.

I saw one last week with the headline, "The 85 best Rock bands of the 1980s." I was well into adulthood before the 1980s began and I doubt I could compile a list of 85 bands that originated in that era, good, bad or indifferent.

And NO, I didn't click it to see. I am not infected with the pandemic FOMA* disease.

*FOMA: fear of missing out

59 posted on 05/05/2024 11:21:35 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: vespa300

I’m moving wherever the list sez is the best....yup, they got it all there,,,absolutely the best list I have ever seen...why did I ever stay in the place where I have a great, well paying job and friends? Shoulda’ moved wherever they say is best....


60 posted on 05/05/2024 5:41:21 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find.)
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