Posted on 09/10/2007 9:30:04 AM PDT by qam1
Easy access to the beach seems to be a key factor in deciding which state people would choose to live. According to a new Harris Poll, California remains number 1 this year, followed by Florida, which moved up from number three and Hawaii, which has dropped from number two. Florida has been in the top three ever since this question was first asked in 1997. When it comes to which city people would live in, New York City comes in as number one for the ninth time (out of the last 10 opportunities), San Diego, CA moves up one spot to second and Seattle, WA also moves up one place to be the third most popular city.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll®, a nationwide survey of 2,694 adults conducted online between August 7 and 13, 2007 by Harris Interactive®.
The next most popular states in which people would like to live are: North Carolina (#4, remaining the same as last year); Colorado (#5, moving up from #7); Texas (#6, dropping from #5); New York (#7, moving up from #8); Arizona (#8, moving up from #9); and Oregon (#9, moving up from #10). Three states are tied for the tenth spot on this list: Washington (was #6 last year); Tennessee (was #11 last year) and Virginia (was #12 last year).
Age plays a small role in the state people would choose to live in. The top choice for Baby Boomers (those aged 43-61) would be Hawaii, while California is tops for the other generations. For Echo Boomers (those aged 18-30), Texas moves up and is their number 2 choice. Generation Xers (those aged 31-42) and Matures (those 62 and older) break ranks with their 5th spot; for Gen Xers it is Pennsylvania and for Matures, the number 5 position goes to Oregon.
Favorite U.S. Cities to Live In
After NYC, San Diego and Seattle, the trend is to go West with one exception: San Francisco, CA (which dropped from #2 to #4). Las Vegas, NV remained the same as last year (#5); while Orlando, FL (#6, jumping up from #14), Honolulu, HI (#7, dropping from #6), Phoenix, AZ (#8, moving up from tied for #12), Denver, CO (tied for #9, dropping from tied for #7) and Los Angeles, CA (tied for #9, up from #11) all changed positions. Returning to the list of the 15 top cities this year are Charlotte, NC at #13 and Miami, FL at #15. Dropping out of the top 15 are Atlanta, GA (tied for #7) and Nashville, TN (#15).
In most of the major cities (NY, Chicago, San Diego) you can live quite comfortably and safely if you have the money.
“In most of the major cities (NY, Chicago, San Diego) you can live quite comfortably and safely if you have the money.”
I’m afraid that comment receives the “DUH” award for the morning and maybe the day. How about the non rich and middle class people in those cities.
Whew! Safe for another year, far from the madding mob.
In NYC, the teachers either live in Mitchell-Lama housing or, like everyone else, live in tiny apartments in the outer boroughs. The cops commute from exurbia, but since they do four days a week, they can get away with driving 50+ miles to work.
I can honestly tell you that the worst place to be poor east of the Mississippi and north of DC is NYC. Even if you want to live in the ghetto, you'll be paying $1400 for a pre-war one bedroom.
” surveys were geared to make liberal cities look like great edens to live in...crime, property taxes and cost of living not addressed ... illegals...high tax rates ...”
What is not to love ?
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In the two wine counties north of San Francisco. A home in a locked gate community in a high cost community often brings $300,000 to about $1 million more than similiar homes in the same area without the locked gates.
Why? Because of the higher levels of security that a locked gate community promises.
Areas closer to the crime ridden eden of San Francisco will bring even more for a home in a locked gate community.
Even that may not bring security and peace of mind. I recently traded some fly fishing gear with a fellow living in a 24/7/365 manned locked gate community east of San Jose. The community had its own private security guards on motor patrol 24/7. Apparently, someone turned us into the real police while we were on the curb trading the gear. The local cops came by and knew the guy and one was a fly fisher. This was a little after noon time on a Saturday with people around their homes and driving to and from them.
I asked my host what the increased level of security was all about. He said the homes were like banks with Willy Sutton. So every neighborhood had a block watch group.
Then, I asked him what the extra cost was per month, and he said “Don’t Ask!”.
As we left the area, my wife commented, “Must be tough to be middle or lower upper class and live North East of San Jose and SE of Oakland/Berkley.”
I discussed this list with a friend, who is a very successful realtor in this area.
She has realtor friends in these so called high desireable west coast cities. She said that the enviros own the cities and have severe restrictions on new homes and often on major retros on existing homes.
So the market is limited re number of liveable units with these restrictions. That drives up the cost of homes. Then when these left wing surveys come out spreading the gospel of Edens in these cities, that increases the demand even more. Which increases the cost of the existing homes.
One good thing about this is that the liberals often live together in the cities. They can raise their own taxes, promote diversity...
The problem is when they leave and bring their stupid ideas that did not work in their cities into our communities. We then get out voted for their programs spending our money.
“The problem is when they leave and bring their stupid ideas that did not work in their cities into our communities. We then get out voted for their programs spending our money.”
Just about every nice community/town, city in the US has been invaded by left wingers bringing the same destructive socialist programs in the past two decades.
If I had my choice of locations, I think I'd pick the Triangle in NC.
That explains Portland and Oregon's high profile on the list. ;o)
I keep telling Cacique that he can make a fortune if he ever decided to become a landlord with his current house in SP.
I keep telling Cacique that he can make a fortune if he ever decided to become a landlord with his current house in SP.
I wish there were more like you out there; and less yuppie liberal types. I remeber the mountains from when I was a kid during the 80’s then I went back in 2006 and man the mountains (at least near Denver/Evergreen) are different-they’re almost like a metropolis..
A contradiction of the title. New Yawk is 7th on the list, so why does the title say otherwise?
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