Posted on 05/15/2009 11:34:08 PM PDT by zeestephen
(1) Vienna (2) Zurich (3) Geneva (4) Vancouver and Auckland (tie) (6) Dusseldorf (7) Munich (8) Frankfurt (9) Bern (10) Sydney
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10 Best places to live?
Huh...apparently they’ve never been to East Tennessee.
Vienna and Munich I could understand. Dusseldorf is triste boredom amidst an (ex)industrial region.
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It’s interesting that every one of the cities mentioned is likely fairly homogenous in its population. I’m thinking that would make for much more stable societies, which would make them less chaotic places to live.
I was born in Dusseldorf, and that is why they call me Rolf!
Ahh, I hope to never see my town on that list.
Wow, beautiful picture.
I imagine that the “best place to live” has a lot to do with money, if I had a billion dollars then New york city might be a better place to live than on a gorgeous lake with beautiful hunting and fishing and wonderful nights in some area of Arkansas or Oregon.
One thing that I do know is that I lived 15 years on the beach in San Diego in a shack leftover from the 1800s that was made of 1 inch thick boards (period), nothing else, no insulation or siding or attic or anything else.
When you looked at the wall or the vaulted ceiling, the board that you saw was also the outside wall (1 inch thick board), the place was so drafty that during a storm, candles would blow out inside the shack, the homemade windows had never had a screen.
The beauty of that strip of geography is that there were no bugs and the two worst temperatures that I ever experienced there was a low of 42 and a high of 85. The real life daily temps of winter and summer was daytime temperatures of about 67 to 72.
I lived with out needing heating and cooling, how many rich people have lived like that? Oh yeah, I could reach this major cities airport in about 12 to 15 minutes, pick you up at the airport at 4:00pm? no problem, (try that in Houston).
That sounds pretty awesome - what part of San Diego was it?
I like Zurich but the folks are not real friendly...
Originally from Vancouver. I don’t find it surprising that Vancouver went down from 1-2 to 4 when it’s known as the San Fran of canada. It was too liberal for even my tastes. Heck, it even out-liberalizes the most ardent lib in San Fran.
Well, it is springtime! :)
#11 - Detroit.
The best laugh and picture of the evening.
That is why I love living near the ocean in SoCal. We have the windows open (upstairs for sure) just about every day of the year. I don’t know what I’d do, having to live in a place where you turn the heater off the same day you turn the A/C on.
On the coast itself, as you start moving inland things change rapidly, five miles inland the climate is still very nice but not nearly the same, 20 miles inland and you are in the semi arid desert, 50 miles into the mountains and then the real desert after that.
If you can get into that first 100 feet from the water then it is an entirely different world, permanent tomatoes for one thing, you will be picking your tomatoes year round although in winter they take longer to ripen.
When I found my little beach shack I had been a drifter for years, no money, no anything and at my age drifting was no longer fun (girls love drifters, but not when they are approaching 40), well I stumbled into that beach shack for $300.00 a month, it was heaven, it was a real life version of James Garner's fantasy trailer in the Rockford Files.
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