[rightwingintelligentsia]

The list:

1. El Centro, CA
2. Cleveland, OH
3. Detroit, MI
4. Las Vegas, NV
5. Oklahoma City, OK
6. Los Angeles, CA
7. Phoenix, AZ
8. Newark, NJ
9. Miami, FL
10. Memphis, TN

[RexBeach]

What about Frostbite Falls, MN?

[Ingtar]

We’re number 10! We’re number 10!

[outpostinmass2]

Yeah,

I have been to those ten places, this is fairly accurate. You could also throw-in any city in Upstate New York.

[fullchroma]

El Centro has at least one important redeeming quality. It is home to my favorite food on the planet: Quesadilla Especial at La Hacienda (formerly in Imperial, CA.)

[twister881]

0. The other side of Michelle Obama’s bed.

[edcoil]

I heard all the gulf states are just terrible. The RSPCA is having a pet auction here in California due to so many families having to turn pets in at a shelter in the gulf area because of no money to take care of them.

[CedarDave]

Ten best small cities to live:

No. 1: Eden Prairie, Minn.
No. 2: Columbia / Ellicott City, Md.
No. 3: Newton, Mass.
No. 4: Bellevue, Wash.
No. 5: McKinney, Texas
No. 6: Fort Collins, Colo.
No. 7: Overland Park, Kansas
No. 8: Fishers, Ind.
No. 9: Ames, Iowa
No. 10: Rogers, Ark.

http://www.walletpop.com/mortgages/best-places-to-live-2010

[Nat Turner]

This smells like more Lib agiprop to me... WHERE IS BALTIMORE, PHILLY, GARY IN and EAST ST. LOUIS??? all these armpits are far worse than Phoenix or Miami

[Truth is a Weapon]

Oklahoma City made the list because of our obesity index. Granted, we have more fat people than we should. But I have yet to hear that it is contagious or that people are forced into obesity because of organized crime. So, give me a break, other people’s being fat is no reason to black ball a city.

We have low unemployment, low cost of living, low foreclosure rate, housing prices have not declined to much extent. People are friendly and our crime rate is low. But too many fat people is worse than Chicago’s double digit weekly murder rate.

[Tax-chick]

Oklahoma City is the unhealthiest city in the country, as measured by the American College of Sports Medicine's annual fitness index. The index looks at 30 fitness indicators, including obesity and exercise rates, death rate from cardiovascular disease, acres of park land, number of primary care physicians per capita and percentage of residents who bicycle or walk to work.

Big FReepin' deal ... like I care if the neighbors work out. I'd rather they cooked great Mexican food ... with lard. And get those bicycles out of the way of my van already.

[Moose4]

“Well I met her in El Centro
In the men’s room of a bar
We consummated our relationship
In the front seat of our car”

(Beat Farmers, “Big Ugly Wheels”)

Y’know, the fact that Cleveland came out worse than Detroit is going to really annoy the Clevelanders. Being better than Detroit is their big hope after Lebron left.

}:-)4

[who knows what evil?]

I’ve never been to Oklahoma City, but to place them on this list over ‘fitness’ issues is a complete and utter joke...

[bill1952]

So Phoenix Arizona makes it because of the new law that makes it too hard for Latinos to live here??

There is quite a slant in some of these listings.

[reagan_fanatic]

No Compton, CA or East St. Louis?

[bereanway]

Sounds like OKC made it based upon obesity rates which sounds pretty squirrly. Every city in the US has a lot of fat people but that wouldn't be a detriment in my eyes. Maybe just a lot of good cooks. Oh yeah, they also didn't have many dog parks.

[MIlle]

Sounds like they’ve got way faulty reasoning. Several of these places could be considered some of the best places to live for various reasons: Miami, Phoenix, las Vegas, LA.....

[dragnet2]

El Centro is in the middle of the desert, nearly on the Mexican boarder....

Of course its nasty...

But no where near as bad as El Paso/Juarez area...lol

[Snickering Hound]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysmLA5TqbIY

Cleveland Tourism video.

[668 - Neighbor of the Beast]

This list is predicated on the fact that nobody was willing to transport the compilers of it into Camden NJ, Buffalo NY, Oakland CA or Washington DC.
Not to mention Centralia PA which is still on fire after almost 50 years...but it’s vacant now.

[DaxtonBrown]

I’m in Vegas, We are Number 4!