Like you didn't know ping.
Interesting - I would have sworn Honolulu (or even better Maui for higher real estate, gas, and just about everything else) would have made the list.
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Strong correlation between Democrat/socialist control and places that are overpriced; i.e., low growth potential to cost of living. (taxes anyone?)
The only one of these in even a semi-red state is Miami - and Miami Dade is still a democrat county, despite the Cuban-Americans.
To me, this is an indicator of how government messes up the market.
I figured 1-10 would be all in California or NYC areas.
These places are pikers compared to my neighborhood of canal and bayfront homes. The house up the street sold for $600K in June of 2003 and is back on the market for $800K. And it is on a lot assessed for less than mine.
seattle is a stupid place :o)
I'm outta here as soon as I finish my doctorate. While I love the scenery and being near the water, etc., there is no way I'd spend $200,000+ for a little craftsman cottage here in North Seattle (if they don't burn down the neighborhood first). The traffic is terrible and the city has a long way to go before it gets a handle on public transportation as it's understood on the east coast.
That said, with the Boeing layoffs and dotcom bust, the rental market has taken a dive and I've had reductions in my rent each year.
I thought I was a tough gal, w/10 years in Philly and 6 months working in NYC, but downtown Seattle unnerves me. I don't like going down there at all, though maybe it's a function of age. My son goes to the clubs and seems to like it well enough. However, neither one of us likes Belltown or anyplace down there well enough to want to live down there, new buildings and deals on rent notwithstanding, which is too bad, because I generally consider myself a city person.
In Seattle's defense tho, I must say that the people are generally friendly (especially coming from the east coast where people get angry if you look at them the wrong way), I feel pretty safe (if I don't go downtown), and am glad I picked Seattle over some of the college towns I could be doing time in.
This is skewed because of the prices at Starbucks.
3 Cities from New Jersey that bastion of liberal homosexual governors? Who'd a thunk it?
I'm surprised LA didn't make the top 10. Certainly the few parts of greater LA with decent schools and low crime are extremely highly priced.
I figured where I live would be in the top 5 - and it was. Thanks Miami.
Three cities in Jersey of the top ten are all seen as being overpriced.
Hmmmmmmmmmm, was this article from before the governor came out?
What did the author know and when did he know it?
Gee.
All those rich democrats.
Gee. I'm so sympathetic.
You'd think they'ed want a tax break, ya know.
I noticed Anchorage, Juneau, Valdez, and Fairbanks were not on the list. I guess you have to live in some mostrous urban hellhole in order to have to pay more than twice what anything is worse. Ask anybody who lives there.
I think the list would have to include 150 cities in order for Lansing to make the cut. We do things cheap here.
I see this is from Forbes? When do you think we can see it printed in the Seattle P-I or Seattle Times? Never? That's my guess.
I was born in Seattle and have lived here most of my life.
I am sick to death of the garbageman angrily and officiously taking me to task because I didn't properly seperate my refuse in the different recycling bins in the officially-dictated manner.
I am sick of the unfriendly women who will glare menacingly at you and make snotty comments (or worse) if you make the mistake of holding a door for them at the shopping mall.
Don't expect a second date if you make the mistake of holding a lady's chair for her at a restaurant, helping her on with her coat or open a car door for her.
Forget a date with any of her friends, either, as she will gleefully "out" you as "some kind of neanderthal Conservative".
I am sick of being unable to wash my car in my own driveway for fear of the neighbors ratting me out to the EPA.
I am tired of the Kerry supporters being able to drive around with Kerry bumper stickers while President Bush's supporters can't because they know that their car would be trashed if they parked it anywhere for more than ten minutes with a Bush/Cheney sticker on it.
Let's not even get into the added hazards of driving through Seattle with a Bush sticker on your car.....
You won't see many Bush yard signs because everyone knows that you'll get a rock through your window at 3AM if you dare to put one up.
I am tired of our gutless police department whose officers have their hands tied by an unbelievably Leftist administration. East Coast cities would never tolerate the protesters, "homeless" (bums) and other assorted crime that the current Seattle police administration does.
Don't get me wrong, I love cops, my dad was one. But they can only do as much as their administration lets them.
I am tired of having to drive 50 miles in order to find a place to shoot that allows me to put more than one round in the magazine at a time because Seattle doesn't want me to go on a mass-murder rampage.
I am tired of being limited to ONE Italian pastry shop (Borrachini's) and that it's always out of Cannoli and it seems that only the owner is Italian. Most of the people who work there are black kids and they all wear a scowl as standard equipment.
Sorry about this rant :-( (and I haven't even gotten into the economics LOL)
My Question:
Where is it better? I am forced to continue living here due to obligations but I hope to leave one day.