Posted on 11/10/2007 4:58:04 PM PST by shrinkermd
Triple-digit monthly parking fees, $12 movie tickets, clogged intersections and weekly grocery bills that rival some mortgage payments. Welcome to life in the Big Apple. And Los Angeles. And Chicago.
But, it's possible to enjoy such amenities without the hassles. Step one? Look for more affordable spots that offer a similar or better quality of life, and where the dollar goes far.
The Cities are:
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Your original post 'there’s a reason those places are cheap...no one wants to live there' is moronic ... unfortunate you are approaching jr. geezer status and still an idiot.
I wonder why Detroit isn’t on the list?
You can buy most any house there for the price of a used car. They have a hockey team and isn’t Rap an art form?/sarc.
Well Minneapolis is too cold (my dad came from way north of Duluth), and Cincinatti and St. Louis are too dangerous. Indianapolis, Dallas, and Atlanta are all places I have lived and are pretty civilized. I have driven through Houston, Columbus and Pittsburgh, and they seem tolerable, Pittsburgh seems to have cleaned up well. All I know about Millwaukee is that it seems to be a colder, cheaper version of Chicago, which is still a toddling (and expensive) town.
Your last name wouldn’t be Griswold, would it?
I live on Crowley Ridge. New Madrid earthquake would get me for sure.
Nope!
Because MOST of those Yankees are coming from places where their ideas have been implemented and turned their former hometown into a freaking mess.
Think of them of folks who MUST change residence, because they've defecated in their former nest.
Hmmm, I just moved from Minneapolis to Baltimore, MD and as far as gas prices go, Baltimore’s are about 30 to 40 cents cheaper per gallon than what we had to pay in Minneapolis. Unfortunately, the Legislature here wants to catch up via a gas tax but it is cheaper for now.
I was surprised to see Cincinnati so high on this list... but it was also in the top 10 murder per capita list on an earlier thread. 90% of Cincinnati murders are black on black and confined to certain parts of town.
Not true...We want to live here. We just don’t want other people to live here. LOL!
And I duly noted your 'h.' Thanks, n'at.
PaMom
OK.
I’ll pray for you that you should never need a hospital or fire truck. ;-)
Hank
I'm wit' you, bro! Spent most of my career in Baton Rouge (which WAS, before Katrina, a nice place) and lived in Houston for a while.
Rural areas outside small towns for me from here on.
Where’s Pittsburg?
I know there’s one in Kansas. But there isn’t one in Pennsylvania....we have PittsburgH!!
Well golly, gee wizz. You don’ have those out heir in da boondox do ya. Heck, weezuns juss got electricity. < /sarcasm>
I have lived in Boston and Philadelphia. For the past four years I’ve been in Pittsburgh. If you can find a good job, which I did, it is far far cheaper to live here than most places in the Northeast. I think it’s a great place to live.
Cincinnati a crime ridden hell hole? Like everywhere else it all depends on neighborhoods. I live a little more than one mile from Fountain Square, Paul Brown Stadium, Great American Ballpark and the Music Hall. Except when the A/C comes on in July and August I have nothing but screen doors between me and the savages from April through October.
Oh, I’m sure you have ‘em. Question is, how far away?
Like I said, I pray you don’t encounter a situation where the difference between being 5 minutes from a hospital and 15 minutes from a hospital is the difference between life and death.
Hank
The easy solution to that is, don't live in Duluth. I live in Decatur, and I can be downtown in 20-30 minutes at any time of day. I wouldn't live in Cobb or Gwinnett if you paid me.
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