Best Places to Live

[mylife]

Best Places to Live - RealEstateJournal

Here were my results. Unfortunately the quiz doesn't take into account the archetypical citizen of these cities. ie Boston, way too many irish people and Long Island, worst people on earth. The 1st number is the rank, second is percentage match, and third is population.

1 100 San Francisco, CA 1,655,454
2 91 Boston, MA-NH-ME 3,263,060
3 87 Long Island, NY 2,660,285
4 85 Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA 9,127,751
5 84 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV 4,563,123
6 83 New York, NY 8,643,437
7 81 Chicago, IL 7,733,876
8 79 Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, WA 2,234,707
9 79 Oakland, CA 2,209,629
10 78 Bergen-Passaic, NJ 1,311,331

 

[slickdadd]

It also doesn't consider cost of living judging from the majority of those entries. Seems like a pretty mainstream, conservative, and unoriginal list to me. I can think of plenty of better places to live.

 

[mylife]

It also doesn't consider cost of living judging from the majority of those entries. Seems like a pretty mainstream, conservative, and unoriginal list to me. I can think of plenty of better places to live.

It does take into account cost of living. You can assess weight to each criterion. Try it, you may be surprised.

 

[slickdadd]

Those are all major metropolitan areas for the most part, with very high costs of living. It clearly doesn't put much weight on cost of living, which is a very high priority for most people when considering a "best place" to live. While I might agree the bay area is one of the best places to live in the country despite it's astronomical costs, a lot of the others I can't say the same for.

 

[Mammoth2500]

Lest not thee forget canadian cities! Placed in some of the top "worlds best places to live"
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/11/cities_020311

 

[BrothaBill]

Seattle sucks ass big time, I just moved from there, you cant drive anywhere, the city planning is a liberal retardville, they cant get anything right. I mean they couldnt even pass a vote to support our troops. And the traffic is gridlock and 30 years behind the population growth with no new construction, the cost of a house is unimaginable, it sux

 

[mylife]

Those are all major metropolitan areas for the most part, with very high costs of living. It clearly doesn't put much weight on cost of living, which is a very high priority for most people when considering a "best place" to live. While I might agree the bay area is one of the best places to live in the country despite it's astronomical costs, a lot of the others I can't say the same for.

ugh, like i said, you choose the weight of each different criteria on a 1-10 scale. obviously you haven't even looked at the quiz because it's tailored to each person's individual preferences.

 

[mylife]

Lest not thee forget canadian cities! Placed in some of the top "worlds best places to live"
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2002/03/11/cities_020311

vancouver would be uber awesome if it weren't for those dastardly tax rates.

if i lived outside the US i'd pick either vancouver, buenos aires, spain, or possibly costa rica.

 

[ringperm]

http://english.people.com.cn/200409/17/eng20040917_157354.html

 

[Mammoth2500]

http://english.people.com.cn/200409/17/eng20040917_157354.html

OoOooOoooo and United States ranks 4 below Canada