I live in the 8th best town in America

[mmbt0ne]

At least, that's what CNN tells me.

http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/

Eat it East Cobb.

[Reef]

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Median home price $516,297

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I win?

[JTrout]

what a crock!

[TheCroShow]

no luv for OKC? harsh yo =/

[TheIrishThug]

cnn is rigged

[ChipWrecked]

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cnn is rigged

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Heh. So the nicest town in the U.S. is in New Jersey? Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

[TheIrishThug]

y does everyone assume that newark is a good representation of jersey

[BeerMoney]

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I live in the 8th best town in America


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No you don't. Sorry. Atlanta and suburbs suck.

[mmbt0ne]

We've already established that this is because you hate black people. Please don't rehash old topics.

[BeerMoney]

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We've already established that this is because you hate black people. Please don't rehash old topics.

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lmao. Oh let me think, what sux about Atlanta???? Uhm, the weather, the traffic, the stupid street names, no character, people have no character.. Dude, if u really think PeachTree City is one of the coolest places to live, you really should probably get out and travel more.

I guess you're implying Atl. has a denser black population than most cities.. That's great, I never really noticed it when I've been there. Did u see my "I'd let Oprah Blow Me." post?

What does Atlanta have that beats other cities?

Better Sports? Nope. Braves fans are known as some of the worst.

Better Restaurants? Nope

Better Night Life? I don't know. But I'm assuning with all of the aggravating right wing christians, it can't be that good.

Better People? Again, bible thumping is prevalent here. There's no particular accent, no particular wit.

From what I understand there's a genre of hip hop that spurned from Atl. That's cool.

All Atlanta is known for is being the Delta hub, and homebase for CNN.

Sorry dude, Atlanta sucks.

[xorbie]

Sweet. I live in the 3rd most educated town in the US.

[Lazymeatball]

I live next to the 36th best town in the US. I think it's funny how they put the closest city to the town and Worcester is in the article.

[BeerMoney]

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Sweet. I live in the 3rd most educated town in the US.

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Brookline High has a good amount of famous grads, right? Lexington made it as well.. Interesting.

[xorbie]

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Sweet. I live in the 3rd most educated town in the US.

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Brookline High has a good amount of famous grads, right? Lexington made it as well.. Interesting.

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Apart from me? Conan O'Brian, that guy who does 60 minutes, Bob Kraft, and Theo Epstein.

[IndieMatty]

I don't need CNN to tell me New York is the best.

[dtbog]

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I live next to the 36th best town in the US. I think it's funny how they put the closest city to the town and Worcester is in the article.

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Uhh... me too.. PM me!

-dB

[lucas9000]

i call shenanigans. two of the top 5 cities are in new jersey (!), and #5 is louisville, co, which is most certainly not that good.

/didn't read their criteria, so this post is likely 100% retarded

[dtbog]

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/didn't read their criteria, so this post is likely 100% retarded

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Did you ever read that 'best 500 schools in the US' list?

I did, and I was surprised that my high school wasn't on it, until I realized that 20% of the schools on the list were from Florida.

I did a little sleuthing (OK, read the fine print at the end of the article) and realized that they were measuring the quality of the school system by HOW MANY Advanced Placement exams were taken by its students. Not the highest average score or the highest percentage of students, but literally the raw number of AP tests taken.

Florida makes all of its students take AP tests, and subsidizes the cost from town and state budgets.... so that skews things a bit.

My point is only that sometimes the criteria for these lists are pretty stupid.

[namknils]

Naperville Illinois is #3 on the list. I have no arguements about that, Naperville is an awesome city (I live near Naperville, but not in).

[mmbt0ne]

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I don't need CNN to tell me New York is the best.

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New York != town n00b

[Crveballin]

I was suprised to find out I live in the #17 city

Gaithersburg, MD.

Girlfriend lives in #4 Vienna Virginia.

Damnit she wins again.

[IndieMatty]

Those towns in New Jersey ARE really REALLY nice. All of the local athletes eventually settle in the rich areas of Jersey.

[RacersEdge]

Damn, you're dumb. I hope you're like 13 to explain it.

[slickpoppa]

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i call shenanigans. two of the top 5 cities are in new jersey (!), and #5 is louisville, co, which is most certainly not that good.

/didn't read their criteria, so this post is likely 100% retarded

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People who knock NJ don't know what they are talking about and are probably only basing their opinions on driving through I-95. Yeah, the turnpike is ugly and smells like [censored], but that is only a very small part of the state. Do you think the people dropping millions on homes in NJ are living next to garbage dumps?

[BeerMoney]

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People who knock NJ don't know what they are talking about and are probably only basing their opinions on driving through I-95. Yeah, the turnpike is ugly and smells like [censored], but that is only a very small part of the state. Do you think the people dropping millions on homes in NJ are living next to garbage dumps?

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Coming home from Atlantic City Heading south towards DC, I took the "back way" on whatever the hell road that was, and it was absolutely beautiful. Nice farms, ranches, etc. I saw more farmland than I have living in south carolina for 6 years.

[sfer]

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At least, that's what CNN tells me.

http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/

Eat it East Cobb.

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Mill Valley. Two towns in NJ.

Bwahahahahahahahaha.

Go to highest median income towns. I'd like to point out that Bukkake grew up in Saratoga CA. Mike, can you stake me?

[lucas9000]

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i call shenanigans. two of the top 5 cities are in new jersey (!), and #5 is louisville, co, which is most certainly not that good.

/didn't read their criteria, so this post is likely 100% retarded

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People who knock NJ don't know what they are talking about and are probably only basing their opinions on driving through I-95. Yeah, the turnpike is ugly and smells like [censored], but that is only a very small part of the state. Do you think the people dropping millions on homes in NJ are living next to garbage dumps?

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eh, i'm not 100% serious. it's just fun to jump on the bandwagon and give nj a hard time /images/graemlins/wink.gif

that said, a friend of mine lived in guttenburg (sp?) for a while, and it was incredibly convenient for getting to manhattan...probably more so than most of the boroughs. also, from what i understand it was relatively cheap. wouldn't be a bad place to live if it wasn't in jersey /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[chaas4747]

Saw this I am in the 30th!

[Cancer Merchant]

Judging from this article, the state of Illinois is nothing but golf courses.

[Jersey Nick]

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Judging from this article, the state of Illinois is nothing but golf courses.

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Lucky bastards. I left there for Great American Town #9 10 years ago. Golf is more expensive and less available here. I miss Cog Hill.

[tbach24]

My town was #80 on this but in numerous reports it's been called the best small city in the US or something like that.

[DemonDeac]

this list is stupid. i live in wayne, pa. if u look at all teh stats, everything we have is above average compared to the top 100 yet for some reason we get screwed. i dont know why we're off the list. im pretty sure we meet all the prerequisites

[imported_CaseClosed326]

Wow, I thought we had alot of golf courses, but I never thought Illinois would sweep the top ten.

And I live right near the 3rd best city in America. I also hate that city. Naperville is gay.

[Runin]

Interesting that my hometown isn't even on the list. I'm sure that has to be some GLARING mistake.
However, we do own the #9 beach in the USA (admittedly down from the #5 it used to rank).
http://www.petrix.com/beaches/best.html

[GrooveNougat]

I think I got you, Reef:

Median home price $921,034

[shadow29]

Clearly BeerMoney is simply motivated by his racist impulses.

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Eat it East Cobb.

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I would like to point out how awesome that comment is.

Carry on.

[stabn]

Hahaha my hometown rules:

Property crime risk
(100 is national average; lower is better) 147 78
Bars
(within 15 miles) 413 241

[stabn]

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At least, that's what CNN tells me.

http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/

Eat it East Cobb.

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Mill Valley. Two towns in NJ.

Bwahahahahahahahaha.

Go to highest median income towns. I'd like to point out that Bukkake grew up in Saratoga CA. Mike, can you stake me?

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My x-girlfriend, who was a total spoiled rich girl, grew up in a town just nudged out by that one in median income...

Financial City Stats Best places
average
Median household income
(per year) $144,402 $68,160
Sales tax 8.25% 6.78%
State income tax rate
(highest bracket) 9.30%* n/a
State income tax rate
(lowest bracket) 1.00%* n/a
Auto insurance premiums
(Average for the state) $821 $855
Housing City Stats Best places
average
Median home price $1,348,121 $316,082
Home price gain
(2-5 year gain) 8.88% 20.19%


$1.35M median home price is pretty nuts.

[sfer]

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$1.35M median home price is pretty nuts.

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From 1999-2001 I lived in a 1 bedroom condo that I rented from the owner in San Francisco. It was maybe 800 square feet and similar units in the building were selling for 500K-600K at the time. Then I moved to NYC and saw expensive real estate.

[Edginator]

#3 NAPERVILLE, IL....BITCH

[Edginator]

Where do you live? The [censored] of america Lisle and bum town Woodridge???

[beerbandit]

jackson, mi


definetely has a good bar to church ratio

[JaBlue]

I definitely got you. 1.15 mil.

[SomethingClever]

This is way off.

Pwntown is the best city in the country, and it's not close.