Money Magazine's Best Places to Live

Spexxvet • Jul 30, 2007 5:19 pm
I live in the 9th best place to live, according to Money Magazine anyway....

Wooo - Hooooo! I can hear my property value rising!
Uisge Beatha • Jul 30, 2007 6:20 pm
Heck, I'm not that far from #25, but I wouldn't say it's that great. Still, I never expected anything on the list to be at all nearby.
piercehawkeye45 • Jul 30, 2007 7:18 pm
Wow, I grew up very close to number 30.
Aliantha • Jul 30, 2007 10:35 pm
Hmmm... don't see Brisbane on that list. They must have made a mistake.
xoxoxoBruce • Jul 31, 2007 6:25 am
It's Money magazine. Obviously Brisbane didn't offer enough money.
Shawnee123 • Jul 31, 2007 10:24 am
Gee, my town isn't listed. Big surprise! ;)
barefoot serpent • Jul 31, 2007 10:41 am
Business Week has a similar list of affordable suburbs broken down by region:
Midwest
South
West
Northeast

with some overlaps.
bigw00dy • Aug 1, 2007 12:22 pm
Look at the average property taxes for the top 100 and take a stab on which state has just about the highest.....I will give you a hint, it starts with Ne............and ends with ersy.
Shawnee123 • Aug 1, 2007 1:44 pm
Ahhh yes. Good ol' Neersy.
Radar • Aug 1, 2007 5:22 pm
Man, one of our offices is only 13 miles from Nether Providence in Malvern. I should look at moving there.
barefoot serpent • Aug 15, 2007 4:02 pm
still another list -- Looks like Hanover, NH makes the trifecta
WASHINGTON (AP) — What are the best places to live, play and seek adventure?

National Geographic Adventure magazine's September issue includes a list of the best towns nationwide, one in each state.

Best wilderness towns - meaning they offer access to forests, canyons, swamps, grasslands, prairies and other wild places - are Homer, Alaska; Cody, Wyo.; Flagstaff, Ariz.; Valdosta, Ga.; Medora, N.D.; Rochester, Minn.; Alexandria, La.; Valentine, Neb.; and St. George, Utah.

Best small towns on the list were Spearfish, S.D.; Bloomington, Ind.; Iowa City, Iowa; Northampton, Mass.; Lynchburg, Va.; Marietta, Ohio, Fayetteville, W.Va.; Bowling Green, Ky.; Chatsworth, N.J.; Hot Springs, Ark.; and Smyrna, Del.

Best mountain towns, according to the magazine, are Bishop, Calif.; Gunnison, Colo.; Missoula, Mont.; Hanover, N.H.; Wenatchee, Wash.; Hood River, Ore.; Boone, N.C.; Jim Thorpe, Pa.; Montpelier, Vt.; and New Paltz, N.Y.

Best waterfront towns, according to National Geographic Adventure, are Waimea, Hawaii; Fond du Lac, Wis.; Newport, R.I.; Rockland, Maine; Mystic, Conn.; Grand Rapids, Mich.; Annapolis, Md; Beaufort, S.C., and Lewiston, Idaho.



Labratville makes the best small town list.
LabRat • Aug 15, 2007 5:21 pm
Crap, you beat me to it! I was gonna brag and be all *nya nyah!!!*
Cloud • Aug 15, 2007 6:03 pm
whatever they are, they're not where I am
Perry Winkle • Aug 15, 2007 6:19 pm
What's with all the inconsistency in the state abbreviations?
Cloud • Aug 15, 2007 8:59 pm
I don't want to move to any of those places.

And I'd be very wary of living anywhere with "nether" in the name.:eek:
TheMercenary • Aug 15, 2007 9:07 pm
We moved from one of the top ones in 1998:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2007/snapshots/PL1350036.html

A great place to live and raise kids. We would have stayed on if the next duty station had not called. School systems were awsome.
xoxoxoBruce • Aug 15, 2007 9:49 pm
And after you moved there it never made the list again?.... even after you left?












Just kidding.
JuancoRocks • Aug 18, 2007 11:58 pm
Well at least Phoenix made #3 in the top ten big cities.
Of course they haven't seen the endless construction and our ridiculous multi-billion dollar boondoggle of the traffic inhibiting (s)light rail.
Spexxvet • Aug 22, 2007 9:23 am
Cloud;375110 wrote:
I don't want to move to any of those places.

And I'd be very wary of living anywhere with "nether" in the name.:eek:


Think "nether lips", baby. :yum:
minnmirman • Aug 23, 2007 7:12 pm
Kind of rules that Wisconsin holds the number one spot. Everyone from Wisconsin loves the state, but when I brought a buddy from California there all he could talk about was how the west coast had the same things minus the accent and better.....so I punched him on his snout
barefoot serpent • Sep 26, 2007 11:29 am
US News & World Reports best places to retire

Bozeman, Montana
Concord, New Hampshire
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Hillsboro, Oregon
Lawrence, Kansas
Peachtree City, Georgia
Prescott, Arizona
San Francisco, California
Smyrna, Tennessee
Venice, Florida


dammit, now I'm stuck here...
Flint • Sep 26, 2007 11:36 am
Something bothers me every time I see this thread title.

Do I really want something called Money Magazine telling me where to live? I mean,

I can't help thinking that this list might be a little biased...maybe it should have been called "Best Cities To Earn Money" or something?
theotherguy • Sep 26, 2007 12:16 pm
barefoot serpent;389172 wrote:
US News & World Reports best places to retire


Smyrna, TN? Are they kidding me? That is just down the road and it doesn't have anything. It really is just a suburb of Nashville.