2008 Best Cities

[Capt Caveman]

From Kiplingers

No. 1: Houston

No. 2: Raleigh

No. 3: Omaha

No. 4: Boise

No. 5: Colorado Springs

No. 6: Austin

No. 7: Fayettville

No. 8: Sacramento

No. 9: Des Moines

No. 10: Provo

 

[loup garou]

Exactly the sort of list I'd expect financial advisors to come up with.

 

[preslove]

The only city I would consider moving to is Austin. That list is idiotic.

 

[Sphexi]

How the hell did CS get on there? That place is a pit.

 

[OdiN]

Sacramento? WTF?

 

[Riverhound777]

Why is Sac showing up on all these lists lately, did they pay someone?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Why is Sac showing up on all these lists lately, did they pay someone?

I can only guess b/c it's a whole lot cheaper to live there now.

 

[preslove]

Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Why is Sac showing up on all these lists lately, did they pay someone?

All the places on this list have a high number of jobs and a low cost of living. Of course, they have low costs of living because people leave them to go to nicer places. Who the hell wants to live in Houston?

 

[Pepsi90919]

Why are these only American cities?

 

[edtsui]

I live in Houston and would like to confirm that this article is WRONG.

 

[E equals MC2]

Where's Boston & NYC?

 

[Vonkhan]

lol wut?

 

[Svnla]

Houston is higher rank than Austin? No way. The only thing Houston is better than Austin is housing is a little bit cheaper.

 

[Scarpozzi]

All of those lists are screwy. I remember seeing a list that someone produced about the best places to raise a family. Both NYC and LA were on the list. I think they were just basing their figures on city size....

 

[CraKaJaX]

Great list. Where's Detroit?

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman
From Kiplingers

No. 1: Houston

No. 2: Raleigh

No. 3: Omaha

No. 4: Boise

No. 5: Colorado Springs

No. 6: Austin

No. 7: Fayettville

No. 8: Sacramento

No. 9: Des Moines

No. 10: Provo

LOL @ HOUSTON

srsly

definitely 5 & 6 are in top 10 list but no way in hell should Houston be on there. no "real" tourist attractions, major major major traffic, surprisingly high costs of entertaining (bars, movies, etc)

lol @ sacramento also

where is Portland?

 

[LS21]

Originally posted by: Svnla
Houston is higher rank than Austin? No way. The only thing Houston is better than Austin is housing is a little bit cheaper.

also, this is only true if prices from the entire houston metroplex is averaged together

if metric is Rent/distance_from_city_center , then it would be at least even

 

[CPA]

I about crapped my pants when I saw Houston as number one. I live here too.

Now, if you look at the criteria in which they chose the cities, it does make sense. The oil industry is big down here and there are no shortage of jobs - which seemed to be the key indicator in this study.

 

[OdiN]

Originally posted by: CPA
I about crapped my pants when I saw Houston as number one. I live here too.

Now, if you look at the criteria in which they chose the cities, it does make sense. The oil industry is big down here and there are no shortage of jobs - which seemed to be the key indicator in this study.

Colo Springs is tougher to get a job in depending on your field. Lots of government jobs that require clearances and such which aren't always very simple to get.

 

[txrandom]

I love Houston and all that. But there's no way Houston should be #1 or even in the top 10.

 

[dainthomas]

Originally posted by: Capt Caveman

Originally posted by: Riverhound777
Why is Sac showing up on all these lists lately, did they pay someone?

I can only guess b/c it's a whole lot cheaper to live there now.

It must be in Houston too, those places are both crapholes. This list is even more of a joke than these type of lists usually are.

 

[HannibalX]

According to Wikipedia those cities have a combined population of 12,843,868 people. Someone must like living there.

I see that no cities from New England or the Tri-State area made the list. Oh well.

IMO the city at the top of the list should be Chicago.

 

[buck]

lol @ the list.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Where's Boston & NYC?

cost of living. very few young people can live well in expensive cities like that. This has been true since well, before you were sucking your mother's teet.

 

[zinfamous]

Raleigh is alway sup there, makes a lot of sense.

Though, I about crapped myself thinking Fayetville was referring to "FayetNam," NC.