People are shocked when they arrive at Santa Monica Beach and its full of Mejis and rated F for water quality.
Posted on 09/10/2007 9:30:04 AM PDT by qam1
Easy access to the beach seems to be a key factor in deciding which state people would choose to live. According to a new Harris Poll, California remains number 1 this year, followed by Florida, which moved up from number three and Hawaii, which has dropped from number two. Florida has been in the top three ever since this question was first asked in 1997. When it comes to which city people would live in, New York City comes in as number one for the ninth time (out of the last 10 opportunities), San Diego, CA moves up one spot to second and Seattle, WA also moves up one place to be the third most popular city.
These are some of the results of The Harris Poll®, a nationwide survey of 2,694 adults conducted online between August 7 and 13, 2007 by Harris Interactive®.
The next most popular states in which people would like to live are: North Carolina (#4, remaining the same as last year); Colorado (#5, moving up from #7); Texas (#6, dropping from #5); New York (#7, moving up from #8); Arizona (#8, moving up from #9); and Oregon (#9, moving up from #10). Three states are tied for the tenth spot on this list: Washington (was #6 last year); Tennessee (was #11 last year) and Virginia (was #12 last year).
Age plays a small role in the state people would choose to live in. The top choice for Baby Boomers (those aged 43-61) would be Hawaii, while California is tops for the other generations. For Echo Boomers (those aged 18-30), Texas moves up and is their number 2 choice. Generation Xers (those aged 31-42) and Matures (those 62 and older) break ranks with their 5th spot; for Gen Xers it is Pennsylvania and for Matures, the number 5 position goes to Oregon.
Favorite U.S. Cities to Live In
After NYC, San Diego and Seattle, the trend is to go West with one exception: San Francisco, CA (which dropped from #2 to #4). Las Vegas, NV remained the same as last year (#5); while Orlando, FL (#6, jumping up from #14), Honolulu, HI (#7, dropping from #6), Phoenix, AZ (#8, moving up from tied for #12), Denver, CO (tied for #9, dropping from tied for #7) and Los Angeles, CA (tied for #9, up from #11) all changed positions. Returning to the list of the 15 top cities this year are Charlotte, NC at #13 and Miami, FL at #15. Dropping out of the top 15 are Atlanta, GA (tied for #7) and Nashville, TN (#15).
It seems half of NYC is already in Los Angeles. You should have seen all the "NY Deli's" that sprung up after a mass influx in the 70's. They are busily turning (already turned?) L.A. into NYC West, politics and all.
I would like to visit NYC but I would never live there.
Point taken, just not my cup of tea. I also happen to favor fair skinned women, go figure.
Definitely true of Honolulu. Big difference between being on a mission to spend all you money and sleep in every morning, to commuting and doing the 8-5.
Same observation on San Diego. Lived there six years and grew to hate the place, mostly due to crowds and traffic.
Wow dude, do they, like, you know, play a lot of grunge music there?
Me neither. How in the world did they come up PA?
I can’t imagine wanting to live in Las Vegas, I don’t even want to visit there.
In Florida, we like to vacation in the mountains.
My family beside my parents (grandparents, ect all live around Denver).
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So, the most popular places to live are...
*SURPRISE!*
...the places where the most people live!
Too many people must have absolutely nothing productive to do with their time.
Pennsylvania would be an improvement over NJ, but I can't picture that many people from other parts of the country from choosing it.
What I can't get is why Gen-Xers would want to move to Florida with all the old people
So just like cars and mates, when it comes to somewhere to live people also go for what’s pretty.
People are shocked when they arrive at Santa Monica Beach and its full of Mejis and rated F for water quality.
Its a different story for people who already live there.
1. New York: In the words of Joey Ramone "the city where dey has it all!". Greatest city in the world, despite all the douchebag trustafarians who pour in from Ohio and Arizona.
2. Miami: BEAUTIFUL women, great nightlife, no income tax, and right-to-carry. Downside: NO HIGH CULTURE to speak off and the weather sucks (tropical storms and humidity that makes a sauna feel like Arizona).
3. Chicago: Nice place. Difficult to get good seafood and not as easy to get around by mass transit as New York. Still, one of the only two TRUE cities in the US.
4. Seattle: My least favorite. Homeless junkies everywhere, women who don't shave, locals who smile at you but "don't want to get too close", bad ethnic food (other than Chinese or Filipino). I also did not see the sun for nine months when I lived there. Nice countryside (the Cascades, San Juan Islands), but the city was rather pedestrian.
Check again. New York has GAINED population since 1990, to say nothing of the fact that it and parts of California have the most expensive real estate prices in the world.
But hey, if you want to live in a mindless exurbia of strip malls in a desert (Phoenix) just so you can pay $300,000 for a house that would cost close to a Mil by me, be my guest!
Man I hate that place.
Vegas is a great place for conventions, but no, I can't live in a friggin' desert (see Sam Kinison).
A decade ago, when I retired, I couldn’t understand how the cities, I didn’t want to visit let alone live in due to crime, illegal aliens then, and filthy streets could be in the top 10 to 20 cities to live in America.
After a Money mag and I believe CNN survey, I called up one of my MBA Profs, who was a master in statistics and asked him about the latest survey of most desireable cities.
His reply was that these so called surveys were geared to make liberal cities look like great edens to live in. Seldom was crime, property taxes and cost of living addressed in the surveys. Artsy fartsy stuff was rated high on the scales versus reality of living. The illegal alien issue was ignore or praised as some of those cities 10 years ago became sanctuaries for illegal aliens.
When we view the cities listed as the most desireable in these so called surveys, most of them are cess pool blue cities with high crime rates including murder/rape and assualt crimes. Their tax rates are incredible. Their so called news comes uber liberal fishwraps and local tv/radio stations. Many are so called sanctuaries for illegal aliens. Often the reality is those with money and common sense are leaving those blue Cess Pools of hell and going to the suburbs or out state after they sell their homes.
That prof moved from San Diego to San Clemente shortly after my contact with him. He felt San Diego was being over run by illegal aliens, who brough third world crime and morality to San Diego.
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