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WE'RE #3! WE'RE #3! <|:)~
Posted on 11/05/2003 9:28:51 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
It's Cold. It's far from any of the country’s so-called media or entertainment centers. Did we mention it's cold? So why on earth is Minnesota home of the nation's "funnest" city? The makers of the boardgame "Cranium" came up with the study, conducted with the help of Bert Sperling, creator of Money Magazine's "Best Places to Live" rankings. And the number one "funnest" city, according to their rankings, is Minneapolis-St. Paul, known as the "Twin Cities." Sperling said the reasons the Twin Cities area is the most fun are myriad: four professional sports teams; the largest shopping mall in the country (The Mall of America); over a dozen dog parks; more theaters than Boston; more golfers per capita than any other city; more parks than Denver; and, with over 10,000 lakes, more shoreline than California, Florida and Hawaii combined. The rest of the top ten are: 2. Orange County, Calf.
Nary a New York (#41), Las Vegas (#25), or Miami (#46) are to be found in the top ten. Tampa Bay, Honolulu, and Providence, each a beautiful city with lots of attractions, didn't make the list at all. Sperling and his crew used 32 different criteria to rank the cities, taking into account everything from sports to parks the arts, and how much it costs for those recreations as well. Salt Lake City, which one might not think of as a bastion of "fun,” was proud to be #9 on the list. "Salt Lake City offers beautiful camping areas, a wide variety of activities for the whole family and has residents that spent a large portion of money on fun things like musical instruments and bicycles," Sperling said in a press release. Tracy Cayford, spokeswoman for the Utah Travel Council, told Utah's Desert News that the Hogle Zoo, the Great Salt Lake, Antelope Island, Temple Square, Lagoon, museums and the area's other recreation opportunities together gave Salt Lake it's high ranking. Michael De Groote, spokesman for the Salt Lake Chamber, mused that the perception of Salt Lake City is positive due to "the legacy of the Olympic Winter Games ... It's a beautiful place here," he said. Atlanta, a city without any public transportation system but with much to do and a host of new construction underway – not to mention a recent Olympic Summer Games - is also a surprise at #4. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, in North Carolina, is usually thought of as the "research triangle," home of college basketball, scientists, engineers, and not much else. Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, N.C. came in at #29 in the rankings. Seems North Carolina is a great place to be these days. California had the biggest collection of "fun” cities in the survey, with eight of the top fifty. Even the oft-ridiculed New Jersey had two cities in the top fifty – Newark and Bergen-Passaic.
3. San Jose, Calf.
4. Atlanta
5. Chicago
6. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, N.C.
7. Washington
8. Oakland, Calf.
9. Salt Lake City
10. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett, Wash.
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Owl_Eagle
”Guns Before Butter.”
Sven: "Ja, and de're boat for sale."
Who did they poll? Prison inmates?
= )
Doubtless you've been by THIS place in 'ta Cruz. <|:)~
Oakland SUCKS. Gritty gangland territory.
Maybe they meant the Oakland Hills area.
Newark?....got NOTHIN on Asbury Park, the most happenin' place down the shore!
* You know you are in Minnesota when: "Vacation" means going up nort' for the weekend.
* You measure distance in hours. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
* You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
* You use a down comforter in the summer -- and gloves.
* You drive at 65 mph through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
* You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
* You think of the major food groups as venison, beer, fish and berries.
* You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
* There are seven empty cars running in the parking lot at the Fleet Farm at any given time.
* You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
* Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
* You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas.
* You know all four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
* You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
* Snow tires come standard on all your cars.
* A brat is something you eat.
* You go out for fish fry every Friday.
* You can recognize someone from Iowa by their driving.
* Formal wear is blue jeans and a baseball cap.
* You drink pop and refer to your dad as pop.
* You were unaware there is a legal drinking age.
* Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
* You decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend.
* You only know three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.
* You've seen mosquitoes with landing lights.
* You have more miles on your snow blower than on your car.
* The local paper covers major headlines on one page, but requires four pages for sports.
* Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.
* You think the start of deer season is a national holiday.
* You find zero degrees a little chilly.
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