Provo least fun city in the nation?

KSL.com ^ | April 30, 2010 | Andrew Adams

[Colofornian]

PROVO -- There are fun things to do in Provo, right? Go to the movies. Go to the mall. Go out to dinner. Hike in Rock Canyon. Boat at Utah Lake.

One publication apparently decided there is nothing fun about Provo at all.

Portfolio.com rated the most fun and least fun cities. Provo was rated "least fun," lumped at the bottom with hot, dry places like Bakersfield and Modesto, Calif., and with cities with large water towers, like McAllen, Texas.

Provo Mayor John Curtis disputes the ranking.

"We'll show them what fun is," Curtis told KSL Newsradio Friday morning. "You won't wake up with a hangover and you'll still have your money in your wallet."

An explanation on the Portfolio website of how the rankings are compiled says the study's authors compiled federal statistics about businesses, and cities were graded on the volume and concentration of those businesses...

The authors then grouped the results into categories of fun - shopping, food and drink, culture, popular entertainment, gambling and high-impact and low-impact sports. The better scores apparently went to cities that rated better in a wide variety of categories.

Curtis is now trying to sway the authors that Provo really isn't that bad.

"We're all convinced in Provo that it's a great place to live and we also think it's fun," Curtis said. "Matter of fact, we're preparing an invitation to the authors of this study to come to Provo and have fun with us."

New York ranks as the most fun city in the survey.

[redhead]

"Careful Red, you are dating yourself."

Yeah. Well, that's about all the dating I do these days, sad to say.

[huskerjim]

Provo may not be fun, but what about Orem???

[Elsie]

There hasn’t been much to do there since they closed the Woolworth’s store.

http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=gog&media=MP3S&type=Movies&movie=O_Brother_Where_Art_Thou&quote=woolsworth.txt&file=woolsworth.mp3

[Elsie]

After a week of nice dry weather, we fianlly got some rain last night (and WIND!)

This is looking north into my neighbor's field.  Look in that far tree line and you can spot their house a mile or so away.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is looking south.  See the flag I found on the ground this morning?

 

The metal pipe at the bottom finally snapped off due to fatigue.

 

My 'hill at the back of the property' is about 3 feet high  (behind my white van).  

I doubt that the veiw from there will be ANYTHING like that seen from UB's place!   (Well; one COULD see the goats - if they were inclined to get their dainty little feet wet!)

 

 

 

 

 

Ha!!  25 minutes ago!

[Elsie]

Ya gotta buy in bulk like them Texas FLDS folks!

[Elsie]

 

What does it say for me, a non-Utahn, that I can read that last sentence and make sins out of it?

There you go again - bashing us MORMONS!

 

^{Just 'cause it's about UTAH don't make it SINFUL!!!)}

[Elsie]

I know the power of the view is true.

You ain't APOSTATE!

Just LOOK at this testimony!

[Utah Binger]

LOL

[greyfoxx39]

Ooo...looks so pretty and green. What a nice place to live.

I do have to say though, that when I lived in central Texas I really got homesick for the desert....when traveling down the interstate back to New Mexico, I could look out and see for hundreds of miles in every direction and I knew I was home.

[humblegunner]

Get all hammered up in Las Vegas you might wake up married to ONE girl...

[Elsie]

Looks like Shiprock to me...

A good Hillerman book had that locale featured: Fallen Man.

[greyfoxx39]

Looks like Shiprock to me...
A good Hillerman book had that locale featured: Fallen Man.

I have read all of Hillerman's Chee and Leaphorn books...'bout time for a re-read.

Yep...Shiprock.

[Little Bill]

I had a family member that ran a News Paper in Provo in the late 1800’s near died of boredom, left to become a Union agitator

[Elsie]

Ooooh!

Me too!

A report about The Blessing Way in our local paper turned me onto him.

I had been mainly a spy novel kinda guy.