Posted on 04/30/2010 9:21:35 AM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at ksl.com ...
Watch how you talk about the Streets of Bakersfield, there, pardner.
Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow, ye may be in Utah.
I had fun in Provo. Quilting bees, ice cream socials, Complex wide “Family Home Evenings”, BYU Football, Dinners at “Brick Oven” and “Training Table”...
On second thought...
I drive through Utah at least four times a year. There is a sign that reads “what happens in Utah you can tell your friends about”. I always think to my self, “ya, but why?”
-PJ
Hah! Kern County (Bakersfield that is) was the scene of my brief career as a law enforcement officer in the late 70s. It was quite an education for a recent immigrant from the north of England.
At the time, it was a center of the drug culture, the nascent “gay cowboy” culture, illegal gambling, and of drunk and reckless driving.
The authors of this article would undoubtedly have had a great time there.
Least fun? Try being trapped in Santa Fe on election night to find out where the least fun city in America is.
I think it’s fun to sit on the edge of University Ave and count license plates. I just get a kick out of that. Also, what you do is wave to all the minorities that pass every day or so. No racism in Provo, that’s for sure.
At one time in my life, fun was getting drunk and getting laid. Then I grew up.
Now fun is gardening, family visits, nice neighbors, peace and quiet and walking out to the car which you forgot to lock the night before and finding everything as you left it.
If Provo was such a terrible place to live, I would venture that you would have more people moving out than moving in, sort of like really fun cities such as Detroit.
Spent our wedding night there in 1970 enroute to a honeymoon hunting trip. No booze, no food and got overcharged by the Mariott hotel. If it were not for my wife, the night would have been a real bust.
Eat,drink and be merry,for tomorrow,ye may be in Cleveland ,Ohio.
If that doesn’t scare you,nothing will.
If you really, really, really, smooth talk a college girl there you might get her to be willing to lose her ecclesiastical endorsement over a cup of coffee.
You know, I was thinking. I have NEVER gone to Provo to have fun and I live 40 miles from there. Just not a place to go for ‘fun.’
Been there done that too....If I remember correctly it was her endowment I was interested in.
Hey - I’m FROM Akron...I resemble that remark!
There are plenty of fun things in Akron to do. Like, go up to Cleveland.
Yes but you never went to Provo with me.
Ha! Let’s go!
At least it’s not...
End-of-no-place any more!
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