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Best and worst cities to live?

I like Sacramento and Fresno. Weather is great, little hot in the summers thou. Really close to the mountains were it snows a lot and big lakes and nice rivers. Still close to the beach and other big cities for day trips. Crime isn't to bad compared to the rest of the states cities. Lots of jobs, cheap cost of living. Only real problem is the state being ran from people from San Francisco.
 
Mycroft said:
Cities? No thank you...been there, done that...don't like it.

Give me a small town at least 20 miles from the city and I'll be happy. Close enough to enjoy the good stuff, far enough away to avoid the bad stuff. And believe me...even Denver has some bad stuff, traffic being one of them.

If it wasn't for no ocean, right where I live outside of Colorado Springs is perfect. No crime, no traffic, good employment, constant building and upgrading infrastructure. Even the weather isn't all that bad thanks to the altitude and low humidity. Heck, you even have to use AC in your car in the winter thanks to the sun intensity.

I'll put up with trips to South Padre Island every year or two for the ocean and stay in Colorado.
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You live bear Colorado Springs, small world, sorta, lived there years ago and Manitou Springs, liked both.
Lived and travel around the globe and the US, will always consider Texas as my home, home is where the heart is.
 
Carjosse said:
I looked up Austin which seems reasonably close to you and their February and January are late Spring early Summer temperatures here, I am wearing shorts no matter what. With cold you can dress warmer, with heat you cannot dress cooler.
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Sure, there's only so many "layers" of "clothing" that can be removed when it's really hot. However..... You could bathe with soap that contains lots of pumice granules... Doesn't exfoliating a layer of skin off your body count as "removing another layer"? Lol
 
kitsune said:
'm not quite sure why Osaka beat out Tokyo. Need to read the article I guess
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Maybe because the cost of living is insanely high in Tokyo, and it's population is extremely high as well. They've gotten to the point where people rent tiny rooms that only fit a bed inside them! Living life packed in like sardines in an ultra-expensive city, isnt exactly high on my bucket list!
 
Mycroft said:
Ah...yeah, Manitou Springs hasn't changed much. That's the way they like it. It's a nice town. A little pricey to live in, but nice.

I've fished around Deckers. Beautiful area. The mountains and the high plains are why I stay in Colorado.
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Wait..... Your personal info on the side of your OP says your a conservative. But then you mention living in Colorado. Are you sure you aren't breaking any laws by living there? Or did the powers that be allow you in because you've developed a new pot strain with 38% THC levels? Lol
 
ModerationNow! said:
Maybe because the cost of living is insanely high in Tokyo, and it's population is extremely high as well. They've gotten to the point where people rent tiny rooms that only fit a bed inside them! Living life packed in like sardines in an ultra-expensive city, isnt exactly high on my bucket list!
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Never had a problem with the CoL in Tokyo vs Osaka or population density. The Osaka nightlife is marginally more fun but other than that, I prefer Tokyo.

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ModerationNow! said:
Wait..... Your personal info on the side of your OP says your a conservative. But then you mention living in Colorado. Are you sure you aren't breaking any laws by living there? Or did the powers that be allow you in because you've developed a new pot strain with 38% THC levels? Lol
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There are conservative parts of Colorado. In fact Colorado Springs tends to be quite a bit more conservative than Denver.

Even California has conservative parts and I live in an area that leans pretty heavily republican.
 
noonereal said:
Well, we are all different.

Not sure what you mean by going from one side to the other can take hours and you are wrong about teh privacy thing.

That is one of the big draws to me. Nothing I know of affords more privacy than a busy city, especially NYC. Many folks don't realize this.
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Those who don't live here don't realize this.
What's more, people in NYC still walk.
 
ModerationNow! said:
Wait..... Your personal info on the side of your OP says your a conservative. But then you mention living in Colorado. Are you sure you aren't breaking any laws by living there? Or did the powers that be allow you in because you've developed a new pot strain with 38% THC levels? Lol
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You don't know much about Colorado, do you?

btw, I voted FOR legalization.
 
ModerationNow! said:
Maybe because the cost of living is insanely high in Tokyo, and it's population is extremely high as well. They've gotten to the point where people rent tiny rooms that only fit a bed inside them! Living life packed in like sardines in an ultra-expensive city, isnt exactly high on my bucket list!
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It depends on your definition of Tokyo, if you mean the actual city of Tokyo yeah because it a very small, highly dense, very wealthy area. It is NYC if each borough was actually its own city x10, of course Manhattan is going to be ludicrously expensive but Queens and the Bronx are going to be a lot cheaper just like the surrounding cities of Tokyo are as well. The Tokyo Metropolitan area has more people than the entirety of Canada and is gigantic, it makes the Los Angeles metro look like a small town, you can find cheap places.
 
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Indie guy said:
There are conservative parts of Colorado. In fact Colorado Springs tends to be quite a bit more conservative than Denver.

Even California has conservative parts and I live in an area that leans pretty heavily republican.
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----And they haven't moved out of the state yet? I expect to see a reverse of the westward bound wagon trains of the mid to late 1800s. Only now it will be SUV and minivan trains headed the opposite way! Unfortunately, many non conservatives are leaving CA, moving to Texas and other republican stronghold states in the western half of the country, then gradually voting in the exact same types of politicians and policies that are increasingly ruining CA, somehow expecting a different result! Another few decades of that(or less), and the minivan trains will be heading out of those states as well!
 
Mycroft said:
You don't know much about Colorado, do you?

btw, I voted FOR legalization.
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It was a joke. I would've voted for legalization of pot as well, although I no longer smoke it. Obviously there's no state law anywhere that forbids people from living in a state because of their political party affiliation or their ideological views. Although, many far left elites and politicians, (and media)
are doing everything in their power to discourage free political speech and dissent against their own ideology, as is always the case with ideological purists on either side.

If things continue on their current path, and democrats lose the 2020 election, I'd expect their radicalism to increase yet again. From there the demonization of their political enemies will get to the point where you'll start hearing 'talk' of discouraging or denying the rights for conservatives to live in leftist strongholds. They will justify it by referring to us far more often as "Nazis" or "fascists" than conservatives, purely for the purpose of social demonization of their political enemies. After all, the left rarely took the extreme position of using the "Nazi" word to identify conservatives prior to Hillary's defeat in 2016, because of how ridiculous and disingenuous it is. But after they lost in 2016, it quickly became common for leftists across the board to label conservatives(or even moderate democrats) as Nazis or fascists.
 
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Carjosse said:
It depends on your definition of Tokyo, if you mean the actual city of Tokyo yeah because it a very small, highly dense, very wealthy area. It is NYC if each borough was actually its own city x10, of course Manhattan is going to be ludicrously expensive but Queens and the Bronx are going to be a lot cheaper just like the surrounding cities of Tokyo are as well. The Tokyo Metropolitan area has more people than the entirety of Canada and is gigantic, it makes the Los Angeles metro look like a small town, you can find cheap places.
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I wasn't aware there is a significant difference in cost of basic goods and services(cost of living) from one NYC borough to another. I guess I assumed that, since it's considered one big city, the C. O. L. would be fairly consistent from one area to the next. Plus, although I've visited Manhattan, and made purchases of goods and services there, I've only driven through maybe 3 of the other boroughs, without stopping and spending time there. I did stay in Hempstead Long Island for about 7 days in 1993, while hanging out at the Grateful Dead's spring 93 show at Nassau County Coliseum with 2 Dead head friends. I don't recall whether the cost of goods was significantly higher there than in most other places.
 
Angel said:
Those who don't live here don't realize this.
What's more, people in NYC still walk.
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Yeah, I just read an article that said that 75% of households in Manhattan don't own cars. I'd imagine that New Yorkers walk more due to the prohibitive costs related to car ownership, parking, insurance, etc. Not to mention the traffic jams, difficulty finding parking, etc. But according to that same article, many households in other 4 NYC boroughs DO own cars. They said part of the reason for that, is that public transit in Queens and the Bronx is awful.
 
ModerationNow! said:
----And they haven't moved out of the state yet? I expect to see a reverse of the westward bound wagon trains of the mid to late 1800s. Only now it will be SUV and minivan trains headed the opposite way! Unfortunately, many non conservatives are leaving CA, moving to Texas and other republican stronghold states in the western half of the country, then gradually voting in the exact same types of politicians and policies that are increasingly ruining CA, somehow expecting a different result! Another few decades of that(or less), and the minivan trains will be heading out of those states as well!
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California's population is nearly 40 million and still growing. There isn't a mass exodus from the state like it's portrayed.

The deep blue areas are mainly along the coast. California has some strong red areas that I don't think are in danger of going blue or purple anytime soon.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I am the opposite and prefer short periods of cold weather - here we generally have summer and February.
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LOL. Sometimes it seems that way in Albuquerque too. We do have all four seasons though with winter being the shortest of the four and summer the longest. But the temps don't drop into the freezing range and stay there--a day when the temp doesn't get over 32f is very rare as are days that reach 100f. Temps well over 100 or zero or below are almost non existent.

So as weather goes, Albuquerque is pretty sunny, not all that windy, and pleasant most of the time. Very few all cloudy days and not many days of precipitation that rarely falls for an entire day or for more than a few minutes or hours. We have icy roads maybe for a few hours three or four times a year--every once in awhile for a day or two.

There are parts of the city that are more dangerous and unpleasant, but in my neighborhood, we experience almost nothing in the way of any kind of crime, neighbors are great, we all feel pretty safe. Like most big cities, there is much to condemn and much to commend. But I am pretty sure I prefer to it all others.
 
ttwtt78640 said:
I am the opposite and prefer short periods of cold weather - here we generally have summer and February.
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People who move to florida say they miss the different seasons. We have different seasons. We have early summer, mid summer, late summer and next summer.
 
Indie guy said:
There are conservative parts of Colorado. In fact Colorado Springs tends to be quite a bit more conservative than Denver.

Even California has conservative parts and I live in an area that leans pretty heavily republican.
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Until Colorado allows trapping again I will consider it too Liberal.

When my son and trapping partner told me right after his graduation that he was moving to fort Collins, I Informed him that trapping was illegal in Colorado.

He used words I had never heard him use before, but he already had an appointment lined up.

Poor kid has not trapped in a few years...
 
From what I have read so far I have not seen anyone mention the Twin Cities.

As large metropolitan areas go I don't have much bad to say about the area...
 
I am guessing that currently the best cities to live in would be any city in Japan: almost no violent crime, everyone speaks Japanese, everyone has the same cultural values, the trains run exactly on time and are kept spotlessly clean, people (at least in public) are polite toward one another.

Wow! Sounds too good to be true, but people who have been there say that it IS true.

I hope the Japanese do what it takes to keep their country that way.


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I used to think that Stockholm, Sweden, was my dream city of harmony. Of course, no more.
 
TheParser said:
I am guessing that currently the best cities to live in would be any city in Japan: almost no violent crime, everyone speaks Japanese, everyone has the same cultural values, the trains run exactly on time and are kept spotlessly clean, people (at least in public) are polite toward one another.

Wow! Sounds too good to be true, but people who have been there say that it IS true.

I hope the Japanese do what it takes to keep their country that way.


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I used to think that Stockholm, Sweden, was my dream city of harmony. Of course, no more.
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Hmm... that lack of diversity dooms them to failure, keeping them in the dark (less 'woke'?) ages and limiting their exposure to the alternative lifestyles that have made San Francisco the envy of the world.
 
bongsaway said:
People who move to florida say they miss the different seasons. We have different seasons. We have early summer, mid summer, late summer and next summer.
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I prefer areas with not-so-distinct seasonal changes but Florida would be too warm and humid for my tastes.

The worst part of the country in my opinion would be the upper great plains. There are 4 defined seasons as well as drastic temperature fluctuations and sudden weather changes within the same day many times.
 
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