FindYourSpot.com (US-centric)

Sacramento, California  
Las Vegas, Nevada  
Little Rock, Arkansas   
Baton Rouge, Louisiana  
New Orleans, Louisiana 
Los Angeles, California  
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Monroe, Louisiana   
San Diego, California   
Orange County, California   
Honolulu, Hawaii   
Portland, Oregon 
Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana   
Long Beach, California   
Chico, California   
Lafayette (Cajun Country), Louisiana
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Henderson, Nevada
El Cajon, California 
Riverside, California  
Alexandria, Louisiana 
Washington, District of Columbia 
Baltimore, Maryland 
Gaithersburg, Maryland 

Here's my recomended list from FindYourSpot.com's quiz:

New Orleans, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Little Rock, Arkansas
Oakland, California
Los Angeles, California
Honolulu, Hawaii
San Diego, California
Orange County, California
Lafayette (Cajun Country), Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana
Fayetteville, Arkansas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Long Beach, California
San Jose, California
Monroe, Louisiana
Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana
New Haven, Connecticut
Boston, Massachusetts
San Francisco, California
Sacramento, California
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Baltimore, Maryland
Providence, Rhode Island
Chicago, Illinois

Apparently I should never leave New England??????? (Yay that Baltimore and DC showed up so high, though! WHERE THE FUCK IS MINNEAPOLIS?????)

Hartford
New Haven
Providence
Boston
Portland
Sacto
Worcester
Little Rock
Honolulu
Vegas
Baltimore
San Jose
DC
SF
Danbury
Oakland
NoLA
Baton Rouge
Long Beach
Santa Barbara
Cape Cod
Albuquerque
Fayetteville, AR
Medford

Second Try, slightly different (more accurate?) preferences, no geographic privilege:
Sacto
Little Rock
Honolulu
Vegas
Portland
Baltimore
San Jose
DC
SF
Hartford
New Haven
NoLA
Long Beach
Oakland
Providence
Baton Rouge
Boston
Worcester
San Diego
OC
Fayetteville
Chicago
Albuquerque
Frederick, MD

Two lists and not once does NY, LA or Seattle show up - please

1: Miami FL
2: West Palm Beach FL
3: Charleston SC
4: Houston TX (I'm not nuts about Houston, but the Vietnamese suburbs are cool)
5: Fort Worth TX
6: Phoenix AZ
7: Tampa FL
8: Orlando FL *: ex lives there
9: Austin TX
10: Dallas TX
11: Memphis TN
12: Atlanta GA
13: Jacksonville FL
14: San Antonio TX
15: El Paso TX
16: Oklahoma City OK half*: too much snow
17: Coral Springs FL
18: Birmingham AL *: grandfather lives there
19: Delray Beach FL
20: Clearwater FL
21: Tucson AZ
22: Galveston TX
23: Brownsville TX
24: Louisville KY

haha my grandmother lives here.

Apparently FindYourSpot.com can't decide if they think I'm a hippy liberal, a backwoods redneck, a chowderhead, or a GOONIE (see: #20). I am entertained.

"Enjoy breezes [or high winds] from sapphire-blue [or green, or muddy brown] Lake Michigan as you ride your bike along scenic Lake Shore Drive [I've found that a bike path is safer] or fish from a pier [but for the love of God, don't eat it].... Or spend a day shopping along ritzy North Michigan Avenue, known as the 'Million Dollar Mile' [ha bloody ha]."

Whoever wrote this has never put one toe in Chicago, much less lived here. I'd imagine the same is true for all these cities.

Norfolk, Virginia Heart of the Hampton Roads
Long Island, New York The Great Island
Louisville, Kentucky Home of the Kentucky Derby
Charlotte, North Carolina The Queen City
Richmond, Virginia Rising Star of the South
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Big City on the Plains
Nashville, Tennessee Music City, U.S.A.
Seattle, Washington The Emerald City
St. Louis, Missouri Wonder of the Modern World
El Paso, Texas Where the Sun Always Shines
Lexington, Kentucky Heart of the Bluegrass
Tucson, Arizona Sonoran Desert Oasis
Cincinnati, Ohio The Queen City
Wilmington, Delaware The Flowering City
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania City of Brotherly Love
Knoxville, Tennessee Gateway to the Smoky Mountains
Denver, Colorado The Mile High City
Chesapeake-Virginia Beach, Virginia The Southern Tidewater Region
Minneapolis-St Paul, Minnesota Wealth of the Twin Cities
New York City, New York The City That Never Sleeps
Phoenix, Arizona Valley of the Sun
Indianapolis, Indiana The Crossroads of America
Toledo, Ohio Glass City of the Great Lakes
Bergen-Passaic, New Jersey Better than the Big Apple

The idea that I would rather live in Toledo or Cincinnati than San Francisco or even my current locale is pretty sickening. God.

hahahahahahahahahahahahaha awesome

That's the color commentary, though, it doesn't necessarily reflect the logic of the quiz (and is undoubtedly not the work of the quiz's author). The quiz is just determining things based on a checklist of "does it or does it not have X," the color commentary sounds like cut and pasted brochure text about intangibles.

Wow. This has to be the first instance of my birthplace and hometown showing up on ilxor. The population of the whole county can't be anymore than 15,000.

It's a great place to grow up in, but I'll tell ya that it's been dry since the forties.

(Wow. That might be the dumbest question I've ever asked.)

1) Do you like the local food;
2) Do you like the character of the people;
3) Other local culture and pick-and-choose national culture questions.

Stuff it could ask about but doesn't:

1) More specific sports questions (I'm sure Bloomington got some points when I said I'm "a fan of pro and college sports," since I couldn't specify one or the other, much less what kind of sport, but the only sports available here are the ones I'm not interested in).

2) Questions about non-Spanish ethnic community -- which aren't going to be universally important, granted, but are probably about the equal of mountain biking and local NOW chapters.

Yeah, but weighted against nothing. That's probably why if you check "Democrat," it automatically wants to put you in New England.

DING DING DING. thanks for telling me where i already am.
it also lists the population around here at 1.5M, which is a LITTLE high.

gotta dig this question:
I love live music - give me the symphony or give me deaf.
IT's 'DEF', FOOL. IF IT AINT DEF, FUGGIT.

gotta like any list that puts both Portland, San Jose, and Oakland in the top 15.

I mean, I don't want to live in Connecticut. There's virtually nothing I answered on the quiz that would lead anyone to believe that. I'm just guessing as to why it would put me there. Because I'm a big liberal?

You're right, Tom... this is an ad for the burbs. Milwaukee is not a big city, people.

I CAN'T BELIEVE I DIDN'T GET BERGEN-PASSAIC, NJ. This bitch is rigged.

Honolulu, HI
Little Rock, AR
Clearwater, FL

i went down the middle on a some of the questions, like the tax ones, and lo and behold the list i got is totally unhelpful! congratulations, you'd like to live in...A CITY IN THE UNITED STATES. thanks for playing!

Oakland, California
San Diego, California
Honolulu, Hawaii
Little Rock, Arkansas
Baltimore, Maryland
Las Vegas, Nevada
Orange County, California
Long Beach, California
Washington, District of Columbia
Portland, Oregon
New Orleans, Louisiana
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Sacramento, California
San Jose, California
New Haven, Connecticut
Providence, Rhode Island
Boston, Massachusetts
Hartford, Connecticut
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Chicago, Illinois
Worcester, Massachusetts
Milwaukee, Wisconsin

what's the story with baltimore?

8 years on the mic and I'm not jokin'

I wonder if cost of living was too difficult for them to include, or if it would have made more sense for them to leave it out altogether and then give you more detailed info in the top 24 about costs and incomes -- or simply ignored the financial considerations entirely, since they opens up too many blanks to fill ("is my industry represented there," etc; the way they have to ignore specifics of university offerings and only address whether there's one nearby or not, nevermind if it's Big 10 or state business school or liberal arts wankatorium).

I have never heard this motto before. Great, I really needed to hear some more dirty Clinton jokes from the tourists.

Greenville, South Carolina
Hampton, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Hickory, North Carolina
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Raleigh, North Carolina
Norfolk, Virginia
Nashville, Tennessee
Charlotte, North Carolina
Durham, North Carolina
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Clarksville, Tennessee
Louisville, Kentucky
Greenville, North Carolina
Rocky Mount-Stony Creek, North Carolina
Kent, Washington
Charleston, South Carolina
Chesapeake-Virginia Beach, Virginia
Asheville, North Carolina
Tacoma, Washington
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Augusta, Georgia

That threw me too, I had no idea how to answer. Isn't that another thing where people who really need to be near one ("I cannot live without a steady supply of blue kryptonite, I must live near STAR Labs Medical Healatorium") are already going to have a sense of what their choices are?

I should have kept the window open, I'd do it again and change my answer for that but leave the rest the same.

STL? Cairo? New Madrid?

i wonder what the deal is with that "major medical center" question. who gives a shit about that?

uh, me for one. I don't want a shit doctor.

I take it to mean "including a teaching hospital."

I thought about this
because of my wife's health issues,
so, uh, yeah, like, me

I'd like to live somewhere cheap right on the ocean (Pac. NW or middle-upper Atlantic). An idyllic seaside town just like in a Stephen King novel.

Worcester, MA - no
Providence, RI - only if someone paid for me to go to RISD
Washington DC - maybe
Baltimore, MD - I hear Baltimore smells funny.
New Haven, CT - no
Portland, OR - the city I've thought about moving to most often
Milwaukee, WI - I like cheese
Hartford, CT - no
Boston, MA - too expensive, might as well move to New York
Little Rock, AR - no way in hell
Chicago, IL - summers suck
San Francisco, CA - favorite climate, too expensive
San Jose, CA - no
Baton Rouge, LA - what part of 'fuck heat and humidity' did the test not understand?
New Orleans, LA - "
Oakland, CA - see: San Francisco
Honolulu - no
Eugene, OR - I'm not a hippie.

xpost-i do wonder why there's no "no preference" button there tho. who would say no? top flight medicine, ew, no way, i'm outta here

Cincinnati, Ohio
Seattle, Washington
Knoxville, Tennessee
Salt Lake City, Utah
Tacoma, Washington
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Kent, Washington
Bellingham, Washington
Asheville, North Carolina
Provo-Orem, Utah
Denver, Colorado
Greenville, South Carolina
Olympia, Washington
Fort Collins, Colorado
Anchorage, Alaska
Ogden, Utah
Johnson City-Kingsport, Tennessee
Charlotte, North Carolina
Nashville, Tennessee
Richmond, Virginia
Bloomington, Indiana
Hickory, North Carolina
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Roanoke, Virginia

Isn't this across the street from where Sgt. O'Leary, when not walking his beat, works his bartending shifts?

not hardly

This is accurate for the greater metro area, including all the suburbs.

I think NYC is considered inherently not a nice place to live by these sorts of people.

it has dan.

Bill Clinton and Bob Rubin had nothing to do with it

boston does have better classical music than nyc doesn't it?

the symphony is probably at least marginally better, but they're both very good. NYC is clearly ahead in opera.

it's all about property>> "We're a privately held company based in Colorado and led by Brent Eskew, an attorney and real estate broker. etc etc" not that that isn't pretty clear.

xpost that's the rumor; i haven't been to a play in years, even tho i'm still trying to write one, feh.

(And it doesn't smell funny here. Or at least I don't notice it anymore.)

I wish I could find some of the Bmore billboards they have in the DC Metro stations lately, the ones talking about how Baltimore housing is affordable. Nothing else nice about the city, but if you want to work around DC and live in a city yet don't make six figures, you can move there. This whole region has gone fucking nuts.

Kerryville, Texas -- Hill Country Shangri-La
Hopkinsville, Kentucky -- Friendliest Place in Kentucky
Lake Havasu City, Arizona -- America's West Coast
Morganton, North Carolina -- Blue Ridge Mountain Home
Edenton, North Carolina -- The South's Prettiest Small Town
Marble Falls, Texas -- Hub of the Highland Lakes
Paris, Texas -- A Hidden Lakeshore Treasure
Fredericksburg, Texas -- City of Steeples
Crystal River, Florida -- Manatee Haven
Conroe, Texas -- Big Lake Country
Clarksdale, Mississippi -- We've Got the Blues
Guntersville, Alabama -- A Lakeside Heaven
Port Aransas, Texas -- Always in Season
Round Top, Texas -- Tiny Art Town in Texas' Hill Country
Efaula, Alabama -- The Bluff City
Brunswick, Georgia -- Georgia's Art Capital
Alexander City, Alabama -- The South's Best-Kept Secret
St Marys, Georgia -- Georgia's Oldest City
San Marcos, Texas -- Hill Country Jewel
Wimberly, Texas -- A Taste of Texas Hill Country
Atlantic Beach-Morehead City, North Carolina -- Gems of the Eastern Coast
Page, Arizona -- Heart of the Grand Circle
Fort Walton Beach, Florida -- The Emerald Coast
Deland, Florida -- The Athens of Florida

Knoxville, Tennessee
Jacksonville, Florida
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Albany, New York
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Cincinatti, Ohio
Asheville, North Carolina
Tacoma, Washington
Seattle, Washington
Gainesville, Florida
Johnson City-Kingsport, Tennessee
Tallahassee, Florida
Biloxi-Gulfport, Mississippi
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Norfolk, Virginia
Charleston, South Carolina
Olympia, Washington
Clarksville, Tennessee
Kent, Washington
Springfield, Missouri
Roanoke, Virginia
Bloomington, Indiana
Salt Lake City, Utah
Jackson, Mississippi

This seems very different to everyone else's list so far. I'm not sure what to make of this.

1: Littleton NH (HA! I've been there. Lots.)
2: Windham NY
3: Saranac Lake NY
4: Peterborough NH (ditto)
5: Metaline Falls WA (a mining town of 223 people)
6: Johnstown PA
7: Glens Falls NY
8: Jamestown NY
9: Plymouth NH (been here, of course)
10: Easton PA
11: Leavenworth WA
12: Lebanon NH (yep)
13: Plattsburgh NY
14: Seward AK
15: Lewisburg PA
16: Lewiston ME (this is where the Moxie festival is, isn't it?)
17: Concord NH (looks like Bloomington with more snow and inferior bacon)
18: Corning NY
19: Camden ME (they have opera, there you go)
20: Wenatchee WA
21: Mount Vernon WA
22: Hanover NH (home of Dartmouth)
23: Homer-Kenai Peninsula AK (coolass name)
24: Peekskill NY

That's pretty accurate, as far as I can tell.

Round Top, Texas - Tiny Art Town In Texas' Hill Country
Lake Havasu City, Arizonas - Arizona's West Coast
Conroe, Texas - Big Lake Country
Clarksdale, Mississippi - We've Got the Blues
Crystal River, Florida - Manatee Haven
Hopkinsville, Kentucky - Friendliest Place in Kentucky
Fredericksburg, Texas - City of Steeples
Kerrville, Texas - Hill Country Shangri-la
St. Marys, Georgia - Georgia's Oldest City
Eufaula, Alabama - The Bluff City
Green Valley, Arizona - Sunshine Paradise
Bisbee, Arizona - The Copper Queen
Marble Falls, Texas - Hub of the Highland Lakes
Port Aransas, Texas - Always in Season
New Smyrna Beach, Florida - Orlando's Beach
St Augustine, Florida - America's First City
Brunswick, Georgia - Georgia's Art Capital
Alexander City, Alabama - The South's Best-Kept Secret
Wimberley, Texas - A Taste of Texas Hill Country
San Marcos, Texas - Hill Country Jewel
Ormond Beach, Florida - The Secret Beach
Deland, Florida - The Athens of Florida
Guntersville, Alabama - A Lakeside Haven
Paris, Tennessee - A Hidden Lakeshore Treasure

I wonder what kind of stupid shit they did during the election.

Lake Havasu City, AZ
Fountain Hills, AZ
San Marcos, TX
Kerrville, TX
Guntersville, AL
Crystal River, FL
Page, AZ
Bisbee, AZ
Conroe, TX
Marble Falls, TX
Deland, FL
Clarksdale, MS
Green Valley, AZ
Fredericksburg, TX
Wimberley, TX
Morganton, NC
Alexander City, AL
Paris, TN
Gainesville, GA
Round Top, TX
Oxford, MS
Hopkinsville, KY
Mount Dora, FL
Port Aransas, TX

:-( It usually pops up on those "best places to live" surveys (for it's size).

1. New Haven, CT
2. Providence, RI
3. Boston, MA
4. Worchester, MA
5. Hartford, CT
6. Sacramento, CA
7. Danbury, CT
8. San Jose, CA
9. Los Angeles, CA
10. Honolulu, HI
11. Milwaukee, WI
12. Baltimore, MD
13. Oakland, CA
14. San Francisco, CA
15. Chicago, IL
16. Las Vegas, NV
17. Portland, OR
18. Stamford-Norwalk, CT (WHAT THE FUCK? I feel like I accidentally clicked the "Connecticut Shitholes" Option)
19. San Diego, CA
20. Orange County, CA
21. Cape Cod, MA
22. New Orleans, LA
23. Baton Rouge, LA
24. Cambridge, MA

Is there any way to tell the quiz that when you say you "agree" with the idea that you enjoy professional sports, you "disagree" with the idea that you enjoy profession sports from BOSTON?

1.  Pittsburgh, PA
2.  Carlisle, PA
3.  Cleveland, OH
4.  Detroit, MI
5.  Toledo, OH
6.  Des Moines, IA
7.  Omaha, NE
8.  Indianapolis, IN
9.  Duluth, MN
10. Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN
11. Erie, PA
12. Fort Wayne, IN
13. St. Cloud, MN
14. Rochester, NY
15. Buffalo, NY
16. Grand Rapids, MI
17. Mansfield, OH
18. Kansas City, MO
19. Knoxville, TN
20. Cedar Rapids, IA
21. Fargo, ND-Moorhead, MN
22. Bismarck, ND
23. Ogden, UT
24. Sioux Falls, SD

Hi there! Apparently I'm a Midwest-ish girl at heart.

Etc., etc., etc.

I was kind of surprised I had so many matches in Louisiana. I put no preference on the geographic region question.

xpost

1.) Providence, RI
2.) Newport, RI
3.) Westerly, RI
4.) Rehobeth, MA
5.) Eugene Oregon

Minus the Oregon the other answers perfectly triangulate my home!

'midwest' has no accepted definition - to some it's the Eastern Mississippi basin, to some it's the Western, to some it's the center, to some it's the whole thing

people smile too much,
smoke too many cigarettes,
for midwesternness

I live there.

1.  Providence, RI
2.  Milwaukee, WI
3.  New Haven, CT
4.  Baltimore, MD
5.  Worcester, MA (uh, Velveteen Bingo Chris... ?)
6.  Hartford, CT (ha, I *knew* it was "the insurance capital"!!)
7.  Portland, OR
8.  Little Rock, AR (ugh -- my least favorite teacher of all time was from there)
9.  Boston, MA
10. Washington, D.C.
11. San Francisco, CA (AWESOME! I love it there.)
12. Chicago, IL (hahahaha, the TITTWIS capital!)
13. San Jose, CA (I love San Jose!)
14. Oakland, CA (um....)
15. Baton Rouge, LA (oh noooo, back to Humidity Country!)
16. New Orleans, LA (ditto)
17. Corvallis, OR
18. Eugene, OR
19. Sacramento, CA
20. San Diego, CA (what part of "I hate hot weather" did they not understand?)
21. Salem, OR
22. Medford, OR
23. Eau Claire, WI
24. Oshkosh-Appleton/Neenah, WI

Interesting to see so many OR listings. I've always wanted to go there. I mean, I've flown over it plenty of times, but obv airplane views leave much to be desired.

If you want to live right on the ocean, Portland OR is out. It's at least an hour to the coast.

Seattle is also not on the ocean- we're on the Puget Sound, but not the Pacific. Vancouver is also not so much on the Pacific... you'd have to move out to the Olympic Penninsula or something.

Hartford, Connecticut
Honolulu, Hawaii
Providence, Rhode Island
Boston, Massachusetts
New Haven, Connecticut
Little Rock, Arkansas
Las Vegas, Nevada
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
New Orleans, Louisiana
Sacramento, California
Worcester, Massachusetts
Portland, Oregon
Baltimore, Maryland
Natchitoches, Louisiana
Alexandria, Louisiana
Danbury, Connecticut
Los Angeles, California
San Francisco, California
Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Washington, District of Columbia
San Jose, California
San Diego, California
Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana
Eugene, Oregon

This obviously happened because I asked for warm temperature, little or no snow, but some rain to mix things up. I also wanted to live near water.

ha ha ha ha ha

Dee, millions of people have no difficulty getting into the holiday spirit in warm weather, including most of your neighbors.

Chattanooga, Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 
Tacoma, Washington 
Hickory, North Carolina
Carlisle, Pennsylvania 
Kent, Washington
Johnson City-Kingsport, Tennessee
Asheville, North Carolina
Bellingham, Washington
Spokane, Washington
Roanoke, Virginia   
Tulsa, Oklahoma   
Olympia, Washington 
Seattle, Washington   
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania  
Albany, New York   
Clarksville, Tennessee   
Greenville, South Carolina   
Lynchburg, Virginia   
Norfolk, Virginia   
Louisville, Kentucky   
Anchorage, Alaska  
Nashville, Tennessee  
Altoona, Pennsylvania 

nevermind Appalachia or the Rockies

I have no idea how Jacksonville snuck in there, a town I don't like at all. Same for Anchorage and Cleveland. But Asheville and Charleston are two of my favorite cities in the country, so I guess they got that right.

Population: 542,000 | Average Home Price: $175,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 30"



Worcester, Massachusetts The Heart of the Commonwealth
This city at the heart of New England is home to the EcoTarium, a science center for all ages…

Population: 502,500 | Average Home Price: $215,000 | Precipitation: 48" | Snow: 45"



Providence, Rhode Island New England’s Best Kept Kept Secret
This Rhode Island spot is the home of the award-winning flaming sculpture WaterFire, installed on the three rivers of downtown...

Population: 955,500 | Average Home Price: $190,000 | Precipitation: 48" | Snow: 32"



Danbury, Connecticut Small-Town Charm Near the Big Apple
Zadoc Benedict began making beaver hats here in 1780, starting this Connecticut town's important hat industry...

Population: 75,000 | Average Home Price: $280,000 | Precipitation: 39" | Snow: 50"



Boston, Massachusetts America’s Walking City
Here in "America's Walking City," you can stroll down to famous Franklin Park for the annual Kite Festival...

Population: 3,400,000 | Average Home Price: $365,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 41"



Bend, Oregon Oregon’s Natural Playground
This Oregon town's municipal airport was used for pilot training during World War II…

Population: 52,000 | Average Home Price: $209,000 | Precipitation: 12" | Snow: 34"



Hartford, Connecticut The Insurance Capital
This Connecticut city is home to America's oldest State House, oldest public art museum, and oldest continuously published newspaper...

Population: 1,183,000 | Average Home Price: $155,000 | Precipitation: 41" | Snow: 42"



Cape Cod, Massachusetts Jewel of the New England Coast
This peninsula is home to the oldest public library in America: the Sturgis Library, established in 1644…

Population: 222,000 | Average Home Price: $325,000 | Precipitation: 46" | Snow: 34"



Stamford-Norwalk, Connecticut Connecticut’s Key Cities
This seaside spot in Connecticut is projected to have the highest median income in the country by 2009…

Population: 353,600 | Average Home Price: $365,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 47"



Carson City, Nevada Nevada’s Historic Capital
This Frontier city thrived and became a territorial capital following the discovery of the famous Comstock silver lode in the 1850's…

Population: 53,000 | Average Home Price: $175,000 | Precipitation: 11" | Snow: 32"



Cambridge, Massachusetts Boston’s Spirited Sister
Home to Harvard, MIT, and a large number of high-tech companies, this spot is world-renowned as an educational and technological mecca…

Population: 101,000 | Average Home Price: $380,000 | Precipitation: 42" | Snow: 41"



Santa Fe, New Mexico Jewel of the Southwest
This New Mexico town receives more snow annually than most towns in Connecticut…

Population: 62,000 | Average Home Price: $250,000 | Precipitation: 14" | Snow: 29"



Portland, Oregon City of Roses
This Oregon city has the nation's largest forested municipal park, the aptly-named Forest Park…

Population: 1,573,000 | Average Home Price: $196,000 | Precipitation: 36" | Snow: 5"



Reno, Nevada Biggest Little City in the World
This "biggest little city in the world" is famous for its casinos and recreational opportunities…

Population: 180,500 | Average Home Price: $225,000 | Precipitation: 7" | Snow: 24"



Medford, Oregon Gateway to the Pacific Northwest
This gorgeous spot boasts the West's only operating water-powered grist mill, located on the banks of Little Butte Creek since 1872…

Population: 63,000 | Average Home Price: $166,000 | Precipitation: 19" | Snow: 8"



Albuquerque, New Mexico The Pulse of New Mexico
This city's International Balloon Fiesta features 850 hot air balloons each October…

Population: 450,000 | Average Home Price: $163,000 | Precipitation: 8" | Snow: 15"



Baltimore, Maryland The Sparkling Harbor City
This Atlantic seaboard city is home to the National Aquarium…

Population: 4,750,000 | Average Home Price: $215,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 18"



Milwaukee, Wisconsin The Genuine American City
This Wisconsin "City of Festivals" celebrates its diverse ethnic heritage all year long, with over 20 major cultural festivals…

Population: 1,500,000 | Average Home Price: $125,000 | Precipitation: 31" | Snow: 47"



Washington, District of Columbia The World's Greatest Capital
This most patriotic of American cities was laid out by a French architect…

Population: 572,000 | Average Home Price: $300,000 | Precipitation: 39" | Snow: 16"



Gaithersburg, Maryland The Park City
This town is home to a "Latitude Observatory" - one of five in the world - built in 1899 to measure the wobble of the earth's axis...

Population: 53,000 | Average Home Price: $300,000 | Precipitation: 40" | Snow: 18"



Chicago, Illinois The Windy City
This big city has more shopping center space per capita than any other American city…

Population: 8,300,000 | Average Home Price: $210,000 | Precipitation: 32" | Snow: 40"



Madison, Wisconsin Athens Of The Midwest
Located between lakes Monona and Mendota, this picturesque spot is the only North American city built on an isthmus…

Population: 426,500 | Average Home Price: $202,000 | Precipitation: 30" | Snow: 44"



Oak Park, Illinois A Great Way of Life
This spot is home to the world's largest collection of Frank Lloyd Write designed houses and buildings, with 25 of them built between 1889 and 1913…

Population: 52,500 | Average Home Price: $298,000 | Precipitation: 35" | Snow: 33"



Sacramento, California The River City
This state capital is the oldest incorporated city in California…

Population: 1,628,000 | Average Home Price: $224,000 | Precipitation: 17" | Snow: 0"

Guess I'll stay right where I am.

West Virginia is so not the Midwest.

Up until a coupla years ago, you coulda bought three or four houses for that kinda cash. At least.

I've seen parking spaces in Manhatten sold for more than what I paid for my house.

actually, I privileged new england, but I suspect it would've turned out this way regardless. I heart the berkshires.

providence
portland
new haven
hartford
worcester
boston
little rock (?!)
baltimore
eugene, or
corvallis, or
baton rouge
new orleans
salem, or
washington
milwaukee
danbury, ct (??!)
medford, or
sacramento
san francisco
san jose
shreveport
cape cod
honolulu
alexandria, la

Perhaps, but my cheap house in my nice little neighborhood is worth a lot more than it was two years ago, and what I pay on my mortgage each month wouldn't rent a closet in NYC or DC. There isn't as much to do here, true, but I can afford to do all of it if I want.

I have a coworker who moved into his house last summer, he gets paid more than anybody else on his street and he lives in the smallest house. When he told his neighbor what he paid for it she was just like "shit, if I'd known they was going for that much, I'd a let you have mine." Hers is quite a bit larger. Makes him feel great.

sorry I don't mean to get particularly nasty towards you but this is really one of my touchy issues lately, finding out that Alex in NYC sold his loft in downtown Manhattan for less than I see condos in CRAP DC NEIGHBORHOODS going for, or hearing how others are buying HOUSES in Brooklyn, etc. etc. I'm like wtf ever DC metropolitan land, you can totally go fuck yourself. I just need a job in NYC or some other real city besides this shithole, and to finish my master's, and I'm never coming back here again.

$1150/month RENT for a "1BR" smaller than my "studio" with no closet space to speak of, crappy appliances, awful carpet and essentials right on the distant edge of 4-5 blocks, with nothing to do unless you hop on the subway - DC ain't that fuckin' special. Please do not tell me any more details about your mortgage, I honestly don't want to hear anything about it. This region can suck a dick (and it will, eventually, I mean when the Discovery Channel has a TV show making fun of how ridiculous your real estate market is, that might be a sign it's time for a slowdown (or a crash))

My cheap, large 2 bdrm apt "came with" free utilities and a public transit system that actually works and about 8 trillion things to do and a job market whose pay scale is so retardedly overinflated that a secretary can make more than her stockbroker father who lives in another city, if we're going to get into pissing matches over a joke.

Like you said already, your own house wouldn't be going for cheap now, which kind of implies what I asked you in my question: "Where, Kiev?" BECAUSE THAT'S NOT THE PRICE IT IS NOW IS IT?

Jesus dude.

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Ha ha ha ha. You should see how sparsely decorated my neighborhood is right now. I mean, like, there are only about two houses per block that have any decorations at all up right now. And I know it's early in the holiday season and all, but even right around Christmas Eve last year only three houses per block were decorated, and IIRC there are twenty houses per block in my neighborhood.

Truth is, I'm sick of hot and humid weather WHENEVER, regardless of whether it affects the holiday season or not. I am tired of having fall or winter start later and later each year. I am tired of having sweaters in my closet I hardly ever seem to use. I am tired of wanting to live in an ice bath for five months out of the year. I hate crispy tanned skin, I don't own any shorts or tank tops (and believe me, you wouldn't want me to), I'm 150% sure employers around here would frown upon beachwear at the office, and, damn it, I want to see ACTUAL SNOW falling for once in my life! I mean, like, actual snowflakes, with actual ground accumulation, with maybe enough snow on the ground to form a few snowballs.

As for the decorations -- pretty much the whole of the northwest side seems pretty much not to be into the holiday spirit, but as for the rest of the city? Well, the west side is pretty much anything pro-celebration and festivities, so they'd happily take any excuse to decorate. The northeast side has to put on elaborate decorations so it'll pull the hundreds of thousands of passers-by who'll drive through that area gawking at the holiday displays, and the downtown has to put on displays for the tourists. The rest of the city I don't know about, though I'd imagine the east side would be much like the west side (except toned down a bit).

I guess you are glamourizing the Other here, though, much like I seem to be. I see tamales all year long; there's nothing particularly special about them. The chocolate thing, I do confess, I have yet to try out, though I could go anywhere to get the Abuelita bricks and the molcajete to make it. (And we do have both here at the house.) The local university that has an annual tradition of festooning a pathway with lights does it not out of some sense of wanting to participate in a special version of Christmas but rather out of its innate impulse to try to outdo every other university in town, even though the quality of its academics is mostly suspect. And... other sorts of things.

(And I'm not trying for "normal", really! Just different. More "American". Something that's Other. I mean, you're dealing with someone who's coming up on her fourth year of not even being out of town, so she's sorta got a massive case of cabin fever.)

*ahem* Anyway. So... how 'bout that Pittsburgh place?