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Old 08-16-2012, 09:51 PM
 
Location: Seattle, WA! Finally! :D
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Pft. Houston is only there because of it's strength during the economy and a lot of the 'cool' people have been forced to move there just to have a job... Couldn't pay me enough to EVER move there again. It'll never be cool, literally or figuratively.
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Old 08-17-2012, 12:20 AM
 
Location: Minnesota
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Isn't Steve Forbes the editor? The guy who ran for president on the flat tax issue? One can only speculate what he thinks is cool. Relative density of urban cowboys?
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Old 08-17-2012, 11:09 AM
 
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Isn't Steve Forbes the editor? The guy who ran for president on the flat tax issue? One can only speculate what he thinks is cool. Relative density of urban cowboys?
I don't know, that tie is pretty sweet.
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Old 08-17-2012, 02:38 PM
 
Location: Minnesota
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What all "cool guys" are wearing.
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Old 08-17-2012, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Metro Phoenix
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Oakland at #6? For those wearing a bullet-proof vest perhaps.
Most of Oakland is pretty safe, and it's got booming arts, bar, club, and dining scenes that have been bolstered by San Francisco's increasingly-rising COL, which has priced out a lot of young people.

In any case, Forbes' lists are almost uniformly some of the most arbitrary "top __" lists out there. They make no sense a lot of the time.
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Old 08-17-2012, 06:43 PM
 
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Houston? Dallas? Really? Austin, I could see, but not Houston and Dallas. Hell, San Antonio is way cooler than either of these. Consider the source...Forbes may know what it's talking about when it comes to money issues, but not "cool". Oh wait, is that how Forbes measures cool?
Nah. Forbes doesn't do a good job of picking stocks either.
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Old 08-17-2012, 08:19 PM
 
Location: Finger Lakes
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Pft. Houston is only there because of it's strength during the economy and a lot of the 'cool' people have been forced to move there just to have a job... Couldn't pay me enough to EVER move there again. It'll never be cool, literally or figuratively.
...and they will go to Austin or New Orleans if they really want 'cool'

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Nah. Forbes doesn't do a good job of picking stocks either.
Touche!
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Old 08-17-2012, 09:26 PM
 
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Oakland at #6? For those wearing a bullet-proof vest perhaps.
Oakland is cool.
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Old 08-18-2012, 12:52 PM
 
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I don't know about those ratings. Houston and Dallas are cooler than Seattle?
Do people move to Dallas for it's coolness factor?
A friend of mine moved to Dallas from Scotland years ago. It was the first American city he had been to and was not his destination on that trip (I believe he had planned on going further west). He liked it so much that he made it his home that very day and lived there for the next 9 years.

According to him, it's a very cosmpolitan city with tons of nightlife, music, arts, everything. I kept asking, "are you sure you're talking about Dallas?" But he swears up and down that people would be shocked if they lived there. He's been or lived in New York, San Francisco, Boston, etc, but preferred Dallas over all of them. It may in fact rate pretty high on the coolness factor.
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Old 08-18-2012, 01:30 PM
 
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A friend of mine moved to Dallas from Scotland years ago. It was the first American city he had been to and was not his destination on that trip (I believe he had planned on going further west). He liked it so much that he made it his home that very day and lived there for the next 9 years.

According to him, it's a very cosmpolitan city with tons of nightlife, music, arts, everything. I kept asking, "are you sure you're talking about Dallas?" But he swears up and down that people would be shocked if they lived there. He's been or lived in New York, San Francisco, Boston, etc, but preferred Dallas over all of them. It may in fact rate pretty high on the coolness factor.
I've never been to Dallas, but it certainly has a huge population. Houston is the only major city in the country with an openly lesbian mayor. That gives it a little cool cred.
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