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Have you move based solely on "Best Places to Live" ranking?
How much do you take in account with all these "best places to live" ranking?
I do have a liking to CNN Money, with all their different listing... but how much can you really tell from a place by an articles?
CNN Money have some weird infatuation with Colorado's cities, but ignoring most cities in the South Carolina, and the rest of the South Eastern states (except FL)
I would never move somewhere based on a ranking. However, after I planned to move to Pittsburgh (right around when I found my apartment) it got America's Most Livable City, and over year later, it's still living up to it.
What I had read about Atlanta right before grad school made me seriously consider it as a place to live. But then, Atlanta felt right...and it was, overall, the best place I've ever lived. That title rotates and has been handed to Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City. Pittsburgh is a beautiful, hilly, green city that gets too damn cold in the winter and Salt Lake City is the seat of the Mormon church, so that wouldn't work well for me either.
I used to live in a city of around 200,000 that was ranked #1 in Money Magazine's Best Places to Live in America. A couple of years after the ranking was published, I met a family with very portable careers who had moved there from San Francisco because of that ranking. After a couple of years, they ended up moving on to a larger metro area in the next state because they were too used to big-city amenities, like world-class museums and mass-transit, that the "Best Place" didn't have.
Back when Places Rated Almanac was a big deal I actually moved from Washington DC to the Research Triangle area in NC (Chapel Hill specifically) based on the #1 ranking given. It turned out to be my most favorite place I've lived all these years and certainly would be more than happy to head back if circumstances would allow.
No way I'd consider it as "best places to live" according to some magazine article or stupid TV report is just some reporters opinion based on items he has looked up. Nothing more. It does not mean diddly that it is the best place for me.
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