Which top 101 list under City-Data.com do you find most interesting.

[NCN]

Puru, I can't figure out this one as well. Strange.
"This one is pretty interesting as well: https://www.city-data.com/top2/h183.html
most of the towns listed are in CA."

A lot of times it is easy to see why, but I see no common ground for the one above. One was a military base. Don't guess there are a lot of people with master's there. But then again, there is no reason they would not have one.

[Alaskan Mutt]

Originally Posted by motormaker

How about this town. My #2 son gets to spend a lot of time there.

https://www.city-data.com/city/Adak-Alaska.html

Originally Posted by NCN

That one is on a lot of lists. I thought the temperatures were a hoot too.

Adak used to be a Navy base. If I remember right at one time, population wise, it was the 6th or 7th largest town in Alaska. There were about 6000 Navy personal and dependents. A few years back the Navy closed the base. The land was aquired by one of the Native corporations. Not too long ago there was no real economy there. Things were so bad it got to where they could only operate the power generators a few hours a day. As with all locations along the Aleutian Islands the weather can be very nasty.

Originally Posted by Puru

this one surprised me https://www.city-data.com/top2/h36.html. I thought for sure Manhattan would be #1, but instead some place in AK is!

Bethel is a few hundred miles from any highway system. Many people there either do not drive or do not have access to a car. Thus they take taxies a lot. I do not know how it is now, but when I lived there in the 60's the taxies did not have meters. They charged a flat rate depending on where you were going. Often you did not have the cab to yourself. The cab might pick up or drop off several people before you got to your destination. In the winter time when the river is froze over, taxies run up and down the river to the various villages.

[Puru]

Originally Posted by Alaskan Mutt

Adak used to be a Navy base. If I remember right at one time, population wise, it was the 6th or 7th largest town in Alaska. There were about 6000 Navy personal and dependents. A few years back the Navy closed the base. The land was aquired by one of the Native corporations. Not too long ago there was no real economy there. Things were so bad it got to where they could only operate the power generators a few hours a day. As with all locations along the Aleutian Islands the weather can be very nasty.


Bethel is a few hundred miles from any highway system. Many people there either do not drive or do not have access to a car. Thus they take taxies a lot. I do not know how it is now, but when I lived there in the 60's the taxies did not have meters. They charged a flat rate depending on where you were going. Often you did not have the cab to yourself. The cab might pick up or drop off several people before you got to your destination. In the winter time when the river is froze over, taxies run up and down the river to the various villages.

Thanks for the info! I asked my dad about it and he pretty much said the same thing.