[BestLifeOnline] Choosing the right place to live involves balancing many factors, from affordability and safety to healthcare and quality of life. With so many options available, finding a city that offers the best combination of these essential elements can be challenging, if not impossible. To help guide your decision, we’ve analyzed the latest data from Numbeo, the world’s largest cost of living database, which provides valuable insights into the living conditions of cities across North America. In this article, we rank the top ten cities based on key indicators such as quality of life, purchasing power, safety, healthcare, and climate. Whether you’re considering a move or simply curious about how your city compares, this list offers a comprehensive overview of cities that excel in offering a balanced and fulfilling lifestyle. Discover which cities made the cut and what makes them standout places to call home—starting from number 10 to the number one city based on quality of life.
10. Boston, MA
9. San Antonio, TX
8. Calgary, Canada
7. Atlanta, GA
6. Dallas, TX
5. Portland, OR
4. San Diego, CA
3. Tampa, FL
2. Seattle, WA
1. Austin, TX
#3
What sort of strange formula was used to derive this. Youngest son lives in Seattle - a definite NO. Portland a hell no. Boston - yuck... Atlanta a traffic snarl. Actually most have bad traffic problems.
#5
I'm just fine right where I am. I lived near Boston in 91-92 small tow, Woburn. I lived outside of Portland in 1990, Beaverton. Portland was OK back then, so was Boston.
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I'm getting increasingly disillusioned with San Diego. Traffic is a nightmare. Public transportation is a nightmare. Potholes in the streets (Ouch, there goes my car's CD player). Hobo encampments all over the place. Taxes, taxes, taxes. Well, after all, it's in California so you know you'll have to pay taxes. There are still some very nice places if you can afford it. But, increasingly, massive apartment buildings are popping up like mushrooms. Newsom has usurped zoning authority and he is determined to make it look like Newark.
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#7
Munich
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Tiny remote town breaks out in civil war over 200ft addition that'll loom over homes: 'We don't need it, we don't want it!'
Ah'm thinking about this place.
Reminds me of Perfection, from Tremors.
I wonder how Stan and Kenny and Cartman feel about the tower.
#9
Two hours from Seattle but the dems are doing their best to turn the whole state into seattle.
If not for the kids/grandkids, we would be moving; reminiscing about our growing up years in michigan ( yeah not much better but no electric ferries)
According to O'Leary, states like New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and California have become increasingly hostile to businesses, driving investment and jobs to more business-friendly locations, which, not coincidentally, happen to be red states.
“I don’t put companies here in New York anymore or in Massachusetts or in New Jersey or in California,” O'Leary stated. “Those states are uninvestable. The policy here is insane. The taxes are too high.” He highlighted Fargo, N.D., as a prime example of where his businesses are now relocating, noting that 40% of the workforce there operates remotely, including employees in Boston.
"New Jersey, what a mess. New York, uninvestable," he said.
The panel then asked O'Leary why New York was "uninvestable" and if it was just because of high taxes. The hosts were clearly not happy with O'Leary's characterization.
“The regulatory environment is punitive,” he explained, explaining how a global data center project near Niagara Falls eventually moved to Norway due to the state's oppressive policies. “Thousands of jobs coming out of that... that’s New York. Uninvestable.”
Tweet of clip in the next comment, because Rantburg worries — thank goodness! — about spam.
Kevin O’Leary, from Shark Tank, calls out the insanity of the Democrats.
This clip is absolute truth for all the CNN viewers watching. He explains that the leftist policies are destroying blue states and says they have become “uninvestable.” pic.twitter.com/Sk8551g9Pk
— Farm Girl Carrie 👩🌾 (@FarmGirlCarrie) March 5, 2023
#1
How much dope could you smuggle in from China if a 50 lb box of hot dipped galvanized nails were all under weight by 1 gram and there are say 2500 to 5000 nails in a 50 lb box? How well do dogs and detection equipment work on things like that or gold or cash?
#2
In 2013 I had to replace a section of galvanized pipe in my well. It had been there since the well was drilled, about 40 years. 3 years later that section failed and I lost the submersible pump. The pipe came from China. I replaced it with PVC and a new pump. I was lucky as the pipe and pump didn't block the well.
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It has long been clear to me that the Chinese practice a superb "long game" business strategy against US industry. It is based on a simple understanding of our corporate inability to envision "strategy" versus immediate competition since we define success in near-term market share and ROI profit.
The Chinese define a product or product group, copy/steal design, produce product that is comparable in performance and quality, but cheaper, by lesser labor cost and even secret subsidy of sub-components and raw materials, despite factoring in transport cost. Over time, achieve total market dominance over a sustained period of years. Domestic and allied competitors cease the product line over time due to lost market share, until China and its subsidiary companies, achieve market monopoly. Then, the slowly decrease product quality and performance, while increasing profit and raising product pricing, recouping front-end loss from years earlier and enjoying monopolistic advantage in long term contracting. They then protect market dominance by defeating any new US start-ups with a mix of political/regulatory interference domestically, denial of sub-components they control and intimidation of near-peer businesses in the West that might consider a renewed product line inside the US/Western allies.
Sounds crazy? - Take a look at all the major end-items and product lines that ONLY exist in China now. Was it that way 15-20 years ago? Consider the strategic, industrial vulnerabilities this has created in America and West. De-industrialization has helped destroyed the middle class American Dream and massively weakened the "Arsenal of Democracy" of our grandparents day, and done so willingly by witting and unwitting dupes in Washington and industry in search of seemingly profitable choices, many of which and forms of long-term industrial and economic suicide!
#5
^^^
B., I'm having a moment, can you ask him if he can still spell triangulation and if he thinks it might work for us now with Russians against the Chinese?
[NYPOST] As colleges begin the new school year, ''pro-Paleostine'' protesters need to start asking who's really calling the shots: It may be agents of the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran.
The Post's Isabel Vincent reported exclusively Friday that Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... is funding anti-Israel, pro-Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... groups and campus protests via a network of activist groups whose names bear no sign of Tehran's ties.
For instance, members of the Texas-based Rise Against Oppression (which downplays its links to Iran) ''reclaimed'' a student center at Houston University in April.
Many pro-Paleostinian groups also get funding (directly, or via the radicalTides Foundation) from the Maximum Difference Foundation, the US family charity of an extended clan whose members back in Iran are tight with the family of Iran's former President Akbar Rafsanjani and have worked with Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
''Following the October 7th attacks . . . Tehran has poured money and logistical support into anti-Israel and pro-terror rallies, encampments and civil disorder,'' said Sam Westrop, director of Middle East Forum's Islamist Watch project.
Westrop added that the Iranian regime ''appears to operate mosques, activist and student groups that are deeply involved in pro-terror demonstrations, alongside Beijing-backed and Hamas-aligned groups.''
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
