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2024-09-03 -Short Attention Span Theater-

How Many of These ‘Best’ Cities Would You Want to Live in?

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Posted by Mercutio 2024-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 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.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-09-03 00:21|| 2024-09-03 00:21|| Front Page Top

#2 I'd live in Topeka before I'd live in any of those.

They must have the filter upside down.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-09-03 11:38|| 2024-09-03 11:38|| Front Page Top

#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.

Posted by 3dc 2024-09-03 12:16|| 2024-09-03 12:16|| Front Page Top

#4 Also, why cities? Suburbs with access and distance from the core cities are much better.

Posted by 3dc 2024-09-03 12:18|| 2024-09-03 12:18|| Front Page Top

#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.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2024-09-03 13:29|| 2024-09-03 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 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.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2024-09-03 13:36|| 2024-09-03 13:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Munich

Posted by European Conservative 2024-09-03 15:34|| 2024-09-03 15:34|| Front Page Top

#8 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.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2024-09-03 16:30|| 2024-09-03 16:30|| Front Page Top

#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)

Posted by USN, Ret. 2024-09-03 18:14|| 2024-09-03 18:14|| Front Page Top

#10 PJ Media: Kevin O’Leary Explains Why Blue States Are 'Uninvestable'

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.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-03 19:37|| 2024-09-03 19:37|| Front Page Top

#11

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

Posted by trailing wife 2024-09-03 19:38|| 2024-09-03 19:38|| Front Page Top

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