Ann Arbor = #46 on CNN's Top 100 Best Places to Live...
Some AA love:
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2010/snapshots/PL2603000…
Opening sentence: "Football season may be this city's most popular pastime." :-).
Is this really Ann Arbor love? I've lived in the Washington DC area for more than 2 decades at this point so fuck any list that has "Gaithersburg, MD" at #25 and Ann Arbor in the 40s. Gaithersburg isnt that great.
That criterion is killing all the Michigan cities. There usually are a few others on the list. A2 was once in their top ten.
Ann Arbor is a great city with so many things to offer. Unique restaurants, main street, the Ark, farmer's market, the arb, top of the park, art fest, and most importantly the University of Michigan.
Also, Minnesota has 5 of the top-20 places to live? When did that state become the Garden of Eden? This list seems to have been put together with a questionable list of metrics at best.
I'm kind of surprised with 5 MSP suburbs being in the top 20, but in retrospect its not that bad.
The winters aren't terribly different than in Michigan. They're all in the 1st or 2nd ring of suburbs around Minneapolis/St. Paul, so the commute isn't terribly bad. The burbs have a good amount of parks, and lots of lakes (Minnesota: we have lakes). The Plymouth/Wayzeta/Minnetonka/Eden Prarie chain of cities are all nice, easily rivaling all the nicer suburbs of the OC.
Add in a low crime rate, very good schools, and a large amount of corporate jobs (United Health, Target Corp, Best Buy Corp, General Mills, US Bank, 3M, Medtronic), I can see how it would be up there. Maybe not #1, but up there.
The winters aren't terribly different than in Michigan.
This is only true if you're talking about the Upper Peninsula. Compared to Detroit/Ann Arbor, it's a lot colder and snowier. Though on the plus side, the sun shines more often.
Whatever, I'd rather live in Ann Arbor than many places on that list.
And this is exactly why I'm quitting my job come September and moving back, with or without a new one lined up.
I don't like Ann Arbor that much. Everyone's head is up their ass.
Then go back under your bridge, troll.
I did.
Well, we have Boubacar Cissoko to thank for Ann Arbor having a higher than average crime rate of the cities listed. Also, I think that having a decrease in employment over the last decade would make Ann Arbor a tough sell to be too much higher. That said, Ann Arbor is and always will be my #1.
Spent the best years of my life there. Have lived in three states and six different cities. Ann Arbor can't be beat for activities, restaurants, bars - you name it.
Seems about 45 too low!
I guess it's easy to resent a city whose population is:
1.) Highly-educated, and
2). Not morbidly obese.
Don, I've gotta ask...
You post a good amount of worthy content, but how come you refuse to use the Reply feature?
I guess I don't understand the difference, or advantage, to what I normally do when I make my inane comments.
Holy shit it's an Mgoblog miracle!
It's just easier to follow the thread's hierarchy when you use it.
Don't worry, we'll be in the top 25 by the end of the season.
I live in the #2 area, but Ann Arbor is still a great place to come to visit, which I do with great frequency (every home game and then some). Lots of of good food, culture and there is almost nothing more fun than the excitement of a football Saturday.
Ann Arbor would be a mortal lock to be higher on this list if there wasn't an issue with the homeless on campus.
"Change?...... Chhaaaange?.... Chaaaaaaaange?"
AA homeless >> NY homeless.
The ones in AA say thank you and call me an angel if I hand them my box of leftovers from dinnerr, the ones in NY just shank you.
America.
This is actually a lower-than-usual ranking for Ann Arbor. The economy hurts us, even if we're doing better than much of the rest of the state.
What kind of a city makes you feel large amounts of remorse not even two years after you left it for another city? The only kind Ann Arbor is made of.
What kind of a moron leaves a city like Ann Arbor and talks about how he regrets it? Only this moron could....
These lists are always designed for people who consider Hershey's good chocolate, like Celine Dion, believe "diversity" means having one Asian kid in the class, think the best movies come from Hollywood, don't understand what's wrong with Wal-Mart, consider Guinness unusual, and are impressed by people who can use chopsticks. Here's a better list of Top 10 US cities (in no particular order):
Seattle, San Francisco/Berkeley/Oakland, Austin, Chicago, Madison, Ann Arbor, Louisville, Boston, NYC, Philly
What cities could possibly be better than AA to make it ranked 46?