Terminalcoffee discussion

CNN/Money has its latest "best places to live" list. Here you go...Jim lives right by one of the top five...right, Jim? What do you think?

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneym...

I don't care much about these types of lists, but they seem to be proliferating at an alarming rate. Wisconsin and the midwest usually do ok, but I was surprised to see a few Ohio mentions in the top 25, as I thought that state was going down the tubes...

Ra - this was on Yahoo this morning as the Best Towns to live in. I burst out laughing when I saw Mukilteo as #10. *yawn* Boring place, and not really that nice.

Mukilteo is full of boring housing developments and people fleeing King County taxes. I do like the ferry terminal, though.

I'm always skeptical of how these lists are compiled. I've been to Louisville, and it's a nice town, but I'm not so certain I'd want to live there. I could be wrong. But one person's Louisville is another person's San Francisco.

Are you knowing that is talking about Louisville, CO? I'm right now in the other Louisville, which I find superior to that outside-Boulder/Denver commuter rest stop and chain restaurant haven.

I thought Louisville CO was near Boulder...interesting that a place like that, just outside of Boulder/Denver would get the designation but not Boulder itself...

There's nothing like Boulder itself. Louisville is a Californicated gas station intersection.

I wouldn't want to live in Boulder, but I don't mind visiting my brother there...I couldn't handle the crunchiness year round. Eventually I'd break down and in a moment of anti-hippy rebellion eat McDonalds in the middle of Pearl Street and tear social action flyers off the walls. But my brother, man, he loves the place.

It's a nice place to visit.

Bryant, AR made that list (# 86)?!! Are you KIDDING me!?? It's hands down one of THE most racist communities in the state of Arkansas (and that's saying alot).

Bryant's one of the "white flight" communities where families relocated after the integration of Little Rock public schools. I don't like to visit/drive through there even.

Yeah RA, Middleton is on the west side of Madison(I live on the east side), and it benefits greatly from being so close to the UW campus. It does have a great Brewery, and I believe that the Mustard Museum is moving there also. You don't have to go very far from it to get into the driftless area of SW Wisconsin. All in all it really is a pretty nice area.

Whoops! I thought it was Louisville, KY.

I curious how they pronounce it in Colorado. In KY it's LOO-a-ville, of course.

Most of these "best" places have that in common, Heidi. (But that's never mentioned in the articles.)

That's kind of ooky.

Well, you have to wonder about those making the lists.

Papillion, NE...sounds so quaint!

And apparently Keller, Texas boasts an America's Next Top Model contestant (Season 7) - http://z.about.com/d/realitytv/1/0/W/...

And there's a Battle of the Bans - http://keller.ourgreatcity.com/files/...