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12-04-2012, 03:09 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Switzerland | | | What city has world's best quality of life?
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/12/04/bu...tml?hpt=ibu_c1
We're in Geneva and frankly....it's been great. No plans to leave. Nice to see Vancouver there. Our home away from home.
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12-04-2012, 05:09 AM
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12-04-2012, 05:11 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: N.H. | | | How's the gigging in Geneva? |
12-04-2012, 08:50 AM
|  | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | | San Francisco has the best quality of life for me, but I have met people that hate it here.
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12-04-2012, 08:56 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: Virginia | | | Those places are all fine if you're already set financially.
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12-04-2012, 08:57 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | No city has any kind of good quality of life....
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12-04-2012, 08:58 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Willmar, Minnesota | | | As far as I'm concerned no city has quality of life - based on being a city.
It's like asking which is better a kick in the throat, explosive diarrhea with vomiting or a pitbull and a rabid wolf in your pants.
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Reason: typing while HD posted - no wonder we get along!
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12-04-2012, 09:01 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: West Covina (LA), SoCal | | Quote:
Originally Posted by hdracer  No city has any kind of good quality of life.... | For you. I'd say "quality of life" is subjective.
Defined: "your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)" Quality of Life
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12-04-2012, 09:11 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Takoma Park, MD (DC) | | Quote:
Originally Posted by MatticusMania Defined: "your personal satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) with the cultural or intellectual conditions under which you live (as distinct from material comfort)" | I agree that it is subjective. For me having an active live music scene is important; lots of people wouldn't care about that.
I'm not sure I agree with separating material comfort, however. The cost of housing makes a big difference to me. I have to balance cultural and intellectual conditions against the job market and how much it costs to live there. |
12-04-2012, 09:32 AM
|  | keepin' the beat since the 60's | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Studio City, SoCal, USA | | | No city has quality of life? Whoever says that has never spent time in any European cities. Florence, Munich, Paris and Lyon, Barcelona, the list goes on and on of wonderful places where people truly enjoy life while having the conveniences of a city.
Even in the USA there are some pretty good places - Portland, The Keys, Charleston and Charlotte come to mind as decent places with cultural life and moderate costs.
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12-04-2012, 09:37 AM
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12-04-2012, 10:18 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Boston | | | The results are way too heavily European centric, I wouldn't put much stock in the results. Nothing against Europe, but the results are far too imbalanced not to take them with a grain of salt.
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12-04-2012, 10:37 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Durham NC | | | I find this kind of research and accompanying story meaningless.
There are people in those cities living a life of horror, and people in Gary Indiana living a very very high quality life. |
12-04-2012, 10:39 AM
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Originally Posted by Jared Lash Fresno. | 
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12-04-2012, 10:43 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Detroit | | | Detroit!! Lmao...
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12-04-2012, 10:46 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Down in the middle somewhere. | | | This list is strange...
For some reason the list Brussels (No22) my hometown and a horrible place to live! But no a sign of London which IMO should definitely at least be in the top 30. |
12-04-2012, 10:47 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Interesting topic and responses.
Oddly, when I think about the two cities i've lived in most recently (DC and Baltimore) the more impoverished, dangerous
and rougher of the two (Baltimore) is far better when it comes to overall quality of life.
Because for me, it comes down to the people- and Baltimore has far fewer a**holes than DC. |
12-04-2012, 10:59 AM
| | Just one more question | | Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: San Franciscco, CA | | [quote=D.A.R.K.;13534717]Interesting topic and responses.
Oddly, when I think about the two cities i've lived in most recently (DC and Baltimore) the more impoverished, dangerous
and rougher of the two (Baltimore) is far better when it comes to overall quality of life.
Because for me, it comes down to the people- and Baltimore has far fewer a**holes than DC.[/QUOTE]
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12-04-2012, 11:01 AM
| | Registered User | | | | This is based solely on the attitude of the general populous,
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12-04-2012, 11:06 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | The best places to me are cities that are large enough to have a few things to do, bringing in some attractions, but aren't so overpopulated that it takes 2 hours to drive through them. Then you live 15-20 minutes outside of said city where it is suburban without also requiring you to sit fo an hour in traffic just to get to the grocery store. Usually that's a city for me with a population of less than 1 million metro, but greater then 500,000. After that, you just pick the geography, culture and climate you are after, and then you can find your perfect place to live most anywhere. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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