Queen City, here I come!

Wow. This really surprised me. No fucking way I'd live in Florida.

Tampa
Orlando
Houston
Charleston
Austin, Texas
Memphis
Jacksonville
West Palm Beach
San Antonio
Fort Worth
Savannah
Augusta
Miami
St. Pete
Galveston
Dallas
Nashville
Louisville
Clearwater
Daytona
Beaumont, Texas
Corpus Christi, Texas
Birmingham, Ala.
Oklahoma City

 

I also took the survey, which is apparently brought to you by the lovely metropolises (metropoli?) of Knoxville, El Paso and Carlisle, Pa.

1. Charleston, SC
2. Knoxville
3. Jacksonville
4. Orlando
5. Austin
6. Houston
7. San Antonio
8. West Palm Beach
9. Louisville
10. Charlotte
11. Nashville
12. Norfolk
13. Fort Worth
14. Memphis
15. Oklahoma City
16. Chesapeake/Virginia Beach
17. Tampa
18. El Paso
19. Lexington
20. Cincinnati
21. Carlisle, PA
22. Dallas
23. Seattle
24. Bergen, NJ

Nine places on that list I couldn't see myself living. And not surprisingly, my current address is nowhere to be found.

Funny that the only one of my top five cities I would say I "love" is #1.

 

Out of the ones I know, I heart Nos. 1, 5, 8, 15 and 20. And apparently my life is woefully incomplete since I've never really been to Texas.

1. Jacksonville
2. Houston
3. Orlando
4. Charleston, S.C.
5. Memphis
6. Chesapeake-Va. Beach
7. W. Palm Beach
8. Tampa
9. Norfolk
10. Augusta
11. San Antonio
12. Ft. Worth
13. Austin
14. Oklahoma City
15. Nashville
16. Miami
17. Dallas
18. Louisville
19. Daytona Beach
20. Savannah
21. Clearwater, Fla.
22. Charlotte
23. Corpus Christi
24. Beaumont

 

I've been to Beaumont how that makes anybody's Top 25 is beyond me. Calling Beaumont a shithole is an insult to shitholes everywhere.

 

Here we go.

1. Little Rock
2. Shreveport, LA
3. Alexandria, LA
4. Fayetteville, AR
5. Charleston, WV
6. Frederick, MD
7. Monroe, LA
8. Baltimore, MD
9. Greenville, SC
10. Nachitoches, LA
11. Gaithersburg, MD
12. Hickory, NC
13. Clarksville, TN
14. Tulsa, OK
15. Chattanooga, TN
16. Jackson, MS
17. Athens, GA
18. Tuscaloosa, AL
19. Sacramento, CA
20. Charlotte, NC
21. Portland, OR
22. Honolulu, Hawaii
23. Santa Cruz, CA
24. Norfolk, VA

So the best part of this entire list is that I live within an hour of Little Rock now and love it, but am moving within an hour (I think) of a few other locations on this list in three weeks.

Maybe checking that I thought being able to attend sporting events was essential gravitated my list toward major collegiate and professional organization cities.

 

I guess because Norfolk is urban and Chesapeake and Va. Beach is suburban. Be thankful it didn't pick Suffolk for you.

My top 10
1. Norfolk
2. Long Island
3. Seattle
4. Knoxville
5. Nashville
6. Cincinnati
7. Louisville
8. Charlotte
9. New York City (get a rope)
10. Lexington, Ky.

Also receiving votes: St. Louis; Olympia, Wash.; Hampton, Va.; Wilmington, Del.; Philadelphia; Carlisle, Penn.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Richmond; Oklahoma City; Tacoma, Wash.; Greenville, S.C.; Greenville, N.C. (spooky); Rocky Mount-Stony Creek, N.C.; Johnson City-Kingsport, Tenn.

I'm curious how Norfolk can be my No. 1 when Chesapeake, where I was born, doesn't crack the top 24. Also, I bet if there was a spot for "vinegar barbeque sauce" on the survey, Greenville N.C. and Rocky Mount wouldn't sniff my list.

 

Wow, that's pretty much my list to a T.

 

That's Suffolk, the World's Largest Peanut Market, smartass. ;D

I can't belive someone actually mentioned the old hometown here.

 

I just took that quiz and I got LA as one of top spots to live in and San Diago now I don't even have to say which I am goning to pick.

 

Irvine?

 

Almost all of mine are in Wisconsin.

Which I'm sure Rosie will find hilarious.

 

See, now THAT is a list I could deal with. Dammit. Only without all the humidity and long hot summers.

I'm not moving to Denver. I don't care if it means I'll be pathetically sad for the rest of my life, always missing out on the Utopia that is that city. Fuck it.