MasterPlanistan is rated number 4

[KitchenWitch]

on Money magazine's best places to live...

:eyes:

[sasquatch]

1. Obviously Dayton, Ohio came in first

:silly:

[Liberal_in_LA]

2. huh?

[KitchenWitch]

3. Irvine = MasterPlanistan

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2008/

[harmonicon]

18. are these best places to live if you want your suicide to be as depressing as possible?

Naperville was #3, and I can attest to it being one of the more god forsaken places on this earth. In the years I lived in southern California, I can't remember if I ever went to Irvine, which doesn't surprise me, but I somehow know that I hate it.

[KitchenWitch]

19. The song "Little Boxes" is totally about Irvine.

x(

[harmonicon]

23. should I know that song?

Sorry.... I'm sort of clueless sometimes.

My girlfriend is moving to San Diego, and I'm driving there with her this summer. I'm none too pleased... I know that it's better than if she were moving to riverside or something, but it's still a downer. This is coming from France, where she has been living for the past two years. Going to visit her there = greatest times of my life. Going to visit her in San Diego = being in San Diego.

[KitchenWitch]

24. Here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONEYGU_7EqU

[harmonicon]

27. fantastic!

I really enjoyed that :)

[KitchenWitch]

28. Fun song and too damned true.

[XemaSab]

4. I know...

All their places were just banal.

[KitchenWitch]

5. Plymouth Minnesota is really nice.

[Pierre.Suave]

20. It is

there is a really cool park there with a HUUUUUUUUUUGE wooden play structure, I used to go there as a kid.

They also have a tractor that pulls a a "train" of cars behind it as a shuttle from the plaything to the beach.

[KitchenWitch]

21. That park is teh awesome!

As are most of the Hennepin County parks. :D

[Pierre.Suave]

22. Yes, I agree...

It is TEH Awesomeness.

But, it is in MN after all...

:P

[KitchenWitch]

25. Yep

:D

You have no idea how much I miss living there.

[Pierre.Suave]

29. Casilla told me the other day, when we were talking...

that Twitchy McXanax, as well as the rest of the Twins, miss not having their number 1 fan at the games too...

:P

[KitchenWitch]

30. Awww

:)

I will get to see them August 23rd. I will be the tall woman with the Twins gear on in Angel Stadium yelling my heart out.

[Pierre.Suave]

31. Don't forget your

"Circle me Bert" sign...

:P

[KitchenWitch]

32. Of course!

:D

I will have more luck being circled at Angel Stadium than I would in the Metrodome.

[Pierre.Suave]

33. NO doubt

I think I will Tivo the games just in case.

LOL

[JTG of the PRB]

6. Fort Collins? Really? THAT Fort Collins?

Boy, they must have really lowered their standards...

:hide:

[fizzgig]

15. i don't see boulder up there

:P

[JTG of the PRB]

17. That's because we're too cool to sell out to that list.

Which Fort Collins has obviously done in order to appear there. :P

[some guy]

26. or it could be

because Writer sold her house in Ft Collins and moved to Boulder.

Coincidence? You decide!

(I'm gonna go hide, so she doesn't kick my a$$)


:hide:




:evilgrin:

[JTG of the PRB]

34. Ooooooh, you're in trooouuubllee!

:rofl:

[hobbit709]

7. Round Rock TX?!?!?!?

When was this list compiled?

[GOPisEvil]

11. I guess bland, generic suburbs rate well with Money magazine.

[madinmaryland]

8. Hmmm. My city is ranked 8th.

:wtf:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2008/snapshots/PL2419125.html

Shouldn't we be higher?

[Gormy Cuss]

9. Oh ick. You made me look.

I clicked the "Top Earning" tab and found two of my neighboring towns (Lafayette and Danville, CA) on the list--well, not exactly neighbors but close enough to be where we shop and where we bicycle.

Lafayette is the town with the Iraq war memorial crosses placed on a hill across from the BART station.

[KitchenWitch]

10. Thanks for the pic!

I am guessing the editorial staff at Money Magazine craves uniformity and sterility in daily life.

Me, give me charm, messy messy charm.

[MrScorpio]

12. I guess Naperville's pasty white and soulless zombies really made a good impression

The place has to be the most unfunkiest city on the planet

[KitchenWitch]

13. LOL

I have more funk in my little finger than Irvine California has in its whole land mass.

[Critters2]

14. One cannot have too many chain stores and white people,

apparently.

[KitchenWitch]

16. Or in Irvine's case...

One cannot have too many chain stores, tutoring places, white or asian people.