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Ireland topped the poll in terms of Countries to live in

Here's the Economist's review of countries to live in :

1 Ireland
2 Switzerland
3 Norway
4 Luxembourg
5 Sweden
6 Australia
7 Iceland
8 Italy
9 Denmark
10 Spain

It also topped the same quality of life index in 2005
Haven't found 2006 and 2007 isn't over yet :)

BBC NEWS | Europe | Ireland is named 'best country'

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Heres more up todate...
Seems we're slipping...lol
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UN report on best places to live in the world

• Watch This VideoThe United Nations has released its annual report this week, ranking the quality of life for 177 countries of the world. For six...
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UN report on best places to live in the world

• Watch This VideoThe United Nations has released its annual report this week, ranking the quality of life for 177 countries of the world. For six...
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Blech! I like Raleigh alot, there is nothing wrong with living in an apartment if you pick the right one (even then you will still have the very creepy looking couple who lives below you and drives two very tattered old cars that make them look like criminals...)

I will take them with a grain of salt. I have seen alot of the west and quite frankly i'd much rather have Southern New Jersey or South Florida over anything else out west. Now gimme Tampa/St. Petersburg and oh i am in heven
 
OK after getting a free moment I finally found the rest of my Fargo, North Dakota pictures that I took 1 1/2 years ago when I went vintage washer and parts hunting up there. I love the northern center of our country and what I have always particularly like about this little city is that to me it is the quintessential far northern mid-America city. It reminds me of the towns that 1950's TV shows would have taken place in...

 
Neat pictures Robert. It is so good to see a busy downtown, I just wonder how they have managed to keep it this way. Do you recall if they had any large shopping malls?
 
Hi Terry, yes I had thought the very same thing that it was unusual to see such a busy downtown for such a small city. It does have a very large mall and lots of Home Deopt/Best Buy big box stores all in the newer sections. What I had read, just like in so many other little cities, the malls built in the 1960's and 1970's had killed downtown for a decade or two. But in the 90's incentives were given to business to open up again in downtown Fargo and now it seems to be quite prosperous. Also they have had a sort of population boom of recent which might add to the busy feel.
 
Well they certainly have fixed it up then because when I was there it wasn't a pretty sight, nothing like that at all to my recollection and that's why I was so disappointed after Minot and Bismark seemed so nice. Whatever they did we should send our mayor and council there to find out. The downtown here in Sarnia is dreadful, of course the "malls" on the outskirt certainly were the biggest factor in its demise, they made an even more grave error by countering that and building a mall downtown behind the main street which naturally sucked the remaining street front stores inside, for awhile until even that mall succumbed to the pull of the big box openings of the 90s. Now the streetfront stores are near all boarded up, the downtown mall is probably 75% empty and what is in there is mostly federal govt job offices and services occupying what once was stores.
 
I'll be more objective this time...

I'm sorry-I don't mean to pick a fight. I just made a nasty comment about Fargo because we usedtato visit my boring lutheran minister brother there when I was at that bad attitude age of 14-16, so I just made a nasty bad attitude comment about an otherwise fine place. My snotty remark about Eden Prarie was driven by that silly old Saint Paul/ Minneapolis rivalry thing (E.P. is a Minneapolis suburb-I was born in St. Paul). Thank You Robert for the pictures of your visit there. The midwest is charming in a way that Maui is not and I sure don't trip over vintage washers here the way I do back in Minnesota! I completely agree with Hydralique that the buildings and house here are mostly horrid and there was some terrible planning involved for sure.

I cannot lie and say that it is cheap to live here at all. In St. Paul we spent $600 a month for a 3 bedroom home vs. $975 here for a 1 bdrm cottage. Food is a bit more expensive if you are careful or a lot more expensive if you are not. Nobody ever said Hawai'i was going to be cheap.

The roads here are horrid. Our local government teeters on the edge of being a banana republic, corrupt with greed, nepotism, graft. Things are run down and people don't care for their lawns like the fine folks in Omaha do. There sure were some things here that took some getting use to because this ain't the mainland! 85% of the people who move here from the mainland move back within a year.

I still think I live in the nicest place.

I see flowers every day of the year. We have less than 5 cloudy rainy days each year. I walk out onto my lanai in my nightclothes first thing every morning and it is almost never too cold to have our morning coffee outside. I typically see no less than 3 rainbows per week. Nearly every Sunday, we attend that great cathedral known as "the beach" and say our thanks to the Great One. Being imperfect being, we do sometimes say things like "I wonder what the kids in Minnesota are doing today?" when we know full well it's January 21.
 
I think that is great Robert! I just love downtowns and miss them so much. It looks like it would be a great city to live in.
 
What's a nice Minnesota boy doing in a place like this?

Hawai'i was never even on my map when I was young. I thought it would be exotic to move to Duluth, MN.

It was Martha and Mark who got us to even think of Hawai'i. They visited a couple times after they got married. They came back and stated resolutely that they were moving there someday. I thought it was strange as Mark hates being hot at all- an unfortuntate childhood accident with a steam vaporizor left him with fewer sweat glands than most of us have. I could not imagine him WANTING to go to the tropics.

In 2001, M & M invited Dennis and I to join them on a Hawaiian vacation. Before the trip, Martha chattered NON-STOP about how fantastic Hawaii is and Hawaii this and Hawaii that I told Dennis privately that I was really getting sick of hearing about it. The day finally came for the long flight. Before we land the pilot announces that it is 88 degrees (f) with humidity of 92 percent. I thought what that temp. and humity felt like back in Minnesota and thought "What kind of hell has Martha brought us to?".

Once we got off the plane we felt the magic of the trade winds, could smell the flowers in the air. It is just something you have to come and see for yourself. Dennis said he felt like he came home and I knew within 10 minutes of landing that someday we would live here. We moved over 2 years later and have been here 3 and a half years. I cannot say it has all been easy, but now we seem to have found our slice of paradise.

So let me finish my little chamber of commerce routine by saying that I am thankful everyday that this land has accepted my being here, I am drunk with beauty every day and I like to share my love of this place with my friends.

Aloha Nui Loa to All!
David
 
Wasn't Fargo heavily damaged in that bad late winter flood on the Red River of the West shortly after Robert pulled the old Philco out of the basement of the hardware store? It was in the downtown where the flood caused a fire that could not be put out because they did not have fire boats, only fire engines. To add insult to injury, it turned so cold so fast after the flood that all of the water froze where it was or something like that. Lovely, just #%$*&^g lovely.
 
Tom that wasn't Fargo, that was Grand Forks, ND. I got the Philco washer out of that store only a year before the great flood that destroyed quite a bit of Grand Forks.
 
Hi David, no fight picked here. I bet Maui is just beautiful and a wonderful place to live, I hope to visit you there sometime, I would love to see it. Everyone should be able to live where they want to, it should be a goal. I do admit I get really peeved when I see people putting down other peoples homes so publicly, it doesn't make any sense to me why someone would do that.

I think Lawrence's comment was the best "Wherever I live is one of the tippy toppest places". It's important to be able to say that.
 
Best places to live - Gay/Lesbian

Since the sub-topic was brought up, in this months' Advocate magazine there was an article about the best places for Gays and Lesbians to live. Included are towns such as:
Columbus, OH
Santa Fe, NM
Missoula, MT
Ithaca, NY
Nothing official or scientific, it's a purely anecdotal account. Although I have heard that Santa Fe is quite queer friendly!
Link below. Happy house hunting!

 

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