You don’t need to be a “prestigious business magazine” to get local newspapers and Chambers of Commerce talking about your city rankings. RelocateAmerica, an obscure site owned by a real estate broker in Michigan, has just released its list of the best cities to live, and towns like Aiken, Georgia (which made the top 100 but not the top 10) are just ecstatic about their placements. After all, if you can’t trust real estate brokers to value things correctly, whom can you trust? Says an Aiken county administrator, “That kind of verifies what those of us who already live here know … Aiken has a lot of big-city features with a lot of cultural activities without losing that small town feel that people love so much.” That sounds familiar.
As pointed out in the MSN story, top-ranked Charlotte also made Forbes’ list of “most miserable cities.”
sammy1 | 06-Jun-08 at 5:50 pm | Permalink
So Charlotte is on the best of and worst of list? Hmm. Who to believe? By the way, I noticed Lombard, Il is on the list. Huh? It’s a bland suburb of Chicago with lots of shopping malls. Could that be the appeal?
Ypsidweller | 06-Jun-08 at 9:23 pm | Permalink
Aiken is pretty cool. Like Ypsi with horses.
Jon | 07-Jun-08 at 7:58 pm | Permalink
Looks like I’m here early enough enough to just go by “Jon” instead of “A Different Jon”.
Have you found anything in particular to rile your fellow Marylanders yet?
this blog is overrated | 08-Jun-08 at 3:45 pm | Permalink
You can be “The Same Jon.”
Haven’t found anything yet. I’m pretty sure that there’s at least one or two anti-DC blogs…I wonder if they include Maryland.
Son of MG | 09-Jun-08 at 9:38 pm | Permalink
Where does Bethesda fit in the ranking? Annapolis?
Are they more or less overrated than Ann Arbor, MI?
Are there coffee shops (or Starbucks near the Naval Academy? There weren’t any in 92. Much less 72.
Kevin | 10-Jun-08 at 12:14 am | Permalink
Interesting, a great deal of the list appeals to blue hairs, while a small percentage are the known generic “best cities”.
this blog is overrated | 10-Jun-08 at 11:29 am | Permalink
Heh, I guess after 6 years of writing AAIO, it’s inevitable that moving anywhere is going to be seen as my rating of the new place as the awesomest city ever.
Ypsidweller | 10-Jun-08 at 9:48 pm | Permalink
Ypsilanti is Underrated.
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