OMG...Whoever did this "Coolest Cities" list is clueless

[bueller22]

Huh? No offense to any Houston lovers but I have lived in Houston and couldn't wait to get out...Whoever did this list is very misinformed. Thoughts?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbr...ities-to-live/

[SpeedRacerXXX]

Originally Posted by bueller22

Huh? No offense to any Houston lovers but I have lived in Houston and couldn't wait to get out...Whoever did this list is very misinformed. Thoughts?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/morganbr...ities-to-live/

Washington, D.C. at #2 is stranger to me than Houston at #1. I'm sure each city on the list has its strong points, but I'll take Austin over Houston, Dallas, or S.A. anyday.

[Trip]

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[rockerrick]

Agreed , Los Angeles is better ! Better weather , more things to do , beaches with water that isn't brown , hotter chicks , mountains , and so on....

[Toyz]

San Francisco fan here...also Seattle, New Orleans, Vancouver are all much better than Houston (Iknow but we are working a trade for Norman, Ok & Lincoln, Ne to get Vancouver as an American city)

[SamuraiSushi]

Yeah I lived in H-town for five years it was kind of a shitpit. If I want death by heat and humidity and maybe West Nile I'd at least like to have the audacity to do it in proper tropics. Then again the Huffington Post does a list of "Best Places to Live" and I'm pretty sure have picked SF as number one more than once. It really irritates me when people are allowed to publish their stupid top ten lists in lieu of any kind of journalistic contribution. Anyway I'm with Gene, I'd probably stick my tongue in her ear.

[austin_voy]

One of the problems I had was that some of the stats were based on absolute numbers. Houston is about 2 1/2 times the size of Austin, so NFW it has more parks & restaurants and such. And there are several parks there that need a monorail directly to Ben Taub.

A lot of these "Best" articles are pure crap, sometimes written without any physical research. I used Wikipedia and came up with a very similar list.

[homer13]

This list's are always bs. I laugh at the list of favorite employers. I remember Fed Ex being near top at the same time they had 26 employee/contractor lawsuits being levied against them.