Saturday, April 21, 2007

Best place to live: 2005

If anybody has seen this website: http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/index.html

it basically has the "Best places to live 2005". It has all of the cities that competed for the best place to live. All of the major cities in the U.S.A. are on there, i'm sure. So people on the City vs City threads are complaining bout the accuracy of the population. i think some cities are accurate others are just way unaccurate, i dunno why. By town & surrounding area, i think CNN meant to include neighborhoods not known as cities. i'll give some examples of city populations:

Mobile, AL(my city): 266,626. i think this is somewhat correct, cuz Mobile is definitely over 200,000. i seen websites with Mobile's pop. under 190,000. i guess they don't include West Mobile(it is not a city) into the city population.
That isn't fair at all. Moving along

San Francisco, CA: 743,566. that's correct for sure.

Las Vegas, NV: 1,222,013. this can't be right, cuz Las Vegas ain't grown that fast. i guess they included tourists also and we all know that Las Vegas brings in a shitload of tourists, so is it still wrong?

Atlanta, GA: 867,847. there's no way that Atlanta has under 420,000 residents in 2005. no way man! Atlanta just looks too big to be undersized in people ya know.

Austin, TX: 844,201. that can't be right. then again Austin is growing city and i thought it was a little town.

Birmingham, AL: 491,518. no disrespect to B'Ham, but there a tons of cities surrounding B'Ham. i guess the website included all of the little cities next to B'Ham for that to look correct, but i know B'Ham isn't that big as a city alone.

Salt Lake City, UT: 578,592. As a city, Salt Lake has less people than Jackson, MS! i think they include West Valley, which is a big suburb in the metro area.

Ft. Lauderdale, FL: 792,959. That's not right, man. i never thought that it was that big.

Hartford, CT: 124,070. sounds right to me. their metro area is huge though.

Pensacola, FL: 253,055. wow! that's almost as big as Mobile. P'cola has a big metro area for a mid-size city but gimme a break man!

Houston, TX: 2,752,636. Houston grew fast! but much closer to Chi-town!

St. Petersburg, FL: 345,956. sound legit cuz it's near Tampa, but you be the judge

Nashville, TN: 403,893. i think this is Nashville without Davidson. which is wrong to me

Tulsa, OK: 414,546. it grew a little, but it sounds legit. i like their skyline, it's tight

Colorado Springs: 485,936. don't know what to say bout that

Minneapolis, MN: 1,005,556. that's not right, it can't be

St. Paul, MN: 745,785. it's next to Minny right? why is that so wrong here?

Boston, MA: 354,330. CNN.money.com/ is on crack.

i won't use this again, so anyone gotta say anything? >

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