<p>Cambridge rulz...Harvard is there and i am there.</p>
<p>Kinglin, I am not saying St Louis isn't nice. I visited the city a few times over the years and I found it to be quite nice. But it is not as nice as Chicago. For example, I am a foodie. I have sampled 4 or 5 of St Louis' top restaurants, including Tony's and notone of them cam close to being as good as any of the top 10 restaurants in Chicago.</p>
<p>New York, but you have to be born here to really get it. Everyone else is like 'yeah, NYC is good but not to live in". Which I don't agree with. </p>
<p>I was with my friends a few days ago at Columbus Circle and I was like "I wish I didn't live here so I could look at this with outside eyes and be amazed"</p>
<p>Flimxoxo, I think the residents of any city can tell you the same thing. Paris and London always manage to amaze me...but to their natives, those two cities are ordinary.</p>
<p>A downside about living in NYC... I was just skiming the real estate pages of the New York Times revealed to me that for $600,000 I could get a four bedrom three bath house in Arizona. I nearly choked. In New York City I would be lucky to get a studio in a decent neighborhood for that. It's true. I guess that's what you get for living in a city that has an average apt cost of $1 million. So, if I could change one thing, I would make bigger apartments for less money.</p>
<p>Does anyone have anything bad to say about Austin? I've never been but it seems like an awesome place to live from what I hear, especially the music scene. </p>
<p>Also, those of you living in NYC are definitely paying crazy amounts for housing, not that you have a choice. If you think even $600,000 is cheap for a four bedroom, three bath house you'd be amazed that in most of the country it's much less than that. $300,000 is probably more accurate for most of the U.S.</p>
<p>Wichita, Kansas.
hands down, from a completely objective point of view.</p>
<p>3 things</p>
<p>1) World's largest ball of twine
2) Toto
3) we're the self proclaimed air capital of the world</p>
<p>how about them apples?</p>
<p>GuaTe: Austin in a really cool city. I lived there for a few years and loved it. Although out of all the places I've lived I think that Arizona provides the best quality of life - which is guess is different from being a cool city. You can live in luxury with much less. I lived in Greenwich, CT for a while...it is supposed to be one of the wealthiest most upscale places in the US. We lived in a really nice house but we then moved to Az where we live in a house 5x the size for half the price...I really don't know many places where you can live in a 10,000 sq ft home for less than 2 million.</p>
<p>Even people from Kansas know that Wichita sucks.</p>
<p>Austin is amazing. AMAZINGGG.</p>
<p>As far as that CNN list goes, I don't trust it. If they think Overland Park, KS is the 30th nicest place to live, they're stupid. And Lee's Summit, MO made the list? Ew. Those aren't even the nicest places to live in Kansas City.</p>
<p>Geez... I thought this thread died like a year ago... </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>New York Is A Great Place But I Wouldnt Want To Live There. I Dont Like A State That Is Basically Defined By One City. The Best City Is San Francisco. It Is The Most Expensive City In America To Live In With A Median Home Price Over 600,000. That Means The Average Joe Lives In A 600,000 Dollar House. And If You Want To See How Small Of A Home You Get For That Price In San Francisco Just Go To Remax.com. The Reason Its So Expensive Is Because Its So Popular. Why-cause Were The Best!</p>
<p>Croberts, a good friend of mine lives in San Fran. It is CRAZY expensive. He is now looking into buying a small apartment (2 bedrooms, 1,100 square feet). Those apartments go for $750,000-$800,000...even those South of Market street!!! I do agree that San Fran is awesome though. I prefer Chicago, but San Francisco is my second favorite big US city.</p>
<p>My city is on that list!</p>
<p>As far as big cities, I would say Boston. I just love Boston.</p>
<p>Everyone is obviously going to say their home city though. Is anyone elses city on the list?</p>
<p>I've lived in #12 (greenwich, ct) and currently live in #35 (scottsdale, az) when not at school.</p>
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<p>I love Newport! It's probably the best non-metropolis city I've been to. What an amazing city. Medium-sized east coast cities are almost all great.</p>
<p>"SanFrancisco... Is The Most Expensive City In America To Live In With A Median Home Price Over 600,000"
Actually CRoberts, the median home price of Manhattan is $1 million, meaning the average Joe lives in a home over 1 million dollars! Eeek! :S</p>
<p>Hah! No way my hometowns on that list... one of the criteria is has a lot of golf courses - can't say the last time I saw golf in Manhattan, not even mini golf... :)</p>
<p>film is that just homes or is it condos too? I don't see how there could be many homes in manhattan lol so it must include condos.</p>
<p>It just includes apartments of all kinds (co ops, condos) and town houses. But its mostly apartments bc there aren't thaaaat many townhouses.</p>
<p>Never mind, the study was on 2 bedroom apartments in Manhattan. So the median of those is 1 million. But Manhattan is just a borough and not a city...</p>