<p>That city seems to be on every top 10 list, from the most educated population, to the best place for children, to the best place to retire to the best place to go to college to the best place for young professionals. </p>
<p>The-10-Brainiest-Places-to-Retire:</a> Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance</p>
<p>God I love Ann Arbor!</p>
<p>I just saw that on Yahoo :)</p>
<p>hahaha..ya i just saw that too.... im glad im going there! :D</p>
<p>If West Lafayette, IN is on the list (among others), then so should East Lansing, MI.</p>
<p>A2 is a great place to go to school, but I wouldn't wanna spend the rest of my life here.</p>
<p>I'm surprised Cambridge, MA isn't on there. They've got Harvard, MIT, and a bunch of other colleges.</p>
<p>"the quintessential college town of Ann Arbor, Mich."
<em>beams</em></p>
<p>I love this city. In the past year, I got to experience seeing Yo-Yo Ma, the Dalai Lama, some amazing writers speak at local bookstores that are filled with history themselves, Bob Woodruff at graduation, along with, of course, freezing in the rain/snow for four hours watching that 2-touchdown "greatest rivalry" game on my birthday. I love getting the list of programs put on by the University at the beginning of the year and reading about word-famous musicians who chose to only put on a special performance in the US, usually something along the lines of Boston, DC, Ann Arbor, and LA. I know college is supposed to be filled with freedom and parties, but what excites me about going back to Ann Arbor the most is that there's so much to experience like that...along with just taking walks around the city, experiencing its amazing culture and history and sitting in coffee shops and watching the diversity of cool people that fill its streets =].</p>
<p><em>ends gushing</em></p>
<p>Any of the places on that list sound awesome...<em>plans retirement</em> (just kidding, though those who know me probably wouldn't be all that surprised if I did so)</p>
<p>"Brookline residents commute the short distance to work in Boston's medical centers and universities."</p>
<p>Cambridge proximity? I've definitely heard that place mentioned by people I know at Harvard, MIT, and Boston U.</p>
<p>Alexandre, I think you missed some of the most important rankings. Last year, the Review did an article on Ann Arbor being named the "Sexiest City" by Amazon.com: Ann</a> Arbor Named Amazon's Sexiest City in U.S. - Arts & Culture
The reason? "Ann Arbor is the sexiest because fully 24 percent of their residents' romantic purchases are books about sex.": Live</a> in One of the Sexiest Cities in America - AOL Real Estate
A little creepy, isn't it? But I guess that reasoning for the high ranking makes a little more sense than...you know, Ann Arbor actually being sexy.
As you can see from those links, Ann Arbor is "only" the 5th most romantic city in America, based on the number of romance sells from Amazon.com...(I know Ann Arbor probably buys more books than most cities, but seriously, what kind of trash are we reading?!)
Lastly, we're the 3rd most walkable city, which is perfectly legitimate =]: Best</a> Walking Cities Finder</p>
<p>(As for retirement plans update, Chapel Hill sounds awesome for me as an intellectual college town that also has sweet tea, lemonade, and people who smile once in a while. However, it lacks snow. =O This is all making me want to be all academic so I can live on a college campus for the rest of my life...but then again, no. Here's the plan (for now): Marry an academic, live in/near a college town, and travel the world, always being able to call that college town "home.")</p>
<p>I'm not into most of the cultural stuff, but Ann Arbor is a pretty nice town to live in. You have the school and all of its athletics, Detroit and its teams aren't too far away. Every major chain store (Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, etc.) is in town, so there is no reason to drive very far to pick up something you want. And if you travel just a couple miles west, AA quickly turns to country. My only cons are that the city is more expensive than surrounding areas, and it is full of stupid hippies to boot. Unbelievable that the hippie faction in town can call for a "green belt" and denser development, yet they complain a new apartment tower on South U because "this isn't Chicago." More unbelievable that the landlords can complain rent prices will drop and the planning commission listens to all of it.</p>
<p>I am betting most of the people here don't really ever venture anywhere but campus / Main Street (all the way to Meijer maybe.) Here's a picture of the "Go Blue" barn on Scio Chuch only a couple miles from campus.</p>
<p>Ann Arbor is a great place to live if you're swimming in cash. Woe to you if you want to enjoy all of what Ann Arbor has to offer and you don't have overflowing pockets.</p>
<p>It's not that bad tetrahedron. Yes, it is expensive to a student, but not for professionals earning decent salaries. </p>
<p>As far as I am concerned, all Ann Arbor is missing is a couple of World-class restaurants and a couple of top notch inns.</p>
<p><em>shrug</em> I think my favorite part of Ann Arbor is the snow (but that's personal, very personal, and just me), scenery, and the coffee shops/people-watching, which you can get by with for free if you don't mind feeling a tiny bit bad. Plus, I'd say $10 student tickets to watch world-class performers is a better deal than you'd get at Carnegie Hall.</p>
<p>aha sweet, they have Reston on there, represent!</p>