A Desirable Area?

My dear, long time friend, The Tutor (aka, Mrs. Frodo) and her family have been enduring the long arduous educational process while her husband Frodo has been obtaining his Masters and applying for PhD programs around the country. In their searching and decision making about which schools to apply to they have been looking at cost of living in various areas.

While researching, The Tutor ran across this site that is excellent comparing different locations. While perusing the site I discovered a quiz. Never one to ignore the possibility of being analyzed by a computer, I took the "Best Locations To Live" quiz. It gave me a list of 290 locations (tailored just to me of course), so one has to be a hit right? Well maybe down in the 200s, but my "Top 10" based on the answers I provided in said quiz were San Francisco, Boston, Seattle, Denver, San Jose (do you know the way to San Jose, la la la la la la... I can't resist the urge to hum that song whenever I hear that city mentioned), San Diego, Long Island, NY, Long Beach, CA, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC (New York City was number 11) and they don't even come close.

Now I don't know much about Minneapolis so I cannot say that is far fetched, but San Francisco and NYC? Not a cold day in... okay, not an appropriate line of thought. Washington, DC is my childhood home, but unless I want to live in a box on the Anacostia, there is no way we could afford to live there again (or maybe a smaller box on the Potomac; better area). Boston? They have no "R"s and I definitely need "R"s in my vocabulary. Seattle is not too bad as I have cousins who live there and my sister in law is in Portland Oregon, but the rainy season just might send me over the edge. Mr. Clean has proclaimed California off limits. Even though the weather is divine, the politics drive us batty. So that leaves Denver, Colorado. I could live there. It's not too far from Focus On The Family in Colorado Springs (#43 on the list), so field trips a plenty!

Further down the list I got some decent matches, but none I would have thought of myself. That's what I get for expecting a computer to pinpoint exactly where in the country I should live!

The town we live in now? Number 178. At least it made the list!