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re: U.S. News: Top 250 Best Places to Live in the U.S. in 2025-2026
Posted on 5/27/25 at 6:58 am to StringedInstruments
Posted on 5/27/25 at 6:58 am to StringedInstruments
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Any list is shite that doesn’t include Mountain Brook as the premiere location for the state of Alabama. Makes me wonder what they were really considering in their analysis.
Mountain Brook, Homewood, Vestavia > Hoover.
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Posted on 5/27/25 at 6:59 am to travelgamer
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Nashville Murfreesboro,Smyrna, and Franklin, TN the traffic will make you hate your life
preach on !!!
Posted on 5/27/25 at 7:03 am to Govt Tide
Rogers and Springdale before Fayetteville, whatever.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 7:48 am to CharlesLSU
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League city and Pearland
If you like mega-developments full of chain stores, cookie-cutter homes, and way too much traffic, they're a dream come true!
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:27 am to Govt Tide
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44) The Woodland, TX
What the heck is this?
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#71 Minot, ND
Move here if you hate yourself and enjoy subzero weather
This post was edited on 5/27/25 at 8:30 am
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:30 am to GentleJackJones
Nah…
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:34 am to Govt Tide
Don't see Germantown or Collierville, TN. And that's just fine with me.
Decatur , AL ?!!? You can go find the largest property owner in Morgan County, AL right now and he'll quickly tell you Decatur is a fricking dump. That city produces nothing of substance other than the occasional Crimson Tide football player.
Decatur , AL ?!!? You can go find the largest property owner in Morgan County, AL right now and he'll quickly tell you Decatur is a fricking dump. That city produces nothing of substance other than the occasional Crimson Tide football player.
This post was edited on 5/27/25 at 8:40 am
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:34 am to SmelvinRat
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It’s Johns Creek
Traffic is horrible on Peachtree Pkwy. Good golf courses though. No. 1?
Screw the golf courses. There's Blue Ribbon fly fishing on the 'Hooch right through there! (And its up river from where the urban tubers from "The 404" put in at Abbotts Bridge and ruin every single day of the summer between Abbotts and Medlock.)
But I still don't see it as deserving of a #1 ranking.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 8:35 am to StringedInstruments
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Any list is shite that doesn’t include Mountain Brook as the premiere location for the state of Alabama. Makes me wonder what they were really considering in their analysis.
Other than the Village there is very little retail/entertainment in Mtn Brook. You don’t have to leave Hoover for anything.
And the median home price is half of what it is in Mtn Brook.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:00 am to Govt Tide
Metairie but no Bay St Louis/Biloxi/Ocean Springs
List is awful
List is awful
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:34 am to SloaneRanger
S list is BS. Dothan, AL? LOL. Can't believe anyone takes this publication's lists seriously.[/quote]
There are indeed a lot of head scratchers on the list as far as being ahead of cities/suburbs that are universally considered much nicer.
Meh...I don't see a big issue with Dothan at #190 on the list. There's nothing particularly special about it either but it's a decent city of about 75,000 conveniently located only an hour and a half drive from Destin,, 30-A, and PCB. Again, nothing super special about the city but at #190 on the list it isn't being ranked as if it is super special.
The bigger headscratchers to me are how so many Texas border towns/cities rank so highly or how a city like Enid, OK that has actually lost a bit of population and probably wouldn't make any top 10 list among Oklahoma residents are ranked so highly.
There are indeed a lot of head scratchers on the list as far as being ahead of cities/suburbs that are universally considered much nicer.
Meh...I don't see a big issue with Dothan at #190 on the list. There's nothing particularly special about it either but it's a decent city of about 75,000 conveniently located only an hour and a half drive from Destin,, 30-A, and PCB. Again, nothing super special about the city but at #190 on the list it isn't being ranked as if it is super special.
The bigger headscratchers to me are how so many Texas border towns/cities rank so highly or how a city like Enid, OK that has actually lost a bit of population and probably wouldn't make any top 10 list among Oklahoma residents are ranked so highly.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:47 am to Govt Tide
The exclusion of some of the nicer cities/suburbs in certain states that meet the 25,000+ population threshhold but didn't make the list but should have judging from some of the cities that did make the list is notable as well.
Not an all inclusive list but some examples of good to great cities/suburbs (listed by SEC state) that meet the 25,000+ population threshold and you would think would be just as if not more worthy to be included than a few of the cities that were listed are as follows:
Alabama:
Fairhope, AL
Vestavia Hills, AL
Madison, AL
Auburn, AL
Athens, AL
Prattville, AL
Arkansas:
Sherwood, AR
Benton, AR
Hot Springs, AR
Georgia:
Savannah, GA
Sandy Springs, GA
Duluth, GA
Peachtree City, GA
Gainesville, GA
Kentucky:
Bowling Green, KY
Louisiana:
Prairieville, LA
Lafayette, LA
Mississippi:
Madison, MS
Oxford, MS
Southaven, MS
Olive Branch, MS
Oklahoma:
Bixby, OK
Jenks, OK
South Carolina:
Charleston, SC
Hilton Head, SC
Myrtle Beach, SC
Rock Island, SC
Columbia, SC
Tennessee:
Brentwood, TN
Germantown, TN
Not an all inclusive list but some examples of good to great cities/suburbs (listed by SEC state) that meet the 25,000+ population threshold and you would think would be just as if not more worthy to be included than a few of the cities that were listed are as follows:
Alabama:
Fairhope, AL
Vestavia Hills, AL
Madison, AL
Auburn, AL
Athens, AL
Prattville, AL
Arkansas:
Sherwood, AR
Benton, AR
Hot Springs, AR
Georgia:
Savannah, GA
Sandy Springs, GA
Duluth, GA
Peachtree City, GA
Gainesville, GA
Kentucky:
Bowling Green, KY
Louisiana:
Prairieville, LA
Lafayette, LA
Mississippi:
Madison, MS
Oxford, MS
Southaven, MS
Olive Branch, MS
Oklahoma:
Bixby, OK
Jenks, OK
South Carolina:
Charleston, SC
Hilton Head, SC
Myrtle Beach, SC
Rock Island, SC
Columbia, SC
Tennessee:
Brentwood, TN
Germantown, TN
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:49 am to Govt Tide
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15) Pflugerville, TX
No chance
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:50 am to WaydownSouth
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List is awful
There are always 1000s of places not on these type lists that 95% of people choose daily over the ones that are at the top.
When I was teenager, we always joked about 5 straight non-descript and struggling small Alabama towns on the drive to my grandma's with billboards bragging that they were ranked in the
"Best 100 Small Towns in America."
This post was edited on 5/27/25 at 10:05 am
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:53 am to yaboidarrell
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Mandeville should be the only Louisiana city on the list.
I have family that lives in Mandeville and it would certainly make the list if not for it not meeting the minimum population threshold (which apparently is 25,000+). Mandeville's population is roughly 15,000.
Mandeville, LA didn't make the list for the same reason that Mountain Brook, AL (population 21,000) didn't make the list.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:54 am to StringedInstruments
They left off Loxley, Al. 5 miles to Buccees, Piggly Wiggly, and Steelwood..#1 golf in Al.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:54 am to Govt Tide
U.S. News ranks Utah as the best state in the US and Utah only has 1 city in the top 100 at #69? Doesn't make any sense.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 9:57 am to Govt Tide
The fact that midland is 65 and places like San Antonio, Nashville, Austin, Naples, Pensacola, Jupiter, FL, St. Pete, FL, Arlington, etc etc are all below it means this list is complete shite lol.
Posted on 5/27/25 at 10:01 am to Govt Tide
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1) Johns Creek, Georgia
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24) Alpharetta, GA
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52) Roswell, GA
They are like right next to each other. I wonder why such a big difference?
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