Grade your city ???
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travlerajm
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Poverty - F
Crime - B
Education - D
Manners - A
Food - B+
Cost of Living - A+
Weather - A
Roads - D
Crime - B
Education - D
Manners - A
Food - B+
Cost of Living - A+
Weather - A
Roads - D
Turbo-87
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What is your sample size for this rating?
Enga
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Cebu, which is part of the developing world...
Poverty - D
Crime - C+
Education - C
Manners - B
Food - D
Cost of Living - B
Weather - B
Roads - F
Poverty is a given... I give low grades for food and roads as well, because the roads here werent really planned at all and its quite often a side road will be torn apart and repaved which takes them a very long time to complete. Going a couple miles is a struggle, because all traffic is shoehorned into a few main roads. If youre not careful you can get run over because sidewalks are often congested or even nonexistant, with motorcycle drivers often driving on them trying to bypass traffic.
Food I give a D at least in the restaurant sense, because no matter how good the intention the owners, the food always ends up low quality due to poor preparation. Generally speaking the average Cebuano is ignorant to how food should be prepared, often leaving shards of bone in the food even if its an expensive dish from a Japanese restaurant. Everything else I say is average or slightly above average, nothing exceptional. Overall one of the better places to live in the Philippines I'd say.
Poverty - D
Crime - C+
Education - C
Manners - B
Food - D
Cost of Living - B
Weather - B
Roads - F
Poverty is a given... I give low grades for food and roads as well, because the roads here werent really planned at all and its quite often a side road will be torn apart and repaved which takes them a very long time to complete. Going a couple miles is a struggle, because all traffic is shoehorned into a few main roads. If youre not careful you can get run over because sidewalks are often congested or even nonexistant, with motorcycle drivers often driving on them trying to bypass traffic.
Food I give a D at least in the restaurant sense, because no matter how good the intention the owners, the food always ends up low quality due to poor preparation. Generally speaking the average Cebuano is ignorant to how food should be prepared, often leaving shards of bone in the food even if its an expensive dish from a Japanese restaurant. Everything else I say is average or slightly above average, nothing exceptional. Overall one of the better places to live in the Philippines I'd say.
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chrischris
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B
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travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
Isn’t more fun to guess? I figure no one would guess I was talking about Seattle based on my grades.
travlerajm
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I don’t mind hot, but I can’t stand hot with no shade.
MichaelNadal
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Epicness: A-
Sudacafan
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Why did you let Kawhi Leonard leave?
Zara
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Dunno. But we are happy regardless. Go Raptors!
SystemicAnomaly
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Raul_SJ
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Where is this? And who needs a chocolate shop?
Tshooter
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Everyone. And if your city doesn’t have a good one it’s a bad sign.
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Tshooter
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Number of Billionaires: A+
www.cnbc.com
Number of public bathrooms: F
There are more billionaires in NYC alone than there are in all of the UK or France
New York City is home to more than 100 billionaires, a new report from Wealth-X finds. That's more than most countries have in total.
Number of public bathrooms: F
travlerajm
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My city is in a ‘developing’ country. Interestingly, the fastest growing profession in my city is Uber driver, because Uber arrived only a few months ago, and Uber pays more than double the median wage here. This is disrupting the economy almost overnight.
Uber requires drivers here to own a car. The government sees the opportunity, and has changed the laws to allow people to buy cars with no-money-down, encouraging car ownership to capitalize on the Uber wave.
I have never seen anything like this. A third-world country is being dragged out of decades of poverty. It is giving stay-at-home single moms hope for the first time.
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joe sch
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And Pot Shops?
Tshooter
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Sounds like the makings of your own little sub-prime mortgage meltdown just like the Big Boys. Good for you.
Raul_SJ
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imageFAM
Rookie
the unpredictability of 4 seasons in 1 day.
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
Im just visiting here until I return to my home city:
Here are my grades for Seattle:
Wealth: A
Homelessness: F
Parks: B
Food: B
Hipness: A-
Traffic: C
City Government: D
Weather: B (underrated due to mild winters and perfect summers)
Outdoor Activities: A-
travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
Vancouver is my favorite city in North America. I try to make it up there a couple weekends per year. But like Seattle, Vancouver has serious homelessness population.
Crocodile
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I thought it might have been Melbourne but not sure with the sunshine and trams.
C
Chadalina
Guest
A in my area, c for city (balances with downtown and the hoods)
All the schools in my zip code are A rated (elementary, middle and high)
Probably pretty good, i dont goto doctor much aside from dentist and eye doctor (both id give A, but used to teach their kids)
Food is A, i dont eat fancy
Cost of living is going way up here, i own the house and car so dont know
Weather is b+, gets hot but doesnt freeze.
They are redoing our highway, typical gov job that takes 10yrs for basically 2 lanes. I dont drive alot, so id give a B. Roads here get fixed if you call them
I thought Canberra
Bartelby
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Bartelby
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If you drive an hour and a quarter north or south you will find this, but this is nowhere near Brisbane.
Toronto is one of the most impossibly affordable cities in the world including San Diego, Melbourne and Sydney
www.blogto.com
Toronto named one of the top 10 'impossibly unaffordable' cities in the world
Struggling to pay for all aspects of life in Toronto has become the norm for residents, but at least our experience is consistently validated by rank…
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travlerajm
Talk Tennis Guru
Why don’t they just leave and get warm?Toronto is one of the most impossibly affordable cities in the world including San Diego, Melbourne and Sydney
Toronto named one of the top 10 'impossibly unaffordable' cities in the world
Struggling to pay for all aspects of life in Toronto has become the norm for residents, but at least our experience is consistently validated by rank…
Bill Lobsalot
Hall of Fame
Raleigh, NC
B+ in every category. A great place to live.
Plus over 100 public tennis courts in our County.
B+ in every category. A great place to live.
Plus over 100 public tennis courts in our County.
onehandbh
G.O.A.T.
Education - C
Air quality - B-
Music - C-
Arts & Culture - B
Food - B+
Cost of living - B
Access to surfing - A-
Tennis community - B+
Access to UPS stores - F
Good durians - C
Fresh Coconuts - A
Access to guns - F if you want everyone to have a gun, A if you prefer less or no guns
Availabilty of mens shoe size 46 - D-
Herbs available at 4:20pm - F
Fresh fruits & vegetables - A
Yoga & gyms - A-
Air quality - B-
Music - C-
Arts & Culture - B
Food - B+
Cost of living - B
Access to surfing - A-
Tennis community - B+
Access to UPS stores - F
Good durians - C
Fresh Coconuts - A
Access to guns - F if you want everyone to have a gun, A if you prefer less or no guns
Availabilty of mens shoe size 46 - D-
Herbs available at 4:20pm - F
Fresh fruits & vegetables - A
Yoga & gyms - A-
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movdqa
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We have a place in Newton, MA where the life expectancy is 94.2 years. It has excellent schools, an excellent hospital in the city itself but also access to world-class hospitals in Boston, and excellent senior social services. There are lots of public tennis courts too. I can't think of a place in the city to get durians but there are a couple of Hmarts about 20 minutes away which carry them. There are areas with a lot of Asian residents and grocery stores in those areas may also carry them. Median household income in 2022 was $176k. There are a lot of other towns like Newton that are just outside Boston.
socallefty
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I try to take a positive attitude about wherever I live. If I say it is a ****hole, it will feel like a ****hole. If I think of it as paradise, there is more chance that it will be a place where I can be happy most of the time. Just objectively grading where I live doesn‘t make it easier for me to be happy.
Crocodile
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I think this is an interesting topic and good to see it back on page 1, of the odds and ends forum.
I think rating your own city can be related how you feel about your life at a particular point in time but can also relate to experiences you have had living in other places. Also you will get different opinions from people who have visited or recently moved into your city from overseas or interstate.
As of June 2024 Australia is going through some inflationary times and the price of real estate in the capital cities has soared to unattainable levels. From an internal migration perspective there has been a flow of people from Victoria and Sydney to the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast. People who have left Sydney have done so because the cost of living is too high whereas those who have left Melbourne have done so due to economic and political reasons.
Those who have always lived in Brisbane, GC and SC are starting to feel the affects of the influx of the southerners and are looking to more regional areas.
Meanwhile the city that to some extent has flown under the radar is Adelaide, which is a beautiful place but always underrated by the other states. Adelaide has a median property price less than half of Sydney. Meanwhile Perth after being in decline for over a decade has had a bit of a run in the last 3 years but due to its perceived one industry economic driver has a bit of an uncertain feel to it plus it’s a long way for the east coasters to move there. Canberra also had run in the last 4 years becoming the second most expensive city in Australia but as of June 2024 has slipped back to 3rd with Brisbane for the first time in history hitting 2nd and Melbourne is now 4th. Canberra is the only capital inland city in Australia, is close to the snowy mountains, so it gets very cold ( for Australian expectations ) and has always had a sterile feel to it with its man made lake, non period architecture and government feel to it, but I think it has its pluses.
Hobart is a city that sits still for decades and then goes on a rapid run in property prices and this happened from 2013 to 2020, which was unusually long and is now on the slide. The population in Hobart is only around 220k so a 5k influx of people from the mainland will spike property prices. Darwin, you don’t hear much about the place but it has a young population, is very humid and is prone to tropical cyclones.
I think the ideal city or region to live is a place where property values are reasonable, incomes are relatively high in proportion to property prices , an equitable climate and low-ish population density with some beauty in environment such as water or mountains.
I think rating your own city can be related how you feel about your life at a particular point in time but can also relate to experiences you have had living in other places. Also you will get different opinions from people who have visited or recently moved into your city from overseas or interstate.
As of June 2024 Australia is going through some inflationary times and the price of real estate in the capital cities has soared to unattainable levels. From an internal migration perspective there has been a flow of people from Victoria and Sydney to the Gold Coast, Brisbane and Sunshine Coast. People who have left Sydney have done so because the cost of living is too high whereas those who have left Melbourne have done so due to economic and political reasons.
Those who have always lived in Brisbane, GC and SC are starting to feel the affects of the influx of the southerners and are looking to more regional areas.
Meanwhile the city that to some extent has flown under the radar is Adelaide, which is a beautiful place but always underrated by the other states. Adelaide has a median property price less than half of Sydney. Meanwhile Perth after being in decline for over a decade has had a bit of a run in the last 3 years but due to its perceived one industry economic driver has a bit of an uncertain feel to it plus it’s a long way for the east coasters to move there. Canberra also had run in the last 4 years becoming the second most expensive city in Australia but as of June 2024 has slipped back to 3rd with Brisbane for the first time in history hitting 2nd and Melbourne is now 4th. Canberra is the only capital inland city in Australia, is close to the snowy mountains, so it gets very cold ( for Australian expectations ) and has always had a sterile feel to it with its man made lake, non period architecture and government feel to it, but I think it has its pluses.
Hobart is a city that sits still for decades and then goes on a rapid run in property prices and this happened from 2013 to 2020, which was unusually long and is now on the slide. The population in Hobart is only around 220k so a 5k influx of people from the mainland will spike property prices. Darwin, you don’t hear much about the place but it has a young population, is very humid and is prone to tropical cyclones.
I think the ideal city or region to live is a place where property values are reasonable, incomes are relatively high in proportion to property prices , an equitable climate and low-ish population density with some beauty in environment such as water or mountains.
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