New York Times Interactive: Where Should You Live?

[Manitopiaaa]

New York Times has a really cool quiz to tell you where you should live: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...-usa-quiz.html

Thought I'd share!

For me:

Top Criteria
- Gay Bars
- Low Crime
- Trees

Lower-Ranked Criteria
- Democrat
- Hispanic
- More Space for Your Money

Top Recommendations (Big Cities Only) - My Response
1. Raleigh, North Carolina - No thanks
2. Tampa, Florida - Underrated city, but too hot
3. El Paso, Texas - Great city, but not green enough
4. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - Top 3 for me, so good call
5. Dallas, Texas - I actually like Dallas, so another good call, though I prefer greener
6. Virginia Beach, Virginia - A decent choice, and a good bargain for a beach-side town with industry, but not cosmopolitan enough for me
7. New York, New York - Top 3 for me, so good call
8. Boston, Massachusetts - Great city, but more like Top 10 for me
9. Charlotte, North Carolina - No thanks
10. Los Angeles, California - No thanks

My Top 5 are (alphabetically): Chicago, Cincinnati, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. So this one was 2 for 5.

[Steely Dan]

It told me Schaumburg!

Arrrrrrrgggggggghhhhh!




Up yours, NYTimes.

[Manitopiaaa]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

It told me Schaumburg!

Arrrrrrrgggggggghhhhh!




Up yours, NYTimes.

Wait, isn't Schaumburg one of the really nice Chicago suburbs? I always consider it and Naperville to be Chicago's Lake Wobegon. Sounds like a good result! (unless Schaumburg is NIMBY-heaven or extremely elitist, which I wouldn't know).

Of course, in Chicago, I'd live in Cicero or Oak Park. Love the architecture of those inner-ring suburbs.

[SIGSEGV]

Originally Posted by Manitopiaaa

Wait, isn't Schaumburg one of the really nice Chicago suburbs? I always consider it and Naperville to be Chicago's Lake Wobegon. Sounds like a good result! (unless Schaumburg is NIMBY-heaven or extremely elitist)

Schaumburg is where you find Ikea, a bigass mall, Medieval Times, and a bunch of chain restaurants. It's peak sprawl. The nicer suburbs are railroad suburbs.

Schaumburg: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.0528.../data=!3m1!1e3
Naperville is much better: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.7727.../data=!3m1!1e3

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Manitopiaaa

Wait, isn't Schaumburg one of the really nice Chicago suburbs?

Shirley, you can't be serious?

[Manitopiaaa]

Originally Posted by Steely Dan

Shirley, you can't be serious?

The media led me astray: https://abc7chicago.com/best-places-...inois/2429624/

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Manitopiaaa

The media led me astray: https://abc7chicago.com/best-places-...inois/2429624/

I tease Schaumburg a lot because the commercial district centered around woodfield mall is one of the most horrifically auto-centric places I've ever seen.

The other 75% of Schaumburg is bog-standard '70s/'80s curvy-street/cul-de-sac sprawl-burbia overlaid by a grid of ugly arterial stroads....... so it's a lot like anywhere USA.

I was just having fun because I wanted to take the quiz, but I couldn't access it because I don't have a NYTimes account.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Toasty Joe

Chicago being a 2/10 for trees is laughable when most of the neighborhoods I venture to are very canopied... maybe they're accounting for when the leaves fall off?

Maybe the Times staff only visited Schorsch Forest View when they came to Chicago?

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9654...7i16384!8i8192

[The North One]

Yeah I'm not creating an NYT account for this.

[iheartthed]

This quiz is kind of terrible. All of my top 10 are in California, no surprise, but they're places that I don't really have a desire to live (and at least half this list are places I'd have to be bribed to live in):

1. San Francisco
2. Sunnyvale
3. Mountain View
4. East Palo Alto
5. Santa Ana
6. Santa Clara
7. Daly City
8. San Jose
9. San Mateo
10. Tustin

I place a LOT of weight on public transit options, which wasn't even a criteria lol. The only place I'd really ignore terrible transit as a criteria is coastal SoCal.

[SFBruin]

We would all ignore terrible transit in order to live in La Jolla.