It's like a YELP for cities
May. 11th, 2008 04:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urbpanI just found an interesting resource for learning what living conditions are like in different cities. http://www.bestplaces.net/ It tells you the basics in cost of living, housing, schools, crime, and so on. But the best thing is the comments, where you can express your opinion of the place.
Here's what I've learned about all the places I want to move: the housing prices have increased a lot in the past five years; it's getting too crowded, especially with illegal immigrants/people from the north, traffic and crime are increasing; too many hispanics; it's expensive to live along the coast; it's boring at night; it's lost its southern charm what with all the yankees moving in.
So I guess I'm learning more about the kind of people who use the site than I am about these cities. Alexis suggested I check what people are saying about Boston, to get some point of reference. Mostly people said that Boston is expensive and the weather sucks, which I go along with; there was some grousing about militant liberalism and bad drivers; but my favorite review is this one:
This place is full of depressed, worn out, and bitter people. It will wear you out and, before you know it, you will be depressed and bitter too. Take a walk around and you will see what I mean. People are untidy and wearing wrinkled clothes, smelly winter coats full of cat hair, long untidy hair and with that charateristic sour face. People have facial hair, nasty moles, crooked teeth, worse so than in one of the slums of London. They also like butter on everything. It is simply unbelievable. It is so expensive that no one has any cash in their pockets which only adds to their misery. Doctors and lawyers live in small old buildings without elevators, central air or parking. It seems like the women don't have money for make-up, manicures, or perfume.
Well, he's right about the buildings that doctors and lawyers live in, and about my untidy and wrinkled clothes. If the women don't wear perfume because they're broke, then good. I don't like perfume.
I checked Brookline, too, and mostly people love it, except that it's insanely expensive, you can't park anywhere, and one person complained that someone scolded them for running their dog off-leash. Alexis makes an impression again!
(if you don't know what I mean by yelp, I mean http://www.yelp.com/, which is handy for restaurant reviews and such.)
Here's what I've learned about all the places I want to move: the housing prices have increased a lot in the past five years; it's getting too crowded, especially with illegal immigrants/people from the north, traffic and crime are increasing; too many hispanics; it's expensive to live along the coast; it's boring at night; it's lost its southern charm what with all the yankees moving in.
So I guess I'm learning more about the kind of people who use the site than I am about these cities. Alexis suggested I check what people are saying about Boston, to get some point of reference. Mostly people said that Boston is expensive and the weather sucks, which I go along with; there was some grousing about militant liberalism and bad drivers; but my favorite review is this one:
This place is full of depressed, worn out, and bitter people. It will wear you out and, before you know it, you will be depressed and bitter too. Take a walk around and you will see what I mean. People are untidy and wearing wrinkled clothes, smelly winter coats full of cat hair, long untidy hair and with that charateristic sour face. People have facial hair, nasty moles, crooked teeth, worse so than in one of the slums of London. They also like butter on everything. It is simply unbelievable. It is so expensive that no one has any cash in their pockets which only adds to their misery. Doctors and lawyers live in small old buildings without elevators, central air or parking. It seems like the women don't have money for make-up, manicures, or perfume.
Well, he's right about the buildings that doctors and lawyers live in, and about my untidy and wrinkled clothes. If the women don't wear perfume because they're broke, then good. I don't like perfume.
I checked Brookline, too, and mostly people love it, except that it's insanely expensive, you can't park anywhere, and one person complained that someone scolded them for running their dog off-leash. Alexis makes an impression again!
(if you don't know what I mean by yelp, I mean http://www.yelp.com/, which is handy for restaurant reviews and such.)
