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user-inactivated  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is your city on this list? Should it be? ---Top 100 Best Places to Live | Livability

I'm sure it is. Let's see.

EDIT: this list is bad. Any list that spits out Denton but ignores Austin is automatically bad.

EDIT^2: there's a link at the bottom of that website titled 'top 10 lists'.





tairar  ·  4054 days ago  ·  link  ·  

While I definitely wouldn't argue for Denton or Plano to be included over Austin, maybe its godawful infrastructure gave it a hard enough hit to knock it out of the list?

user-inactivated  ·  4054 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Denton's infrastructure is worse, albeit on a smaller scale. I guess that could be it, though. I didn't really take a look at the criteria beyond surface level.

user-inactivated  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·  

They skipped Austin but somehow managed to include Plano, of all places... I could see Denton on the list, but Plano? Seriously?!

user-inactivated  ·  4055 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Wasn't Plano the suicide capital before it was the heroin capitol?

Ah, yes.

user-inactivated  ·  4054 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Teen suicide capital, to be precise.

Maybe Plano is great if you're the kind of parent that drives kids to suicide

thenewgreen  ·  4054 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just laughed out loud after reading this. Thanks for that.