Secrets of the City

Houston #1? WTF?

Honestly, between this list and Forbes’ ridiculous college rankings a couple of weeks ago, I am certain that magazine has lost its damn mind.

Houston #1? WTF?

To be fair, they’re measuring who’s in the best financial shape, not where you’d actually WANT to live.

Then you’re not really earning a living as much as you are earning money.

Seriously Houston is a circle of hell, but with a housing market that never got hot enough to crash and a strong broad based economy, it makes perfect sense. But I’d rather enjoy a little economic uncertainty and live somewhere nice, where there aren’t dry counties and FM ring roads, and humid hellish weather.

I’d rather enjoy a little economic uncertainty and not have executions every other weekend.

Miller, they’ll only execute you if you’re misbehavin’.

Whose definition of misbehavior gets you executed? We need yardsticks.

Whose definition of misbehavior gets you executed?

Binky’s. They’ve got him on speed dial.

Whose definition of misbehavior gets you executed? We need yardsticks.

Well sodomy is still against the law there, so people will have to watch out for that one.

Oh strike that last comment, apparently the Supreme Court struck ‘em down. Sodomize away.

I’ll admit, these are bad people. But 26 executions in one year? Combined with the heat and humidity, the stench of death must be heavy.

(note: these are the executions for all of TX, but I believe Houston is still the “death penalty capital of the U.S.A.”)

Yardsticks and sodomy. Is this another State Fair thread?

PS: I went to the Fair again today as default activity for my day off work. My tee time at Bunker Hills got rained out. Ran into Sven and shook his hand. Lunch: the gyros stand near the Corn Roast.

But… but… but… our taxes were too onerous even by Minnesotan standards, and our regulation too stifling!

I don’t want to say Houston and Minneapolis are polar opposites, but you’re damn close. In one city, there’s no zoning, in the other you need neighborhood support just for a license to serve bloody marys.

We should strive to be more like texans and less like new yorkers

That’s where I theorized four years ago where the cultural influences would shift in the U.S. Less California and New York. More Florida and Texas.

I scared myself when I said that.

They say everything’s a little bigger in texas and we’re the biggest state in the midwest so why not.

So, why not.

Berfus want more like Texas. Berfus cowboy away. AWAY!

But seriously, if you willingly move from here to Houston, you’re dumb.

this is why sometimes I almost feel like Kevin is one of us. Seems just about every other conservabot has been chased off here, but somehow Kevin just plugs along in his aw-shucks-Iowan way.

Please to not confuse that feeling with legal sodomy.

I’m fine becoming more like Austin, TX politically and Lockhart, TX for Que. But the rest of it, no thanks.

The only way I’d ever consent to becoming more like Texas is if we can have more kick-ass state songs like “The Eyes of Texas Are Upon You.” Did you know Elvis sang that on the Flaming Star soundtrack? Whoooa.

I’m fine becoming more like Austin, TX politically and Lockhart, TX for Que. But the rest of it, no thanks.

If I were to move anywhere, it would be Austin, although I’ve heard San Antonio was pretty cool, too (well, according to the Food Network).

my brother-in-law moved from Lyn-Lake to San Antonio 3 years ago, and he can assure you that it’s not really cool at all. unless you like cheap housing near military bases.

Also: Bob Dylan > Willie Nelson

I know people love the Riverwalk in San Antonio but to me it looked like a fake river going through a shopping mall. A really nice mall, but still a mall.

This article is helping me convince my boyfriend to move back to Minneapolis with me. Does anyone else know what lists Minneapolis are on?

Minneapolis #1 on my personal list of Best Places To Wear Ties In Public, Write For Art Blogs, Meet Beautiful Scandinavian Girls That Would Be Out Of Your League Anywhere Else, Eat Delicious Steak Dinners In Supper Clubs, Drink Delicious Regionally-Brewed Lagers, Go To House Parties Thrown By Free-Wheeling Leftists That Blast The Replacements, See A Busted-Out Flour Mill, Swim In A Secret Hippie Beach, Learn To Play Ice Hockey and Live In A Great Old Apartment That A Danish Marxist Truck-Driver And/or Prince’s Cousin Probably Once Lived In.

You may think I’m being flip, but I’m not. Well, a little flip, but I really love living here.

Max needs to create a “list” category or some such. It seems it occurs regularly that some list puts us in the upper echelons. So, when someone asks, we could point to the category…

For what its worth, we are walkable and bikeable…

But have we made Rex’s list of lists?

A bit of a touchy subject, lesannc, as the Twin Cities came in 2nd on some list of most cyclists. A lot of people are mad at Portland about this.

lol @ jane

if Andy’s, “Meet Beautiful Scandinavian Girls That Would Be Out Of Your League Anywhere Else” doesn’t convince her boyfriend to come along, I’m not sure if anythng will.

Great Wayne-bait, Jane. Where is that guy lately? Life is barely worth living without him around, and I’m barely kidding.

He posted a thingy on recycling today, so he is around.

I think wayne is not very nice.

This article is helping me convince my boyfriend to move back to Minneapolis with me. Does anyone else know what lists Minneapolis are on?

We also topped the Forbes Most Affordable Places to Live Well list.