Best place for you to live in the USA - NYTimes interactive quiz

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I looked up my home town (as in from where i grew up) as a reference. Interesting that the details they use:

- define a normal UMC PA suburb without many apartments as “6/10 low density” and only medium for trees. I picked trees on my filter since I could not live on the plains or dry places that do not have them but did not mean I needed to live in a forest.

It also uses Niche for school rankings.

Climate risk ranking was really odd. No idea how it is calculated. The town I picked is in central PA so not a hot spot for any sort of crazy weather yet it got a 0/10 for climate risk as in SUPER high risk.

If it is near Susquehanna maybe flooding

Yes it is a town back from the Susquehanna. Maybe that’s it. Wow that would suck

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Yes flooding. Where have you been? How many 500 year rain events do you need to have in a year or two to realize that they are no longer 500 year rain events?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes flooding. Where have you been? How many 500 year rain events do you need to have in a year or two to realize that they are no longer 500 year rain events?

The town I am talking about is literally an entire town away from the river - 1.5 miles away at the very closest end of town.

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I said I wanted density with trees and left all other options blank. It said Boston. Not a bad suggestion, actually, especially since historic architecture is a top priority for me that it didn't ask about. But Boston is a bit chilly for me (literally and metaphorically.) I wonder if it ever suggests Philly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster above re: the quirks of the quiz - our area is apparently “the south”
My NOVA town appeared when I picked south but not when I picked northeast.

Yes, Virginia, you are in the south.

[Anonymous]

1) to get around the paywall, don't follow the link in the OP; go to google and search the title.

2) Glad I did that because the filters are so incomplete! DH and I are looking to get out of California due to the crazy taxes and COL. I left the politics filters blank, and selected outdoors stuff like mountains, etc, and everything that came up was in California. This made me reexamine the filters and I do think there is a lot missing.

But, it was fun, OP, so thank you. I also learned how to read a NYT article without paying for it (don't worry folks, I won't be abusing that privilege as it's not my go-to paper)

[Anonymous]

I got Honolulu and San Jose

[Anonymous]

North Potomac, North Kensington, and a bunch of towns in upstate NY.

I live in Bethesda, which was not on the list!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:NYT is telling me Maine, a thousand times Maine. Upstate NY if Maine doesn’t work out.

Exactly what I got too!

It sounds like right now the modal choice of dcum users is upper New England.

What does this tell about dcum?

That it’s all white lesbians posting here?

It does explain all the "I drive the raggediest POS car I can and clip coupons and wear tattered clothes while my bank account balance is $40000000000000 and anyone who dares buy a care newer than 1987 is tacky and trashy and I would never color my gray hair or wear makeup or care about my appearance!"

[Anonymous]

I found it odd that mountains and trees were inputs but not proximity to water. That’s one of the most important things for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I found it odd that mountains and trees were inputs but not proximity to water. That’s one of the most important things for me.

Huge +1

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I kept getting California cities but I don’t want to live in California. I like living in DC but even filtering for the northeast I couldn’t get it. I wonder why. My biggest focus is jobs, big cities, gay bars, restaurants, not too cold.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got Honolulu and San Jose

So your main inputs were "unbelievably expensive" and "traffic nightmare"?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Poster above re: the quirks of the quiz - our area is apparently “the south”
My NOVA town appeared when I picked south but not when I picked northeast.

That’s because VA is in the south, not the northeast. Why do you find that response quirky, as opposed to accurate?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I got Honolulu and San Jose

So your main inputs were "unbelievably expensive" and "traffic nightmare"?

NP...top PP, what filters got you Honolulu? (what state do you live in?)