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- wmrivera, on 03/23/2008, -2/+52So, what you are saying is, I need to move to Nebraska?
- diggon, on 03/23/2008, -2/+46Interesting article. There are a lot of towns from Nebraska, Ohio, New York, and Michigan. Not a fan of the site design though. Clicking 52 times to see the name of every town is annoying.
- ForTh3W1n, on 03/23/2008, -1/+29*click**click**click**click**click**click*.....
- justinmt7, on 03/23/2008, -0/+20I was thinking this article should be renamed "50 worst places for single adults to live in the U.S."
- bunit03057, on 03/23/2008, -8/+28This could be retitled: Places many people do not want to live
Specifically: Texas, Georgia, Nebraska, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Kentucky. - Kyan, on 03/23/2008, -1/+20Dullest Places to Raise Your Kids, 2007
The 50 small towns and suburbs in the U.S. Now on the Al Qaida hit list.
*with notes
By Digger the Villan No. 50 Patterson, Ga. Nearest city: Savannah (92 miles) Population: 627 Median household income: $26,591 *Savannah is not near enough.
No. 49 Galesburg, Mich. Nearest city: Grand Rapids (67 miles) Population: 1,988 Median household income: $34,663
*Yeah, we've heard all the windy jokes. Move along already.
No. 48 Chagrin Falls, Ohio Nearest city: Cleveland (24 miles) Population: 4,024 Median household income: $62,917
*We are actually embarrassed to live here. It’s written on the city signs as you enter the town.
No. 47 South Cleveland, Tenn. Nearest city: Chattanooga (30 miles) Population: 6,216 Median household income: $35,995
*Founded by outcast Ohioans, drunk on moonshine. “Bubba, we been awanderin’ all night now. Where are we?” Bubba - “Gosh, Billybob, I think we’re somewhere south of Cleveland”.
No. 46 St. Johnsville, N.Y. Nearest city: Rochester (167 miles) Population: 1,685 Median household income: $28,043
*Unfortunately, the water here is not very clean. Hence worshipping the porcelain god.
No. 45 Mariemont, Ohio Nearest city: Cincinnati (7 miles) Population: 3,408 Median household income: $57,614
*We are practically in Cincinnati. You decide if that is a good thing.
No. 44 Davenport, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (99 miles) Population: 339 Median household income: $26,964
*For some reason, we have a lot of cracker crumbs on our divans. Drive around Lincoln awhile, you’ll understand.
No. 43 Oakland, N.J. Nearest city: Newark (36 miles) Population: 12,466 Median household income: $86,629 *The nearest city is not Newark. New Jersey itself IS a city. We are just a city block.
No. 42 Haslett, Mich. Nearest city: Lansing (9 miles) Population: 11,283 Median household income: $50,679
*We will not comment until we get to re-hold our primary.
No. 41 Arlington, Neb. Nearest city: Omaha (50 miles) Population: 1,197 Median household income: $45,365
*Not all of us are so close to Lincoln, y’know.
No. 40 Madeira, Ohio Nearest city: Cincinnati (7 miles) Population: 8,923 Median household income: $59,626 *See 45.
No. 39 Loomis, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (167 miles) Population: 397 Median household income: $36,719
*Lincoln, FWIW!
No. 38 Oakland, Neb. Nearest city: Omaha (67 miles) Population: 1,367 Median household income: $32,663
*Omaha is one of two actual cities in Nebraska.
No. 37 Diller, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (62 miles) Population: 287 Median household income: $37,813
*We just need a “t” and an office comic. And some decent coffee. No Scientologists here, though.
No. 36 Newcastle, Neb. Nearest city: Omaha (125 miles) Population: 299 Median household income: $29,000
*Yes, we know. It’s a little pretentious.
No. 35 Franklin, Ga. Nearest city: Atlanta (65 miles) Population: 902 Median household income: $19,125
*Clearly the cheapest place on the list. So there is no doubt you can afford to live here. Huh? Of course there are non-farming jobs. Would like like ketchup on that?
No. 34 Clarence Center, N.Y. Nearest city: Buffalo (20 miles) Population: 1,747 Median household income: $66,311
*We can almost see Canada from here. It smells funny.
No. 33 Clarendon Hills, Ill. Nearest city: Chicago (22 miles) Population: 7,610 Median household income: $84,795
*Please take us off the list. With a name like Clarendon Hills, we don’t want just anyone moving in. Signed, Mayor.
No. 32 Petersburg, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (131 miles) Population: 374 Median household income: $29,688
*Actually, there are 377 of us now. The Biggsley’s had triplets over the week-end.
No. 31 Friendship, N.Y. Nearest city: Buffalo (101 miles) Population: 1,176 Median household income: $25,524
*Yes, we are nearly all white, anglo-saxon protestants. That’s why we get along and are so friendly. Not to you.
No. 30 Buffalo Grove, Ill. Nearest city: Chicago (32 miles) Population: 42,909 Median household income: $80,525
*What was the question?
No. 29 Nolanville, Tex. Nearest city: Austin (68 miles) Population: 2,150 Median household income: $36,140 *Yes, we all voted twice. We’re republicans, too.
No. 28 Lyndhurst, Ohio Nearest city: Cleveland (11 miles) Population: 15,279 Median household income: $52,272 *Aren't you sick of Ohio already?
No. 27 Fairmount, N.Y. Nearest city: Syracuse (5 miles) Population: 10,795 Median household income: $48,329
No. 26 Dundee, Ore. Nearest city: Portland (26 miles) Population: 2,598 Median household income: $50,284
*Please do not tell anyone about us.
No. 25 Barrington, Ill. Nearest city: Chicago (38 miles) Population: 10,168 Median household income: $83,085
*Well, we’re thinking of changing the name to Friendship.
No. 24 Sherman, N.Y. Nearest city: Buffalo (88 miles) Population: 714 Median household income: $30,583
*Tanks. We take them to the festival at No. 21.
No. 23 Douglas, Mich. Nearest city: Grand Rapids (43 miles) Population: 1,214 Median household income: $41,250
*Our contribution to American society? Give me a sec. Are you one of those Obamabnuts?
No. 22 Bartlett, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (169 miles) Population: 128 Median household income: $33,250
*No, crackers. Pears.
No. 21 Batavia, Ill. Nearest city: Chicago (44 miles) Population: 23,866 Median household income: $68,656
*We have the coolest name in this list, so you can bet your 13-year old future hacker sons are gonna love it here. We also host a summer Batman/Star Trek festival. Yes, at the same time, why did you ask?
No. 20 Ackerman, Miss. Nearest city: Birmingham, Ala. (160 miles) Population:1,696 Median household income: $21,287
*Yeah, the “F” fell off a long time ago. You got a problem with that?
No. 19 Fort Thomas, Ky. Nearest city: Cincinnati (6 miles) Population: 16,495 Median household income: $49,575
*We make over twice the next guys. But there’s ten times as many of us, so we drink a lot. Our math teacher? He moved to No. 13.
No. 18 Jamestown, Ky. Nearest city: Lexington (88 miles) Population: 1,624 Median household income: $18,587
*No, inexpensive means you too can own a Chevy with a gun rack.
No. 17 Lawrence, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (136 miles) Population: 312 Median household income: $25,089
*The smallest population in this chart. Did we mention the stagecoach to Lincoln runs three times a month?
No. 16 Green, Ohio Nearest city: Akron (11 miles) Population: 22,817 Median household income: $54,133
*Yup, Ohio again.
No. 15 East Brainerd, Tenn. Nearest city: Chattanooga (13 miles) Population: 14,132 Median household income: $66,151
*Ah yes, East Brainerd. We have a lot of IT jobs here. India outsources to us. You don’t know Ruby on rails? Getouttahere, man, srlsy? West Brainfart is on the other side of the tracks.
No. 14 Ridgetop, Tenn. Nearest city: Nashville (20 miles) Population: 1,083 Median household income: $52,381
*When Elvis returns, he’ll alight on the top of the ridge. Right over there, behind the general store.
No. 13 Helena, Ala. Nearest city: Birmingham (20 miles) Population: 10,296 Median household income: $62,908 *As you can see, each of us has a monthly paycheck of $6.11.
No. 12 Matawan, N.J. Nearest city: Edison (16 miles) Population: 8,910 Median household income: $63,594
*This is kind of getting old, don’t you think?
No. 11 Middleport, N.Y. Nearest city: Buffalo (40 miles) Population: 1,917 Median household income: $36,464
*We named it middle so people wouldn’t get lost.
No. 10 Hopewell, Tenn. Nearest city: Nashville (104 miles) Population: 1,815 Median household income: $43,973
*According to recent polls, 1.8 of us think Ron Paul has a chance of winning the Republican primary. The .8 is Mable. No, she is not a Thetan.
No. 9 Waterville, Ohio Nearest city: Toledo (15 miles) Population: 4,828 Median household income: $60,000
*4,282 of us and our median income is EXACTLY $60,000. You think that was easy to pull off?
No. 8 Lackland, Tex. Nearest city: San Antonio (12 miles) Population: 7,123 Median household income: $32,250
*Much like Iceland named to keep people away, we followed suit in naming our town. Plenty of dust though.
No. 7 Wilmette, Ill. Nearest city: Chicago (20 miles) Population: 27,65 Median household income: $106,773
*In a unique twist on city naming, we took our name from the high school mascot. No, she was not a slut.
No. 6 Waverly, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (15 miles) Population: 2,448 Median household income: $52,454
*We make crackers.
No. 5 Arapahoe, Neb. Nearest city: Lincoln (192 miles) Population: 1,028 Median household income: $29,500
*We are farther from Lincoln than any of the other Lincoln-affialiated Nebraska towns on this list.
No. 4 Echelon, N.J. Nearest city: Philadelphia (17 miles) Population: 10,440 Median household income: $49,410
*Just echelon. Upper echelon is too expensive. Plus, they are stuck up over there.
No. 3 Deerfield, Ill. Nearest city: Chicago (27 miles) Population: 18,420 Median household income: $107,194
*As our median income suggests, we have a much wider range of jobs than Franklin, Georgia. Did you want mustard on that as well?
No. 2 Western Springs, Ill. Nearest city: Chicago (21 miles) Population: 12,493 Median household income: $98,876
*We don’t have mustard. Got pickles, though. Want some of those?
No. 1 Groesbeck, Ohio Nearest city: Cincinnati (7 miles) Population: 7,202 Median household income: $49,235
*Clinton. Why? We make red phones here. Yeah, we’ll make sure to call her when we move to daylight savings time. - dbalaski, on 03/23/2008, -1/+17I am not convinced on this list
I really do think their resultset is skewed -- look at the winners:
1st Place: Nebraska made up over 20% of it -- 11 of the 50
Tied for 2nd place: Illinois & Ohio -- 14% each -- 7 out 50 for each
3rd Place: New York 12% 6 out of the 50 places
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hmmm the best place to raise your kids is: anywhere, as long as you are involved in raising them and are actively part of their lives.
(Being a parent, I think that is the best! ) - ILikePants, on 03/23/2008, -6/+22"Good places to raise children" apparently means "places with people who won't challenge my own (or my children's) thinking (and have a population that's 99% white)". Small towns and suburbs are generally bad places to raise kids. Kids need to see that not everyone comes from a white, upper middle class background, that such people are still human beings deserving of respect, and that people think differently from each other.
- Ganja420, on 03/23/2008, -8/+23Most of the cities are under 2000 people... kinda stupid
- Suricou, on 03/23/2008, -1/+16I disapprove of 'kid-friendly' because of its political connotations. Its one of the codewords - to those in the know, it means 'no gays here!' or 'Tightly regulated media to protect children from swearing and sex,' or perhaps 'Our schools wont corrupt your children by teaching them about evolution, or how to use a condom.' Its such a political term that its literal meaning ('Suitable for children') is lost.
- Hercules, on 03/23/2008, -5/+19This is a bad list... you have to raise your kids in a place where you know they aren't going to turn into little *****. I live in Jersey now, and I want to move when I have kids, because I don't want them to get the character I've seen in the tri-state area folks. You know what I mean... the rude, get out of my way attitudes that are very selfish and also, very busy without a care for others.
I want polite kids, that say hello to strangers passing down the street. There's only two places this can be accomplished -- in the South or the Midwest. I went out to Chicago for business and people just said "Hello!", or asked me how nice the day was. I thought I was on the set of a joke show, but people really are that nice there.
I want to instill that into my kids. I'm fairly confident that it's not only a school that makes your kids smart, but also the way you parent them, so I'll use a combination and raise them that way. Hopefully it will work, and if I have a daughter she won't be a slutty "Jersey Girl", and if I have a son he won't be an arrogant ***** out for himself. Or one of those guys that wears 20 popped collar shirts... that would be bad too. Popular in Jersey. - bossm4n, on 03/23/2008, -2/+14Petersburg, Neb. Population: 374, seriously? How does a town with a population of 374 make a list of any kind unless it's a list of the smallest cities in the US?
- liah, on 03/23/2008, -0/+11I think they could also double as the most boring cities to raise your kids in the US.
- Bandersong, on 03/23/2008, -1/+12Dear god, all those places look so WHITE. I could never imagine living in a place called "Friendship".
- jackpot, on 03/23/2008, -2/+12Wilmette, IL
I wouldn't live there, they have zombies at their mall. - inactive, on 03/23/2008, -4/+13I agree completely. I was raised on a small farm and it was boring as *****. Big adolescent suicide and drug/alcohol abuse problem. We had NOTHING to do, ever. Your choices were ride your bike on the boring empty road or don't. There was one theater with only two movies at a time and they were always the big dumb blockbusters. One comedy and one action movie. Plus everyone was crazy religious and we were atheists...
Cities are much better for kids. Or at least for their minds. I got twin boys and we always have something to do. And espescially, they get to meet people that are NOT white christians. - ATXTheKiller, on 03/23/2008, -1/+8Ew, suburbs. They're only good for two age groups: small children and parents. It's hell for teens.
- fjc8, on 03/23/2008, -0/+7Check #16 (Green, OH) - there's a nice trailer park in the Google Maps picture.
- vanguardanon, on 03/23/2008, -0/+652 separate pages to read this article? Some web designers are stupid.
- confusednazgul, on 03/23/2008, -0/+6I'll be sure to avoid all of those places.
- SammyJr, on 03/23/2008, -0/+6You're describing a small suburb of a large city. The others are complaining about small town rural *****.
- colonelpanic, on 03/23/2008, -0/+6Sorry, I've memorized the youtube video ID, this trick doesn't work anymore.
- hierophantus, on 03/23/2008, -0/+6Dugg on the assumption that you were making a sarcastic comment about the choices of towns made by the article.
- ishotthedoor, on 03/23/2008, -2/+7Who the hell is digging this ***** up?
- bdbr, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5I lived in a small town in Kansas, which probably isn't all that different from the Nebraska towns. The school offered very little opportunity, because most everyone was planning on becoming a farmer. We didn't even have trigonometry. Boredom was so rampant that sex and beer were the only real sources of high school entertainment. I wouldn't wish that upon any kid.
- SammyJr, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5And there's a hell of a lot less to do, unless High School football is the sort of thing that gets your rocks off. I'd rather live in proximity to a small city so my kids have opportunities for activities besides watching cornfed meatheads throw a ball and then head to the meatpacking plant.
- windowi, on 03/23/2008, -0/+5I live near No.1 its great for kids because there is nothing to do for adults- nothing fun and hyper conservative
- zaco, on 03/23/2008, -0/+4yes, the most pain-in-the-ass list story on digg ever
- BigATB, on 03/23/2008, -1/+5dude, new england got the shaft on this one
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -1/+5Digg is no longer Democratic, it is Huffington post traumatic.
- Mickeh65, on 03/23/2008, -0/+4OMFG PEDO BEAR!
- 8bitclassics, on 03/23/2008, -0/+4Save everybody some time, Nebraska, Illinois and Ohio are the best States based on this article. Makes me wonder who is surveying. Nebraska seemed to take like 20+ towns and I wouldn't live there. Driving through Nebraska is bad enough!
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -1/+5The notion that children are the best resources for parents should encourage young parents to seek communities that provide all the things their children need to grow and prosper.
- Sharky35, on 03/23/2008, -0/+4Molest kids much?
- 2bees, on 03/23/2008, -2/+6Another thing thats stupid is the fact that if anyone thinks outsiders will be welcome in any of these small towns then they're sadly mistaken. Small towns are clickier then an all girls campus.
- altinnovation, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3While nice, not always a great idea for kids to say hello to strangers these days.
- spdorsey, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3Should be "50 most Kid-Friendly places east of the Mississippi". There are almost no locations in the west, and only one in state that touches tha Pacific. Give me a break.
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3Totally Agree. I live in Kentucky so I know.
- baseball4113, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3Did they just list every town in Nebraska?
- jotatmo, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3they forgot missoula, montana!
- imLissy, on 03/23/2008, -1/+4Yes, because EVERYONE in the whole tri-state area is like that. The majority of the students at Rutgers who live in the NB campuses are like that maybe, but most other people I've met in Jersey are normal, polite human beings.
- quiznos, on 03/23/2008, -1/+4I grew up in a relatively small town, my graduating class was just over 150 kids. I got out to attend college, and continue to do that. Also, I have no cousins back home and worked at a quiznos, not a gas station. But like asswipe, I wish there were more diversity. I could count the number of black people in the high school on one hand.
- inactive, on 03/23/2008, -1/+4There's also Canada. All of it.
- reddikilowatt, on 03/23/2008, -0/+3I spent some time working in Newark/Bergen county, and found most people to be friendly and very helpful. Heck, they even pump you gas for you!
- dbalaski, on 03/24/2008, -0/+2Okay -- Maybe the Illinois are justified,
but what about first place -- ie: the 11 from Nebraska ? - bedake, on 03/23/2008, -0/+2I live in a rural community and I can tell you right now that there is absolutely nothing here to engage kids in activities. There are no social activities about all there is to do is play sports at the YMCA, it is no wonder that all the kids result to getting trashed on the weekends.
- DrWho520, on 03/23/2008, -0/+2C'mon! The spelling "neighbourhoods" and the CCTV reference did not clue you in? If you got Rick Rolled, you are just not paying attention.
- Gatesophile, on 03/23/2008, -0/+2Buffalo Grove and Barrington, in Illinois, are full of snotty rich *****. Especially Barrington. I'd NEVER raise my kids around them.
- myshambar, on 03/23/2008, -0/+2BARRINGTON?! Screw that noise; if you want your kid to grow up in a neighborhood that's polarized with rich pricks on one side and the total opposite end of the spectrum living in essentially the ghetto, then sure, be my guest. What this doesn't take into account (along with any statistic) is the human factor. The median income is 80k because a good majority of the households are pulling 7 figure salaries, while everyone else is lower-middle class. If you drive by the high school on any weekday, you'll probably mistake the student parking lot with the teachers for the reason that the teachers get paid dick, while all the kids are driving around their daddies' Beemers.
Bottom line: Unless you're already a tool or wish to learn the tricks of the trade, stay away from Barrington...Come to Cary instead! A short (but moderately safe) distance away from Barrington, plus we have our own public library! - SammyJr, on 03/23/2008, -0/+2The suburbs listed for Illinois are actually really nice with easy access to cultural activities in Chicago via the Metra. You just need to be making decent money to afford to live there.
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