Houston is No. 1 city to live work and play, says Kiplinger

Ha! Only as a stepping stone.

 

Different strokes for different folks. I'd take all three of those cities over Houston in a heartbeat.

 

I'd take Colorado Springs over most places in the States.

 

Far too much Jeebus-style religion in that town. Great location, though.

 

Nothing wrong with Omaha...nice town.

 

I'm from Texas, but if I'm making a list of cities I want to live, work and play in, Houston is pretty damned far down the list. At a minimum, I'd like a city where, when I open the car door to get out, my glasses don't instantly fog up and render me blind.

 

Houston's not as bad as Dallas, though. If you grow up with humidity, you don't realize how bad life is without it until you move somewhere without much. Like Dallas.

 

Huh?

 

I figured that would get a puzzled response. Dallas is dry and arid compared to where I grew up, so when I went to college in the Metroplex, I had a sinus infection pretty much the whole time because of how dried out I was. I must have moisture in the air to survive.

 

2muchcoffeeman ranks Kiplinger as the dead last place to find common sense as far as cities' livability.

 

Yeah, but ask 1,000 people whether they'd rather have 100 degrees with humidity or 100 degrees without, 999 of them aren't going to want the humidity.