Top Ten Places to Live...

Last year, the place I live now was ranked number 3 in Canada. Somehow we fell to number 35 this year. I still don't understand how we are rated as high as we are now. This place is a #$*%&#* hole from which there is no escape.

 

The list is WACK. I've lived here my whole life. There are dozens of cities that I'd pick before Claremont.
La Palma??? La Mirada??? No fucking way.

 

Hanover is an interesting place. They have some quality homes in there, and it's not the typical college town, which makes it conducive to those folks who inhabit it.

 

I've only heard of two towns in the top 10.

 

#35 in Canada?

We have that many towns or cities?

 

As someone who lived in Upland years ago:

The list makes it seem (to be anyway) like they're promoting Claremont as this nice little town, when its actually just part of the Inland Valley urban sprawl. Hell, if you drive for 10 minutes (if that), you've hit Pomona, a city that'll probably never be anywhere near this list.

 

Maybe they got Claremont confused with Montclair. Really, could anybody tell the difference between them???

 

Apparently.

According to Moneysense Magazine out of Toronto, they ranked 123 of Canadian Communities with populations over 10,000.

 

The authors went for a different, smaller-town vibe this year. Some places with a good quality of life have low home values, but that has become increasingly rare (I would offer that home ownership as a be-all is somewhat overrated in the overall life and economic picture). And Montclair wishes it were Claremont.

 

Lived in the Orangethorpe Apartments in La Palma for about 6 months. How it got on this list is beyond me.

My grandma lives in La Mirada, which is a pretty nice little town.

 

My take on these lists is no matter what, they're going to be subjective. For instance, the listing for Chaska, Minn. has winter as a drawback. What about those of us (and there a handful of us) who actually LIKE winter and could not ever live in a place where there was no winter?

The best place to live is where you feel at home.

 

I still think they need to take weather into consideration when they come up with those lists.

That right away would give strikes to anywhere in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Montana and U.P. Michigan.