Most Affordable Places to Live Well - Article

It's all in one's preferred criteria.

You can exist happily on minimum expenses anywhere - if you're not trying to keep-up with appearences and the Jones'.

Frugality doesn't mean counting pennies either - it means forethought before buying what they want youto think you need instead of what your really need.

It also means not living up to the lifestyle that's proven to be more destructive than positive.

Isn't Atlanta about out of water? Isn't unemployment starting to become a serious issue in the Twin Cities?

Tourist mags - at least the mainstream promoted ones, try to tell you where you should vacation based on their advertiser's output, not your preferences. Their job is to make you thirsty for what they publish.
 
Oakwilt,


Are you the kind of guy I can have a pint of dark beer with?



It seems like you are always finding the downside to every situation.




Just an observation, not an indictment.


When is the last time you went to a batting cage?


Those are super fun, and remind you of the fact that the USA is the freakin best.




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Any list that puts Atlanta as the 10th best place to live in the US should be viewed with extreme skepticism.

Don't buy into it!
 

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That does it, I'm outta here!

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Liar.

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Fool! LOL.
 
Batting cage? After a day chuckin' limbs down and pickin' logs up?

Here's some therapy:

1 shot of aged Scotch and one (1) puff of opium, disrobe and let a masseuse of the Asian variety pour lukewarm coconut oil infused w/ lemon on your posterior regions, to be gently rubbed-in over the course of 2 hours while jasmine burns softly and tiny brass bells ring damply followed by whatever your morals allow.

That don't happen in America, where the rifle range, punching bag, congested roads to jog and some weirdo swinging at 60mph harballs is anyone's notion of relaxation.

But to each his own, and mine's is as transcendental as it comes. Move to Atlanta and keep your yard watered, chlorinated pool filled, and your Chevy washed.
 
Good reply.


But I drive a Ford.


The scotch and the opium and the massaging coconut girl all sound fabulous.


And I wasn't defending Atlanta, no way. Charlotte is blindly heading in the same direction as the ATL, sadly.

I will be moving to Homer, Alaska in the next 15 - 20 years. It's mostly because of the Simpsons.


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Homer will become warmer, but those there might not welcome more, being they're having a tougher time than before the snowmobiles, rifles (and subsequently crack cocaine),and satellite t.v. came. The rest of most of the lower 48's will be interesting to watch, given reality and all.

And I planned already to be watching it from somewhere else, not too concerned due to the writing that's been on the wall all along. I ferment my own beer, but joyfully appreciate other varieties. I'll tip one to ya!
 
atlanta is FORD country - red be the truck and green be the tractor

looking at housing cost is one thing - the metro New Jersey area is three times what it is in atlanta. yes we are about out of water but cost of living is cheaper the rahway new jersey where you can not find a 3 bd 1.5 bath home for under 250k bon a postal stamp lot

i am sure there are other places that are better the hot dry lanta

stuck here for now -

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That don't happen in America, where the rifle range, punching bag, congested roads to jog and some weirdo swinging at 60mph harballs is anyone's notion of relaxation.

But to each his own, and mine's is as transcendental as it comes. Move to Atlanta and keep your yard watered, chlorinated pool filled, and your Chevy washed.

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Oakwilt, why do you sound like a spoilt teenager trying desperately to express his individualism and non-conformist attitude?

The brutal facts of life are that we are all inescapably social animals, products of our cultural environment, shoved around by economic forces that probably do determine our conciousness. It may be comforting to believe in your own particular uniqueness, but we remain complicated products of our social and cultural environment, in ways that are not always personally clear to us.

Your own 'unique' way of life was, afterall only made possible by the profits of capitalism.....ha ha.
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Don't give up on us humans just yet Oakwilt, its not our fault.....we're not absolutley free to choose who we become.....

....then again, maybe your right, perhaps we should behave as if we were 'free' in spite of all the social, economic and political conditions?

I dunno, you just seem to be too much of an idealist, I gave up on idealism years ago, when I realised it was pointless.

I'll have a scotch with you, preferably a good single malt.
 
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Here's some therapy:

1 shot of aged Scotch and one (1) puff of opium, disrobe and let a masseuse of the Asian variety pour lukewarm coconut oil infused w/ lemon on your posterior regions, to be gently rubbed-in over the course of 2 hours while jasmine burns softly and tiny brass bells ring damply followed by whatever your morals allow.

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A yes love you long time 50 Dollar
 
"I dunno, you just seem to be too much of an idealist, I gave up on idealism years ago, when I realised it was pointless."

I didn't and it isn't. If I did,I would have died when they told me I was going to.
 
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"I dunno, you just seem to be too much of an idealist, I gave up on idealism years ago, when I realised it was pointless."

I didn't and it isn't. If I did,I would have died when they told me I was going to.

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Glad your still with us!
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However that doesn't sound like 'idealism' to me....just plain old will power, there's a world of difference between believing in yourself and demanding the world change to your set of ideals.

Remember Oakwilt, it was idealists who brought us Nazism, Communism, Fascism, Oppressive Religion, Neo-conservatism and free market capitalism as well as many other apparently great ideas that have been found wanting.

There is no one answer or single way of life that will solve the mystery of the human condition, if we don't even understand ourselves how can we begin to understand the concept of an ideal way of life?

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That is why it's pointless.
 
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Hmmm...interesting take on world history, its the idealists fault
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...wow I quess comprehensive education does lead somewhere then?

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You decide - famous idealists:

Hitler, Karl Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, The Taliban, al Queda(Osama Bin Laden), America's Neo-conservatives, Idi Amin, Hamas, Hezbollah, The Tamil Tigers.....the list of failed/failing ideologies is endless.
 
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As I said interesting way to define idealist, and idealism you must share your Funk and Wagnalls with us.
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Never heard that expression before, mildly amusing.


In the 1960's, Funk and Wagnalls became part of one of the iconic jokes on the ground-breaking show Laugh-In, where a frequently-made reference was "Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls", a play on the perceived profanity when speaking the word "funk".

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funk_and_Wagnalls

Thanks sean.
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