Comments on: Sacramento is the 8th Best Place to Live and Work in the States!? http://www.thrillingheroics.com/sacramento-is-the-8th-best-place-to-live-and-work-in-the-states Lifestyle Entrepreneurship, Permanent Travel & Digital Nomad Lifestyle Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:33:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Moved Away http://www.thrillingheroics.com/sacramento-is-the-8th-best-place-to-live-and-work-in-the-states#comment-18146 Moved Away Tue, 19 Aug 2008 04:47:14 +0000 http://www.thrillingheroics.com/?p=355#comment-18146 I used to live in Sacramento and thought it was a terrible place to live. High pollution, poor public transportation, poor road conditions, bad traffic for commuters, high crime, extremely high cost of living, and very poor public schools. I had relatives and friends that worked in the public school system and they encouraged us to put our kids in private schools. I have lived in several major cities and a few smaller cities so I have a lot of experience to compare Sacramento to. Who ever ranked Sacramento #8 has never lived there or hasn't in a very long time. I used to live in Sacramento and thought it was a terrible place to live. High pollution, poor public transportation, poor road conditions, bad traffic for commuters, high crime, extremely high cost of living, and very poor public schools. I had relatives and friends that worked in the public school system and they encouraged us to put our kids in private schools. I have lived in several major cities and a few smaller cities so I have a lot of experience to compare Sacramento to. Who ever ranked Sacramento #8 has never lived there or hasn’t in a very long time.

]]> By: Ron Davison http://www.thrillingheroics.com/sacramento-is-the-8th-best-place-to-live-and-work-in-the-states#comment-18118 Ron Davison Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:49:06 +0000 http://www.thrillingheroics.com/?p=355#comment-18118 I grew up from about age 2 to 13 in Yuba City - just north of Sacramento. It was my one reference point for a place to live. A few years after I moved out, I saw that Rand McNally rated all metropolitan areas in the US: Yuba City came in dead last. I found this unsurprising (Yuba City has less in the way of culture than, say, Boston? - this is news?) and rather comforting. I learned it was the country's worst place and I had been happy there. My conclusion? I could be happy anywhere. That was comforting. And yes, Vancouver is a great city (my wife's hometown). And yes, great cities are going to be expensive. I grew up from about age 2 to 13 in Yuba City – just north of Sacramento. It was my one reference point for a place to live. A few years after I moved out, I saw that Rand McNally rated all metropolitan areas in the US: Yuba City came in dead last. I found this unsurprising (Yuba City has less in the way of culture than, say, Boston? – this is news?) and rather comforting. I learned it was the country’s worst place and I had been happy there. My conclusion? I could be happy anywhere. That was comforting.
And yes, Vancouver is a great city (my wife’s hometown). And yes, great cities are going to be expensive.

]]> By: torbjorn rive http://www.thrillingheroics.com/sacramento-is-the-8th-best-place-to-live-and-work-in-the-states#comment-18104 torbjorn rive Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:29:51 +0000 http://www.thrillingheroics.com/?p=355#comment-18104 Unless I am mistaken, Vancouver BC was recently listed as the #4 city in the world to live, on a recent list. As much as I love the city - I was there for 5 years, and now live just a ferry ride away - and as pleasant as it CAN be it doesn't deserve to be fourth. Like the comments that you received it is tough to survive there because of housing prices. You have to be loaded to buy a house even in the crappiest parts of town, and their traffic problems are horrible. Vancouver made #1 in the world several times in the late 90's and has been downhill since - it should sit at number eight, barely in the top 10 until they figure out some basic traffic, and average citizen comforts. One thing they do have it space, and place to play. Unless I am mistaken, Vancouver BC was recently listed as the #4 city in the world to live, on a recent list. As much as I love the city – I was there for 5 years, and now live just a ferry ride away – and as pleasant as it CAN be it doesn’t deserve to be fourth.

Like the comments that you received it is tough to survive there because of housing prices. You have to be loaded to buy a house even in the crappiest parts of town, and their traffic problems are horrible. Vancouver made #1 in the world several times in the late 90′s and has been downhill since – it should sit at number eight, barely in the top 10 until they figure out some basic traffic, and average citizen comforts.

One thing they do have it space, and place to play.

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