The Best Small Cities To Raise A Family

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XP9Fz69Yin0

The only thing I can personally confirm is that Midland, MI deserves no accolades for anything.

i have a fondness for helena, it's a sweet little town (in june)

i have a fondness for helena, it's a sweet little town (in june)

Actually the town of "Midland City" in Breakfast of Champions I always envisioned being Midland b/c it pretty much fits the description perfectly.

i have a fondness for helena, it's a sweet little town (in june)

i have a fondness for helena

http://www.harpersbazaar.com/cm/harpersbazaar/images/4-helena-christensen-ed-westwick-bazaar-de-52099870.jpg

http://zalandria.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/boxing_helena.jpg

Midland is great if you like meth and suburbs

How big is a small city in the US, population-wise?

i was gonna say 200k, that's what i think of
these seem to be in the 20-100k range

Voted Casper, altho this is pretty much "best" = "whitest" amirite?

I too was going to post about white people

Manitowoc

The racial makeup of the city was 93.13% White, 0.59% Black or African American, 0.55% Native American, 3.77% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 0.90% from other races, and 0.99% from two or more races. 2.52% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

Quincy

The racial makeup of the city was 93.02% White, 4.65% African American, 0.19% Native American, 0.54% Asian, 0.01% Pacific Islander, 0.36% from other races, and 1.22% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.94% of the population.

my brother lived near Midland Michigan for a few years, his kids (now grownups) turned out well.

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Casper is in one of the ugliest parts of Wyoming, and it has terrible fucking weather. Terrible! Everywhere in Wyoming has terrible fucking weather, but at least most of the rest of it is gorgeous to compensate. It's really far away from any other cool big cities (as far as "big cities" go in this part of the U.S.), it's just maybe the worst city to pick in Wyoming next to Laramie. I'm really appalled.

I voted for Helena. Would not mind spending the rest of my life there, probably!

these places all sound terrible, yes

tho i guess if u are a moderately successful exec you could buy a waco-sized compound and still be within commuting distance of some of them

the exclusion of missoula is baffling

too many hippies w dogs n guitars on the streets

these are the best?

i'll nominate my own small city: coral gables.

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Have you 3 people ever been to Casper? Or are you just listening to the sweet lies Daniel Johnston tells?

DO you know about the kind of people that come from Casper?

http://online.wsj.com/media/dick_cheney_ssh_20080612172252.jpg

I've been to Casper a few times and it's not so bad. There's good Mexican food, an alright record store, lotsa movie theaters, a small but active arts community, and it's within a days drive to Thermopolis and Yellowstone.