Best state to not have a city place in Money's 2012 "Best Small Cities To Live" list

Hawaii just ahead of Maine

Those are the same two states I'm contemplating. Been to Maine 4x, including two whole summers, and loved it every time. Been to Hawaii once and would love to go back.

Don't get what Reston, VA is doing in the top 10. I used to work there - nice enough place, but housing is expensive, there's no public transport, you need to take a toll road to get anywhere, and there's just nothing distinctive about it. Same chain stores, restaurants, and clubs you'd find anywhere else in the US.

my hometown is in the top ten, bow down

tho tbf calling it a small city is ridiculous when its so clearly a suburb

also who tf would ever want to live there

Eden fucking prairie? Gtfo.

Voted Delaware.

haha I was waiting with bated breath to see jjj's reaction to that

my hometown is in the top ten, bow down

― lag∞n, Monday, August 20, 2012 2:59 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tho tbf calling it a small city is ridiculous when its so clearly a suburb

― lag∞n, Monday, August 20, 2012 2:59 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

also who tf would ever want to live there

― lag∞n, Monday, August 20, 2012 3:00 PM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

same about mine

Montana or KY

Their AZ choices are weird

Don't get what Reston, VA is doing in the top 10. I used to work there - nice enough place, but housing is expensive, there's no public transport, you need to take a toll road to get anywhere, and there's just nothing distinctive about it. Same chain stores, restaurants, and clubs you'd find anywhere else in the US.

vermont!

Voted Delaware.

― Jeff, Monday, August 20, 2012 3:09 PM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

because the beach

Stroll around downtown, and you'll see cotton mills and feed stores transformed into hip boutiques and art galleries.

they seem to have confused McKinney with the Bishop Arts district in Dallas.

I'd pack up and move to Portland, Maine tomorrow if I didn't have to worry about rent/etc.

Vermont over Maine. Maine's slipping a bit because Portland is becoming north Brooklyn, with all the NYC ex-pats realizing its relatively cheaper but still has $$ to spend on organic cheeses and ironic t-shirts.

Hawaii is beset by a certain kind of blowsy poverty outside the wealthy resort areas, but it has plentiful charms to offset that.

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Did not expect that.

Surely, all the Montana votes were not from black people.

didn't even see this. eden prairie lol. overland park is p lol, too my grandparents used to live there a long time ago.

would have voted maine or hawaii, sleeper vote to rhode island

most of these aren't small cities, they're suburbs next to a larger urban core. what bullshit.

who the hell voted montana?

I did not see this poll initially but if I had, I would not have voted for Delaware because if it were such a great place to live, I would still live there.

delaware is p mystifying, the rest of the top finishers are at least v beautiful

Yeah, there are some very attractive parts of Delaware but it doesn't compare to the rest of the top five.

as I alluded above, I voted Delaware because as a metro-DC native, it's the home of the beaches of my childhood.

specifically Lewes, Rehoboth, Cape Henlopen.