"P. Fritz" wrote in message
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"NOYB" wrote in message
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"Shortwave Sportfishing" wrote in message
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On 11 Jul 2005 10:17:36 -0700, wrote:

Uh, oh........Naples, FL wasn't on the list. Can't wait to hear to
excuses......!!!

http://money.cnn.com/best/bplive/index.html

Barrington, RI #3?

BBAAWWWAAAHHHHHHAAAAA!!!!!!!

~~ cough - sputter - gag ~~

Oh man, that was funny. Even funnier was Colchester and Tolland CT.

Well, what do you expect for CNN - they still have their heads up
their collective asses.


I guess I don't need to respond. Shortwave and Harry summed it up pretty
well with their posts.

Their criterea.
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OnBoard maintains a database of nearly 40,000 cities. To narrow our
search,
we began by considering only those with population above 14,000,
above-median household income, population growth and real estate
appreciation over the past 5 years.

The statistics that they use lists Naples' population at over 250,000.
Naples ain't anywhere near that size. What they keep doing is using all of
Collier County statistics...which means Immokalee (mostly migrant
farm-workers), Chokoloskee, Everglades City, Goodland, etc. are in there.

That's going to bump the crime statistics, number of students per teacher,
number of illiterate, etc.

It will lower the median household income, real estate appreciation, and
several other positive attributes.


Those restrictions led to a list of 1,321 places.



From there, we eliminated places that aren't within 60 miles of a major
airport and 30 miles of a major teaching hospital.

There goes Naples. We have the airport...but Miami has the nearest major
teaching hospital.


We also eliminate towns with low education scores or that fall below the
25th percentile in any two of the following: unemployment, income growth,
crime, or arts resources.

That left 100 towns, which we ranked, weighing economic, education and
safety factors twice as much as arts, leisure and park space.

We limited any metropolitan area to one or two places.

To pick the winners, we culled more data on education, environment,

Naples scored well there.

housing
affordability

Another knock on Naples.



Of course, I came down here to boat and fish year-round. For that, I
couldn't have picked a better area.