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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.
************************************************** *******************

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.

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.

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, housing
affordability, taxes, commute times and job market. MONEY writers also
interviewed residents and community leaders."

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60 mile to a "major" airport, 30 miles to a "major teaching hospital"
Sounds pretty arbitrary to me. Mileage is not nearly as critical as drive
time.


Kevin is still batting 000

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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.
************************************************** *******************

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.

NOYB wrote:
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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.
************************************************** *******************

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.

HEHE!!!!! I ****ing KNEW he'd have to spin, spin to defend
Naples....just because HE lives there, it's the best place on
earth!!!!!!! Typical example of his ability to shun polls that don't
favor his stance, but man, if he finds one that does, he posts it
immediately.

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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.
************************************************** *******************

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.

HEHE!!!!! I ****ing KNEW he'd have to spin, spin to defend
Naples....just because HE lives there, it's the best place on
earth!!!!!!! Typical example of his ability to shun polls that don't
favor his stance, but man, if he finds one that does, he posts it
immediately.


You sound like you are jealous Kevin. But then again, with you living in
Snelville, GA I can understand why.

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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.
************************************************** *******************

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.

HEHE!!!!! I ****ing KNEW he'd have to spin, spin to defend
Naples....just because HE lives there, it's the best place on
earth!!!!!!! Typical example of his ability to shun polls that don't
favor his stance, but man, if he finds one that does, he posts it
immediately.


You sound like you are jealous Kevin. But then again, with you living in
Snelville, GA I can understand why.


Kevin is still recovering from the bitch slapping he received. He cannot
comprehend that the very basis of the poll is biased, based on the criterea
selected as important.......30 miles from a teaching hospital, etc.

Secondly, Naples has a population of a little over 20k, not 250k as the poll
stated........thus they are using flawed data........no wonder Kevin used it
as a source LMAO

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:13:58 -0400, P. Fritz wrote:



Kevin is still recovering from the bitch slapping he received. He cannot
comprehend that the very basis of the poll is biased, based on the
criterea selected as important.......30 miles from a teaching hospital,
etc.


Uh, have you ever heard of a "Best" study that wasn't biased? I'm not
saying anything about Naples, it's just that when one uses the word "best"
it inherently shows bias, be it the "best" baseball player of all time,
or the "best" place to live.

"thunder" wrote in message
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On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 09:13:58 -0400, P. Fritz wrote:



Kevin is still recovering from the bitch slapping he received. He
cannot
comprehend that the very basis of the poll is biased, based on the
criterea selected as important.......30 miles from a teaching hospital,
etc.


Uh, have you ever heard of a "Best" study that wasn't biased? I'm not
saying anything about Naples, it's just that when one uses the word "best"
it inherently shows bias, be it the "best" baseball player of all time,
or the "best" place to live.

Particularly when somebody tries to quantify the subjective.

*JimH* wrote:

You sound like you are jealous Kevin. But then again, with you living in
Snelville, GA I can understand why.

Hmm, let's retrace your ignorant statement of the day, shall we?

First, I'm not Kevin, so there's one ignorant statement, because you
don't know who I am.
Second. I don't live in Snellville, GA., and you don't know where I
live, so it's another ignorant statement.

Funny thing, I actually slipped my real name here awhile back offering
up a reply I got to prove a point. I've also stated where I live. You
apparently were too stupid to catch either one. Too bad, just because
you are blindly following NOYB and Fritz.

Why does your email use the signature Kevin Noble? Why is your gmail
account ?


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*JimH* wrote:

You sound like you are jealous Kevin. But then again, with you living in
Snelville, GA I can understand why.

Hmm, let's retrace your ignorant statement of the day, shall we?

First, I'm not Kevin, so there's one ignorant statement, because you
don't know who I am.
Second. I don't live in Snellville, GA., and you don't know where I
live, so it's another ignorant statement.

Funny thing, I actually slipped my real name here awhile back offering
up a reply I got to prove a point. I've also stated where I live. You
apparently were too stupid to catch either one. Too bad, just because
you are blindly following NOYB and Fritz.

Real Name wrote:
Why does your email use the signature Kevin Noble?

Because I want it to.

Why is your gmail
account ?

*I* don't have a gmail account. I do, however, know someone who does.
Enough of a clue? If not, you probably should drop it, because you're
making yourself look pretty ****ing stupid for not being able to put it
together.