Posted by
Contrarian Guitarist on Friday, June 13, 2008 6:52:13 PM
This article, "
The World's Best Places to Live 2008", seemed to make a big deal out of the fact that the highest ranked U.S. city was Honolulu at 28th. Adding fuel to the "conventional wisdom" fire of - "Has America Fallen From Grace?", "What Happened to America the Great?", "Why Everyone Hates America?", "How Do You Spell America? H-E-L-L-H-O-L-E", that seem to populate news lines, blogs, posts, etc. of the angry left. Except after reading this sentence in the second paragraph...
"Consultants rated each city on a variety of factors including the level of traffic congestion, air quality, and personal safety reported by expatriates living in more than 600 cities worldwide."
...I wondered how Honolulu even got on the list. Are they expatriates or geographically challenged? Doesn't being an expatriate kind of imply that you'd rather live somewhere else?
One note: Amsterdam (13) made the list? Is that where the old are afraid to go to the hospital because no one ever comes back?