OT: 9 Cities for Young Adults and one bit of confusion
Yahoo! put out a "10 Great Cities for Young Adults" list, and one city in their list doesn't compute.
The list:
- Austin, TX
- Charallote, NC
- Chicago, IL
- Houston, TX
- Kansas City, MO
- Lansing, MI
- New York, NY
- Portland, OR
- Salt Lake City, UT
- Washington, DC
One of these cities is not like the other. Lansing? Seriously?
Someone make a case for me, as this makes zero sense.
Penchant for burning couches and ability to enjoy being tear-gassed were part of the calculation.
which would explain East Lansing however they are separate cities
It's because of the plethora of employment opportunities...
oh wait...
well then it has got to be how beautiful it is...
oh wait...
nope that doesn't make any sense at all
I'm from the Lansing area and it is boring as shit. Other than bars there is nothing.
Utah is also suprising
Salt Lake City isn't too bad if you bring liquor with you. Lots of fun outdoors stuff.
[Insert City Name] isn't too bad if you bring liquor with you.
Lansing isn't.
Don't you mean Lansing is?
Dude, don't knock Utah, those Mormons really know how to party!
party!! party!!! party!!!!
Charallote, NC
Never heard of it.
Doesn't make any sense. I've been to Austin, Chicago, NY, and Houston and all are a million times better than Lansing. Hell, AA is a million times better.
I'm going to question Houston as well. May as well other sprawling, humid monstrosities like Orlando and Tampa.
There's still a solid job market in the energy sector and the area around Rice Village is definitely a great place for young professionals. Bigger drawback than the weather is lack of beer culture (growing) and lack of public transportation systems of quality.
an area of nearly 6 million people, a 4x4 square block of overpriced shopping and restaurants makes it a top 10 destination for young people?
I've lived there and I wouldn't put it in a top 100. Traffic is an absolute nightmare, the weather in summer is oppressive, there's no zoning so the city has little aesthetically going for it. There's nothing in Houston that you can't get at any other moderate sized city in the country.
If weather weren't in the equation, the hands down place to be would be Chicago. A world class city that's very moderately priced.
Why is cold winter weather automatically "bad" in all these rankings? Some of us like having four seasons.
Why is a warm summer automatically "bad" in many people's rankings? Some of us like water skiing on Christmas.
I think it may have to do with young people prefering to be active outside? Could be more about where jobs are (other than Lansing).
There is no bias against hot-weather cities. They're always looked favorably in these kinds of rankings. It's cold-weather ones that always get negative marks.
It's dumb. There is no objective way to evaluate weather. I can maybe see it if you're talking about the elderly, who have worse circulations and may struggle in colder weather. Young people can thrive anywhere.
I don't disagree. Weather is completely subjective. It shouldn't really have a place in these type of rankings. I've spent time in several of the cities mentioned. Chicago might be my #1 destination from my own experiences. Do I like their winters? Not really. Does it make it any less awesome for young people like myself to live? Not at all.
Would you rather live in the weather of San Diego or the weather of Chicago? It's not that subjective.
It's a quality of life issue and it does matter. I don't think it's ever a dealbreaker for a young person and frankly I'd take just about everything else Chicago has over San Diego, but don't underestimate living in a place where the temperature floats between 65-75 about 11 1/2 months out of the year. I've lived in both places and life is just easier in San Diego.
I live in San Diego, there's a reason it's not cheap to live here. That said, Chicago has better weather than Houston. It's New Orleans minus the history and fun, but with a better job market.
It's not winter weather so much as the fact the Chicago (& much of the Midwest) is brutually cold, windy & generally dismal in January & February. Spend some time in Helsinki or Stockholm, for example, and winter becomes much more bearable.
Perhaps they meant to say Ann Arbor .... Also, Lansing doesn't have 5 medical schools ... wth?!
1) "Home to five medical schools..."
What? Only four medical schools reside in the state of Michigan - Michigan, Wayne State, MSU, and OaklandU: http://tiny.cc/MichiganMedicalSchools
2) "Granted, this Great Lakes Community can't quite compare to the larger cities on our list in terms of job prospects or things to do."
Low cost of living seems to be the driving metric: "But it has a relatively low cost of living." I'm sure we can think of a myriad of places with a decently low cost of living compared to New York, DC and Chicago...
Hypothesis: Yahoo-Real Estate has someone who went to Michigan State on the team that put this gem together.
This article is quite entertaining more than anything.
Technically MSU has 2 medical schools (an MD and a DO school) ... but still, that's 3 off!
Soon to add CMU next year.
Also from the greater Lansing area... this place sucks ass.
You know I saw this article earlier today and debated putting it on here.
Seriously like what the fuck is Lansing doing on there? All those other cities are blooming metropolises. Lansing... not so much.
Like ok I understand why a town like Ann Arbor wouldn't be on there, but Lansing? Lansing? We're talking about Lansing here. Not a place, not a place, not a place, but Lansing. Lansing man. Lansing. Sheesh...
comment model is grossly underutilized. Thank you forever A. I.
A+ thread; would read again
Lansing? Seriously? What other Michigan cities were they comparing Lansing to: Saginaw, Jackson, and Flint?
The Lansing Lugnuts. Minor league baseball at its finest.
I know you say this in jest but Thirsty Thursdays at Cooley Law School Park are definitely a city attraction
There's a pretty strong city 70 miles due west of Lansing. Not sure its in the Top 9 hot cities for young peeps, but I'm certain in the Top 3 of Nearby Cities That Kick The Shit Out of Lansing.
We all know they meant to have Ann Arbor, but those illiterate 'tards got the wrong Michigan city on there.
Top of the list for "Great Cities for Young People with Parents Who Still Pay the Rent"
... this list is it. 
Dude, that's just sad. Poor cat is hungry.
Young, middle aged, elderly..it doesn't matter. You have plenty of entertainment options in a clean,safe,diverse city.Frankly, I don't see Ann Arbor is not in that top 9.
Denver should be on that list.
I'll make a case for (and against) where I am now.
Right now Lansing actually has a certain job market going. GM is hiring again (The Cadillac CTS/STS and the Lamda vehicles (Traverse, Acadia, buick version) ) are all made here. High tech/particle accelerator development is high seeing as there is the MSU Cyclotron (a national lab) and they recently got a half billion dollar project for a new building (FRIB - if you want more info let me know) that's going to mean LOTS of new jobs.
Between Lansing and East Lansing there is a pretty decent bar scene, and it is a college town which is nice and will be even better when they can't talk shit about the last two years.
There's also Common Ground, a huge summer concert series
The cost of living is real low, and the real estate market is ridiculously low
That's about all the positives I can think of.
Negatives:
No restaurant scene - like none. There are some good chains around, but that's it. I've lived here 14 months and I've found a good hibachi place and 1 other good restaurant.
No sports - State doesnt count obviously, and someone mentioned the Lugnuts, yeah Single A baseball, woo. Detroit is too far to go for a game (3+ hours round trip) whereas from AA I could drive in for Bears/Lions no problem.
There's a vet school and some other colleges, but I really have no idea why Lansing is on this list. I'd give it a B, B- while a lot of other cities on this list (Chicago) would be A+++++++
How the hell are San Francisco and Boston/Cambridge not on that list?
This is why I don't trust lists.
I'm starting to think that internet lists of shit about which people care and have opinions might be used to generate (1) controversy and (2) page views.