Overland Park #6 on top ten places to live in US

[proud2BlibKansan]

http://biz.yahoo.com/special/besttowns06.html

[Big Unit]

1. Olathe

is number 13. Where's Lawrence? Wichita?

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. Lawrence is listed on the top places to retire list

at that same link.

Olathe missed out. Too many freepers I guess :)

[Mabus]

3. Wichita #9 on 10 Best Big Cities list, ahead of NYC!

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2006/top100/bigcities.html

1 Colorado Springs, CO 369,800
2 Austin, TX 690,300
3 Mesa, AZ 442,800
4 Raleigh, NC 341,500
5 San Diego, CA 1,255,500
6 Virginia Beach, VA 438,400
7 Omaha, NE 414,500
8 Columbus, OH 730,700
9 Wichita, KS 354,900
10 New York, NY 8,143,200

[Big Unit]

4. Thanks for the Good News

That is nice to hear about Wichita. Thanks for letting me know.

[SheilaT]

5. Wichita?

Wichita is in the top ten Best Big Cities?

First off, it's not all that big -- 354,900 people. I'd have thought that to be a middle-sized city. Shrug.

I wonder what in the world the criteria are. Maybe being politically right-wing is an asset? Colorado Springs, Mesa, Raleigh, San Diego, Wichita. Not exactly bastions of liberal thought.

Wichita is one of those cities you could not pay me to live in.

And as a resident of Overland Park, I'm thinking that if this city is showing up on best places to live lists, it must be time to move.

We do have good schools here. And decent parks. And a great junior college -- one of the best in the country. But it is very Republican. sigh.