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FIND YOUR DREAM HOME OR APARTMENT
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Feb 7, 2012 6:13AM
I live in Florida & just because it's hot down here doesn't mean it's wonderful. Eight months of 95+ degree weather is not as pleasant as it sounds. It's so hot & humid that it's miserable most of the time. I grew up in New York so yes I know that winters up north are not a picnic either. Most of us don't live on a beach & sip margaritas all day either. Forget about politics we have bugs the size of your fist!
Feb 7, 2012 6:13AM
Feb 7, 2012 6:13AM
Feb 7, 2012 6:10AM
As a social scientist I do find some of these cities an odd inclusion. And why is it Cal has so many such cities? Of course New Yorkers and the Northeast never likes to admit its "crap". Have you seen some of the cities and towns in New Jersey? Have you seen some cities in Pennsylvania? Have you seen some neighborhoods in New York city? There was a picture album by an officer policing a project housing in the Bronx in the New York Times..it was a nightmare!
It is true some neighborhoods and towns in Florida have many houses for sale...but they are not "nightmare cities". "Nightmare" cities are also more than just housing foreclosures, and a whole bunch of Black people (racist pictures) standing in line. I wonder if there is an attempt by not-so-smart men to bring conservatism to poor folks or minority folks by constantly using fear and false information to tear their city down, their image down, their soul down and their diversity.
I know poor cities which are well maintained and look good...but there is gang violence and constant police presence. There are rich neighborhoods where people live in chronic fear and never leave their homes - because if they do they are followed, beaten or hit.
Rick Scott is like a Nazi who should not be complaining about anybody. These guys appeal to the lowest denominators in their communities. And even if you are an amazing social scientist they'll drag you down. There is something evil about people who pretend that low class does not exist both at the top and at the bottom in the US. Wealth alone does not define values, taste, class or thinking.
Feb 7, 2012 6:08AM
Feb 7, 2012 6:05AM
Chicago at #6???? Seriously? We have brutal winters? No Kidding...and people think a 31 minute commute to work is LONG? WOW!!! Must be a slow news day for this kind of drivel. I love the variety in the weather in Chicago. I chose to live here over my hometown of L.A. High property taxes? Yep...it IS Illinois. ..if you are miserable...MOVE!
Feb 7, 2012 6:03AM
Feb 7, 2012 6:01AM
Wow thats me., If they are referring to the "city" of Miami, then maybe, I live in Miami-Dade for which is where the overall populaton lives in South Florida. I consider myself middle class with a good job and it don't seem that bad here, actually it is pretty good. The city of Miami boundry is very small and plays an insignificant role in overall living here., so maybe Forbes is intentially trying to confuse us all for a gasping read.
Feb 7, 2012 5:55AM
both parties support free trade. Encouraging the outsourcing of the best paying jobs in america just so the rich can get richer has got to be the dumbest thing. this country has ever done. Just look around you to see its effects. Then look at the beautiful chinese cities that have gotten your jobs.as long as corporations control our government our standard of living will decline in favor of their bottom line.they dont give us a second thought
Feb 7, 2012 5:53AM
At least one or two posts asked why George W. Bush was not named as bearing any responsibility for the economy that has affected some of our major US cities. I defer to the Republican Rule Book. Now that George W. is out of office, you don't mention him. It is as though he never existed. Bush bankrupted our economy after Clinton handed him a 200 billion plus surplus. Bush took us into two failed wars and paid for them with borrowed money. I could go on and on. Bush is such an embarassment to the Republicans, they barely mention his name. So the rule #1 is to always go back to Reagan as the savior of our country and blame all our problems on Clinton and Obama. That's how it works in the Republ;ican Rule Book.
Feb 7, 2012 5:51AM
Media hype. Slap a few pictures on the screen along side some negative connotations and you have all the monsters rear their ugly heads: despair, rage, hate, racism etc. There is nothing so shocking in these pictures or even in the stories themselves. We see these images everyday in every city across the nation and across the world. There's the other side of the coin, the malls, restaurants, night clubs, movie theaters, art still full; unemployment rate is going down, house market (which began crashing under Bush) is now recovering since Obama took office. America is moving forward so stop all the catastrophizing about America's condition.
Feb 7, 2012 5:51AM
3 Florida cities on the list and our Governor and state leaders are working to give away more tax revenue to "job creators" LMAO! Job creators like Disney because you know the big tourist traps are really "hurting". (Could have swore I saw they posted record profits last Yr/Qtr.) Now they are going to vote down destination casinos for the mouse and are considering giving Million $ tax breaks to Telecommunication company's like Verizon. Does anyone really think that the tax breaks they get are going to really go back to consumers? No way! Just working on fattening the bottom line. No way to recall the morons that the old GOP duffers in this state voted in either. The buyers remorse in FL is high, I only hope people remember that in November.
Feb 7, 2012 5:44AM
Feb 7, 2012 5:40AM
Michigan, Ohio, Florida all in Republican hands. So tell me, how have Republicans helped the economies of their states and made lives for their citizens better? Oh, yeah, I forgot. Tax cuts for the rich and corporations and cut infrastructure. Maybe that is why these places are so miserable.
Feb 7, 2012 5:40AM
Some of you people really need a reality check. Its quite clear you've gotten all your "opinions" created for you by that sly FOX. One of the most ignorant among us seems to think that all the misfortune thats occuring in this country was perpetuated within the last 3 years, and by the hand of our 44th president. How lost and misguided you are! Do your research and see that ALL things crippling this nation currently were ushered in by the GOP! For the record, welfare was created by FDR and was only accessible to caucasians. The food stamp program began under him too. Maybe you could remind your so-called historian Gingrich of this. Bush and his GOP controlled congress took an enormous surplus and turned it into the worst economic downturn SINCE the great depression, yet you think they are absent of blame? You people blaming this current administration for the ills of this nation REALLY need a reality check!!!
Feb 7, 2012 5:40AM
Last time I checked, sports was all Detroit had going for it. And "Someone" ... the Halftime in America commercial was a call for direction, focus and change, It was not an Obama commercial. In fact I took it as being a get rid of Obama commercial. Clint Eastwood is a Reagan Republican. And Midelat.... Detroit was already on this downslope in the Reagan years. Detroit suffers from decades of liberal mayors and councils and corruption. Detroit is a Michigan problem not a national one. It is just a good example of what is wrong.
Feb 7, 2012 5:35AM
@northforker its so funny how confederate loving racist christians love to cast stones at everyone else..instead of taking a look in the mirror..tell what have you done to better america..NOTHING... 1ST 61% of people on welfare are CAUCASIAN AMERICANS...take a look at the census reports....all the imporvished whites in rual america is astounding...2nd what does voting for obama have anything to do with the state of their lives...YOU THINK A REPUBLICAN GIVES 2CENT ABOUT ANYONE BUT THEMSELVES PLLLLLLLLEASE!!! nearly all violent crime in ATLANTA GA is from whites who dont even have the courage to do their time like men...killing innocent children then taking their own life...getting drunk and running over police officers and then they try to play the victim...committing violent crimes against black mothers just because shes asked him to say excuse me and only gets 11 months...sound like a coward to me...3rd BUSH IS THE CAUSE FOR 99.9% OF THE PROBLEMS WERE IN NOW AND THATS A FACT.....4th dont ever forget whites was once illegal aliens in their country HENCE (TEXAS,ARIZONA,NEW MEXICO,CALIFORNIA) so who are you to judge the next mans values and morals....UNIONS ARE NOT SO BAD they keep you from being fired for no apparent reason his country doesnthelp africa AT ALL all the problems of africa is because of this country and other greddy nations that want to rape africa(waset) of their natural resources...yeah when you ship guns and bombs to a place it will get worse...look what happened when the chinesse gave europeans the technology of gun powder and rocket making abilities....500 YEARS OF DEATH AND DESTRUTION AROUND THE GLOBE.........
Feb 7, 2012 5:35AM
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