Money magazine, or Fortune, or maybe Forbes or Inc or CashnStuff, i don't remember, recently listed their "10 Most Desireable Places to Live". At the top of this list was Pittsburgh. Yes, THAT pittsburgh. Also on the list were Phoenix, Las Vegas, and other American cities. My reaction to this list is "Man, you are WAY off".
Here is the much more accurate list of my top 5 most desireable places to live:
1. On a beach in Fiji
2. In the Ocean Suite at the Four Seasons, Nevis
3. Hovering in middair on a carpet inside the Blue Mosque in Istanbul
4. On top of the world's most rapidly mutating retro-virus as it scurries from host to host
5. On an ever-changing floating estate in the Reservoir in Central Park
Pittsburgh? wow, that's not even in like my top 400.
Posted by Dick at December 2, 2003 03:25 PM | TrackBackI'm going to have to take issue with your #3 suggestion ... although being on a floating carpet would be cool, the ever-present smell of feet in the Blue Mosque would make me want to find new digs after, like, five minutes.
Posted by: Eric at December 3, 2003 08:15 AMFair enough. Let's move number three to The Vatican. no shirt, no shoes, no service.
Posted by: dick at December 3, 2003 09:12 AMSo I've just lived a year in Pittsburgh, and am staring down the barrel of more years in Pittsburgh. Hmm. Bad metaphor. Anyway -- it doesn't suck. I recommend you upgrade Pittsburgh to somewhere in your top 150. For one thing, beer is cheaper than it would be on a flying carpet in the Vatican. Would I still be living here if I hadn't fallen in love? No. I would be on a beach in Fiji. But since I DO live here in one of the nation's chief exporters of 21 - 35 year olds, I appreciate the good press from .
Posted by: Marc at December 3, 2003 12:08 PMHuh. I just learned that if you include things in angle brackets in a comment, it's taken as a tag. I tried to use a fake tag, having failed to think of anything funny to put for a magazine name. I guess tag humor here requires uh, quotes or something.
Posted by: Marc at December 3, 2003 12:10 PMmarc, marc, marc. how quickly we forget....use ampersandLT; and ampersandGT; for your tag symbols to be taken literally and not as html tags. you haven't had to remember this since 1995, but anyhow, there you are.
Posted by: dick at December 4, 2003 11:01 AMHow about turning on "Auto-link URLs" in your blog config for your comments, smart-guy? Then people can directly click on links like http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Sexuality/Fetishes_and_Fantasies/Lifting_and_Carrying/
Posted by: Eric at December 4, 2003 12:23 PMwhile we're at it, i wanna see some orange in those scroll bars.
Posted by: matt at December 5, 2003 09:19 AMI agree with Marc re. the not-sucking part. I'll steer clear of the punctuation discussions -- a little too contentious for me.
I've been, uh, stuck in the 'burgh since '94. Once you come to grips with the fact that you already know everyone in your demographic group, and they're just waiting for the opportunity to leave, it's not bad at all. Small town feel, big town ammenities.
That said, I like the reservoir floating, with the exception of snorkeling Jehovah's Witnesses -- tough to just turn them away after putting forth that kind of effort.
Posted by: Jeff Christensen at December 5, 2003 12:00 PMArt is vision, not expression.
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