Outside magazine has published an article on the "20 Best Towns in America." Unfortunately, the folks at Outside don't publish their content online but media outlets are reporting the top ten as...
- Washington, D.C.
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Ogden, Utah
- Portsmouth, New Hampshire
- Tacoma, Washington
- Ithaca, New York
- Louisville, Kentucky
- Eureka, California
- Crested Butte, Colorado
- Columbia, Missouri
Comments
DC is a town now? DC is the “best” “town” now? What the heck?
I know, what is with that? Outside must have spent too much time inside.
Matt and CG,
I have that Outside issue, and the second ten are sort of paired and interspersed with the first ten, not ranked 11-20. They are:
Oxford, Mississippi
New Orleans
Oakland
Sacramento
Levittown, New York
Corvallis, Oregon
Wilmington, North Carolina
Seattle
Charlottesville, Virginia
Brattleboro, Vermont
If there’s a theme, and it’s an old one in the best-places-to-live lists, it’s college towns.
Hope you’re having a good summer!
Outside will put the article online after the next issue comes out.
Best town contests are like Texas chili cooking contests. It’s all great fun until someone spoils the fun by pointing out that it’s really all nonsense. Eat the chili and enjoy it, it is all good.