Best Place To Live

The city where I work was recently named the best place to live.

I'm guessing by someone who researches the best places to live and then sells maps and travel guides to such places.

Considering the future plans of unfathomably extensive development slated for this small city and the current flood of humanity onto the roads around town, I wonder if the designation is not a curse.

"The Best Place." The absolute best.

Be careful, the designation may be coming to your town next. In fact, I’m sure it will. Every community seems to get this label sooner or later in one category or another.

I’m not exactly sure who they are, but people apparently read these reviews and move to the newest Promised Land. A few years ago Pittsburgh, PA got the dubious "best place" distinction. Nobody there could really figure out why.

Singer/songwriter Jackson Browne was in one such community this past year when he addressed the audience:

“Could I just say congratulations on being chosen as the best place in the world to live. What’s that like? Wow. So everyone who wasn’t feeling so great about it is thinking: ‘Oh, shit, so there nowhere else in the world better than here?’ Wow. That must be quite a blow.”