{"id":680,"date":"2004-04-10T17:19:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-10T22:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=680"},"modified":"2004-04-10T17:19:03","modified_gmt":"2004-04-10T22:19:03","slug":"bestplacesnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=680","title":{"rendered":"BestPlaces.Net"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I did the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestplaces.net\">BestPlaces.Net<\/a> survey and ended up with:<\/p>\n<p>1  Boston, MA-NH-ME<br \/>\n2  San Francisco, CA<br \/>\n3  Long Island, NY<br \/>\n4  Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV<br \/>\n5  Denver, CO<br \/>\n6  Boulder-Longmont, CO<br \/>\n7  New York, NY<br \/>\n8  Danbury, CT<br \/>\n9  Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI<br \/>\n10  Chicago, IL <\/p>\n<p>San Jose, CA (where I grew up) came in at #31.  The nearest place to where I actually live came in at #94.  Columbus, OH (where I lived before) was #141.<\/p>\n<p>This was not all that surprising because I was raised in an urban culture and I guess I like having certain things around even if I never make use of them.  The questions didn&#8217;t really talk a lot about the culture though.  I have to say that I really love living in a town of 1800 people compared with an urban area.  Life is slower, the people are nicer, and I can always find a way to work it out if I&#8217;m really desperate for something.  I would like to be closer to the Cities, but I&#8217;m content for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did the BestPlaces.Net survey and ended up with: 1 Boston, MA-NH-ME 2 San Francisco, CA 3 Long Island, NY 4 Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV 5 Denver, CO 6 Boulder-Longmont, CO 7 New York, NY 8 Danbury, CT 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=680\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-life","category-memes-and-link-ups"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p38xoO-aY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}