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Best & Worst U.S. Cities for a Dude's Health |
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Written by Mike Kord
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:27 |
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I recently read this Men's Health article written by Heather Loeb about the 10 Best & Worst Cities for Men. Here are the lists:
The 10 Best
1. Madison, Wisconsin
2. St. Paul, Minn.
3. Salt Lake City
4. Seattle
5. Aurora, Colo.
6. San Jose
7. Lincoln, Neb.
8. San Francisco
9. Boston
10. Minneapolis
The 10 Worst (No. 1 being the least bad)
1. Detroit
2. Jacksonville, Fla.
3. Riverside, Calif.
4. Bakersfield, Calif.
5. Memphis, Tenn.
6. Birmingham, Ala.
7. St. Petersburg, Fla.
8. Las Vegas
9. St. Louis
10. Charleston, W. Va.
Off the top of my head, If I had to rank these cities based on where I’d like to live, I’d put them in these orders:
The 10 Best
1. Seattle: Great paddling and other outdoor sports to do nearby. As one writer put it, “the only major city people move to in order to get closer to nature.” Plus I wouldn't have to move.
2. Salt Lake City: A nice mid-size city near mountains. A little on the dry side, but after 35 years in Seattle, I could hack it for a while.
3. San Francisco: One of the few places in America that makes you almost feel like you’re in another country.
4. Aurora, Colo.: Never been there, but living close to the Rockies can’t be too bad.
5. San Jose, Calif.: Not too far from great outdoor sports.
6. Boston: I could take my son to Fenway, then catch the Plymouth & Brockton bus to visit the in-laws on Cape Cod.
7-8. Minneapolis-St. Paul: Basically the same place, I thought, so I put them together. The Mississippi is right there, and I like cold weather.
9. Madison, Wisconsin: Cold weather a plus, and a college town would help me stay young.
10. Lincoln, Neb.: I could remind Big Red fans of my Washington Huskies’ thorough 36-21 ass-kicking on their home field in 1991.
The 10 Worst (No. 1 being the least undesirable)
1. Bakersfield, Calif.: Not too far from the Kern River and the southern Sierras.
2. Las Vegas: Not my kind of town at all, but I could ignore the bright lights and thrive near the Colorado River and Red Rocks National Park nearby.
3. Riverside, Calif.: Same basic reasoning as Bakersfield.
4. St. Petersburg, Fla.: My sister and her family live in nearby Tampa.
5. Memphis: I’d be within driving distance of good rivers and some mountains.
6. Jacksonville: I could make it to Tampa in a day, but my sister would have to keep lots of good food in the fridge.
7. Charleston, W. Va.: See No. 5
8. St. Louis: It’s not super far to Colorado or Tennessee, but maybe that’s a little optimistic.
9. Detroit: It would make me appreciate where I currently live.
10. Birmingham, Ala.: Same as No. 9.
What can I say? I have a West Coast bias. The rivers and mountains are just hard to beat. Here is Paddler's list of best towns from the Jul-Aug 2008 issue. |
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The Best Job in the World |
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Written by Mike Kord
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Tuesday, 20 January 2009 14:11 |
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If you’re one of the 1.9 million Americans who lost his job in the last four months of 2008, here’s a great opportunity for you in a place that looks like it’d be fun to paddle.
It didn’t take long for word to spread about the “Best Job in the World” set up by Australian tourism officials, who created a website (www.islandreefjob.com) advertising a six-month “caretaker” position on Australia’s tropical Hamilton Island. All you have to do to be qualified is be willing to swim, snorkel, sail, and occasionally talk to the media. For that, you’ll get paid $150,000 (about $105,000 U.S.), live rent-free in a three-bedroom villa with a pool. You’ll “work” about 12 hours a month, basically just feeding fish, picking up mail, and maintaining a blog.
Once officials set up the website, and word was disseminated via news outlets and the Internet, it pretty much crashed shortly thereafter. The tourism department had to upgrade from one to 10 servers to handle the load. The BBC reported earlier today that over 2,000 video applications had been submitted and that tens of thousands more were expected by the February 22 deadline.
Wikipedia didn’t have a whole lot of information about Hamilton Island, but I'd guess most of you would probably be able to hack it—temperatures in the 70s during the cooler winter months (May-Sept) and in the 80s in the summer (Oct-April). Looks like a good place to kayak. |
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