Sugar Land Third Best Place In U.S. To Live

[kurth]

Sugar Land was named the third best place in the U.S. to live by Money Magazine, KPRC Local 2 reported. The magazine, due to hit stands on July 24, reviewed a wide range of economic and quality-of-life indicators to choose the best places in the U.S. to live.

"These places reflect the qualities that most Americans want when it comes to a place to live and raise a family," Money executive editor Craig Matters said.

Money started with an initial list of 745 cities with populations above 50,000. The magazine named Fort Collins, Colo., as the best place to live.

http://www.click2houston.com/family/9528344/detail.html

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Pardon Me While I Puke.

[Wickerman]

1. Wha?

All US citizens were in the running? I would think even Love Canal would score higher.

[BlueJazz]

32. Don't take it to heart. "Money Ragazine" is a Right-Wing piece...

... of crap that's not worthy of any DU'er wiping their ass with......
A few years ago, they were honking about Orange County, CA and how all the
"smart and Hip" people lived there..

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Sadie5]

2. Live in Sugar land

Then you get to live with corrupt piggies like DeLay and the Enronites. If it gets too overcrowded then give em a rat pellet gun to play with.

[Minnesota Libra]

3. Where is "Sugar Land"??? Please don't...............

....tell me it's somewhere in Texas?????

[AspenRose]

6. OK, we won't tell you.

(But it is.)

[Ron Green]

16. It's not even really Texas, it's Houston.

Ft. Worth is Texas. So are San Antonio and Stephenville and Marfa and even Rusk. But Sugarland is a Houston suburb, and what a deadly, soulless place.

[Joe Fields]

44. Wasn't Houston rated as one of the most polluted cities in the U.S.?

As far as air quality?

[Minnesota Libra]

25. Anything in Texas is in the top 3?? Well, at least we know............

....what that list is worth.:shrug:

[kurth]

7. "For a Conservative, Life Is Sweet in Sugar Land, Tex."

For a Conservative, Life Is Sweet in Sugar Land, Tex.
By David Finkel
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, April 26, 2004; Page A01

SUGAR LAND, Tex. -- This is the home of Britton Stein, who describes George W. Bush as "a man, a man's man, a manly man," and Al Gore as "a ranting and raving little whiny baby."

Forty-nine years old, Stein is a husband, a father, a landscaper and a Republican. He lives in a house that has six guns in the closets and 21 crosses in the main hallway. His wife cuts his hair with electric clippers. His three daughters aren't embarrassed when he kisses them on their cheeks. He loves his family, hamburgers and his dog. He believes in God, prays daily and goes to church weekly. He has a jumbo smoker in his back yard and a 40-foot tree he has climbed to hang Christmas lights. He has a pickup truck that he has filled with water for the Fourth of July parade, driving splashing kids around a community where Boy Scouts plant American flags in the yards. His truck is a Chevy. His beer is Bud Light. His savior is Jesus Christ. His neighbors include Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), the House majority leader, who says of Sugar Land, "I think it is America." ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A41964-2004Apr25?language=printer

[AlCzervik]

14. that sounds about right, i lived in Spring Texas for 3 years and thats

another place overflowing with conservatives, i was so glad to get out.

[Minnesota Libra]

27. Tom DeLay lives there and it made # 3?? So much for............

....truth in advertising.:spank:

[tridim]

29. It's (clap clap clap)..

Deep in the heart of Texas.

Goldie Hawn drove through there once in the 70's.

[Bridget Burke]

38. Originally, sugar cane was grown there....

Along the rich banks of the Brazos River, that flows into the Gulf of Mexico just south of Houston. Originally, slaves did the backbreaking labor.

After the Civil War, much of the work was done by inmates of prison farms. Leadbelly may have learned "Midnight Special" in Sugar Land.

All the delights of the Gulf Coast Climate without the benefits of city life!

[Tyler Durden]

4. I'd rather live in Downtown Detroit.

I've lived in Houston, and I know Sugar Land.

A worse bed of elitist pigs never existed.

[Jim Warren]

5. Oh, that's nice

"These places reflect the qualities that most Americans want when it comes to a place to live and raise a family," Money executive editor Craig Matters said.

Good, they can have it, those that need to be told where and what. I used to read this yearly bullshit with some interest but my reality now is whatever location they mention, run in the opposite direction.

[KamaAina]

8. Full results of the survey

3. Sugar Land, TX
2. Crawford, TX
1. (tie) everyplace else

[AspenRose]

9. Wasn't there a cross burning on a black family's lawn in that general

vicinity not too long ago? The family sued the culprits who did it because the burning cross was dangerously close to their child's bedroom window.

I thought it was in the Sugar Land area but I could be wrong.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Yeah, a couple of years ago they named Woodbury, Minnesota

which is the trophy house/SUV capital of the state.

[lectrobyte]

11. Money Magazine, what do you expect? Like one of those old

rock'n'roll guys said, you call some place paradise, kiss it goodbye.

[Maven]

12. Maybe because "most Americans" have no frigging idea

what makes a good place to live, or what "quality of life" means.

[Catherine Vincent]

13. It is a nice place now that they are rid of Tom Delay.

Missouri city is right next to Sugar Land and another great place to live.

[AspenRose]

21. I have cousins in Missouri City

They love it there.

[musette_sf]

24. Mo City is actually all right

at least there is some sense of place when you get down by Highway 90. also much more ethnically diverse.

Living in Sugar Land is for people who are whiter and righter than Mormons.

[Catherine Vincent]

31. I have a sister building a home in Mo City and she brought my parents

there for the first time on Saturday to see her new home. It's almost done except for the finishing touches. I was in the car with my sister and I asked her if there was a bus line near by. I knew the answer but I just wanted to get her reaction. She chuckled and so no. I told her I know they don't. They want to keep the poor folks away. Surprisingly she didn't say much after that.

[devilgrrl]

15. Who stuffed that ballot box?

I'd rather live in Bayonne, NJ.

[RedStateShame]

17. With obesity as high as it is, I'm not surprised "Sugar Land" is desired.

Hell, if you change your hometown name to "Ranch Dressing City" or "Malomar Heights," you'll hear a thundering herd headed for your abode.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

18. Funny how the air quality report was listed as NA for Sugarland...

Texas' air quality has been in rapid decline for quite some time now. Wait until they figure out that gated communities don't protect them from poor air quality. They'll start building bubble communities with massive detoxifying purifiers.

[musette_sf]

19. for fundie freaks and ex-exterminators perhaps

okay, they DO have a Half Price Books on Highway 6. this is one of the ONLY redeeming qualities, and is the apex of culture in the area.

it was somewhat peaceful and country-like 20 years ago, but that is all over now. it's a hideous, jumped-up swath of subdivisions now. if you want to live and raise a family where Applebee's is Fine Dining, there is no nightlife or culture to speak of, there's a giant church at every intersection, and stepping outside is done only in 10-second segments from the air-conditioned house to the air-conditioned car -- well, you deserve to live in this hell hole if you're completely afraid of an actual real city to actually live.

prolly Houston was the first "choice" for this "honor", were it not for the Enron taint and the city's proximity to increasingly severe flooding. Sugar Land doesn't flood, and it's well known as one of the prime places where what happens at Enron, stays at Enron.

and don't forget Unocal brokering that little visit to Sugar Land back in the late 90s by our then good friends the Taliban, to chit-chat a bit about a certain oil pipeline through Afghanistan. something about playing it their way or getting a "carpet of bombs".

yes, Sugar Land is the place to be if you want to broker deals with the Taliban, and support a completely venal and corrupt congressman on the take big time. what nice people.

[niccolos_smile]

20. Too suburbanite for me; I prefer Austin n/t

[ceile]

28. Austin is #2 of cities over 500,000 n/t

[niccolos_smile]

39. Cool. n/t

[tcfrogs]

22. Is there a link to the full list?

I didn't see one at the OP link.

[NewJeffCT]

33. I'd be interested in the list, too

I mean, a year or so back, Connecticut was rated the best state in which to raise children by some magazine, and I had thought Texas was near the bottom?

[kurth]

34. Link is:

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2006/top100/

[WinkyDink]

23. My in-laws there are probably pleased. For sure they vote Republican.

[sinkingfeeling]

26. Hate to disagree with Money mag., but you couldn't pay me enough

to live there.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

41. Both the Minnesota "communities" mentioned

(Eden Prairie and Eagan) are ugly, vapid stretches of trophy houses, strip malls, and freeway interchanges.

If that is what "most Americans want," then no wonder we're in trouble as a nation.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Meanwhile, the sinfully blue areas of the west coast SUCK! Really!

No one wants to live, say, in the Bay Area.. that's why real estate is so CHEAP!

[bigscott]

35. my brother lives there

stepford wives, texan rednecks, horrible horrible place - i would rather live under a bridge here in CT in the winter

[Catherine Vincent]

40. LOL! come on now, it's not that bad.

[Skidmore]

36. What happens when Sugarland loses all that pork that "Hot Tub Tom"

directed their way over these years?

[elehhhhna]

43. Believe it or not, DeLay DID NOT bring ANY PORK home --

I live here and it's a nice town, btw. Tommy didn't bring home ANY bacon AND all his contributors were OUTSIDE this district! He was too busy scamming on an international basis to even poretend he worked for us.

[GeorgeGist]

37. Tell it to the Glovers

The running's done for two teenagers suspected of killing Sugar Land teenager Ashton Glover....

The suspects, along with Glover, were students at Clements High School.

Fellow students who knew them said the suspects were active in ROTC.

“They were always playing around, like shooting and stuff,” said one student.

Ashton Glover, 16, was last seen at 12:30 a.m. July 8 in Sugar Land.

McCombs and Brown are both 18.

They had last been seen in a black 1999 Dodge Ram pickup. That is the truck they were in when they were caught.

The suspects were neighbors in a Sugar Land neighborhood were both friends with Glover, according to Fort Bend County Sheriff Milton Wright.

http://www.khou.com/topstories/stories/khou060712_mh_gloverupdate.735ae96.html

[texasleo]

42. lol @ jealous people