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06/05/06, 12:42 PM
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Top 200 Rural Places to Live...
I saw the first results of 2005's poll on the website of 'Progressive Farmer' last year. Apparently I missed this years results, but not much has changed.
http://www.pfbestplaces.com/default....ay&Rank=Top200
We were actually looking in the Ontario County area last fall--it is BEAUTIFUL! Anyone read this poll (or even this magazine?) 
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06/05/06, 01:12 PM
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Funny I wonder how they arrived at those places they definitely did not choose using my most important criteria heck taxachussets was pretty high on the list. As were a lot of places that have building codes.
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06/05/06, 01:23 PM
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Income appears to be one of the criteria. West Virginia didn't make the list at all. It looks like a top 200 list for yuppie rural dwellers.
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06/05/06, 01:24 PM
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Income appears to be one of the criteria. West Virginia didn't make the list at all. It looks like a top 200 list for yuppie rural dwellers.
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Ah, makes sense...and goodness knows we are far from being yuppies 
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06/05/06, 01:26 PM
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Looks like percentage of high-schoolers that go to college is another criteria. Unfortunately, WV fails miserably in that category too.
I found it to be an interesting poll, nonetheless.
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06/05/06, 01:30 PM
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Income appears to be one of the criteria. West Virginia didn't make the list at all. It looks like a top 200 list for yuppie rural dwellers.
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Agreed I bet the people there are the majority of the modern day other earth news subscribers
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06/05/06, 01:37 PM
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I subscribe to Mother Earth News
I have just about every issue of Mother Earth News from the beginning to today, and I still receive it. Not everything in there is "yuppiefied". There is some good information in there. A few years ago they even did an article on firearms(which upset quite a few of the readers and caused some of them to cancel their subscriptions to the magazine in protest  ).
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06/05/06, 01:38 PM
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Income appears to be one of the criteria. West Virginia didn't make the list at all. It looks like a top 200 list for yuppie rural dwellers.
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Agreed I bet the people there are the majority of the modern day other earth news subscribers
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06/05/06, 01:39 PM
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Yuppie living list
There was a link to how they compiled the list.
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...Counties in the overall top 10 and the regional top 20 lists are ranked first according to cost of living (the ratio of average household income to average household spending). Then we created a formula that takes into account crime rates, air quality, access to health care (the number of medical resources per thousand people), education (student/teacher ratios and college-bound percentages) and leisure activities (restaurants, museums, parks, golf courses, etc....
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Doesn't appear they took into any considerations I'd be interested in.
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06/05/06, 01:40 PM
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Other than Flagler county this list seems to have overlooked North Florida altogether for which I am grateful.
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06/05/06, 01:45 PM
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Florence, Oregon appeared as the top place to retire on some lists and books (we are about 45 min. away). In a matter of years prices went from finding something for $50,000-$75,000 (smallish just normal house on a city lot) to not being able to find something under $250,000 that was habitable. I wish we would have been smarter and bought up some places (alas we were not).
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06/05/06, 01:55 PM
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Definitely yuppie kingdoms. For all of the Michigan ones in the top 100 you need to have a LOT of money (and patience to deal with lots of zoning codes) to even think about buying there. The only reasonably priced one was the first one mentioned (midland county) where we just moved from due to expanding crime and the county rapidly disappearing to sprawl. Even that one was out of our financial reach.
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06/05/06, 02:32 PM
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Florence, Oregon appeared as the top place to retire on some lists and books (we are about 45 min. away). In a matter of years prices went from finding something for $50,000-$75,000 (smallish just normal house on a city lot) to not being able to find something under $250,000 that was habitable. I wish we would have been smarter and bought up some places (alas we were not).
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Florence is where I was born, and partly raised -- the other part was in Alaska. My family has lived in that area since the 1870's, and a few family members still do. It's one of the most beautiful places in the whole country, IMO, but I sure couldn't afford to go back there to live.
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#49 Lincoln County Maine.....prices are too high and lots too small
Alot of family lives there and my parents have since moved....too many yuppies moving in and wanting too many city type services.....meaning a huge tax burden 
Cant wait to move to an unorganized area....CHEAP taxes!
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Whew, glad our Lincoln County, New Mexico didn't make the list! Our secret is still preserved. Sante Fe County, NM??? Who are they trying to kid???
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06/05/06, 05:04 PM
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Yuppies..lol
I guess i kinda doubt many yuppies would be intrested in upstate ny. Esp the county's listed. The counties near NYC are the exception. As a whole upstate ny isn't exactly a mecca of jobs and urban sprawl. The industry based cities are struggling b/c of high taxes and an abundance of houses.
Yuppies might try connecticut
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06/05/06, 08:24 PM
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That is one strange list. The Pa. listings vary from farming counties with strong farming communities, to a county that is one of the fastest growing in the nation, over-run by NYC transplants, has soaring land costs, out of control taxes and a wage level that is based largely on commuters that sit in cube farms in the NYC area and couldn't plow a field if they had to. It makes one thing clear, statistics alone are a meaningless tool to evaluate many things.
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06/05/06, 08:41 PM
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Yeah, how did Pike County PA make the list?
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It looks like a top 200 list for yuppie rural dwellers.
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agreed
Centre County, Pennsylvania? - you've got to be kidding
Beautiful (except for the sprawl) and expensive
New York's taxes are too high for my liking
Looked at New Hampshire a few years ago & decided we weren't fans
interesting list
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06/05/06, 08:45 PM
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I guess i kinda doubt many yuppies would be intrested in upstate ny. Esp the county's listed. The counties near NYC are the exception.
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Upstate NY is FILLED with SECOND homes for "yuckies" from the city
Summer time & hunting season are nightmare times for locals
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