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NYT says Irvine is the perfect home for me

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It took a bit of doing, but I finally found the set of inputs that provided me with the correct answer on the New York Times's "Where Should You Live" clickbait thingy:

This took a while. At first it kept telling me I should live in New Jersey. Then I restricted it to the West and it told me I should live in various tiny towns in northern California. Then I restricted it to big cities and up popped Irvine. Hooray! Moving is such a pain in the ass.

41 thoughts on “NYT says Irvine is the perfect home for me”

  2. haddockbranzini

    Of the very abbreviated list of things to care about "Transgender Rights" made the cut. Being the NYT's one of the "Demographic" selections should have been "White Neighbors with BLM Signs".

  3. Mitch Guthman

    It said San Francisco for me, first time out. So that’s a pretty accurate result because I’d be living in the Bay Area if I didn’t have to be in LA to look after my mom.

    Off topic but does anyway have a link to the jury instructions in the Ahmaud Arbery murder trial? And, specifically, did the judge give O.C.G.A. 16-3-21 (2010)?

    Here’s a link to that instruction. Now that I’ve read that instruction, I see exactly what the defense lawyers were talking about in the context of the ruling on citizens arrest. At this point, the defendants only hope is jury nullification. If that instruction was given, it’s dynamite!

    Read it here:

    https://law.justia.com/codes/georgia/2010/title-16/chapter-3/article-2/16-3-21/

      2. Mitch Guthman

        I enjoy the lifestyle a bit more. There’s a lot more squash being played, which is important to me. Both Berkeley and SF are walkable with good public transportation which is important because I’m getting tired of driving.

        Also, many restaurants that I like in the sort of midrange quality neighborhood place. In LA the food is good and this is the ultimate polyglot dining city but there’s so much traffic on the west side of LA that it can take two hours to eat dinner at some of my favorite restaurants and, unless I’m in South Pasadena anyway, the drive for good Chinese food is prohibitive.

        And, except for my mom, that’s where my family lives.

        1. Jasper_in_Boston

          Got it. Thanks. I've spent more time in Bay Area than any other US metro except Boston (maybe a tie with Seattle). It is a wonderful area.

  4. DFPaul

    Reading that article made me feel that Beto's big challenge is simply getting all the people who've moved to Texas in the past 10 years to vote. In other words, it's less a messaging problem or being the wrong guy for the state, and more just getting out the vote.

  6. cld

    It says Eureka, CA is the place for me, followed by a lot of tiny places in California I've never heard of.

    So I looked it up on Wikipedia, and, well, ok, I guess I could stand it, aside from the 'area regularly experiences large earthquakes' part. Is 'Eureka!' actually the screech the earth makes when it opens up and swallows you?

    So I clicked on income mobility and my top choice shifted to Makaha Valley, Hawaii. Adding in densely populated and lands me in San Francisco. Is a pattern emerging?

    So I clicked on every category and the winner is San Diego. San Diego has everything!

      1. cld

        Every year now I am astonished all over again how Comic Con has blown up into this gargantuan thing that is covered by the regular press exactly as, well, just as it always should have been. But then it's success has left behind that feeling of exclusivity. (Cheap exclusivity, hipness. If everyone gets it , well . . .)

        But, this is how un-hip I am, I only just today clocked your handle,

        https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/I.M._Foreman

        And seeing An Unearthly Child was one of the key events in my life! And one of the great mysteries, because I don't know how it happened, in, approximately 1965. Apparently it was shown in Canada that year, but not in the US until the 1980s. Yet I absolutely saw it, and most of the 1st Doctor, and some of the Second, and both movies.

        1. iamr4man

          I went to the first one, when it was called the Golden State comic con. I bought several Mars Attacks cards there for a penny each. Sold them a few years back for $25 each. My all time best investment.

          I’m far less hip than you. My handle is my name.

      1. HokieAnnie

        Now, now Newark has gotten gentrified along with Hoboken. But It's been years since I've been back to New Jersey, my parent did move away in 1961 and never moved back.

        1. rick_jones

          I have to confess that was the first non-trivial city name I could think of. I have relations who live(d) in Pissthataway (Piscataway) and Montclaire and I used to go with someone from Chatham.
          I understand the exits on the NJTP are being renumbered...

  8. rick_jones

    Yet Kevin, weren’t you the one asserting housing costs were going through the roof because they were not rising so much away from the big cities? …

    It is as interesting to see what is not checked as is checked.

      1. Gilgit

        Interesting. Malibu seems much more in the cool range than Irvine, but I guess if the humidity is low then it would still be ok.

    2. Rattus Norvegicus

      If you are within the reach of the marine layer, yes. I grew up at the beach in LA and the marine layer would come in every night and roll out around noon. High temps would peak most of the time at about 75 or so. Pretty nice. Inland, not so much. A good chunk of Irvine lies withing the marine layer zone.

  10. Heysus

    Unfortunately I can't play as I gave up my subscription a while ago. Editorials and commentators were getting a little weird for me.

  11. jamesepowell

    Depressing that it gives me Los Angeles. I wanted some place where I wasn't already living that would be the key to my happiness.

    I didn't see walkability on the list.

    1. haddockbranzini

      Walkability isn't as important as transgender rights according to the NYTs. It's almost satirical that is a metric.

      2. MontyTheClipArtMongoose

        Found the Lester Maddox-George Wallace-Jesse Jackson-Bob Kerrey-Dennis Kucinich-Bernie Sanders-Tulsi Gabbard-Andrew Yang Democrat.

    2. Jasper_in_Boston

      Yeah, the list didn't include some important ones. I live abroad now, but, assuming I eventually relocate to the States (not decided yet, I may opt for Europe) my criteria are:

      *non right-wing
      *change of seasons
      *most bang for buck in terms of housing
      *walkability

  12. cephalopod

    I got my home city as my top choice (but only because I limited the region to the Midwest). Luckily there are some options on the East Coast if I ever have to move!
    Love of snow and cold and big cities does limit the possibilities, though. Really, I should be in Canada.

  14. Jasper_in_Boston

    I thought the "weather" input was insufficiently granular. I don't really need or want especially cold winters or especially hot summers. What I was is a fairly distinct change of seasons. And that wasn't one of the choices.

    1. Rattus Norvegicus

      So I searched for Bozeman in the entire universe of places and it appeared that the NYT was using data that was several years old. Bozeman is a fast growing place (groan, even I'm starting to complain about the traffic) and things have changed a ton in the last year or two.

  16. KinersKorner

    Somehow I got put in Bumble-Chuck NY. They had no choice of “Near a beach”. Eliminating what a decent chunk of their subscriber base chooses to do.

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