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Are you living where you should be living?
Posted By katie allison granju
That’s the question posed in Richard Florida’s new book, “Who’s Your City? How the Creative Economy Makes Where to Live the Most Important Decision of Your Life”.
Florida is the guy who came up with the whole “Creative Class” concept, and in his new book, he posits that where we live should be one of the three big quality of life decisions we make - along with choice of mate and career - yet it’s one most people don’t think through very carefully. I can’t wait to read the book. In the meantime, here’s Florida’s “placefinder tool” online, that allows you to input your own data and find out where Florida thinks you SHOULD live.
Let me know what results you get in the comments below.
Apr 18th, 2008
I should definitely leave Knoxville, Boston is where I should be. So who will be paying my increased cost of living?
I should definitely stay in Knoxville, but consider the 3 other cities I listed.
Looks like I’m a home boy.
My place finder results:
You should definitely consider staying in Knoxville, TN final score:57
You should definitely consider moving to Asheville, NC final score:56
You should definitely consider moving to Boone, NC final score:56
You should probably not move to Franklin, NC final score:46
You should definitely not move to Kingsport, TN final score:16
I should probably stay in Los Angeles….
I was under the impression that it would be more than an aggregate type matrix, where they could recommend a city based on my personal views, which would have been cooler, as this is essentially a poll of places that I’ve thought about living anyway. Obviously, I can’t blame the fine purveyors of this site as it is just a posting of code, but you know, just saying.