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So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:12 am
by WLJ
So let me get this straight, they give you an award for "most livable" city for having the most volunteers? Isn't this kind of like having a beauty contest and giving the award to the one with the biggest purse?
Maybe I should e-mail them this
liv·a·ble [liv-uh-buhl]
adjective
1. suitable for living in; habitable; comfortable:
2.worth living; endurable:
3. that can be lived with; companionable (often used in combination with with ):
The story
Louisville one of two cities named 'most livable' at U.S. Conference of Mayors
9:48 AM, Jun 14, 2012 |
Written by
The Courier-Journal
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Local News
Greg Fischer
Louisville and West Palm Beach, Fla., were named the “most livable” cities in America at the U.S. Conference of Mayors this week.
Both cities won first place in the organization's 2012 City Livability Awards Program.
The award, announced Thursday at a conference in Orlando, recognizes Mayor Greg Fischer's “Give a Day” program, which challenged Louisville to set the world’s record for volunteering and public service by having at least 55,000 volunteers and “acts of kindness” in a week, a news release said.
Acts by volunteers ranged from writing letters to troops to reading to homeless children to donating food and clothing.
A first place award also went to Mayor Geraldine Muoio of West Palm Beach, where the Mandel Public Library of West Palm Beach created a year-long, grant-funded, skills and career motivating program called Career Catalyst, the news release said.
So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:15 am
by justang1997
What a load of horse crap.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:21 am
by Ian
Lol someone obviously hasn't been downtown recently..
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:24 am
by DDgunslinger
Just more politicians blowing themselves... nothing new
So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 10:35 am
by justang1997
DDgunslinger wrote:Just more politicians blowing themselves... nothing new
Lmao. So true.
"No, you have the best city."
"No, you do I insist."
Omnomnom (eating each other)
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:20 am
by theduke282
Personally I don't think Louisville is a bad place to live. It's actually been my favorite place to live of all of the cities I have been able to call home so far in my life.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:27 am
by Rem700
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Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:28 am
by Lio
I love living in Louisville. Born and raised here and honestly, I don't think I'll ever move very far away from here.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 11:31 am
by Rem700
I do love louisville and enjoy living here, but that is only because of my family and friends. For the most part people are assholes, cant drive for shit, live in there own little world where they are king/queen, weather is a joke, politics suck balls, etc etc etc......but that pretty much is the same no matter what larger city you live in so ill stay for now. Eventually we will move out of Lou metro to oldham co or just somewhere with a few less people to piss me off.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:11 pm
by theduke282
Much of what you described is a problem in all cities Rem.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:15 pm
by Rem700
theduke282 wrote:Much of what you described is a problem in all cities Rem.
agreed and that is what i said. Thats why i hope to move out into the boonies one day so i can have some peace and quiet. Dont get me wrong i love a lot of things about this city, but this many people just aint for me.
So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:15 pm
by justang1997
I like louisville too, but its obviously a bunch of political back patting going on.
So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:32 pm
by jackalo626
Love Louisville overall but people everywhere are horrible.
So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:40 pm
by Dave1965
If you lived there all your life so it is understandable why you would like it. I liked my hometown too and would love to move back even though it is vastly different today. I think it helps to have moved away and have something to compare to. My office has a promotion opportunity in Louisville soon. No one in my office wants to move there or to have to be there everyday.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 12:40 pm
by theduke282
Rem700 wrote:theduke282 wrote:Much of what you described is a problem in all cities Rem.
agreed and that is what i said. Thats why i hope to move out into the boonies one day so i can have some peace and quiet. Dont get me wrong i love a lot of things about this city, but this many people just aint for me.
I have pondered living in the boonies, and probably will at some point in the future. Just want to make sure I can get enough land if I do it.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 1:04 pm
by Rem700
theduke282 wrote:Rem700 wrote:theduke282 wrote:Much of what you described is a problem in all cities Rem.
agreed and that is what i said. Thats why i hope to move out into the boonies one day so i can have some peace and quiet. Dont get me wrong i love a lot of things about this city, but this many people just aint for me.
I have pondered living in the boonies, and probably will at some point in the future. Just want to make sure I can get enough land if I do it.
Exactly, if I'm gonna do it I want to do it right. Enough land for shooting/hunting, riding atv's etc. And a suitable house to boot. Some day!
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:47 pm
by 325MOUTguru
Coachf wrote:Lio wrote:I love living in Louisville. Born and raised here and honestly, I don't think I'll ever move very far away from here.
Word. Love it here. Dont like it, GTFO.
I did and like a black hole of despair, somehow I've been pulled back in.
So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:12 pm
by jackalo626
I have been lots of other places and never thought of moving even though they were cool to visit. If I could t live here it would be Texas. I have been several times and love it.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2012 7:37 pm
by BIGC
I'll stay out of the ville... I am happy out here but want to move further in the country
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 5:28 am
by Jakob
The more out in the boonies that I am, the better. City life in general is not for me, it's not just Louisville.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:38 pm
by Wyldman
I lived here during high school (Southern, 7th-12th grade) plus 2 years @ UEI for ASET degree, then moved back to Texas where I lived for the next 31 years (I was also born there, El Paso), getting 2 engineering BS degrees at U of H . I love Texas, it is my home, & I miss it. Living here isn't nearly as bad as many, many other places I''ve lived or visited.
If I could afford the move, I'd go back to Texas in a heartbeat.
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:53 pm
by guncrank1
Rem700 wrote:theduke282 wrote:Much of what you described is a problem in all cities Rem.
agreed and that is what i said. Thats why i hope to move out into the boonies one day so i can have some peace and quiet. Dont get me wrong i love a lot of things about this city, but this many people just aint for me.
We think that way about you too , 700
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2012 8:55 pm
by guncrank1
Wyldman wrote:I lived here during high school (Southern, 7th-12th grade) plus 2 years @ UEI for ASET degree, then moved back to Texas where I lived for the next 31 years (I was also born there, El Paso), getting 2 engineering BS degrees at U of H . I love Texas, it is my home, & I miss it. Living here isn't nearly as bad as many, many other places I''ve lived or visited.
If I could afford the move, I'd go back to Texas in a heartbeat.
Well we love you too Wyldman
Re: So this is how they define 'most livable' city?
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2012 9:41 pm
by CopperWires
I love living here too but these awards aren't really all they're cracked up to be. Louisvilleky.gov was runner up in the best government website in 2010 and 2011 IIRC. What I found out was that you can't win 2 years in a row. So it's kind of stupid really.