Travel + Leisure Magazine recently released their findings on top cities based on certain criteria. Amongst their findings:

Most Attractive People - Miami FL
Friendliest People - Charleston SC
Cities for Wildest Weekends - Las Vegas NV/New Orleans LA
Best History - Washington DC
Smartest People - Seattle WA
Best Shopping/Arts/Diversity/Skyline - New York NY
Most Affordable - San Antonio TX
Quietest - Santa Fe NM
Cleanest - Portland OR
Best Romantic Escape/Best Weather - Honolulu HI
Best Family Vacation - Orlando FL

They also rank the worst cities:

Least Friendly/Least Intelligent People - Los Angeles CA
Noisiest/Least Affordable - New York NY
Worst Night Life - Santa Fe NM
Dirtiest - New Orleans LA
Worst Family Vacation - Las Vegas NV

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I always love it when SoCal ranks on the bottom...

overall worst: Meriden, Ct.

What about:

Best Flea Market - Canton, TX

*Is not surprised that New Orleans is the dirtiest*

NO

Yeah, I thought that was a bit harsh

Try going through 2 hurricanes in 3yrs AND keeping spotless

It's not that, its all the damn tourists that come down for Mardi Gras and throw all their sh!t on the ground.

Yeah, but they're well compensated with ample boobage.

Which is why the Graffiti capital of the US, Modesto CA, no longer has their famed Graffiti Weekend cruise anymore. Add to that urination/defecation on private property and drug paraphernalia found on lawns.

i was there before the hurricanes well after mardi gras... the whole place smelled of puke and urine...

Hot damn! I'm in the most affordable!

Pssst, ixnay on the eapestche.

And Portland, OR is not clean. It is pretty dirty, and it smells like dead fish.

Oh, and Seattle is full of idiots and a$$holes, too.

on Portland. I don't think they went downtown. And I bet they assumed Seattle, you know, because of Microsquash and all

Oh when I went to seattle on a high school rotc trip me and a group of my friends ran into a couple Unusual people so we high tailed it back to the bus. then

Unusual people? You mean they DIDN'T dress in grunge?

Why, oh, why did they chose to select "Miami residents most attractive" as most important out of the entire article? Is that really the most important category?

Because apparently, the US is full of ugmos. Actually, (some) Americans are just that vain that they compare their surroundings to others

Las Vegas as Least Family Friendly vacation spot. Shocking.

According to my sources, which is to say CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, every tourist who has ever gone to Las Vegas has ended up dead.

Having been to Santa Fe more often than I care to mention, I gotta say... DUH. These things are pretty much mutually exclusive to a town that pretty much breaks down like this:

30% artists
40% hippies (some overlap with above, so actual percentage may be higher)
25% tourists
5% undefineable (this IS Santa Fe)

I've been to vegas 6 times and I'm not dead

Yah know what they say, "If at first you don't succeed..."


Also, this list is bunk, I don't even live in most of those cities!

I've been to Vegas once. I am still amongst the living, but my wallet suffered a fatal hemorrhage.

Last time I was in Vegas I contracted 3 STD's that haven't even been named yet. And those were only from the little Mexican dudes handing you the hooker catalogs.