So it'll be up to me to recruit?

Not to deny your frustrations with the city, Aimee, but I will add that parenthood has probably played a VERY big factor in your failure to get out more.

I second that emotion.

To a certain degree, I certainly agree with you. Packing up all the crap a toddler needs to make any kind of outing comfortable and as stress-fress as possible, is, to say the least, a PITA. But we were quite hermity before Em came around. Her arrival has actually made us a little less hermity. But yeah.

I think that moving with a toddler might be easier than moving when she's old enough to have friends and maybe a school that she's grown attached to. So the timing would be good.

Thanks, Calli. I didn't notice it 'til I'd done a page or so but you actually linked me to your page (or someone else's personal results). Hope I didn't screw up your score.

After I created my own account, I got:

1. Portland, OR
2. Eugene, OR
3. Providence, RI
4. New Haven, CT
5. Boston, MA
6. Hartford, CT
7. Corvallis, OR
8. Salem, OR
9. Cape Code, MA
10. Danbury, CT
11. Worcester, MA
12. Little Rock, AR
13. Milwaukie, OR
14. Medford, OR
15. Baltimore, MD
16. Washington, DC
17. Santa Cruz, CA
18. Fayetteville, AR
19. Andover, MA
20. Cambridge, MA
21. San Francisco, CA
22. Charleston, WV
23. Astoria, OR
24. St. Helens, OR

C'mon, PDX!

AKA, HQ for the new pipedream 5 year plan!

Sometimes, I even think, gosh, we could do it!

Reality, however, tends to tie us here.

I have to say that the ReadyMade article on the McMenamins certainly made Portland seem even cooler. (Hec mentioned these guys earlier, just to give credit where it's due.)

you actually linked me to your page

Oops. I didn't know it saved that. Sorry for the confusion.

For some reason I didn't get much in the way of big cities on mine. I really expected Seattle to score higher. Oh well.

I think I know what Aimee means by hermit. For different reasons, but it all has to do with how much trouble it takes to do anything. For me, who hates driving -, the ablity to walk out the door, go to the coffe shop, convience store, bead shop and local library with out a car make a big deal difference on how I deal with going anywhere by car. I am more willing, because i don't have to all the time. now, I don't know where Aimee is, but if you can't even walk to the park, to the local convience store - everything becomes abig deal.

For some reason I didn't get much in the way of big cities on mine. I really expected Seattle to score higher. Oh well.

I think Find Your Spot handicaps Seattle for some reason. I've taken it TRYING to get Seattle for the heck of it, and it's never happened. Those HATERS!

If we were to buy a house out there, I'd probably follow the lead of most of my co-workers out there - buy in Jersey. Plus, Philly has no sales tax!

Jersey has some seriously good public schools. In a couple of years that'll be like having a 15,000 raise.