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(Yahoo) Interesting The ten brainiest places to retire. Get off my plot of Poacae   (finance.yahoo.com) divider line 91
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mamoru [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 09:10:25 AM  
I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames

 
shaggenstein 2008-06-08 10:41:54 AM  
I kinda expected to see Ithaca on that list.

 
Epsilon [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 12:46:43 PM  
What the hell is Hoboken, NJ doing on that list? The only fact they cite about it is it's across the river from Manhattan. So what???

 
thelordofcheese 2008-06-08 12:49:51 PM  
To the ethereal void? Or in a corporeal manner?

 
NotSubby 2008-06-08 12:53:10 PM  
The last five entries on this list invalidate the story. Were they supposed to be representative of the BOTTOM five of the list?

 
anglwscbdwings 2008-06-08 12:53:56 PM  
HOBOKEN?!

SRSLY?!

 
crm114 2008-06-08 12:54:28 PM  
Boulder...shenanigans.

 
Dellirium 2008-06-08 12:54:36 PM  
Retire to Hoboken?

What are you, out of your mind?

It's New Jersey, for christ's sake!

 
thelordofcheese 2008-06-08 12:55:39 PM  
NotSubby: The last five entries on this list invalidate the story. Were they supposed to be representative of the BOTTOM five of the list?

Upper St. Clair, Pa.

/you lose

 
Dellirium 2008-06-08 12:55:54 PM  
Maybe, Marbella, Spain or Lyon, France, or even Santa Fe, NM but not most of these locations.

 
Littledogg 2008-06-08 12:56:01 PM  
I have a standard zombie preparedness plan or Z.P.P. as the lady calls it, but who really wants to be fighting off the zombie incursion on the front lines? Give me a list of least brainiest, that would be something relevant to my interests.

 
wwtsomifitsd 2008-06-08 12:57:22 PM  
Berkeley my ass

 
nirwana [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 01:00:47 PM  
How could they overlook Kenosha ?!?

 
picturescrazy 2008-06-08 01:01:48 PM  
Right, what Ann Arbor needs most is a bunch of old people moving in to add to the already wonderful driving skills of the average Michigan resident.

 
FloydA [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 01:02:30 PM  
FTFA: For retirees who have no desire to stop learning-and that's, like, pretty much everyone-

Is there any place where we can send journalists to become more brainy? That article is, "like, pretty much" CRAP!

 
mikaloyd 2008-06-08 01:03:11 PM  
So the elderly now wish to retire to expensive places with godawful lots of snow and be surrounded by wet-behind-the-ears poli-sci majors in Che T shirts? Really?

It must be true since I heard it on the internet.

 
Freak Flag Fly [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 01:03:59 PM  
wwtsomifitsd: Berkeley my ass

Kinky.

 
Snargi 2008-06-08 01:04:22 PM  
mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames


That's because smart Amurikans want to keep their retirement money rather than give 9/10 of it to the state so that some out-of-work Euro-slacker can have internet access and post to Fark.

//Just added petrol to the fire

 
GoodasGold 2008-06-08 01:04:53 PM  
BRAAIINS

 
gwendolyyyn 2008-06-08 01:05:44 PM  
nirwana
How could they overlook Kenosha ?!?

haha! I came here to ask that!

 
thelordofcheese 2008-06-08 01:05:56 PM  
mikaloyd: So the elderly now wish to retire to expensive places with godawful lots of snow and be surrounded by wet-behind-the-ears poli-sci majors in Che T shirts mathematic, biomedical, and computer students? Really?

It must be true since I heard it on the internet.


Upper St. Clair, Pa.
/but they're farther north

 
Omnivorous 2008-06-08 01:08:14 PM  
West Layflat, IN? I don't think so. I spent four years there and "intellectual wasteland" is a better description.

Hyde Park (Chicago) is far superior, as are dozens of other places.

 
TMBGfreak 2008-06-08 01:10:20 PM  
mikaloyd: So the elderly now wish to retire to expensive places with godawful lots of snow and be surrounded by wet-behind-the-ears poli-sci majors in Che T shirts? Really?

It must be true since I heard it on the internet.


I usually live in West Lafayette. It's none of those things.

/It snows, but not that much

 
NYZooMan 2008-06-08 01:10:53 PM  
If you rely on a place to exercise your brain, it's likely too late.

 
TMBGfreak 2008-06-08 01:11:01 PM  
Omnivorous:

Boiler Up!

 
astinkywind 2008-06-08 01:12:04 PM  
what the heck is Poacae?

 
SharkInfested 2008-06-08 01:14:42 PM  
Reston? Reston? Reston? A soul-sucking bland McMansion-filled traffic-spewing Nothern Virginia void? Uhhh, no thanks. It's what I imagine that the smart ones are retiring from.

 
Cyborg77 2008-06-08 01:16:28 PM  
My brother lives in Hoboken. It seems more like a college town than a place to retire (most bars in a square mile).

Then again Berkley in definitely a college town too. Guess being close to the kids and the drugs keeps the old people smart.

 
Old_Fark 2008-06-08 01:16:36 PM  
I have two friends that have relocated to retire, others have pretty much "retired in place". One is in an "American" retirement community in Mexico where his cost of living is next to nothing, the other is in Aruba, same sort of benefit except the fuel for his boat is like $20/gal but he makes enough money ferrying exec's around that it doesn't matter. Lotsa companies are building facilities there.
It seems if you want to use your brains to retire you'll have to leave the country.

 
jjorsett 2008-06-08 01:19:00 PM  
By all means retire to Berkeley if you want to live under the benevolent despotism of the biggest bunch of Bolsheviks in the entire US.

 
NotSubby 2008-06-08 01:21:56 PM  
thelordofcheese: NotSubby: The last five entries on this list invalidate the story. Were they supposed to be representative of the BOTTOM five of the list?

Upper St. Clair, Pa.

/you lose


Did I strike a nerve? Sorry, Snowflake. Your town is just, heh, fine.

 
tallen702 2008-06-08 01:22:06 PM  
If you're going to state Reston, VA as being an intellectual place to retire, you might as well include the rest of Loudon and Fairfax counties as they're exactly the same. Cookie-cutter condos in the Dulles flight path with nothing but chain stores and starbucks for entertainment.

 
Bitter Barn 2008-06-08 01:24:44 PM  
Who would retire to Brookline, MA? Yeah, old people love shoveling snow and fighting for parking spaces.

Nobody retires to Brookline, there are a lot of old people there who lived there their whole lives. They didn't retire to Brookline. They already were unfortunate enough to live there.

 
spelunking_defenestrator 2008-06-08 01:31:31 PM  
Berkeley! Yeah, haha, OK, good luck not getting driven out by the anti-imperialists.

 
brandied 2008-06-08 01:31:40 PM  
Which is why I'll probably avoid those places. I do not care for academic snobs...

 
Lincey 2008-06-08 01:34:55 PM  
Lake oswego? Lake oswego is a huge fail. People there are such dick heads

 
IvyMike 2008-06-08 01:37:52 PM  
The "Berkeley student" stereotype found here is about 30 years out of date. There are drugged-out hippies in Berkeley, but they are not students, they are residents.

The students are surprisingly conservative and somewhat boring.

 
weatherwax 2008-06-08 01:41:28 PM  
Ann Arbor is over-rated, though you wouldn't know it from the people who live there. They are all a bunch of blowhard, trust-fund douchebags who are "conscious" of the world's suffering and wish to alleviate it by paying twice as much for hemp sweaters. Its really easy to feel bad about the world when you don't ever have to see any icky poor people or plight. God forbid you put any of your money into a community that needs to be re-built, its probably full of dangerous darkies!!11!!1!

 
Simia goosenicae 2008-06-08 01:41:48 PM  
Lincey: Lake oswego? Lake oswego is a huge fail. People there are such dick heads

THIS.

Lake Oswego is overpriced upper-class suburban hell. If, for whatever reason, I found myself in retirement there, I'd seriously consider euthanasia as a quick escape.

/plans to barhop in SE Portland dives until I'm 80
//really, really hates suburbia
///WTF, why and how is Lake Oswego on the list?

 
FlippityFlap 2008-06-08 01:43:30 PM  
If you're so smart, why are you reading U.S News and World Report???

/seriously....

 
moothemagiccow 2008-06-08 01:46:56 PM  
mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames


Excellent point.

 
ComicBookGuy 2008-06-08 01:47:21 PM  
mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames


I think you should have pointed out they're mostly liberal enclaves.

 
lelio 2008-06-08 01:50:45 PM  
Omnivorous: West Layflat, IN? I don't think so. I spent four years there and "intellectual wasteland" is a better description.

Amen to that. There's very little culture there at all. Good engineering school, mainly as there's absolutely nothing to distract you out in a cornfield.

/ would rather die than go back to Indiana

 
darkvstar 2008-06-08 01:53:32 PM  
retire? in the US? yeah, right. the only chance in hell i have in retiring is if i move to Mexcio. there are entire towns where the pinche gringos are the majority population.

 
weatherwax 2008-06-08 01:59:17 PM  
ComicBookGuy: mamoru: I call shenanigans. All of those places are in the USA.

/woo, that should stoke some flames

I think you should have pointed out they're mostly liberal enclaves.


Damn book reedin liberuls! I think that its possible to be an intelligent conservative, though I haven't found any evidence to prove it.

/I keed
//..kind of

 
consciousNOT [TotalFark] 2008-06-08 01:59:33 PM  
11) Jackson, Mississippi

 
RoyBatty 2008-06-08 02:02:12 PM  
I love Berkeley and the Bay Area. Left about four years ago. Wish I could move back.

/just say no to court allowed out of state move away orders

 
Sir Roderick Ponce von Fontlebottom 2008-06-08 02:03:24 PM  
Number one should have been:

Galt's Gulch

 
twomutts 2008-06-08 02:04:52 PM  
weatherwax: Ann Arbor is over-rated, though you wouldn't know it from the people who live there. They are all a bunch of blowhard, trust-fund douchebags who are "conscious" of the world's suffering and wish to alleviate it by paying twice as much for hemp sweaters. Its really easy to feel bad about the world when you don't ever have to see any icky poor people or plight. God forbid you put any of your money into a community that needs to be re-built, its probably full of dangerous darkies!!11!!1!

Awww... looks like someone is grumpy about being rejected and ending up at Michigan State!

 
atlanta_ufo 2008-06-08 02:14:24 PM  
One brainy spot that won't surprise: Berkeley, Calif., where residents might head for a screening of a film on urban organic farming in Cuba

I think I'd rather just stick with reading sci-fi and watching channels like History and Discovery.

 
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