I stumbles upon an article that rates cities based on how many personal freedoms you can enjoy without being litigated to death. It lists the 35 most populated municipalities in the United States. I've lived in or near all of the bottom four cities and actually been to all those places. But at least I'm moving up on the list!
35: Chicago Hey, I was just there for a few months last year. Lucky me! I hate Chicago. Especially in the winter.
The Windy City’s litany of meddlesome laws range from a tax on bottled water to a ban on serving alcohol at all-nude strip clubs.
34: Seattle I lived across the Sound from Seattle and went there on occasion. Actually, I moved from Seattle late last year.
Washington was one of the first states to prohibit alcohol in the last century, and the city’s restrictions on strip clubs and card rooms are legendary. In the last five years, the nanny impulse has gone into hyperdrive.
33: New York I lived about four hours north of New York City. In the winter. Winter in New York blows. We had to chisel the ice away from our mailbox just so the mailman would deliver our mail. By "chisel" I mean "stab and pummel with a shovel". Of course I left just before the horse racing season started.
New York competes with Chicago as a trailblazer for bad new ideas, whether it’s the 2003 ban on smoking in bars and restaurants, the 2006 decision to create and maintain an active, involuntary database of the blood sugar levels on every resident diabetic, the 2007 ban on trans fats in restaurant cooking oil, or the 2008 rule that fast food chains must show calorie content on their menus.
32: San Diego This is where I live now.
Worst of all, San Diego recently joined an unfortunate statewide trend by banning alcohol on public beaches under all circumstances.I bet this was somehow cause by those darn drunken sailors. The only reason San Diego exists is because of the ninety million various military bases in the area.
Ironically, I've been to all of these places courtesy of the Navy. Boot Camp and various schools are located in Great Lakes, IL, a stones throw away from Chicago; Puget Sound Naval Shipyard is located across the Puget Sound from Seattle; Ballston Spa, NY has a Department of Energy site populated by a bunch of sailors; San Diego has several bases including the Naval Air Station North Island which is where my ship and the recently cripples Washington are located.
1: Las Vegas Maybe I should move to Sin City next to see what it's like to live in a city that has the least amount of government annoyance.
When a fourth-grader asked him what he’d take to a deserted island, Goodman said a show girl and a bottle of gin.