FATTEST city in the country.
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QuoteFlorida state law limits or prohibits obesity-related lawsuits against food manufacturers and restaurants.
I don't see how blaming someone else for our fatness gets anyone off their duff and out from playing sports. Maybe we should be suing the TV networks since:
QuoteAccording to Nielsen Media Research, TV viewers in the Jacksonville television market spend 13 percent more time in front of the tube than average among cities in our survey.
That law also didn't keep Tampa from being #23 (fittest)
Everything else makes sense.
If I was mayor, I would put laws in place to close all Golden Corrals and chinese buffet restaurants. I would also require actual vegetables in the school lunch system.
Let's see with many more years then most any two of y'all... how would I rate them based on the fat findings?
Do I hear an AMEN?
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Is it just me? Or does this look like a fun place? Remember the strict Mormon diet too, but the State Owned Liqueur Stores still sell Southern Comfort and Rebel Yell.
Top 25 Fittest Cities
1. Salt Lake City, UT Ha! Light Rail, Commuter Rail, famous for incredible dry air (Great Salt Lake) and alpine slopes, this one-two punch of tee shirt snow weather is conducive to lots of outdoor play.
2. Colorado Springs, CO Planning Streetcar, has all of the above in a landslide (bad choice of words). Weather is more of a question as technical folks will tell you this is where "tornado alley" starts. But that said, Tornado Alley also offers more spring like "FLYING DAYS" then any other place in the USA.
3. Minneapolis, MN, Winter playground plus, summer haven with short summers prone to occasional chill downs, only a couple hundred miles from the coldest place in the country. No problem to walk it either, even in the worst of weather it's designed for it. Skywalks, LRT, BRT, CR, malls the size of Jacksonville etc...
4. Denver, CO See Colorado Springs North - though smog is something of a problem as is dust.
5. Albuquerque, NM, Alright, been there too. Is there a better climate in America? Alpine cool mesas with snow cap on Sandia Peak pretty much year around. Pick your favorite outdoor game and go for it. Also a city with Old Spanish style plazas, paseos, LRT, CR, BRT, and massive transit agency.
6. Portland, OR, Lived on Mount Hood back in the day. Ever open a fresh 7-Up and experience the fine mist in the face? PORTLAND 365/7. Sometimes the sun even comes out, but in spite of the overcast Sky's and dripping leaves, the water falls, rain forests, roses, moss covered homes and giant firs make outdoors a MUST. Also a pioneer in LRT, Streetcar, Regional Corridor Rail, large transit bus, new commuter rail coming.
7. Honolulu, HI, Okay, I'll shut up.
8. Seattle, WA, What Portland said... PLUS it's the only major city in the world where tiny gnomes come out before dawn and polish the sidewalks. You couldn't stay in the house if you wanted to.
9. Omaha, NE, More like Minneapolis then OKC, dry but green, long cool springs and fall.
10. Virginia Beach, VA , A chilled version of Jacksonville Beach headed for Light Rail. Cherry Trees in bloom anyone?
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Last one to the pool is a rotten egg... Amboy Lake or Vegas?
Top 25 Fattest Cities
1. Miami, FL, Nice beach all 24' feet of it. Have you EVER walked barefoot on the sand in Miami in August? Dang! OUCH! You thought Jacksonville was "sub-tropical", this is like getting hit in the face with a towel soaked in the boiling Everglades. You expect exercise games and outdoor adventures in a sauna? NOT! The Heavy Rail, Metro Mover, Commuter Rail and BRT are so underbuilt and the highways so overbuilt that if you DID want to walk there, you'll find more acres of concrete then green space. Commuter Rail without the FLORIDA EAST COAST - GET REAL! BRT replaces the rail line to Homestead - Smart Florida! REAL SMART! Bet when it grows to a "certain point" they'll just slide rails under them and hook em up... Instant train.
2. Oklahoma City, OK, The best of all worlds. So cold and windy in the winter that you CAN stand in 90 MPH wind at a 45 degree angle while the wind chill hits -60. In the summer it's so dry that the red clay turns to red brick, split by the lack of water. Dust? Ever hear of the Dust Bowl? NEVER OPEN TWO CAR DOORS ON OPPSITE SIDES AT ONE TIME - EVERYTHING YOU OWN WILL BE IN KANSAS IN 20 SECONDS! Nice spring and fall, if it's not a tornado or flood day. Number one in "FLIGHT DAYS" and about dead last in transit. No way around. BTW, when the giant OKLAHOMA ELECTRIC RAILROAD shut down about 1950, transit ridership and services dropped 96%. (What town did I hear that public comment: "People hate light rail, they WANT buses...") Well OKC is the poster child for bad transit. BTW, GOOGLE Oklahoma City Union Station and join the effort to keep it from being buried under 500' feet of asphalt. This is becoming a NATIONAL STANDOFF - PRO TRANSIT v PRO HIGHWAY.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4182/is_20020514/ai_n10153038
http://trains4america.wordpress.com/2008/06/27/the-fight-to-save-okc-union-station-moves-ahead-balanced-transport-proponents-win-stunning-victory-before-the-federal-surface-transportation-board/
3. San Antonio, TX - Much the same as OKC but with longer heat and less winter. The riverwalk FEATURES FOOD...DUH? Like Jax and OKC, no real Transit.
4. Las Vegas, NV, Got married to my Nun in Vegas, just north of my desert paradise near Amboy Volcanic Crater and Salt Lake (no lake just salt). Nothing green within 200 miles, in the summer you CAN go outside and sink into the melting pavement - it WILL stick to your shoes. Sure you want to walk outside! PISH! CLAPTRAP.
5. New York, NY, What's to question here? GREAT TRANSIT, but we allowed the entire place to be paved over. Heck you can't even find dirt below the streets - (IT'S ROCK!) Fat choices for outdoor play, beaches with medical waste (how many needles and spent FEM products did I count?) So you live in a building, walk on a bare street or go underground. WHOOPIE!
6. Houston, TX, All of the humid benefits of Miami, and the stupid planning of OKC which is only now being addressed. "It's a long way to Tippary..."
7. El Paso, TX, See my description of AMBOY in the Vegas listing. The ARMY was joking when they named the place fort Bliss! Bliss? 500 miles from nowhere and two feet from hell. The only place where the Mexicans don't need to "heat the Chili" and YOU WANT TO GO OUTSIDE TO PLAY? (can I watch?)
8. Jacksonville, FL, My dear, dear, lost love in Northeast Florida. Much of the negatives of Miami weather... You might walk in Coral Gables... You MIGHT walk in Riverside, Avondale or San Marco (sorry Springfielder's but I know a couple of girls that "walk" up your way. (can I insult anyone else?) A city that thinks OKC wrote the book on MASS TRANSIT. I-40 EAST. Sitting on a Port Of Gold and unable to tell a trolley from a bus. Go ahead, play basketball after a 2 mile jog to Regency Apartments... I'll call Shand's. TREES? LRT? STREETCAR? PARKS? BIKEWAYS? PASEOS? PLAZAS? Yeah, maybe if we keep nipping at the heels but face it, about as likely as reopening several miles of underground tunnels downtown for tourist trade.
9. Charlotte, NC, The weather negatives here are a long established almost OKC like wet-dry cycle. (The dry cycle helped starve out my Confederate ancestors there...) Go play? Still way too much surface pavement, parking and way too little play space. But the city is coming on like gangbusters to end any negatives. Let's see if this changes with good planning? Will it effect our eat-play habits?
10. Louisville-Jefferson, KY, Last time I crawled out of a cave in Eastern Kentucky (Carter Caves State Park) Louisville was having a real honest midwest tornadic storm. While I drove dodging flying shingles and hail stones, I noted about 1/2 the city seemed abandoned (yeah maybe it WAS the storm). The lack luster lifestyle seen on COPS looks just like the lack luster lifestyle in Jacksonville. Why does ANYONE come here? What the heck is in Louisville besides fast horses and slow women? No transit worth anything either, no Amtrak, no , no, no, hell... THIS IS JACKSONVILLE NORTH! (Sorry my sweet city!) Oh yeah, and we're supposed to PLAY in these places? Someone pass me a SNICKERS!
This is the part where Lakelander jumps on and says I was unfair to someplace... Sorry Lake, I'm just unfair everyplace.
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Wash your eyes out deep in this CANYON within the JACKSONVILLE MSA... BUT...DOES ANYONE KNOW IT?
OCKLAWAHA
YOUR FAT OLD HIPPIE FRIEND!