Let the debate begin! The October issue of Westchester Magazine ranks the “Best Places To Live” in Westchester County. Somers ranked 31 out of 40, although the Town received high grades for Housing Costs and Parks and Recreation. Somers got low marks for Shopping, Diversity, Proximity to NYC, and Proximity to the Hudson River/LI Sound. The subjective categories and weightings are sure to spark conversation about what is important to quality of life. In the City-Data Forum at City-Data.com, one poster remarked: “Fortunately my criteria weighting is pretty much the reciprocal of Westchester Magazine's, so all I have to do is turn their ranking upside down.”
The magazine admits they are “gluttons for punishment [as they] we dared to tackle the unthinkable—we’ve numerically ranked (virtually) every place there is to live in our county, from best to worst.” Ranked number one is Irvington, followed by Ossining, at number two. Ahead of Somers, ranked at number 30 is Rye; Briarcliff Manor is number 32. Where do our neighbors Bedford, Lewisboro, North Salem and Yorktown rank? Some lower, one higher.
The article is available at Westchester Magazine’s web site.
No comments:
Post a Comment