Book Description
Do You Know Where Your Happiness Lies?
In The Purpose Driven Life, I consider the question “What on earth am I here for?” This book considers another important question: “Where on earth should I be living?” Is where you live worth the stress? No one is forcing you to stay where you are. It’s your choice. —From the foreword by Dr. Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life
Would you be happier if you lived somewhere else? A place where the quality of life is greater than the cost of living? Such places do exist—you just have to look a little harder to find them. The answer probably doesn’t lie in the big coastal cities: the cost-of-living gap between those urban areas and the heartland is an immense chasm. And yet the “sophistication gap” between these regions is steadily shrinking—cable tv, computers, fax machines, cell phones, and broadband Internet access are making it possible to work almost anywhere.
Forbes publisher Rich Karlgaard wanted to explore the new appeal of “flyover” country, and he decided to sky-hop around America in a single-engine Cessna, talking to people—those with a nose for entrepreneurship, a faith in technology, and the willingness to take a chance—who found their bliss in places like Green Bay, Wisconsin; Des Moines, Iowa; and Bozeman, Montana.
America offers up scores of these gems—cities and towns with a winning combination of low cost of living and high quality of life—and Karlgaard provides an in-depth look at the country’s 150 cheapest (and greatest) places to live.
Life 2.0 is the story of those who are living larger lives in smaller places, and a road map for those who want to follow their lead.
Where is your happiness? Check out Life 2.0’s “150 Cheapest Places to Live” section, featuring dozens of cities and towns that offer the good life at a great price.
Customer Reviews:
All Hype and Ego with a few scattered stats easily found elsewhere.......2007-06-10
I was quite disappointed with this book. Having lived on both coasts as well as Alaska and the Heartland, I was expecting a book about the quality of life in various locations as promised in the book descriptives. It's not about quality of life -- it's all about how much more a high six-figure income (if moved as is) goes in one place vs. another (readily available on dozens of web sites). If you are the founder of an enormously successful hedge fund or the software guru behind a recent IPO that broke records -- then this book is for you. It talks about others just like you that have left NYC for Idaho. It's all about how much more you can buy in Montana than you can in San Francisco - assuming you have the financial ability to fund a move away (geographically) from your current source of income. It's not about re-inventing yourself or about "2.0" of your life as a departure (something different) from 1.0. It's all about the cost of big houses and country clubs in Big City XYZ vs Beautiful Small Town XYZ. The second most dominant charactertistic of the book is the author's piloting prowess ("I make a steeply banked turn left and keep it going round for a full 180 degrees...I go for the slip....it works...not a bad piece of flying for a rookie...") What those missives have to do with the book title is beyond me. I can usually find something useful in most any piece of non-fiction, but this book is a complete waste of time unless you're interested in flying trivia (someone else's) and stories about Fortune 5 execs deciding to move.
Good content could do without the witty pilot narrative.......2007-04-12
The narrative on his flights around the country became distracting, but at the end of the day his points are made in a compelling way, this was the book i was hoping for when I bought it...
Interesting, but a little creepy.......2006-12-01
I could relate, at first, to the author's feelings that a good salary doesn't buy much anymore on America's coasts. But after reading for a while I got pretty creeped out by how much the author is into status and competing with the Joneses. If you have to move to some ugly backwater town just so you can afford to belong to a "country club" and buy nice golf outfits, go ahead! I'd rather live in a condo in a place that has more going for it than neighbors who are transplants and care only about having a 3,000 sq ft house! Boooring. Who wants a huge house in a place where there's nothing to do!
I feel that the topic of how the middle class is suffering under oppressive home prices is a very important topic, but the author misses what matters. It's not that we need 3,000 sq ft houses! We just need something nicer than a rental apartment. Most people don't care so much about status that they're willing to live in the sticks in order to afford the ridiculous extravagances that the author seems to assume are a part of a middle class professional lifestyle: "private schools, European or tropical vacations, private club membership, a housekeeper who comes at least twice a week, a lawn crew that comes once a week, wardrobes that are contemporary, come from nice stores, and are plentiful enough to fit any occasion...serious business meetings, sports coats and golf shirts, and weekend garb for boating or fly-fishing." Come on!
An excellent resource.......2006-11-03
I was really looking for a book just like this in deciding where to move and I wasn't disappointed.
He does talk a fair amount about flying which wasn't as interesting to me, but it doesn't really detract from the point of the book.
If you are considering a move or particularly if you are interested in geographic arbitrage, this book goes a long way to helping you find places to investigate further.
Life 2.0.......2006-08-20
If you live on one of the expensive Coasts, this is a must read if you are serious about your future!
Book Description
art of being a child is wondering. This charming book uses easy words and color illustrations to explain to children exactly where they live. It starts with their room, in their home, in their neighborhood, in their town, their state, their country-then moves out to the planet earth, the solar system, and the Milky Way galaxy. From there, children trace their way home again.
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Stretching from Oregon south to the Baja peninsula, the California coast has been the birthplace of extraordinary stories, some based on historic events, others created by immigrants or aboriginal tribes to explain the world around them. This book brings the region alive through historical and contemporary stories, poems, and memoirs, many contributed by writers representing the ethnic groups that have made this region home.
Customer Reviews:
The Great Stories of the California Coast........2005-07-31
With its great stories from the sandy beaches of Ensenada to the giant redwoods of the Northern Coast near Eureka, Stories From Where We Live: The California Coast tells the stories of great adventures, amazing and spectacular places, and the wild lives of animals. The book takes you on an amazing journey to different people, places and animals and tells their experience of this wonderous region of North America like no other. Yet many of their stories are still well known today and are also a very important part of this amazing place: The California Coast!
Review by Daniel Bernstein, age 9
California through children's eyes.......2002-02-19
This book intrigued me because I didn't grow up in California, and so only know it as an adult. It's a wonderful collection of tales ranging geographically from the redwoods to Mexico, historically from the old west to present day, and topically from fun adventures to environmental concerns to adolescent insights. Though sold as a children's book, this collection of short stories and poetry will rekindle memories of discovery and growth in readers a "few" years past childhood. Had I read it as a pre-teen, it would have sparked my interest in the "California Coast" for all the right reasons.
Customer Reviews:
A Significant Contribution.......2006-08-15
Scholars and interested parties critical of the presumptions and practicies of HUD's infamous HOPE VI program have often had a byzantine research path to follow. Part of the blame falls on the lack of institutional memory at HUD (referenced in the Zhang and Weismann paper in chapter 2 of this book), but serious critical insight into this program has been a long time in coming. Given the considerable impacts this program has had and continues to have on urban ethnic and racial minorities, that is a major public administration shortcoming.
Using the ongoing Chicago "Plan for Transformation" experience as a springboard, this volume furnishes the best one volume treatment of ongoing American public housing "transformations" currently available. This book is highly informative; in addition to containing chapters on the historical context of 1990's "transformation," the book also furnishes analysis of what the demolition of public housing actually looked like on the ground, who stood (and stands) to benefit from the gentrification engendered by the demolition of high profile public housing, and also contains some excellent critical analysis of the "new urbanist" premises that were built into the HOPE VI program in the early to mid 1990's.
This book is a much-needed critical antidote to the architectural determinism of much of the "smart growth" and "new urbanist" dogma still seeping out of this country's leading urban and regional planning schools. One noteworthy example: New Orleans, post hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Armed with the information this book contains, advocates and activists nationwide should be able to stand on more equal footing with the well compensated "consultants," professors, and graduate students that were responsible for the demolition of many historic public housing communities around the United States.
Note: This review refers to the paperback edition of this book, which is considerably more affordable than the hardcover version. The binding of the paperback edition is pretty flimsy (pages are already falling out of my almost new copy), but the lower price makes that acceptable.
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Ireland (Where We Live)
Donna Bailey , and
Anna Sproule
Manufacturer: Steck-Vaughn Library Div
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Where Can Mom Live?: A Family Guide to Living Arrangements for Elderly Parents
Vivian F. Carlin , and
Ruth Mansberg
Manufacturer: Lexington Books
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Binding: Paperback
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ASIN: 0669136662 |
Book Description
Netting crabs on the New Jersey shore, ice-boating in Maine, raking for quahogs at low tide along Cape Cod, playing beneath majestic oak trees in Connecticut - these are among the many colorful encounters with nature captured in Stories from Where We Live. For centuries, people have learned about the animals, plants, and places around them from stories passed from generation to generation. This book, the first in a series that will cover the eco-regions of North America, tells about life along the shore from Nova Scotia to Delaware using stories, poems, and excerpts from journals and memoirs. For many kids, a love of nature begins with stories. This book connects kids with estuaries and cranberry bogs, fishermen and Indians, stories of adventure and great places and wild lives. It inspires them to explore, observe, ponder, and protect the place they call home.
Customer Reviews:
Regional experiences superbly presented story & poetry........2001-01-04
Stories from Where We Live focuses on regional experiences from dwellers on the North Atlantic coast ages 9 and older, but is recommended in our adult issue because the entire family will relish these stories. From netting crabs on the Jersey shore to outdoors experiences in Delaware, this gathers regional experiences told through stories, poems, and journal entries to provide an inviting collection of tales.
Armchair Traveler Must Have!.......2000-10-18
This anthology is a collection of stories rooted in the North Atlantic Coast, beginning with Newfoundland. It includes the genres of poetry, short story, fiction and creative non fiction. Intended as a teaching tool for children, I found the book to be compelling in the imagery it evoked, particularly of the sea and its inhabitants, both human and animal.
Book Description
Spanning Texas to Florida, the Gulf Coast is one of America’s most distinct regions. This book, comprised of poems, essays, journal entries, and information on the area’s natural features, reveals the region’s remarkable richness. With stops in such uniquely southern locales as Texas’s Neches River Bottom, Mississippi’s Pascagoula, and Louisiana’s Bayou Dorcheat, the book introduces dynamic past and present inhabitants of the area, including Choctaw Indians, fur traders, cotton farmers, and city kids. Readers also encounter wild creatures such as rattlesnakes, alligators, mosquitoes, panthers, manatees, and whooping cranes. Literary selections by Zora Neale Hurston, Barry Hannah, E. O. Wilson, Joseph Bruchac, John James Audubon, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and other writers with ties to the Gulf Coast pay tribute to the region’s strong storytelling tradition. Maps and 30 black-and-white illustrations are included.
Customer Reviews:
Amazing tour of a rich and diverse lan.......2006-12-05
Part of the "Stories from Where We Live" series, The Gulf Coast: A Literary Field Guide is a collection of poems, essays, recipes, historical accounts, and true stories about the Gulf Coast region. Written for all ages from kids to adults, The Gulf Coast is as educational as it is entertaining, and the stories within tell of a legend about a Mississippi Choctaw hunter and an alligator; ivory-billed woodpeckers observed by John Audubon; violent hurricanes and mild winters; and land ranging from the watery Everglades to the Rio Grande delta to the beaches of South Padre Island. Black-and-white illustrations intersperse this amazing tour of a rich and diverse land, and the people, plants, and animals who inhabit it.
Amazing tour of a rich and diverse lan.......2006-12-05
Part of the "Stories from Where We Live" series, The Gulf Coast: A Literary Field Guide is a collection of poems, essays, recipes, historical accounts, and true stories about the Gulf Coast region. Written for all ages from kids to adults, The Gulf Coast is as educational as it is entertaining, and the stories within tell of a legend about a Mississippi Choctaw hunter and an alligator; ivory-billed woodpeckers observed by John Audubon; violent hurricanes and mild winters; and land ranging from the watery Everglades to the Rio Grande delta to the beaches of South Padre Island. Black-and-white illustrations intersperse this amazing tour of a rich and diverse land, and the people, plants, and animals who inhabit it.
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Turn & Discover: Where Do the Animals Live? (Turn & Discover)
AnnMarie McLaughlin
Manufacturer: Innovative Kids
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ASIN: 1584760761 |
Customer Reviews:
We Are Very Happy With This Book.......2001-11-10
We bought this book as a birthday present for a 2 year old preschooler. We wanted something different and this book certainly fits the bill. It is a hard board, flap book with a twist. It is colorful and creative and presents animals in six different settings: Backyard, Farm, Sea, Desert, Rain Forest, and Africa. We highly recommend it.
We Are Very Happy With This Book.......2001-11-10
We bought this book as a birthday present for a 2 year old preschooler. We wanted something different and this book certainly fits the bill. It is a hard board, flap book with a twist. It is colorful and creative and presents animals in six different settings: Backyard, Farm, Sea, Desert, Rain Forest, and Africa. We highly recommend it.
Book Description
The North American Prairie stretches from Alberta and Saskatchewan south to Texas, and from the edge of the Rockies east to Illinois. In the same vein as its predecessor about the North Atlantic Coast, this book gathers the literature of the North American Prairie as a way to introduce young readers to the region’s natural heritage. Herein readers will enjoy songs and narratives of Plains Indians, tales of 19th-century settlers, and contemporary essays and poems.
Customer Reviews:
Great for the classroom.......2007-01-10
This book is great for the classroom when covering either prairie ecosystems or demonstrating how different styles of writing can relate to one topic. Great stories for kids. I also use these stories when I am at the prairie preserve with a class.
Praise for Stories from Where We Live.......2001-08-07
Minneapolis Star-Tribune, July 29, 2001: "This book is a wonderful reference, beautifully illustrated."
A rich blend of generations of voices and stories.......2001-07-04
These stories of the North American prairie lands provide a rich blend of generations of voices and stories of natural history and the land, blending poems, stories and essays with insights on both native peoples, geography and wildlife. The result is a multi-faceted collection which doesn't neatly fit into singular categories of natural history, geography or culture; but which embraces them all.
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