Yeah, these ubiquitous, dime-a-dozen "surveys" of the best places to live are complete and utter laughable bullsh!t. Every outfit running these "surveys" have an underlying agenda that HUGELY skews the outcome to coincide with the narrative they wish to present. ANYONE who believes in or touts any of these "surveys" is a pathetic nitwit with an IQ below 60.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence