Steve Mensing, Editor
♦Here is a collection of North Carolina city ratings culled from independent sources utilizing databases such as state school system ratings, violent crime statistics, economic factors such as poverty and medium income, housing, higher education availability, employment statistics, climate, shopping, and other realistic measures of livability. These ratings are not the result of over-the-top marketing or a ra ra be true to your hometown chest pounding. These various independent city ratings are database driven and yearly influence hundreds of thousands of persons, families, and businesses in their moving choices to a new locale.
In our searches across the Internet our county seat Salisbury ranks among the very bottom strata of the North Carolina city ratings. Sad, yet undeniably true. Salisbury’s overly positive self-marketing has failed to move its placements in the highly accurate and factually incorruptible city rating databases. Obviously our county seat’s direction isn’t working in real time and is in dire need of life saving surgery. For years now small and self-absorbed special interests have held Salisbury in a brutal stanglehold and de-evolved our county seat into the very basement of North Carolina city ratings. These special interests have willfully disenfranchised the overwhelming majority of our residents and held our prosperity and economic development back so only a minimal few can profit and vast sums of money can be squandered on a failing fiber optic network and other “build it and they will come” schemes also known as the downtown Master Plan.
Let’s take a leisurely ride down Reality Lane and examine Salisbury’s city ratings. Those who habitually avoid reality, don’t want to talk about it, cover it over or desire its contrived opposite pimped by our current city government and it’s propaganda wing on Innes may not enjoy what you read in these ratings. These independent city ratings are not the products of “Salisbury Haters”–they come from data bases possessing no ax to grind. These city ratings cooly and methodically sort through a wide array of important data and total it up. The city ratings:
Area Vibes Top 100 North Carolina City and Town Ratings. Don’t strain your eyes. Salisbury fails to place in the top 100 and staggers in at an off-the-charts 107.
http://www.areavibes.com/best-places/north+carolina/
Best Cities Ratings. Ranked near the bottom (18th out of first 20 positions)
http://best-cities.findthebest.com/d/d/North-Carolina
