best place to live

People waste so much time talking about what cities they like and most of it not even intuitively speculating.

I took a quiz at a couple of sites a while ago, and got Long Island, NY and Augusta, GA as the best places for me.  Which is funny because I am from augusta, ga and Long Island is one of my favorite places, I have relatives there...
http://www.bestplaces.net/
http://www.findyourspot.com/
maybe these people have found a science in it.

I had tried to do a 2009 settle down with your friends project, where I am trying to get my best friends to move to one city, preferably with a low cost of living... since I believe a city is as good as the people who you know there. Right now its dallas, tx I think... but i'm open to suggestions.