Um, what? Like, for serious? This can’t be right. Can it? No, not possible.

The Pew Research Center (who normally is pretty f’n accurate with their surveys), ran a survey with the aim of answering the question “Where would Americans most like to live—and how do they feel about the place they currently call home?” And there was some shocking, and frankly head scratching results. Check out the top 4 most popular cities (based on the percentage of respondents who said they wanted to live there):

  1. Denver
  2. San Diego
  3. Seattle
  4. Orlando (tie)
  5. Tampa (tie)
  6. San Francisco (tie)

Um, huh?! Tampa AND Orlando tied with San Francisco? Something smells fishy… HAHA, GET IT!? FISHY! PEW RESEARCH! HAWE HAWE HAWE. Ahem, anyway, this is some strange news. One thing worth mentioning is that while 34% of the respondents said they would like to live in Tampa, 64% said they would not. So, while it ended up high on the list I’d still call that a fail.

Check out this totally official graph provided by PEW:

Some other noteworthy items from the report:

  • People with family incomes over $100K placed Tampa 8th, while people with sub $30K incomes placed it 10th.
  • Men placed Tampa 7th, while women placed it 6th. International Plaza, ladies!
  • College grads placed Tampa 9th, while high school or less placed it 3rd. Come on down, uneducated masses, you’ll fit right in*!
  • Folks 18-34 placed Tampa 9th, while those 60+ placed it 6th.
  • Tampa had a pretty significant difference between Democrats and Republicans, with 38% of donkeys diggin’ it and only 28% of elephants. Yay asses!

Interesting stuff. If you want to scope out the full report, by all means do.

* To be fair, the assumption is that old people, who simply didn’t look at college the way people do today, are more likely to not have a degree and also more likely to dig the shit out of Florida.