Here's a post I've been meaning to do for a while, and since TAR36 just came to an end it's the perfect opportunity! After much consideration and rewatching, here are my rankings of Amazing Race finales from worst to best. The post would have been too long so I'm splitting it into two parts.
36th place: The Amazing Race 28
It’s not by a large margin, but my pick for season with the weakest finale would have to be the Social Media Edition, in my opinion one of the weakest seasons in general. I don’t even mind the casting gimmick that much, I just think the season is pretty boring and unmemorable. (Not to mention it is extremely light on travel elements, even by modern TAR standards.) The final leg is no exception. There is a little bit of intrigue at the start with Tyler & Korey struggling with the heights task and falling out of contention, but after that virtually nothing of interest happens for the rest of the episode. Dana & Matt (a relatively uninteresting team) secure a significant lead fairly early on and easily cruise to the finish line through a series of dull tasks, including one of the show’s weakest final memory challenges. All of these bottom finales are kind of interchangeable, but this is probably the one I’m least inspired to ever rewatch.
35th place: The Amazing Race 32
This finale suffers a lot of the same issues as TAR28, but at least this one has a lively Mardi Gras aesthetic in a unique location. On paper this could have been an interesting leg but unfortunately it just played out badly, with one team getting taxi-screwed right from the beginning and another securing a massive lead from a luck-based challenge. Similar to Dana & Matt, Will & James easily trivialize every obstacle after the first Roadblock creating an unsatisfying ending to a mostly unsatisfying season. While luck is an integral and inherent part of The Amazing Race, I do have to question the decision to include a luck-based task in the final leg; it almost never produces satisfying results. TARAUS1’s finale is by far the worst example of this, and it’s lucky I’m only ranking the U.S. seasons…
34th place: The Amazing Race 24
Whenever I see people discuss bad Amazing Race finales this one always seems to come up first, and I think its reputation is deserved. But it’s funny because it seems like the producers poured half of the season’s budget into this leg (David Copperfield, task at the Mirage, helicopter skydive) and everybody ended up hating it anyway. It’s just a poorly designed leg that feels very superficial— Flashy but having very little substance. (Perhaps the producers were attempting to satirize Las Vegas itself? Only kidding…) Surprisingly easy tasks for a supposed all-star season and while skydiving directly into the finish line was a new idea, I personally really disliked it; we all knew the race was over the moment Connor & Dave read the clue for the Roadblock. I think if the leg had a proper final challenge like a memory task beforehand this would have been a lot easier to forgive though.
33rd place: The Amazing Race 36
I don’t think there’s recency bias in calling this most recent finale one of the weakest. I’ve watched the leg twice now and both times I thought to myself “Nothing really happened in this episode.” Let’s start with the good first: It’s a self-drive leg, which gave us one of the episode’s few memorable moments in the form of Juan & Shane driving to the wrong state. Meanwhile, Philadelphia was a great and long overdue final destination and I enjoyed seeing historic sites like the Betsy Ross House and the steps of the PMoA. But these facts alone cannot carry this lackluster episode which was both predictable and filled with forgettable tasks. Much like TAR32, instead of a final memory challenge we got a final puzzle, and once again it’s hard to assess how tough this task really was because the leading team managed to start and finish it before any of the others even arrived. It’s an episode that’s devoid of substance.
32nd place: The Amazing Race 16
A problem with this leg and many of the others in this section of the ranking is that they just don’t feel like final legs. It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly what these legs are lacking but there is a je ne sais quoi that makes a thrilling final episode and these legs just don’t have it. There are a couple of things here I like such as the riddle at the beginning and the VR task is kind of neat, but overall this is just an extremely bland finale. It also concludes with a laughably easy final memory challenge, definitely my pick for worst in the series. This would have been okay in one of the very early seasons where the focus was entirely on travel instead of tasks, but TAR16 is decidedly not one of those seasons. How did we go from TAR12’s epic logic puzzle and TAR13’s field of Clue Boxes to “can you remember what order the teams were eliminated?” We do get Carol and Brandy malding at the finish line which I find very funny, but other than it’s a subpar ending to a subpar season.
31st place: The Amazing Race 10
It makes me sad that I have to rank this finale so low because on paper, it does a lot of things I like. I’ll tell you right now that I prefer the original finale format that includes a stopover location and teams booking their own flights compared to the TAR12+ approach of equalizing all of the teams and spending the finale in a single city. It probably wouldn’t work in the modern day and I know many people like the new format better anyway, but different strokes for different folks I guess. The element of travel has always been my favorite part of the show and I love the sense of grandeur of featuring multiple flights in the same leg. It really makes the finale feel like an epic last hurrah. Most seasons choose a non-contiguous U.S. locale for the stopover city but TAR10 is one of only two seasons to use this as an opportunity to add another country to the route, in this case France. The leg also begins with a visit to the awe-inspiring Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. That’s all really neat but unfortunately this leg is just a bore, there’s no way around it. I think the biggest issue here is like TAR16, this just doesn’t feel like a final leg, it feels like a mostly dull Paris leg that could have happened in episode 2. This season also has a pretty bland final 3 that certainly isn’t doing the episode any favors. The last challenge of the season is a very boring, low-stakes Detour before everyone ends up on the same flight to NYC where just two route markers are waiting before the finish line. In most old school seasons this final sequence of clues is extremely exciting and stressful to watch but for whatever reason it just doesn’t deliver here at all. There is a little bit of airport drama which is nice, but overall it’s just not a satisfying ending to the season.
30th place: The Amazing Race 22
This leg begins with a ferry and train ride to London for an Additional Route Information (ARI) at an English pub. It gives the start of the episode a somewhat old school feel which I appreciate, even though it was basically pointless since teams had to travel together on a pre-booked flight back to the U.S. Anyway, D.C. is a super awesome finale location and we visit some pretty historic sites in this episode like the Lincoln Memorial and George Washington’s home. There’s also a Switchback to the Family Edition which was unexpected but another detail I found strangely charming. But overall, it’s just a boring episode with a dull final 3 taking on mostly dull tasks, including another anticlimactic final memory challenge. The highlight of the episode is obviously the “picture with Barack Obama” fake-out along with Max’s cringey confessionals about being too much of a Republican to meet Obama, but aside from that there’s just not much going on in this finale.
29th place: The Amazing Race 17
It’s always a shame when an otherwise great season has a dull finale, but TAR17 is a textbook example of this phenomenon. For starters it’s just a very short leg— No extra route markers and only 3 tasks, the first being a linear fear of heights challenge and the third being a memory challenge that’s not easy, but definitely not one of the series’ hardest either. Still, this game show-themed challenge deserves credit for being one of the series’ most creative final memory challenges, and of course I love the Bob Eubanks cameo. We also get a satisfying result in Nat & Kat becoming the first F/F team to win the race, but overall it’s a finale that really feels like it’s missing something.
28th place: The Amazing Race 23
Another leg that just feels oddly dull for being a finale episode. I wouldn’t say there’s anything inherently bad about this leg, but there’s not much that jumps out about it either. That kind of sums up TAR23 as a whole, doesn’t it? Juneau was a pretty cool and unexpected final city, and to this day it’s the only time we’ve seen Alaska in HD on The Amazing Race. The bush plane Roadblock was very good— challenging and creative. Not a lot to say about the middle of the episode; we get scenic helicopter rides, kayaking, ice climbing— basically exactly what you’d expect from an Amazing Race leg set in Alaska. The totem pole currency memory challenge was an interesting idea but I think the teams got through it too easily for it to make a lasting impact. The season ends with a Jason & Amy win, who seem like good people but let’s be honest here, they’re probably the most forgettable winning team in the series; I wouldn’t exactly call it a satisfying ending.
27th place: The Amazing Race 15
This is certainly better than TAR24’s Last Vegas leg but it’s still nothing special. We of course can’t talk about TAR15’s finale without talking about pokergate. I think it’s pretty common knowledge at this point that Brian & Ericka allegedly finished the final counting challenge before Meghan & Cheyne but were mistakenly ruled against by the task judge, likely costing them the win. Your mileage is going to vary on how much this scandal dampens your enjoyment of the episode, but I’d be lying if I said finding this out for the first time didn’t significantly sour my opinion on the leg. It makes it a hard one to rank because I can’t think of any other finale where my overall feelings were affected so much by what is essentially behind-the-scenes information. Aside from that, the tasks are mostly just okay, with the Cirque du Soleil one being my favorite. There are a few other charming little additions to the leg like the Elvis impersonator and the Wayne Newton cameo that also give it a boost.
26th place: The Amazing Race 11
This is one of my favorite seasons of all time so it really pains me to have to rank this so low, but as TAR17 demonstrated, a great season is not guaranteed to have a great final leg. This is the last season to use the original finale format and unfortunately, it goes out on a bit of a whimper. Hawaii is once again chosen as the stopover location and the episode starts off with some really fun airport drama as Charla and Mirna discover during a layover that the other teams are on a faster flight and have to do some last minute scrambling to switch flights. Now listen, any episode that features both Dustin & Kandice and Charla & Mirna is guaranteed to be at least mildly entertaining, but I can’t sit here and pretend the Hawaii portion of the episode is all that great. After a few quick tasks all of the teams end up on the same flight to final destination San Francisco. Unlike TAR10, we actually do get a final challenge, but unfortunately it ends in anticlimax. On paper this “how well do you know your partner?” task sounds like it could have been great but it’s just way too simple and there’s also a bizarre rule where if you can’t finish within 10 minutes you are just given the next clue for free, making the whole thing feel very low stakes. (Check out TARAUS2 for a much better execution of this challenge!) And yeah, the outcome of this leg is also disappointing. I’m sure very few of us were rooting for Eric & Danielle to come out on top, but at a certain point we as fans just have to accept that The Amazing Race is obviously cursed and there is some supernatural force causing the least interesting team in the final 3 to win 90% of seasons.
25th place: The Amazing Race 25
Unfortunately I have to begin by talking about the surprise non-elimination on Leg 11, which is one of my least favorite twists the show has ever done. It really felt like the producers thought a cheap shock was more important than the integrity of the race. Leg 11 was also branded as a “No-Rest Leg” so the last place finishers didn’t even have to complete a Speed Bump. Even worse, Leg 10 was a Non-Elimination too so the entire Philippines portion of this season was inevitably pointless. This would all be a lot easier to stomach if it didn’t really affect the outcome of the season, but just our luck, Amy & Maya end up winning. This makes the finale an awkward viewing experience for me because I love Amy & Maya; I was rooting for them the whole season, and yet I can’t say I’m happy that they won. (If you’re familiar with Survivor, to me this is TAR’s version of the Heroes vs Healers vs Hustlers finale.) As part of the twist this leg also features a midpoint elimination which I really hate. Still, the episode has a fair bit going for it. This is the first season in the series to feature self-driving in the final destination city which is awesome, and the final memory challenge is very tough; I will say, I think the editors dropped the ball in finding an engaging way to present the challenge and properly conveying its difficulty. Overall a mixed leg that would definitely rank much higher without the twist.
24th place: The Amazing Race 26
This season uses the exact same twist from TAR25 but it’s a little better this time because it’s no longer unprecedented (but still bad) and more importantly, the team that gets saved on Leg 11 does not win, they get taken out at the midpoint elimination. Like the entire season, most of the intrigue of this episode is driven by Hayley & Blair. Their downfall in this leg is sad to watch but it’s electric television. The first major mistake occurs at the second Roadblock when Hayley incorrectly identifies what she thinks are race flags sending their team astray. As they inevitably fail to find the next clue, they become increasingly agitated with each other and then get into another argument about whether or not Hayley should go back and try again. I really enjoy all of this content, but aside from that the tasks in this episode aren’t that interesting. The final memory challenge is also mediocre, incorporating selfies the teams were forced to take throughout the race, and once again, the season culminates in a forgettable team winning.
23rd place: The Amazing Race 19
Now we’re starting to get into legs that I actually think are fairly decent episodes, they just happened to be outclassed by a lot of finales that are even better. TAR19’s takes place in a unique final city, Atlanta, and there are a number of things I enjoy about the episode. We get one of the most notable finale disaster performances of all time as Marcus continuously fails to land the plane at the flight simulation Roadblock. The leg contains a fair amount of cryptic clues like the riddle teams have to solve to find Turner Field as well as Margeret Mitchell’s former residence being called “The Dump.” The latter leads to another comical mishap as Jeremy & Sandy get led to a random department store that is coincidentally also named The Dump and waste a bunch of time aimlessly wandering through lanes of furniture. But due to these costly mistakes plaguing the other teams, there’s not a lot of suspense as Ernie & Cindy steadily work their way to the finish line. Like TAR17 there are only 3 real tasks in this leg, and the final memory challenge is a letdown. Overall this episode has fun moments but there are many other finales that have more to offer.
22nd place: The Amazing Race 18
This one takes place in Florida, and unlike most modern finales it actually covers a fair bit of distance as teams begin in Miami and end up over 2 hours away in Pigeon Key. The episode just isn’t that exciting though. It begins with two Roadblocks which are both fairly forgettable, and rather than a final memory challenge we get an attention-to-detail task in which teams have to decorate a trailer according to an example. I actually think this is a pretty entertaining task and this part of the episode is actually quite exciting as all the teams are neck and neck. The teams are also getting battered by wind during this task which makes it much better. Still, I feel like this episode would rank much higher if there was just one more task after this, ideally a final memory challenge. There is a bit of ARI in the middle of the leg which I appreciate, for example walking across the ocean to get to Horseshoe Island is pretty cool. All things considered, I think this is a fair spot for TAR18.
21st place: The Amazing Race 35
The Amazing Race’s first season with 90 minute episodes has a pretty decent final episode. Like other recent finales it’s a self-drive leg which gives it major bonus points right from the get-go, and it also twists the usual finale format by implementing a Scramble. I actually thought the Scramble worked pretty well here, allowing teams to tackle the episode’s three middle tasks in whichever order they wanted, allowing for some strategic decision-making. In addition to the self-driving there are a total of 5 different tasks in this leg which is a very nice amount. Still, this is kind of a middling finale for me because I don’t feel like anything that memorable happens during it. The tasks range from pretty good to just okay, with the final memory challenge being particularly forgettable. Overall it’s a well-designed leg that for whatever reason lacks the level of excitement I expect out of a finale.
20th place: The Amazing Race 29
TAR29’s final leg is a pretty good ending to an even better season. Similar to TAR35, there are a lot of things I like about this episode but I do feel that for whatever reason it’s just missing its flair. It starts off with a task at the racetrack in Joliet which drags on for a while and does nothing for me, but then teams have to visit a whole bunch of different locations in Chicago which I really enjoy. First they have to find a clue at the subway cleverly hidden with an employee instead of a traditional clue box, and then they have to solve some riddles to locate three sites containing clues that reveal a fourth location when combined. When they finally arrive, they’re met with even more Route Info sending them to a place to buy hotdogs which they must bring to a final location, Wrigley Field. The whole middle portion of this episode feels kind of old school in the sense that there are no real tasks, it’s just a bunch of navigation and problem solving. Really good stuff in my opinion. The final memory challenge at Wrigley Field is pretty neat too, probably one of the most impressive in terms of scope and location, although it’s not really that exciting either. That’s mostly because Brooke & Scott secure such a big lead that they basically finish the entire challenge before either of the other teams even show up. Not the leg’s fault, just the way things played out. I definitely think with a more interesting final 3 and a closer competition this could have gone down as one of the great Amazing Race finales.
19th place: The Amazing Race 8
The Family Edition comes to a solid close with a leg that primarily takes place in Toronto before taking a boat down the Niagara River into Upstate New York for a nail-biter of a final Roadblock. The leg is a bit short though, in fact only about 30 minutes in episode time; it’s the second half of a Superleg so it makes sense in the context of the season, but when comparing it to other standalone finale episodes this is a minor knock against it. The Detour is fairly average and doesn’t really give “final leg” at all, but everything afterward is great. The ride across the river is a super fun scene with waves splashing everywhere making for a high energy segment that perfectly builds up to the final challenge: Completing a jigsaw puzzle of North America, putting a nice thematic bow on the season. The Linz family winning was a predictable and not that exciting result but overall, this was a pretty enjoyable finale episode for the season.
I'll try to get the second half up sometime next week. Let me know what you think about these first 18 finales and where they are placed! I welcome strong opinions.

New to living in the Vancouver area and don't have close friends here to ask to help move furniture or drive us to the airport. Were living in the downtown/Uptown area and trying to figure out the best way to get to and from the PDX airport. Wondering about the following options and what those in Vancouver who fly often find is the best and/or most cost effective way to do it.
1) Buses/shuttles - anything that doesn't take an hour or multiple transfers? 2) Rideshare/taxi - I assume this is probably the simplest and most expensive way to go about it. Any ballpark on costs for this? 3) Park-n-rides - whether its overnight parking at the airport or a nearby hotel, any one have any recommended options, especially for a long weekend away or shorter term trip. 4) Any other helpful suggestions?

While opposites attract each other, they say, like captivates like, and the sprawling messy lives of Ayonna and Jamahl are like a streaming overflowing creek bed with water bouncing off, regrouping, changing course and flowing over the stony landscapes of their lives filled with haphazard children, arrests and family members who've seen and heard so much by now they can now only mutely stand by and nod to each other. Is it genetic? Ayonna's brother, Jaleel, did 4 years himself, and as he drives her to meet her-mother-in-law to be she hopes, Christine, and her daughters, one day before her sentencing, there is already a knotty history with how they first met. "They're about to put the steak on the grill," laughs Ayonna nervously to Jamahl on the phone, but he erases any nerves by mentioning that he really wants to wait 2 years before getting married. News to Ayonna who doesn't have much time to answer as they approach the park and, Christine, a poor man's Whoopie Goldberg, smiles revealing checkerboard teeth that have shamelessly adopted the stand-your-ground defense. Christine and her daughters know their Jamahl who suffers from a major case of the Herschel Squirts having fathered 6 children with 4 different mothers with whom he presumably co-parents. His first marriage, like Ayonna's arrest, wasn't his fault; it was Islam's fault that not only made him get married - for only 6 months, but forbid him to date, and this is all too piddlingly insignificant to mention even though he's "an open book." "You have nothing to worry about; don't be tripping," he soothes placatingly - like The Killer who promises his Victim he will let her go and when he aims, she cries, "You lied! You promised me mercy." "And you shall have it," he responds as he shoots her in the head quickly ending it - for him that is mercy.
Rick is that kind of guy who attends his high school reunions. All of them. But this 40th, this time, he will be sober and act responsibly and even remember it. Still, Samantha is concerned that Rick isn't a human walking billboard advertising their engagement so these lonely single women and di​vor​cées who always show up drinking too much and talking too loud looking for a second and third chance for love won't bedazzle him away from her. She likes marriage so much she's tried it a couple of times and she'd be happy to try it again even before she's released. He, on the other hand, doesn't want to upstage the event with any announcement, but she wants to plant her flag like Cook or Peary discovering the North Pole. Well, Rick is no professional hitman like John Cusack in "Grosse Point Blank, but he is grappling with a mid-life crisis, slightly torn between his present and past as Sandy, a forward-looking blonde, and Carol, "C.D.," a younger version of "90 Day Fiancé's" Claire, Sophie's hyperbolic mother, who fondly remembers a past hookup in the Westwood parking lot, swarm over him like bees to honey. C.D. has loved Rick since 7th grade and has completely missed the irony that his recent sobriety has tempered his phone calls to her. Of course, Sammy, who "don't trust them bitches" calls Rick while her high school buddy, Sandy, is standing nearby, and who has enough aplomb to not bat an eyelash and offer her congratulations as she then flits like a butterfly to disperse the news to the other attendees. Rick who loves Sammy, a multiple DUI and possible resisting/obstructing an officer and disorderly conduct offender, and his confidence builder, is contemplating his set pension and the fluid amount of cash required to move out-of-state to meet Sammy's non-negotiable demand to be with her children where he will default serve as a live-in stepfather and grandfather. And that's only the beginning.
It's 3 weeks until True's release and Shonta receives all her filtered photos (looking at you Mo'nique) back from prison. The explanation the prison spokesperson gives her is that explicit photos/nudity or contraband will be rejected as well as when the prisoner is in solitary confinement. She unsurprisingly takes her daughter, Monae, into her confidence and Monae is unsurprised at her mother's desperate attempts to find love and to give her all without getting anything back. True acts clueless as to why the pictures were rejected and blames the eponymously named Two Braids - whose "females bad and they dimes" relaying his photos to True for just checking them out. Shonta believes him as much as Drake loves Lamar and Trump will stop being openly contemptuous of court, and as much as we believe that even though True prefers white females, he's physically attracted to Shonta. He says this crouched over a table, thumb moving ploddingly towards his mouth as a reassuring pacifier, eyeballs straining to heaven as he cannot say this lie full fronal and arms crossed defensively. And still she'll give him another chance.
Candice is rightfully behind bars for burglary because she is stealing Andrew's money as this poor schlub is driving to Vegas to furnish a decent apartment with the help of her friend and mothementor figure, Denise, who looks a little "Misery's" Annie Wilkes, with a seemingly innocent smile hiding a terrifying switch between fanatical devotion and violent aggression. She could out her friend, but she stays mum as Andrew enumerates his expenses: $1360 rent per month, 36 hours driving and a minimum of $1600 gas, 15K spent on eight 2-hour contact visits, unspecified amounts for furniture, whether bought or rented, and the incalculable countless hours of lonely nights which will propel him to propose immediately. It's there or a well-care center that might go unoccupied and gather dust and rental monies until the prison decides on a parole address. MC Hammer is sort of a case in point. At the peak of his success he earned a reported $33 million in 1991, but over-the-top spending on luxury cars, a record company, airplanes and a $30 million home that he built from the ground up, which eventually sold for less than $7 million, ate into his fortune, so he filed for bankruptcy continuing to owe the IRS thousands in back taxes for the next 20 years. Andrew isn't exactly a one-hit wonder nor has he earned any serious bank, but he is about to lose it all because as soon as Candice is released, she will grab what she can and then announce, “U Can’t Touch This.”

Metropolitan areas over 500,000 with the main reasons they aren't the safest place to live in the US
If all the ice melts on the earth it would raise the sea level about 230 feet. So any metropolitan areas below 250 feet in elevation aren't safe IMO.
Any city can flood but only cities that have a history of flooding or high risk of flooding are listed as unsafe.
Tornadoes can happen anywhere so places with the highest risk are listed as unsafe.
A high possibility of water shortages within the next 20 years can be a reason to be listed as unsafe in my list.
Any metropolitan areas with large tall dams that if broke would cause serious flooding can be a reason to be listed as unsafe
1 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA MSA 19,768,458 20,140,470 −1.85% New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA
Low elevation Tsunami
2 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA MSA 12,997,353 13,200,998 −1.54% Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA
Earthquake Low elevation Tsunami
3 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI MSA 9,509,934 9,618,502 −1.13% Chicago-Naperville, IL-IN-WI CSA
River Flooding problem
4 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX MSA 7,759,615 7,637,387 +1.60% Dallas-Fort Worth, TX-OK CSA
Water shortages
5 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX MSA 7,206,841 7,122,240 +1.19% Houston-The Woodlands, TX CSA
Hurricanes Tsunami Low elevation Flooding
6 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV MSA 6,356,434 6,385,162 −0.45% Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA
Other than crime rates it is a Safe metropolitan area
7 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD MSA 6,228,601 6,245,051 −0.26% Philadelphia-Reading-Camden, PA-NJ-DE-MD CSA
Low elevation
8 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Alpharetta, GA MSA 6,144,050 6,089,815 +0.89% Atlanta–Athens-Clarke County–Sandy Springs, GA-AL CSA
Large Tall Dam Water shortages
9 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-Pompano Beach, FL MSA 6,091,747 6,138,333 −0.76% Miami-Port St. Lucie-Fort Lauderdale, FL CSA
Hurricanes Tsunami Low elevation
10 Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ MSA 4,946,145 4,845,832 +2.07% Phoenix-Mesa, AZ CSA
Water shortages
11 Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH MSA 4,899,932 4,941,632 −0.84% Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA
Low elevation Tsunami
12 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA MSA 4,653,105 4,599,839 +1.16% Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA
Earthquake Water shortages
13 San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA MSA 4,623,264 4,749,008 −2.65% San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA
Earthquake Water shortages Tsunami
14 Detroit–Warren–Dearborn, MI MSA 4,365,205 4,392,041 −0.61% Detroit-Warren-Ann Arbor, MI CSA
Flooding from poor water infrastructure
15 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA MSA 4,011,553 4,018,762 −0.18% Seattle-Tacoma, WA CSA
Earthquake Water shortages
16 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI MSA 3,690,512 3,690,261 +0.01% Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI CSA
Flooding from Rivers
17 San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA MSA 3,286,069 3,298,634 −0.38%
Tsunami Low elevation
18 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL MSA 3,219,514 3,175,275 +1.39%
Tsunami Low elevation Hurricanes
19 Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO MSA 2,972,566 2,963,821 +0.30% Denver-Aurora, CO CSA
Hail storms Water shortages
20 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD MSA 2,838,327 2,844,510 −0.22% Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA CSA
Low Elevation
St. Louis, MO-IL MSA 2,809,299 2,820,253 −0.39% St. Louis-St. Charles-Farmington, MO-IL CSA
Earthquake Flooding from Rivers
22 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC MSA 2,701,046 2,660,329 +1.53% Charlotte-Concord, NC-SC CSA
large tall Dam
23 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL MSA 2,691,925 2,673,376 +0.69% Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona, FL CSA
Hurricanes Water shortages Elevation
24 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX MSA 2,601,788 2,558,143 +1.71% San Antonio-New Braunfels-Pearsall, TX CSA
Water shortages
25 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA MSA 2,511,612 2,512,859 −0.05% Portland-Vancouver–Salem, OR-WA CSA
Earthquake
26 Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA MSA 2,411,428 2,397,382 +0.59% Sacramento-Roseville, CA CSA
Water shortages Flooding from Rivers
27 Pittsburgh, PA MSA 2,353,538 2,370,930 −0.73% Pittsburgh-New Castle-Weirton, PA-OH-WV CSA
Flooding from Rivers
28 Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX MSA 2,352,426 2,283,371 +3.02%
Large Tall dams Water shortages
29 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV MSA 2,292,476 2,265,461 +1.19% Las Vegas-Henderson, NV-AZ CSA
Water shortages Large Tall dam
30 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN MSA 2,259,935 2,256,884 +0.14% Cincinnati-Wilmington-Maysville, OH-KY-IN CSA
Flooding from Rivers
31 Kansas City, MO-KS MSA 2,199,490 2,192,035 +0.34% Kansas City-Overland Park-Kansas City, MO-KS CSA
Tornadoes Water shortages
32 Columbus, OH MSA 2,151,017 2,138,926 +0.57% Columbus-Marion-Zanesville, OH CSA
Water shortages Tornadoes
33 Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN MSA 2,126,804 2,111,040 +0.75% Indianapolis-Carmel-Muncie, IN CSA
Water shortages Tornadoes
34 Cleveland-Elyria, OH MSA 2,075,662 2,088,251 −0.60% Cleveland-Akron-Canton, OH CSA
Tsunami off of lake Erie
35 Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro–Franklin, TN MSA 2,012,476 1,989,519 +1.15% Nashville-Davidson–Murfreesboro, TN CSA
Large Tall dam New Madrid Earthquake risk
36 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA MSA 1,952,185 2,000,468 −2.41% San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA
Water shortages Earthquake
37 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC MSA 1,803,328 1,799,674 +0.20% Virginia Beach-Norfolk, VA-NC CSA
Tsunami Elevation
38 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA MSA 1,675,774 1,676,579 −0.05% Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA
Elevation Tsunami
39 Jacksonville, FL MSA 1,637,666 1,605,848 +1.98% Jacksonville-St. Marys-Palatka, FL-GA CSA
Elevation Tsunami Hurricanes
40 Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI MSA 1,566,487 1,574,731 −0.52% Milwaukee-Racine-Waukesha, WI CSA
Tsunami from lake Michigan
Raleigh-Cary, NC MSA 1,448,411 1,413,982 +2.43% Raleigh-Durham-Cary, NC CSA
Hurricanes Water Shortages
42 Oklahoma City, OK MSA 1,441,647 1,425,695 +1.12% Oklahoma City-Shawnee, OK CSA
Tornadoes
43 Memphis, TN-MS-AR MSA 1,336,103 1,337,779 −0.13% Memphis-Forrest City, TN-MS-AR CSA
Flooding from Rivers Earthquakes
44 Richmond, VA MSA 1,324,062 1,314,434 +0.73%
Elevation
45 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA 1,284,566 1,285,439 −0.07% Louisville/Jefferson County–Elizabethtown–Bardstown, KY-IN CSA
Flooding from Rivers
46 Salt Lake City, UT MSA 1,263,061 1,257,936 +0.41% Salt Lake City-Provo-Ogden, UT CSA
Earthquake Water shortages
47 New Orleans-Metairie, LA MSA 1,261,726 1,271,845 −0.80% New Orleans-Metairie-Hammond, LA-MS CSA
Elevation Tsunami Hurricanes Salt water ruining water supply
48 Hartford-East Hartford-Middletown, CT MSA 1,211,906 1,213,531 −0.13% Hartford-East Hartford, CT CSA
Elevation
49 Buffalo-Niagara Falls, NY MSA 1,162,336 1,166,902 −0.39% Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Cattaraugus, NY CSA
Tsunami from lake Erie
50 Birmingham-Hoover, AL MSA 1,114,262 1,115,289 −0.09% Birmingham-Hoover-Talladega, AL CSA
Water shortages Tornadoes
51 Grand Rapids-Kentwood, MI MSA 1,091,620 1,087,592 +0.37% Grand Rapids-Kentwood-Muskegon, MI CSA
Safe metropolitan area
52 Rochester, NY MSA 1,084,973 1,090,135 −0.47% Rochester-Batavia-Seneca Falls, NY CSA
Tsunami from lake Ontario
53 Tucson, AZ MSA 1,052,030 1,043,433 +0.82% Tucson-Nogales, AZ CSA
Water shortages
54 Tulsa, OK MSA 1,023,988 1,015,331 +0.85% Tulsa-Muskogee-Bartlesville, OK CSA
Tornadoes Large Tall dam
55 Fresno, CA MSA 1,013,581 1,008,654 +0.49% Fresno-Madera-Hanford, CA CSA
Water shortages
56 Urban Honolulu, HI MSA 1,000,890 1,016,508 −1.54%
Tsunami Elevation
57 Worcester, MA-CT MSA 978,447 978,529 −0.01% Boston-Worcester-Providence, MA-RI-NH-CT CSA
Water shortages
58 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA MSA 971,637 967,604 +0.42% Omaha-Council Bluffs-Fremont, NE-IA CSA
Water shortages River Flooding Tornadoes
59 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT MSA 959,768 957,419 +0.25% New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA
Tsunami Elevation
60 Greenville-Anderson, SC MSA 940,774 928,195 +1.36% Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson, SC CSA
Large Tall dam in one area
Albuquerque, NM MSA 918,259 916,528 +0.19% Albuquerque-Santa Fe-Las Vegas, NM CSA
Water shortages
62 Bakersfield, CA MSA 917,673 909,235 +0.93%
Water shortages
63 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY MSA 899,286 899,262 0.00% Albany-Schenectady, NY CSA
Elevation
64 Knoxville, TN MSA 893,412 879,773 +1.55% Knoxville-Morristown-Sevierville, TN CSA
Large Tall dam Earthquake
65 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX MSA 880,356 870,781 +1.10% McAllen-Edinburg, TX CSA
Flooding from Rivers Water shortages Tsunami Elevation
66 Baton Rouge, LA MSA 871,905 870,569 +0.15%
Flooding from Rivers Elevation
67 El Paso, TX MSA 871,234 868,859 +0.27% El Paso-Las Cruces, TX-NM CSA
Flooding from Rivers
68 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ MSA 865,310 861,889 +0.40%
A Safe metropolitan area
69 New Haven-Milford, CT MSA 863,700 864,835 −0.13% New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA
Elevation Tsunami
70 North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL MSA 859,760 833,716 +3.12% North Port-Sarasota, FL CSA
Elevation Tsunami Hurricanes
71 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA MSA 839,784 843,843 −0.48% Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA CSA
Earthquake Water shortages
72 Columbia, SC MSA 838,250 829,470 +1.06% Columbia-Orangeburg-Newberry, SC CSA
Large Tall dam Water shortages
73 Dayton, OH MSA 813,516 814,049 −0.07% Dayton-Springfield-Kettering, OH CSA
Water shortages Tornadoes
74 Charleston-North Charleston, SC MSA 813,052 799,636 +1.68%
Tsunami Elevation Hurricanes
75 Boise, ID MSA 795,268 764,718 +3.99% Boise City-Mountain Home-Ontario, ID-OR CSA
Large Tall dam Water shortages
76 Stockton, CA MSA 789,410 779,233 +1.31% San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland, CA CSA
Water shortages Flooding
77 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL MSA 787,976 760,822 +3.57% Cape Coral-Fort Myers-Naples, FL CSA
Tsunami Elevation Hurricanes
78 Greensboro-High Point, NC MSA 778,848 776,566 +0.29% Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC CSA
Water shortages
79 Colorado Springs, CO MSA 762,793 755,105 +1.02%
Water shortages
80 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL MSA 753,520 725,046 +3.93% Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona, FL CSA
Elevation Flooding Hurricanes
81 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR MSA 750,936 748,031 +0.39% Little Rock-North Little Rock, AR CSA
Water shortages Tornadoes
82 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA MSA 719,146 709,466 +1.36% Des Moines-Ames-West Des Moines, IA CSA
Flooding from Rivers Tornadoes
83 Ogden-Clearfield, UT MSA 706,696 694,863 +1.70% Salt Lake City-Provo-Ogden, UT CSA
Earthquake
84 Poughkeepsie-Newburgh-Middletown, NY MSA 701,637 697,221 +0.63% New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA
Elevation
85 Akron, OH MSA 700,015 702,219 −0.31% , OH CSA
A safe metropolitan area
86 Provo-Orem, UT MSA 697,141 671,185 +3.87%, UT CSA
Earthquake
87 Springfield, MA MSA 695,305 699,162 −0.55%
Flooding from Rivers
88 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL MSA 685,344 668,921 +2.46% Orlando-Lakeland-Deltona, FL CSA
Tsunami Elevation Hurricanes
89 Madison, WI MSA 683,183 680,796 +0.35% Madison-Janesville-Beloit, WI CSA
A safe metropolitan area
90 Winston-Salem, NC MSA 681,438 675,966 +0.81% Greensboro–Winston-Salem–High Point, NC CSA
Water shortages
91 Syracuse, NY MSA 658,281 662,057 −0.57% Syracuse-Auburn, NY CSA
A safe metropolitan area

Assuming the full suite of cyberware from the game/ anime/ TTRPG is now available, what chrome are you installing to continue living your best life?
For my part I'll take real skin to maintain some outward semblance of youth (going to be 90ish lol), Kiroshi optics for better eyesight, Sandy to keep my reaction speeds (better than) the kids next door, and lynx paws so I can move better than I can now. Maybe gorilla arms so I don't need to call my kids over if I want to move the furniture or do a bit of heavy lifting..
Don't need any regenerative ware like second heart or blood pump (assuming they even work for old age). I'm happy to die when it's my time, just want good quality of life til I do.

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I am hoping for some advice on shipping my belongings from Vancouver island to Quebec. I don’t have furniture, and have a max of 8-10 100litre totes, including a mattress in a box and a portable air conditioner. Does anyone have any recommendations on the easiest way to ship these items that won’t cost too much, or companies they have used to move small amounts? Thank you!

This seems to have only started today but whenever I load a save file it crashes once it gets to "Loading World" I started over on a new save played for a bit and again when loading the save it crashes at the same exact spot. I haven't added any new mods before this issue started.
Here is my modlist:

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There aren't too many of these smaller lakes with sandy beaches in the Vancouver area. Could this be it? Just a short drive from the studios in Burnaby

My wife and I plan on moving back to her home of Vancouver, CA to be closer to her family. We have been looking at homes for almost a year with the idea that we would look for a fixer upper with a good layout and do a renovation. The plan was to move from the US when the home was purchased to oversee the renovation from a different property we would rent.
Recently my wife was in town and walked through a home that would have been a little less than our all in budget but was fully finished, Brand new home that checked every single box for our family. She called me from the home and first thing she said was "I found our home." The home had been sitting on the market for about 9 months with several price reductions so we made a low ball offer and after a few back-and-forth's with the seller, we had them with a counter offer 15% lower than their latest reduction. We woke up that morning confident that we would have a contract signed that day but we pressed our luck a little too much. By lunch, we found out they rescinded their latest counter offer because they got another buyer closer to their initial ask, which they happily accepted (don't blame them).
We are pretty upset but my wife is devastated. She had already started planning her summer around being there, looking at furniture, getting ready to change the kids schools for the fall, ect. It's been 3 days since we got the news and she refuses to even look at another house because it doesn't have x/y/z like THAT house did. I know from our current home, that sometimes these things happen but this hurts so bad for her because it was ours to loss. We weren't just simply outbid, we HAD an incredible deal sitting in our lap but we thought we could get them down even more and set up another buyer to give an offer the seller HAD to take.
How do I get her to move on and keep looking? She is treating this like a bad break up. Refuses to get "back in saddle" and keep looking. She thinks that somehow the listing agent will call us to tell us the deal feel through (which COULD happen but unlikely given the types of buyers in Vancouver). I know it has only been 3 days and she will come around eventually but what can I do or say to help her through a situation that I am also going through?
Edit - thank you for everyone giving honest advice. Just for people who don’t understand the Vancouver market, it’s like nothing else I’ve ever experienced. It is totally normal to price homes way over market because you get insane foreign buyers who will over pay and you get insane owners who don’t care if they make money because they just want to park cash in North America. We didn’t feel our offer was a rip off for the seller and the seller was a flipper bleeding cash. We weren’t taking some retirees to the cleaners or anything.

In reference to this:
Columbia Square Plaza opened at the corner of Mill Plain and SE 136th around 1987 or 1988, in an unincorporated suburb that is now part of the City of Vancouver. Larson's Bakery and Round Table are AFAIK the only original tenants left in that complex as of 2024... the McDingaling's runs a close second but it opened in the VERY early '90s (like, '90) after the complex had become established and before that, the only one in the Vancouver area had been upstairs at the mall.
Safeway used to occupy the space now used by Walgreen's (Hi-School Pharmacy), Carquest/Baxter's and the furniture place. Hi-School Pharmacy was where Craft Warehouse is now. After the Food World store across the street went tits-up, Safeway took it over. HSP then moved into the former Safeway storefront and subdivided it about a year later, forming the medium-sized unit where Walgreen's is now and the two smaller units between it and CW.
So why am I posting this core dump? Honestly I have no clue. I guess the thing about Larson's in the other post jogged some memories that I felt compelled to put down here or something. Couldn't tell you.

I am a US Green card holder currently residing in the US. As a Canadian citizen, I recently purchased a condo in Vancouver that I intend to visit quite frequently on weekends. As things are significantly cheaper down south, what is the limit on goods I can bring up to furnish my new place (electronics, furniture, etc)? Some of these goods are used with the retail value having depreciated over a number of years.