*At least we beat San Antonio

After spending 30 minutes crawling for three miles on the 405, I'm not that surprised to find that our fair city has dropped to 12th place in a Harris Interactive survey of cities people would most like to live in or near to. That's down from 5th when the survey was last taken (though before that it's hovered in the low teens). New York is the number one city, as it is nearly every time the survey is taken. Curiously, California is the state most people would like to live in - other than their own state - the third straight time it's ranked in the top spot. It was followed by Florida, Hawaii, Colorado and New York.

Here's the list of most favored cities:
1) New York
2) San Diego
3) Las Vegas
4) San Francisco
5) Seattle
6) Chicago
7) Denver
8) Honolulu
9) Atlanta
10) Portland
11) Boston
12) Los Angeles
13) Phoenix
14) San Antonio
15) Nashville

*Claim to fame: If you're looking for a better ranking, try cell phones. L.A. averaged 260 cell phone calls a month - or 9-10 calls a day - second only to Miami, according to a survey of Verizon users. Rounding out the top 5 were Detroit, El Paso, Texas, and Las Vegas. New Yorkers were 11th.