I've made the point before, which is obvious, that generally folks making rankings of this ilk have never really lived in the various places, so their ranking is about as suspect as the Top Ten Doctors in the US et al.
I used to notice this in various flight magazines, things like "Top Ten Steak Houses in US", which meant "We found ten that would pony up to make this list".
If you like where you live, great, don't worry about what someone else thinks.
On the other hand, CFB team rankings are really important at this point in the season ....