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Yep these sorts of lists are click bait and almost useless, relating to someone who wants to relocate for job opportunities.

Relocating for work will depend on your job skills, experience, and jobs of interest to you.

For example, a friend of the family lives in the Boston area. He does some high tech computer work; not sure of his specialties. But he had once explained to me that jobs like his are not found in most places. He said he could never move to Birmingham and find work in his field. I think he mentioned that because a girlfriend at the time was from Alabama. But just to say, a list such as this one is useless to him because of his specialized job.

I’m sure that the oil boom in North Dakota is drawing oil industry professionals, who would not find work in South Carolina in their job specialty.

Engineers whose work specializes in the auto industry may well find more job opportunities in the Detroit offices of car companies, than they will find in Shreveport.

Or maybe I’m looking at this all wrong. But if you have a professional career, as opposed to someone working in a “hired help” job somewhere, you will not be able to just relocate to some ideal spot featured on a list like this, because your criteria for finding a place to live will be very different that the criteria they use to come up with a click bait article.

Thanks for the heads-up. When I saw Illinois on the list and not Iowa I knew something seemed amiss. Des Moines is supposed to be one of the best cities based on low cost of living and decent to high earning potential. I was looking online at properties there for a potential destination when I can get the heck out of California.