Posted on 05/05/2024 4:36:13 AM PDT by vespa300
At Livability, we’re experts on what makes cities of all sizes great places to live. For more than a decade, we’ve been curating our annual list of the Best Places To Live in America, helping you discover the most livable cities in the U.S.
If you’re looking to relocate, what’s on your wishlist? Want a shot at owning a home? To spend less time sitting in traffic? Or perhaps you dream of starting your own business in a tight-knit, supportive community?
Maybe a better quality of life is waiting for you in a place you haven’t considered — a place where you’re not just a number. Our Best Places list is chock-full of helpful information about living in each of our Top 100 cities to help you find your perfect place to live.
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Where is Galt’s Gulch?
Read later.
“For more than a decade, we’ve been curating our annual list”
Remind me to nominate “curate, curating”, etc. for the next LSSU list of banished words.
Love it! My County has 22K in the entire County. My town has 283 souls...and thousands of cows.
My neighbors are beef cattle, dairy cows, horses and my Mule.
We are both blessed and lucky...or smarter than the average bear. ;)
I had plans to move to Maryville, TN upon retirement. I stayed in Wisconsin, obviously. It’s still on the back burner should my current options change. ;)
They said they only considered cities with a population of 75,000 to around 100, 000 people, and median homes no more than $500k.
So with this criteria, I can sort of see why Carmel and Fishers in Indiana were listed.
I like that they don’t like little towns. I like little towns, especially at this point in my life.
I hope the tendency continues that people move to smaller towns and resuscitate them.
There are a zillion great small towns in the US, ones I guarantee you've never heard of, even in your own state.
So the reform movement unfolding right now hopefully will involve bringing back a lot of wonderful small towns.
Sounds perfect!!
We lived almost50 years in two of those cities. We now live in the country. I would never live in Lawrence again. In fact, we don’t even like going into it because of the homeless situation. It’s gone way downhill. It’s way too woke. Overland Park is heading that way. The schools used to be good but now not so much.
I am glad to see that only 3 towns in Florida made the list.
We already have too many people who have moved here.
I looked at zillow for JOCO the other day. I have no idea where they are getting their O.P. median home price!
Exactly.
Some of the things they consider “nice” are drawbacks to me.
Like public transport. I don’t want public transport where I’ve. Generally speaking, it lets marginal people move around. If they don’t have a car, I probably don’t want them accessing my neighborhood.
It’s things like: high income but not much beyond middle class; low crime; low people on entitlements; low rates on non-English speakers; enough people to have stores and good hospitals but not too many; good schools as measured by SAT scores and nothing else; low taxation rates; two hours or more from any urban cesspool, etc.
Great post. I just said much the same.
Norwalk, CT?
In the F you State?
You took the words right out of my mouth, my friend. We left big city life over 25 years ago and are never going back. The large city that was my home town is no longer recognizable.
The best one is the one you just left, the worst one is the one where you are currently living.
I am fortunate to live in 3 of those places in my life.
My son and his wife moved from Boston to Cary, NC in 2017, have since had two boys, and it really is a great place to raise a family. Cary/Raleigh doesn’t have the history and the big city feel of Boston, but it also doesn’t have the horrible traffic and miserable weather. There is so much to do for kids in Cary, and the beach and the mountains are not too far away for a weekend trip. My daughter-in-law was reluctant to leave her family in Boston, but now she loves how much easier it is to be a mom in Cary.
They say they are only considering cities between 75,000 and 500,000 people. But some of the Cities mentioned are really suburbs of major cities.
If they’re trying to say they’re looking for places that are outside major metropolitan areas they are contradicting themselves on their criteria.
My cousin measures how good a place is to live by the number of miles to the nearest stoplight - the more the better.
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