Money: Best Places to Live of 2024

[iheartthed]

In alphabetical order (metro in parens):

Atlanta, Georgia
Babcock Ranch, Florida (Fort Myers)
Bay St. Louis, Mississippi (Gulfport-Biloxi)
Bisbee, Arizona (Bisbee)
Boise, Idaho
Brevard, North Carolina
Buffalo, New York
Camas, Washington (Portland)
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Clarksville, Tennessee
Covington, Kentucky (Cincinnati)
Detroit, Michigan,
Durham, North Carolina (Raleigh-Durham)
Eugene, Oregon
Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Ferndale, Michigan (Detroit)
Frederick, Maryland (Washington, DC)
Kalamazoo, Michigan
Knoxville, Tennessee
La Crosse, Wisconsin
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Lawrence, Kansas (Kansas City)
Lexington, Kentucky
Media, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)
Metuchen, New Jersey (New York)
New Braunfels, Texas (San Antonio)
Northampton, Massachusetts (Springfield, MA)
Northfield, Minnesota (Minneapolis)
Ogden, Utah
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Oneonta, New York
Pawtucket, Rhode Island (Providence, RI)
Port St. Lucie, Florida
Portland, Maine
Richmond, Virginia
Rock Hill, South Carolina (Charlotte)
Rogers, Arkansas (Fayetteville, AR)
Sacramento, California
Temecula, California (Riverside, CA)
Troy, New York
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Ybor City, Florida (Tampa)

https://money.com/best-places-to-live/

[muertecaza]

Bisbee, AZ is a pretty cool little town, but I'm fairly confident that it is not one of the 50 'Best Places to Live' in the US by any objective measure. Bisbee apparently snuck into their 'Hidden Gem' category, under a methodology that basically comes down to "whatever we felt like including:"

https://money.com/best-places-to-live/methodology/

All that said, Bisbee does have some things going for it, including a really cool little art deco courthouse:

https://www.google.com/maps/@31.4426...oASAFQAw%3D%3D

[ChiSoxRox]

In another departure from previous years, we decided not to assign a numerical rank to the cities we chose, grouping them instead into five categories that highlight their strengths: [buzzword salad]

Heh, not even trying to be data-focused this time around.