Which Major City is Best to Live In?

ForRent.com NATIONS LEADING APARTMENT RESOURCE WHICH MAJOR CITY IS BEST TO LIVE IN? My city is the best. NO, mine is the best! Where is the best place to live in the U.S.? And what makes the best city to live in...well, the best? EDUCATION? COST OF LIVING? CRIME RATE? Bloomberg Businessweek AMERICA'S BEST CITIES The Best Cities list highlighted the Top 50 cities across the U.S. based upon a certain set of criteria such as the following: [] IT INFRASTRUCTURE Libraries and Number of Park Restaurants, Bars, and Professional Sports Acres per 1,000 Museums Teams Residents EDUCATION Performance of Public Schools Number of Colleges Percentage of Population with Bachelor's Degree ECONOMIC FACTORS Median Household Poverty Unemployment Foreclosure Income Rates 8O CRIME Violent Crimes Property Crimes 4 Cities Voted Best To Live In RALEIGH, NC With a population just less than 1380,000 tiny Raleigh beat out four other cities for • Arlington, VA · Honolulu, HI the TOP SPOT in • Scottsdale, AZ [2] • Irvine, CA the BusinessWeek list: ACCORDING TO BUSINESSWEEK'S 16 CRITERIA, RALEIGH SCORED THE HIGHEST IN 12 OF THEM. 867 Restaurants IT INFRASTRUCTURE [4] 110 51 Bars Museums • Raleigh has: A 18 And one professional Libraries sports team (4] • Situated as the anchor point of the Research Triangle, Raleigh has: 10 Colleges including Duke and North Carolina State [1, 2] EDUCATION (4) of the population has a bachelor's degree Public schools Scored 47% 74.4% The median household The foreclosure rate ECONOMIC FACTORS is 0.0056 income is $53,370 only 6.9% of the population is unemployed under the With 13.9% poverty level, Violent crime rate is 68 CRIME I 492.9 SCOTTSDALE, AZ This wealthy suburb of Phoenix has a population and is in the 4th SPOT on the BusinessWeek list. CITY. SCOTISDALE of 233,105 II INFRASTRUCTURE 622 ( 76 95 [1] Restaurants Bars Museums Scottsdale has: But no professional Libraries sports teams EDUCATION U Public schools of residents have scored 50.5% a college degree 79.74% Scottsdale has the second-highest ranking schools on the BusinessWeek list The median [1] Unemployment Rate for Scottsdale AZ ECONOMIC FACTORS household income is $70,040 6.3% Foreclosure of the population is below the Rate 6.9% .0208% " poverty line 7 Violent crime rate is CRIME 171.5 " SAN DIEGO, CA San Diego, CA is in the 7th SPOT. [U This city with "classically perfect weather" has a population of 1,307,402. 6 2,945 Restaurants IT INFRASTRUCTURE 283 199 Bars Museums · Although it only has 2 professional sports teams, San Diego has: AA 54 24 Colleges ( Libraries of the population hold a college degree [1) EDUCATION The school 40,69% score was 70.79% Median Household ECONOMIC FACTORS live under the Income San Diego 14.1% poverty level (6] $61,962 Foreclosure 8.9% are unemployed [(1] rate .0139% Violent crime rate is 60 CRIME 451.1 m AUSTIN, TX Austin, Texas is the 12th best place to live, according to the BusinessWeek This city of Live Music has a population of 1747,984 " list. ) 4 1818 Restaurants IT INFRASTRUCTURE [4) 209 Bars Colleges 46 Professional Sports Teams Libraries School score was of the population have a bachelor's degree EDUCATION 71.89% 43.5% Median household of poverty 17.5% level ECONOMIC FACTORS [1] Income in Austin $50,236 Foreclosure rate 6.4% of unemployment 523.3% " rate Violent crime rate is CRIME 523.3 ALhle ACCORDING TO BUSINESSWEEK Irving, TX Phoenix, AZ THESE 5 Oakland, CA CITIES CLOSE OUT THE Tampa, FL TOP 50 BEST CITIES LIST: 1 Winston-Salem, NC SOURCES: [1] http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/20110920/america-s-50-best-cities/ [2] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pf_article_113528.html [3] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/pf_article_113529.html [4] http://www.newraleigh.com/articles/archive/raleigh-ranked-as-americas- best-city-by-bloomberg-businessweek [5 http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/anchorage-makes-top-10-americas-50-best-cities [6] http://quickfacts.census.gov/gfd/states/06/0666000.html Homes.com ForRent.com NATION'S LEADING APARTMENT RESOURCE There are millions of great apartments to rent and homes to buy in these areas as well as nationwide! Use Homes.com and ForRent.com to get started today. ------- %24 %24 %24 %24