This is the best place to live in America — and it isn’t on the coast
The East and West Coasts can stop duking it out over which is the better place to live — because neither comes out on top, according to a new report.
“This blissed-out enclave attracts young professionals, families, academics, scientists, transplants from both coasts, old guards who insist it was way cooler in the 1970s and, above all, lovers of outdoor recreation,” the magazine’s write-up of Boulder proclaimed. “Trail runners, hikers, climbers, cyclists and more move here to live in this perpetual playground, where the answer to ‘What do you do?’ is often one’s activity of choice, not occupation.
“This year we’re looking at how the most populous metro areas in the U.S. fared for much of the coronavirus pandemic, and seeing how far they’ll need to come to recover,” Devon Thorsby, real estate editor at U.S. News and World Report, said in the analysis. “It shouldn’t be a surprise that many metro areas that saw unemployment levels skyrocket in 2020 fell in the rankings, but those with greater employment stability tended to fare well.
That helps to explain why Boulder’s runners-up — Raleigh and Durham, North Carolina, and Huntsville, Alabama — rose far up the ranks to Nos. 2 and 3 respectively. Both cities performed well in the analysis because of the availability of jobs in sectors that weren’t as hard hit by COVID-19, such as technology and aerospace engineering.
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