Choose Your Best Place to Live

Where would you like to live, work or retire? Our Best Places feature will help you find the top cities and metro areas based on your personal criteria for more than 40 variables.

Enter your preferred climate, school quality and other key living standards. In a few seconds, you’ll receive a list of best places based on the preferences you entered. To begin, click on the button below.

Navigation tip: To move forward or backward in Best Places, use the controls at the bottom of each screen, not the "Back" and "Forward" buttons on your browser.

For help using Best Places, click here.