U.S. News & World Report has released their list of the 150 best places to live in the U.S. in 2022-2023, and two Bay Area cities ranked within the top 10. San Jose came in at #5 thanks to its high score in the job market, and San Francisco ranked #10 with a high score for desirability.
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U.S. News weighed 5 indexes to evaluate each city: job market strength (20%), housing affordability/value (25%), quality of life (32.5%), desirability (17.5%), and net migration (5%).
San Jose came in at #5. It scored 8.8 for the strength of its job market and 7.6 for quality of life, but fell short with a 3.8 for net migration.
San Francisco landed at #10, with its highest scores being 8.1 for desirability and 7.8 for the job market. Its lowest score was a 4.2 for net migration.
The top 10 cities were the following:
- Huntsville, AL
- Colorado Springs, CO
- Green Bay, WI
- Boulder, CO
- San Jose, CA
- Raleigh & Durham, NC
- Fayetteville, AR
- Portland, ME
- Sarasota, FL
- San Francisco, CA
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Despite San Jose and San Francisco’s strong results in study, we don’t see another California city on the list of 150 until San Diego down at #107. In fact, the last third of the list is populated with a good amount of California cities including Sacramento at #122, Santa Barbara at #126, Los Angeles at #128, and Santa Rosa at #132. Fresno, Vallejo and Fairfield, Salinas, Modesto, Bakersfield, Visalia, and Stockton all made appearances in the bottom ten.
You can learn more about the study and its methodology at U.S. News & World Report.
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