I guess this list implies people in the midwest are happier dealing with winter weather than northeastern people as most of the cold weather cities are midwest-y on the list above Raleigh.
It’s all relative. I have lived in southern Alabama and New Orleans. I don’t find Raleigh summers long or oppressively hot.
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The focus was on mid-size cities, which would exclude NY, Chicago, Houston, etc., as well as Austin & Charlotte.
The LIVSCORE CATEGORIES
- Amenities
- Economy
- Demographics
- Housing
- Social and Civic Capital
- Education
- Health Care
- Transportion and Infrastructure
- Remote Readiness
OUR RANKINGS,
BY THE NUMBERS
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2,000 cities researched
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50 data points
- 8 categories
- Focus on mid-sized cities
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Sounds like Livable Raleigh’s work is done and they can go back to calling the police on teenagers or whatever it is they were doing before
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I was thinking the same I would think of snow amounts in yards as a major negative. Especially when there are no major ski resorts to make use of it.
All about perception. Coming from central FL, we don’t have nearly as long and not nearly as oppressive summers here.
In other words, I think we have a nice mix.
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Houston and New Orleans concur!
I’ll also say that Orlando is hotter and more oppressive since it’s not coastal.
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Interesting, I guess what one defines as a large vs mid-size city is all relative. In their rankings they considered mid-sized cities as 500k and below. This, as you point out, excludes Charlotte and Austin even though in my mind I think of ‘large cities’ being the NYC, LA, Philly, Chicago’s of the world and not some city like Charlotte.
Based on Raleigh’s population growth rate they’ll be out of this category (500k and below) in a handful of years-ish?
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Let’s be clear…the only reason charlotte, Indy, Austin don’t make the mid-size list is because back in the 80’s & 90’s the annexed their entire counties. Raleigh (for whatever reason) elected not to do this (probably lack of ego). This always skews reports like this because someone picks an arbitrary marker of “city limits”. Atlanta, proper is not that large…however nobody ever considers Atlanta 'small, or mid-size" because Atlanta metro is 6MM+ people in includes Fulton County, Cobb, etc…
charlotte usa, Indy, Austin are no “bigger” than Raleigh metro (+/-) & would all fall into the definition of “mid-size” especially compared to Atlanta, Houston, NY, LA, Chicago, etc.
You would have to add Raleigh, Greensboro & charlotte usa together to equal Atlanta’s metro population…
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On top of that, Raleigh’s MSA was cut in half arbitrarily. Wake and Durham county are the most connected counties in the state by far. There is no sensible definition of MSA which separates them.
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Yet North Carolina’s motto is “To Be, Rather Than to Seem”, yet our sister to our west along the SC border seems to be all in on the seem part of the motto.
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Typical… Someone else being displaced from downtown.
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First it was the humans, now it’s the kitties… next thing you know dt will only be a place for the wealthy developers to store their gold nuggets
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Reincarnation of Oak City Kitty?
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historical perspective…in the 80s in and around millbrook hs, the police were getting called on tennagers as well.
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Anyone old enough and local to remember Operation Wake Up?
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Raleigh makes it in the news for rate of rent increase. Glad Charlotte could beat us on this one. Glad they could find a photo of the town to use too - but I guess its no worse than NYC’s photo being of a taco & burrito shop sign. TexMex is always what comes to mind when I think of NYC. I am sure its the same with all y’all.
Of the 12 cities, only San Antonio had lower actual rent costs with the Dallas market just a tad more expensive.
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Another day, another high ranking. Notice which city doesn’t get a quick blurb in the actual story linked among the top 9 cities. 
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Here’s something to test your perspective! We often see ranking articles about North Carolina (the Triangle in particular) being one of the best places in the country to live and have a business. But as this Axios Raleigh article points out, just because we’re a good place for businesses or living, it doesn’t necessarily mean we are the best place to be a worker.
In fact, an international nonprofit working on global poverty found us to be the worst state (incl. Puerto Rico and DC) to work.
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