Parkland Florida median home value: $896,250… Yeah, real cheap.
Also half of this list is Texas. Pass.
Yeah, just with those two examples, I’m betting this is just an ad in a temu “journalism” dress.
I remember the Canadian version kind of lists from when I was a young man. There was a smaller city that always topped the list because of strong employment, lower home prices, great place to raise kids etc. Every person I knew from that place had run away from home or otherwise left before the age of 18. It was a great place for parents to raise little kids. It was a horrible place to be a teenager. There was no center, no youth focused spaces, strong church and school focused activities. It was a difficult place for youth to be different or grow in a way that wasn’t strongly aligned to community norms.
If you’re prioritizing affordability over quality of life and how much people like the place, yeah, obviously. That also makes this just a list of relatively affordable places which aren’t complete garbage to live in.
“They even said that they’re looking for affordability over quality of life and desirability.”
US News & World Report analyzed more than 850 US cities and ranked them based on four key indexes: value, quality of life, desirability, and job market. This year’s rankings differ from previous years by weighting value higher than the other categories.
