Best Places.net
A huge and comprehensive resource to help you find the best places to live in America and around the world. Includes city profiles, a cost of living calculator, school statistics, climate profiles and a 'best place' finder. A top class web site to consult if you are serious about relocating.
Best Places to Live
(from Best Jobs USA)
This site explores the best places to live and work in the USA, and provides an extensive look at the attractions of the top 30 places. The winners - Sarasota, Austin, Fort Worth, Raleigh, Salt Lake City, Atlanta, and more.
Escapehomes.com
At this attractive site you can find or sell a second home, rent a vacation home, and read articles about buying a second home and buying a home abroad. Setting out its priorities, it also features the top golf towns, the top island towns, and the best beach towns.
Knowhere Guide to
Britain
The description 'not a conventional tourist guide' hardly prepares a visitor for the impact of this guide to the towns and villages of Britain. Users contribute their own assessment of where they live, and the places they hang out, get entertainment, go shopping or attend special events. Blunt, frank and often hilarious, the opinions range from loving flattery to cynical criticism. More valuable than a tourist brochure could ever be.
Find Your Best Place
The best big cities and small towns to live in the USA, based on the state of their economy, availability of good schools, recreation and safety. You can also use a very detailed screening tool to find the best place for you based on the factors you think are most important.
EscapeArtist.com
Covers overseas living for international job seekers, with information about living overseas, offshore investing, and good countries to live in.
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Human Development
Report
Buried within this United Nations survey is a simple idea - to assess the best and worst countries in the world using a range of factors that contribute to human well-being. As you might guess, the best countries are in North America and Europe, and the worst in Africa, but the actual top ten in the Human Development Index are a bit of a surprise. You might be living in one of the top ten already - or you might not.
Lifestyle Optimizer
Creates a list of the ten best cities for you to live in the USA, based on major features like population, crime rate, average house prices, and of course climate.
Best States to Raise
Children
The Children's Rights Council has drawn up a best places list based on factors such as health, education, crime, teen births and divorces. You can look at the site for their selections, but congratulations to Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Vermont and New Hampshire.
Why Canada?
Because it's number 1! Canada has been rated as the best country in the world to live in six times in the last ten years, and here you can find information about education, health and welfare and immigration.
City Reports
Comparison system in which you can assess the city in which you live now (in Canada or the USA) with the one you are thinking of moving to. It compares the cost of living, climate, population sizes, median incomes, unemployment and crime rates. Detailed and useful.
Tips for Americans abroad
Three million Americans live and work outside the USA and the Bureau of Consular Affairs has produced this practical guide to making the time abroad safe and enjoyable. Tips about everything from AIDS to driving, drugs, marriage and adoption.
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