Sometimes it takes going on a vacation and then coming home to realize how lucky we are to call Idaho home. Not only is the state full of natural beauty from mountains to lakes and everything in between the weather’s usually pretty pleasant. You feel safe doing things on your own and there’s always something going on.
That’s why I was surprised when only ONE Idaho city made this year’s list of the Top 100 best places to live in America!
One Idaho Community Named Among Best Places to Live in the Nation
U.S. News and World Report recently released its annual list of the top 250 Best Places to Live in the United States. In order to rank high on the list, a city needs to be of good value, be a desirable place to live, have a strong job market and a high quality of life. When you take a quick glance at that methodology, you’d expect to find find a few Idaho cities high on the list.
Really, the only one of those factors that Idaho isn’t good at is being of “good value.” Our housing market has been rather outrageous for the past seven-ish years.
Well, you assumed wrong. While Boise climbed as high as the #2 best place to live in the nation last year, Idaho’s capital city was nowhere to be found inside the Top 100 this year. Neither was Meridian, Nampa or Caldwell…