Fly south, apartment hunters.
A new report ranking the renter friendliness of 150 U.S. cities based on the cost of living, the local economy and the overall quality of life completely ignores the Big Apple and environs.
Instead, a slew of southern metro regions swept the annual RentCafe rankings — leaving crowded Northeast and West Coast locales in the dust.
“Cost of living, which is heavily weighted, really improved for southern cities,” said Doug Ressler, manager of business intelligence at Yardi Matrix, which provides data to RentCafe…