It depends on what's important to you. I recently moved to a city without any connections or jobs lined up but with a car and $10,000 in savings I was able to find a place to live, find a good job and figure things out relatively easily. The things I looked at in order of importance is below.
- (the lower, the better) The LAUS provides the best rate imo but there's also the ACS and CPS as well.
- # of jobs available in your field, and within a 50 mile radius of the city (looking on indeed.com, craigslist, monster.com, etc)
- Compare the # jobs available to the # of unemployed people and rank each city based on this number (from the LAUS database above, you can get the # of unemployed people in cities with a population over 25,000 each month of the year).
- After that and in no particular order I looked at , , type of climate, weather (average # of sunny days in a year, summer highs, winter lows, average humidity), availability of hobbies/ things to do (mountains for snowboarding, ocean for surfing, rivers for fishing, etc.), and the
Hope this helps and good luck!
It depends on what's important to you. I recently moved to a city without any connections or jobs lined up but with a car and $10,000 in savings I was able to find a place to live, find a good job and figure things out relatively easily. The things I looked at in order of importance is below.
1. [Unemployment rate](https://www.bls.gov/lau/) (the lower, the better) The LAUS provides the best rate imo but there's also the ACS and CPS as well.
2. # of jobs available in your field, and within a 50 mile radius of the city (looking on indeed.com, craigslist, monster.com, etc)
3. Compare the # jobs available to the # of unemployed people and rank each city based on this number (from the LAUS database above, you can get the # of unemployed people in cities with a population over 25,000 each month of the year).
4. After that and in no particular order I looked at [crime](https://crime-data-explorer.fr.cloud.gov/pages/home), [poverty level, demographics (age & race)](https://data.census.gov/cedsci/), type of climate, weather (average # of sunny days in a year, summer highs, winter lows, average humidity), availability of hobbies/ things to do (mountains for snowboarding, ocean for surfing, rivers for fishing, etc.), and the [cost of living index](https://www.bestplaces.net/cost-of-living/)
Hope this helps and good luck!
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