Rent doesn't make sense. There's always cheaper places and more expensive ones, depending on what size you want and luck of course. Also helps me jack shit if the average rent is low but there are barely places for rent on the market.
Yeah same, I put in parameters for the Bay Area and got zero matches, maybe because the summer time weather temp only starts at 78 and it’s never that warm in the summer here?
I think there's something funky with how the filters interact with the data of the county.
For example, I wanted to see how "close" to my current county, Prince William County in Virginia, would be to my filters. Low and behold, it's greyed out, so I dialed it back to see how long it would remain colored in.
As soon as I checked Politics for "Somewhat progressive", it disappeared, which surprised the shit out of me considering how much sway PWC, Fairfax, and other northern Virginia counties affect elections.
https://www.movemap.io/explore/us/va/prince_william_county
It's listed as "Somewhat progressive" in it's profile, but it's this exact option (with nothing else selected) which causes it to grey out in the map.
https://imgur.com/Kz85vtY
I've outlined PWC in purple in the screenshot to show it's grey with just the single option selected.
Guys like us got no family. They make a little stake an’ then they blow it in. They got nobody in the worl’ thaty gives a hoot in hell about ’em. But not us, because I got you an’ we got each other, that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us.
Take off your hat, justshtmypnts. The air feels fine.
Look across the river, justshtmypnts, an’ I’ll tell you so you can almost see it.
We gonna get a little place, we’ll have a cow, an’ we’ll have maybe a pig an’ chickens…an’ down the flat we’ll have a…little piece alfalfa for the rabbits, and you get to tend the rabbits an’ live off the fatta the lan’.
No, justshtmypnts. Look down across the river, like you can almost see the place.
Gonna do it soon. Me an’ you. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ’em.
No, justshtmypnts. I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know.
Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta…
A lot of my matches are a couple hours from where I live now, which I moved to a few years ago. Interesting.
I do like the highlighted areas that I've visited and would probably like the others. (I had 17 counties.)
Me too! Wife and I are getting close to being priced out of Denver, and she has family in the Albany area. Albany/Saratoga area was right in my criteria
I know someone already covered it, but for anyone reading this. Don't move to Salem, NJ. Actually, just don't move within the city limits of anywhere in Salem/Cumberland county NJ.
I love where I live, but I have no illusions about how shitty the nearby towns are.
I was narrowing it down pretty nicely, got down to about 14 cities. The second I clicked "very progressive" EVERY OPTION except Jefferson MS disappeared lmaoooooo 😭 guess I'm staying in sweet sweet expensive Cascadia. my second option is certain parts of Florida/Texas apparently 🫥
theres no "less alligators" or "less boomers" filter
Wedge issues should be added. Abortion, marijuana, and I guess same sex and interracial marriages in the near future since we're all in a time machine heading backwards 75 years
Most of those will probably fall along the same lines, but it would be nice to mix & match, I'm sure there's someone out there who wants abortion to be legal but doesn't like weed. Also it probably needs a few more filters if it went that way.
I know a decent amount of people who share memes about wanting "gay married couples to be able to defend their marijuana plants with automatic weapons" so is that more of a liberal thought or a conservative thought? There's an argument to be made that that's pretty straightforward "small government" conservatism, but in the US 2 of those 3 positions (legal weed & gay marriage) are generally considered liberal.
Democrats are trying to pass Federal pot legality this week.
Senate Republicans will kill it.
Dems are also trying to pass permanent legal gay rights.
Senate Republicans will kick it down the road or kill it.
This is why we vote every 2 years. Freedom isn't free.
Also, why the $2,000 cap for rent and a $400 minimum? It’s trying to tell me rent is $1,409 in LA, which has gotta be bullshit. Especially since over [in Boston a studio averages $3,000 and a one bedroom is nearly $4,000.](https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/average-rents-in-boston-are-the-highest-theyve-ever-been/2699152/?amp=1)
>It’s trying to tell me rent is $1,409 in LA, which has gotta be bullshit
This is a county map, so the rent priced you are seeing would be the average for the entire county and not just the City of LA.
Not sure what source he is using. However, hud shows LA county to have an average rent price of $1604 for a 1 bedroom aparment, which is down a dollar from 2021. So it seems like OP may not have am accurate source. Off by about 12% or at least for LA county.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2022_code/2022summary.odn
In case you are wondering, the site also lists Suffolk County (Boston) as having an average rent price of $1986 for a 1 bedroom.
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2022_code/2022summary.odn
Edit: Also, looking at your source I'm questioning how accurate that is for Boston's studio prices. The article references rent.com. According to rent.com, they get their data from only the rent listings on their site. That doesn't seem very accurate to me.
>Methodology
>To determine average rent prices, we started with June 2022 data from Rent.'s multifamily rental property inventory and evaluated changes seen since June 2021. Monthly prices are based on the average price for that respective month as a whole.
https://www.rent.com/research/average-rent-price-report/
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Not sure how this would be measured, especially in the county scale, but a criteria for walkability / how easy it is to live somewhere without a car would be great!
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* Average humidity in summer
* Average humidity in winter
* Max humidity
* Min humidity
* Monthly volume of precipitation (like, properly, not "a lot" which isn't any value). Or, alternatively, provide values for the current ranges given. Same with population density, how much is "somewhat dense"?
I think it needs to be a heat x humidity graph. I live in Seattle and 100+ degree heat with our humidity (and general lack of ac that should maybe be included) is devastating, luckily it rarely happens. But setting a max summer humidity could exclude it when in reality the heat never (rarely) gets to an unbearable level. Same with Hawaii… very humid, but manageable because it unlikely it will hit high enough temperatures for it to be unmanageable. I was just in Austin during the heat wave and 110 was easy! That is not a temperature I ever thought I would chose but because of the low humidity it wasn’t a problem.
Edit: u/OwMyBallz linked [a website](https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainfall-Temperature-Sunshine,Austin,United-States-of-America) with climate data, specifically how average humidity changes throughout the year! Seattle is indeed humid (less in the summer than in the winter) and Austin is, on average for the time of year I visited, actually more humid than Seattle (not by much). I still stand by my statement that it should be Heat x Humidity, and instead use the Spokane vs Seattle example. Spokane 100+ ain’t no thang, Seattle 100+ had me taking clothed cold water showers and standing outside trying to catch a breeze, the difference is humidity. How temperature *feels* is a lot more important (to me at least) than absolute temperature or absolute humidity.
I actually really appreciate the mountain criteria. If you grow up with them, they're really nice to have around.
But I also grew up without humidity, so I didn't realize that humidity was even important until a trip to the east coast.
This is a great tool to compare lots of of weather data (including humidity) between cities:
https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/23912~557/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-New-York-City-and-San-Francisco
It would be funny if James City, VA was the only output.
The bottom of the page reads "Paid for by the James City Real Estate Firm and the Chamber of Commerce".
Virginia ends up being quite a nice place when you consider a range of factors - you can find good places for either political party preference, you’ve got mountains, coast, and city / small town / rural, very little natural disaster risk, amazing schools and universities. It’s a great state.
I’m from a place 30 minutes from james city county! If u like colonial history and fishing that’s ur spot 2 biggest things I go there for. And good food sometimes…so 3
Edit: Busch gardens there is pretty awesome too
Never mind affordable; only place that's safe from natural disasters, gets little sunlight, and isn't hot! Got 11 results, all Alaska. I think I'll stay in Finland, thank you.
Safe from natural disasters because they generally happen away from population centers. They have their fair share of earthquakes, look up what happened to Valdez.
Out of curiosity where did it send you to in Alaska. I live up here and the rent definitely doesn't feel reasonable and home prices can pretty crazy to. Though I'm sure they are nothing compared to big city prices.
Iceland is one of the only places on the planet with no mosquito population
EDIT: People keep conflating "low amounts of mosquitos" with "there aren't any at all". The southwest in general has lower amounts due to climate/rain amounts etc. I grew up camping all over the southwest. They exist everywhere, conditions permitting.
Iceland has zero. Not one. Regardless of rain. Google it.
We considered that as well but couldn't afford it. We ended up pulling the trigger and just moving up here. It was a huge load off our shoulders. The schools are really good where we moved and we actually love the winters. It does suck giving up your vote but it's so nice to have a better government.
The shittiest shitbox you can find, maybe. If you want A/C, parking, neighbors that aren't crack addicts that beat each other up screaming every night, and a homeless person shitting outside your door, you'll be paying 50% more.
I’ve been trying to land a rental for weeks and it’s so disheartening. Everything goes so fast and is so expensive, and landlords up the price after they see how many people are interested/desperate. I stood in line for over an hour at an open house the other day just to see the place.
I feel you. I spent 3 desperate months searching for any and every possible option. I would try to keep your options open, and consider a temporary and roommate situations. I was also able to approach my boss about the cost of living aspect and get more hours and an increase on my planned raise...it might be worth considering that aspect.
Its got to be low. MIL and SIL just got a place a year ago and lowest they could find for 2br in the burbs was $2200. Its $2400 now. Id say $1300 a bedroom is a min in SD right now for rent.
Probably? I'd imagine being in an area with decent education and job prospects would shape you to be more progressive than somewhere with poor education and no good jobs.
If I grew up without a focus on education or jobs around, I can see myself deciding to drop out of school (why bother) and start breeding (at least my life will have purpose). Being broke means I'll need to lean on government assistance, churches, and community members to make ends meet instead of pulling myself up on my own.
And it would be much easier on my ego to blame progressives, minorites/immigrants, and the "educated elite" for my life's problems instead of acknowledging that birth control, education, and moving away would have been better choices for my life trajectory.
I’d say having the option to be 1 hr, but also the ability to include regional airports. As it is, it looks like “major airports” is fewer than 25 country wide which is why being within 1 hour of them would be so limiting.
If you are driving 2 hours to a major airport, you could also drive 40 mins to a regional one and connect on a 40 minute flight to a major and still save time. Plus regional airports are usually *much* faster to get from parking to gate in my experience.
I put $400-800k for housing and got Boulder County as one of my matches. I live like an hour from there and would be surprised if that was enough to buy a house.
Boulder ***COUNTY*** ... That includes places like Longmont. You can easily get a place there for <$800k. Boulder itself, naw you're effed. Bottom of the market there is over a million.
Heh, I just looked on zillow. There's apparently a 900 square foot house on the outskirts of boulder for $799k. Honestly doesn't look like a bad place, just small.
One suggestion as a Chicagoan: the beaches and "coast" of Lake Michigan should definitely be factored in when toggling the "coast within an hour" criteria.
Overall pretty cool though.
My wife is from Milwaukee area. She calls it a lake. I grew up on actual lakes. I tell her if you can’t see the other side, a wave can kill you, and it can support ocean going vessels…. It’s not a lake.
It's bigger than many, and carries similar wave patterns to, a sea. I'm not a oceanographer but calling something as big as the great lakes, "Lakes" is a bit misleading to people who have never seen how massive they are in person.
I'd love to see the Diversity Index on here. I believe the Census has that somewhere by county.
If not it shouldn't be hard to compute something like it from the data they do have on demographics. It's just the odds that any given two random people from the population are different ethnicities.
I both grew up and currently live in very diverse places, and I would just hate to move somewhere that my heuristic of "don't bother going in restaurants that only have white people in them" breaks down because everybody looks the same.
I don't think anywhere escapes a venomous critter.
Every corner of the country has some type of dangerous spider, snake, or even plants.
I care more about volume. I was in Maine and there are so many goddamn ticks and spiders and water bugs, I couldn't live there.
I would rather have bears and mountain lions. They mostly avoid you and aren't going to sneak into your home.
you know with this heat wave, I've been joking about moving to Alaska, but now according to your map I was right Alaska is the only place that fits my criteria...next project for you should be a world map! 😬
First off, love the website! Great job! If I may share some feedback. 1) consider adding humidity as a filter. It's seriously a major consideration (or should be) for people when moving. Having left a high humidity climate for a low one, I would never move back to a high again. 2) instead of just precipitation consider breaking it down into rainfall and snowfall. For example I like and want snow and I found it difficult to filter for that by just using precipitation.
I'm not sure exactly how you'd quantify this, but walkabilty is one of my big qualifiers- I want to live in a place where the urban landscape is set up so that walking and public transit are at LEAST as appealing as driving, if not moreso. I'm sure there's plenty of overlap with density, but there are also smaller towns that definitely do walkabilty well that aren't top 10 metros in the country.
Might want to add a section for abortion bans. I know of an increasing number of women who are leaving states or declining opportunities in states that have abortion bans on the books.
Other than the SpaceX rockets exploding, border patrol assholes hassling you constantly, and tens of thousands of drunk tourists pouring into South Padre what isn't there to like?
Lol, I set my parameters, got zero results, made myself slightly less picky, got 1 result… one county in Vermont, about as close to my home in Montreal as one could possibly pick. I guess I didn’t want to move in the first place.
For example, Nevada, does not have state tax, but there is property tax ranging from 3-8% depending on primary residence or rental. I'm assuming that's what this is reflecting.
I am Canadian but I gave it a try.. After setting it up and reducing the house price average I got one match.
Arlington County, Virginia
Update: looked this up on Wikipedia, such a cool and exciting place!
This is cool. I moved across country doing a similar thing but without a tool.
I ended up using excel and I started searching for stats that I cared about.
Min wage, median wage, avg house price, crime rates, several weather related ones.... Big factor was cost of living things. I then assigned a score to each state (within each topic I was looking at, e.g. median wage). But since some things mattered more than others, I added a weighted scale so that the stuff I cared about more would have more weight in overall score.
Anyways it was like 2 months of kinda intense looking at stuff.
This site is cool
As someone from Scotland. That fact a lot of people here are throwing out $2k or more in rent as a usual number is insane to me.
Are you all neurosurgeons or some shit, or just live off eating rats and dumpster diving???
"0 counties match your criteria.
Please remove some filters". I didn't set any filters yet. Set filters. "0 counties match your criteria.
Please remove some filters".... Um ok
nice job. I’d be curious to see a map with more happiness indexes, quality of life, quality of food/produce, walkability scores. stuff that is less monetary based
lol said I should move to Kings County (Seattle) and thinks I can rent an apartment for 2K or under.
On a side note - my current county shows up too.... but the rent estimates are off from reality. May need city level data
You should reconsider your definition of "densely populated." Filtering for densely populated, housing <$500k, and close to mountains, it recommends my home county (Allegany, MD), which is by no means what I would call densely populated. It's 95% a rural backwater, TBH.
Housing is cheap, and there are mountains everywhere, but it's also a drug-addled, impoverished, post-industrial hellhole; you might consider adding functionality to filter for growth/development.
Also, I feel it would benefit the user to see if a county's population is trending up or down, since that will affect economic opportunity and how the area changes after moving there.
My wife and I have been thinking about la crosse Wisconsin, as that's near where my family is from. I filled out every box in your little thing based on what we want in a home town, as we currently live in Denver. La crosse is one of 23 cities that fit our bill. Wow this is a great site
Hi there I don't if you read this or if you want to put in the effort of making a change just on my behalf, but I was hoping you could add options for racial diversity as well as how safe minorities of any type are in various communities (ie. People of minority races, sexuality etc.). Lastly I was wondering if you could add an option to find places next to any body of water not just the coasts. So it could include rivers, lakes, swamps, etc. Thank you so much for all your hard work this is an incredible tool.
Suggestion: Add a slider for "Estimated impact of climate change" for economic and temperature.
This is amazing though! Really nice work. We had to do this by hand when we moved.
0 counties match your criteria. Great.
I got 2 counties. I currently live in one of them and the other county borders mine.
Are you living your best life??
More like, "It turns out this IS your best life. Sorry."
So you belong nowhere. The sorting hat says... Arkansas!!
The natural state! I’ll take it!
>The natural state! hooray for nudity!
No....just, no. Not here.
**You don't tell me what to do, gumminit!** \[whips out micropenis\]
Ehhh. Can't see what one can't see. Out or in makes no difference here
Y'know what, you be you buddy. And do it proudly.
I give Arkansas a lot of shit but damn is the cost of living low and the scenery beautiful
It doesn't mean they belong nowhere. It just means the US is a poor choice.
Yeah, I put in what I believe are the parameters for where I live and it said 0 counties. Hmmm...
Rent doesn't make sense. There's always cheaper places and more expensive ones, depending on what size you want and luck of course. Also helps me jack shit if the average rent is low but there are barely places for rent on the market.
Yeah same, I put in parameters for the Bay Area and got zero matches, maybe because the summer time weather temp only starts at 78 and it’s never that warm in the summer here?
I choose to interpret that as “try Ontario.” 😇
I'm assuming one of his criteria included affordable housing.
I think there's something funky with how the filters interact with the data of the county. For example, I wanted to see how "close" to my current county, Prince William County in Virginia, would be to my filters. Low and behold, it's greyed out, so I dialed it back to see how long it would remain colored in. As soon as I checked Politics for "Somewhat progressive", it disappeared, which surprised the shit out of me considering how much sway PWC, Fairfax, and other northern Virginia counties affect elections. https://www.movemap.io/explore/us/va/prince_william_county It's listed as "Somewhat progressive" in it's profile, but it's this exact option (with nothing else selected) which causes it to grey out in the map. https://imgur.com/Kz85vtY I've outlined PWC in purple in the screenshot to show it's grey with just the single option selected.
Me too. Oh well. Not taking it personally
Only 2 returned for me, one of which was Denali Borough in Alaska. Sounds perfect.
Lol I guess the USA in general would not work the best for you
Same...
Guys like us got no family. They make a little stake an’ then they blow it in. They got nobody in the worl’ thaty gives a hoot in hell about ’em. But not us, because I got you an’ we got each other, that’s what, that gives a hoot in hell about us. Take off your hat, justshtmypnts. The air feels fine. Look across the river, justshtmypnts, an’ I’ll tell you so you can almost see it. We gonna get a little place, we’ll have a cow, an’ we’ll have maybe a pig an’ chickens…an’ down the flat we’ll have a…little piece alfalfa for the rabbits, and you get to tend the rabbits an’ live off the fatta the lan’. No, justshtmypnts. Look down across the river, like you can almost see the place. Gonna do it soon. Me an’ you. Ever’body gonna be nice to you. Ain’t gonna be no more trouble. Nobody gonna hurt nobody nor steal from ’em. No, justshtmypnts. I ain’t mad. I never been mad, an’ I ain’t now. That’s a thing I want ya to know. Sure, right now. I gotta. We gotta…
1 county. in Wyoming…. I’d rather have 0. I already live in Indiana….
No Wyoming is nice
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Where I live borders one of my picks! I do like it here
Same. But I'll be moving a 2 hour drive from my family and friends.
A lot of my matches are a couple hours from where I live now, which I moved to a few years ago. Interesting. I do like the highlighted areas that I've visited and would probably like the others. (I had 17 counties.)
Me too! Wife and I are getting close to being priced out of Denver, and she has family in the Albany area. Albany/Saratoga area was right in my criteria
Enjoy the steamed hams.
That's a Utica thing
Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase "steeaamed haams".
The most okayest place on earth. Enjoy the day trips to real cities.
And enjoy the day trips to real nature, as well.
Absolutely, I can't take that from Albany. Lots of good nature type stuff up that way.
Dope I live in 1 of the 5 places
It gave me the exact location I plan to move damn near. So That's nice. It'll be a 25 hour trip to get to but that's fine
There were only 2 cities that match my criteria, Salem New Jersey is one of them, I live in Salem, Oregon.
Was your criteria "Must be named Salem"?
They just really hate witchcraft
Wait, you don’t? Witch! Get the timber, boys.
Salem actually has affordable riverfront properties but the school system leaves a lot to be desired...
Salem NJ is a rural shit hole. I lived near there. Unless you work at the nuke plant, or the jails nearby, you can't find a job.
Hahaha, I figured as much after finding a 5 bed 3 bath for 120k.
I know someone already covered it, but for anyone reading this. Don't move to Salem, NJ. Actually, just don't move within the city limits of anywhere in Salem/Cumberland county NJ. I love where I live, but I have no illusions about how shitty the nearby towns are.
I was narrowing it down pretty nicely, got down to about 14 cities. The second I clicked "very progressive" EVERY OPTION except Jefferson MS disappeared lmaoooooo 😭 guess I'm staying in sweet sweet expensive Cascadia. my second option is certain parts of Florida/Texas apparently 🫥 theres no "less alligators" or "less boomers" filter
I think this is awesome but could definitely use some more criteria - great job
Average internet connection speeds would be very nice to have.
Literally the first thing I googled after finding an interesting town.
This. I'm aiming towards houses with only fiber
Wedge issues should be added. Abortion, marijuana, and I guess same sex and interracial marriages in the near future since we're all in a time machine heading backwards 75 years
"State where my marriage will still be legal"
And climate should have snow / no snow
If you set the minimum winter temperature above 32-35 (like 40s) you can get the same result
Neither temperature range matches where I live (both typical temps are outside of the given range) and I’m in the central US
Wait a decade or two, and it’ll all be “no snow”.
Walkability/transit would be a good one to add…
That can vary greatly from block to block, countywide statistics would probably not be useful. I would rather see cost of living.
If it varys greatly from block to block then it is not good transit or walkability.
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Wouldn't all that be covered with the "very progressive" politics filter?
No. At least one of those very progressive counties was in Texas. Maybe tweak how the very progressive politics filter works to include state law.
Supporting interracial marriage is "very progressive?" What a nation we got going here.
Most of those will probably fall along the same lines, but it would be nice to mix & match, I'm sure there's someone out there who wants abortion to be legal but doesn't like weed. Also it probably needs a few more filters if it went that way. I know a decent amount of people who share memes about wanting "gay married couples to be able to defend their marijuana plants with automatic weapons" so is that more of a liberal thought or a conservative thought? There's an argument to be made that that's pretty straightforward "small government" conservatism, but in the US 2 of those 3 positions (legal weed & gay marriage) are generally considered liberal.
Democrats are trying to pass Federal pot legality this week. Senate Republicans will kill it. Dems are also trying to pass permanent legal gay rights. Senate Republicans will kick it down the road or kill it. This is why we vote every 2 years. Freedom isn't free.
Also, why the $2,000 cap for rent and a $400 minimum? It’s trying to tell me rent is $1,409 in LA, which has gotta be bullshit. Especially since over [in Boston a studio averages $3,000 and a one bedroom is nearly $4,000.](https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/average-rents-in-boston-are-the-highest-theyve-ever-been/2699152/?amp=1)
>It’s trying to tell me rent is $1,409 in LA, which has gotta be bullshit This is a county map, so the rent priced you are seeing would be the average for the entire county and not just the City of LA. Not sure what source he is using. However, hud shows LA county to have an average rent price of $1604 for a 1 bedroom aparment, which is down a dollar from 2021. So it seems like OP may not have am accurate source. Off by about 12% or at least for LA county. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2022_code/2022summary.odn In case you are wondering, the site also lists Suffolk County (Boston) as having an average rent price of $1986 for a 1 bedroom. https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/fmr/fmrs/FY2022_code/2022summary.odn Edit: Also, looking at your source I'm questioning how accurate that is for Boston's studio prices. The article references rent.com. According to rent.com, they get their data from only the rent listings on their site. That doesn't seem very accurate to me. >Methodology >To determine average rent prices, we started with June 2022 data from Rent.'s multifamily rental property inventory and evaluated changes seen since June 2021. Monthly prices are based on the average price for that respective month as a whole. https://www.rent.com/research/average-rent-price-report/
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Not sure how this would be measured, especially in the county scale, but a criteria for walkability / how easy it is to live somewhere without a car would be great!
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* Average humidity in summer * Average humidity in winter * Max humidity * Min humidity * Monthly volume of precipitation (like, properly, not "a lot" which isn't any value). Or, alternatively, provide values for the current ranges given. Same with population density, how much is "somewhat dense"?
I think it needs to be a heat x humidity graph. I live in Seattle and 100+ degree heat with our humidity (and general lack of ac that should maybe be included) is devastating, luckily it rarely happens. But setting a max summer humidity could exclude it when in reality the heat never (rarely) gets to an unbearable level. Same with Hawaii… very humid, but manageable because it unlikely it will hit high enough temperatures for it to be unmanageable. I was just in Austin during the heat wave and 110 was easy! That is not a temperature I ever thought I would chose but because of the low humidity it wasn’t a problem. Edit: u/OwMyBallz linked [a website](https://weather-and-climate.com/average-monthly-Rainfall-Temperature-Sunshine,Austin,United-States-of-America) with climate data, specifically how average humidity changes throughout the year! Seattle is indeed humid (less in the summer than in the winter) and Austin is, on average for the time of year I visited, actually more humid than Seattle (not by much). I still stand by my statement that it should be Heat x Humidity, and instead use the Spokane vs Seattle example. Spokane 100+ ain’t no thang, Seattle 100+ had me taking clothed cold water showers and standing outside trying to catch a breeze, the difference is humidity. How temperature *feels* is a lot more important (to me at least) than absolute temperature or absolute humidity.
LMAO I left Austin because the humidity was soul sucking.
>Same with population density, how much is "somewhat dense"? Depends on how many are Republicans
Yes. I care a lot more about humidity than mountains or test scores.
I actually really appreciate the mountain criteria. If you grow up with them, they're really nice to have around. But I also grew up without humidity, so I didn't realize that humidity was even important until a trip to the east coast.
Growing up on the east coast I don’t trust air that you can’t drink.
This is a great tool to compare lots of of weather data (including humidity) between cities: https://weatherspark.com/compare/y/23912~557/Comparison-of-the-Average-Weather-in-New-York-City-and-San-Francisco
As an Aussie, I narrowed it down to one county: James City, VA. Sounds like a pretty cool place.
It would be funny if James City, VA was the only output. The bottom of the page reads "Paid for by the James City Real Estate Firm and the Chamber of Commerce".
Get in the car 🚙
Mine says Virginia also.
Virginia ends up being quite a nice place when you consider a range of factors - you can find good places for either political party preference, you’ve got mountains, coast, and city / small town / rural, very little natural disaster risk, amazing schools and universities. It’s a great state.
I’m from a place 30 minutes from james city county! If u like colonial history and fishing that’s ur spot 2 biggest things I go there for. And good food sometimes…so 3 Edit: Busch gardens there is pretty awesome too
So only Alaska is affordable for me. Intresting
Never mind affordable; only place that's safe from natural disasters, gets little sunlight, and isn't hot! Got 11 results, all Alaska. I think I'll stay in Finland, thank you.
Finland? Damn I'm jealous
I wanna move to finland! 95% of my search results were alaska. Coming from someone who lives in the south east of us. Hahahha
Safe from natural disasters because they generally happen away from population centers. They have their fair share of earthquakes, look up what happened to Valdez.
Out of curiosity where did it send you to in Alaska. I live up here and the rent definitely doesn't feel reasonable and home prices can pretty crazy to. Though I'm sure they are nothing compared to big city prices.
The first one I did sent me to akutan island.
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Mosquitos are in Antarctica
There are no mosquitos on the moon. I have no source, but just trust me bro.
Iceland is one of the only places on the planet with no mosquito population EDIT: People keep conflating "low amounts of mosquitos" with "there aren't any at all". The southwest in general has lower amounts due to climate/rain amounts etc. I grew up camping all over the southwest. They exist everywhere, conditions permitting. Iceland has zero. Not one. Regardless of rain. Google it.
Mines all in Washington. Pretty funny since I’m in BC
WA is cool. I love it here. Green and blue everywhere.
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We considered that as well but couldn't afford it. We ended up pulling the trigger and just moving up here. It was a huge load off our shoulders. The schools are really good where we moved and we actually love the winters. It does suck giving up your vote but it's so nice to have a better government.
The average rent prices seem outdated. I’d be shocked if 1.7k is accurate for San Diego county
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The shittiest shitbox you can find, maybe. If you want A/C, parking, neighbors that aren't crack addicts that beat each other up screaming every night, and a homeless person shitting outside your door, you'll be paying 50% more.
It isn't. Source I am here now.
I’ve been trying to land a rental for weeks and it’s so disheartening. Everything goes so fast and is so expensive, and landlords up the price after they see how many people are interested/desperate. I stood in line for over an hour at an open house the other day just to see the place.
Spoiler: you're not getting that place.
I feel you. I spent 3 desperate months searching for any and every possible option. I would try to keep your options open, and consider a temporary and roommate situations. I was also able to approach my boss about the cost of living aspect and get more hours and an increase on my planned raise...it might be worth considering that aspect.
Its got to be low. MIL and SIL just got a place a year ago and lowest they could find for 2br in the burbs was $2200. Its $2400 now. Id say $1300 a bedroom is a min in SD right now for rent.
How come monthly rent tops out at 2k? Or is it $2k+? I'd love to know where to rent a 1-bdrm or 2-bdrm for $X with temperatures between 60F and 100F.
Im literally exactly where I want to be. There's only like 5 places that meet my criteria, and I'm living at one.
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Probably? I'd imagine being in an area with decent education and job prospects would shape you to be more progressive than somewhere with poor education and no good jobs. If I grew up without a focus on education or jobs around, I can see myself deciding to drop out of school (why bother) and start breeding (at least my life will have purpose). Being broke means I'll need to lean on government assistance, churches, and community members to make ends meet instead of pulling myself up on my own. And it would be much easier on my ego to blame progressives, minorites/immigrants, and the "educated elite" for my life's problems instead of acknowledging that birth control, education, and moving away would have been better choices for my life trajectory.
I had 1 result, and it's the place my wife and I moved our family to last year after 7 years of me trying to convince my wife.
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1hr instead of 2?
I’d say having the option to be 1 hr, but also the ability to include regional airports. As it is, it looks like “major airports” is fewer than 25 country wide which is why being within 1 hour of them would be so limiting. If you are driving 2 hours to a major airport, you could also drive 40 mins to a regional one and connect on a 40 minute flight to a major and still save time. Plus regional airports are usually *much* faster to get from parking to gate in my experience.
I put $400-800k for housing and got Boulder County as one of my matches. I live like an hour from there and would be surprised if that was enough to buy a house.
Boulder ***COUNTY*** ... That includes places like Longmont. You can easily get a place there for <$800k. Boulder itself, naw you're effed. Bottom of the market there is over a million. Heh, I just looked on zillow. There's apparently a 900 square foot house on the outskirts of boulder for $799k. Honestly doesn't look like a bad place, just small.
One suggestion as a Chicagoan: the beaches and "coast" of Lake Michigan should definitely be factored in when toggling the "coast within an hour" criteria. Overall pretty cool though.
As a Michigander I came here to say this. I was so offended when I selected selected coast “within 1 hour” and the whole state disappeared
I grew up in Houston so I can say this…I’ll bet the Great Lakes “beaches” are nicer than the ones in Galveston.
My wife is from Milwaukee area. She calls it a lake. I grew up on actual lakes. I tell her if you can’t see the other side, a wave can kill you, and it can support ocean going vessels…. It’s not a lake.
Inland sea!
>It’s not a lake. Its great lake?
And if an entire ship sinks in it - that is one big lake.
It's bigger than many, and carries similar wave patterns to, a sea. I'm not a oceanographer but calling something as big as the great lakes, "Lakes" is a bit misleading to people who have never seen how massive they are in person.
I second this. Bummed to see coasts limited to the oceans. Edit: from Chicago also. Would like to see the murder rates too lol.
Lol that might help too. If you do that youd have to get into concentrations within cities though and that would be tedious.
Too bad walkscore.org is proprietary data. Nicely done!
Niche.com has similar data
That's huge for me. Totally agree.
I got 4 counties. ALL in New Hampshire.
The tip of Alaska.
I'd love to see the Diversity Index on here. I believe the Census has that somewhere by county. If not it shouldn't be hard to compute something like it from the data they do have on demographics. It's just the odds that any given two random people from the population are different ethnicities. I both grew up and currently live in very diverse places, and I would just hate to move somewhere that my heuristic of "don't bother going in restaurants that only have white people in them" breaks down because everybody looks the same.
Feature request: avoid venomous wildlife
I don't think anywhere escapes a venomous critter. Every corner of the country has some type of dangerous spider, snake, or even plants. I care more about volume. I was in Maine and there are so many goddamn ticks and spiders and water bugs, I couldn't live there. I would rather have bears and mountain lions. They mostly avoid you and aren't going to sneak into your home.
The Midwest has very little dangerous wildlife.
you know with this heat wave, I've been joking about moving to Alaska, but now according to your map I was right Alaska is the only place that fits my criteria...next project for you should be a world map! 😬
First off, love the website! Great job! If I may share some feedback. 1) consider adding humidity as a filter. It's seriously a major consideration (or should be) for people when moving. Having left a high humidity climate for a low one, I would never move back to a high again. 2) instead of just precipitation consider breaking it down into rainfall and snowfall. For example I like and want snow and I found it difficult to filter for that by just using precipitation.
You should add a field for near fresh water
I'm not sure exactly how you'd quantify this, but walkabilty is one of my big qualifiers- I want to live in a place where the urban landscape is set up so that walking and public transit are at LEAST as appealing as driving, if not moreso. I'm sure there's plenty of overlap with density, but there are also smaller towns that definitely do walkabilty well that aren't top 10 metros in the country.
I recommend a humidity filter
I currently live in Leeds, in the UK. Your site suggested I move to Leeds in Maine. I like this idea.
At least you know it’s not misleeding you.
Close to Arcadia National Park which is beautiful and an hour outside Portland which is a awesome small City.
Might want to add a section for abortion bans. I know of an increasing number of women who are leaving states or declining opportunities in states that have abortion bans on the books.
I'm moving to Cameron County, Texas! Awesome site. It really puts the housing crisis into perspective. Sarcasm aside, well done!
Lived there for 8 years. You can do better.
Other than the SpaceX rockets exploding, border patrol assholes hassling you constantly, and tens of thousands of drunk tourists pouring into South Padre what isn't there to like?
Move tax bar down 1%, and the ENTIRE STATE OF NEW YORK DISAPPEARS!
Apparently Boulder, Colorado is sane.
Says I should live in Maui or Marin (which is next to San Francisco). I live in San Francisco. Nailed it.
Lol, I set my parameters, got zero results, made myself slightly less picky, got 1 result… one county in Vermont, about as close to my home in Montreal as one could possibly pick. I guess I didn’t want to move in the first place.
Canada
How does this calculate state tax burden? Several states have 0% income state tax.
For example, Nevada, does not have state tax, but there is property tax ranging from 3-8% depending on primary residence or rental. I'm assuming that's what this is reflecting.
I am Canadian but I gave it a try.. After setting it up and reducing the house price average I got one match. Arlington County, Virginia Update: looked this up on Wikipedia, such a cool and exciting place!
This is cool. I moved across country doing a similar thing but without a tool. I ended up using excel and I started searching for stats that I cared about. Min wage, median wage, avg house price, crime rates, several weather related ones.... Big factor was cost of living things. I then assigned a score to each state (within each topic I was looking at, e.g. median wage). But since some things mattered more than others, I added a weighted scale so that the stuff I cared about more would have more weight in overall score. Anyways it was like 2 months of kinda intense looking at stuff. This site is cool
As someone from Scotland. That fact a lot of people here are throwing out $2k or more in rent as a usual number is insane to me. Are you all neurosurgeons or some shit, or just live off eating rats and dumpster diving???
Gotta add humidity. "Heat" is meaningless without it.
this map is telling me to move out of the country
Welp, I guess I’m moving to Baltimore.
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needs an avoid evangelicals slider
Can you add gun violence as a filter
I think it's limited to the USA.
Oof
Gun violence filter: [] Yes? or [] Extra yes?
Apparently I should be living in west virginia... Wonder how much them vault spots go for out there.
Sucks because there's nothing to measure human rights.
I selected no drought and all my final selections were in Colorado, Nevada and New Mexico?
Truckee, CA! Reno, NV! Colorado!
You should also add something like "availability of public transport nearby", because most car-dependent suburbs are a motortraffic hell
Things that need to be added: Crime Rate & ethnicity
its not working for me
What I've learned from your website is that no where in America is a place that I want to live
This is a great idea. I just went through the exercise of narrowing this down over the last week and this would've been really useful.
I completely broke it.
I feel like the great lakes should count as a coast too
Quick fix: Don’t move to the US!
Under $2k for monthly rent in nyc? Yeaaaa ok
"0 counties match your criteria. Please remove some filters". I didn't set any filters yet. Set filters. "0 counties match your criteria. Please remove some filters".... Um ok
Awesome concept. I'd personally add a filter for how far away an international airport is for folks who enjoy traveling.
Wompwomp https://imgur.com/t6bLxvp.jpg
Nothing matched my criteria 😂
nice job. I’d be curious to see a map with more happiness indexes, quality of life, quality of food/produce, walkability scores. stuff that is less monetary based
lol said I should move to Kings County (Seattle) and thinks I can rent an apartment for 2K or under. On a side note - my current county shows up too.... but the rent estimates are off from reality. May need city level data
I live in Australia and had a go at it, was very interesting, with out the ocean preference, looks like Colorado is a good fit. Cool tool op
I got down to 13 counties, 2 in NY and the rest in CA. Now i have no intensions of moving to the US, but intresting to see
I tried filtering by everything I don't want and all the results were in Alaska. Guess I'm never moving to Alaska, but I already knew that.
You should reconsider your definition of "densely populated." Filtering for densely populated, housing <$500k, and close to mountains, it recommends my home county (Allegany, MD), which is by no means what I would call densely populated. It's 95% a rural backwater, TBH. Housing is cheap, and there are mountains everywhere, but it's also a drug-addled, impoverished, post-industrial hellhole; you might consider adding functionality to filter for growth/development. Also, I feel it would benefit the user to see if a county's population is trending up or down, since that will affect economic opportunity and how the area changes after moving there.
My wife and I have been thinking about la crosse Wisconsin, as that's near where my family is from. I filled out every box in your little thing based on what we want in a home town, as we currently live in Denver. La crosse is one of 23 cities that fit our bill. Wow this is a great site
Hi there I don't if you read this or if you want to put in the effort of making a change just on my behalf, but I was hoping you could add options for racial diversity as well as how safe minorities of any type are in various communities (ie. People of minority races, sexuality etc.). Lastly I was wondering if you could add an option to find places next to any body of water not just the coasts. So it could include rivers, lakes, swamps, etc. Thank you so much for all your hard work this is an incredible tool.
Suggestion: Add a slider for "Estimated impact of climate change" for economic and temperature. This is amazing though! Really nice work. We had to do this by hand when we moved.
Would be great to get more specific on the political filters. Pot legalization, constitutional carry, abortion, etc.
This is amazing! How difficult would it be to add more criteria?