Posted on 03/11/2024 10:51:01 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
(NEXSTAR) — Any time you’re looking for a home or new place to live, several factors play a role in your decision. How are the schools? What’s the downtown life like? Is there a Walmart nearby? But we can probably agree that two of the biggest factors in your decision are likely safety and cost.
Thanks to some research from personal finance site MoneyGeek, we may have some guidance for you.
To find out which cities are both “safe” and “affordable,” MoneyGeek analyzed the safest small and mid-to-large cities in the U.S. Then they factored in the following stats: recent changes in median household income, the monthly mortgage cost as a percentage of household income, and the monthly food costs as a percentage of household income.
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I have relatives about an hour northwest of Carmel, in West Lafayette, and I spent some of my childhood in a small Illinois town about an hour west of West Lafayette. On a couple of long car trips i went through Carmel, northwest through Lafayete and West Lafayatte, through Hoopeston, Illionois and down to Champaign, Illinois, where I was born. The Dims have ruined Illinois (taxes and politics), which my nostalgia wishes were not the case.
Plenty of room for growth, I guess ...
NE GA was where the unfortunate canoe event occurred. NW GA has no whitewater.
We use to do whitewater trips on *that* part of the Chatuga River, near Clayton. The good guides would point out the rapid where the production crew lost a raft’s worth of high-$$$ camera gear ($100,000 back then? $1,000,000? I don’t remember) and the location of Sodomy Creek.
I’m one of the sloppiest dressers in town, but I don’t have tattoos or piercings or look menacing. There are loads of tattoos and piercing people here, but I don’t need to associate with them in the sense of the undesirable types we both know about. There a lots of metal and punk gigs and bars I go to that might seem like a seedy scene to some people, but the folks are always wonderful. It’s the hip-hop and modern pop culture weirdos with tattoos and piercings that you need to be more wary of here.
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I go to Lafayette and West Lafayette on occasion. I have a friend who lives up that way, so sometimes we meet there which is about halfway. It’s nice there. Carmel is nice, but it’s just too much for me. I couldn’t live there. I’ve become accustomed to the small town that I live in, with about 12,000 folks (but growing). I don’t miss the bigger city life at all. At all.
Big cities are not safe. Austin, TX is a great example of that. A blue city in a red state.
Lol. I doubt that there is one city in California that is safer than any city in Idaho or Wyoming. The criteria of these stupid lists are always crap
What I consider necessary, as I get older, is that there needs to be a high quality and robust healthcare industry, locally. Some - many - small towns just don’t have it.
For instance, a couple of anecdotal examples:
I have a brother who lives in a small town in Texas, barely 15,000 people. Some years back his first wife had to be helicoptered to a metro area medical facility to get the emergency care she needed, and she barely survived that trip.
I thought once of residing in the small Illinois town of Hoopeston (the housing prices are bargains) until I learned that many major medical things require getting down to Chamnaign, Illinois (about an hour away) to get the quality care needed.
A friend of mine moved to a small town in South Dakota(Rockford, maybe) and he loves it. The post office is 40 miles away and NO cell phone service. Land line phone with computer connection. Weather? Not sure.
San Mateo (average used tract houses $2,000,000, hamburger joint pushing $11 with $7.99 fries and $3,50 soda), Santa Clara (almost as high), Fremont and Milpitas — all in the once- great state of Californication and all in the high cost Bay Area. And hardly small cities, they’re enraged in the greater San Jose/ San Francisco metroplex of sone 8.000,000 people. Yes, they’ve hot free food lines everywhere but still they also have the highest income taxes and sone of the most oppressive regulations and laws in America. Hundreds of thousands are leaving or trying to leave the state
Gotta wonder if these articles are even looked at by any competent editors.
Simi Valley, CA— a lot of active and retired cops, Ronald Reagan Library, Ronald Reagan Freeway.
“Somewhere in NW Georgia so long as you don’t go canoeing…”
If you do canoe, bring a banjo alarm.
“Apparently, the word ‘safe’ doesn’t mean the same to The Hill as it does to most people.”
Roswell, Georgia, scored a perfect 100 thanks to its strong rise in median household income over the last five years.
The crime rate in Roswell is considerably higher than the national average across all communities in America from the largest to the smallest.
So, right off the top, they are BSing as their determination of safe seems to be a financial measurement. Additionally it wasn’t until Gov. Sonny Perdue signed a set of bills in 2005 that erased the last vestiges of Georgia’s segregation-era “Jim Crow” laws. And anyone knows if it took that long, then they are still in the background. And that’s the best the hill has to offer?
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And lots of STDs.
Where in LA? Born and raised there and maybe could help with insights.
God awful weather.
There’s lots of good healthcare in and around Indy. Our local hospital, Hendricks Regional, is now part of the Mayo Clinic group. It’s a 5 min drive from our house, and the bigger hospitals in Indy are between 30-50 minutes away.
I hear you on the healthcare thing. We aren’t getting any younger. Staying fit and eating right with daily exercise has helped us ward off most things, but we don’t take our health for granted. One day it will catch up to us.
The healthcare accessibility is one reason we will likely stay put here, and not move back to the south. It would be like starting all over again, and we know firsthand how hard it is to establish yourself in a new area without kids in schools. If it weren’t for church and our neighborhood, we probably wouldn’t know that many people, though we don’t volunteer in the community quite as actively as we used to.
Southwestern Caldwell Parish, real close to Lasalle.
P.S. We used to live in Texas. First in Houston, then later in Arlington. I always felt like it took fifty forevers to get anywhere in Texas, and that was 40 years ago. I can’t imagine what it would be like now.
Our little town may be small, but there are 3 suburbs of Indy within striking distance very quickly. I don’t think it would be but a few minutes of a flight to go from the regional hospital to a bigger one in Indy if a life flight were needed.
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