Why Huntsville [AL] Is the Best Place to Live in the U.S. in 2022-23

US News & World Report ^ | 5/17.2022 | Devon Thorsby

[Gay State Conservative]

"Once the rockets are up,who cares where they come down.That's not my department...says Werner Von Braun!"

Tom Lehrer

[aquila48]

“Sweet Home AL!”

Check out this rendition by the Leningrad Cowboys. It’s an absolute hoot!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M5GRpA5H3CI

[Jean2]

My friend lives in Prescott Valley.

[rockrr]

I agree. My family lived there in the 60s and I hated to move back to Washington.

[Jean2]

My friend lives there and I visited there in 2019 before the COVID insanity hit. I quite enjoyed it.

[vivenne]

San Francisco was in the top 10 which tells uou all you need to know about the criteria used.

[awelliott]

Been here off and on for the past 30 years and have seen lots of change. They’re trying really hard to turn it and the surrounding cities (Madison, Athens, etc..) into West Atlanta.

[GaryCrow]

Huntsville is in the ~16% percentile in safety meaning that 84% of cities are safer. Hard pass.

Safety usually directly follows demographics and Huntsville’s, while not the worst in the region, certainly has its share of crime prone groups. Crime is a much greater threat on a daily basis than hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes etc. Those are much, much less likely to affect you than crime so they don’t even factor into my thinking when I think “safety”.

[wardaddy]

I like Huntsville I live about 100 miles north but I may move close enough around Lynchburg we’re Huntsville will be my city but one warning it’s more liberal than the average Alabama county probably 40% Democrat and it’s a very white county so these are liberal white people with professional degrees the county voted for Trump 53% whereas the state of Alabama voted 64% so there you go buyer beware

[Seruzawa]

Yeah. These “Top Whatever” lists are always dumb. But often fun. It takes real imagination to invent a “best cities” list that ignores crime rates. Yet I see them regularly.

I live in a city over 100,000 population with regularly the lowest crime rate in the nation for a city of that size. We don’t worry if we forget to lock out doors. Yet it never makes any “Top Ten Best Places to Live” list.

[bamafour]

Lived here in the HSV area for 42 years.
Just yesterday was cursing the taffic/roads that have become horrid because the roads cannot keep up with all the new housing and apartment developments going up in every open square inch.
This is not good news.... :^(

[citizen]

I moved to NE HSV in 2020. Close to my hometown of Fayetteville, TN.

[Guenevere]

They may be Leni, ….:)
…..but in the 70’s our county was the ‘big kahuna’……the schools were filled with kids from dads who peopled the aerospace companies and Kennedy Space Center…..

We’re still the Space Coast but now we regularly watch Musk’s Starlink rockets take off and return…..instead of the old rockets and Shuttles.

And our community is taking off like a rocket with thousands of people moving in!…..( adter Joe Biden ruined New York and California)

[Mariner]

I don’t understand how people can handle the humidity on the gulf coast.

[Bob Ireland]

***Huntsville is also the hub of Trump's "Space Age" initiative. No rocket shooting or rocket construction stuff there, just a space age brain lab***

Fascinating! 😎

[Mr. Jeeves]

I’d rather they keep being ignorant of Huntsville’s existence than chest-thump to them about how nice it is.

The magazines did that a few years back with Scottsdale and Gilbert, AZ and now we are overrun with Californians. Many are conservatives - but too many are not.

[euram]

I know a few people who have spent the better part of their lives in Huntsville TX.

[Big Red Badger]

I’m Downtown Prescitt right now near the old Court House.Trump Tuesday and it’s mild temps,breezy and
Beautiful!
Flag Waving Here we Come!

[Big Red Badger]

Humidity,,,
Argh,
I’ve endured that in Biloxi and it’s terrible!
Oh Well.

[Big Red Badger]

Absolutely!