American cities, which city the most suitable retirement? Which city most suitable for love date? Although the selection of the best cities, inevitably, "Who says I do not a good home," but some U.S. institutions, or to uphold the objectivity and fairness, to provide people with a more reliable answer.
Portland, Oregon, company called Sperling's Best Places research firm, specializing best and worst cities will be selected as their own responsibilities, and because of their more rigorous style of work, its findings are also regarded as having a high reference value is often quoted in the media.
10 major cities by car to save money
According Sperling'sBest Places survey, the most economical car in the U.S. cities are: Texas, Brownsville, New Orleans, Louisiana, Alaska Anchorage (Anchorage), Pennsylvania - Allentown-New Jersey Bethlehem Area, Colorado, Boulder, Cleveland, Ohio, Oregon, Salem (Salem), Texas - El Paso, New Mexico (El Paso), Eugene, Oregon (Eugene) and the State of Hawaii Honolulu.
Selected cities have a common characteristic is that they are relatively small area, driving in these cities, the average daily mileage is very small, only 30 miles or so.
10 major cities by car and money
On the contrary, was named the nation's most wasteful of money to drive the 10 cities, is a common feature of large area, vast, and from long distance driving, the average daily mileage of 60 miles or so. Los Angeles and San Francisco, California, motorists driving the average mileage per day is only about 45 miles, but because oil prices are the two highest in the country, so it was elected.
The most expensive American car of the 10 cities are: Atlanta, Georgia, Birmingham, Alabama, Tennessee Nashville-Davidson area, Florida, Orlando, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida - Alabama Pensacola, Indianapolis, Indiana, California, San Francisco - Auckland, North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham Area, California, Los Angeles - Long Beach - Santa Ana area.
In major cities, New York, driving the most expensive cities are New York City, has been selected the 84 cities ranked 20; Buffalo, ranking 25; Rochester, ranked 35. Albany-Schenectady area is the most economical driving, New York area, ranked the least expensive cities in the country by car No. 20.
Lost 10 major cities by car
Sperling's survey has also selected the most easy to get lost driving out of the 10 cities, the street pattern of selection criteria, including the degree of winding roads, the number of single lines, how much ramp; crowded roads in the proportion of all roads; urban rivers, lakes, the number of bridges; Airport to the city center from the main road in the difficulty of recognition; per person per year for lost time due to the number of traffic jams; more than 1.5 inches of snow each year the number of days, more than 0.5 inches of rainfall each year the number of days, and so forth.
Sperling's company and car rental companies, the staff of Motorola, together with telephone navigation system 75 major cities across the United States carried out a field "road test."
Survey, Americans are the most frequent business trips in some cities, almost all city roads illegible. But there is good news, many people seem to have found a solution to the problem, it is to use Global Positioning System (GPS), proved effective than using a traditional map is much better.
People most likely to drive the United States lost the order of 10 cities are: Boston, Washington, San Francisco, Baltimore, New York City - New Jersey in the Northeast, Florida, Fort Lauderdale Goodale (Ft. Lauderale) - Netherlands in the live-Pompano Beach area, Los Angeles, Seattle-Everett area of Washington state, Rhode Island - Maryland, Providence, Pawtuchet areas, the Norfolk, Virginia-Newport News-Virginia Beach area.
Top 10 cities of sleep
Sperling's best for the company selected cities based on five criteria of sleep: In the past month, residents reported the number of insufficient sleep, the residents commute to work every day the time required, the divorce rate, unemployment rate and overall happiness index. This five inter-related indicators, such as divorced people do not sleep well, sleep well and other people happy is lower.
According to the survey, 10 U.S. cities most suitable for sleep were: Minneapolis, Minnesota, California, Anaheim, California, San Diego, North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham area, Washington, New Jersey Northern, Chicago, Boston, Austin, Texas, Kansas City, Missouri.
Sleep 10 worst cities
According to the same standard, the United States the least sleep for 10 cities are: Detroit, Michigan, Ohio, Cleveland, Nashville, Tennessee, Ohio, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Louisiana, New York City, Nevada State Las Vegas, Miami, San Francisco and St. Louis, Missouri.
Top 10 financial cities
Sperling's company state farm insurance company through a joint investigation, found that more than half of U.S. households do not have the right way for the future financial management. They are also in accordance with the income situation, residential investment, saving the situation, the residents of 27 indicators such as the insurance situation of the 50 cities evaluated, selected the nation's best and worst financial 10 cities 10 cities finance.
Residents in accordance with financial best score of the level of the 10 cities were: Salt Lake City, Utah, Portland, Oregon, Florida, Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater area, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Orlando, Florida, Minnesota Minneapolis - St. Paul area, Goodale Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Washington, Seattle-Bellevue-Everett area, Indianapolis, Indiana, Arizona, Phoenix-Mesa area.
Financial 10 best cities, residents in the short-term and long-term investment protection through their property, generally headed in the right direction compared to go. The survey also found that higher household income city in the management of finances is often not the best city, was elected the 10 best financial cities, only Minnesota Minneapolis - St. Paul area, the residents of bit family income in 50 major cities in the top ten, and Orlando, Fort Lauderdale Goodale, Tampa and Pittsburgh, these cities, the median household income, are ranked 50 cities in the end.
10 cities worst financial
According to Sperling's survey, residents in the financial management has done the worst 10 cities are: Oakland, California, North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, California, Orange County (Orange County), New York City , Norfolk, Virginia-Newport News-Virginia Beach area, Wisconsin, Milwaukee - Waukesha area, Louisiana, New Orleans, Los Angeles - Long Beach, Chicago, Miami.
10 major cities most suitable for dating
Sperling's company the greatest concern to young people, from the nation's 80 largest cities selected the most suitable and most do not love dating love dating for 10 cities. Their selection is mainly based on several criteria: the city's population density of 18-24 year-old single; bars, cafes, bowling alleys and other places of the number of appointments, the proportion of urban single people.
According to the survey, the nation's most suitable for young people in 10 cities according to date high and low scores were: Austin, Texas, Colorado, Colorado Springs (Colorado Springs), California, San Diego, North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham area , Seattle, Washington, South Carolina, Charleston, Norfolk, Virginia, Minnesota, Ann Arbor, Massachusetts, Springfield, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Austin, Texas, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Minnesota, Ann Arbor select screen should not be surprising birds, because these cities are young people a high concentration of University City; California, San Diego, impressive scores in a diverse population, it contributed to interracial dating in the area to earn a high score; North Carolina, Raleigh-Durham area a high proportion of the population aged 18-24, the popular online dating is that it is a major feature; sleepless in Seattle, the coffee up , Norfolk, Virginia, the high number of flowers give it away, so that the two cities also made the list.
Some of the rich social life of the city known as Los Angeles, Miami, have not been selected, because these cities in the number of coffee shops per capita, per capita spend gifts share lower than the score.
Least 10 major cities for dating
Not suitable for dating the nation's most cities are: Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas, Wichita, Minnesota Minneapolis - St. Paul area, Detroit, Michigan, Louisville, Kentucky, North Carolina The Greensboro / Winston-Salem area, Atlanta, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Houston, Texas, Charlotte, North Carolina.
Steel City Pittsburgh, Detroit was chosen so the least the city for dating, because these two cities are very few 18-24 year-olds, and Charlotte, North Carolina, was elected, it is because the city the lowest proportion of single persons.
Greensboro Wichita and low per capita number of cafes, young people have little to go, but also how to date? While in Atlanta, but not many lively bars, young single people to find partners, have to find ways to find their own place, and therefore more difficult to date the city.
Instead, the new Jersey City, although the state imposed a curfew, but still very suitable for appointment, has been selected in 80 cities, ranked No. 11. New York City is also good, the "Wicked" (Sex and City) base camp in the real world can only be number 18, but considering there are so many crazy men in New York Rouge of the North, this ranking has been regarded as a very exciting. New York City is the most difficult appointment Rochester, followed by Syracuse (Syracuse).
The most scary of 10 major cities
Sperling's also ranks the 10 U.S. cities most people nervous, according to the standards include the unemployment rate, divorce rate, commuting time, violent crime, crime against property, the suicide rate, alcohol situation, and claims that poor mental health How many people, the residents are not happy days of the year and so on.
Result, America's most scary is the 10 cities: Washington, Tacoma, Miami, New Orleans, Las Vegas, New York City, Oregon - Washington area Portland - Vancouver area, Mobile, Alabama , California Stockton-Lodi area, Detroit and Dallas, Texas.
Tacoma, Washington was elected the first American city because of people nervous, the city's divorce rate and crime rate in the survey of 100 large cities are of the highest, and the city often cloudy, the suicide rate is also high .
Miami election is a crime of violence because it is the highest of all surveyed cities, in addition, a long commute time, unemployment and divorce rates are also factors that make people nervous.
Las Vegas, stirring anxiety of life, so that the city was named the U.S. city of the third scary. Las Vegas, in addition to the suicide rate, divorce rate than, alcohol abuse is also very serious. Although the city sunny days a year than all other cities are more, but its residents still do not feel more happy, the mental health of residents in poor condition.
New York was named the nation's No. 5 cause of the city's most scary, the first residents of the time spent commuting each day is the longest of all the cities, in addition, people Mojian Cabei streets, high unemployment, high crime , but also to experience what New Yorkers always worry about life.
However, New Yorkers are not deserters, though life is very nervous, but they are very optimistic, strong, suicide rates and divorce rates are relatively low.
10 major cities most relaxing
Ranked top of America's most relaxing city, is the capital of two states: New York, Albany-Schenectady-Troy area and Pennsylvania Harriburg-Lebanon-Carlisle area, because the unemployment rate in the two cities, divorce rate, crime rates, suicide rates are very low, commuting time is very short. The fly in the ointment is the two cities in the Northeast, the weather is not good.
In addition to these two cities, the other among the most relaxing 10 U.S. cities were: California, Orange County, New York's Nassau - Suffolk area, Minnesota - Wisconsin Minneapolis - St. Paul region, Minnesota, Ann Arbor, University of Nebraska - Omaha, Iowa, Virginia - North Carolina, Norfolk - Virginia Beach-Newport News area, and Honolulu, Hawaii North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill.