Living in United States for Expatriates
United States Living
Want to move to, or stay, in the United States? There are a number of excellent web sites to help you in your search for a place to move to. Monster.com's city profiles provide information on hundreds of cities. The profiles include cost of living, taxes, home costs, insurance costs and quality of life factors such as population, crime, weather and education. You can even compare the profiles of two cities of your choice.BestPlaces.net lets you compare two cities from a list of over 3,000 places in the U.S. You'll see a comparison of nearly 100 categories. BestPlaces offers neighborhood profiles for every zip code in the U.S., in-depth profiles on over 85,000 schools, a cost of living calculator that compares cities and determines what salary you'd need at a new location to maintain the same standard of living as you have now. Plus you'll find crime rates for over 2,500 U.S. cities, most and least stressful cities, and climate profiles for 2,000 cities worldwide.
You can even take a "Find Your Best Place" quiz to determine your own recommended best places to live. BestPlaces also publishes Cities Ranked and Rated, with detailed information on over 400 metropolitan areas in the U.S. and Canada. You might also find Most Livable Communities helpful.
Our favorite is FindYourSpot.com. It offers a fun quiz (it'll take you less than 10 minutes) with great questions, and it produces a list of two dozen cities that fit your quiz answers. Results for each city include an attractive downloadable four-page report with an insightful overview of the character of the area and information on climate, arts and culture, recreation, education, housing and cost of living, crime and safety, health care, and earning a living. You'll also find links to currently available jobs and housing, roommate services, recommended city-specific books, and travel deals if you'd like to personally visit the city.