From Movoto:
very year, hundreds of thousands of home buyers are moving to the country’s most booming metropolitan areas. For those that don’t want to deal with the traffic and other hassles of big city living, there are the suburbs. These smaller cities and towns offer proximity to everything their larger neighbors have to offer, while oftentimes being safer and less crowded.
For those looking to move there—whether from out of the area or from the cities they border—the Movoto Real Estate Blog has put together this ranking of the 10 best suburbs in America, based on criteria including cost of living, education, and amenities. At the top of the list is Westerville, OH, a suburb of Columbus, OH. The rest of the list is comprised of cities in states including Texas, California, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Tennessee:
1. Westerville, OH
2. Plano, TX
3. Georgetown, TX
4. Round Rock, TX
5. Cedar Park, TX
6. Cupertino, CA
7. Matthews, NC
8. Cornelius, NC
9. Newton, MA
10. Germantown, TN
To rank these cities, we relied on a set of criteria used to measure how safe, affordable, and—ultimately—livable they are. Before we talk a bit about each suburb, let’s look at how we decided which were the best.
How We Did It
We looked at the top 25 most populous cities in the country, then determined the three largest suburbs of each city for a total of 75 suburbs. Then, we ranked each suburb across several criteria, which included:
- Amenities (shopping, dining, entertainment, etc.)
- Cost of living (percent above or below national average)
- Crime (percent above or below national average)
- Education (student to teacher ratio compared to national average)
- Employment (income and unemployment compared to national average)
Once we had that information—from sources including the U.S. Census and Bureau of Labor Statistics—we were able to see how each city did in the individual criteria (on a scale of 1 to 75, with 1 being best) and also on average to give them an overall score.
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I found this survey limited ergo bogus because taking the top 25 most populous cities is meaningless in looking at really TOP suburbs.
Owning and having lived in Germantown for several years, I found it, and the city at large very much lacking ! These people must be smoking crack or simply delusional. Germantown and the rest of Memphis don’t have a decent grocery store and supermarket ! Restaurants ? sure if you like chains and quasi-independent chains (like Bonefish/OSI/Brinker) crap ! even the rest of Memphis suffers from the lack of truly great cuisine ! and SHOPPING ? gee, there is nothing to talk about even in soft goods, competitive men’s wear and the like.
Cities like Birmingham AL, have better suburbs that I’ve lived in…#! in Mountain Brook, and #2 is Vestavia Hills ! even other suburbs south of US 280 and 459 have better suburbs. And shopping ?? bham area suburbs, etc has places like the Summit, great restaurants in Five Points South and all over the suburbs/south that make Memphis look like a farm town. Shops now include a newer Belk’s, Nordstrom Rack, and a brand new Von Maur.
Germantown in my sole opinion having lived there is nothing compared to Mountain Brook and Vestavia. And Bham is a SMALLER city !.
Germantown must have paid someone to make this cut, because it has no credibility if you’ve lived anywhere else for any period of time. It’s a joke.