a Yourlist ranking · the crowd decides the order
Where the eating is the point.
What counts: Seeded with approximate real-world figures — the crowd's votes decide the order from here.
Austin
Metro pop.: 2,400,000Median home: $450,000Sunny days: 228
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San Francisco
Metro pop.: 4,600,000Median home: $1,200,000Sunny days: 259
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Houston
Metro pop.: 7,300,000Median home: $340,000Sunny days: 204
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Los Angeles
Metro pop.: 12,900,000Median home: $900,000Sunny days: 284
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Miami
Metro pop.: 6,100,000Median home: $550,000Sunny days: 248
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Chicago
Metro pop.: 9,400,000Median home: $340,000Sunny days: 189
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New York City
Metro pop.: 19,600,000Median home: $700,000Sunny days: 224
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Cincinnati
Metro pop.: 2,200,000Median home: $260,000Sunny days: 175
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Nashville
Metro pop.: 2,100,000Median home: $460,000Sunny days: 208
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Memphis
Metro pop.: 1,300,000Median home: $240,000Sunny days: 218
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Portland
Metro pop.: 2,500,000Median home: $540,000Sunny days: 144
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Atlanta
Metro pop.: 6,100,000Median home: $400,000Sunny days: 217
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Philadelphia
Metro pop.: 6,200,000Median home: $280,000Sunny days: 207
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Boston
Metro pop.: 4,900,000Median home: $700,000Sunny days: 200
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New Orleans
Metro pop.: 1,300,000Median home: $250,000Sunny days: 216
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Kansas City
Metro pop.: 2,200,000Median home: $300,000Sunny days: 215
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Richmond
Metro pop.: 1,300,000Median home: $380,000Sunny days: 213
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Washington
Metro pop.: 6,400,000Median home: $620,000Sunny days: 203
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Visited last spring and it absolutely lives up to the hype.
Housing prices moved way faster than this list implies.
Weather is underrated in these rankings until you've done one bad winter.
Lived in two of these — the cost-of-living numbers are the whole story.