RelocateAmerica’s Top 100 Places to Live report has garnered considerable attention and this is a good thing as we are in our 13th year connecting relocating families and individuals with America’s best communities. This year’s list focuses on communities poised for recovery and future growth. Additionally, and new for 2010, we created separate Top 10…
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Housing Market Growth Indicators
MyBankTracker.com wrote an interesting article on the housing market’s growth in some cities. They pointed to the increasingly important real estate tenet of location, affordability and a community’s ability to weather the economic downturn. The article referenced RelocateAmerica’s Top 10o Places to Live and also addressed San Francisco’s Chronicles excellent review of eight ways to…
Top 10 Earth Friendly Cities for 2010
Earth Day 2010 is here. Actually, it’s Earth Day’s 40th Anniversary and in celebration, RelocateAmerica would like to highlight our Top10 Earth Friendly Cities for 2010. First, we should mention that our Top100 Places to Live list was packed with good choices for our Top 10 Earth Friendly breakout. Our Top100 list identified communities in…
RelocateAmerica Top 100 Places to Live 2010
RelocateAmerica is proud to release our 2010 “Top 100 Places to Live!” Our annual list is in its 13th year and publishing it is something we love to do. This year’s list focuses on communities poised for recovery and future growth. Additionally, and new for 2010, we created separate Top 10 breakout lists and videos…
Bikes, Minneapolis and Being Green
Bicycling Magazine just announced that Minneapolis is the top biking city in the United States. After playing bridesmaid to Portland, The City of Lakes (and bikes) finally dethrones the long-term champion. Taking nothing away from the green earth poster child, Portland is a phenomenal city with the strongest renewable energy and sustainability efforts in the…
The Season for Relocation
Spring is in the air. And with the winter season behind us (rub rabbit’s foot now), the relocation and moving season is about to kick into high gear. Much of relocation is based around the spring and summer seasons. Why? Well, the school schedule for starters. Junior is on break (assuming Junior isn’t in year-round…
Job Growth
Job growth is good news for relocation. And Friday’s announcement of March job growth certainly garnered a fair amount of attention. In a nutshell, 162,000 jobs were created in March. This represents the largest single monthly job increase in three years. A large percentage of was in temporary positions. The sheer number of positions and…
Google to Topeka
April Fool’s Day is a tremendous holiday. Google renamed its company “Topeka” for the day. This prank is in response to Topeka offering to rename it’s city name to “Google” for a month as a means of drawing attention and favor in Google’s mega-high speed broadband competition. Th econtest inspired 1,100 communities to apply and…