Are you looking for a new city in 2023? If you are, you're not alone like I said in the going
downhill version of this series 2023 is predicted to be one of the most active years for state to
state and city to City relocation today I'm going to tell you about the cities that are
probably your best option if you're one of those hunting for a new city as we come out
of the pandemic a lot of states and cities have started to turn things around every city took
it in the pants during the pandemic years some cities have set themselves up for Success post
coveted and those of the Cities we're looking at today this video is my opinion and it's based on
information that I've picked up and been taking in over the last year are these perfect no do
they have some problems yes but I think in the next few years especially 2023 they should be
moving in the right direction better than most others these are just my opinions and why I'm
sure you have your opinions and they're just as valid as mine are I'm sure and I'd love to hear
about in the comments section below get it got it good let's take a look number 10 Portland Maine
Portland Maine has become more and more popular over the last handful of years I'd say the whole
metro area has a population of about 536 000 and it is the most populous metro area in Maine Maine
is not a very populated state and for those of you that live in Maine that are worried a whole bunch
of people are moving into the state because of the comments I make in this video don't worry if you
get a hundred new residents over the next five years from watching this video I'd be surprised
when you look at the lists of the top 150 Metro areas Portland is in the top five on more than a
few of their different stats including air quality crime average commute time college readiness for
high school students and they're always number one two three or four when it comes to all versions
of crime that's violent crime property crime and calling their third largest city Banger that's a
crime there I believe isn't it Portland Maine has stayed in the top 10 when it comes to the lowest
unemployment in the United States throughout the pandemic and their typical wages are about
10 percent higher than the national average now their cost of living can get a little high in
certain areas Portland's no exception housing can get expensive too and it gets cold Winters
but when you look at the cost of living in the housing and you compare some city in Alabama
Mississippi Louisiana you know Iowa Kansas it's expensive if you compare to New York State all
of California Oregon Washington it's pretty cheap so it's somewhere there in the middle
number nine Salt Lake City Salt Lake City is getting more and more popular every single year
we just talked about how Utah's what I think is going to be one of the best states moving forward
like I said in that video I don't think people have really caught on as much as they should
and it's still a very popular state I think in the next few years the whole state not just Salt
Lake City is going to be where Texas Idaho and Arizona have been in the past where that seems
to be where everyone's moving when they've had enough of Florida and California Oregon
Washington all that anyone that's looking for a new city that's got a family Salt Lake City is a
pretty good option is it the absolute best city in the nation no compared to other cities other major
cities it's a pretty good City that's something I always notice someone always brings up the crime
rate whenever I talk about a city well every city on the freaking planet has a crime rate what you
have to do is you have to compare it to the other cities in the nation in the area whatever you want
to do I promise you there'll be someone in the comment section well we have a drug problem in
Salt Lake City really compared to Detroit compared to Chicago and then get back to me so yeah going
forward I think Salt Lake City will be one of your best options number eight Madison Wisconsin
Madison Wisconsin is one of my favorite cities in the United States once you get past the cold
Winters there's really not a lot of bad things going on in Madison again compared to other cities
compared to Possum Trot Kentucky yeah it's got some problems Possum Trot Kentucky has 12 people
the Madison Wisconsin metro area has 660 thousand side note Possum Trot Kentucky is an actual place
not a lot goes on there it's an unincorporated area in Kentucky and I saw a picture of like Rand
Paul the senator from Kentucky doing like a Quick Mart grand opening thing is hysterical this like a
couple years back it's not like he was a nobody at the time he was a Senator when this happened but
yeah Madison Wisconsin doesn't have a crazy cost of living they have jobs they have cold Winters
but in 2023 I think it's going to be in better shape than it is now number seven Moscow Idaho
yes Moscow Idaho makes the list if you see it on a map you're gonna think it says Moscow Idaho it is
not Moscow it is Moscow it's what the locals call it all 25 000 of them this is a northern Idaho
College town and it is home to the University of Idaho this place has a lot of good going for
it first of all it's not overly crowded and it's getting a little bit popular I wouldn't say it's
getting crazy popular but people are starting to notice Moscow why not they got good schools
they've got a great crime rate it's actually 34 percent lower than the national average which is
outstanding their employment numbers aren't terribly great but their cost of living and
housing are affordable this makes it a great City for remote workers in my opinion I think Moscow is
one of the better cities in Idaho especially if you work in the education field besides having
the University of Idaho right there in town not too far to the West in Pullman Washington is
like right over the Border you have Washington State University and these are two great places
especially Moscow if you really don't want to be in a big city here's another thing about it and
this is sort of how it is in Moscow every state whether it's a red state or a blue State they've
got one little town or one section that is the opposite of the rest of the state you know most
of Oregon is Republican but you have Portland Salem and Eugene those Metro areas are very much
blue sections of a red State down in Texas you got Austin Texas which is totally different Asheville
North Carolina is totally different from the rest of the state that's what's going on in Moscow
so yeah Moscow is not like the rest of Idaho so keep that in mind if you do decide to move there
number six Des Moines Iowa Des Moines Iowa is another place that's been gaining popularity in
the last few years and mostly its cost of living Des Moines is a great place to raise a family I
mean all of Iowa is just about but the cost is really what makes this place a good place to
live if you look at the top 150 cities in the United States Des Moines is ranked 15th when it
comes to cost of living it's very low and their employment numbers are pretty good they have a
little poverty but not nearly as bad as some of the other cities in the country with the influx of
remote workers I think places like Des Moines are really going to get more attention and they'll be
a great place to live in 2023 number five Green Bay Wisconsin Green Bay Wisconsin in my opinion
and statistically is one of the best places to live in the United States this is another place
though I got to give the disclaimer once you get past that and people wearing cheese on their head
at football games it's a wonderful place to live Green Bay sits about 100 miles north of Milwaukee
and it has a population of about three hundred and twenty thousand that's their whole metro area it
is Affordable when you look at Cost living and housing and I'm talking rent and owning a home
they got plenty of things to do here and you sit right on Green Bay which is part of Lake
Michigan and it has the fox river flowing right through town they don't have a lot of poverty
and they've got jobs their unemployment rate tends to be between 10 and 15 percent below the national
average that was throughout the pandemic and still that way so that's why I think it's a great place
to live in 2023 number four Ann Arbor Michigan yeah we're staying up north in Ann Arbor Ann Arbor
Michigan is a great place to live it's only knock as it's a little expensive but they don't have
any real crime their employment numbers are high and their poverty levels are low their housing is
Affordable and they have outstanding schools Ann Arbor is just west of Detroit I should say the
Detroit metro area it's a good distance away from the actual downtown Detroit it's like a 45 minute
drive from downtown Detroit to downtown Ann Arbor Ann Arbor has a population of a little over 370
000 residents that's in their metro area the city itself has a population of about 121
000. so it's a decent sized place to live this is also a college town you'll find the University of
Michigan here and it has the Huron river flowing right through town again cold but also if you love
the outdoors this is a great city to live in now Ann Arbor like most of Michigan has reasonable
real estate prices if you look at the median home price here now Ann Arbor it's only 270
thousand dollars now this one we're really not focusing on the real estate but I will tell you
that realistically if you want to buy a decent place in Ann Arbor you're looking around 400
000 to 500 000. somewhere in that area should get someplace nice they have plenty of like condos and
stuff that are below 300 000. not a bad place to live you just gotta make sure you don't make any
wrong turns if you go visit Detroit you know and end up in the wrong place at the wrong time the
average annual salary in Ann Arbor is pretty good too it's right under sixty thousand dollars that
is not bad especially for a place in Michigan Ann Arbor Michigan always ranks in the top five when
it comes to quality of life in a metro area so yeah I think it's a great place to live in 2023
number three Huntsville Alabama it is rare a state like Alabama has anything in the top
ten on something positive but the Huntsville Metro area is nothing like the rest of Alabama it's sort
of like that northwest corner of Arkansas I always talk about it's totally different from the rest of
the state in the last few years it keeps showing up on different lists where it's one of the best
places to live in the United States and it's been like in the top 10 on several different lists but
sometimes it'll pop up at number five those you know lists always vary depends on what you're
looking at but it is Affordable and it is nice and it's not terribly crowded the entire metro
area only has about 460 000 residents they've got a low-cost living their crime rate isn't horrible
their unemployment and poverty numbers aren't terrible and their housing costs are pretty
affordable they've got plenty of things to do Huntsville is just going to gain popularity in the
next few years and they've done a lot of different things to bring in new employers things like that
definitely good place to live in 2023 and Beyond number two Raleigh Durham North Carolina yep
Raleigh Durham has been gaining popularity in the last 10 years I would say they've always seemed
to be moving up that food chain when it comes to hot spots to move to most people just call Raleigh
Durham but really it's Raleigh Durham Chapel Hill because Chapel Hill is a pretty good sized
place and they're all in that same little metro area this is a great place to move to I mean it
has been but even more so in the coming years if you work in the healthcare industry I mean
from clean and bed pans to researching cancer and everything in between you could find a job in this
metro area now this is a fairly large metro area in both population and size the entire metro area
has about 1.5 million residents and it's growing in the last two years it's grown by almost four
percent that trend is going to continue I'm sure back from 2015 to 2020 it had grown by
6.7 percent they have jobs they have things to do their poverty isn't crazy bad but it's there they
do have some crime time but it's not the worst in the nation nowhere near the worst in the nation I
think they'll continue to grow they'll continue to have jobs in 2023 I think it's probably the
second best metro area to move to all right before we get to number one don't forget we
have another Channel called on this day there's a link down below make sure you go over there
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and number one Colorado Springs Colorado Colorado Springs is another one of those places that really
isn't like a lot of the other Metro areas in Colorado Colorado Springs is in between Pueblo
Colorado and Denver and it's got a lot of military there I mean the Air Force Academy is on the north
side of town just outside of town I should say and you got Fort Carson which is an army base which
I really wasn't a fan of and that's on the south side of town this is another one of those cities
that has never lost population I mean the first time they were in the census was 1890 and they
gained 163 percent only in one decade did they have less than double-digit growth and that was
the 1920 census and I see no reason why it's going to stop there's plenty of opportunity it's a great
place to live the entire metro area only has 750 000 residents and you look at the positives their
schools get really high grades their housing is really good their unemployment numbers are
so so it's actually two percent lower than the national average the good thing is the income
per household gold is about five percent higher than the national average so that's a plus it
just tells you people are getting paid there the only knock they do have is they got some
crime their total crime rate is 60 percent higher than the national average but like I've said in
past videos you got places like East St Louis Philadelphia and Detroit where the crime rate
can be like three to five hundred percent above the national average so they're not terrible but
I think as far as growth in the direction this city is going it's all good and it's a great
place to live in 2023. years ago I wanted to move to Denver before I moved to Portland
ended up in Portland these days I would have chosen Colorado Springs over the three of them
foreign that's today's video hope you guys enjoyed it hope you got some information
out of it let me know what you think in the comment section below do you
think one shouldn't have been on the list which one would you have put in
its place all right everyone have a great day be nice to each other