Charlotte ranked 5th-best place to live in US: WCNC Charlotte To Go

What is the best thing about living in Charlotte?

A new study from U.S. News & World Report ranks Charlotte fifth out of 150 major cities for the best place to live in the United States.

The 2024-2025 Best Places to Live rankings measure a variety of indicators, including value, job market, quality of life and desirability. Charlotte's overall score in the ranking is 6.8 out of 10 for these indicators.

"Although its economy and rapid development make Charlotte a thoroughly 21st-century metro area, Southern charm is still very much alive, and making friends with neighbors isn’t the Sisyphean task it can be in other large cities," the report states.

Charlotte's strong "economic identity," diversity and cleanliness are features that the study points out as contributing to the city's rapid growth and high ranking. #Charlotte #News #Life

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[yesorlando]

As a Statistical Analyst and Relocation Specialist here in the Charlotte Metro Area, Charlotte's suburbs are gaining the most population increase. Most who are relocating want to escape the rampant homelessness, crime, government overreach, high cost of living, social unrest, DEI policies, and political climates of the West Coast and Northeast. I see and hear it every single day. Most who are fleeing to METRO areas, not large central cities of metro areas. That has to be understood. So suburban counties around Charlotte like Gaston, York, Iredell, Cabarrus, Union, Lincoln, Cleveland, Lancaster, and Rowan will be (and are) growing at noticeably higher rate than Mecklenburg. And it's the same in other Southern metro areas.

[MakaylaHolmes-gb]

I’m closer to Charlotte I live in Greensboro

[rosajimenez]

Do we need this type of advertising? there's already enough traffic

[JobyJoby-iwwr]

While Charlotte has been good to me relatively speaking, I can't ignore the obvious.

1. Sky high rents and housing prices. 2. Weird DEI policies that 'install' numerous unqualified, unfit people into political offices and administrative positions. 3. Local medical services are a DEI 'train wreck'. I'm now a 4th stage cancer patient who never should have been in this position. I cringe at the idea of coming into contact with many local medical services. 4. The massive local crime wave isn't actually 'crime' at all, but little more than those 'wonderful individuals' who have been 'historically discriminated against, seeking nothing more than equity and inclusion'. 5. Large 'employment plantations' whose primary service is to produce massive amounts of co2 and methane. 6. Gay males who adopt and import underage males for prostitution services are celebrated as 'revolutionary social visionaries'. 7. Charlotte is a 'sanctuary city', meaning an ever growing segment is imported from 3rd world nations. Walmarts, Hospital ERs and the local crime news cycle are jammed with them.

Still, Charlotte is a huge improvement over the city I was raised in and moved from 27 plus years ago: Jacksonville, FL. Charlotte is my best option at the moment, as it looks like I'll live out my life here. Thank you Charlotte and North Carolina for the opportunities that have been afforded to me.