Boise Named One of Nation’s Best Cities for Quality of Life

3/18/2009

Boise, ID: Did you need another study telling you Boise, Idaho is a good place to live? Well, BizJournals has added to Idaho’s long list of favorable rankings by placing Boise eighth on its list for quality of life in midsized metropolitan areas.

The study looked at America’s 124 midsize metros, with populations between 250,000 and 1 million people. Twenty statistical categories were compared, with highest scores going to well-rounded places with healthy economies, light traffic, moderate costs of living, impressive housing stocks and strong educational systems.

The top 10 areas in order are: Provo, Utah; Boulder, Colo.; Madison, Wis.; Bridgeport-Stamford, Conn.; Ann Arbor, Mich.; Ogden, Utah; Fort Collins, Colo.; Boise, Idaho; Colorado, Colo.; and Des Moines, Iowa.

Boise was noted for being one of the fastest-growing places in America, adding 123,000 people since 2000, a growth rate of 26.4 percent. That compared to the average growth of 8.4 percent among midsize metros during the same timeframe.

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