Rochester ranked #1 metro in quality of life in the nation for middle class families! (Syracuse: salary, place to live)

[I'minformed2]

All the more reason that I know I'm making the right move home. Rochester was ranked the number 1 metropolitan area out of the 50 largest metros in the country to live by expansion magazine...as a great place to live and do business. Here's the story;

Democrat & Chronicle:

Rochester quality of life ranked No. 1 of 50 metros



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[Sonnenwende]

Hey, I was also reading this this afternoon:

Signs pointing upward for job growth in area

Democrat & Chronicle: Business Columns

[Sgoldie]

Excellent News!

[StPete2Charlotte]

Thats Awesome!

[norm]

According to the article Rochester was ranked 35th and that survey was done in 2005. Here is the link to the survey Research Studies: 50 Hottest Cities

[Sonnenwende]

Do what? The survey is here that the article is talking about: 2007 QUALITY OF LIFE QUOTIENT: What Really Matters Is Not the Salary, but What That Salary Will Buy

[I'minformed2]

Maybe I'm misinterperating what you're saying...but it seems like you're saying that it doesn't seem very truthfull because it was ranked much lower 2 years ago. I'll bet it was much lower in 2005, that was back when they had just announced 10,000 job cuts at Kodak worldwide, with 2500 of them being in Rochester....those are done now and new job creation has outpaced the job losses....the ranking for the 2007 list is based on MANY liveability factors; and when they are all weighted together, Rochester comes out on top. I'll be the first to say that I don't think ANYONE should judge or decide to move there just because a magazine ranks it highly...because Raleigh, NC usually makes the top of lists too and I think it's vastly overrated.

[bellafinzi]

i'minformed, thanks for the link!

Syracuse actually made the Top 10 list for Midsize Metro Areas.....

http://www.expansionmanagement.com/s...l%20MEDIUM.pdf

[I'minformed2]

That doesn't surprise me at all either....the upstate ny region IS a great place to live.

[butterbeer]

Originally Posted by i'minformed

All the more reason that I know I'm making the right move home.

Interesting, Rochester is Ranked #1 in quality of life in the article you mentioned, yet Rochester also Ranks as #20 on Census Population for fastest losing cities. Not to knock Rochester, but these two rankings seem at odds with each other. If the quality of life is so high, I would at least expect the population to hold steady and not be on a top 25 list of cities losing population the fastest!