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Start typing in the name of the cities you’d like to compare and the drop-down menu will provide options that match your entries. Click the orange “Compare” button and you’ll see a side-by-side comparison of dozens of data points, including cost of living, taxes, natural disaster risks, air and water quality, climate, environment, local government and infrastructure, school performance, community demographic details like population size, religious and political affiliation, and much more.

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The Best Cities to Work Remote

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Best Places to Raise a Family

in the Midwest

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Looking to relocate? Look to Dwellics for answers! Our unique city search tool created by PhD-level data scientists helps people find the best place to live and buy real estate based on their personal wants, needs, and lifestyle choices.

Our patented algorithm uses 100+ metrics to compare more than 60,000 cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods across the United States. View the full list of our data sources here

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How It Works?

Everyone is unique. Enter your personal choices and Dwellics analyses the database and instantly creates a custom list of places that meet all your criteria.

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Tell Us About Yourself

Enter your current city, income level or budget, and the number of adults and children in your household. This will help us determine what you may like for 100+ preference metrics, so you will only need to enter what you would like to change.

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Define What’s Important

When determining where to relocate to, some factors may be more important than others. Set your personal preferences by adjusting the level of importance within key areas including cost of living, housing prices, climate, school performance, traffic, political affiliation, home ownership statistics, and more.

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Review & Compare

Review your personalized recommendation, which include key facts about that city. Compare the data against similar cities with a click. You can always adjust the metrics to find different places that suit different needs and create a new list anytime.

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Find The Perfect Place To Relocate To

Get personalized recommendations on where to move to for your individual wants and needs. Dwellics instantly analyses thousands of relevant data points and your preferences – such as cost of living, mortgage, real estate, climate, school performance, infrastructure, community demographics, and more – to create a list of places that suit your lifestyle choices.

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Interactive Map Of The Best Places In The U.S.

Click on a state to see a list of the cities, towns, villages, and neighborhoods Dwellics has analyzed the data on. The darker colors indicate a larger number of cities for which data is available. Use the fillable section in the green bar below the map to research a city of interest.

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