Forbes Magazine 4/1/09
Looking to for a better way of life? Start your search with these places.
Thanks to high marks in five key quality of life metrics, Portland tops this year's list of America's Most Livable Cities...
We eliminated areas with populations smaller than 500,000 and assigned points to the remaining metro regions across five data sets: Five-year income growth per household and cost of living from Moody's Economy.com, crime data and leisure index from Sperling's Best Places, and annual unemployment statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
"There are less jobs to go around, but our main industry of tourism hasn't been affected much," says Perrin. "People are still coming to Portland."
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