Find Your Spot

Eugene, Oregon The Emerald City
This Oregon city is home to the Hendricks Park Rhododendron Garden, famous all over the world for its beautiful blossoms…

Population: 138,000 | Average Home Price: $170,000 | Precipitation: 48″ | Snow: 7″

Clarksville, Tennessee The New South
This Tennessee city calls itself the “Gateway to the New South”…

Population: 104,000 | Average Home Price: $98,000 | Precipitation: 50″ | Snow: 8”

Corvallis, Oregon Heart of the Willamette Valley
This Oregon city hosts “da Vinci Days,” a festival of unique events revolving around art, science and technology…

Population: 50,000 | Average Home Price: $168,500 | Precipitation: 43″ | Snow: 6″

Shreveport-Bossier City, Louisiana Cities of Three Flags
This spot on Louisiana’s Red River was named for a steam boat captain who cleared a logjam known as the “Great Raft” in the 1830s…

Population: 392,000 | Average Home Price: $113,000 | Precipitation: 45″ | Snow: 0″

Fayetteville, Arkansas Light of the Ozarks
Near the University of Arkansas campus, this town’s Dickson Street is filled with lively bistros, night clubs and galleries…

Population: 58,000 | Average Home Price: $160,000 | Precipitation: 42″ | Snow: 10″

Charleston, West Virginia The Home of Hospitality
For a taste of yesteryear, catch the boat races at this West Virginia city’s annual Sternwheel Regatta…

Population: 53,000 | Average Home Price: $137,000 | Precipitation: 41″ | Snow: 26″

Salem, Oregon The Heart of Oregon
This capital city is the home of the Oregon State Fair, as well as the state’s largest on-going fine arts & crafts fair…

Population: 137,000 | Average Home Price: $145,000 | Precipitation: 39″ | Snow: 6″

Johnson City-Kingsport, Tennessee Two Natural Wonders
This Tennessee city’s lively annual Springfest includes a JazzNite, golf tournaments, a chili cookoff and a beach party…

Population: 100,000 | Average Home Price: $116,000 | Precipitation: 45″ | Snow: 17″

Frederick, Maryland Where The Past Comes Alive
This Maryland city’s Great Fair is one of the nation’s oldest county agricultural fairs…

Population: 53,000 | Average Home Price: $163,000 | Precipitation: 36″ | Snow: 21″

Hattiesburg, Mississippi Hub of South Mississippi
This southeast Mississippi hub has been rated the #1 small city in the nation for health care…

Population: 49,000 | Average Home Price: $80,000 | Precipitation: 58″ | Snow: 0″

Chattanooga, Tennessee City of Vision
The beautiful former depot of this town’s famous Choo-Choo is now a unique vacation complex…

Population: 155,000 | Average Home Price: $121,000 | Precipitation: 54″ | Snow: 10″

Lynchburg, Virginia A Contemporary Heirloom
This beautiful spot in the James River Valley along the Blue Ridge Mountains was home to Dr. Charles Fleet, inventor of Fleet’s Chap-Stick lip balm in 1889…

Population: 85,000 | Average Home Price: $102,000 | Precipitation: 40″ | Snow: 18″

Greenville, South Carolina The Rising Star of the South
The Peace Center for the Performing Arts presents theater and concerts in this South Carolina city’s rejuvenated downtown…

Population: 380,000 | Average Home Price: $148,000 | Precipitation: 51″ | Snow: 7″

Little Rock, Arkansas Where America Comes Together
All Maybelline products distributed in the U.S. are made in this fashion-conscious spot…

Population: 584,000 | Average Home Price: $148,000 | Precipitation: 48″ | Snow: 5″

Knoxville, Tennessee Gateway to the Smoky Mountains
In the shadow of the Great Smoky and Cumberland Mountains, this spot served as Tennessee’s capital from 1796 to 1812…

Population: 372,000 | Average Home Price: $121,000 | Precipitation: 47″ | Snow: 11″

Alexandria, Louisiana The Crossroads of Louisiana
This spot’s restored Kent Plantation House, the oldest structure in central Louisiana, offers open-hearth cooking demonstrations every week…

Population: 60,000 | Average Home Price: $91,000 | Precipitation: 54″ | Snow: 1″

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania The Waterfront Capital
The Rockville Bridge just north of this Pennsylvania town was built in 1901 and is still the longest stone arch bridge in the world…

Population: 50,000 | Average Home Price: $65,000 | Precipitation: 40″ | Snow: 37″

Medford, Oregon Gateway to the Pacific Northwest
This gorgeous spot boasts the West’s only operating water-powered grist mill, located on the banks of Little Butte Creek since 1872…

Population: 89,000 | Average Home Price: $134,000 | Precipitation: 19″ | Snow: 8″

Hickory, North Carolina Blue Ridge Mountain Home
This area in North Carolina is known as the nation’s furniture manufacturing capital…

Population: 342,000 | Average Home Price: $143,000 | Precipitation: 41″ | Snow: 9″

Altoona, Pennsylvania Hometown, USA
This town is home to the oldest roller coaster in the world: the “Leap-The-Dips”…

Population: 50,000 | Average Home Price: $85,000 | Precipitation: 37″ | Snow: 48”

Asheville, North Carolina Land of the Sky
This Blue Ridge town’s annual “Shindig on the Green” is an evening of informal, impromptu bluegrass jam sessions…

Population: 70,000 | Average Home Price: $148,000 | Precipitation: 48″ | Snow: 16″

Springfield, Missouri A City With Style
This Missouri city was the site of the nation’s first recorded shoot-out, between “Wild Bill” Hickok and Dave Tutt in 1865…

Population: 326,000 | Average Home Price: $116,000 | Precipitation: 39″ | Snow: 16″

Tacoma, Washington Port City of the Cascades
This city’s name comes from the Native American name for Mt. Rainier, “Tacobet,” meaning Mother of the Waters…

Population: 360,000 | Average Home Price: $153,000 | Precipitation: 39″ | Snow: 16″

Sheboygan, Wisconsin Wisconsin’s Jewel on the Lake
Reader’s Digest declared this the best spot in the country to raise a family…

Population: 51,000 | Average Home Price: $125,000 | Precipitation: 29″ | Snow: 45″

Find your own best place to live!

This was an interesting quiz. One thing of note is that I can’t believe how expensive housing is in all those cities. $170,000 US average home cost??? It’s about half that here. I certainly wouldn’t want to be in dept for decades to own a home.