Jul 30, 2013
D.C. Area is Fifth Best Place For Renters
The top four cities on the list, which looked at affordability and rental market size, are Fargo, N.D., Grand Forks, N.D., Ames, Iowa, and Corvallis, Ore. So what the heck is the D.C. area doing on this list?
Real estate blog Movoto looked at seven factors, including average hours worked per week, unemployment rate and lack of sleep.
A study released by Farmers Insurance Group of Companies named the Bethesda, Md. metro area, which also includes Gaithersburg and Frederick apparently, as the most secure place in America.
The abomination of a list was created using the magazine’s America’s Favorite City survey. D.C.’s ranking owes in part to the city coming in dead last in the friendliness category.
120 global cities were judged in a “holistic” way using eight categories: economic strength, physical capital, financial maturity, institutional character, social and cultural character, human capital, environmental and natural hazards and global appeal.
No, Rent.com did not fulfill our constant need for validation by ranking the cities in any particular order.
Aug 06, 2012
Pleasant Pops Ranked Among Best Popsicles in U.S.
How good is D.C.-based popsicle purveyor Pleasant Pops? Good enough that it made Food & Wine’s list of the country’s best popsicles.