A survey by Pew Research Center’s Social and Demographic Trends project in October 2008 shows Denver, San Diego and Seattle as the top three cities most respondents would like to live. Orlando Florida, Tampa Florida ties for fourth place with San Francisco California. Detroit, Cleveland and Cincinnati at the bottom of the ranking.

Major findings include:

• Ideal community type:

            30% small town

            25% suburb

            23% city

            21% rural area

• Young adults would rather live in New York and Los Angeles        
• More men than women want to live in Las Vegas, Nevada
• Republicans prefer Phoenix, Arizona
• Democrats would rather live in San Francisco, California
• Seven of the top ten favorite cities are in the West and the other three are in the South     
• More than 60% of Americans prefer to live in a hot-weather over a cold-weather climate
• Almost half of those surveyed would rather live in a different community than there current home.
• 60 % rate their current communities as excellent or very good.       

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