St. Louis, Missouri 

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St. Louis, MO is a great city to live in and has a lot to offer. According to BestPlaces, St. Louis has been rated highly in various categories such as quality of life, cost of living, job market, housing affordability and more. Residents of St. Louis enjoy an excellent quality of life with low unemployment levels and plenty of recreational activities available to them. The cost of living in St. Louis is quite reasonable compared to other cities and the job market offers a wide range of opportunities for people seeking employment. Furthermore, housing affordability in St. Louis is very attractive with property prices remaining stable over time despite inflationary pressures in other parts of the country. All these factors combine to make St. Louis an ideal place to live which is reflected in its overall rankings from BestPlaces.

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#2 Best Baseball Cities
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#4 Best Block Party Places
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#5 America's Migraine Hot Spots
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#6 America’s Manliest Cities
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#8 Hypertension Hot Spots
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#9 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking
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#10 Americas Manliest Cites 2011
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#10 Most Competitive Private Colleges
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#11 Most Congested Cities
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#11 Best Airports to Make a Connection
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#12 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections
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#12 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings
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#14 Best Cities for Teleworking - Large Metro Areas
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#14 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011
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#16 Failure To Lunch
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#16 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)
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#17 Wrinkle Ranking Cities Most at Risk for Skin Damage by 2040
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#17 Stressful Cities 2012
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#19 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays
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#19 America’s Manliest Sports Cities
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#19 Sleepless Cities 2011
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#20 Fiscally Fit Cities Report
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#21 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement
Retirement used to mean heading South to bake in the sun, spending the rest of one’s life playing tennis, golf and shuffleboar... Read More
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#22 Best Cities for Seniors 2005
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#22 Gloomiest Places in America
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#23 2005 High Gas Prices
Gas prices recently hit an all-time high, and they show no sign of coming down. Today the average U.S. family with two drivers p... Read More
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#23 America's Top Hygge Cities
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#24 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers
Home may be where the heart is, but for many baby boomers, home is also where guests stop by unannounced, ""to-do"" lists seem... Read More
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#26 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?
Gas prices have recently hit an all-time high, and they show no sign of coming down any time soon. The average U.S. family with tw... Read More
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#26 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities
Bars and clubs that promote the ubiquitous "Ladies Night" might be surprised to find their citys gender gap favors the men. S... Read More
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#28 Most Irritation Prone Cities
A new study measuring everyday irritations like heat, traffic and household pests ranks major southern cities among the most irr... Read More
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#30 America's Most Playful Cities
Dove Chocolate teams up with Sperling’s BestPlaces to find the cities where people are being the most playful, and where ther... Read More
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#32 Best Cities for Board Gamers
The data team at BestPlaces.net calculated each metro area’s Board Gamer Score based on board game interest and sales from th... Read More
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#33 America's Riskiest Online Cities
Cybercrime, a threat that affects one in five online shoppers and cost Americans $560 million in 2009 due to online fraud, may hit... Read More
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#34 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft
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#34 Healthiest Cities
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#36 America’s Least Manly Cities
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#40 Cities on the Edge of Greatness
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#41 Drought-Riskiest Cities
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#41 Sleep in the City Study
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#41 Most Energetic Cities
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#44 The Most Single Cities
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#46 Best and Worst Cities for Sleep
As our lifestyle becomes increasingly stressful due to work, relationships, and world events, the need for sleep becomes eve... Read More
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#63 Most Comfortable Summer Cities
When it comes to summer and its accompanying hot weather, there are so many beautiful things - beach days, barbecues, revea... Read More
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#69 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating
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#97 2005 Best Places to Live
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#318 Best Green Cities
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Reviews for St. Louis    112 Reviews
St. Louis is a diamond in the rough... - 12/26/2022
This is an outsider's perspective on St. Louis. Sometimes a fresh perspective looking in from the outside is helpful. I don't live there as of this writing (Dec 22) but... Read More
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Great friendly city - 10/12/2022
I have travelled extensively and have lived in several other cities around the country. I chose to live in St. Louis city because it has many big city amenities with an... Read More
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PEAKED IN HS VIBES. A CITY OF COMFORT. - 12/22/2021
PEAKED IN HS VIBES. A CITY OF COMFORT. Good city for middle-aged people who have kids and are settling down and want a white picket fence life. If you're young here-... Read More
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