Tools
Everything you can do here
Every score is computed from public data — no city can pay to rank higher. Start with search, or jump straight to a tool.
Search & compare
Budget-first search
Set your income and household, drag the priority weights, and every U.S. city gets a live 0–100 Fit Score.
Compare cities
Line up to four cities side by side with the best value in each row highlighted.
A/B scenario compare
See how two different searches rank — what changed, and which cities appear in both top-5s.
Salary calculator
The gross salary a city needs at Tight, Comfortable, and Thriving tiers, from the per-state tax model.
Best-of lists
Cheapest, warmest, no-income-tax, safest-affordable — data-driven rankings that refresh themselves.
Region guides
Moving to the South, West, Midwest, or Northeast — the cost, climate, and tax character of each.
On every city page
Fit Score radar
A six-axis “fit print” — affordability, housing, jobs, safety, climate, amenities — unique to each city.
Buy vs rent
Monthly ownership cost of the median home vs. renting, with live mortgage-rate and down-payment sliders.
Moving-cost estimator
Rough DIY-truck vs full-service ranges by distance from your current city and household size.
Natural-hazard screening
Screen out cities high-risk for wildfire, hurricanes, tornadoes, flooding, earthquakes, or severe winter.
Print / PDF report
Save any city page as a clean one-page relocation report — chrome and promos stripped.
“Why not X?”
Name a city you expected and get a filter-by-filter explanation of why it isn’t in your results.