27 this-or-that questions and your housing budget. Every place scored on real housing costs, safety, climate and healthcare data.
Most "where should I live" tools hand you a score from a black box, often after asking for your email. This one is open, private and honest about trade-offs.
Every data source, weight and threshold is published, from FBI crime rates to HUD rents. No black-box AI score.
How scoring works →No email, no account, no tracking of your answers. Everything is calculated in your browser and stays on your device.
Privacy policy →Must-haves, "hard to have both" warnings, and a chart of exactly where each place delivers on what matters to you, and where it falls short.
Try it →Your budget against what a typical 3-bedroom home actually costs to buy or rent there, plus taxes and the local cost of living.
Browse places →Every place is scored on official and open datasets. Each number is ranked against all the other places, then weighted by what you tell us matters.
🔒 Scores are calculated in your browser. Nothing you answer is sent anywhere.
27 this-or-that questions, one at a time: big city or small town, rent or own, career first or work to live.
Tap how much healthcare, schools, safety, sunshine or a big airport matter to you.
Your top US places on a map, the ways of life that suit you, and exactly how each place delivers.
No sign-up. Change any answer and your matches update instantly.
Start the quiz →Not ready for the quiz? Browse our rankings, built from the same public data.
It depends on how you want to live. Do you want a big city or a small town? Warm winters or real seasons? Are you renting or buying? The quiz asks 27 this-or-that questions and ranks over 1,100 US cities, suburbs and towns by how well they fit your answers.
Start with your must-haves, like a housing budget, good hospitals or low crime, then weigh the trade-offs. Best Life Fit Me shows where each place delivers on what matters to you and where it falls short, so you can build a shortlist worth visiting.
There's no single answer, but our all-round ranking scores every place on housing costs, safety, climate, healthcare, jobs and natural disaster risk. You can also browse the cheapest and safest places.
It's free, with no sign-up and no email. Your answers are saved only in your own browser, and all the matching happens on your device.
From public sources: the US Census, FBI, FEMA, NOAA, NASA, HUD, Zillow, BEA, Medicare and others. See the full methodology.
About three minutes. You can change any answer afterwards, and your matches update instantly.