What makes somewhere an ideal hometown? The answer has changed throughout the decades. In recent years, southern states have welcomed an influx of new residents, but moving preferences may be trending ...

Niche ranked the best places to live in South Carolina for 2025 based on data and community reviews. An Upstate community ranked fourth overall in South Carolina. Factors like cost of living, job ...

What do you look for in an ideal town? Proximity to trails, lakes, and beaches? How about top-ranking schools for your children? Would you prefer a professional or college sports team nearby, or do ...

Although the Midwest region of the United States has been derogatorily referred to as "flyover country," millions of Americans are more than happy to call these states home. The cost of living tends ...

Hannah Kliger joined the CBS News New York team as a reporter in May 2022, focusing her coverage in Brooklyn. A native New Yorker, Hannah has received several awards for her investigative journalism ...

Two Illinois cities were named in the top five best affordable places to live, and neither are in Chicagoland.

Oklahoma's capital city is one of the largest cities by land in the nation, and that doesn't include the metropolitan area and surrounding towns. Oklahoma City's surrounding areas include some of the ...

In our search for the best place for raising children, we gathered data for every county in the United States across four metrics: affordability, quality of education, neighborhood safety, and state ...

Provo, Utah, has the highest level of well-being of any city in the United States as communities in the West continue to be some of the best places in the country to live. While Provo — also the most ...