Where do we go next?
Each of you sets what matters and how much. We blend your answers into one score per city, using the same weather, cost, crime, size and travel numbers for every city.
Who's moving?
You're looking at an example couple's answers, so the results already show how it works. Add your own names to start a profile of your own.
In your own words
Keywords match against everything we've researched about each city. The description is just for you.
What you love doing
How much each one matters. Tap the dots, tap × to remove one, or add your own at the end. The small text shows the other person's answer.
How you want to live
Walkability, money, safety, schools, flights, family and size.
Laws & politics
Plain facts, no verdicts. Set how much each matters and which way you lean; cities score higher when they match. All start at Skip.
Weather you can live with
Scores come from 25 years of NOAA station data for every city.
Must-haves and deal-breakers
A missed must-have costs a city 6 points. A deal-breaker costs 12 and gets flagged. Ones you add yourself match on what our research says about each city.
Both of you
Shared settings: how to weigh your two answers, and the cities you've already ruled out.
Share your results
Profiles save in this browser. Share copies your top five cities and a code with all your answers, ready to text or email. Paste a code someone sent you into Load a code and it opens as its own profile, next to yours.
Profiles save in this browser.
Where you'd fit best
Outside the US: rough estimates
These use quick 1–5 judgment ratings from earlier, mapped onto the same factors. They don't have the standard weather, cost, crime and travel numbers yet, so treat them as leads, not answers.
Next steps
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Denver
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The toast index
Rent is too depressing to look at directly, so we measure cities in avocado toast instead. Real menu prices from 347 cafés in 119 cities, checked . A few cities have fewer than three cafés.
Pick a city and push the lever.
How bad is our habit?
The toast ladder
Each dot is one café. The bar is the city average. Hollow dots are delivery-app prices, which usually run higher. Tap a city to load it in the toaster.
Over time
The cafés
Every price links to the menu it came from.
Crime report
Side by side
Pick cities in the bar. Every section below uses the same measures for every city, and follows your picks.
The numbers, same for every city
One source per measure, so the cities line up. Green marks the best of your picks, red the worst. Drive times use the family places from the Fit Builder.
Weather, month by month
Average daily highs and lows from NOAA weather stations, 2000–2024. Drag the slider to scrub through the years, or pick a month to compare every city side by side.
Count the days in a temperature range
Drag across the strip to draw a range, or drag its ends to adjust. On a computer you can also drag up or down on the chart above. Counts are average days per year, 2000–2024.
| Coldest month | Hottest month | Per year | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| City | Month | Avg high | Avg low | Month | Avg high | Avg low | Days ≥ 90°F | Nights ≤ 32°F |
City size
The city itself vs. the whole metro around it.
City limits, overlaid at the same scale
Each city's official boundary drawn at the same scale and centered on the same point. Tap a city to show or hide it.
Boundaries from the Census Bureau's 2024 cartographic files. Land area leaves out lakes and bays. Denver's long arm to the east is the airport.
Crime
City-wide, per 100,000 residents
Neighborhood maps
These show where crime happens within each city, not which city is safer. For that, use the FBI rates above. Tracts are colored by 2025 incidents per 1,000 residents from each police department's open data. Dots are the suggested neighborhoods. Hover or tap a tract for details.
What's on, Nov–Mar
Real events and recurring nights we found for each researched city, from venue pages, Resident Advisor, MotorsportReg and city calendars. Tap one to open its page. Dates marked "check" weren't confirmed on an official page.
Everything else we researched
Food, scene, politics, cars and more. Rows that none of your picked cities have data for are hidden. This table only covers the 15 cities we researched in depth (Denver, Austin, Seattle and the rest of the first picker row). Other cities you pick show up in the sections above.