Relocation

Relocation References

The Best small Towns in America, 1000 small towns with populations between 5,000 to 15,000 are profiled and ranked. Includes interviews, measures recreation, cost of electricity, schools and economic base.

The Comparative Guide to American Suburbs, provides comparative data on individual suburban communities within each of the fifty largest metro areas.

America's Top-Rated Cities, a four volume set covering the different geographic regions of the U.S., covering cities with a population over 100,000.

America's Top-Rated Smaller Cities, profiles 60 top U.S. cities with a population between 25,000 and 100,000 based on the 1990 census.

50 Fabulous Places to Raise Your Family, In-depth examinations of selected U.S. communities with emphasis on school, economic outlook, recreation, and housing costs.

The New Rating Guide to Life in America's Small Cities, rates 193 cities with 15,000 to 50,000 residents. A report card showing strengths, weaknesses, and overall score for each city in included.

Places Rated Almanac: Your Guide to Finding the Best Places to Live in North America, 351 metropolitan areas are ranked and compared for climate, housing, education, health, recreation, the arts, transportation, prosperity, and crime.

Moving and Relocation Sourcebook and Directory, provides important contacts information, demographics and other details for 100 U.S. cities.

Retirement Places Rated, 183 places are ranked and compared for factors that influence the quality of retirement life including climate, service, leisure, and personal safety.

Cost of Living Index, a comparative index for six broad categories of products and services, (food, housing, utilities, transportation, health and miscellaneous services), in 311 cities.

Gale City and Metro Ranking Reporter, statistical rankings of more than 300 U.S. cities and metro areas on a variety of topics including arts, leisure, demographics, education, government expenditures and taxes.

Gale State Rankings Reporter, approximately 3,000 rankings of the 50 states on a variety of topics including arts, leisure, demographics, business, and general interest sources.

The New Book of American Rankings, comparisons of the 50 states in over 400 categories, including data on pollution, tax rates, energy sources and usage, immigration, religion, and culture.

State Rankings: A Statistical View of the 50 United States, 555 tables of state comparisons covering 15 different subject areas including crime, economy, housing, health, social welfare, and transportation.

CQ's State Fact Finder: Rankings Across America, includes many statistics not found in government reports on such topics as law enforcement, health, and welfare.

American cost of Living Survey: A compilation of Price Date for Nearly 600 Goods and Services in 445 U.S. Cities from More than 90 Sources, provides data on the differences in prices of goods and services between several cities.

State Tax Guide, All States, a loose-leaf service which summarizes the taxes and tax system of each state, including some information on the local taxes.

States in Profile: The State Policy Reference Book, ranks in approximately 250 tables, includes some hard-to-locate statistics like teachers' average years experience, acres of state park land, energy consumption per capita and burden of state taxes for a family of four.

Market Guide, gives market date for more than 1,500 U.S. and Canadian cities, including location, transportation, population, principal industries, climate, shopping centers, retail outlets, newspapers, etc.

Demographics U.S.A.: City Edition, detailed population characteristics by age, sex, number of households, household income distribution, and buying power indexes. Data is arranged by city, metropolitan area, and county.

Weather America: the latest, detailed and ranked climatological data for over 4,000 cities. Monthly and yearly averages for thirteen key data items are listed for each location. Also, narrative descriptions of each state's climatic conditions are included.

The Weather Almanac, weather, climate and air quality for key cities.

Rankings of the States, statistics on school expenditures, enrollment and attendance on a state level.

Patterson’s American Education, directory of secondary public and private schools, colleges and universities and other special schools.

Patterson’s Elementary Education, directory of public and private elementary and middle schools.

College Board Guide to High Schools, reports on program offerings, postgraduate plans and test scores for secondary schools nationwide.

Also, when searching periodicals and newspaper indexes to find articles on a region, use the name of the city or state as the subject. “Quality of Life” is another subject heading that is useful.

Relocation Evaluation Tools Sites

Another inevitability of the rapidly changing labor market is that there has also been an increasing need for career-minded individuals to be open to relocation.

Here are several good web sites that will help you to evaluate and plan a move to another part of the country, or the world.