Find out why El Paso is ranked among the Best Places to Live in the U.S.
Maria Cortes Gonzalez
El Pasoans already know their city is great. So it's like getting extra cheese on your Chico's Tacos when other organizations discover it.
AreaVibes, a web site that scores cities to help people find places to live, put El Paso at No. 7 on its list of the 10 Best Place to Live 2018 among American cities.
The website looked at more than 100 cities with populations over 200,000 and then scored them based on cost of living, employment figures and crime rates.
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El Paso, which slipped one spot from last year, returns to the list for its low cost of living, good schools and low crime. Tell us something we don't know, right?
The web site also acknowledges that the city includes the headquarters of one Fortune 500 company and smaller offices for others including Boeing and Verizon Wireless.
The web site's complete list:
10 Best Place to Live 2018:
- Plano, Texas
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Irvine, California
- Arlington, Virginia
- Fremont, California
- Gilbert, Arizona
- El Paso, Texas
- Irving, Texas
- Lincoln, Nebraska
- Austin, Texas
María Cortés González may be reached at 546-6150; mcortes@elpasotimes.com; @EPTMaria on Twitter.