Here’s an even better top-cities
Here’s an even better top-cities list (from last year) on which Ann Arbor appears: Forbes’ ten “Most Overpriced Places.” Many of the cities on the publication’s “Best Places” list are expensive, but, they explain, a “high cost of living is often reflective of the opportunities available.” Not so in A2, which comes in seventh in the overpriced rankings. Forbes describes that list thus: “[F]or the small segment of the population that doesn’t care about opportunities - those who may want to pay several hundred thousand more than average for a family home and don’t need high-paying jobs - we compiled a different sort of list: the most overpriced places in the country. These are the places where the cost of living is expensive, and job and salary growth is grim.”
The inclusion of eighth-place Chicago is puzzling, but if they compiled a list that focused on tenants as well as the homeowners that probably make up most of Forbes’ readers, we suspect that it would drop out of the top ten, and A2 would rise to the top.