Good news! The Stamford-Norwalk-Bridgeport metropolitan area is the nation’s “4th most livable city.”
Bad news! It’s also the nation’s most expensive rental market.
In other words, it’s a great place to live — but who can afford to live here? Yogi Berra’s got nothin’ on me.
I guess we should be proud that Forbes.com — the livability folks — ranked us just behind Portland (ME), Bethesda (MD) and Des Moines (Midwest) — though neither Bethesda nor Stamford-Norwalk-Bridgeport is technically a “city.”
And we should probably be thrilled that Forbes’ “livability index” omitted criteria like traffic, commuting distances, public transportation, taxes, lack of room to grow, weather and, oh yeah, cost of housing.
Factor those in, and we’d be battling Cleveland, Detroit and Flint for the title of most miserable places to live.
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