The 11 best coastal cities to live in after the pandemic

Hartford, Connecticut, is among the best coastal cities to live in after the pandemic.Sean Pavone/Shutterstock

• Business Insider recently looked at the best cities to move to post-pandemic.
• Among America's coastal cities, high costs of living, longer weekly commutes, and large population densities tended to contribute to lower scores compared to more inland metro areas.
• However, some cities on America's coasts still scored pretty well.
• Portland, Maine, ranks at the top of the list among cities on one of America's ocean coasts.

If you're thinking about moving after the coronavirus pandemic and love beaches and ocean-front views, one of these cities might be right for you.

Business Insider recently looked at what US cities could be the best places to move after the coronavirus pandemic based on various economic, population, and workforce metrics that may influence where one wants to live.

Cities located on the coast typically ranked poorly compared to more inland locales, owing to low scores on some of the metrics that we used. Large population densities, longer average weekly commutes, and higher costs of living brought down the scores of many coastal cities.

You can read more about our methods, metrics, and data sources we collected here.

However, a few metro areas on America's ocean coasts fared well on our post-pandemic metrics. Portland, Maine ranked at the top when only considering metro areas on the coast. This metro area has a high share of jobs that could potentially be done from home based on research from The University of Chicago.

It is important to note that the bulk of the data for our metrics came from before the pandemic and its economic disruption, and so conditions in these cities could change depending on how things continue to evolve.

Read on to see which cities along the coast are best to move to.