If you are considering moving to the Southern region of the US, you may want to consider one of these cities that have plenty of opportunities to work from home and low living costs.
Business Insider recently came up with our list of the best US cities to live in after the pandemic. To do this, we used a variety of metrics from government and academic datasets. This includes looking at the share of jobs that can potentially be done remotely, the pre-coronavirus unemployment rate, and housing costs.
After we collected all our data, we rescaled our figures to a uniform z-score so that we could then calculate an overall score for each metro area.
You can read more about our data collection and methods here.
After finding our overall best cities, we decided to focus on metros in the South as defined by the Census Bureau. Three cities from Arkansas made the top 20 Southern cities to move to next.
It is important to note that most of our data came from before the pandemic, and the economic fallout from the current situation could have serious effects on different cities. For instance, the large number of job losses and spike in unemployment during the pandemic may have affected some of these cities more than others.
Read on to find out the best Southern cities to live in after the pandemic.