Sometimes big city life can be overwhelming — especially when there's a pandemic. Luckily, if you have the ability and the means to travel (preferably by car), there are some quaint and less-populated places throughout the US that make for a good break from city life.
And traveling doesn't necessarily mean you need to take time off work. Given social distancing and lockdown measures in place to slow the spread of the coronavirus, many workers are still remote this summer, making for a good working-vacation opportunity.
To find the top places to for a change of scenery this summer in between Zoom calls and Slack messages, Rent Cafe consulted Google to find out what the most searched US vacation destinations were. This ranking focused specifically on those places with fewer than 600,000 people (sourced from the US Census Bureau) to determine a list of the top US cities for remote work this summer.
In addition to considering whether the city makes for a good vacation destination, Rent Cafe also looked at the internet speed (from a report by Broadband Now) and COVID-19 rate (the number of new cases reported between June 28 and July 5, per 100,000 people) of each city.
Here are the best US cities for remote work this summer, according to Rent Cafe.