Nashville Tops America's 15 Friendliest Cities List
August 27, 2018
When choosing a new city to live, work, find love or raise a family, friendliness can prove a major decision point. To that end, Travel+Leisure magazine annually compiles and releases its list of America’s Favorite Cities, including those that offer the highest friendliness factors. This year, the highly read publication asked readers to rank 38 of the nation’s major metropolitan areas for sought-after features such as great pizza joints, swanky wine bars, eclectic coffee houses, pedestrian-friendly streets, luxury shopping districts with cool, independent boutiques and picnic table-equipped food truck pods. Dominating the 2016 list are metro areas in the country’s heartland, plus an artsy Southwest locale and one tropical island destination. Did your current or future hometown make the list? Here’s how the top 15 finishers played out:
- Nashville, Tennessee – The country music capital known as the Athens of the South
- Salt Lake City, Utah – The Crossroads of the West
- Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota – The Twin Cities
- Kansas City, Missouri – The Jazz and BBQ capital known as the Paris of the Plains
- Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Quite aptly known as The Big Friendly
- Charleston, South Carolina – The Big Sweet Grass Basket
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – The City of Bridges
- New Orleans, Louisiana – The Big Easy
- Albuquerque, New Mexico – The Duke City
- Austin, Texas – Hippie Haven
- Houston, Texas – Known as The Big Heart for welcoming and assisting victims of Hurricane Katrina
- Honolulu, Hawaii – The Big Pineapple
- Louisville, Kentucky – The City of Beautiful Searches
- Portland, Oregon – City of Roses
- Atlanta, Georgia – Hot ‘Lanta, the Empire City of the South
If you’re considering a move between one of these amiable areas and the Washington, DC metro area, call 800-530-2626 to schedule a consultation with a relocation expert with McKendree Moving & Storage.
