by Elyse Menger | Feb 1, 2024 | Maps, Quality of Life
If you are feeling the squeeze in your budget from rising childcare costs, you aren’t alone. This year, parents are reporting increases in childcare costs, which have been on the rise since 2020. According to a study done by Care.com, respondents spend 24% of their...
by Elyse Menger | Dec 8, 2022 | Quality of Life
We have all seen them, lists of the “top ten places for….”. Some are good, others not so much. With our release of the quality of life series, it is inevitable that the data will be used to add to the ever growing list of best and worst places. We recently were...
by Gary Menger | Dec 8, 2022 | Demographics, Quality of Life
In the Panorama segmentation system, the most affluent segments are assigned to the lowest numbers with 01 One Percenters holding the top spot for affluence. Does money translate into happiness, or at least a better quality of life? To answer that question, we...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 10, 2022 | Quality of Life
Growing up, there was a series of books that was very popular among my classmates. It was a variety of different stories, but they all had the same theme—choose your own adventure. You would read a section, and then at the end it would instruct you to turn to page 27...
by Elyse Menger | Nov 10, 2022 | Quality of Life
Years ago, when we first released the Quality of Life database, there was much to do about who’s city would come out on top. There were even some accusations between Gary and Matt on why one city was ranked higher than another. Now that we are rereleasing Quality of...
by Elyse Menger | Oct 6, 2022 | Product Sneak Peek, Quality of Life
What makes one area more desirable as a place to live than others? We suspect that if we asked one hundred people that question, we would get at least a hundred different answers. For decades, people headed west for the scenery, climate, leisure, and economic...
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