{"id":403,"date":"2016-09-15T20:49:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.gahomesdigest.com\/blog\/metro-atlanta-named-top-3-places-to-live-by-bankrate.html"},"modified":"2016-09-15T20:49:00","modified_gmt":"2016-09-15T20:49:00","slug":"metro-atlanta-named-top-3-places-to-live-by-bankrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/metro-atlanta-named-top-3-places-to-live-by-bankrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Metro Atlanta Named Top 3 Places To Live By Bankrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"font-size: 12px; float: left; margin-left: 25px; margin-right: 25px; margin-top: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px;\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/top10bestplacestolive_400.jpg\" alt=\"Atlanta Best Place To Live\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" title=\"\">Metro Atlanta Named Top 3 Places To Live By Bankrate<\/h1>\n<p>Every year a variety of magazines do a &#8220;best places to live&#8221; article and this year Bankrate did another look and named Atlanta number 3 overall as a best places to live. \u00a0Basing its study on several factors \u0096 including affordability, maintenance costs, property taxes, appreciation, foreclosure rates\u00a0and\u00a0energy costs \u0096 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankrate.com\/finance\/real-estate\/best-worst-places-for-homeowners.aspx\" rel=\"no-follow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bankrate<\/a> graded the nation\u0092s largest metro areas on a scale of zero to 10, assigning a final score after all the grades were added up.<\/p>\n<p>By that standard, Atlanta received a score of 57.55, with only Phoenix and Portland rating higher. The ATL received particularly high marks for its high affordability, low property taxes and steady appreciation.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this &#8220;study&#8221; was based on 2 suburban areas as well. \u00a0In this case,<a href=\"\/roswell\"> Roswell<\/a> and<a title=\"Sandy Springs\" href=\"\/sandy-springs\"> Sandy Springs.<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0They really should have considered <a href=\"\/brookhaven\">Brookhaven<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">The top 10 list is:<\/span><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Portland<\/li>\n<li>Phoenix<\/li>\n<li>Atlanta<\/li>\n<li>Las Vegas<\/li>\n<li>Minneapolis<\/li>\n<li>Indianapolis<\/li>\n<li>Salt Lake City<\/li>\n<li>Denver<\/li>\n<li>Louisville<\/li>\n<li>Nashville<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Ultimately it&#8217;s good news for Atlanta for those that read this, but I tend to disagree with Bankrate on some of their factors. \u00a0The top few cities are known metros but I&#8217;d hardly call Louisville a metro area on the same scale of Atlanta.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Real Estate Resources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/search4.homes\/ga-home-search\">Search For Homes For Sale In GA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/search4.homes\/blog\/the-top-10-country-clubs-of-atlanta-ga.html\">Top 10 Luxury Neighborhoods of Atlanta GA<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantanewconstruction.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Homes For Sale in Atlanta<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metro Atlanta Named Top 3 Places To Live By Bankrate Every year a variety of magazines do a &#8220;best places to live&#8221; article and this year Bankrate did another look and named Atlanta number 3 overall as a best places to live. \u00a0Basing its study on several factors \u0096 including affordability, maintenance costs, property taxes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/search4.homes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}