What about laws surrounding time off, parental leave, other family benefits, etc.? CA for example allows vacation time to "roll over" across years, but many other countries mandate time off [1].<p>What about health care costs, or access to quality care? Cost of child care? etc.<p>Software developers are not single men, and it would be naive to present data leaning towards just that demographic.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_by_country" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_minimum_annual_leave_b...</a>
The 'quality of life' section is a bit 1 dimensional. Clearly, there is more to life than crime and housing costs. Notably absent are lifestyle indicators -- bikability/walkability or cultural exposure for example. Dallas and other Texas cities rank highly, but if you prefer walking/biking/taking public transit to work, you are generally SOL. And is it really honest to say life in Raleigh is almost 2x better than in London?<p>Also, that cost of living for Portland seems high.
Yes, everyone is NYC is paying $3000/mo in rent...of course we are. Don't move here. It's terrible.<p>Let's keep that fiction alive so that those of us who have 2-3 roommates and take a 30 minute subway trip each morning can keep our great....$3000/mo rents....to ourselves.