Two women stretch on the grass in Signal Hill’s Hilltop Park. The city ranked 19th in a list of the “most exciting suburbs” that real-estate blog Movato recently compiled. Two of the criteria for the list were “active life” and the number of young residents in the city.
What Movoto found was that after ranking nearly 140 suburbs on numerous excitement factors, 10 emerged as the most thrilling of the bunch. Those included Cambridge, Mass.; Quincy, Mass.; Berkeley, Calif.; Miami Beach, Fla.; Santa Monica, Calif.; Lakewood, Ohio; Jacksonville Beach, Fla., Tempe, Arizona; Santa Clara, Calif.; and Evanston, Illinois.
The formula used by Movoto includes rankings for active life, young residents, night life per capital, music venues per capita and access to non-fast food restaurants. The study also looked at business listings for each city and U.S. Census data.
They then averaged the individual criteria scores to produce an overall Big Deal Score (one being the best possible score), which was used to determine the final ranking.
Signal Hill has the lowest population of the top 20 cities (Neptune Beach, Fla., with 7,090, ranked 21), and it is only one of three cities with a number-one ranking, as well as the only city with a number-one ranking in “Active Life Rank.”
Other California “suburb” cities that made the list include Albany, Pacifica, South San Francisco, Oceanside, Roseville, Folsom, Glendale, Lomita and Cupertino.
Source: City of SH
