Affordable Places to Weather the Economic Storm

Well-priced housing, proximity to cities, and job growth make for good places to live during challenging economic times.

To come up with a list of locations that are safe havens in the economic storm, Forbes Magazine examined property tax and job growth information from the U.S. Census Bureau, and it asked Moody’s Economy.com to provide a housing affordability index.

The result was a list of small cities, most of them just outside of larger cities, that are good places to find work, live comfortably, and ride out the economic downturn.

Here are Forbes’ top 10 places to live and work in recessionary times:

• Madison County, Ala. (Huntsville)
• Pulaski County, Ark. (Little Rock)
• Adams County, Colo. (Denver)
• Hamilton County, Ohio (Cincinnati)
• Greenville County, S.C. (Greenville)
• Jefferson Parish, La. (New Orleans)
• Polk County, Iowa (Des Moines)
• Mobile County, Ala. (Mobile)
• Montgomery County, Texas (Houston)
• Johnson County, Kan. (Kansas City)

Source: Forbes, Helen Coster (11/12/2008)

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