{"id":26706,"date":"2014-02-19T03:32:54","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/?p=26706"},"modified":"2014-02-19T03:32:54","modified_gmt":"2014-02-19T11:32:54","slug":"friendliest-small-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/friendliest-small-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"These Are America&#8217;s 10 Friendliest Small Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Embed Gallery<\/h3>\n<p><textarea style=\"width:600px;height:100px\"><\/br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/top-ten\/friendliest-small-cities\/\">The 10 Friendliest Small Cities In America<\/a> By Movoto Real Estate<\/textarea><br \/>\nWhen was the last time a stranger wished you a nice day, or a shop owner greeted you with a smile? Have you only seen a whole town come together to celebrate or help those less fortunate on TV or in movies? Depending on where you live, these sorts of things might seem like fantasy\u2014we\u2019re looking at you, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/new-york-city-ny\/\">Manhattan<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/los-angeles-ca\/\">Los Angeles<\/a>\u2014but what if we told you there are real places where this stuff still happens? The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\">Movoto Real Estate<\/a> blog has found them: America\u2019s friendliest small cities.<br \/>\nThere are places where people will still get the door for you; where they\u2019re more likely to return your wallet than mug you for it. Places like San Luis Obispo, CA, the friendliest small city around. When you\u2019re friendly, you attract others, and San Luis Obispo brought nine of them to the party: our top 10 friendliest small cities in America. Say hello to:<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/san-luis-obispo-ca\/\">San Luis Obispo, CA<\/a><br \/>\n2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/charlottesville-va\/\">Charlottesville, VA<\/a><br \/>\n3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/olympia-wa\/\">Olympia, WA<\/a><br \/>\n4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/palm-springs-ca\/\">Palm Springs, CA<\/a><br \/>\n5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/harrisburg-pa\/\">Harrisburg, PA<\/a><br \/>\n6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/littleton-co\/\">Littleton, CO<\/a><br \/>\n7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/joplin-mo\/\">Joplin, MO<\/a><br \/>\n8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/grapevine-tx\/\">Grapevine, TX<\/a><br \/>\n9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/galveston-tx\/\">Galveston, TX<\/a><br \/>\n10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/coral-gables-fl\/\">Coral Gables, FL<\/a><br \/>\nThere\u2019s a reason SLO could be your next BFF, and why Palm Springs will make your heart sing. You see, we actually came up with a unique way to measure a place\u2019s friendliness, and if you\u2019ll be our friends and continue reading, we\u2019ll explain just how we did it\u2014and why the 10 spots above ended up being so gosh darn delightful. Put on this virtual friendship bracelet and let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n<h2>What Makes A Friendly City?<\/h2>\n<p>When we decided to tackle this question, we realized that we\u2019d need to look at it in some unique ways. Thankfully, we\u2019re used to coming up with creative ways to analyze places using data, like when we figured out the worst dressed cities in America last year. It\u2019s just a matter of looking for the right data. In this case, we picked seven measurable criteria to look at:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Violent crime rate (friendlier residents = less stabbing)<\/li>\n<li>Percent of income given to charity (friendly folks spread the wealth around)<\/li>\n<li>Flower &amp; gift stores per capita (more stores = more demand for gifts)<\/li>\n<li>Card &amp; stationery stores per capita (ditto)<\/li>\n<li>Bars per capita (the classic socializing spot)<\/li>\n<li>Farmers\u2019 markets per capita (a great place for residents to interact)<\/li>\n<li>Religious organizations per capita (being nice to your neighbors is kind of a big deal in all religions)<\/li>\n<li>Facebook Likes (friendly places make more digital friends)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, we couldn\u2019t include some other criteria we initially wanted, like the number of high-fives per capita or cups of sugar given to neighbors. Still, we feel like these are a good mix of serious and fun data points that fit perfectly with our special blend of Saturday Night Science and the lighter side of real estate.<br \/>\nWith our criteria determined, we assembled a list of small cities to look at. Just like you can pick your friends, we picked the 100 largest cities with populations under 50,000 people. Nine cities (Huntington, WV, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/euclid-oh\/\">Euclid, OH<\/a>, Hattiesburg, MS, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/lawrence-in\/\">Lawrence, IN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/bonita-springs-fl\/\">Bonita Springs, FL<\/a>, Coeur d&#8217;Alene, ID, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/summerville-sc\/\">Summerville, SC<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/dekalb-il\/\">DeKalb, IL<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/kannapolis-nc\/\">Kannapolis, NC<\/a>) were passed up due to incomplete crime and other data.<br \/>\nWe collected data on all of the cities\u2014from the FBI, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philanthropy.com\">philanthropy.com<\/a>, and business listings\u2014and gave them a rank from 1 to 100 (with one being best) in each criteria. We then averaged those rankings into one overall Big Deal Score, with the lowest score being our friendliest city, San Luis Obispo. It should be noted that crimes were looked at on a per 100,000 residents per year basis to create a level playing field between cities of varying populations.<br \/>\nNow that we\u2019ve told you the how, we\u2019ll go into what made our top 10 cities the kind of places you\u2019d want to be best buds with. Oh, and if you didn\u2019t see your favorite place up there, there\u2019s still a chance that it made it into our top 50, which you can check out at the end of this post. Now, let\u2019s make some new friends.<\/p>\n<h2>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/san-luis-obispo-ca\/\">San Luis Obispo, CA<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/1.jpg\" alt=\"San Luis Obispo, CA\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Wikipedia User Basar<\/div>\n<p>San Luis Obispo is famous for a lot of reasons, from the prestigious Cal Poly to the wacky Madonna Inn and even an alley covered in used chewing gum. To those who call it home, though, it\u2019s known as one of the sunniest, friendliest places in the Golden State. Based on its top-five placing in five of our seven criteria, we\u2019re happy to say that when it comes to small cities, it really is the friendliest.<br \/>\nIts best showings were in flower and gift shops and farmers\u2019 markets, where it has one for every 1,699 and 6,554 residents, respectively. The city has also managed nearly 30,000 Facebook Likes, a number that can be attributed at least in part to Cal Poly alumni, we\u2019re sure. SLO sits about halfway down the list in terms of violent crime in 56th place with 293 crimes per 100,000 residents annually. When it comes to charity, the city\u2019s residents donate an average of 5 percent of their salary each year. The amount of Bazooka Joe donated to Bubblegum Alley annually, however, is immeasurable.<\/p>\n<h2>2. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/charlottesville-va\/\">Charlottesville, VA<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/2.jpg\" alt=\"Charlottesville, VA\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Wikipedia User Bobak Ha&#8217;Eri<\/div>\n<p>Once home to America\u2019s third, fourth, and fifth Presidents\u2014that\u2019d be Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, for those who spent more time chatting with pals than paying attention in history\u2014Charlottesville has gone from housing Founding Friends to being a generally friendly city. It\u2019s a place where you might spend the day with friends at the Downtown Mall or meet up with your buddies on the quad between classes at UVA.<br \/>\nStandouts in our data included second-place finishes for flowers and gift shops, purveyors of greeting cards, and farmers\u2019 markets, plus one of the highest ranks (second-place) for religious organizations. While some of Charlottesville\u2019s former residents gave us democracy and the Declaration of Independence, its current residents give 4.6 percent of what they make to charity each year, on average.<\/p>\n<h2>3. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/olympia-wa\/\">Olympia, WA<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/3.jpg\" alt=\"Olympia, WA\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thurstontalk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Capital-City-Marathon-2013-Olympia-Washington-602.jpg\">Thurstontalk.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>While the Pacific Northwest may be known for its rainy weather, the frequent drizzle clearly hasn\u2019t put a damper on Olympia\u2019s friendly spirit. In fact, we can only imagine that all that wetness would actually help friendships blossom. It certainly doesn\u2019t affect farmers\u2019 markets, it seems, as the city placed first overall for those with one for every 3,669 of its 47,698 residents.<br \/>\nOlympia residents are probably spending more time with friends at bars than in our top two cities, as it placed fourth for that criterion with one watering hole for every 1,163 people. It\u2019s also one of the best cities in our top 10 in terms of violent crime, with 267 for per 100,000 residents annually.<\/p>\n<h2>4. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/palm-springs-ca\/\">Palm Springs, CA<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/4.jpg\" alt=\"Palm Springs, CA\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Flickr user bossco<\/div>\n<p>Having been born and raised in Palm Springs, I can personally attest to its friendliness. In fact, this city has managed to retain its small town atmosphere even as the world outside the Coachella Valley has become more and more cynical. Every trip back home is like a journey through time to a place where the locals all know each other and the dispositions are as sunny as the sky is year-round. Palm Springs is also renowned for its LGBT-friendliness, something that has no doubt helped residents (including yours truly) of this small town have a distinctly 21st century world view when it comes to equality.<br \/>\nLooking at the actual data, this famous party and resort town deservedly took first place for the number of bars per capita (there\u2019s one for every 792 residents) and actually placed second overall for Facebook Likes with a whopping 43,741. While not everyone can enjoy Palm Springs\u2019 picturesque climate, residents of the city do try to bring a little sunshine into the lives of others through charitable donations. They give 5.6 percent of what they make to charity on average each year.<\/p>\n<h2>5. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/harrisburg-pa\/\">Harrisburg, PA<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/5.jpg\" alt=\"Harrisburg, PA\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Flickr user \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ndeliciousbass\/\">L Hollis Photography<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The third state capital to make our top 10 friendliest small cities, Harrisburg is a city in transition. Despite its financial woes, it has maintained a reputation for friendliness and quality of life, which has led to it being singled out as a top spot for raising a family and weathering the recession.<br \/>\nWhile its violent crime ranking placed it near the bottom of our list for that criterion, Harrisburg made up for it in nearly every other respect, including a second-place rank in religious organizations (one for every 503 residents) and a third-place finish in bars. It also ranked in the top 25 percent of cities for charitable giving, with residents donating an average of 5.3 percent of their yearly earnings.<\/p>\n<h2>6. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/littleton-co\/\">Littleton, CO<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/6.jpg\" alt=\"Littleton, CO\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/ryan_polei\/\">Ryan Polei | www.ryanpolei.com<\/a><\/div>\n<p>At 43,775 people, Littleton is the smallest small city in our top 10, but it was a big deal during the Pike\u2019s Peak gold rush of the 1800s. Today, the community still has plenty of gold\u2026 in the form of friendliness. A big part of Littleton\u2019s placing in our top 10 has to do with its violent crime rate of 130 per 100,000 residents per year, which placed it 24th overall for that criterion and makes it the least violent place in our top 10.<br \/>\nLittleton also fared well for flowers and gift shops (sixth) and greeting card shops (11th), and had an impressive 14,343 Facebook Likes (for such a small city).<\/p>\n<h2>7. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/joplin-mo\/\">Joplin, MO<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/7.jpg\" alt=\"Joplin, MO\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Flickr user State Farm<\/div>\n<p>On May 22, 2011, a massive tornado caused nearly $3 billion in damage to Joplin, killing more than 150 people and destroying 2,000 buildings in the process. Needless to say, Joplin was devastated, but the city held together and is on the road to recovery thanks to the strength of its community, and the friendliness it brought out in the rest of the country.<br \/>\nIt seems trivial to talk about things like greeting card stores and Facebook Likes in the wake of such an event, so we\u2019ll just say that Joplin did really well in general, but particularly in matters of faith\u2014no matter what the type. It ranked fourth overall for religious organizations, the highest of any city in our top 10.<\/p>\n<h2>8. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/grapevine-tx\/\">Grapevine, TX<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/8.jpg\" alt=\"Friendliest Small Cities In America\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dlytle\/\">davitydave<\/a><\/div>\n<p>The folks in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/tx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Texas<\/a> are a notoriously big-hearted bunch, so perhaps that\u2019s why the state brought two small cities to our top 10. Our first, Grapevine, represents the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/dallas-tx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dallas<\/a>&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/fort-worth-tx\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fort Worth<\/a> area and owes its inclusion to top 50 (or higher) finishes for every criterion we looked at.<br \/>\nIts highest ranking was ninth overall for bars (it has one for every 1,730 residents), followed by 14th for greeting card shops and 18th for Facebook Likes (13,029 of \u2018em). We also like to think that Grapevine being the birthplace of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Joe_Bob_Briggs\">Joe Bob Briggs<\/a>\u2014famous drive-in movie critic, \u201cMonsterVision\u201d host, and one of the friendliest guys around\u2014also had something to do with it.<\/p>\n<h2>9. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/galveston-tx\/\">Galveston, TX<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/9.jpg\" alt=\"Galveston, TX\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Flickr user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/eschipul\/\">eschipul<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This Texas tourist hotspot clearly leaves quite a positive impression on visitors. How else would you explain it taking first place in terms of Facebook Likes, with a staggering 95,285 (for a city with just shy of 50,000 residents)?<br \/>\nOf course, Galveston had to do well in other areas in order to make our friendliness top 10. It placed second for bars, eighth for flowers &amp; gift shops, and 10th for religious organizations. While residents give around 4 percent of their yearly earnings to charity on average, Galveston has attracted the attention of several charities including the Shriners, who operate a highly specialized children\u2019s hospital in the city.<\/p>\n<h2>10. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/coral-gables-fl\/\">Coral Gables, FL<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/movotoblog\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-cities\/images\/10.jpg\" alt=\"Coral Gables, FL\" style=\"width:600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"source\">Source: Flickr User \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vishpool\/\">vishpool<\/a><\/div>\n<p>We started this post talking about a sunny, seaside small city and we\u2019ll end it with one, too. Coral Gables is many things when it comes to friendliness. It\u2019s fourth overall for flower and gift shops; 15th in terms of greeting card stores; 11th for bars; and first where customizable teddy bears are concerned. Yes, Coral Gables is an important place in the history of stuffed animals\u2014the kind made at Build-A-Bear Workshop, whose founder, Maxine Clark, was born there.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s probably the city\u2019s remarkable beauty, though, and not this obscure fact, that spurred more than 11,000 Facebook Likes (a paltry sum compared to Build-A-Bear\u2019s 2.5 million).<\/p>\n<h2>Become BFFs With SLO, CA<\/h2>\n<p>The next time you\u2019re just not feeling the love from your town, you\u2019ve now got 10 new friends you can visit. Based on what we\u2019ve seen, they\u2019d all like to meet you, especially San Luis Obispo.<br \/>\nWe\u2019d recommend keeping an eye on this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/barnstable-ma\/\">Barnstable, MA<\/a> place, though. According to our data, it\u2019s especially unfriendly. It might want to work on ways to be a better friend\u2014in fact, we can think of a few places that need to, like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/ceres-ca\/\">Ceres, CA<\/a>\u2014in case we return with a look at the least friendly cities soon.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/sites\/2\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-table.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(click to enlarge table)<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/sites\/2\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-table.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Friendliest Small Cities In America\" src=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/sites\/2\/2014\/02\/friendliest-small-table.png\" title=\"The 10 Friendliest Small Cities In America\" style=\"width:100%\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<b>Like This Post? 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Depending on where you live, these sorts of things might seem like fantasy\u2014we\u2019re looking at you, Manhattan and Los Angeles\u2014but what if we told you there are real places where this stuff still happens? The Movoto Real Estate blog has found them: America\u2019s friendliest small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-places","post--single"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>These Are America&#039;s 10 Friendliest Small Cities<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You&#039;ll always know your neighbor in these Friendliest Small Cities across America.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.movoto.com\/blog\/friendliest-small-cities\/\" \/>\n<meta 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