Florida City Crowned One of the Best for a ‘Fresh Start’

If you're looking to relocate this year, you may be interested in which cities offer the best opportunities and lifestyle. Whether you're looking for a low cost of living, safe place, affordable health care or all of the above, it's always interesting to see which cities are crowned the best to reside for the year, and the tally does change as the years go by. Those in the area should be happy to note that one Florida town has made the cut in a new feature about the best places to have a "fresh start" in 2025.

There's a new study out about the best places to move to get a "fresh start" from the experts at Rocket Moving. As Forbes describes the report, "The analysis identifies the top ten cities based on eight factors: job growth rate, personal income, cost of living index, average price of houses, rent per month, safety index, air quality index and the number of open job positions." For the study, Rocket moving looked at the 50 largest U.S. cities to find out which were the best for workers looking to start fresh. "These factors were chosen to provide a comprehensive view of each city’s economic health, financial stability, affordability, safety and overall quality of life," Forbes notes.

So, which Florida city made the cut? Orlando, Florida, came in at No. 2. The report noted that what stood out was that Orlando had plenty of job opportunities, totaling 9.7 million. Rocket Moving named Austin, Texas, at the top of the tally, and Reno, Nevada, as No. 3. They liked Austin the most because of the city's high growth rate of 4.6% and the most open job positions at 13.8 million, per to the report. So, note that this study is really for people looking for work, not retirees or those just looking to hang.

A "fresh start" also involves enjoying a good quality of life. So, what does "quality of life" really mean? The National Library of Medicine also defines "quality of life" as "a concept which aims to capture the well-being, whether of a population or individual, regarding both positive and negative elements within the entirety of their existence at a specific point in time." They add that, "common facets of QoL include personal health, relationships, education status, work environment, social status, wealth, a sense of security and safety, freedom, autonomy in decision-making, social-belonging and their physical surroundings."