Bellingham, WA has gotten the number 2 spot as best place to live as ranked by Cities Ranked & Rated, 2nd Edition written by Bert Sperling and Peter Sander and published by Frommer’s. They looked at more than 400 metro areas in the U.S. and Canada. Cities are ranked on 10 major criteria: Economy and jobs; cost of living; climate; education; health and healthcare; crime; transportation; leisure; arts and culture and overall quality of life.
I guess he is liking living there more now than we he started writing the book.
By the way, Bert Sperling lives in Portland, Oregon. Portland was ranked #12 in the 1st edition of his book, now it is #3.