Insights—Best Affordable Big Cities

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Finding big cities where real estate is affordable is hard enough, but when you add criteria that reasonable people would want, it becomes even more problematic. Fortunately, we've got a full dataset to work with and ample time to sift through it for findings.

Let's say you have the following criteria:

• City must have at least 250,000 people
• Must be affordable (median home price under $500K)
• Violent crime must be low (in the bottom 40%)
• Income tax must be low (in the bottom 40%)

America is getting expensive—only three cities fit all these criteria. Here they are:

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