Safest Places to Live: Go for Hyphens

Yesterday I mentioned a Mercer study on the healthiest places to live, and today I ran across a Famers Insurance list of the “most secure” places to live.

You’ll notice two things about the list. First, only one place in California is deemed to be secure, but six places in New York are. Second, it is apparently a good idea to live somewhere with a hyphenated name.

1) Provo-Orem, Utah
2) Dutchess County, N.Y.
3) Madison, Wis.
4) Lancaster, Pa.
5) Albany-Troy-Schenectady, N.Y.
6) Portsmouth-Rochester, N.H.
7) Olympia, Wash.  Bremerton, Wash.
9) Danbury, Conn.
10) Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah, Wis.
11) Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, Ark.
12) Green Bay, Wis.
13) Portland, Maine
14) Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle, Pa.
15) Honolulu, Hawaii
16) Evansville, Ind.-Henderson, Ky.
17) Manchester, N.H.
18) Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y.
19) Asheville, N.C.
20) Knoxville, Tenn.
21) Las Vegas, Nev.
22) San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles, Calif.
23) Newburgh, N.Y.
24) Utica-Rome, N.Y.
25) Reno, Nev.

Update: In an earlier version of this post I missed that one California city was on the list.

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