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When it comes to choosing the next perfect place to call home, there are many factors to take into consideration. The availability of jobs, the climate, the location, amenities and recreational opportunities to be enjoyed, proximity to family and friends – thinking all of these things over carefully can be important. The search doesn’t stop there, though. Even after you’ve selected a city that you’d like to live in, you’ll still need to find a neighborhood that suits your lifestyle […]

Home prices continue to rise at a healthy clip, with the Case Shiller 20-City Composite Index rising 12.1% year-over-year in April. But real estate is local and some neighborhoods are seeing more rapid increases than others. Within each of the 20 cities for instance, home prices are rising more rapidly in urban centers than in the suburbs, according to a blog post by Trulia economist Jed Kolko. Urban centers, defined as areas dominated by high-rise buildings, condos and apartment-style homes […]

As President Obama designates June as National LGBT Pride Month, it is easy to see how the times have changed in just a few decades and how the discrimination of many is slowly changing for the better. For all of us, pride shouldn’t fall solely into a celebratory three or four-day weekend, let alone a designated month; rather, our pride should be celebrated daily and embraced as a part of our being. This week, it is fitting that our celebrations […]

Fort Lauderdale beat every big city at growing its gay and lesbian population between 2000 and 2010. During that time span, the portion of households containing same-sex partners increased more in the South Florida city than in all other cities of similar or greater size. Using Census data, SFGN figured out each city’s unmarried gay-couple-to-straight-couple ratio in 2000, subtracted it from their 2010 ratio, and ranked places by going from biggest increases to smallest. We included only towns with a […]