1. Chicago, 60.1 points


In our City Index, our readers rated their cities for six key characteristics...
• Dynamism - how vibrant and exciting life there feels.
• Inspiration - and whether the city feels like a pleasant or difficult place to live.
• Food & drink - if the city is somewhere you can eat well (and not too expensively!).
• Community - whether local neighbourhoods were rated highly.
• Sociability - and whether the city felt welcoming or isolating.
• Affordability - whether people could generally get by OK.
Scores for each category were ultimately combined to give each city an overall City Index score – here's how they did!
Life's a beach in Miami.
The people here have more friends on social media, are the most likely to have taken drugs recently or to have had a threesome, and also the most likely to send bad food back at a restaurant.
We'll leave it to you to infer the mysterious connection between the four.
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