Perhaps it is because I began working in journalism during the mid-to-late 1970s, the post-Watergate era, that I am sometimes skeptical about certain things.  If you have been reading this blog for any amount of time, you know I have written often about ranking cities.

I do respect Money Magazine’s listing of the best places to live in America, having looked at how they do the rankings.  There is credibility there.  In 2017, Fishers was named by Money as the best place to live in America.

There are plenty of news and other organizations that have put themselves into the game of ranking cities as to their “livability.”  A Web site that specializes in such rankings, Livability.com, has just come out with new rankings and Fishers is listed as the number 4 place in the nation for livability.  By the way, our neighbor to the west, Carmel, was ranked number one.

I often do not report on most such rankings because there is no way, in my mind, to measure the most important ingredient in assessing any local community – the intangibles that do not show up in any set of measurable data points.

I do find Livability.com has a good measuring system, so that is why I am writing about this ranking.  Fishers should be happy with this high ranking nationally.

In its assessment of Fishers, Livability.com cites “affordable homes, good health care and a diverse business sector, and transportation assets include Interstate 69. The highly regarded Hamilton Southeastern School District has more than 21,000 students, and recreation attractions include Geist Reservoir, 14 parks, and 85 miles of trails and greenways.”

For more on how Livability.com measured Fishers s #4 in the nation, use this link.