I was just reaeding some articles at the Grand Junction Sentinel online when I ran across an interesting article entitled, “Grand Junction among Top 20 most secure places to live”. This is the fourth Annual Farmers Insurance Group’s Top 20 Most Secure place to live ranking and guess what, Grand Junction has done it again. For the second time in just four years, Grand Junction has made it into this important ranking, this time in twelth place.
The things considered in this ranking include air quality, crime statistics, environmental hazards, extreme weather, job loss number, life expectancy, risk of natural disasters and terrorism threats. A total of 379 U.S. Municipalities were judged according to their sizes, large metropolitan areas, mid-sized cities and small towns. Thanks to its health standard of living safety and security, Grand Junction has secured itself a strong position among small towns of similar size (less than 150,000 residents).
Those of us who live in Grand Junction have our own reasons for loving this area of Colorado such as the beautiful landscape, the warmth and friendliness of local residents and clean air and water but security is probably be one main reason many of us love it here.
Farmers Insurance Group uses data compiled by Sperling’s Best Places in order to rank the 379 cities in included in this ranking.
If you would like to read this article in the GJSentinel.com please click here.
If you would like to find out more about Grand Junction including an overview, demographics, median home costs, schools, unemployment and weather, please visit http://www.bestplaces.net/city/Grand_Junction-Colorado.aspx
No one will escape this downturn. Notice how commodities are taking a turn fro the worse except for gold. Unless your mining gold I would say Grand Junction RE is positioned for a fall soon.
I agree M Reynolds, these are indeed strange days. It is really hard to say exactly how bad things will get here in GJ, all we can do really is wait and see how our local RE situation will turn out.
Currently unemployment in GJ is at its highest level in years and that is sure to have a negative effect on our local housing market.
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