{"id":24579,"date":"2017-09-20T16:19:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-20T23:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24579"},"modified":"2017-09-20T16:19:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T23:19:07","slug":"lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/lists\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best and Worst of California &#8211; Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/2013centen.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>California cities love lists and use them to bolster claims about being great places to live, work &amp; play. One new list, &#8220;Best Places to Live 2017&#8221; produced by MONEY in partnership with Realtor.com, ranks Monterey Park, Calif. #3 in &#8220;Top 100 Best Places to Live in America&#8221; based on a healthy economy, affordable homes, and a high quality of life. Another list (WalletHub citing Realtor.com) ranks Monterey Park a &#8220;Worst City in California&#8221; with few attractions, large % below poverty, lowest median family income and least affordable housing. If you are a fan of lists, don&#8217;t be surprised when one source is at odds with another!<\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/california\/california-lists.html\">California Lists<\/a><\/h2>\n<p>MONEY Best cities to live U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li># 3 Monterey Park, Calif.<\/li>\n<li>#18 Santa Monica, Calif.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>24\/7 WALL ST. Worst place to live U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#9 Merced, Calif.<\/li>\n<li># 13 Stockton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>NERDWALLET Wealthiest Cities in the U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#1 Palo Alto<\/li>\n<li>#2 San Ramon<\/li>\n<li>#3 Pleasanton<\/li>\n<li>#4 Newport Beach<\/li>\n<li>#6 Yorba Linda<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. WORLD ATLAS Poorest cities U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#12 Merced<\/li>\n<li>#15 Visalia\/Porterville<\/li>\n<li>#16 Madera<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>U.S. Cities with most homeless<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#2 Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>#4 San Diego<\/li>\n<li>#6 San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>#7 San Jose &amp; Santa Clara<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>FORBES Most dangerous cities U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#3 Oakland<\/li>\n<li>#8 Stockton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US BUSINESS INSIDER Worst traffic in U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#1 Los Angeles<\/li>\n<li>#2 San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>#5 San Jose<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>AMERICAN LUNG ASSOC. Worst air pollution in U.S.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>#1 Visalia-Porterville-Hanford<\/li>\n<li>#2 Bakersfield<\/li>\n<li>#3 Fresno-Madera,<\/li>\n<li>#4 San Jose-San Francisco-Oakland<\/li>\n<li>#5 Los Angeles-Long Beach<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California cities love lists and use them to bolster claims about being great places to live, work &amp; play. One new list, &#8220;Best Places to Live 2017&#8221; produced by MONEY in partnership with Realtor.com, ranks Monterey Park, Calif. #3 in &#8220;Top 100 Best Places to Live in America&#8221; based on a healthy economy, affordable homes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}