We already know why we choose (and love) to live, work, and play here in Whatcom County. But other folks across the country are also taking notice. Recent survey rankings simply underscore why living in and around Bellingham is one of the best places to be.
At WhatcomTalk, we aim to share the positive stories about people, businesses and organizations doing good things around our community. Seven days a week, we are interviewing, writing, and publishing stories that matter to you, as a member of the Bellingham and Whatcom County communities.
Livability.com recently ranked Bellingham one of its Top Ten Best Downtowns, while Business Insider named it one of the Happiest and Healthiest Cities in America. Hooray!
The Livability survey considered items such as population growth, ratio of residents to jobs, income growth, home vacancy rates, affordability of housing, and retail and office vacancy rates.
The Business Insider survey asked 178,000 folks nationwide about emotional health, work environment, physical health, healthy behaviors, and access to basic necessities.
These are all the types of things we love to talk about here at WhatcomTalk.com. And we love that so many of you want to be a part of that conversation as we link neighbors to create community chatter.
Thank you, neighbor, for making Bellingham such a friendly, fantastic place to live, work, and play.
To see the full Livability.com article, click here; for the Business Insider piece, click here.