Lifestyle | lists 9 Perfect Places to Live Arts, culture, beauty, jobs—these towns have it all, and real people, too Copied 9 Perfect Places to Live The Thrills - Santa Cruz (darydickens (YouTube)) Outside magazine selects 30 sweet spots—the best towns for mixing city life with the big outdoors—and, oh yeah, getting a job, too. Here are the top nine: Santa Cruz, California Jackson, Wyoming Iowa City, Iowa Bend, Oregon Santa Fe, New Mexico Duluth, Minnesota Asheville, North Carolina Portland, Maine Burlington, Vermont Read These Next Kate McKinnon shares her weird medical condition. She walked out on her gig due to JD Vance, doesn't regret it. Trump loses another legal fight to E. Jean Carroll. Baltimore QB 'forgot where I was' and shoved an opposing fan. See 5 photos Report an error