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 Beneath the upcoming White House ballroom: a new, pricey bunker. Swedish hit song to Milli Vanilli: Hold my beer. One state hosts 5 of America's top 10 windiest cities. Trump's Greenland note spurs calls for congressional probe, 25th. See 5 photos Report an error