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 He won $1M on first Survivor. Today, he owes $3M in taxes on it. 'No Kings' crowds oppose, mock Trump. An unwanted hiking trend for women: the 'Alpine divorce.' President Trump has thoughts on Tiger Wood's arrest. See 5 photos Report an error