Mellow

If you’re feeling stressed and harried, you might want to consider a move to the Twin Cities. Forbes selected our fair cities as the nation’s most relaxed metropolitan area based on factors like commute times, unemployment, and the rate of physical exercise among residents. While the rest of you spend your days stuck in traffic and working late, we’re up here eating hot dish and taking a stroll around one of our lovely lakes. Except in the winters, when we pretty much just eat hot dish. Many of us muse with our friends about how great it would be to live somewhere like Chicago or L.A. and we might even temporarily decamp for such distant parts, but we usually end up returning because the living is pretty good here.