{"id":7684,"date":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/10-cities-that-have-a-work-life-balance\/"},"modified":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T00:00:00","slug":"10-cities-that-have-a-work-life-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/10-cities-that-have-a-work-life-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Cities That Have A Work-Life Balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"39.030303030303\">\n<!--\n\n<pre>-->  <\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"26.949494949495\"><!--paging_filter--><\/p>\n<p>Madison, Wis., <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/tips-for-house-price-negotiation\/\">offers<\/a> the best balance between work and play. In fact, Midwestern cities placed in four of the top five spots in a new study by SmartAsset, a personal finance website.<\/p>\n<p>SmartAsset analyzed the data on the 100 largest U.S. cities across 10 metrics. Those metrics included concentration of entertainment establishments, bars and restaurants, <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/property-center-nigeria\/\">housing<\/a> costs, home values, average weeks worked, average hours worked, average commute times, unemployment rate, and labor force participation rate.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realtormag.realtor.org\/sites\/realtormag.realtor.org\/files\/rmo_files\/images\/2018_jan\/work_life_balance_map.png\" style=\"width: 604px; height: 463px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: \u201cThe Cities With the Best Work-Life Balance,\u201d SmartAsset (Jan. 3, 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DailyRealEstateNews\/~3\/gWtI0r3s0dg\/10-cities-have-work-life-balance\"> Realtors <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madison, Wis., offers the best balance between work and play. In fact, Midwestern cities placed in &hellip; <a title=\"10 Cities That Have A Work-Life Balance\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/10-cities-that-have-a-work-life-balance\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 Cities That Have A Work-Life Balance<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7685,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[12908,543,344,41,818,479,15282],"class_list":["post-7684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-home","tag-home-buying-guide","tag-housing","tag-property","tag-real","tag-realtor","tag-ross"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7323,"url":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/cities-that-recovered-the-most-from-recession\/","url_meta":{"origin":7684,"position":0},"title":"Cities That Recovered the Most From Recession","author":"Amazing Property","date":"December 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"During the Great Recession, home values dropped an average of 30 percent in several metros. 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