Buffalo/Niagara Falls ranked as fifth best mid-sized market for relocating families in a report by the Employee Relocation Council and Primacy, a global relocation and assignment management services firm. Syracuse and Rochester scored number two and three respectively. The Employee Relocation Council (ERC) uses census and economic data to highlight places where affordable housing, reasonable commutes, educational resources, and solid local economies create a high quality of life for families.
The Employee Relocation Council is an industry group for corporate relocation and real estate management service providers. Founded in 1964, the council helps its members overcome the challenges of workforce mobility. Members come from many professions including human resources, recruiting, government, military, real estate, financial services, moving, counseling, and consulting.
Best Cities for Relocating Families focuses on the ease with which a family can move to a city and the ease of settling into a new life. Utilizing current data on 150 metropolitan statistical areas and encompassing nearly 50 factors important to relocating families, the report provides businesses, families, and the national media with one convenient resource for authoritative information. The study is conducted in collaboration with Bert Sperling’s BestPlaces.
New categories for 2008 include recent job growth, nearby top-ranked colleges, in-state tuition for four-year public colleges, population growth since 2000, pediatricians per 100,000, and a Green Living index. The final rankings represent one of the most sophisticated comparative research studies available on how location affects a family’s relocation success.
In October, ERC identified cities with the most to offer relocating singles. Buffalo ranked number 41. The study combined statistical profiles of the largest 100 U.S. metro areas with the quality-of-life priorities of unmarried professionals – criteria that directly impact the success of a professional relocation.
Primacy handles more than 43,000 relocations and global assignments annually, processing more than a billion dollars worth of transactions.
