What are the best and worst food cities for your wallet? To find that out, the the personal finance website WalletHub conducted a detailed study and came up with 2015’s Best and Worst Foodie Cities for Your Wallet. Some results may be surprising — but that’s because they “analyzed the 150 most populated cities across 18 key metrics, ranging from the cost of groceries to the number of restaurants per capita.”
Some of the findings:
Best Foodie Cities for Your Wallet Worst Foodie Cities
1 Portland, OR 141 Fayetteville, NC
2 Orlando, FL 142 Ontario, CA
3 San Francisco, CA 143 Columbus, GA
4 Oakland, CA 144 Montgomery, AL
5 Seattle, WA 145 Shreveport, LA
6 Cincinnati, OH 146 Peoria, AZ
7 Santa Rosa, CA 147 Jackson, MS
8 Tampa, FL 148 Fontana, CA
9 Rochester, NY 149 North Las Vegas, NV
10 Miami, FL 150 Moreno Valley, CA
And the many tidbits include these:
Key Stats:
To read the entire study and the entire list go to the website.
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Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.