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 Hugh Hefner's widow: His scrapbooks could be dangerous. Tax season may actually bring good news for many this year. Mamdani's 'last resort' plan if there's no wealth tax. Views of Colbert's 'unaired' interview staggeringly high. See 5 photos Report an error