Where to live

inspired by http://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/natural-amenities-scale.aspx

shape files from: http://www2.census.gov/geo/tiger/GENZ2015/shp/

Critera

• close to mountains or foot hills
• has snow
• city amenities
• politically left-ish

Recalc natrual amentities by zipcode

urls

• http://gisdata.usgs.gov/TDDS/DownloadFile.php?TYPE=nlcd2011&ORIG=META&FNAME=nlcd_2011_USFS_tree_canopy_2011_edition_2014_03_31_cartographic.zip
• http://gisdata.usgs.gov/TDDS/DownloadFile.php?TYPE=nlcd2011&FNAME=nlcd_2011_impervious_2011_edition_2014_10_10.zip
• http://gisdata.usgs.gov/TDDS/DownloadFile.php?TYPE=nlcd2011&FNAME=nlcd_2011_landcover_2011_edition_2014_10_10.zip

key

• http://www.mrlc.gov/nlcd11_leg.php

Weather

snow depth

• http://www1.ncdc.noaa.gov/pub/data/snowmonitoring/fema/02-2015-dlysnfl.txt

Education

Median Income

Crime

Population density