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| Online Resources Quality-of-Life AccuWeather: Customized weather information for 55,000 worldwide cities, (p) (814) 235-8650 ACCRA: Cost of living comparisons among metro areas Caplndex: Provides site-specific crime risk forecasts for all of US and Canada, (p) (562) 498-6353 CitySearch.com: Statistical profiles for a myriad of cities, (p) (626) 405-0050 ColdwellBanker.com: Allows for housing cost comparisons among some 350 metro areas "Black America Saves", a new initiative to promote savings and the building of wealth among black Americans. The "Black America Saves initiatives will promote savings clubs and provide consumers with information on saving strategies and options CyberHomes.com: Nat’l real estate listing for homes via vistainfo Eneighborhood.com: Fee based service providing detailed socio/economic information for any neighborhood. Of particular interest for personnel relocation, (p) (800) 975-9474 Homefair.com: 1930 Yonge Street, Suite 1208, Toronto, Canada M4S 1Z4: Home listing service, community data, and cost of living calculator Homescape.com: Residential home listing service. Community data and cost of living calculator provided as well. Also lists services relating to financing and household good moving, 175 W. Jackson Blvd., 8th Floor, Chicago, IL 60604 Homestore.com: Provides home/apartment listings, relocation/real estate professionals’ listings, and a moving section. The latter includes city reports, school profiles, and community compari-sons Homes.com. Features residential real estate listings for nearly all communities. Also community data and cost of living calculator, (p) (650) 470-1450 imove.com: Online consumer moving/relocation center. Joint venture of Homestore.com and five national van lines, , (p) (800) 567-7952, ext 231 Microsoft's Home Advisor: National real estate listing for homes. Also community quality -of-life statistics and cost of living calculator provided by Milken Research Institute: Ranking of 200 cities and 94 smaller areas as places to do business or advance careers. Conducts other research studies on areas/states, (p) (310) 998-2600, Money Magazine's Best Places to Live, (p) (800) 284-7800 Monster Moving: A companion of the monster.com employment site. Furnishes selected information on numerous cities. Salary differential calculation (reflecting cost of livingdifferences) included. Home listings via www.Realtor.com, also provided National School Reporting, Inc.: Fee based information service for all public school districts. In-cludes SAT/ACT scores, National Water and Climate Center: A source of county-level climate data is the run by the Natural Resource Conservation Service. This site has several useful databases. The TAPS data-base provides month-by-month summaries of average high and low temperatures and average lev-els of precipitation, including snowfall. The GROWTH and FROST databases give county-level information about the growing season, including length and estimated dates of the last and first frosts. Places Rated Almanac, David Savageau & Geoffrey Loftus, Macmillian Travel, New York NY: Comparative metro area quality of life statistics, (p) (800) 545-5914 Realtor.com: Multiple listing service for homes. Also quality-of-life data and cost of living calcu-lator. Covers 97% of the U.S. market. Produced by the National Association of Realtors, (p) (312) 329-8200 Realtyonline: National home listing service plus quality of life data, cost of living calculator Relocator.com. Cost of living and quality-of-life data for hundreds of communities. A unit of iplace, Runzheimer International: Cost of living and customized discretionary income data, (p) (800) 558-1702 Tenantwise.com: Internet based lease-negotiating service at a reduced commission rate, (p) (212) 943-0077 Vistainfo.com: Provides varied quality-of-life information for selected radii around any property National home listings and cost of living calculator provided as well. Mapping services also avail-able, (p) (800) 347-6367 Weatherexpress.com. Choose cities across the US and get updates on current weather conditions Weather .net. Listing of worldwide weather services, (p) (900) 555-6677 or (515) 282-9310 Yahoo/Real Estate.com: National real estate listing for homes, along with community quality-of-life statistics and cost of index
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