Before you clutch your pearls, just know that a land care website has as much right as anyone to rank the nation’s most glamorous cities.
You can tell a lot about a Real Housewives lifestyle even if you are setting up lawn service.
So, here’s Austin-based LawnStarter’s findings on where to find the nation’s most glam places to live: San Francisco ranks first, Houston 11th, and Dallas 15th.
Besides brokering lawn service, LawnStarter, co-founded in 2013 by Steve Corcoran, commissions studies, marketable studies. In this study, LawnStarter ranked the 200 most-populated cities on a 100-point scale.
LawnStarter based glam scores on 35 weighted metrics: status, fine dining, beauty, fashion, and entertainment.
As an example, in the status and wealth category, if your home was featured on Real Housewives, you got a point. In beauty, you got three points on the number of plastic surgeons per 100,000 residents. Or in entertainment, you got a point for the number of platinum yacht clubs in your city.
Using those criteria, Dallas scored 25.37, ranking ninth in status and wealth. Houston scored a 26.20, coming in third in status and wealth. San Francisco had an overall score of 60.23, ranking first in fashion and entertainment.
Here is LawnStarter’s assessment of Texas:
Texas Glitz vs. Texas Grits
Some of The Lone Star State’s biggest cities have earned the title of “America’s most glamorous.” Houston at No. 11 and Dallas at No. 15 leads the Texas cities in our ranking, thanks to their whopping wealth, which they lavishly spend on entertainment options.
At the opposite end is Brownsville in last place, Killeen at No. 199, and Laredo at No. 198. In fact, 16 of the 23 Texas cities we tested for glamour landed in the lower half of our ranking. But those cities aren’t likely to take umbrage at our findings. Rather, they pride themselves more on their grittier flavor and down-to-earth charm.
The upshot: If glam is your jam, stick to the biggest Texas cities.
Don’t get bent out of shape about the study, especially those in the Park Cities who think Dallas got a bad ranking. Check it out at LawnStarter.com, take it all in fun, and maybe schedule some hedge-trimming while you’re there.
