the brief
A more useful way to compare US cities.
Landable is a city finder for remote workers whose paycheck no longer follows their zip code. You enter your salary and current city, and we rank 152 US metros against it on the six things that actually shape a year of your life: affordability, weather, things to do, parks, walkability, and flight access.
How the math works
Every city gets a Landable Score, a single number that blends five normalized dimensions. The defaults lean lifestyle: affordability and weather do most of the work, with parks and culture close behind. Tax and flights matter, but secondarily. You can override any of the weights from the results page, and the URL updates as you do, so a ranking is always shareable.
One hard rule we never relax: a city has to clear the 30% rent ratio for your salary. If a city would push you over that, it gets filtered out before ranking, no matter how nice it looks on every other dimension.
About OutdoorScore
OutdoorScore is our composite metric for outdoor livability. About a third comes from urban park quality (acreage, walkability, investment in the parks that are within a Tuesday lunch break). The rest comes from proximity-weighted access to National Parks, State Parks, National Forests, Wilderness, and other protected public land within 75 miles.
We blend these two signals because a city without weekend reach to real wilderness is a different place than one with it, even if their playgrounds look identical. Boise, Asheville, and Spokane all score higher than their reputation as "small cities" would suggest. That is by design.
About Walk Score®
Walk Score® rates how walkable a location is on a 0 to 100 scale, based on the density of nearby amenities (grocery, restaurants, parks, schools, transit) and the street-network connectivity to reach them. We use the city center as the query point, so the number you see answers "if you lived in the urban core, how walkable is daily life."
Walk Score® methodology is published by Walk Score, a Redfin company. Walk Score is a registered trademark.
What lifestyle surplus means
On every results card and city page, you'll see a monthly number framed as "cheaper than" or "more expensive than" your current city. That number is your gross salary minus state income tax, divided by twelve, minus median rent. It is a cost comparison, not a take-home figure. It accounts for state income tax but not federal, and it does not subtract groceries, gas, or healthcare.
We frame it this way deliberately. The point is to compare cities on a like-for-like basis, not to estimate what hits your bank account. A Las Vegas to Austin move that "saves $1,400 a month" is still useful to know, even if the real-world delta after federal tax and groceries is different.
Where Landable fits
Landable narrows the field. Once you have a shortlist of cities that actually fit your salary and your priorities, the deeper personal questions (schools, healthcare, neighborhood feel) become a lot easier to answer. You're researching ten cities you've already validated, not screening hundreds blind.
Every metro you see has been verified across the dataset. No sponsored placements, no state-by-state boosting, no padding the list with cities we don't have real numbers for.
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