Rate 12 counties. We compare your answers with current Where I’d Live maps and show the 5 unasked counties that people with similar ratings chose most often. Wondering where to move? The matches come from maps that look like yours, not from a list of amenities.
Averaged across 92 finished maps, and leaving out the 12 the quiz asks you about, Arlington rates highest, then Fairfax and Fairfax. Richmond splits people hardest: only 45% of the people who rated it gave it the same answer. That is the crowd as a whole, and it is not what the quiz returns. Your matches come from the people whose ratings look like yours.
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place ratings site-wide
The quiz asks about 12 of them, one at a time: Alexandria, Montgomery, Chesterfield, and 9 more. Those 12 are the ones people disagree about most, and no two of them tell the quiz the same thing, which is why 12 answers are enough to place you. Rating all 132 counties is a different page.
Your 12 ratings are compared with the 92 finished Virginia maps people have colored here. The closest of those are used to predict how you would rate the 120 counties you were not asked about, and the 5 highest predictions are your matches. Nothing about rent, jobs, weather, or visas goes into it.
From 9,030 ratings on the Virginia map, left by people answering "Would you live in each county?" one county at a time. Nobody was surveyed and no list was bought in. Your own answers here are not added to those totals, and the quiz needs no account.
Everything you would check before actually moving: rent, jobs, climate, taxes, and how far it is from the people you know. A county rates highly here because people want to live there, which is a different claim from it being right for you. Treat the 5 it returns as a shortlist to research.
Yes, and it needs no account. A Supporter account ranks all 120 counties it can match you with, down to your last match, rather than the top 5.
The ones people disagree about most, which is what makes them worth asking.