Sioux Falls A Best City to Keep Your New Year’s Resolutions

Making and keeping New Year's resolutions is a difficult task. Over the years, a lot of us have attempted to participate in this New Year's ritual only to fail miserably. Okay, by "a lot of us", I mean me.

So at this point in my life, I look to the new year and hope for the best. Do I do some planning? Yes. But now, I try to be more reasonable with my expectations.

Wallet Hub number crunchers have a theory that explains your success at keeping resolutions could depend on where you live. So they've put together their list of Best & Worst Cities for Keeping Your New Year's Resolutions.

What they were looking for were environments that encouraged self-improvement.

They compared 182 cities in 5 resolution categories: Financial, Health, School & Work, Bad Habits, and Relationships.

Within those categories, Wallet Hub examined things like access to exercise opportunities and healthy food stores, median annual incomes, credit scores and credit card debt, home ownership, quality of schools & universities, unemployment rates, job satisfaction, family-friendly and single-friendly entertainment options, and much, much more.

When all the numbers had been distilled down, it turned out that Sioux Falls isn't a bad place to keep your resolutions after all. Our city came in 45th out of 182.

The Top 5 Best Cities for Keeping Resolutions:

1. Seattle, Washington
2. San Francisco, California
3. Scottsdale, Arizona
4. Irvine, California
5. San Diego, California

You can see this complete report at Wallet Hub.

Source: Wallet Hub