Methodology

A clearer way to understand your next city.

Moving somewhere new should not mean piecing together safety, housing, schools, healthcare, commute, and daily-life details from dozens of tabs. MoveFantastic brings the important pieces into one carefully written report, with honest notes about what is known, what is thin, and what to verify before you commit.

Base Report
$149

Core relocation sections, bottom-line fit guidance, and next-step checks. Reports generally range from 25 to 70+ pages depending on package and add-ons.

Everything Bundle
$249

Includes all 12 premium add-ons. Full reports with all add-ons are typically 50-70+ pages.

Availability
Supported cities

Checkout is open for supported U.S. cities with at least 5,000 residents and enough research coverage. Very small or poorly covered places may require nearby, county, or regional context.

What the base report covers

Snapshot Vitals
Safety
Cost of Living & Housing
Schools
Neighborhoods
Jobs & Economy
Getting Around
Weather & Climate
Healthcare
Things to Do
What It Is Actually Like
New Resident Checklist
The Bottom Line

How a report is built

Written for the city you are considering

Each report focuses on the destination you choose, with city-level facts, named local anchors, and the practical tradeoffs that shape daily life there.

Use public data and practical move logic

Reports draw from public and structured sources for population, income, housing, commute patterns, weather, hospitals, schools, employers, recreation, and related relocation signals where available.

Separate evidence from judgment

The report is written to show how facts interact: income against home prices, commute against car dependency, healthcare against household needs, and local amenities against the routine you actually expect to live.

Clear about what still needs a closer look

When local data is limited, the report says so plainly and points you toward the right follow-up checks before you choose a neighborhood, school boundary, commute, or home.

Premium Add-Ons

Add depth where the move depends on it.

Add-ons are optional unless you choose a bundle. The Everything Bundle includes every add-on for $249, with full reports typically 50-70+ pages.

Commute Reality Check
Citywide commute time, mode-share, airport, transit, and road context when available, plus route-testing questions to use once work, school, and home addresses are known.
$20
School Deep Dive
Public school listings and rating context when available, with clear gaps noted. Includes district questions to verify boundaries, transportation, programs, services, capacity, and enrollment once candidate addresses are known.
$20
Sex Offender Registry Check Guide
A public sex offender registry lookup guide for candidate home, school, work, childcare, and walking-route addresses. We do not treat citywide counts as a substitute for address-specific sex offender registry checks.
$20
Real Estate Market Snapshot
City, metro, or county housing and rent context when reliable scoped data is available, plus buy-versus-rent questions for taxes, insurance, HOA rules, condition, school assignment, commute, and holding-period risk.
$15
Healthcare Deep Dive
Hospital and care-access context when available, with practical checks for insurance networks, primary care, specialists, urgent care, pharmacies, and emergency-transfer planning.
$15
Local Sports & Recreation
Local or regional recreation leads when available, plus weekly-life questions for parks, leagues, gyms, pools, classes, permits, seasonal closures, and drive-time checks once candidate addresses are known.
$15
Disaster & Climate Risk
City, county, or point-sampled risk indicators when available, such as FEMA flood context, air quality, heat, snow, or county hazard signals. Includes follow-up insurance and preparedness questions for specific properties.
$15
Political & Social Climate
Factual, non-partisan state and local civic context when available, with questions for election results, city or county governance, school-board context, public meetings, and community expectations.
$15
Remote Worker Profile
Work-from-home, airport, coworking, and broadband context when available. Includes home-office verification questions for provider availability, upload speed, latency, cell signal, outage backup, and quiet workspace fit.
$15
Retirement Suitability
Retirement tax, healthcare, air-quality, and care-cost context when available, plus practical questions for transportation, housing layout, pharmacies, support services, and future care needs.
$20
Pet Friendliness
Pet-relevant outdoor leads, dog-park counts, veterinary counts, or local pet rules when available, plus questions for housing rules, pet fees, emergency care, licensing, yard setup, and walking routes.
$10
Walkability & Transit Reality Check
Walk, bike, transit, and commute-share signals when available, plus car-light living questions for groceries, errands, crossings, lighting, transit frequency, healthcare, school access, and weather.
$10

Quality checks before delivery

  • we check sensitive claims before delivery
  • we compare scores, facts, and repeated claims across sections
  • we review the report for contradictions, unclear wording, and PDF issues
  • we make sure the final report is readable and ready to send
  • we keep paid add-ons visible and useful when source data is weak

What still needs local verification

City-level research can only go so far. MoveFantastic highlights the follow-up checks that still matter once candidate addresses are known, including school boundaries, insurance exposure, commute routes, healthcare access, utility setup, internet service, and property-specific risk.

Reports are informational research products. They are not real estate, legal, tax, medical, financial, insurance, or safety advice.

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Preview current pages from Madison, Ann Arbor, Charleston, Savannah, Boise, and Bozeman, including base report pages and premium add-on pages.