The 20 COOLEST Cities in America (Houston, we’re looking at YOU)

What makes a city cool?

Is it the food?  The people? The amount of arts or recreation available in the area?

Maybe it’s the average age of the overall population.Whatever it is, there’s something inherently “cool” about some cities versus others.

Some cities will never lose their cool factor.  Others have to earn it all over again year after year.  Then there are the surprises that you find somewhere along the way that make you say, “Hey, I never thought that place was cool – but now it is.”, kinda like what happens in the last 10 minutes of a teenage romantic comedy from the 1980’s.

So let’s take a look at the cities that FORBES Magazine calls the COOLEST CITIES IN AMERICA:

1. Washington DC
2. Seattle
3. Austin
4. Houston
5. San Francisco
6. San Diego
7. Denver
8. Riverside, CA
9. Boston
10. Dallas
11. New York
12. Oakland
13. Miami
14. Sacramento
15. San Antonio
16. San Jose
17. Los Angeles
18. Raleigh
19. Bethesda
20. Santa Ana