No. 10
Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, Conn.
This metro area is among the safest places to live and offers a range of cultural and artistic venues. The area has low rates of mental distress, obesity, smoking and diabetes. It also offers a sufficient numbers of quality nursing homes and home health-care providers. Although residents are healthy and active, housing is so expensive that it ranks last in this category of all the metropolitan areas studied, plus it has a high level of reverse mortgage debt.
