These are really important questions when evaluating a place to live. The point about “tourism” is somehow covered by mentioning the nearest national park—unfortunately only in the US, which leads to Arcadia National Park for all European locations. In times of endless possibilities for AI-driven data and meta-analysis, this seems all the more poorly done and unimaginative.

Haha yeah, that needs some refinement! Ultimately it's a restriction of the API's we're using now.

"Would I feel happier? What are the cultural differences? What is the food like? What sort of social groups thrive in the cities? What's public transport like? What's commuting like? What's tourism like?"

These are all great suggestions, and some are on the roadmap. One thing is we never want to get in the game of saying one place is "Better" or "Worse" than another. We just want to provide data and let people decide what's important.

Thanks for giving it a spin!

Great point, we'll add a toggle.

Done

We want to add home prices and rent, but that is really expensive data unfortunately. If this has legs, we may be able to justify paying for the Zillow API or something similar. We do plan on adding affiliate links to realtors in that city, although that's not nearly as helpful.

There's also an entire "Explore" section of this site we're working on once the database reaches a higher level of maturity. We want to do all the filtering you're mentioning.

Great comment, thanks!

We just added average home and rent cost for the U.S.—looking into international options.

100%, we want to add that but the data is expensive. If this has legs we will probably spring for Zillow or Redfin API access.

We actually hit a rate limit with the image API tonight, but we're caching everything we pull into a DB, so the more people use it, the less we'll have to rely on API calls.

Great catch! It turns out there is a tiny village in Gloucestershire also named Cambridge (pop. 394) that was trying to steal the spotlight from the University town. Because they were both labeled as 'Cambridge, England,' our system was getting them mixed up.

I've just pushed a fix that includes the County for international cities to keep them distinct (e.g., 'Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK'). I also cleared our database cache so the correct data is ready for you.

If you already have Cambridge in your comparison grid, just remove it and add it back to see the fresh data. Thanks for the heads-up.