Boise is consistently rated as one of the best cities to live and work by many national publications. Today, Boise received two notable accolades:

- Kiplinger’s Magazine ranked Boise fourth in its 2008 top spots to live in the US. The magazine noted Boise for its “creative class” of people as well as the burgeoning wine-making industry just to the west of Boise. (See article)

- The Brookings Institution ranked Boise as the city with the 5th lowest carbon footprint in the US (See article). We at Balihoo do our best to be green (see one of our previous blog posts), partly evidenced by the number of people who ride their bikes to work!