re: Nicest, safest, and most well-run big cities in the USA?

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Salt Lake

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Would be number one on this list.

Tampa, FL
San Diego, CA

Fayetteville, AR

Jackson Hole, Wyoming

Omaha Nebraska cleanest city I’ve even been to nice city setup

Enjoyed it more than Casper and Cheyenne on my trips up there, just my two cents.

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Nicest, safest, and most well-run big cities in the USA?

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Seems like most American cities hit their peak in about 1960, then declined rapidly until the 1990s. They recovered and improved until about 2010, then have been declining every since - accelerating their decline rapidly in the past 18 months.

Austin was considered well run 20 years ago. San Francisco was highly desirable as recently as 10 years ago. New York was a fantastic place on a clear upswing when Guliani was at SDNY and later in Gracie Mansion.

Whatever city you deem "well run" today will eventually be a target for terrible policies that ruined other cities. So invest accordingly knowing that you'd be playing whack a mole in the short/medium term.

What we need is to enforce the law in our cities, improve education, stop encouraging the very poor to have more children, and figure out how to effectively fight the opioid epidemic (which will solve most of the homeless problem). Not holding people responsible for criminal activity somehow became a keystone policy for urban Democrats. That has to stop with quickness, or we have to remove that power from them.

Otherwise you'll see more and more unsustainable sprawl - which leads to more infrastructure costs, larger targets for mother nature (flooding, tornados, hurricanes), more energy consumption, and more expensive costs of living.

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Woodlands, Tx

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That's a suburb. I can name hundreds of suburbs that are reasonably well run.

We have a big problem in this country. The exercise presented in the OP should be much easier, and should feature more names than smaller/mid sized towns in the mountain west, Texas/Florida, or New England.

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Murfreesboro, TN

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+1

Very clean city. Lot's of stuff to do. Cost of living isn't extreme like in Nashville but close enough to Nashville where you can enjoy the music, food, sports, etc.