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With Summer upon us and nearly 66% of Americans not planning to take a vacation this year, According to WalletHub (the personal-finance website), they released its report on 2016’s Best & Worst Cities for Staycations.

To help Americans find the best staycation spots in the U.S. and the ones worth leaving home for, WalletHub’s number crunchers compared the 150 largest cities across 28 key metrics.

Their data set includes such metrics as movie and bowling costs, golf courses, frozen-yogurt shops and spas per capita, and the cost of house-cleaning services.

Here are the best & worst staycation cities as follows:

Best Cities for Staycations    Worst Cities for Staycations
1 Orlando, FL                        141 Fremont, CA
2 Fort Lauderdale, FL           142 Chesapeake, VA
3 Tampa, FL                          143 Los Angeles, CA
4 Salt Lake City, UT               144 Fresno, CA
5 Scottsdale, AZ                    145 Fort Worth, TX
6 Atlanta, GA                         146 Yonkers, NY
7 Las Vegas, NV                    147 Santa Ana, CA
8 Minneapolis, MN                 148 New York, NY
9 St. Petersburg, FL               149 Oxnard, CA
10 Honolulu, HI                       150 Chula Vista, CA
Comparing the Best & Worst:

• New Orleans, LA has the most museums per 100,000 residents, 23.34, which is 79 times more than in Aurora, CO., the city with the fewest, 0.29.

• Columbus, GA., has the most parks per 100,000 residents, 213.37, which is 22.5 times more than in Hialeah, FL., the city with the fewest, 9.47.

• Seattle, WA has the most coffee shops per 100,000 residents, 109.43, which is nearly 30 times more than in Laredo, TX, the city with the fewest, 3.67.

• Orlando, FL., has the most ice-cream and frozen-yogurt shops per 100,000 residents, 57.15, which is 13 times more than in Detroit, MI the city with the fewest, 4.31.

• Columbus, GA., has the most tennis courts per 100,000 residents, 70.11, which is 26 times higher than in Gilbert, AZ., the city with the fewest, 2.69.

• Buffalo, NY, has the lowest bowling costs, $3.09, which is nearly four times less expensive than in New York City, NY, the city with the highest, $12.28.

• Fort Wayne, IN., has the lowest beauty-salon costs, $22.42, which is nearly three times less expensive than in New York City, NY, the city with the highest, $66.18.

• Columbus, GA., has the lowest cost of house-cleaning services, $110, which is four times less expensive than in Salt Lake City, UT, the city with the highest, $454.

For the full report and to see where your city ranks, please visit:
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-cities-for-staycations/4341/