Should I Live Here? MCP Server

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answering

Should I Live Here? is answering right now. Last checked 3 min ago. It exposes 6 tools. Last commit 6 Nov 2026.

Rank and compare US counties on health, hazards, crime, rent, internet and air, from public data.

Uptime history 4 days of history

4 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

228 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 6 Nov 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Should I Live Here? every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 3 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add should-i-live-here --transport http https://mcp.shouldilivehere.org/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://mcp.shouldilivehere.org/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.should-i-live-here]
url = "https://mcp.shouldilivehere.org/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "should-i-live-here": {
      "url": "https://mcp.shouldilivehere.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "should-i-live-here": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.shouldilivehere.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 6

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

compare

compare_counties

Compare 2 to 10 counties side by side on chosen measures.

county

get_county

All atlas values for one county, by 5-digit FIPS or "Name, State" (state name or postal code). Missing values stay null with their status.

measure

find_measure

Map plain words (for example "internet", "cancer", "crime", "cost of living") to atlas measure keys. Words the atlas has no data for come back in not_available. Those words are counted (word and day only, no personal data) so the owner can consider new data.

measures

list_measures

List the county measures in the Should I Live Here? atlas: key, label, unit, period, direction, and how many of the 3,107 counties have a value. Optional text filter.

rank

rank_counties

Rank counties in the lower 48 states on weighted measures, with the same scoring as the site's My priorities. Rank 1 has the lowest concern score. Counties with missing data are left out, never scored as low. Optional limits and state filter. Read the cautions in every answer.

request

request_measure

Report a measure a user wanted that the atlas lacks, for example "schools". Only the measure name and the day are counted.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://mcp.shouldilivehere.org/mcp	streamable-http	answering	305 ms	3 min ago

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Should I Live Here? — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Should I Live Here? do?

It exposes 6 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: compare_counties, find_measure, get_county, list_measures, rank_counties, request_measure. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Should I Live Here? working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 228 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Should I Live Here??

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Should I Live Here? need an API key?

No. Should I Live Here? completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 6 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Should I Live Here??

It answers our handshake in 228 ms on average, which is faster than 64% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Should I Live Here? open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, written in Python and 2 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at mcp.shouldilivehere.org, which runs on its operator's own terms.