Los Angeles tops the list for the best cities for gaming in the United States

The Los Angeles Convention Center during E3.

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If you live in Los Angeles, you’ve got a new reason to stay out of the 405’s horrible traffic.

The City of Angels metro region (including Long Beach and Glendale) is the best city in the United States for gamers, according to a report from Trulia. The real estate company took a number of factors into account, such as internet speed and latency (this info comes from Ookla, the firm behind speedtest.net), number of retailers selling games, home prices, and demographics (from the Electronic Software Association’s 2016 Essential Facts report).

The best areas:

1. Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale

2. Philadelphia

3. Honolulu

4. Anaheim-Santa Ana-Irvine (California)

5. Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura (California)

6. Boston

7. Chicago-Naperville-Arlington Heights

8. Oakland-Hayward-Berkeley (California)

9. New Haven-Milford (Conneticut)

10. Seattle-Bellevue-Everett

California has four of the top 10 metros, including the home of Blizzard Entertainment in Irvine, Calif. Los Angeles’ 90 percentile download speeds (135mbps), average 27 milliseconds of latency, and huge amount of stores helped it overcome its median home price of $600,000 to top the list. Philadelphia finished second in part because of its lack of retailers, but its good speeds and affordable housing ($172,000) helped give it a strong showing.

Internet speeds and latency matter to gaming because they are integral to how quickly you can download games and how little lag you experience when playing online, like in first-person shooters such as Call of Duty, where even half a second of lag can mean the difference between you getting the kill … or getting killed.

For more on each metro region, see the infographic below:

Ranking of Best Cities for Gaming