 Forbes ranked Sammamish 1st in its 2012 list of the "Friendliest Towns in the United States".Sammamish is also ranked as the 5th safest city in the U.S.In 2007, CNN Money ranked Sammamish as the 11th Best Place to Live in the United States, and subsequently ranked it as #12 in 2009 and #15 in 2011.