According to CNNMoney.com, there are plenty of reasons to love the small cities listed in their top places to live for 2010.
CNNMoney analyzed median family income, job growth, median home price, test scores, crime, number of restaurants, number of higher education institutes, weather, median age, and other quality of living data to create their top ten list for 2010:
- Eden Prairie, MN
- Columbia-Elicott City, MD
- Newton, MA
- Bellevue, WA
- McKinney, TX
- Fort Collins, CO
- Overland Park, KS
- Fishers, IN
- Ames, IA
- Rigers, AR
According to CNNMoney, Eden Prairie is number one this year because, “not only is it family-friendly, it has a dynamite economy too. At 5.1%, its unemployment rate is nearly one percentage point below the county rate and more than four points below the national average. It helps when you’ve got 50,000 jobs right in town.”
If your favorite small town didn’t make the top 10, maybe it made the top 100 and if not, tell us in comments why it should have!
