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Smart Places to Live Kiplinger's - Jun 2005
...USA - You told us your ideal city is fun, vibrant
and affordable. We found dozens that fit the bill...
In that spirit, we asked hundreds of you for the criteria
you'd use to pick a place to call home. You told us you wanted good value
in home prices and a reasonable cost of living -- not surprising, considering
that choosing a place to live is one of the biggest financial decisions
you'll ever make -- combined with a great quality of life...
Editor's Note: Starting with
information from its readers, Kiplinger's worked with with Bert Sperling,
and this Web site BestPlaces.net to develop a list which incluced:
good value in home prices
a reasonable cost of living
quality health care
a strong economy
The list they developed presents a variety of cities
and metro areas ranging in population from slightly under 100,000 to over
a million.
We're not looking at small college town's here, yet
each of these mid-sized cities and metro areas have near-campus areas that
fall within the broad description of college town.
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Smart Places to Live
49 College Towns
Population figures from City-Data.com, estimated population
in July 2006.
City population only, does not include adjacent metro area population.
CITY POPULATION
1) Nashville, TN 552,120
2) Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN 616,368
3) Albuquerque, NM 504,949
4) Atlanta, GA 486,411
5) Austin, TX 709,893
6) Kansas City, MO 441,545
7) Asheville, NC 72,789
8) Ithaca, NY 29,952
9) Pittsburgh, PA 350,363
10) Iowa City, IA 62,649
11) not a college town
12) Harrisburg, PA 48,950
13) Lexington, KY 270,789
14) Indianapolis, IN 781,870
15) Logan, UT 47,660
16) La Crosse, WI 50,266
17) Rochester, MN 96,975
18) St. Louis, MO 347,181
19) State College, PA 38,436
20) Madison, WI 223,389
21) Provo, UT 113,984
22) Philadelphia, PA 1,448,394
23) Fargo, ND 90,056
24) Columbia, MO 94,428
25) Ann Arbor, MI 113,206
26) Richmond, VA 197,790
27) Olympia, WA 44,645
28) Bismarck, ND 58,333
29) Morgantown, WV 28,654
30) Lafayette, IN 61,244
31) Sioux Falls, SD 142,396
32) St. Cloud, MN 66,228
33) Evansville, IN 115,738
34) Fort Collins, CO 129,467
35) Jefferson City, MO 39,274
36) Tacoma, WA 196,532
37) Lancaster, PA 54,779
38) Virginia Beach, VA 435,619
39) Charlottesville, VA 45,049
40) Boise City, ID 198,638
41) Abilene, TX 114,797
42) Lynchburg, VA 67,720
43) College Station, TX 74,125
44) Bloomington, IN 69,247
45) Oshkosh, WI 64,084
46) Wichita, KS 357,698
47) Eugene, OR 146,356
48) Burlington, VT 38,358
49) Ogden, UT 78,086
50) Holland, MI 34,245
College town life
College towns make great hometowns. Students, singles, families, working people,
and retirees all can find connections and a niche for themselves in the wide
variety of college towns across the United States. Town and gown together
create a better quality of life.
CollegeTownLife
P. O. Box 223
Oxford, OH 45056
Robert Karrow, editor
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